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FK.A.TEENITIES.
JVAL ALTCH MASONS, MILHANK
h»] t»r No. t5. Stated couvocntioiis
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til ThurMav ol each month,
•30 p.tn. Vlciting cuai|iauioni cordially
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pou* DOCOLAAS, Sec.
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Meeu every second and fourth Satui
At-J p. iu. sharp, at the Court House
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Willi us. o w. L)ioa*, CoMJiuwder
THUS. PITCH, Adjutant.
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Hail every second aud fourth Snnday
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invited. K. A. JOUKSOM, Chid ijoud'r
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Church every Sunday And holy day At
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iu. HMW. JOII* llKKMELiyo, 1'riest.
plttST M. E. Church.—
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f- Sunday at lo:46 a. in. aud p. i"
ppworth League 6:39 p. in. Sunday school
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Norwegian language at the church at
"J' m. K«r. J. H. (iroRLiK, Minister.
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THEY BRAVED THE DEEP
RISKS AND DEATH ROLL OF AN
EXPERIMENTAL WAR CRAFT.
The Charleston Cigar lloat—She Met with
Dlnanler Again and Again Crew After
Crew Added to the Chastly l.lsl—She
Went ti tlx- Hot torn at Last.
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A :.ierloan I're*« Association.)
OK instances of
individual da»ing
of the Kii blimisl
type we need not
go further than
Jie pages of naval
history of the civil
war Cushing, the
crew of the Con
1 e a Albu
iwirle, the o
miuider and men
of tin- (.ijinfederate
n federate boarders of
thy North Carolina
rum Arkansas, the
e
nderwrit'T
^uoinu WKSt. whuth, the 1'nioii defenders of the Harriet
rfiiffr-5*i'V i'Ti'. ..." Iahu ill liaJve.stoti harbor, tho participant*
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others deservo to live in hutoi-y, nut alnne
warn'* uaASC*. for the grand results accomplished, but
MituAi'k-*daily Sullda/.
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of heir deeds of unexcelled )irav
jy'.jTj Jj' tv. 'i'he 'onfcderat4'.H, U-ing on the de
i'i a nt ^or 'hut reasun having ai/ijjla
ll:3Si a la lnwitiveto heroic outinirsts, [rrohaldy put
l'i:l5 l» in
011
record moreinitt«ncc^ of imlividutil (lar
iug than did their ttiif.-ii:utiuLs. They bad
tV iie*[it»Tnte end of the eouflict to (mar up.
Unfortunately for hiHtory tueir rtViiiiU are
apartM*. survivors of the hour have aJnee
pulsed uwiiy, ami much is left to uaau
thwitlcjfteil tradition.
I The story that follows, however, in true
I «md it Ls wu»iUiijt nited in detail by records of
undoubted truthfulncs-s. Seven men, flvu
tieinij jnen of the 'onfedcraU! navy and
one a caiifain of artillery aud the other a
lieutenant of infantry, voluntwred for an
i cjitorjirme that had been aHemptod live
times and had met with disaster. On
i tiiMS- o^enwloim all hands had perished,
and on one other seven out of ri^Lt, and
a^ais tlx out of nine hud met death The
hazardous bnmneas wan nothing le.ss than
lx«ing confined iu a subiiLiirinp boat, ex
posed to a variety of dangers witliout one
possible ay of usrapr in «tse of (!Lwat«r.
The time was 1NI, the scene Charleston
hurltof diii nr the fomiidiible opejmtions
of the [Kiwerful I'nion army and navy.
The wuterti were fuil of Union blockaders
and every foot of vantage around
ttee harlxir WIIH either occujiied or besiegpd
1y I nion tT«op.-i. The jiort w«i» blockudeil
aitsast effectually, aud ninny di'.rin at
tei«it« were made by the In'-iieyt-d to de
rtroy Tnion vessels by iu'erual devices.
The \*w Ironnidi-s was attacked twice, the
«^ynd tiuie receiving very serious damage.
A oomjiaiuon ve.sw! «f the New ironsides
KM the ilousatoiiic. a noble new ship, ly
hue i" North channel and .completely block
ading that pHSfu-n. If '.he et,u!d le re
moval by su-altl) .•'oresof bltH'kiide runuiiij,'
ve»«cls could pa.** ill and out ill a nJ^l.t,
(firtiiK comfort to the beleaguered artny
and J*ople of Son.h '.".roliua.
The several experiments iu destroying
ve«Ael« by t/irpednv. that had leen made in
tlie harlior pt.fhU'd to the torpn'o aflout as
Che proper method. The New Ironsides,
which ww Korio-tsly damaged by a tor
jxrio boat, had once stood for an hour over
A filfld tor M-doof 2,1**"* pounds of jKiwder,
Init ho wires (Njunecting the torpedo with
the shore would not work and the Knnbnat
Qottlnid away safely. Soon after the Iron
sides wiw succe.vh/ully attacked (Octolier,
180Si n little Inuit brouRht by rail from
Mobile and accepteii by the t'onfMlerat®
wnimander, lien. Jk-juiregard, for Cliarlw
ton h»rlor. Ih*«ur»!«ard was an engineer,
a HcienUlu lighter ard lielieved In skillful
methods, aud promptly accepted the new
machine, although she came with a forbjd
Un* rcpntaU.m She was to plow the deep
like fish. but. had no provision for storing
air and on an experimental trip in Mobile
l«ay synk and al! her crew, eight men, were
Ktrffi.-atel U'fnre they could bo rescued.
Thnt ws« disaster number one. Lieut
Payne, of the navy, soon found a volunteer
crew of eight men and took charge of her
for a series of e eriuients in the harbor,
which were tragic in the extreme, but
wjych by the "advancement of knowledge
mWe amend* for the dole of blood exacted
The new craft Is known In history as the
"cigar boat." She was made of boiler
Iron was .10 feet long and 4 bn»ad. with a
vertical depth of fe«t, approximately.
jLrcr*s was by two manholes covenvi by
hinged c*p» having bull s e .e« for steering
purposes. While the vessel floated theea
Mpswer* about a foot out of water. h«
propelling L^wer WM the handu of th»
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[V# da* evenings ol each mouth iu Masoi n the exterior there were vanes
I»»ll. Visitiig brethren cordjalIr turtle •, 1,1 Vw.nHinstwl at any
C, JOKBI, liecorder. C. K. U*O*B*, M.
OFL. K—SKUiiWICK DIVISION
313. Meets in Sdmler'.* Hall, Milbai i-.
Ui. the tirst and third Jiundar ol eat i
haft by means of
or Wings, that could be adjusted at any
angl* by Interior manipulation and w.i«i»
the boat wns to move oi. even ki»el the viiiws
were kept level. To defend at an angle of
10 (legs, the vanes wera fixed at that angle
and the propoller pin iu njotion. '1 he ro
eistanoe of the water against the vanes
caused the bow to dip and the l»»t to de
Son an inclined pl.^e. lJy reversing
tbo vanes the opposite
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token until surface was reached. Atu'K»
of mercury fold just how far under water
Ahe waa nt any time.
lH,e boat was flcsigned to dive and prist
under the war vewie
destroy and drag a torpedo after, to be ex­
it wa* intended to
A SPECKV RAKGKU.
ploded by violent contact ^t^ tJ^ bott^m
ofTbTvewel as soon as It touched the keel.
""U'- r'lfne ftixi ills crew or eigtit
men were preparing tjie boat for an expe
dition one night and had her at the wharf
near I ort Johnson wh«n the wave of u
pa-ssin^ steamer wiwhed over her and
swamped her Pay no escaped, but the
cr«-w wen- all drownetl. She was raised
and a cared of her de.a.l and Payne secured
another crcw, and she went, down in the
same manner at Fort Sumter wharf, Payne
and two men escaping. It was plain tiiat
the cigur boat was simply a coffin.
llio craft had earned such a bad odor
in Charleston hurlior that It was decided
t^ try her in new waters and she went to
ijtono river, where several Miccetiiiful dives
were inade. At last, however, she went
down aud did not c«me up, and after
search It was found t!mt she hud got fu*t In
the mud at the bottom and all on board
had jtcrished by hUlTocalioij. Ouce more
«he wiis raiswi, the dead removed--the
fourth ghawtl) cargo from her iroii Niund
hull aud she returned to the harbor.
Every disaster to the boat h.ul )^ul some
thing about it that was held to bo a warn
ing for the future, and a new crew went on
board and resumed experiment*. She
dived beautifully, and, barring accidents,
would carry a torpedo anywhare in the
deep One tuire accident led to iv change
of plan. For nu experiment she dived un
der the Vinfederate receiving ship Indian
(•Lief, fouicd a cable and all of her crew
perished When she w?w (covered one
lJetit. Georg* K IWxon, of the T» enty tlnst
Alnbuma ruglmeut, secured (it-n. lleaure
gard's p»'rm fsslon to try the famous David
fkgainst the Housatonic lkau?v.garxl stip
ulat'! that she should Lie rigged us n
torpedo IKWI on the rurface of the water
and not nu a submarine device. He be
lieved that the water was too shallow in
tiit harbor to admit of successful diving
under a heavy ship.
A spar was then set on tbe bow having a
torpedo that «otild explode ly concussion
with the object aimed at. The new method
of ojieratioii may have seemed to lessen the
danger, but iu reality the boat had met
diwurtor as often when on the surface as
when submerged, and the chances of her
riding tim convulsive waves produced by a
torpedo were very narrow. Yet, although
some thirty men had perished la her, Lieut.
Dixon found a crew ready to volunteer
and destroy the Houttatonic. Five of the
crew were men of the navy--Arnold liecker,
James A. Wicks, F. Collins, Kidgway
and C. Simpkina. Tliev were joined by
Capt. J. F. (.'arisen, of the South Carolina
artillery.
The fiousafconic was riding at anchor on
the evening of Feb. 17, her officer of the
deck, Master J. F. Croaby, pacing mechan
ically to aud fro, scanning around a* far as
tlui darkncsH—
it was 1) o'clock—woukl per
mit. Suddenly lie saw about a hundred
yards away w hat appeared to be a plank
moving swiftly toward hw ship. It WHS SO
strange that, anxious though he was, he
waited a short time beiore giving alarm
over so contemptuous an object. Then he
sounded the cry, and nil hands were called
to ijuarU.-rs. Hut lie was a few seconds too
late. The little boat had sneaked along
the bejich the nigh' bcf »ro, arid Iwii hidden
during lie day not far from he doomed
vernal. Then in a twinkling she had dart
ed out of hiding, eluded the lookouts, and
even while the cry was sounding through
the ship Lieut. Dixon rushed upon her
aides and fired the torpedo.
He struck forward of the mainmast, and
the hole extended below tha water line,
sinking her in four minutes. Five lnA
went down in her the rest clung to tin
rigging and were rescued. Iiut the
"plunk as the Hoasatonle's offWr called
it disappeared in the commotion of the
waters. Tbe fat« of the crew could only
A DAVID,
be surmised. The toat had set out secretly
to destroy* the Housatouic, but no one
could tell the tale of her experience.
There were other Davids in tho waters, and
hundreds of fixed ami floating torpedoes
in tho ch.annels. The men of the Housa
tonic conid give no account of tho affair
other than the shadowy "plank"
story, but
whether the plank were an automaton, a
floating torpedo impelled by cog work, or
the missing "cigar boat," no ono knew.
It had disappeared with the vessel de
stroyed.
After the war the secret came out the
"cigar boat" had justified her inventor.
The wrecks of the harlor we. cleared by
divors, and while exploring the depths
around the Housatonic they found the
rusty iron machine partially buried in
drifting debris about a hundred foct away
from the hull of the man-of-war. her prow
pointing toward it. Of course her daring
orew had paid the penalty and were se
curely coffined Inside. The Housatonic
was one of the new war vessels. She was
a screw sloop, mounting eleven guns, and
had been in the South Atlantic squadron
since lSCi. Her de*rruction WM a warning
to the whole fleet and an encouragement
also to tho Confederate.',, who after this
made several efforts, some of them suc
e s s u
Notwithstanding the reality of this sub
marine engine, such boats are at this date
deemed chimerical, and popularly supposed
to exist only in the brains of crazy Invent
ors or the imagination of romancer*.
Jules Verne puzzle -and amused the read
ing world with Capt Nemo's strange craft
in his "Twenty Thousand I*aguew I'uder
the Sea." Oen. Lloyd Hrice, in a recent
satire on American defenwlessness, brings
into action a wonderful fish boat, invented
and managed by an erratic
shirt manufact
urer, JUS though no saue man of science
wouid waste time on a scheme of that nat
ure. What has been considered a creation
of fancy, however, has lieen proven a fruit
ful reality, as
in the case of this Charleston
boat.
Jules Vernti's submarine vessel was
cig.ir shaped, and recently a Spanish naval
officer constructed a boat over which he
had dreamed for many years. The Spanish
government thought so well of the plan
that the inventor. Lieut I'eral, was given
the means to experiment, and his boat, El
Peral, was successfully launched and
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made several trips, justifying the nopes of
her projectors. This boat is a little more
than doubte the size of the Confederate
boat, being 74 feet long aud 'J *, feet broad, i
She is titled out us a torpedo boat, and can
run six knots an hour under wutct.
The torpedo bout had its origin in tho
civil war, and the Confederate* developed
it to a greater degree than did their adver
saries. Since that time all iirst clas* powers
liavo been experimenting, but no tvatisfac- i
tory result k been roachod. There uux- at i
present bouts of three or four hundred tons
armed with torpedoes, small boats carriixl
upon war vessels to bo lowered when in
close (juarU-rs with the adversary, aud a
coast t«irpedo boat, having its hull sub
merged. All of the.se are liable to detec
tion aud destruction by tlie enumy. The
situation calls for u noiseless, invisible en
gine that can work in all weather and i
at any hour, day or night, a« the Confed
emte I)nvld waa intended to do. Tlie prob
lem when solved will be by ft submarine
craft iut unlike the ill fated ono whose
story is told here. But surely uo contriv
ance of this character ever hAd more de-
the offense for which he sulTcnxl wns that
of acting KM a spy. The judge advocate of
the court which condemned him de
scrilied him as one whom violent pas
sions had shorn of his native elements of
maiiline.ss, and led him to commit deeds
which to havo even suspected him capable
at an earlier stage in his career "would
have been a calumny and a crime."
Heidi was a young Virginian and had
been wounded early in tho conflict. As
master in the Confederate navy he for
some time led a during life n« a "Swamp
Angel" on the lower Potomac, destroying
L'nion commerce ou Chc*nieake bay and
contiguous waters. While engaged In this
work lit) planmsl a lake r.iid, but failed
to ret his government to sanction the
project until 1H54. wlten the north
western Confederacy movement, of which
Jacob Thompson waa tlie head, made it fit
in with the necessities of the Canadian
conspirators. Thompson and his gang
wanted a foothold on Union soil near the
northern Istrder. One ui their cherished
plans was an uprising of the notorious
Sons of Liljerty at Chicago, during the
Democratic national convention in Au
gust, 1H64. This was a liasco, and Thomp
son turned his attention seriously to the
Uke.s. About this time Benll arrived at
i Kandusky, O., with authority to procred
on his raiding ent4Tpri.se. Thompson had
prepared the way for him by a careful in
ve.s^gation of the l.tku defenses, through
lui emissary located at Sandusky Capt.
Charles H. Cole, formerly of .Morgan's
raiders. Cole was supplied with means to
i entertain and bribe such L'nion officials
as might be of service to the Confed
eracy, and ho finally concluded that
the control of the lakes could le
secured bv tho capture of the gunboat
Michigan, the sole defrudrr of the waters,
and the lilK-ration of the Confederate pri»
onero at Camp Douglass, Chicago, and at
Johnson's Island, in Sandusky buy.
Thompson gave Cole authority to capture
the Michigan, and appointed iJeall to aid
him. It was arranged between Cole and
Beall that the former would remain at San
dusky and co-operate by bribing some of
the men on the Michigan, and by prepar
ing the prisoners on Johnson's Island for
an outbreak.. The Michigan lay off the
Island. The date was (Ixe for the night
of Sept. lil, an1 lloall went w Canada to
organize a force, bar. irding everything, as
will Ije seen, ou tho success of his coufetlrr
au, who at the decisive moment, when
BcalTs attacking parly should arrive off
Sandusky, was to make rocket n .U
from Johnson's Island that the exiected
aid was a certainty.
Heal I H4:cured the servkiSiof Acting Mas
»cr llennet (». Hurley, of tike Confederate
navy, Southern rofugie in Cituiuia, he
havdiig escaped from Union captivity at
Fort l)elawaro a short time liefore. and
elghn*cti Confederate soldiers of similar
history. Tlie party took passage on the
Pliiio Parsons, u lake stennier running le
tween iK'tmit and S-indusky. Considera
ble ingenuity was displayed in embarking
this force without causing suspicion. Hur
ley went on board at iVtroit and securcd
p:i.ssage for himself ivnd three friends, who
wore to join him at Sindwich, Canada.
Sandwich WIIS not astopping place, tint the
vessel was slowed up alongside the dock
ami Hurley's friends, Hcall among them,
sprang ou Ixiard. At Maiden. Canada, in
a crowd of over twenty passengers, there
wore sixteen more of the party, two of
them carrying an old -trunk tied with a
rope. Everything went on as usual during
the day until 4 o'clock in the afternoon,
when the boat was four miles from tho
Ohio shore.
The captain had gone ashore at a land
ing near Detroit, leaving the boat In
charge of the clerk, Ashley. Ashley was
standing in front of the oil Ice on the main
deck, and without a moment's warning
was confronted by three men with drawn
revolver*, who threatened to shoot him if
he offered resistance. Simultaneously
Hurley, followed by a uumlier of men, ap
proached from the forward part of the
boat, leveled a revolver ut Ashley and said:
"ijet iuto that cabin (ladies' cabiu or you
^bunncc
are a dead man." Ashley complied, ami
two men with revolvers took their stations
at the door as guards. Then the old truuk,
which lay on the deck in plain view, was
opened and Burlej's men armed them
selves from tt« content* with revolvers and
hatchets. Hurley commanded the lower
deck. Meanwhile Beall, w ho had lieen iu
conversation with the mate at the wheel,
drew a revolver on that officer and said:
"I take pos-sesxion of this tmat iu the name
ot the Confederate States*."
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i voted adhcrvnta, mora venturesome and
pahu!taking operators than the "cigar
boat" of Chorieaton harbor.
GJUI. L. KILMER,
THE LAKE KAIDKR.
DARING CONFEDERATE ATTEMPT TO
SEIZE THE NORTHERN BORDER,
John Y. BeaU the Leader—Sotzm e of Two
Lake Stoamers by Confederate* In Dli*
(ulw- l'lut, Mutiny, 1'allura and tli«
tjullnvr*.
[Copyright by American Press Association.)
S I K I N I n
stance of a brave
man going wrong
is pre.seutwl In the
ca.se of John Y.
Heall, who was ex
ecuted by the mil
itary authorities
at Fort 'olumbus.
New York hurtmr,
on the 34th of Feb
ruary, 18*15. Iloiill
WAS the chief pro
motcr and the
leader of the Lake
Erie raid in 1864,
but technically
--id]
"I TAK* POSSESSION OF THIS BOAT."
Under Benll's direction the ve-s-sel was
put ii!*jut and headed for Middle Hums
Island, in Ohio waters, ten ml his from
shore. Here the passengers and reg
ular crcw were put on shore. While tJie
Philo Pardons was lying at the dock a
small passenger steamer, the Island Queen,
came alongside and Heall's men immedi
ately boarded und seised her, bringing the
pas sen v. ... ,i... ,.:( ,i
Union soldiers, and crew .v* prisoners to
tho I'hi'o Parsons. The lionus remained
there some time, aud finally till of the im
i prisoned p:iSM!:ig-»rs and civ.vs of ti iiii ves
I sels were sent nshore anil the Philo Pur
i sous, with her Confederate crew, steamed
toward Sandusky, the Island (juern IISIHHI
alongside. It was night, but the moon
i shone and the hapless passengers sav from
their island refuge tiiat the Island Queen
was soon sent adrift and the Philo 1'untomt
disappeared in the shadowy distance.
I H»-:iIl Ijore his vessel directly for the gun
boat Michigan and approached within can
lion range. Now for the shore end of the
i plot. Cole had agreed to invite the officers
of the Michigan to a late ban|uet in San
dusky, to bribe the engineer and havo him
i hold a carouse with the crew on board
also to have a few daring leaders among
the Confwleratc prisoners on Johnson's
Island awaiting the attack on the Michi
gan, ready to amuse the ni'*sof theircom
I nules and make an outbreak at. a given
signal, a cannon shot by IW'iill through the
officers' quarters on the Island. A prciim
I inary to all of this was to be a rocket slg
i nal sent up on shore by one of Cole's aid*, I
as an announcement to Heal! tlmt every
thing was ripe for the finishing blow. Th!»
signal failed to upjicar. Tbe ('onfederat*
I ltMiders at the prison were alert, awaiting
Heall's announcement by a cannon shot
that he had succewsfully boarded the Mich
igan. Hcall awaited Cole's announce
uicnt that the Michigan's crew.
which outnumljervd his force live to one,
luul been "flx«sl'' and made com|uirativeiy
i helpless for defense. When the hour
pussed and no signal appeared Hoail began
to calculate hischancesof success as things
1
stood. His vessel was run so idose to the
gunboat tha* he could hear voices on Uianl
of her. If the plot had !een discovered he
i might fxjsvt a hostile demonstration from
the Michigan. As the moments passed
and no movement was made on the gun
i boat he denided to risk everything, board
her at all ha/uirds and strike for Johnson's
Island at a venture, in this crisis an un
looked for event dashed bis high resolve*
suddenly to the ground. The crew of the
Philo Parsons met his orders with a muti
Hons protest against further proceeding.
The absence of the shore signals wa.s inter
pretel by them :is a warning that the
plot had been discovered. A spokesman of
the party brought forward a protest writ
ten ou tho blank side of a bill of lading
found on the boat and signed by seventeen
out of eighteen of his men. It read:
I ON HOARD TH* i'mi/i fAimnvs.
I Sept. *0,
I We, the undersigned, crew of the bo.-u a/ore
•aid, take pleasure ex
pressing our ailmiraiioa
of the (rentlem»nly Iwaring, sLi!! an.1 eo'irs^r'"
Capt. Jutin Y Ileall as a e»inNianrii.,p officer uml
I a (f»Dtloinftn. lint belitivlhj anl beiliR well ecu
vtinx-1 that tin- enemy Is ulnueiy apprised nf
our approach and Is »o well pnriianvl tliut we
cannot hv nny (xiiwiblhty make It a succeaa, nn
hutlng nlrea/ly ca[tured t»o Iwmtii. we recpectr
fully decline t- pr.wecute it any further
Hcall argued and pleaded with the men,
and in this was supported Hurley and
one other, but he was powerless to enforce
oliedience. The crew insistel that the
death |ieualty awaited them if captureL
and they felt certain that such would lie
WAITING KOH THK SIGNAL.
the end of it all. The boat wo* then run
to the Canada shore, abandoued aud de
stroyed.
The scene now changes to Uuloa solL
On the night of the 15th of December, 1864,
the engineer on an eastern bound express
train on the Erie railroad between Buffalo
and Dunkirk saw a railroad rail across the
track, in front of his engine, and had tint#
to reverse and strike the obstruction at re
duced speed and without severe damasja.
The next night two policemen at the New
York Central depot, Niagara City, arrested
two suspicious men who were about to
take the cars for Canada. Heal I was one
of them, und though he mode some at
tempt to deny his identity he was sent to
New York city and accused of the la
it
9
(oiiscluis.tcd \piiI
s
1. h!(I
raid und of the attempt :t tr..iu wrecking.
Ashley, t!ie clerk of the Polio ParNoiis. and
one of he passengers named We*:on. and
ulso a cunleder.Mte in the attempt on the
train, ideutilied him and {urirtshed ample
evidence for a case
Tbe train wrecking enterprbw was
doubt less a la«t resort by Hcall to securr
funds for the pro*t«ention of his plaits on
the lake. Five men were engaged in It—•
Col Martin and Lieut Ileadley, of Mor
gun's command. IWall, a lad nanus! (ieorg»
i 8. Audttrson. who had
se-ii
service iu the
Coiiletlerviw army anil was a refuge*- lu
Canada, anil another, unknown Ander
son wasu VKlu'iteertniin raider, and state.I
in his testimony that the four —Martin,
Hundley, Beall and himself'rendezvoused
at HutTalo some days previous the at
tempt of Dec. 1.'. Martin w v» the chief,
and ou the night of lAth the raii
WHS placed liefore the train by the en
tire party The explanations matte
to Anderson, who seems to have lieeu
ittoked upon lj the others ae uu inno
cent, eutiiusi.'wtir helper, was that the
express car was to be rolJssI of 11 large
amount of money The puny lay hidden
near the track when the train struck, and
seeing thai the damage wa» «»nly trilling
they hastenel to HulTalo «uii »erel4»d
themselves Sulme^uenti} it w.%» urrunged
U) cross Sus|H'iision bridge on fool ami
reach Canada .•mil and there nwtlt a tratti
on the Great Western road tor Toronto
Martin, ileadlc and the iinkuifwii set
out alone, but HenII. who w:u-« \sitb thettt
at the time, remained behind in hunt up
young Anderson, who had somehow strayed
from his companion* While the tw«»,
Beall having found the lad, were awaiting
the train at Niagara City the arrest Loolc
place, purely on suspicion
Anderson's testimony undoubtedly swore
away Heall's life He was arraigned on
two charges, violation of the laws of war
and acting as u spy. I lis defense was that
his acts had liecn justillable acts of wnr„
aud, if coulined to his attempt on the gun
i boat Michigan and the Johnson's Island?
prison, the plea might have had weight.
iiut every circumstance likely to weigh it*
his favor, his education, his noble Itenring,
his manly conduct toward the captive.* on
the Philo Parsons and the Island (jueen,
was lost sight of In the appalling railroad
horror that hail l**-n planned with Much
cool delitieration aud with no purpose evi
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