The Clarksburg telegram. [volume], June 16, 1893, Image 1

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heralded to the throne of their
maker; men by the score maimed
families hurled Into the dejrths
of despair: women. calling for
their husbands, children calling
C for their fathers, mothers calling
Jor their sons and not an answer
This is but a Shadow of the
awful calamity that befel Wash
ington on Friday. Words can
not picture thS awf ulness of' the
accident The imagination stands
jback and fails- to give any idea
of the scene. Its horrors will
knever be fully told.
5 Its suddenness was almost the
[chief terror. In " a' moment?in
lief terror. In a moment?in
le twinkling of an eye-was a
iange, and the mail who came
i '.he scene of daily toil that
grning never returned alive,
fmen who kissed their loved
jesas they.separatedhad "but
rap.
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Amoripr Tfiose Killed.
Washington,' June'?& ? Hun
dreds ofTmep^carried. down* by
the falling wall& of; a - t ""
which wa ??
nation of the earth there has
jieen a catastrophe unparalleled
in the annals of -its history, and
In every mind';tljere is the hor
f rible conviction that ita genesis
. is to be found in the criminal
negligence of a 'government too
parsimonious to provide for the
safety of its loyal servants by
protecting its property for their
accommodation.
The government of a great
.nation could not afford to provide
?safe building1 for its faithful
employes, but herded them to
'gether in a building whose un
sound condition, was notorious.
Again and again have the col
umns of the press been filled
*ith the story of the rotten walls.
There is shamei and remorse on
.toe sonls of some men who were
responsible for the state of
toings that confined men who
.*Gru working for their daily
?read in a building that every
mo in the city of Washington
.knew was unsafe.
Twenty-eight years ago there
another tragedy within the
this building. The news
p* 't was flashed to the four
I garters of the earth, and it
I fought consternation wherever
The man who was
1? was the President of the
I . niitj?d States. As though the
?. Hiding had borne a curse upon
I" from that time, it ended its
B?reer in a fitting manner. But
!?* ?u?h better it would have
In " ??vernment had re
I T,re<^ "le structure years ago.
biding coUapsed in the
I 1 st, of an ill-judged effort to
I ?6fly some of its defects.
hen tlie orask came there
lwlSUpp08ed 10 b0 iu the build
j* 490 clerks, eighteen messeu
g?and twenty laborers?a total
Persons.
L y?cty*f?ur or more ? persons
lC n have , been killed
I"; many others were injured.
?ttl7; rrowS'Nelson'whoform
loirh 'Ved in Clarksbuig>was one
n? Persons killed.\ Dr. Nel
. ? 'J1 claimed his residence at
^ ssbnrg and returned; "hero
? at the national elections.
I **a derk in the ill feted
. Mismm
^ife^aiid five children ia very
? It is said that several days ago
the clerks in the buildinv clrcu
lated a petition protesting against
the work of repairing being con
tinued, as they con8idered that it
ray the crash came without warn
in*. r ;3?hp8e on tnewp floor were
* ?uo noiKUU Ui laillUK
ind furniture, and the
i^the'second and first
Wpnt
the forward half of the floors
gave.^way. The outer ends of
thefioors and the rear part of
the structure did not fall.
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? Tke Eiemles of the Soldiers*
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Every Bourbon in Washington
and ev^ry copperhead through
out the country is shrieking
about pension 'frauds." The
open'sesame to the favor of the
Cleveland Administration is sup
posed to be the discovery that
some old soldier is getting $3 a
month when he ought, by a strict
construction of the law, to have
only 12.75, or that the veteran
with the broken or palsied arm
ij_."-j'lLAiki.i'-a V^yZZi?. ? -? ? " - ? -
is not entitled to any pension at'
all, because he is abieffiffiin&M
K igffisswsH t^wimaBSaaH
icna
ms&mmsrc- ^ssss^tasss ?
corner, or parading Broadway as
an advertising sandwich, or ped
dling shoelaces; but as long as
the soldier can perform some
labor there is no help'for him in
the way of a pension, the Georgia
Secretary of the Interior de
clares.
Hand in hand with the South
ern Bourbons in the assault on
.the veterans are the men who
were too cowardly and the men
who were too disloyal to do any
fighting themselves. These view
the Union soldier with equal
jealousy and hate?jealousy of
his courage and hate because he
has disappointed their hopes and
predictions. This class of critics
is just now largely in evidence.
They claim to be unearthing
fraud when the are simply grati
fying malice. Their pretenses
deceive nobody. The people
understand them and despise
them. The popular heart is with
the men who fought for the life
of the Republic. Patriotism is
as.strong as ever in the ranks of
real Americans, and those who
are counting upon popular sym
pathy in their attack upon the
tJnion veterans are only inviting
contempt and detestation.
E. S. Parker, a resident of
West Fairmont, was robbed last
Monday night of his coat and
vest, and 16 in cash. He had
been at lodge and it was late
When he' got home. 4 'Biding the
goat" made him very weary and
he slept so soundly that he heard
not the robbers when they en
tered.?.Fairmont Free Press.
Between. twelve and one
o'clock last Sunday morning Wil
liam Fitzgerald, aged thirty,mar
ried, and a resident of. Cameron,
was killed by falling,from a Bal
timore and Ohio freight train |
just west 61 Clover's Gap. "
CoL N. W. Fitzgerald's new
hoteV building at Terra Alta was
burned to the ground last week.
The building so far as completed
cost 815,000. The fire is sup
posed to have been of incendiary
origin.
FOLLOWED BY A PARE!
|' suicide;
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-A Craqr Mother's Ghastly Dee<
The most horifyiiig crime
e^er took place in Wood- <xm
West Virginia, with one ex.
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ths same time the mother grab
bed the girl iand tried to throw:
her into the well "also. Tlio
daughter fonght with all Her
power, and the well curb being
about two feet high, she was able
to keep herself from being thrown
in.
At this momenta younger child
8 years old appeared, and the
mother abandoned the effort to
throw Mollie into the well and
grabbed the younger child. The
daughter fought with desperation
and almost superhuman strength
to release the younger child and
finally released him from the
maniac mother's grasp, and then
told him to run for his life to his
uncle's, near there. The mother
then started to throw herself into
the well, following the two
younger children already there
and drowned, and Mollie grab
bed her and screamed for her two
brothers to come to her aid.. They
arose from the table and started
out. One of them fell dead before
he got to the door, and the other
just as he reached the doorway,
pitched headlong to the ground
?a corpse.
In the meantime the daughter
was engaged in a desperate strug
gle to prevent her mother from
throwing herself into the well.
She tought with courage and he
roic strength and tore almost all
the clothing from her body, but
her efforts were unsuccessful, and
at last her mother pitched head
long into the well, and drowned.
The funeral of all the dead took
place Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. Kirsch and family moved
to Limestone Hill several years
ago from Ohio, and are, as their
names indicate, of German de
scent.
They have been industrious
citizens and agreeable neighbors,
and enjoyed the esteem of all
who knew them.
The tragedy is one of the sad
dest. affairs we have been called
upon'to chronicle, and the sym
pathy of every one will go out to
the berieved and heartb-roken
remnant of the family.
mil
L. ,hei:.wa?
n siclc before all wm eaten,
jfhether it wag laid aside when
sister screamed for help from
lide of the house will
; i$mjm
iteau's skull was kepi in tho L
Medical Museum which I
-y people. It is probably
ied in the ruins and ground
?wder. Before his execution
au issued a dragnet curse.
> included every one 'who
nything to do with his con
.j, and mankind In general,
jrstitioua people may connect
resence of Guiteau's skull
i building in some mysterl
ay with the terrible catas
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klldrei'i D?r at Goff
"?"?I
by
,B|
when
the surrender^
nged
.toz
_ _ Jie West Virgicia
log at the World's Fair. It
belonged to Alexander MoLain,
at whose house the generals met.
| It comes from Harry E. Stillman.
I who married Miss McLain; so
there is no doubt about its genu
ineness. A secretary accompa
nies the old high-back mahogany
sofa. 5The tradition is that the
papers Were drawn up on this
secretary. Yet another tradition
has it that a taole carefully pre
served in the war museum was
the piece of furniture on which
the signing was done by the two
generals. Southern women are
all anxious to sit on the sofa
'where General Lee sat" One
visitor studied the situation for
several moments, plumped her
self down on the right hand end,
lenclaiming, "I'll bet anything
' this ib where he sat," and pplnt
ing to {he other end, "th?t is
where Grant sat "?fir.
A new toWn has been located
in Braxton county, at the mouth
of Holly river, about ten miles
above Sutton, on Elk river, which
bidsfair to become a place of
considerable importance. Itwill
be the centre of a great lumber
region.
A family of nine persons of
Wayne county, four men and five
women, who went to Colorado
four yearn ago In wagons, came
back the same way, arriving at
home this week, having traveled
1960 miles. They left Colorada
March 14th, and traveled without
a stop only at night
About
.. i
man
weeks ago a young
attired, of fair com
d medium height and
ab">ut 28 or 24 years
e his appearance in
whose advertised
a repairer of clothes
wringers, i He obtained several
''IP ' families about
to. repair.them.
plexiou,
appareni
of age,
our mli
vocation
town, p:
cheaply anl
Jy; br" f ?
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The Sights and Wonders <
EM
to (Sontintiie
to week.
heard of Carl Ha
renowned tamer <jj
Hagenback has bi
mous collection of
Germany, find .ha
tMng like an'ampl
building contains s
toward the dep*n\
gorgeously decked in
flowers to elicit a proi
turn. Just then th
Eulalta looked onand
and the envious ashes
ington, remembe
triumphal tour of?:
about to be disturbed
discovered that (he
title was more an i
than his name; that hi
was as uncertain as
that his blood was as p
his manners; and. that
rous piety absorbed-1
neglected an only
abandoned a dyWfatl
A reception was given 1
Of Bishop Kain in' thi
house, Tuesday evening/
Edward Brannon has r
from Princeton Oolleire
brother. Henry, has r
from school at Baltimore.
V
H. T. Lockhart went in
Camden on
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