The Anderson News, 1885-09-17
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Wxsxixgtox & H a Beptember fi finis - nis finis morning oar beautiful little city to In ruins caused by tort night's storm and a pfl of debris meats the eys st svmy gisnea Largo buildings war lifted from ttalr foundation and demolished Kvtry hotel bhurch bank and business house was Mown down Ovsr one hundred buildings wsra completely demolished and ss many more lekcd Seven lives are known to b lost far and a large number woandsd A mother and son who hod removed from Jamestown after th eydan at tost pises in view ef escaping such estsatrophtes wars with difficulty exhumed from an enormous mass of brick and mortar man mangled - gled mangled almost beyond recognition The boy's brass were utterly crushed while the mothsr's flesh reduced almost to Jelly Among ths Incidents connected with ths affair tns Bui ration Armv was holding srvlcss in Music Hall When th wind stouek th building driving window -glass fa a perfect storm through the hall and ovsr too beads of tha people woman screamed and wept while men in terror turned pole Tho Rsfvntian Army had an annual occasion to manifest their seal and falling upon their knees with npllfted hoods and streaming syce they implored th mercy! of too Al Almighty - mighty Almighty Ono man said It wms the first tin In bis life he was ever frightened end toe old Maitoaiwho had stood faithfully ut his port si si regulator of conduct among the hoys at ths salvation meeUng rsisxed hto hold upon th door and tattoo frrastod multitudes swarm into to streets A port of the roof and celling caved in Th Odd Fellows were In session ano soma twsnty wsra present who narrowly escaped with their Uvea and after ths building had sank to to ground six men stood on ths narrow edge ortho north wall which still remains It was on o too most narrow sseapss from Instant death In th history of th world Hot on of tha ran in too hall was killed while all srere mon or lew injured William Tharp haa s family composed lot a wife a daughter a young lady) and a son They lived In a tmall nones Jnst over to creek west of town and tort night all except Mr Tharp were seated in tbsli hones when tha tornado struck iA The house wss taken op and carried no on knows where Tha torso occupant were lifted from too ground and carried fifty yards across the road when they wen (a ruled without sustaining mors than a faw light braises This to considered one of tho miracle of th tornado Tho vast crowd which poured into Wash Washington - ington Washington to-dsy to witnese far themselves tbs gnat damage of th tornado wss mar marvelous - velous marvelous It was estimated all the way from twenty thousand to thirty-five thousand and Mis sofa to soy tost this city never bsfors held such a multitude Thera am a
- Th mantis of oharity is olten out from a very small piece of doth - Some man on like wagons whioh rattle tha most whon thore to the least in them - ti Y Mail - Hobart Grant soya tha American girl thinks for horselL If she marries a foreign oonnt she genornlly has to do his thinking also - Motion Put - Boms poople think it very funny (o lough at a poHoemnn but wo hsvo ' fistscd through the oily lateral times ate at night and hara soon nothing to laugh at - Bos ion Iratueript - It is alalmsd that a woman ran clothe hsrsalf neatly aad comfortably from head to fooA for three dollars and Iwenty-fira rants No one up to th present moment howovor lias boon rash enough to dsim that sbs will - SomereiUa JourmtiU - A man railed on the Chief of ToIIm of Allegheny a faw days ag aad suid ho had been robbed of a00lRfl00 £he man is supposed to havo I ran a curve piteher for s professional baso- boll dab and hod just bran paid holt of his season's salary - ifurrulovn Herald - Thirteen is on nnlneky number - It ia for tills reoson that when a shop shopkeeper - keeper shopkeeper halves a twenty-lira rant plara ha invariably gives yon I waive canto Tho shopksopar is nnwlilslt end M omebodv must run tho risk of tad look ho freely tokos it himndf - Ck Ck-eago - eago Ck-eago Trtlmne I - She lovod him Jnst so mnoh and no muoh'sr Wife - I wish you would get your lito fasnred for B'sOOO my door Httsbnnd - 1 wss thinking of getting it Insured for $I0IX)X W ife - Do you think you can? Husband - Certainly Why not! Wife - I snpposo the oompanios refuted to insure any anything - thing anything for more than it is worth- - a Y Herald - Lir insurance aynnt - "Come lot ' me make you out o policy" Ur Du Du-senbnry - - senbnry - Du-senbnry - ''Not to-day sir" "Why not! The premium on $20000 would ' not bo muon It woaltl bo a nine sura to leovo vonr wire" "I said not to today - day today sir' Now I say never sir! A handsome yonng widow with $20000 to the most dangoroaa legacy o could leave behind him" - imfoii COIL - Nun to fashionable mottpr-Ths baity is very restless ma'am- I can't do anything with her - V M - She's -toothing I supposs N - Yes'm I ( tiling if yon woo to toko her fa your arms a little while it might soothe her L XL - IF Impossible I I haven't tha time to spare I am jnst making ready to attend a mooting of the Soofetyfur tho Frevention of Cruelty to Childraq Give baby some parumria - Hoeton Courier '
' Sowttartdfa Diath CnrowxATi Beptember IA - An sodden t with low id life occurred tola afternoon on tho Big Thar Railroad near Guilford lad Th aeddont waa occailoocd by th breaking fa two of th freight train How 18 east-bound and in charge of Conductor Adam Bans As It waa descending tha grad after leaving Guilford too engineer discovered th accident to bit train and bagan to "slow up" but th detached por portion - tion portion of ears eontinasd to follow lnereadng by th descent of grado and overtaking too portion of the trsin ahead dashed madly Into its rear talrsooping con and derailing three One of too three cars hurled the track was loadad with into which nine men had cone-ated them elves for the jurpoac of stealing a ride Aa tho ear toft too rail it turned ovsr burying beneath ths shifting outs num number - ber number ef toe Inmates and bunting open the car- Six of tha Imprisoned tramps man managed - aged managed to quickly emerge from their confine confinement - ment confinement and haa they mads any efforts to assist their tom fortunate companions In toad of basely deserting them tho pour wrrtohei might have bean rescued alive As It was betas to train men were aware of tho fact that any on remained In ths upturned our Ufa eras sxtineA Coroner Jackson was Immediately notified and tort evening took poeseseloq of the bodies Upon the person of one was found a certificate of membership In tha "National Benefit Association of Indlsnspolls IniL of John KcGary age twenty-four rort rort-" - " rort-" Slain Belmont County Ohio and ' to Jans McGary hto wife occu occu-toat - toat occu-toat of a freight brak-man" dated 10 UNA On th body of ths second man papers and artistes ersre found Indi Indicating - cating Indicating toathtanama waa Willard T Ewing Jackson Ohio also a photo id a beautiful
of but th dootora are afraid of alts ' As eioetrlo railway now being laid In - Philadelphia to to be opened for travel Oc October - tober October L He coal la at the rate of U)00 per mile Tns gas strikes that are being mad all over the coaatry show that Pittsburgh not long sMoopolto tho latest wrinkles in tfcsfnei lln Tss fattest woman In the oountry If not In tha world Mrs Emms Msrkley dJad at Philadelphia s few days ago Mm weight was 550 pounds Caxaars src gettisg sick 'of tittss and tha Montrssl BUnrsuggoste s psriismontssy nddrsss to tho Qaooa rsqusstiag her to pat ' so and to tho folly A Chicago wonts who wanted to sui suicidal - cidal suicidal hat didn't want it to hast monk wrapped tot finger In n rag and poandod it with n hammer '-'A mo a min from which sheets twsnty feet in length srs taken to said to have boon discovered abont ninety ' Virginia City Bov It ia thonght that the frtneh 'qtdolly da eouraged tha war faallag in Bpaln sgal - i Germany They would enjoy n ncrlmmsg between the two powers to A n British royal banquet tho plats th tables anally amounts to flWW in veins' This to only shoot a qi mount kept at Windsor Two prominent merchant toilers of Bar lin pay their girls tb extravagant wages 1 of from twelva to Often sente for n complete eoit of boyto slothing 1 LmmsAxr Gnonon M Bronn mending tbs expedition to Alaska report that ho to writ fitted out for the winter nod that dvesythlag looks farlgM ahead Ten aid Ooort-hoaie at BA Genevieve Months oldest In tha Mississippi Volley north of Hew Orisons has jnt been Is down to make room for n new structure - r Ton Bwtaa Padsral OouneH haa'sxpallad from tho Republic boons of Anarchists ' who wars detected placarding tbs of Lesions with revolutionary m swifts-
Jto 'Beggar's Nluhimara' You can't do yourself justira when you play suru a wretched piece as that If ft had not " been for your exquisite playing the pii M would hara bran hissed" Of course Miss Birdie felt very much flattered and was subsequently heard to speak of th fataUigeura and good looks of Gilhooly ' Later lu the evening Gue De Smith the brilliant eompoeer asked Gilhooly to step outside At firefi Gilhooly sup supposed - posed supposed that Gus had heard about hie advert criticism of tho musical pro production - duction production ami ho wished hs had not spoken so disparagingly ot Una When they got outside Gue said fa an earnest voice: "Gilhooly let's go to Jules Borne Borne-fold' - fold' Borne-fold' and flatter our digesters" They went Into Jules Bornofuld's sa saloon - loon saloon After the ceremony was over Qua udd: "Now Gilhooly 1 know you are a judge of fine musk) I smut you can candid - did candid opinion about that little gem of mins tha 'Boggar's Dream' " "Gus" replied Gilhooly seising hie friend by tha hand "You are tha Dom Doming - ing Doming Texas Moxart but whv don't you St a musician to play It Instead ut at dreadful plano-poundcr Blrdia McGinnis Shu nas no touch at all If It hadn't bora for ths merit of the pfara Itself tho propin would hnva blMWtd her of tho sutga'" Thu Gus Da smith one more
Saalta lyscktd Eautron XrH September 11 A - Bentos tbs negro who ontrngod yaar-old girl at Walton Ky Sunday ban hang to a walnut ton about halt between Burlington aad floronee After he was hung the mob riddled hta body with ballets Hta litokM remains now bang dangling In lb air and tha mob to shoot shooting - ing shooting and hnHoiny At Burlington tho mob experienced gnat difficulty In getting in tbs JslL Tbs great Iron door wen broken In with hara Mows After Beales was found th mob rushed on to him bound him hand and fooA In hurrying him down th steps of tho Jail th negro fell to the botteoAntling n horrible gash in hta fore forehead - head forehead He was grabbed by some of the mob and mad to ran down tha rood to where a staring wagon was held in waiting Bcstos was frightened almost to death He prayed and begged tor mercy ! am innocent'' Mid ho laid man Lunsford has done pot that on me bees nee I would not steel Hind's chickens" "Thai's all right" said ono of the stob "W will flx you so yon won't steal - - soy - - men chickens" - Beales vary nervous anil said? "My Is Bcstos gentlemen and yon can do with me what yon like hot glv bm n chase to explain I can prove that I am Innocent" He was hnstledoff into n spring wagon aad drove abont five miles down th pika wkan ha was hong - Alter th
town and the eittaans should watch them It to regarded aa a calamity that the three leading Presbyterian Baptist and Catholic Church ediflets arc so com completely - pletely completely rained aa to be beyond repair Ths cemetery one mils cart of town has sen wonderfully damaged Boons of -MouaasotB wen thrown to th groamAsnd it will be many months betas adequate re- pain mb ba made All aeei stance on the port of Ohio eRtoo iwni or individuals to tha nntatnsst Washingtonians will bo received with glad hearts Washington to In gnat need of help and there to - no doubt tout bar stater cities will corns to her rescue Governor Hoadly has dons as he did in th ease of tta Jamestown tornado Ho has arrived on th spot as sow ss th cars could faring him '' After taking a tour of the city to-day he said that he had de decided - cided decided to appeal to th people of Ohio to come to too rescue of toe sufferer ef Washington whom ho realises to ho in s pitiable condition Governor Hoadly snb snb-scribed - scribed snb-scribed flH) to to Relief Fund and ra-
SaleMt sf a Carat Moin bial Beptember llc-Thto after ooaths Const H Wilhelm Browns ef Bcrlls who arrived by steamer this ms lag from How Bbata Walts' htasstef Inffont o58A Lswnaes Hall on BA Jams strcaA Ths particulars pre as follows: Tho CouaA who owned a largs aatato la Osr Osr-many - many Osr-many toft hams sariy last spring to visit Australis sad Booth A terries tonring n yuang and bsautllsl wits I behind him At Bin Janeiro ho reoelv s ae bias ram tost his wife hi fled wi lt a young tradesman and was supposed to be is tetomp How Booth Watos or id Canada He at one toft far th farmer pUoa and failing to find tbs' guilty con pip earns bars whan hs foaad hta wife and bar paramour living at one of th hotels He visited her sad entreated her to return bat without avail Hs than went to BA Lawrence Hall god had din or after which bo walked oooly oat on to sidewalk and discharged his revolver si his toft ear ths bullet going through the ear Hs eras conveyed to Hotre Dam Hospital when h lto fa a dying eoodi-
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