Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — SEVEN ARE DROWNED. [ARTICLE]

SEVEN ARE DROWNED.

SHOCKING END OF A SUNDAY’S OUTING. Driath by Explosion and Fire—Affair* in the World of Trade-Strange Cause of a Mishap on the Kail—No Job -for Ransom. - Tragedy at Ocean City. Crowding nine persons into a little pleasure craft hardly large enough for five caifteed the death of nearly all the party Sunday afternoon at Ocean City, Md. The drowned are: Lina Hall, aged 19; Lqlu Hall, aged 14, sisters; Myrtle Stevens, aged 6; William Storr, aged 45; Laura Storr, aged 85, his wife; Ida Storr, aged 16, and May Storr, aged 14. Those who succeeded in reaching the shore w’ere 12-year-old Annie Hudson and Walter Hudson and William Hall, each about 20 years old. The weather was so threatening that several persons cautioned Hudson, the, skipper of the boat, to look out for squalls and stay neartho shore. 110 did not take the advice, but headed his craft for the fishing grounds of Read’s Islands. The capsizing occurred within 200 yards of the shore, and in water seven feet deep, Mr. Storr had only one hand and wars blind of an eye, but was an expert swimmer. He suqpeeded in getting his two daughters on the bottom of the boat and was getting his wife Out when the girls became scared, slipped off of the boat, grappled with their parents, and together the four perished. Buzzard Cutises a Railroad Wreclc. While the mail train on the Pensacola and Atlantic Division of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was bowling along between Bonifay and Carryville, Fla., Friday night, some heavy object struck the headlight, smashing the glass and knocking the banner off the lamp. The oil caught fire and in an instant the front of the engine was iu flames. The engineer reversed the lever so suddenly that the cars bnmped together with great force, injuring several passengers and derailing the engine. By hard work the flames were extinguished, anti then the engine was examined. It was found that a buzzard had struck the headlight and caused the trouble. The bird was found wedged in the headlight with the feathers burned off and thoroughly cooked, and was only removed by using a crowbar. It is supposed the glare of the headlight attracted the buzzard. The accident cost the road several hundred doliurs, and traffic was delayed five hours. Late Season Makes Decline. R. G. Dun & Co. say in their Review of Trade: “It is a belated season; a frozen May set everything hack. The heavy business which ought to have been done in May and June was pushed into July, so that the midsummer decline, due in July, comes in August. With this in mind, one is not surprised to find the shrirlkage from July to August rather more conspicuous than usual. The disappointing crop reports Saturday, though evidently distrusted, lessen confidence in regard to the future of trade, even w'hile some speculators gain by them. Back of all doubts is the fact that the industries are doing better than anybody could have expected.” - Fifty May Be Dead. The Hotel Gumry, Denver, Colo., filled with guests, was completely wrecked at midriight, Sunday, by an explosion. The floors and walls fell in a mass, carrying down the people who were in the building. The debris was immediately ablaze. At 3:30 a. m. twenty-four had been accounted for, six being probably fatally injured, and the rest less seriously. Shortly before the explosion occurred, the night clerk was heard to remark that seventy guests were in ttye house. The list of servants will not exceed ten, making a possible? death listoif fifty-six. Ransoip’a Appointment la Illegal. Acting Attorney General Conrad decided the appointment of Matt Ransom as Minister to Mexico was illegal, on the ground that the salary of the office had been increased by Congress $5,000 while Mr. Ransom was Senator from North Carolina. The decision was based on a question raised by Auditor Holcomb in declining to pass favorably on Mr. Ransom's vouchers for salary and expenses. Not There for His Health. A lawyer at Hollis, N. J., who has been the victim of burglars several times recently has posted this notice In a conspicuous place on his house: “Burglars coming to my house will be regarded as coming on professional business and are required to pay a retainer.” Dies In the Acid. A Chicago and Northwestern passengei train Friday afternoon ran through an open switch near Aurora and into some freight cars loaded with sulphuric acid. One boy was killed by the fluid, and another probably fatally injured, and four others bndly hurt.