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OCT. 16, 1880.

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TELESCOPED. TuoHty-«ix Porsons ;ii:d Seventy llitdly Wounded. The Esonplnit Stenui Sen Ids Soni<‘ of Them an llonr Before heint; Reseued—Paelienlars of the Calamity. Pittsburgh, Pa., October 10.—Naturilay night will be a memorable one in the annals of Pittsburgh, for it witnessed

when stricken down hy the iron engine : These citizens say they will sp^nd thei r of death, tin the opposite side of tne time and money to see justice done seat another pool of blood was encoun- Friends of Rome of the li censed have tered, staining debris and panels of the already diroated their attorneys to enter car with a crimson lurid color. It was • suit for damages on Monday morning, here that young Edward Butler, tie | Among the passengers in the ill-fated

acting baggage-mas ter of the train, met coach were Mr. T. P. Anderson, a lead I formed Church, had been picked up in

Cisr/.t-ti by Iter Death. iltcailins (Ponn.) Cor. New York Sun .1

There was great excitement in this city this evening, when it was first learned that the lluv, James A. Schultz.

A Dorse on a Elaitroari Tii'stle.

[Milwaukee Wisconsin.

The freaks of drunken men take turn-’ that surprise everybody, themselves included The newspapers chronicle many

his death. On the sides and ceiling o: ing attorney and his sister, a beautiful the car the paint was raised in blisters | girl of Cambridge, Ohio. When the

by the steam. At the forward end of the car the projecting roof and the platform were smashed into kindling wood. This end of the car was spread open in a

one of the most fearful accidents that: fun shape for precisely the same distance has ever occurred in this section. At as the rear end. The first three rows*of

midnight the second seption of the Walls accommodation train dashed into the rear end of the first section at Twen-ty-eighth street, at a speod of at least twenty miles an hour. Both of the trains !

were packed with men, women and | were wedged togeth children, who had come into the city to j line of the victims

witness the Democratic demonstration, ‘ death, and were returning home full of mirth

nd gaiety.

Your correspondent reached tne deIpot twenty minutes after the collision.

seats at this end were also utterly demolished. The platforms of the next car, which is No. 487, was also crushed The door and rear windows were broken

and crushed in, and thus the two cars ; frantic. All night long

er between them, her, although he was

was crushed

collision occurred, he clasped her in his arms and dragged her to the window. He crawled out and his sister pulled away from him. Mr. Anderson reached in the car and pulled out three women, one of whom was a shrivelled corpse, but could not find his sister. lie went to the round house and hospital subsequently, hut she was not among the dead or injured. He became nearly

he hunted for badly scalded.

to Early this morning he was taken to the Seventh Avenue Hotel, where, to his

Those who were in the forward cars unspeakable joy, his sister was the first did not realize the terrible extent of the '‘O'e to greet him. It seems that when accident until several minutes after the j s *>® let £° l>® r hold on her brother’s shock of the collision, when the engine ! “he became bewildered. She put

ilic pushed his way through acrowd of pi un g e d j n t 0 the end of the train plow her handkerchief to her mouth, however horror-stricken bystanders and railroad j nK j ts wa y through its human froicht, 1 ,lnt ' " hig, broad-shouldered man said to unployes to the scene of the "rock like a plow in soft soil. Many women | ber:‘Tut your arms around my neck, tdiich is exactly where the 1 hiladclphia j„ the forward cars shrieked and became ! bttlc girl, and I’tl pull you through.” oldiers stood and fired into the crowd | hymeneal, but when the dull, ominous ! s bn clasped him tightly, and he pushed luring the railroad riots. From every | t | iu( j 0 f t h e collision had died away, her through theViof of the

a well-known young minister of the Be- of the insane freaks, hut none more sen

sational than the performance of .lane s Streden, an employe of the Bay View Bolling Mills, last evening. James had been up at West Bend attending a guthiring of friends, and in driving his onehorse buggy through this city toward Bay View last evening, switched off from Kmnickinnick avenue in the Twelfth Ward and took the St. I’aul Bailroad

the stroots by the police after he had received a severe heating in a fight on the leading thoroughfare of the city. IBs identity was at first unknown. His encounter was with several roughs and fishermen. At the police station it was found that the man had boon fenrluBy cut on the bead. He was placed in a cell as a

broken pipe of the engine, which was fvedgod tightly into the rear car of the forward train, the steam was still rush ing into the coach and oozing out thro' Itlie windows. The air was fi’led with the shrieks of the injured ones who were being carried out of the car. At this monient some of the ghouls in hutman shape improved the moment and fobbed the dead of gold watches and jewelry. In the crowd that surrounded the wreck were strong men with bloody wounds and shriveled and scorched faces, who were wringing their hands and crying out the names of dear ones who were in the car. The railroad employes had cotnmonced the work of removing the wrecked engine and car from the track. The flooring of the car was torn into splinters and the axle of the rear car was broken, while the truck was standing in a transverse position to the track, projecting to the right side. The smokestack of the engine was knocked off, the blades of the pilot splintered into fine sticks, and the brace of the bumper broken. The bar which extends from the bumper to the center of the smoke-box, which was composed ■ of wrought iron, one end three quarters of an inch in thickness, wax snapped in in twain as if it had been a fragile reed. The bumper was snapped clear in two pieces. The front cover of the smokebox was tilled with spars and splinters, which had evidently composed part ol the platlorm, and which had been jam mod in with tremendous force. The boiler cheek, through which the water passes into the boiler, and which also keeps the water in the boiler, and which I Is composed of iron five-eighths of an inch thick, standing from tho forward end of the boiler hack, was torn from the boiler and broken transversely. It was the breaking of 'this pipe which let tho steam out of the boiler and caused the scalding of so many victims. On both sides the lining and jacket of the ■ boiler are torn up. The easing is torn off the steam chests, and from one of them the steam also found vent. On the right side the pump was torn from the socket and hunt in underneath one lof the driving wheels. It is composed of iron an inch in thickness. The plalfonn in the sides of the locomotive was split in twain. The pilot house was jadly demolished, and the forward end

tf the tender was crushed in.

The locomotive projected into the rear car of the ill-fated ‘train fully sixteen feet. In this car tho platform was (broken into splinters. The end of the car was demolished and tho flooring was ground into tooth picks. The closet ami stove at iho end of the car, were | Smashed and six of tie rear seats were I crushed into shreds. At the fourth I window, on the right hand from the end, \ was a big splatter of blood which trickled down the pane of glass in gory /(Streams. On tho lloor amid tho debris was a pool of blood mingled with frag raents of flesh. At this window, horn bly mangled, was tho remains of a young man. ’1 he window is broken and the ledge smeared with blood, as though the gory remains had been crushed up against the car side when the engine

made its death-dealing plunge.

. At the next window there were some J bloody splotches on tho ledge and scat R and it was at this spot that Bollinger had i his head torn from his body. The appearance and location of the crimson

stains show that tiie unfortunate

mothers pressed their childran closer in their arms, brothers looked into sisters’ eyes and sweethearts into lovers’ faces with an expression of joy that they had escaped such a calamity, and their expressions of thankfulness were loud, ferven and joyous, Home of the younger laughed and jested. At that moment tho rear door of the car was burst open and a brakeman, with pale (nee and an

excited, anguished manner ran through [ r | ( , r

the cars, shouting: "Keep your seat, lor God’s sake! There is death behind!” And as he passed through tho cars he locked the doors. The scene that then took place in the forward cars beggars description. Mothers who had sons and daughters in the rear car shouted their

car. She

does not k now what became of her heroic

preserver, hut thinks he was scalded to a oces, bringing in allusions very foreign

common ofi. nder; hut shortly afterward tr^ek to cross the Kinnickinnick River on it was learned that the prisoner was a t p,, railroad bridge. The bridge has for nnnister, who to-day and yesterday had a bottom only lies placed about twentyshown manifestations of insanity. | two inches apart, and the task of walking It appears that Mr. Shultz yesterday | across on a dark night like that of >reproached the sermon at the funeral of a terday is quite a ticklish one for even a young lady. '1 he funeral took place at sober man. For a horse, and especially St. I’anl's Reformed Church, Reading, j fop a horse controlled by a drunken driver, Report says that Mr. Shchultz held the j the task is well nigh impossible. Stroyoung lady in very high estimation, and Jen. however, was not sober enough to that he was warmly attached to her.! take in a greater fact than that, a bridge Her dying request was that he should I' U y before him and must bo crossed, j preach at In r funeral. '1 he Rev. Dr.! q'herefore, when his horse hesitated for a Bausman, the regular pastor of the | moment ho applied the wiiip, and tlie nochurch, occupied the pulpit also during ; |,|e animal commenced his perilous trip tho funeral- .Mr. Schultz made some across on the bridge tics. Cautiously! very strange remarks during his dis-J and very slowly tho horse felt its way j course. He spoke of his associations s ( e p hy step till he had nearly completed | among ladies, and his various acquaint- one-half the distance across, when the:

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death.

Bunted lo Dentil.

Saune, Isi)., Oct. 11.—Mrs. Stemforth, an elderly lady, while making apple butter this afternoon, upset the kettle which it was in, and during the excitement her clothing caught on fire, and she was burned to death before assistance

A llori-ihle Accident.

Lafayette, 1xi>., October fi.— Charles Roller, employed at the plow-works, was caught this afternuon i y a belt which he was trying to put on a wheel, and was whirled around on the shafting a dozen

The Markets.

Indiana nous, October 13.—Wheat— Tiie market is quiet; No. 2, red, 98(397 cents. Corn—is quiet at 39(340 cents Outs—are steady; new white, 30, , a ’(332

cents for October.

nal of this afternoon reports:

Hogs.—The receipt* for to-day were 30,000 head; the shipments were 4,000

names in agony, and frantically tried to j times. His right arm was torn out of tht force their way back to that blood-stain- socket and mangled in a horrible maned, fatal spot. To add to tho terrror of tier. He is latafly injured,

tho scene at this moment, the silence which had succeeded tiie collis ion was now broken hy the shrill sound of escaping steam, intermingled with the groans and screams of agony of the unfortunate ones in the rear car, who were being butchered and mangled and boiled

and crushed to death. ! United Stock Yahdh, Indianapolis, The railroad employes in the neigh jOct. 13.—Hogs—The market is steady at borhood for seme moments seemed j l|t4.70@ 4 90 per 100 lbs. Receipts rooted to the spot with inexpressible] 1,900; shipments, 7(50 head,

horror. In a moment they were moving about, and by the aid of flashing lanterns tho work of removing the maimed, dead and dying from the cars began. With every moment tho force of workmen increased, but, owing to tho position of the cars, the work of removing the unfortunato ones was necessarily slow. The scene on tho inside of the rear car, where the workmen went alter tho bodies was most horrible. Wpunded men and women were pinned on the floor, on tho seats and twisted in every shape, writhing with intense agony. Somo were clasped together in the convulsive embrace of death, their faces distorted with the throes of untold agony. On tiie faces of others of the dead there was a quiet, placid smile as if they had passed out of existence an instant,

with a jest on their lips.

Tho dead and wourfded were taken to the West 1'ennsylvania Hospital, one square distant, and ail the physicians in the city summoned. The scene at the hospital when the friends arrived, searching for missing ones, beggars descrip-

tion.

The responsibility for the accident has not yet been placed. The coroner has impanelled six juries, nnd will make an investigation to-morrow at three o’clock. Thousands were attracted to tho scene of tho accident to-day, and crowds searched among the broken stones on the track for pieces of flesh and bone.

to a funeral discourse. Dr. Bailsman interrupted the young minister, and the sermon was speedily closed. The Rev. Mr. Schultz then went to his boarding house and behaved like a person out of his mind. He made all sort' of ridiculous requests, piled tho floor of

across,

drunken man became impatient and \ struck the animal with his whip. A false j step, a stagger, and a final plunge told the story of the horse s drop of fifteen feet into the water below. The wrench and ! snapping of the harness and thills threw Sireden out, and he, happily, followed! tiie horse into the chili waters of the

his study high with hooks, and requested | m uddy river. Ufficer Weisner and Mr !

his friends to make preparations for the coming of seven ministers. This evening he ran out of the house, and, coming down town, got into en altercation with a number of roughs who did not know him. lie was very beligerent, and was soon knocked into tho gutter by a fisher man. 1 The minister wa« severely beaten and, among other injuries, received a blow on the head from a bill. After his identity was established by the police Mr. Schultz was carried home His rooms were found to be in terrible disorder. He had smashed all the fur nituro, pictures, ornaments and other decorations. Bis watch, oyo-g!assoss and slippers wero found among the debris. Moreover, he had played havoc throughout the entire house during the absence

of the family.

At a late hour to-night he was still unconscious from the effect of the blow , he received on the head from the billy in

Chicago. Oct., 18.—The Drovers' Jour 1 tho hall( , g of onp of t h 0 men he attacked

on the street. It is learned that in his discourse at tho funeral ho alluded to sevral carriage drives he had with sever-

and went out. Finally his rambling discourse was stopped. Mrs. Gresham, with whom Air. Schultz boarded, says that when she came home and found the

head. The market was weak and prices al ]ad y ( r i (!n <iv. The assembled mournw'cro lower. Sales were made of good erg WL . rc shocked, and a number arose

to choice mixed packing hogs at $4.40(<i 4 75 per 1001t>a.; light bacon hogs, f 1 SO (<• 4.95; and choice heavy hogs, $5.C0C<i

5 25.

Bli;i' Catti.k.—The receipts for today were 5,500 head; tho shipments were 1,400 head. The market was steady. Sab s were made of export cattle at $5 25 (« 5.95 per 100 lbs.; good to choice shipping cattle, .f 1 (50(3 5 CO; common to me-

dium cattle, •'13.75(3 1 30.

Shkki'hnd Lambs.—The receipts for to-day were 1,200 head; no shipments reported. The market was quiet and steady. Sales wore made of fair to good sheep at $3 80(«'5.25 per ICO lbs.

A PliH-lty Womsiii.

(New York Sun.]

About four o’clock this morning. Miss Josie Howard, who occupies rooms at No. 50 East Thirteenth street, was awakened from a sound sleep by a man in her room, and by tho dim light she saw him ransacking her bureau drawers in search of valuables. Springing half way out of bed with a revolver in her hand she pointed tho weapon at the intruder and told him that she would shoot him if he stitred a step; then running to the window she throw up the sash and called for the police. Officer Hanley, of the

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An ingenious and skillful operation was

Davidson heard tho double splash, and

ran to the river in tim > to see the horse ! performed upon a little girt yesterday swim out and clamber up an incline to : afternoon at St. Joseph's Infirmary. The the deck, while Streden, now nearly child bail previously suil'erod from an sober, was making efforts to keep his attack of what is technically termed head above water. To draw the man to ] “ulcerative keratitis;” in other words, an the shore was but tho work of a mo- ulceration of the transparent parti on of

ment, when it was found that he had suffered some scratches and bruises; but, with the inexplicable luck of drunken men, he had no bones broken and had suffered no internal injury. The buggy,

the eye-liall. This inflammation and ulceration having subsided, there was left, of course, what always follows,a sear. This scar in the corner is r-paquo and of a milky color, anil it interfered

which remained lodged between the ties with the vision by obstructing tho rays on the bridge, was the most us. d-up of light as they pass into tho eye. and at member of the trio, and was removed be the same time produces an objectionable

fore tho nf.xt train was due.

I deformity which no one wishes t<> have.

i The objects to he secured by the opera-

An Ai'iii) ol 1 \x o. ' tion were two-fold: First, to remove the lllofton Traveller.] deformity, second, to restore the vision Miss Rebecca \V. Bales, of Scituate to the affected eye. The first object was harbor, one of the heroines of 1812, ha- t ( 10 nn( , nought in yesterday's operation, just celcdtiEtcd her t i. fity-seventli qq,,* child was put under the infiuonce ef anniversary at the old homestead. Two , an amesthetis, nnd then a drop of ink sisters, Rebecca and Abigail, daughters j ] lf ,j nK placed upon this spot, the operator of the light-house keeper at Scituate. ] made an innumerable number of incisions played a part in the revolutionary period.: into it with a needle-knife; that is to say, as noteworthy as that of Barbara Fr< itcht. by a process of tattooing, colored this

Tho light-house at the ahov period was made the scene of fife and drum victory over an English blockade in Scituate harbor. Two American vessels were coming into the harbor laden with flour. As it was shallow inen-of-war wero afraid

minister in his frenzy he chased her and } to venture, and manned two boats to

Several ghouls had gathered together Fifte( , nlh i. roc i n ct, hearing the alarm,

some of the fragments of bodies, ami were trying to sell them at ten cents apiece. The railroad officials have taken charge of tho bodies, but will make

no statements at present.

To-night a very largo delegation of our leading merchants and hankers called upon Superintendent Pitcairn nnd Charles B. Page, Genernl Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Road, and demanded that tho parties who wero responsible for tho gross murder of so many of our citizens, as Will

hastened to the house, and caught th 1 burglar in the hallway, whither he had run when Miss Howard raised the window.* The fellow gave his name as John Marray, of ho.4.52 West Thirty-first street, and pretended to be drunk. It was discovered that Murray had obtained entrance te the premises by climbin; to the roof of the bay-window, from which he could easily reach the second siory.

A man leaped from a third story wir-

from his

iam Roadie, Cashier of the Pennsylvania ''<>* in ^‘Jelphia, Jo escape

. i 1 infuriated wife. His log wfts broken,

^er-,*

of the ill-fated car through the window | an( j ^at the guilty parties must suffer.]® 1 *

man

a neighbor, a woman, quite a distance, ami struck at her with a stick. He then ran back, and meeting a man on the sidewalk, the minister knocked him clean into the gutter. Mr. Schultz attacked a number of inofiVnsivo people, battering them considerably. Finally he encountered a gang of roughs, who treated hint as said. At a late hour to-night ho was

not expected to lecover.

This recalls a similar occurrence in which a clergyman was concc-med. In Laurinburg, N. C. on the 6th ins'., Miss Alice Skirr, one of the beauties of the place, became a raving maniac on account of the action of her lovor, a young clergyman, the Rev. John Ratterling. He recently determined to go to China as a missionary. She refused to go with him and when he announced his intention to go without her she became insane.

The enormous apple crop in New England has been squeezed into so much cider that the price of the fluid has dropped to 90 cents a barrel. It is said that drunkenness is in consequence far more common than usual. A Justice at Westfield, Mass., whenever a cider dr unkard is brought before him, lets the prisoner oflon condition that he will go home immediately and knock tho heads

out of the cider barrels.

The prisoners in a jail at Grenada, Miss., resolved to set fire to the building, and trust to the chance of getting out before being burned to death. As soon as tiie flames had gained a hcad-

pursue them. They were fust gaining on them when seen by Rebecca and Abbie

white spot black. This secures the first object; the second remains to be secured by another operation, because the obsti action to vision still remains, though, b ing of the color of the pupil or tho ins. is not distinguishable by any but a very close observer. The iris, or colored cut tain wl.i h hangs behind the transparent portion of

Bates, when going out to pick up chips j the globe, and which give the heavily to boil ths tea-kettle for the evening blue, or tho cold gray, or the passionate meal. The place was under Hie protec-] Black eye, according as Nature chooses tion of “Home Guards,” w ho, not appre- to color it, has a circular apertur- i r the bending any danger, w ro on a forage in admission 0 f rays of light, and. ns this

a huckleberry became familiar military music.

patch. The girls hud with ammunition and Perceiving the danger

opacity of the cornea is in front of'.hat aperature, excluding those rays of light, there remains but one thing to d<>, and

of tho sisters proposed to face the that is to tnako another opening in that

curtain, or extend the one already tin re. If it is impossible to go through an o! - struction or to remove it. the simplest thing, of course, is to go around it. That is w hat is done by this opt ration of cutting out a portion of the iris, which is called ‘•iridectomy.” This piece of the iiisis usually taken out just, above Ihe pupil for the reason that it is loss noticeable in that situation titan any other. The credit of rt vivtng this operation of tattooing is due to M. W eckcr, though the operation was performed at a very remote date. To a Mr. Higgins, of Guy's Hospital, London is due the credit of completing tho operation at one sitting. These are some of the achievements ofjmodorn surgery, for

they had several | though practiced in earlier days, these

j operations were abandoned on account of

enemy with guns, but quickly taking in the fearful odds, had recourse to a stratagem. They fled to a side of the lighthouse, so as to be concealed from the enemy, and one of them with stentorian voice called the roll. In an instant after Rebecca sttuck a martial air on tho fife, and Abbie hammered on the drum lustily. The music reached the British, a flag was hoisted and the two boats wheeled about and in the act a seaman fell overboard but was seized neck and heels and hauled in. The music also alarmed the absent guards, who returned in time to raise tumultuous cheers as the enemy were departing, the ladies playing “Yankee Doodle.” These two sisters never

married, although

proposals.

They were very Industrious and could t he indifferent results obtained by tbosq

ply the needle and thread on any kind of garment, for male or female. Their family is remarkable for their longevity. Their father died when very aged, and their mother eighty-seven, and their paternal grrndfather more titan one 'Hundred. One sister, Mrs. Jane Curtis, is in her ninetieth year, and another, Mrs

The

who performed them.

way, tho prisoners set up a howl, and | Hawthorn, is is her seventy-ninth awakened tho keeper. Ho unlocked the house occupied hy these two celebrities c»lls and the inmates escaped; but some was built by their grandfather one bunwere singed, and one was suffocated drud and forty years ago, and is in a

almost to death,

wonderful state of preservation.

“Can you tell me where to buy a white shirt?” said a gawky fellow to a man at Lexington, Ga. The information was given and tho inquirer, who was accompanied by a blushing girl, said to tho merchant while buying the shirt; “Can you tell me where to get a marriage license?” Of the license clerk ho asked; “Who’s the J best minister to tie the knot?" Thus the couple cautiously proceeded toward matrimony.