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SIXTY PSOPLE BURNED BEATS.
•11.1g&indini Incidents and Horrible Death
Beellea,
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A. last. Saturday night's White River
junction (Vt.) despatch sayp.:,. ,At
haif-
past 2 o'clock 'this. morning the Montreal
night express, on. the Vermont Central Rail-
• road went, through the bridge •at -Wood-
stock, some five- Miles north. Of here,and
' felt 70 feet inth-the White River, causing
tertiKelossni life, the. disaster 'being, the
most appalling that has occurred in the
'history of New England, and rivalling the
• famous ' disaster at Ashtabula, whioh
it resembled in _many respects. The
train consieted_. of. an engine, baggage,
postancl smoker, two ordinary.passenger
jaciaohetic- andtwoPtillmen sleepers, the
Pilgrim "nd " St. Albans:" Thetrain,
• With the exception of the last Pullman, left
Boston at 7 p m., its nand time, arriving
here at1.2:30 a. m., when'it,wap connected
• with .the sleepar. • "St. Albans" • from
•' ' Springfield, containing passengers , from
15evi York and the West who had borne to
Springfield via :the Poston d Albany, and
• the New York; New HONOR k. Hartford
-anittd. •
The Boston deeper.," Pilgrim "Was
as the :night 'lona add, and . those
phssengers who could afferdit preferred a.
-bed. With einem to the 'OhillY. Passenger
•cars. , The Springfield sleeper was about
.throe -quarters full, and the whole' train
contained sortie • ", • '
'NINETr.TO,ONNAIUNDRED,PASSENGERS..7,,;;„/,
e
the passenger coaches were Most of
,in....the„ sleepers,
' were the through people for St. Albans and
. Montreal, Most of the latter being enroute
for the coming ice Carnival. - The , train
• reached .here-;.,on,time,--but was delayed
waiting for _- the Springfield,-, car, - and
was exactly. 2.10' a. M. when it
pulled out of the depot. It had to pass a
. freight at South, Royalton, twenty---milea
north of here, and so ran ahead of schedule
speed -to make up for last time. At what is
known Woodstock, an (Ad abandoned
station'the high bridge, ,a • HOWO "flec14.`
. structure some 200 feet long by 40 to 70
high, was reachekandhere by some means
• the.ca,is left the track While on the bridge.
All that.. portion of the train behind the
postal oar plunged into the'river,..twci cars
breaking through the ice and being partially
• .‘ submerged; The forward part Of the train
possed over in safety.. The forward coach
Ieft the rails first and dragged the others
after it, the shock of striking the bare ties
'. breaking the conpiing between. the postal.
and the :coaCh7-7-George.1-Parker, a rear
brahemae, was going from One Pullman to'
another, when he heardlt great crash and
•• the card trembled. He jumped to the step,
,and giving a glance, ahead„savc the coach
going dawn through the bridge. :. Without• .
waiting he haired off, striking the frozen
aim* and rolling 30 feet down an embank,
-Anent.'He was terribly bruised, for he gays
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•
. the tram was going 40 miles an hour. One
ilikftice was baslly torn and his right
' arm. broken. When he get to his feet he nays.
,
P'F.ARFUL. dant •
°met his eyes. The ears all mixed ,up, SODIO
ontheir tops and others on their sides were
• lying on the ice, while a btight. flame was.
leaping up from different parts ofthe
wreck. , The cries were terrible, but , not
Minding, them, : and knowing that 'the
engine Pala not repress theshattered
bridge; he ran to a farm -house some rods
,. removed frian the bridge and kickinge
door awoke the initren--Thinnas
told of the accident. . Filagree got
. a team and, wounded as, he was, Parker
drove at breakneck aneed, through the dark
all the way here and gavethe alarm. 'The
,
station C agent • fauna Dr. Ira Chase, of
.....—....,Bristelf:atAhe-DePoOlotel, and with a
'number of citizens with linen and brandy
••!started in a box car...icir. the scene. - Before
• they had left the depot a bright light in the
northern . sky told
the horrible scene that . was being
:enacted it the 'fatal bridge. . " The relief
, party , reached the ' scene. no .hour
athd. fifteen minutes after the accident,' and
by that time the bridge' was : one mess Of
flames, and nothing was left Of the cars but
, glowing -frames and redhiat iron ' braces
Sttetched out upon the ice 'were a number, of
, .
4.4
• •BLACKE....D PIGH.ES
covered up with What cOuld, be snatched
from the broken carp, and, assisted hy some
dozen country people, the trainmen were
• carrying the wounded to the house of Pink,
• gree and .7 the „postal • car, which was being
extemporized ' as -a hospital. Your corre-
spondent•was one of the relief party, and
, can say that the ..sickening, terrible sights
Cannot- be described. :1 The wounded!. most
:of *horn were suffering from 'horrible.
burns, were writhing -and. twisting !mon,
: their bode, while shriek niter would
.• be given out by what seemed but a bundle
• Of half -burned rags. Every•few Moments
some tortured vietim, while; being assisted
up the bank„ vivid& break 'aw,ay from the
• helpers and, rushikareataing;“talf;haked,
• across :the frozen snow. One . young
• wothan, scarce' ly18, who lives near Quebec,
and who was said by a trainman to have
:entered the trail) wearing a magnificent flit
robe to ;keep her warm, stood crying on the
ice with nothing on but a Pair of stockings
and a chemise. She refused to budge when
, assistance was offered; and ahe had to be
carried by force Pingree'shouae. The
smoking ruins of the hunt Carsgave forth
▪ sickening
• °non or BURNT FLESH, • •
which made the small band of helpers ill
• and faint. It was a remarkable feature of
•' the accident that not One of the passengers
:who went coier the bridgesscaped scot free.
, 'All' were injtared; and; to show how feet the
• flanaes'spread, only those survivewho were
Ar got out of the. cars. ten*inutes after the
• first crash came. Most of the fortunate
011ee.were taken from the sleepers, all these
• on the two fcirward cars, with few excep-
tions, having been, killed outright at the
• outset 6y.the heavy, sleepers falling linen
them and grinding thent to piecee, The
rescued ntimber 30 all told, and deduding
this from the low estimated number of
traini.leaves:60 vietima who Mat
dreadful '
THWFATALLY WOUNDED "-
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were 1.1; Wesson, of SPringfield, son of
the famous APIA Manufacturer P.
Dillon, of " Dartmouth College; Henry
TewkeibtarY, of Randolph, Vermont, . and
Smith Sturtevant, the .eonduotor, who was
taken from a burning oar hall roaated. All
these died Soon after being taken from le
wreek,
" THOSE WHO SURVIVE
are Cashing, of Middleboro', Mass,
back injured; L Abeuef, of Lynn, Mass;
legs broken; MSS Lovell,ofMniatreal,sister.
in-law to Mr. Wesson, back injured and
dangerously ill through nervous prostra-
tion; O. Boisiiert, Angelina, Que., internally
injured; L. Combremont, New York, hip
and back. bruised; Mitchel Lacaillaide,
Lawrence, Mass, head, chest. and, back;
Moses PatiletAuebee, right leg broken and
head wounded; Mrs. W. S. l3ryden, Mon-
treal,' contusions on back; George Gennett;
Syracuse, N. head cut open and hack
wounded; Horace juean, East Pepperell,
Mass., face, back and legs bruised; s Anna
Murphy, 1,16 'Prince street, -Boston right
cheek badly Out open and back bruised;
Mrs, Charles Raster, Boston, contfisiOn On
backend limb's; Katy Kahl, Boston, severe
Scalp HistthinsOn, Mon
gomery, apinal colsunn injured; josep
E. Jacques, Fitchburg, Mass, contutho
over the eyes, and hips and legs bruised
Henry Mott, whey dealer to_na_NeW Yor
State; Andrew A. ' Wheeler, Fitchbtirg,
Mass., cut over the eyes and face burned;
Mrs. John Graham, Medford, Mass., ankle
sprained and spinal colunin injured; Jame
Riley,' Burke, N. Y:, left Arm fractured an
head . bruised; C. M. ..Holimer, Lowell
Mass.; legs' and body hruised ; Joseph Maig
Tinve Rivers, •Que., body wounds.
• THE SLIGHTLY TNiURED
•
SO 'WhO were on the traln The 'Wounded ar
a
bong brongtitt.to *le place as rapidly a
Passible, and are doing quite well, .p.om
ten Of those who are tinder PhYsicUtm,
hands are not expected to live. The rail
road people are thankfol Mgt the accia n
did not occur to -night, which, being Sett=
day, the traffio Would have been twice a
heavy. The railway does not ",e,thiside
itself, accountable. fo_r_the_distietsz,„bu_tAts.
officials are very uneasy OFOT the probabl
Magnitude of the damage snits growing ou
of the affair, especially as the firiancia
affairs of the company are notthe best jus
at present. .
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'mamma mcicarrr THE WRECK.'
A ITREIBli EXPERIME.
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Two Trodoo, Trestle Eighty
Mr. W. H. t.Vadlikud, cousin te, Mr. Wad -
land, of -the Bell Talephone Conipany, had
r, 'a. thrilling experience. On the C. P R.,
whicalr.ha.deeariben.letterdatirlit'
e Schreiber! Algoma,) to 'a relative as
1, 'follows : •• .
/ DEAR BEOTHER°NiTite you this. time to
t• ten you of, my wonderful escape yesterday
morning. We had terrible collision. Our
train and another freight met on n trestle
300 feet long and 80 feet high, and We did
not sae each other until we were both- on
the trestle, as there is a . sharp curite at
y each end. We were both running about 14
miles per hour. You. cannot imagine Our.
feelings when We saw oitirselves . running
„ into the jaws of death, as we supposed; my
o first thought was to jump overjhe trestle,
but knew that was as good as death; my
✓ mate went to jrutaptoo, but ran back in the
e cab again just as theystruck, and be went
head fint against tb,0 boiler and the coal On
f the tender on top of him; pomething caught
his coat and tore it nearly off his back and
to -day he going around With a swelled
DOSS, sore hide and bruised foot. The
engineer, told. Erdman on the other engine
were both, hurt, but not seriously.. The
fireman got his eye cut and i3oMe thing
struck him on the back. The engineer Was
as blacks any darkey you ever saw. The
steam eseaping oh the. coal flew all over
him. He struck against the levers' and
hurt himself. • You will want to know
where I was . all. this time. Well, got
down 011 the step of the engine and held on
to the 'rail and Just as the crash, came,
it shook me off, and I fell right beside the
driving wheole.: One foot slipped between
.the timbers Whieli kept me from falling off.
'The other engine was on ' top Ours..I
could, not tell or describe the, scene.- •Big
heavy irone, were bent wire;, the
einoke atack of onr_s is lying at the
om o "7.TWo care went
oyer our tender and dewn. the trestle.
l'--couldhear'them-roliing-over-tnyliead;
one stood on end. Our old engine
stood it better„ but it was, badly 13rokeii.'
On the other one the cab was knocked off'
-and- mounting-:-hrohen whiek-alloived'so'
much steam to escape that "yen could not
see your hand before You.: The aCcident.
happened about eight miles' *west of
Schreiber at a little after a: The
conductor and engineer of the., other train
are .to.blaMe. They had orders" to keep
clear but Came right along. I -never
got a scratch or hurt in the 'least, but I
felt assure that r was gone afit I am writ-
ing at the present moment.' Every person
considers this the greatest Collision . that
has happened: and no person killed, not
for the speed we • were running but to
happen on sucla•c* high trestle., •• This
makes the sixth serious accident that I
have passed through and only got hurt to
amount. to anything once and that was
when the. -toiler bursted lalit winter:. I
was on engine 134, the .one that run into
us , was 263; I have 269 now, will be glad
When my own 232 is repaired .again and
get on thetexpresd again. .
One of the first passengers. to escape
from the burning wreck was Joseph Maig
net; a French-Canadian bey. He wap -with
his father, David Maignet; on their wa
from Holyoke to their home in Shawenegan
Quebec. The boy sat three, seats behind
his father in the third car from the rear
He Was dozing in his seat when he felt th
car shiver; This motion was kept up for a
few seconds and then the car dashed bye
the bridge upon -the ice. By hard Work th
boy succeededin getting out of one of the
'Windows: He at once went- in 'search o
his father; and discovered him by the light
of the burning wreck just alaovehira, pinned
down by a part of the top of the ear, Which
lett:Ally. acmes .chest and
h legs- The old man was as 'firmly -held iS if
n in ay*. Joseph was the only • one who
escaped from the car, as he sap. -
k. IIE RUSHED TO HIS FATHER'S ASF.3ISTANCE,
and spektwOrds Of encouragement him.
The father was very cool, and told his son
to help him 011t as BOOR as possible. The
.boy seized his father, and struggled with
all his strength to extricate him, but in
a
_ vain. The flames Were approaching rapidly.
"Joseph," said the father, "run and get an
RICO or a saw," but the, boy could not find
either. ".P1.1 me out then," -said. the
;
father, 'even if you have to break'my legs
to do it." Joseph tugged away with his
• might, but`eceld not stir his father an inch.
..-With-wonderful-,eoolnese----themfather-the
• gave himseltup to his fate. "It's no use,
are George Parker,.bralteman, St. Albans
Fred. A. Fisher and .Howard F. Smith,
Gloucester, Mass.; Miss Maria ' Sadler
Orrnstown, Polly .Aril, ,CMonnee
Mass.;HerbertCushing, Middleboro'
Mass.; • Andrew' A. Wheeler, Fitchburg
Mais471Tagoleen-RosseatvotI.lesTrapplift
Club, Montreal;. Edward Bangs, brake
Man .West Lebanon; Westcott
Bruington, Vt.;' Cephas Mills, ITOCIIrls
004 -Charles -Radnor-, Boston,, contusion
of back and lintba„ and • Lee, of Burling
ton 'Vt . • •
PERISHED IN THE 1•14.4s-
Besidet those who died it known tha
the fallowing Ofiphed in the flames Th
two coloredporters Of the. sleepers; W. g
Adainioof St:Albans,Vt; :Euclid Chagnon
of Manchester; Claa,rlesW. Sandford, Boa.:
ton; Drummer Bousiequet, of Attawagan,
Conn., With his sister, his Wife Mary and
two children; Conductor Burgess, of the
sleeping car,. and B. Atkinson, of; Lowell,
Mass. - All tlie bodies .recovered were
burned beyond recognition, and it Waapast
mid-day before they could be identified,- So
far what are supposed to he: the roam:has
of forty individuals have been brought here
and laid out: The dibris of the burned
care is it'll of Pieces of bones and charred
flesh, which is being carefully .picked out
and assorted. The two forward cars , have
broken through the ice, and it is supposed
that some of these there ,were drowned and
have been washed out by the water. If SO,
they may be carried down the Connecticut
River tinder the ,ice andnever recovered.
.The death of the man Bondepiet was.
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• ' ',.rAntratthkituar SAD.
He had gone to the rear of the.car, to get a
drink, .,when the. crash Came, and was
separatedfrOm his family Who, being in the
forward part of the cat,, mud' have been
kilbod instantly. • He was pinned down by a
seat' but Managed to:getlie head through
a Window, When he shrieked at the top of
his voice, "Mark; Mary," for fully five
militates,. Mr. Lee, One 61.-the'inarviforp,
triod- torescu0 him; but lieThialy-itaked
where his wife Was.. .Before , any.. answer
athild be given the fire . reached him, and
crying out " dead," he deliberately 'threw
himself- -on the floor,. , into the 'fire:
Those who Were able to speak froth
experience say that itwas simply in
inferno. Frank WinCir,''m New York
drunithery. Who , was oir.•• the poetal and
escaped, was seen eit routefor Boston this
afternoon, and he 'eaysthe only name given
for the burning.wreck was „" Hell," During
thedayireat crowds of people arrived On
the scene,. -coming from all 'sections by
tiains and aide's.. They all were Willing
tOlelp and many were/ put into service'.
All who were on the 'Sleepers agreed that
those in the Uppiii berths ,perished by the
bele closing up when the cars turned Over
and holding the Occupants fast. :• Mr:
Charles Helmer, of Lowell, had his friend
and travelling companion burned to death
'before hiseyea by being in .an upper berth.
When the two entered the car at Lowell
they tossed up for the berth and lir. Hes:
Met won the lower one. •Mr. Roemer sap;
that out Of five ladies in his Car. 'only :on
escaped. ,
. LOdRING'FOlt Tna.liEAD:
Early thig afteriaeon Walter H. Wesson
and his eon, accompanied by Ref.' Dr.
Eustis and in undertaker* reached the
scene looking for, young Wesson's body.
Miss Lovell insisted, ill as she was, in help-
ing. , They at lengthdecided that a terribly
disfigured,' massof flesh, minus 'head or
arms, was that of the unfortunate Man and
took it Sway.' Miss Nancy Dunbar, of
Somerville, is 'supposed to have been. lost
in the accident. She. was in the .sleeper.
Her brother is looking for her remains.
Itrcicklebank, a brakeman; is also
'among the dead. The accident and burning
of the bridge have'blockOd all•traffie; and
trains have to be run around by the way of
Well Rivet. The ice on the White Rivet is
three feet thick, which,' prevented: the
rescuers getting,water when the wreck took
fire, and the lathes had it all their own
Way: There is a great difference of opinion
as to the cause of the_ disaster, many con.
tending • that it was a. broken . rail, and
*ere- that it was,due to the • iron Items.
wOrk, of the 'bridge contracting by . the
intense Old, the „tenaperatere being gime
200 below 'zero when the disaster 'occurred.
A •bithen rail point; little 'distance back
from the bridge is given as the reel cense
of...the train., leaving the' track, and it is
staPpoSed that the jarring of the wheels
ever the .bridgeties started the under
Parts and caused, them to give way.
:Of those collected twenty:five ;are minus
head or limbs, and it is almost impossible
to distinguish ' the " sexes. The company
,Will 'open the baggage in the baggagecar
,and learn, .if possible, the names of thea
• ine. Remember the dYing words 'of your
father: Always be a good boy. Farewell,
niy seri, I williaeet you in the other world."
' The flames were then so olOqo that the boy
:could remain no longer.. He:lay:Vale:tiler-
" and got ont of reach ofthe flames'and
Watched his father slowly burn to death in
the flaming debris. ,
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HEILL/
S. BRERIS ACCOH.I. 11
N.1,0 ESCAPE.
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A Montreal despatch says ,. Your Correa-
': ,pondentiaas just seen Mrs. W. 8. Bi•Yd.eit-
' wife. of Mr. Briden, of Pillow,,, Hersey &
Co"., otigiis city, who had 'a mute:11110S es-
cape. She was in the last Pullimen car near
the •;front end- 1,She , was • awakened from
sleep by a. crashing' sound,' and found her-
self pinned down and almost auffocated:She
had prelience of mind 'enough, to husband
her strength until she heard parties out -
aide. She, then freed one arm and by knock-
ing. with her hand, on which were her rings,
she attracted attention from outsiders, Who
chopped a hole through the lend of the Car.
When they attempted to move her she found
she.•was hemmedin, and with remarkable
presence of mind she asked them for apen.
knife., with which she ,cut her . doilies: free
from around her body and was pulled out.
She wap Wrapped in a blanket. and laid in
the snow, whence she was removed three
times to get her out of reach of the' flames.
She says the veliole four care Were burned
Up inside of .t.yoliaty minutes, and when she
was. rescued one ethr of the car she was • in
Was already in `flames.- She was-laturated
with coal oil from a' lamp that had burst.
She was renewal° BY farm house. "
PLACED 'AMONG DEAD AND DYING.
; She Pays the . scene Was an indescribably.
pathetic one: t. A poor -little boy; who could
not speak°, word' of English, was alone,
having-lost-both-fatherand-mother-MTK"
Brydensayamostof the people .seeined to
be ,French -Canadians ' coming to
friends in .this city. . The whole.
thing happened se quickly that there was
no time to:de anything, although one -old;
farther living near did some heroic work.
Mrs: Bryden-:herself seems to ' have but
slight injuries to .her • bee*. . The ther-
mometer was at zero When elle 104 on.the.
ice with nothing but a Pulhna.n blanket
around her, and She hturroWedlilibla in the
snow and keptherself fairly Comfortable.
WhileiMrs,-Bryilen-laynti the.'ficioi-SeVeral
persons died in the room, among whom was
Mr.-Wepabn, of Smith .(k ' Wesson. Mire.
Bryden,• pluck and presence of mind
Paved her life. '
cdxstlice BEFORE HIS BROTHER4S EYES.' "
„
Mr. Mills arrived hereto...day. He was
travelling with hishrother, who was in the
next berth. .After- getting out he worked
awayfrantically to resane hip brother, and
j ,
was fist getting him out When the. flames
rushed on him, and he had to, retreat and
gaze on thenhorrible picture Of his brother
being Consumed tinder, his eyes and within
reach of his hands. .
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She Think Prayer Saved lier.
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An Adrian (Mich.) despatch says : Mrs;
Waiter, S. Mead, aged. • 29. ' years; has
suffered tWo years with; an abscess in her
side, and for the past few .weeks has been
confinedto her: bed. On .Snnday she was
very low, and up to Monday night doubts
:were entortaincd whether she would 'live.
Yesterday the physician found his -patient
dressed, sitting up and eating with fair
She said last night the Lord, in•
response to her , prayers, healed , and
restored her strength. A reporter who
:ailed later found the Woirain firm in the
faith that she was Cured...-Medital men are
, .
puzzled. '
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'At Prof; Proltor's dancing academy 44
Washington, aeven of, the girls displeased
several of the boys by occasionally refusing
to dance with them. Thereupon a boycott
was laid, and at the next meeting of the
class the seven offending girls ,.were horrified
to find.that, not a single young fellow asked
them to dance, and they sat the. whole
evening ontwithout dancing and Without
partrierit.7 •
THE France pHidiStIOS. SOIDO StatititieS
relative to the' nuniher Of Germans' in Paris.
It sitya:thereare 46,000 in the city, 'among
;whom there nrelietween 9,000 •and 10,009
belonging to ' the Getnian, 'array. 'The
German colony there is, the France (dance,
composed chiefly of 'young men. . On the
other hand; according to this journal . there
Are not more than 1,890 Frenehthen in the
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-Soine !Reveler Accident.
Ebert; the ,4-5 ear -old son of Dr. Spicer,
of Acton, Ind., swallowed a copper cent
about two weeks ago, and is rapidly wast-
ing away in spite of all that can be done
for him, the physician having failed to give
relief. , • " • .
Little 'Willie, the sbn of an Omaha Man,
swallowed a silver' dollar when he was 3
years„ old. The' coin' remained in his.
stomach for two years, but was finally ex=
ttacted. :The boy now has symptoms of
blood -poisoning. • .
Freeman- Arrington, .- of Augusta,' Ga.,
ettaiiiPtiR tii7fix : the- electric light M his
'billiard hall recently, when his hands came
in contact with both carbons of the lamp
e.rid a strong Current of eleetricity.passed
through his body., He will recover, but his
tongue and throat are paralyzed and he is
linable to: utter a word.
A merchant of Florence, Ala., named
Barber; -was -a approached by a friend, from
*OW EY* DISEASES Nielt*APt
Towels and Spectaetagileado- 44:11P, to Carrt eon"
tagiOn I have to speak, in the first
of Ttoo.wmeel:tiOesnp'se.cf::: .;0.f .pfthtehaMt aboestnellnoa;e".
institntion known as the roller towel*
whiohhas been used so much in as5dump,
bete forty; fifty or Mare children use the •
same towel whether ;they have -granular "
lids or not. True, in a - great many
. of these cases the existence of granular ,
lids was not known, but . even in cases in
whiolarthe existence of the disease was evident, the ignorance or carelesaneds of the
persons in charge has aliewed transmission
by means of towels to be one of the most
frequent sources ofgontagion. As a carrier •
of contagion, the. horse -fly playa an
im-
portant role„ especially in case of young
children who are net able to protect the
selves against the visits of thislittle ex& al.,
Attracted by the sweetish odor of the
dis-
charge, it will settle • amen the 'eyes Of
-children affected with the ,disease,
es
pecially • infants, and, carry the con-
tagion in its claws to the , other
sye or •the eyes . of 'sleeping infante:
Spectacles may, be the carrier of the eon:
tagicin. I remember the case of a young.
lagy who Could not el:plain satisfactorily
how she carne to have granular -lids; Upon
her return- to school she mentioned that •
she had granular lids, where upon one of -
her classmates said : " Why that is the
disease Which I have been Buffo ring form
the last six Months." This classmate was
.near-sighted and used glasses. My patient
was also near-sighted, but had not used,
glasses, ,and whenever She' Wenfilicl to see ...
anything•at a distance she was in the habit
of borrowing the spectacles of her friend,.
and there is no donbt,in ray mind that this .
vpas the, means Of carrying the poison from
the classmate's eye to my patient's, eye.
Children with granular lids are very apt
to ruhlhe eyes, because thesecretion, as it
begins to dry on the edge of the lids, causes
an arritating,Itehingsensation.; ' They Will,.
now play with other children, and from .
their hands transfer the poison to the "
liands--of-thcrOther'ehildreli7""and-r,. thes-e.
latter„ rubbing 'their eyes, contract the
disease. • Handling -objects ,Whiph have
been • used by , persons with granular
lids- inay-----bef:-.the means of carrying •
the contagion:young-, -lady , who
Voltudeered to teaeli children with granular,
Rad that had beeh,tdolated froth other chil-
dren in a- certain institution ' was warned to
be extremely careful with regard to nsing,
handkerchiefs; towels, or anything belong- .
ink to the children. She was well 'aware of ,
theAanger and promised to be very care -
„she
said, that belonged to the children left 4her '
cloaks ontside, and In the °leas room kept
away from the children a distance Of five .
or six feet. But upon exanainatiOn of her .
eyositt days after she had taken office, - it .
was finind that 'she began to suffer front'
granular lido.. , 'Upon inquiry I found that '.
she had been lalung the copybooks and
slated , of • the , children for correctien;
and in all probability. she ,'gat • the poison
from the slates and hooka on her hands and
then conveyed it to her eyes. . A -teacher of
another aectionin the Mine -institution was
.mcne careful ; into the
class rnotn, did not touch anything: belong-
ing to the children'and for two for
three -
months during duration of the epidemic •
eh°. was not affected by the . disease. The
atmosphere, had evidently not' been ithe
carrier of the contagion in the first etiee.:--;
Medical and Surgical RepOrt, er. ,','” • '
, No 'ina-mtk' 0!* FOR HIM.
A DirOceeti' Catholic .ElcooavinuOtate,(1.,414- „
touliville, 4entucky.''
A Louisville, Ky.,
despatch . says .. :TIM • •
fade in a case Which illnetrates- the'. rigil.
rubes of the Catholic •Church concerning '.
divorced, people havolleen . Made-. public •
here, Michael McCoy, a. grocer. of , this •
City, has . been . excomixtunicated frein... St. .
Patrick's Catholic.. Church owing to hiS .....
marriage with a,Miss Emma Long, after
having secured a divorce from' his ' Wife.
Miss Leng lived next ,door . to the McQt)Y, . •
filthily, and ' Miehael became infatuated ...
with her; so Much se that he is accused by
his neighbors of having mistreated his Wife '
the rear who threw his, arm over Barber's; i,, order to ,00nipa her .te. eeeure/.4 legal
neck; drawing his head . downward ' and
Separation itorn him. On .the.night of hiS
bringing. his, Iright 'eye in
.' ; is
contact' with -6' -nuptiabi'with Miss Long bus neighbors aiAd. ''.,
lead-pencil-whichlihrtriend had in 'h
'
his iMiner 'church associates surrounded -
peel:et... The lead poisoned the optic nerve,
'the house and threatened him with violenee
the brain became affected and he ' died.
until 'quelled by the.„Polibe. In ' reading •
McCoy out of the chinch Father liWler
insane, .• .
denounced him and the me.rriage,i - and
. _ . ,•„..
. -, -,.--
, • .,.' '. Changing
a rartillag. .'• deelared that he would not tender the ''nrat
,A. tittle inlini With the inappropriate name hie services though lie were upon his dying '.
of Charles Gross, announced . to the Police bed. He also forbade ariv of the ,members •
Magistrate yesterday that the casein Which of his church to speak to or. in „any way: .. ,
he.was•chatged with having assaulted his recognize McCoy. • '. '..-
wife had been amicably . settled.. • His l'Wife , . . . ,.
had gone Off to Hamilton with anotherrnan,-- . ..tynAlr, At..PAANDElt MAY ilicliik
againat him had been Withdrawn. Mr. prince
probably to see thacarnival;--and the charge ,..- :,..".' ..t.t.,,nd.ers---ztifterei,lt .prps. joec,4vo ,
lr6ssB'ee'edliiteh"11atbis' reiet' :' P:s"in!;9:fehr711".Irilt..lambetlPtirge3atenea0the,Maetine,]•London cable says:Owingt 0ii;;.s ..,...
and was not envious of his success& 'in the trio -01y „tool:46i :accorded:.
toPrince
affections' of Mill, Gross. ' 'A little inq.airy, .Aiexender, late. of Bulgaria, While here, .
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Mrs,' Gross wore. her. title is • "nation hY 'visbilrdee,g,
however, brought 'ourhe. infornaition that :jilt °aro! tin eon4t acil:ipoeupreilras 1 ancontainnoliutet
courtesy only,1 having never abandoned ber'one iinpehding appOintmentby the Queen '' - "
own : . name as ..MitrY Farthing • while OW as Viceroy of Her Majeety'S' Provintes of ...
rentained, with Gross. The, compariion of' the Oriental'Indies, while.aother fl.sserts. '
her.flight tn.:Hamilton, .however, married that Prince '. Alexander is - to be appointed
her beforeleatting for the Ambitious City;
*Torauto got. -! ..
and thus :Made ehtinge for a F.arthin-
g•-7 Governinent in the' plao --ef-the'7Rhedivel' •
Goireitior-General of Egypt .bithe Enoish ., .
• . ...
• - ' ' 'who is to be &Poetic". ""A74;elf-ItnoWn Mee- ,
I ' .
,
. • . $nger tw.c4urt... ./. " . : Zi:1 riP(.3priiiin,c'ern,:rffiRsulisosriti.yth.beteotrnhde.B;the':
" Now, young lady, you mey take the husband of Queen 'Victoria, while seir
stand," said the lawyer in a case in one Of German papers predict his union with ll
the justices' courts the other clay. " Yes, Majesty's widowed ' deughtet-in-law;the
sir," She -replied • With A beaming smile. Duchess of Albany. ' The real,fact is. that
,. That docs tile UP !" whie ' red a than on ' e Alexander bag gone south • for the .
one of the :blenches ; .4'41' her husband, , benefit, I his health, which has suffered
that lawyer's tongue will,eost mo 930' for of la alk months. • He contemplates
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and. she's 40 years old, .. but the, singer on both r,h ideally and mentally, by the events'
Fmrielleirretayt.befa,re,the 1.st Of May.',1:-.D.cri•eit s,visit, te the Unite4 States iri Ilie, a ut4zrm, ..
. ...
• . ' ....
In clearing away behind the ' 'Tennile et
. On :the Outer deer of the Jew'ofh:ce'lz.if 1 iladrian, at .Athens, the fonndations of a; , ..
poBrfiitgegas,,Ik4Cisla:,t1r4 itririBggisttilne;wreceikh,inMg.tioc?l4h.,Dra iirteoTkof
p.le. toPlutoph oaivi beenes...diucovnyed in the •
C.—direct in care of Grover Cleveland i. have Been found, and iti them three fine •
Three natural eaves i.
Clark in blerShell.,,direct Oarc Otl.nt:Y ' sculpttirei,- '"'One is a static Of a draped
-''''. ' • 1 man with a bare breast and long tioWnig
, . . .. .
A Philadelphian , tells Oi. a sentimental hair'. Another, about threefeet long, con-
parent by 'the mune of Rose who named • eitits of two teliefs,Mie compartment show -
hie baby. girl " Wilde:" . The combination ing Pluto and his wife in Hadea aecitod at
worked Well until she grew up and.nierriecl table. The third piece is a fragment'',
a mari. by the name (4.1%11, Then the containing wolf -carved heads of thelkitoed- •
name wasn't a bit nice. '• , • ' 1 ,' , dela& • <, . , .
who!, Gormanernpfre i TTTiw
,
An Ionia(Yfch) man owns a turkey A doctor At Ignace, Mich., is Men an
Welt hei been trainedito draw a sled, 'iudertaker.
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