Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-02-13

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MILES OF PioEoNS.:-Yestefday morning the skv
here was almost black at intervals rseveral bonrs
with focks of pigeons going North. We saw one
flock which from the time it took to pass must
have been over a mile long They flew So, near
the earth that they could easily have been shot nm
the wing and made initheir rapid flight, a, noise
Ike the voice OF many waters." They doubti
less came from ths immense pigeon roosts in, Ken
lucky and Tennessee, where for some time paSt
the woods have been breaking beneath them.
TRAGEDY AT OAxLANps.--We learn that DIR.
Conn, of oaklands Station, on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, was shot and morta lily wou nded as
he was entering his Office ON Friday last. 1t ap-
pears that difficulty had for some time existed
between DR.. Conn aud a man named johnson.
formally an agent of the Railroad Company, grow
ing out tf the alleged improper intimacy of Dr.
Conn with Johpson's wife, Several angry and
exciting alterations had occurred between Conn
and johnson. and ii is said Johnson had threatened
TO shoot Conn If he did not leave Oaklants On
Friday as Conn was turning the key III his office
door, he fell MORALLY wounded by, il is supposed,
wire cartridge from shot gun. The shot enter
ed one OF his jaws just below the ear and passed
out at the back Of his he'd. lie tived about three
e hours after he fell. ssssa. 1.r aa FL
No witness has appeared who saw the act of
shooting, but johnson was Immediately arrested
double barreled shot gun with one barrel loaded,
the other having been freshly discharged, was
found in his house. He is supposed TO have shot
from his window. at Conn. .tsas a.
johnson las been placed i'll Jail at Cumberland
Destructive ExrLosIoN.-on Saturday morning
about O'Clock, atSthe Virginia Paper Mills of
Messrs. LAMGDrS, BoNMAMA & Co.., in Centre
Wheeling. revolving tank or boiler used for boil
ing AID bleaching rags, 70 feet long and five feet
IN diameter, and situated Immediately in the rear
OF the steam engine boilers. exploded and was torn
icto several pieces. One of the pieces, being
about one third of the boiler, was blown through
then of the engine building, carrying with at
the huge timbers on which the boiler revolved,
and shivering the building in the direction in w hic
it passed into ftagmects. It's coutse was arrested
by straw, pile about IS yards distant, into which
it buried itself with force almost incalculable
Two other sections of the boiler were blown in an
opposite direction, into the alley the north side
of the mills, carrying with them the same devasta
ton 10 the engine building and surrounding OBJ
jects. The man-head was blown diagonialiyup
into rag room in the third story of the mills,
passing through the wall and knocking a large
hole it. The engine house is in ruins. and the
rags which were steeping in the boiler scatts red IN
2 every direction, The boiler held about 1900 lbs
and.was nearly full wLenthe explosion took,p place.
A boy named Israel Mobley, not in the employ
of the establishment, but'wo had crept into the
mill and was sleeping on the top of the boilers,
was thrown some distance, having both of his legs
broken and being horribly scaded. He died in
a few hours afterwards. This was the only de-
sIuction of life, personal injury sustained, as
engineer had fortunately stepped into the main
building moment before the explosion. The
Z front Of the building containing the paper ma
chimes, was considerably Jared and forced out OF
place by the shock With the exception of .thss;'
the matt building sustainelno material damage.
Most of theslarge and valuable machinery is UNI
injured. Theloss cannot be less than $4,000.
Tue cause of the explosion does not clearly,
,app:ar. Possibly the safety valve may have
been out of order aud excess of steam beeu thus
accumulated. The boiler was manufactured in
Pittsburgh. aud thought to be of the best quality
OF PittsbuEghiron and workmanship.
IS. Observation-Disclosures enterprsing propretors;
who supply large portion of the country with
newspaper, and have now some heavy orders
awaiting, tdesign going to work Immediately 10
repair the mills. 1t is hoped that they will not
meet with any delay seriously fembar: asslng TO
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