The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-11-21
A Noble BOH.

We mentioned few days since the burning
Of the Tunnel Bridge on the Baltimore and
Susquehana Railroad, about five miles south Of
York, and since learn that the conhagration
came very near being followed by one Of the
most terrible disasters that has lately occurred
in railroad travel. 1t is supposed that the
bridge took fire from the freight trains, which
passed about half-past seven o'clock in the
morning, and the structure was totally en-.
veloped in flames before it was discovered
BY the residents in the vicinity. Atabout nine
o'clock the frame work oftke bridge fell through
and among the spectators, some twenty in
number, was little boy about twelve years
of age, named Eli Rheem, who remembering
that the express passengers tNin was then
about due from York. started of; at the top of
his speed to endeaver to stop the train, which
he knew must be close at hand. AS soon as
he reached the curve, about two hundred yards
from the bridge, he observed the train coming
on at full speed, and fearing that he would be
unable to stop them unless by the use of fex
traorduary means, the noble little fellow took
his position on the track, and running towards
the approaching train with his hands raised
caught the attention of the engineer, who i'm
mediately reversed his engine, and, stopped
within four hundred yards Of impending de-
struction, the piers being some twenty feet
from the rocky bed below, and the gap some
sixty feet wide.
Had the boy not placed himself on the track,
he would doubtless have failed in his noble Of.
fort, as the engineers are so often cheated by
mischievous boys on the route that they sell.
dom pay attention to them. Even when he
stopped he thought that he had been cheated
by youngster with more daring than his as,
sociates and was surprised to see the little
haxen headed fellow stand his ground, and en-
deavoring to recover his lost breath to answer
his question as to the cause of his interruption.
We learn that the passengers, when they as
certained the cause Of the stoppoge of the train,
and viewed the preeipice over which they were
near being dashed, literally rewarded the boy
for his presence of mind and daring. and that
the Board Of Directors at their meeting yester.
day appropriated 800 as an additional recon-
pense. Eli Rheem, boy but twelve years Of
age, was the only one of twenty persons pre-.
sent, most OF them men, who had forethought
sufficient for the occasion.-BaM american.
FArAL1Ty OF TYpo1D FEyER.-The Upper
Districts of our State have been severely al,
Aicted during the past season by Typhoid Fe-
yer, which MS been more than usually fatal
We notice, in the last Chester Standard, the
death, on the 2lst October, of Miss savilla
Cassels, aged %, and on the lst of November,
Mr.. w. O. Cassels, aged 25, her eldest broth.
er, and Mr.. Reuben Cassels, aged So, her faith
er The Standard says: There was a re
markable coincidence in the death OF the faith.
er and son. They were taken i'll near the same
hour of the same day, and died both on the
same day within an interval of two hours
They both were laid in the grave to sleep to-
gether. Thus in the brief reriod Of ten days,
Of family Of four persons, but one is left"