Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-10-07
News of the Neighborhood.

aged about eighteen, was on board the
steamer Central america. at the time she
went down, and-is one of the forty-nine
passengers who survived the fearful
night, and was picked up the next NOM
in5 by the Norwegian barque Ellen. and
taken to Norfolk. He arrived home
Monday last, via Baltimore and Pitts
burgh. in apparent good health. but on
Tuesday was Frustrated by a low grade
of fever, superinduced doubtless by the
exposure he had undergone. He sailed
from New York in the Central america
on her last outward bound voyage, in
tending to go to California, but oil arriv-
ing at the Isthmus, was discouraged
from proceeding farther by the unfavor-
able stories told by returning passengers
of affairs in California. and shipped
again for New York on board the same
vessel. He gives a thrilling account of
the struggle kept up for two days with
the elements, and of the final abandon
ment of the vessel to her fate. When
the steamer went down he was standing
on The quarterback, Invested of every
thing but his shirt and pants, with a life
preserver attached TO his person and the
leaf of a table under his arm, fully pre-
pared for the fearful plunge. He says
he was submerged several feet under
water by the closing vortex. but on COM
ing to the top found himself struggling
with hundreds of others amid the re-
morseless dash Of pillows. He still
chung to his board, and by means of it
and the life-preseryer, was enabled TO
keep his head above water during that
long and terrible night, and until rescued
the next morning by the crew of the
barque Ellen, having been in the water
about twelve hours. He ~recOunted to US
in language of fearful terror the strug
gle with death that was going on al
around him. He says that for the first
few hours after the sinking Of the vessel.
the air was filed with the shrieks and
wild vociferalions of the struggling and
exhausted beings around him, but by
and by, as one after another sunk to their
long rest, only an occasional exclamation
could be heard;
"The bubbling cry
OF some strong swimmer in his agony"
By morning the few survivors had been
scattered far apart, with scarcely
strength enough left to cling to the frail
limbers that separated them from death.
When taken aboard the barque, a change
of clothes was given him. and after
swallowing a cup OF coffee, he sunk in
to a profound slumber for a number of
hours, from which, he says. it seemed
impossible to awaken. so exhausted was
he in every part.-Nahoning Register.
DEATH BY DRowHING.-Last Sunday
a daughter of Patrick Burgan, of
Franklin. aged IL years, was drowned
in the Feeder of the Pennsylvania and
Ohio Canal, about four miles from this
village. She was in a buggy, with her
brother, some year and half older than
herself. The boy drove to the Feeder to
water his horse-when the horse plunged
in, taking the buggy and its occupants
into water several feet deep. The boy
succeeded in reaching the shore-the
girl was drowued-the horse, also, was
drowned Portage Democrat.
AWIFE POISONED Mrs. Adelia Cowles.
wife of Hiram Cowles of Chagriu
Falls, died in Bainbridge, Geauga Co
on the ninth ult., from the effects of
Suspicion rested on her hus- )
band; a corouer's jury was summoned, q
who rendered a verdict hat she came to t
her death by poison administered by her c
husband. Cowles has fed the country, 6
and although hand bills describing him {
and offering a reward for his arrest have
been circulated. and officers have been
in search for him. he has not been taken.
-PaiResvHe Advertiser.
EXTENSIVE RoBBERY.-It is reported i
hat the jewelry store Of Mr.. Smith at i
New Castle, was entered on Friday night, $
md FIVE thousand dollars worth of goods I.
carried off. Among the articles stolen .
we're twenty gold and eighty silver p
watches, and a large amount of jewelry n
The thief, or thieves, effected an entrance o
o the store by boring through a door in :
he rear of the building. ,
The authorities of New Castle are on I
he look out for the thieves, but thus far
lave not been able to discover the slight
st traces of their whereabouls Gazette. r.
A few days since, Hon. Joshua R. ii
1iddings visited Sandusky, where in 1919 a
lie was a bold soldier boy. He stood on r
spot where three of his companions
lad been killed, and spoke of them with
lie deepest emotion. 4 correspondent q
# the Register says: !.
He said, You must excuse my feel
ng; for when 1 remember those poor fel- r
WIS.,, and recall the sad look of the New to
hampshire STRIPPING Zone of the killed. 81
S we laid him down to die, L feel that l p
ave failed to DO my duty in not erecting o.
ONE memorial to marx the spot where b.
hey now lie!" E
TEaaIBLE AccIDEsT.-On Sunday last u
party of men and women from this vi eh
unity made an exclusion a few miles in re
D Pennsylvania in a hand car, and to- 50
evening, when returning home, u
nd about three miles east of our village, :
he dress of one OF the ladies-Miss Har-
let Harmon, daughter of N. B. Harmon
caught on the wheel and drew her in :
family beneath the body of the car, in
letting a number of frightful wounds. /,
lostly about the head, tearing the flesh =
pose from the forehead and extending b
long the top to the back part of the head. F
he forward part of the car was thrown Ell
-om the rail and the body of the car
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