The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-08-15
A ueart-RendinS Calamity in Roane
County.

County.
4 gentleman Just from Roanc county,
gives The particulars Of most leart-rend.
ing calamity that happened last week on
Spring Creek in that county, and by which
one family was bereft Of four children in
less than an hour.
A l0dy, whose name our informant had
forgotten, residing upon the above named
creek, had went down 10 it in the morn.
ing for the purpose Of doing "the weeks
washing,ri taking with her the youngest
child, an infant OF about q year. old, leav.
ing her other three at the house, While
engaged at her work she heard suppressed
screams at the house; taking up her little
child from the sOilcd clothes upon which
it was sitting, she placed it in IN empty
wash tub to keep il from crawling into
the creek during her absence, and hasten.
ed 10 the house where she met her
eldest child with its head frighfully
disigured and swollen. She hastily
CLEANED from this one that the
three children had crawled under
the house in search of eggs; that while
under something had hurt them, and that
the other two children were still under
the house. The mother upon looking un.
der the house found them dead, with sew.
eraI moccasin snakes Ia very poisonous
and deadly specieS) crawling around their
bodies The neighbors were alarmed and
By their assistance the snakes were killed
and tile unfortunate children taken out,
their bodies presenting frightful and sick
ening appearance. By this time the elder
one was corpse. The mother in her
despair and agony had forgotten until now
her little one atthe creek, and upon going
down to the creek for it, it was only to
find it also q corpse in the creek. 1t Is
supposed the little child climbed up in the
tub and was holding on to the lower edge
OF it when the tub upset, rolling the child
/ into tho water below and drowning it. II
Is said the mothers grief was so great
that at last accounts She was d rtlving
nlaniac.-H Pleasant Journal
SINGULAR Casa singular case Of an
attempt ut murder occurred at the house
oil r. l.. COttrill in Grant township, on
Sunday night Itseems that Mr.. Jas. B.
Burnside had appointed o meeting
at this place with young lady, his
lattenliOnS To whom was objected 10 BY
some other parties. After spending tho
evening rs lovers usually do, Mr.. Burnside
retired to his room and went to sleep.
About three O'clock he was suddenly
aroused By u severe stab in the wrist, and
springing up saw u man making his cs.
4 cape through the window. BE ut once
gave the alarm, and search was made. but
no one could be found. Frequent threats
against his life, it is said, have come TO
him from mysterious sources, but no sus'
IpiciOn is entertained Ns to who the assassin
may have been. The wound was severe
but not dangerous C2drkS6urg C0n&Erra.
ttire. atjA5 -,lse
I \ SAD ACcIpENT.-- On Wednesday
evening last, during the heavy thunder.
storm, the store house Of Mr.. II. c. Ha.
ganS, in Drandonville, was struck by light.
ming, killing his son, Lucian L. Hagans, q
young man eighteen years of age.
llasans was sitting between the stove
and the door, with his feet resting on the
stOve.plate, and the Rev. c. ]. Trippett
was sitting quite close 10 him whom the
building was struck. The shaft entered
| the flue, demOlishing 1t entirely, throwing
! the bricks outside the roof into the street
and those below the root were scattered
over the garnet floor; thence the fluid
passed down the stove pipe into the store
room, striking Nj. Hagdns on tho head,
part thereof passing down his body To the
stove again, burning part Of his clothing
and tearing theback part of his shoes IouI
and killing him instantly
Mr.. TRIpPErr was thrown back to the
counter, where he must have remained H.
tsensiblc for n short time, but pS soon as he
recovered he succeeded in making bis eS-
capped from tho store to the dwelling Of