Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-06-29

ches in the sand, for distance of Is
rods. After the accident the conduc-
tor and passengers walked back to as
certain the cause, and found that some
person had unstrapped the rails, sepa-
rated joint, and driven a wooden
wedge in to hold the track apart, then
covered, it with leaves to hide the
break. The footprints about there in
dictated that three men were connected
in the outrage.
The Wheeling hteN,gencr of the
18th, has the following: The Cincin-
natl and Pittsburgh express coming
west, over the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, yesterday morning, about
mile east of Glover's Gap, ran over
and instantly killed young man of
perhaps lS, and child of five or six,
which he was trying to rescue from
danger. The young man was mend
ing fence not far from the track, and
the child, whose brother he was, APP
pears to have left the house with the
intention of crossing the road and GO
ing to him. The child, when first
seen by the engineer, was walking
along by the side of the road at safe
distance. When the brother saw the
train coming, he ran down toward the
road, apprehending that the child
might attempt to cross in front of the
train. AS the train approached, the
child, seeing its brother coming on the
other side of the road, turned, with
strange vitality, and started to run
across the track directly in front of
the engine, to meet him. The brother
sprang upon the track to snatch it
away, and in an instant the locomotive
was upon them, and they were crushed
beneath its ponderous wheels. The
train was stopped as soon as possible,
and all went back to see the sad
spectacle. The child's body was dread
fully mangled, and the upper portion
Of the young mans head had been
crusLed completely away. The father
and mother had come out to the road
side, and were bending over their dead
children and uttering heart-piercing
lamentations. 1t was scene to melt
hearts Of stone, and many were moved
to tears.
Mrs. Doretta Schardt, while laboring
under an attack of insanity, drowned
her child and then committed suicide
by drowning herself in the lake, at
Cleveland, on the odd.
Notorious thieves entered southern
bound express car on the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad, on Sunday week, over
came the messenger and threw out the
safe, which contained large amount
of money. The safe was subsequently
found broken open. The thieves were
tracked to Mobile and two of them
arrested, and with them was found a
portion of the stolen money. The re-
it is thought, will be recov-
cred. One of the prisoners is an es-
capped convict and desperate charac-
ter.
A man calling himself Chas. j.
Jacobs, approached policeman, in
Chicago, on the night of the 22d, and
asked to be taken into custody, for the
reason that he was a murderer. He
says that short time since, at rancho
near Bryan, Texas, he killed a man
named Weathersby, but claims that he
did it in self-defense. He claims that
Weathersby had fired two shots at him
before he returned the fire, which
proved fatal. He felt so troubled in
his mind about the tragedy that he
could not resist the impulse to give
himself up as murderer.
The eastward bound express train
on the Missouri Pacific Railroad col
lided at $3.50 in the morning of June
2lst, with freight train, a few miles
beyond Washington, smashing both To-
express and baggage cars,
and killing the fireman of the express
train. The collision was caused by the
of the brakeman of the
freight train, who neglected to switch
properly.
During tornado near Scranton,
Green county, Iowa, on Sunday the
18th instant, the residence of Samuel
Huntington was taken up and carried
full ten rods and demolished. There
we're eight persons in the house at the
time Huntington was instantly killed
and his son, James w. Huntington,
md his daughter, Mrs. Rue, were Sc
verely injured. The other five were
only slightly hurt. The house of Hi
-am Coleman was also demolished, but
none of the inmates were seriously in: |.
ured.
Six more of those troublesome Gu.