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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11
Further Particulars of the Great
Storm.

The excursion train from the Pennsyl-
vania reunion, held near Schwenk's Hill,
on the Pickering Valley Railroad, when near
PheniXville, between ten and eleven o'clock
at night, was badly wrecked by the rains
washing out the track for some distance.
There were about two hundred persons on
the train.
An embankment about forty feet in
heighth, was washed by the heavy rainfall,
and the night being pitch dark, the fact did
not become apparent to the engineer until
too late. The first and second cars tele-
scoped.
The names of the killed in this disaster
whose bodies had been recovered at last ac,
counts are as follow, Isaac Jus,
Mrs VIM. HOLMAN, Frank Kidney,
George Griffith, and Nathan Penny
packer. The number of wounded found up
to 1. p. m. is forty-three, and the list in
cludes six Pennypackers killed and
wounded, mostly residents of Phoenixville
Three passenger coaches and the engine
were badly wrecked.
The storm did other damage. By the
breaking of dams at Chester Creek, Pa.
Crazier's mills, at Uplands. were flooded
and several hundred hands temporarily
throw out of employment. The mills III
Chester are much damaged. Trains on the
Baltimore Central Railroad were greatly de
IdyeQ Dy anu geographic COuuu
nicatiOn with them was broken.
At Lewis, Delaware, the storm was con.
sidered the most furions and destructive
that has visited Delaware Bay for many
years. About one hundred and twenty
sail, mostly wood laden and colliers lay in
the harbor. Ten vessels, mostly schooners
foundered at their moorings. At daylight
the unfortunate crews were discovered
clinging to the rigging of the sunken yes
sells, and were rescued at great peril by
small boats. In the Roads heavy shipping
Jared badly. The italian bark, Firenz c., Of
Genoa, from Philadelphia for London, was
driven on Cape Henlopen, and the brig Ma
tilda, lumber laden, for Philadelphia, to
tally destroyed. The schooner Rookie E
| beach inside the harbor, and many Othel
vessels were damaged more or less by col
| lision.
A note from Frenchtown, New Jersey
says that three persons were drowned
in the wreck of the south bount
Oswego and Philadelphia express OF
the Belvidere Division, the engineer, con
ductor, and an unknown lady. The trail
lies some distance from the shore, where i
was washed by the current. The newsboy
| baggagemaster, fremen and others save,
| themselves by swimming. In the baggag
car was young man supposed to be W
j. McElroy. who is missing. The wife o
Clinton Huber, OF trenton, N. > ana gen,
leman from Philadelphia, who were in tn
first coach, are also missing. Very littl
doubt is entertained as the fate of the Ell
gineer and conductor Reading, who ar
thought to have been drowned.
The damage by the storm in Brooklyn
estimated at about 100000. Houses wer
unroofed and blown down, cellars flooded
sewers overfowed, and trees uprooted TIL
Cochran building, one of the finest in tn
city, was flooded, and merchandise to tn
amount of $4,000 ruined.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11
The Union Pacific Highwaymen.
lSt. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press


Mr.. "Tony" Kelley, bookkeper at
Frank Horan's establishment, returned
home from California on Thursday even
ing. He was a passenger on the Union
Pacific train boarded and robbed by
bandits, and is himself a sufferer to the
tune of one hundred dollars. Mr.. Kel-
ley says that the first intimation of any
thing unusal was the stoppage of the
train, and of the immediate following
" incident" of a robber bounding into
the car in which Mr.. Kelley was seated,
holding big revolver in each hand,
and briefly remarking to the passenger
seated in front of Mr.. Kelley: Hands
up or heads off" The passenger in
stantly comprehended the meaning of
the salutation, and held up his hands,
while another armed robber went through
his pockets quicker than was ever known.
This salutation and search was expert
enced by every passenger on the car.
Mr.. Kelley being the second man robbed,
and of the sum of one hundred dollars,
all the money he had with him. The
robber also took his watch "a silver one) J,
but finding its value to be too small,
threw it back into Mr.. Kelley's Jap with
an expression of disgust. Only one man
in the car escaped with dollar, and he
was travelling man with two packages
of money. One package was carried off
by the robbers, but the other was dropped
in the sudden excitement and escaped
observation. Mr.. Kelley says the robbers
completed the task of cutting" the
express car and the passengers in an in
credibly short time, and every movement
indicated thorough system and the COM
pleteness of all precedent plans. Passen-
gers were out of pocket money almost
before they knew it, and such thing as
resistance did not suggest itself until
after the performance was ended, and
the curtain was run down on long
string of empty wallets and sorrowful
countenances. MIR. Kelley expresses
himself satisfied with his first experience
with train and express car robberies, and
decidedly prefers not to be caught in a
similarly interesting situation.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11
"REMINISCENCES OF LOCOMOTION

hEuINISCENCES Of LOCOHOLION.
The boiler of the first locomotive ever
run on a railroad in America is still in
excellent condition, and is used at Car
bondale, Pa. This engine, named the
Stourbridge Lion, from the place of its
manufacture, was ordered from England,
by the Delaware and Hudson Canal
Company, while the first English, the
Liverpool and Manchester road, was
constructing, and while it was yet doubt
full whether or not George Stephenson
would succeed in persuading its man
ayers to use steam. The assistant engi-
neer of the Canal Company, Mr.. Horatio
Allen, went to England to examine the
question of steam transportation, and
returned to this country satisfied that it
was destined to revolutionize commerce.
He was commissioned to order three loco
motives. One of them was landed in
New York in May, 1929, and after being
exhibited for several weeks to throngs of
curious people, it was sent by river and
canal to Honesdale, Pa, whence just
completed road sixteen miles long ran to
Carbondale, connecting the Lackawanna
coal fields with tidewater ON the Hud-
son, by means of the canal. The rails
and tide of this rude railway were OF
hemlock, which, not having been well
seasoned, was warped and twisted badly
by the time the engine arrived, making
the trial very dangerous; the more SC
that the road crossed the Lackawanna
River over slender hemlock trestle
at the height of a hundred feet. Mr.
Allen was not ignorant of his danger
but ambitious of distinction as the frs
engineer in this country, he dared it, il
opposition to many anxious friends, ane
demonstrated that the new idea was
success. This was ON the 8th of August
1929, two months before the successful
trial by Stephenson on an English road
The engine was a complicated affair
covered with rods and joints, and witt
huge walking beam. 1t resembles
nothing SO much as a huge grasshoppel
Mr.. Allen and Mr.. Jervis, the principa
, engineer of the canal, who ordered tn
l engine, are yet living in the State Q
e New York.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11
Bloody Battle Near Bear Paw Mount
aims.
The following dispatch has been received
at headquarters by General Sheridan:

at headq uarterS by General sheridan:
dHEADeyART@ERs TER DIST, Is OF THE YEII9wsrosE}
fsasras Gafota d. d. 1sF'V' Commanding Department Of
"GENERAL-This command moved rapidly
to Snake Creek, striking the fresh trail of
the hostile Nez Perces coming out of Bear
Paw Mountains at o'clock. On the 30th
we met and surprised the camp at eight
o'clock, capturing the larger part of their
herd, about six hundred horses, mules,
and ponies. The engagement was quite
severe, and the inclosed is list of the
killed and wounded. The Indians lost sew
enteen killed, including Looking-Glass !"
and Joseph's brother, and three other
chiefs, and forty wounded. Joseph gave
me his solemn promise yesterday that he
would surrender, but did not, and they are
evidently waiting for aid from other In
dians. They say that the Sioux are coming
to their aid. They are closely invested in
some deep ravines, ad kept under fire. To
take them by assault would cost many
lives. l may wear them out and event
ually compel them to give up. They fight
with more desperation than any Indians /
have ever met. | believe there are many
escaped villains in the village who expect
to be hung when caught. l belieVe there
is communication between this camp
and Sitting Bull, and 1 have used
every effort to prevent junction. | am
expecting the companies with Sturgiss, and
will then endeavor to send the second Cav.
airy companies to Benton. l presume you
do not wish them withdrawn when sur
rounding the Nez Percez camp. I intend to
send my wounded to the Missouri, and cap
tured stock to the Yellowstone I would
respectfully suggest that information be
sent to the British authorities to prevent
any portion of the Nee Perces tribe crossine
the line, or to disarm them should they TAXI
refuge on the English soil. Can supple.
be sent up the Milk River road for the seconC
Cavalry? Please send me any informa
ton or orders that should govern my move
ments.
every respectfully your obedient servant
"NELSON A. MILES,"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11
HEAVY Storm in the East.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. "A furious gale
>raged here tonight, and the railway trains
are delayed in all directions. A landslide
occurred at the eastern terminus of the
Phenixville Tunnel, on the Reading road,
and an engine and twenty coal cars were
thrown from the track near Royer's Ford.
The southbound Oswego and Philadelphia
express on the Belvidere Division of the
Pennsylvania Railroad ran into washed
out culvert a short distance below Milford,
N. j., this eVening, causing a complete
wreck of the train, and, it is feared, some
loss of life. The engineer and conductor
can not be found.
mington and Northern Railroad, the engine
and baggage car of the train ran into a cul-
vert. The fireman was badly scalded and
the engineer is missing.
NEW YORK, Oct A violent storm of
wind and rain has prevailed here all night.
Advices from Baltimore state that consider
able damage has been done there by the
storm, and trains on the Philadelphia, Will
mington and Baltimore road delayed by
washed-out culverts. On the Hudson River
Railroad serious washout occurred near
Riverdale, and the second Pacific express,
leaving New York at $50, met with an acci-
dent near there. The engine, two express
cars, baggage car, and one coach were
thrown from the track by the wash. No
one was HuTt, DuI tne Irdln was utldy Gu
several hours.
WASHINGTON, Oct A heavy rainstorm
to-day did considerable damage to the In
terror Department. The entire north hall,
occupied by the Patent Office, was flooded.
and, the ceilings of the north hall being ex-
peeted to fall, guards were stationed to warn
the people of danger. Business in the
Land Office was entirely suspended, and
the land records suffered considerably. II
is feared some of them will be destroyed be-
fore they can be placed in dry rooms. The
damage to the Ninth and G Street wings OF
the Patent Office from the heavy rain to-day
is very great, many records and public
papers being thoroughly saturated. Water
flowed into the Ninth Street rooms and hal
so rapidly that it was found necessary to cut
hole through the immense wall of the build
| ing to let it out. 1t is now feared by many
| that the damage by flood may prove nearly
as great as that by the late fire.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11
Booth Meets His Match.

Never but once did he meet his match
He was playing Richard at the Third
Street Theater to the Richmond of Will
liam Duffy. At the rehearsal Booth told
him to be ON his guard that night, for
he felt in fighting trim.
"Never you fear" said Duffy, you'll
find me fully up in the part
At night Booth, as usual, got terribly
excited in the combat, while Duffy kept
cool and collected.
Booths lunges, thrusts and cuts were
something fearful; fire flew from their
swords at every blow, the audience hur-
rahing at the wonderful passes.
Finding he could gain no advantage,
Booth resorted to wonderful dodge of
his, playing down." as it was called
that is, driving his opponent into the
corner of the stage, where, having nc
room to fight freely, he could easily be
disarmed. Duffy, seeing his game, made
feint, whipped the sword out of Booth.
hand, hurled it beyond reach over his
head, and stabbed him. Booth then re
luctantly complied with the authors in
struc ions and died.
Booth could fight as well with his left
as with his right arm, as also could JOIN
Wilkes, his son.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11
DANBuRy Ne,rs: A woman is far more

DANBURY Ne,rs: A woman is far more
sensitive than man. She has finer feel
ngs, and more delicate mind. There
are very few men who realize this, and
in consequence a woman is made to en-
dure unnecessary suffering. One of our
merchants was going to church with his
wife on Sunday morning, when she sud
denly stopped and put her hand to her
head "What's the matter? he asked,
startled blythe look on her face. "0hl
I've got on my brown hat" "Eh 9'
eiacula ted the astonished man. She
burst nto tears. "Why, Martha, what
is the matter with youT" he demanded.
Don't you see what is the matter e''
she returned in 3 sobbing voice. Pve
got on my brown hat with my striped
silk. oh, what will people sayT'
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11

A BEAUTIFUL story is told of Sir
Philip Sydney, while he was borne away
dying from the battlefield. He had just
placed a cup of cold water to his lips,
when there was carried past him a
wounded soldier, who looked with long
ing eyes on the draught of the more
favored Sydney. He withdrew his lips,
and instead of drinking himself, gave
the cup to the poor MANNED soldier, with
the simple utterance, "thy necessity is
yet greater than mine." That was an
illustrious instance of unselfshness, and
does honor to his character in the sphere
of heroic deeds more than the most bril-.
liant passage of arms.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11

THE telephone has not yet reached the
fishers of Aberdeen, Scotland. Carrier
pigeons are taken to the fisheries, and
when the work is done they are sent
home to announce the amount of the
catch. The time they make is a mile a
minute, and preparations are made when
they arrive ut their destination for de-
livering and curing the fish. In case of
adverse winds the carriersare sent for
tugs, and at all times the birds prove
themselves trusty and speedy messen-
gers.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11

DUcoURToIs, Partisan storekeeper,
determined last year that he would retire
to the country, and accordingly betook
himself to a handsome place in the
environs Of Paris. Being bachelor, he
invited Pous, his former clerk, to bear
him company. They soon, however, be-
came lonesome, and Ducourtois thought
the quickest way of recouping the outlay
would be to heavily insure and then
fire the building. So he and Pous
saturated with petroleum the most in
hammable parts of the edifce, to which
they then set fire, disregarding the fact
that seven persons slept in the tenement
adjoining. In the defense Ducourtois
with a Count Fosco GOODNESS, pleaded
that. he committed the deed because he
was "unsuited for rural pleasures and
not made for a country life" He ha,
been sentenced to eight years pena
servitude.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11

IT has been discovered that the pea
cock is the natural ecemy of the Colo
RADIO beetle. We are glad that this biped
has at last found mission, and that he
is now useful as well as ornamental.
He can make as many eyes at us as he
pleases if he only destroys the potato
bug, for what would life be without the
festive Murphy?
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11

THE site of the petrifed forest of Cali
fornia is about one thousand feet above
the sea level, and lies in the same trend
with the Geysers, Mount St. Helena,
and the thermal springs of Calistoga.
A recent visitor says that, geologically,
it is one vast lava bed, in which the trees
lie as they were thrown, probably thou
sands of years ago, by some convulsion
of nature. The trees are in fragments,
many of which have been converted into
charcoal, others into Ignite, and others
into beautiful specimens of jet.
Where the heart of the tree had de-
cayed, the cavity is filled with opal, a
form of lustrous uncrystallized silica,
containing water. Chalcedona, another
form of the silica, but clear and impid,
is found in other cavities. No top has
been petrifed, and only here and there
q root.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11

BURLINGTON Hamk-Eye: A family of
this city Yesterday on their return to
Indiana. They had suffered every
thing, and were in the last stages of des-
titution. This man had been compelled
to part with nine of his dogs, and the
woman was positively ashamed of her
bracelets and earrings, and she refused
to get out of the wagon because, she
tearfully informed the President of the
Woman's Relief Society, her tilter was
nearly three months out of style.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11

In the Globe Theater, Boston, Clara
Butler, the wife of Frank Frayne, while
shooting at an apple in her husbands s
hand, took off the first two fingers of his
left hand. Frayne took it so quietly
that no one in the audience was enabled
to perceive the accident that had taken
place. The same afternoon the wounded
man, after losing a great deal of blood,
had the fingers amputated at the middle
joint. 1t is curious that Mrs. Frayne
says she had a presentiment all day that
something bad was about to happen.
She tainted when she found what she
had done,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11

HYDRoPHoBIA must either be an cpl
demic in Paris or the French classified
tion Of dogs that are mad must be very
different from the American. We learn
from official returns that the police of
the Capital killed 276 mad dogs in 1875,
and $40 in 1876. If these figures repre-
sent cases of unmistakable hydrophobia,
seasickness and the possibility of ship
wreck constitute by no means the most
formidable drawbacks to an excursion
across the Atlantic.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11

THERE is a remarkable German Com
munistic Society in Iowa, called the
Amana, which has adopted cooperative
housekeeping. The families live in
separate houses, but take their meals in
one common clearinghouse. They have
one common kitchen and laundry to a
village, so that no cooking or washing is
done in the separate houses. The so
ciety is very prosperous and wealthy,
and the members are happy and healthy.
1t is all because they don't have to worry
over housekeeping.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11

when he reached Inspiration Point,
where is seen the first glimpse of the
Yosemite, fell on his knees, and said,
with tears in his eyes: "Mein Gott, ich
danke dir fur diese Stunds -" My God,
1 thank thee for this hour" go, how
prettyl" was the vapid exclamation of a
young lady as she reached that same
magnificent spot; and her senseless re-
mark sent a thrill of disgust through
others of the party.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11

A PARTY of thieves recently drove off
seven thousand head of cattle from Col
orado. They were followed by party
of herders and overtaken, surrounded
and surprised in the extreme north
western corner of Kansas. The pur--
suers shot seven of the thieves dead and
hung one to a tree, recovering all the
stolen stock with no loss to their party
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11

We have no fewer than fourteen
English proverbs relating to this i'm
portant feature of the human face di-
vine. They are as follows: l. Follow
your nose. 2. He cannot see beyond his
nose. 3. An inch is good deal on
mans nose. 4. He would bite his own
nose off to spite his face. 5. He has a
nose of noses. 6. AS plain as the nose
on your face. Z. To hold ones nose to
the grindstone. 8. To lead one by the
nose. 9. To put ones nose out of joint.
10. To pay through the nose Ii. To
have good nose for poor mans sow.
II. To thrust ones nose into other
peoples business. 13. A nose that can
smell rat. IA. Every mans nose will
not make shoeing horn.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11

THERE are some seven hundred carpet
making establishments in the United
States which, in prosperous times, fur
nish employment to between 100000
and 200, 900 operatives, men, women and
children. Thirteen million dollars is
invested in the business, which includes
buildings and machinery, while S4,70O,-
600 is expended yearly for wages. The
annual production is valued at between
$22, 100000 and $24, 100000.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11
EDITORIAL OLIO.

RECENTLY there died in England, at
the advanced age of lightweight, Mr..
Robert Were Fox, a Quaker, who, as
long ago as 1880, made the dipping
needle, without which instrument, ac-
cording to Sir James Rosse, it is doubt
full whether the Southern magnetic pole
could have been located.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11

Boston Trareler: "You will repent
your prodigality some day." said wise
and prudent citizen to Bummerson, who
had just emerged from subterranean
cavity, wiping his mustache. "Do you
know that every time you drink a glass
of beer you swallow a yard of land ?''
g Impossiblep' said Bummerson.
"Fact" asseverated his friend. "Pll
prove it," and he pulled out his note
book and figured it out, showing that in
the course of few years the price of the
pernicious indulgence would buy house
and lot in the suburbs. Bummerson was
astounded. He commenced to econo-
mize. He saved up his loose change.
He accumulated a nice little nest-egg,
and proudly anticipated the time when
he would be a leading citizen, and pay
taxes and gas bills. One day he got a
good chance to buy cheap, so hurried of
to draw his savings.
He rode to town upon his mule,
Cavorting through the dust;
But when he went to draw his pile,
He found the bank had busti
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11

THE war correspondent of the London
Daily Ne,os says that at the battle near
Kazelevo, where the Russians were de-
feated, "a Russian officer, who was OBJ
served gallantly endeavoring to rally
the men, was killed, and the body, when
subsequently discovered, proved to be
hat of a woman, She was buried where
he FELL"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11

A BED of yellowish-colored paint, COW
ering an area Of at least two acres, and
having a thickness of four feet, has
been discovered near Cullman, Alabama
The paint is found to be superior to
ochre, as it can be worked without
adding white lead, and cannot be sur
passed for water colors.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11

A GARMENT has been introduced at
Paris called the "lozenge dress" 1t is
composed of squares of ecru thread lace
arranged as lozenges on shirts of pink,
saffron or turquoise blue foulard. Be-
tween every losenge space of the same
size is left, through which the dress is
visible. White guipure, torchon or
black lace may be used.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11

STEEL, the Scottish sculptor, is now
engaged on a statue of Robert Burns.
The cost will be $4,000, and it will be
betrayed mostly by Scottish citizens of
New York.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-10-11

IT is once and while recalled that
Mr.. William Cullen Bryant practiced
law for a short time, and was so dis
gusted by defeat in one suit through a
technicaIity, in words, that he aban-
doned the profession Immediately for
ever.