The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-04
A SLEEPING-CAR TRAGEDY.

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a Woman Jumps from sleeping Car
While Carrying the Remains of Her Hus-
band Home.
It would be bard to find sadder story
than this, which We copy from the Gin
cinnati Gazette
Only a short time ago Mr.. Phillips,
one of the leading citizens of Akron,
Ohio. found himself losing his hitherto
excellent health. Alarmed at this change
from health to debility, he consulted q
physician, who told him his only hope
was to go to a warmer climate. His
mother and sister were opposed to the
journey, as they thought him unable to
endure it, but he was convinced Of the
propriety Of the step, and went, few
weeks ago, to Florida, accompanied by
his wife. The journey FRUSTRATED him,
and he telegraphed for his family physi-
clan to come to him. The physician
went, and found Mr.. Phillips apparently
better, but deeply intent on going home
to die. The old physician yielded to the
sick mans earnest entreaties, and the
three started homeward. Mr.. Phillips
was buoyant with hope at the start, and
seemed better for o while, but, on the
second morning, he was dead, and the
journey was continued with the dead
body on the train. His poor wife was
almost crazed. She felt that she would
be blamed for having taken him from
home to die, and, as she neared Cincin-
natl, her grief and dread of the appre-
hended blame that would fall on her
gave the physician alarm. When the
train left Cincinnati she seemed to be
more calm, and, late at night, she retired
to her berth. The physician thought
she would sleep after SO much exhaus-
ton, and he, worn out With Watching
and anxiety, went to sleep in berth OPP
site
When the train neared Akron, early
in the morning, the physician arose,
and, to his horror, when he went to
awaken Mrs. Phillips, found her berth
empty and the window open. Search
was made through the train, but she was
nowhere to be found. When the train
stopped at Akron, the poor physician
was almost speechless. The telegraph
was used to get tidings Of the missing
woman, but it was several hours before
any response came, and then it was an
nounced that the woman was lying at a
house in little village some distance off
the railroad, not far from Mansfield. A
train was chartered and friends fastened
to bring her home. The found her In
bed, conscious, but almost exhausted.
The people said that she knocked at the
door little while before daylight, and,
when they opened the door, they found
her covered with mud, and unable to
tell her name or anything about herself.
They took her in and kindly cared for
her, but it was some hours before she
became conscious. She explained that.
after she vent to her berth, she could
not sleep. She finally opened the win
dow and looked out. 1t was raining, and
the feeling that she was rapidly APP
preaching her home broughta an undeiD-
able dread and powerful impulse to es-
cape it. With this feeling she threw
herself out of the window while the train
was in full motion. She fortunately
struck upon sandbank and was thus
saved from immediate death as well as
from severe injury. How she wandered
so far from the railroad to the house
where she was found she could not tell.
It was late in the afternoon when the
special train brought her to her home,
where she still lies in critical condi-
ton.