The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-10-21
INTERESTING EVENTS.

INTERESTING EVENTS.
The PittsbursA Disastelh
PITTSBURGH, October II.
THE deaths by the direful accident upon the
Railroad now number twenty
seven, and eight or ten others are not expect
ed to survive. The whole city is In mourning
for many among the killed were well known
and widely connected.
In the City Hospital the scene is q dreadful
one. All day yesterday it was thronged with
eager seekers after relatives and friends.
Drs. Clark, Laughridge and Acheson, the resi-
dent physicians, though weary with their
arduous and awful labors, threw on all re-
straint, and gladly answered all anxious In
quiries. Where there was no hope they
gently broke the news, forcing back their
own emotions, though not without
severe struggle. Although used to
scenes of death in its most hor-
tible forms, these old sawbones quailed before
the work of this awful disaster. All declared
that the sights and scenes of the day were be-
yond question the most appalling they ever
witnessed. ut is awful" replied DR.. Laugh
ridge, and surpasses the terrible arsenal explo-
sion in 1862. Poor Rose McCabe! You could
not tell whether she Is a woman or man, II
indeed human being. Death to her would
truly be q relief, and I know the messenger
will soon visit her cot"
doctor remarked Mr. Harper, "the
women appear to be dying on faster than the
men. They must have received more serious
injuries "Yes," replied DIR. Clark, 1.-THE
women suffered terribly from escaping steam.
Many of them are brave, too. In my ward,
short time ago, 1 was attending q lady whose
burns are severe, and groans came from cot
near by. She told me to leave her and go and
attend the patient who appeared to be in
such awful misery, as she was resting
easy. l know she was suffering at
the time she made the request. The women
have more grit than the men, though some of
them, too, bravely bear up under their injur-
les. JET r. Myers is plucky fellow. His leg
is mass of jelly from the knee down, and his
wrist or arm, forget which, is broken. 1
was putting up his leg in plaster, and, while
thus engaged, he told me how he received his
hurts and did not appear to vince at the pain.
This is what Myers told me: Twas standing on
the front platform Of the rear car of the first
section, and when the shock came the plat
form appeared to rise up, and then settle
down, throwing me down between the cars. I
was caught between the bumpers, and knew I
was hurt, but did not lose my senses. caught
hold of something-can't tell what-and drag
ged myself out from under the wheels Al
though was conscious all the time, can't,
for the life of me, tell how I got from under
the train"
Terrible Death from Hydrophobia.
ANOTHER painful case of hydrophobia is re-
ported. The death of Joseph MOorhouse, Of
Elizabeth, N. j., which occurred Monday night
from hydrOphobia, is said by the attending
physicians, eight in number, to have been the
most rapid ON record from that cause, the
victim dying In twenth-four hours after being
first attacked. MoorhOuse, while playing with
a pet mongrel dog in May, was bitten in the
wrist. His arm was swollen for few days
after DIR. Pickett, of Elizabeth, cauterized
tine wound, and MOorhouse thought no more
of it. After saving some wood Friday,
MOOrhOuse said he felt q pain in his
arm, but thought it was rheumatism.
Saturday he said to his sister
that he felt tingling sensation about the
wound. Sunday morning he attended Fulton
Street Methodist Church, where he led the
choir. When he returned home he said his
shoulder panied him SO he decided to stay
away from church that night. He was single,
living with his two sisters in a cottage on
Broadway. When his sisters returned from
church at night they found him sitting in the
kitchen. There was a wild look in his eyes,
and he said he could not sleep. The escort of
one of the sisters volunteered to sit up with
him. Toward morning he became excited and
called for water, but when water was taken to
him he pushed it away, and complained that
he was choking. Early ON Monday morning
Tlrc nnIr l1rIi tn Esv,IS
the man intensely excited, they injected NOR
phine, and hastily called in Drs. Brown and
Pickett. After consultation four other ply
sicians were sent for, and in joint consultation
they agreed that Moorhouse was attacked with
hydrophobia.
In the meantime the man became violent,
and great quantity of morphine was inject
ed, but it was of no avail The spasms did not
set in until toward night. Between the spasms
Moorhouse constantly called for water, which,
while looking away, he would try to drink, but
could not. Once he escaped into the street,
pnh5 ainf hi0gf h AT d4X ggn t fti the
ing to the organ, he played favorite hymn of
his, Nothing but the Blood of Jesus Will
Cleanse Me-" ending by falling on the stool in
violent fit. The physicians, fearing he
would get beyond CONTROL held him while
chloroform was given through his nostrils.
They then bound him to the bed. Several
times the drug was applied, the attendants
not being able to hold him. The fits now be-
came terrible, the man frothing at the mouth
and swapping. but not barking or snarling like
dog. little after eleven o'clock he sank
into q stupOr which was thought to be the
effects of the powerful drug, but it was death
coming to his relief. He died few moments
before midnight. Moorhouse was formerly
fireman on the New York Central Railroad Of
New Jersey, but lately he had been carrying
on the business of a blacksmith. He was
strong, healthy man, weighing one hundred
and sixty pounds.-New York (Oct. 81 Special to
Chicago Itter-Ocean.
Mars and Other PlanetA
MARS has of late been too far away to be Of
much account to star-gazers. But an interest
ing epoch occurs on the 18th, for he is then in
with the sun. Two points in the
revolution Of the planets outside the orbit of
the earth should be impressed on the memory.
These are conjunction and opposition, the
starting points in following the movements of
Mars and the four great planets that roll their
mighty spheres beyond his bounds. At con-
junction these planets are at their most dis
tant point, the sun being directly between
them and the earth. As we look at them
they seem to be Joined to the sun, rising and
setting at the same time, and becoming in
visible as they are eclipsed by his beams. At
opposition they are at their nearest point,
the earth being between them and the sun.
They then appear to be opposite the sun, ris-
Ing at sunset and setting at sunrise. Three
planets illustrate these movements In OctO-
Der. Jupiter and Saturn are in opposition,
and Mars is in conjunction. The former are
brilliant evening stars, rising in the east just
before the latter sets in the west, close to the
sun and hidden in his rays. After cOnjunc-
ton Mars passes to the western side of the
sun, and in a month or two becomes visible in
The east as morning star, continuing this role
and gradually increasing in size and ruddy
glow until his opposition in December, 1881.
Observers have better telescope view Of