Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-30
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OUR kEGULAR CORRESPONDENCE

OUR REGULAR COkkESPONDENCE.
The raft channel, near the Black
Rock " at Turkey Hill, is still closed by
the rock which is spoken of in another
article, and as consequence of this de.
tention to running has necessarily oc-
CURED.
This mornings market is said to have
bfen very good.
The employees of the Susquehanna roll.
ing mill were paid off this morning for
two weeks work.
The Ladies' aid society of the E. Z.
Lutheran church gave q sOciable in the
church lecture room last evening, which
was much of q success. The attendance
was large and a good bit of money was
taken in.
Rev. A. ii. Long, of Marietta, will
preach special sermons in the Church of
God tomorrow morning and evening.
A new express wagon for the B. d D.,
D. l.. & w., and p. & r. railroad compa-
nies has just been put in service in COlum-
bia.
Tue pocket book containing 81, of
which we spoke yesterday as being lost,
belonged to J. H. Long and not to J. S.
Snyder as We inadvertently stated.
Rev. Samuel Yingling, president of Har-
risburg conference of the Lutheran church,
will preach for st. Johns Lutheran COLI
grcgatiOn in Shuicr's hall, on Sunday
morning at ten o'clock. and in St. PauPs
German Lutheran church, Locust street,
below Sixth, in the evening at 1880 clock.
There were two sections to the way
passenger train west this morning. Both
were heavily loaded with emigrants for
the far West. Forepaugh's advertising
car rpassed through on the second section.
A Raft Wreck.
Yesterday morning Pilot Harry Stiple
left here with raft IN which party of
timbermen with their wives and friends
from BiDghamton, N. Y, Clarfie'd
county, Pa, and other places had taken
passage. Closely following Siple's raft
were four others pilOted by Messrs. SAM
uel Will and Warren Brown, of Washing
ton borough, and Benjamin Ohmit and
Samuel Slower, of Marietta. in the order
named. With the first raft, except to
note that it got through all right, this
article las nothing to do, but with the
four others it has. A Columbia gentle
man who was makinga trip with Pilot
Ohmit gave to US what We below give to
our readers
When Wills raft-thc first of the 70 ur
with which we arc dealiDg-reached Tur-
key Hill it was found that binder had
broken and tue raft become unmanageable.
Just below the ''Black Rock" where the
current is strong and the water is swift
the front end OF the (spaT) raft caught on
small island and stuck fast, the other
end swinging around until its broadside
was turned to tine channel, when it, too,
stuck. Browns raft was but little way
behind. and in moment it piled into the
first one, scattering the sticks of timber in
all directions but 1cap:ng upon and
over the portion which Is still half fast, and
making the barrier more potent than ever.
While all this was going on raft No. 3,
was bearing down upon the wreck ahead,
as yet unaware of the danger in front,
but with no possibility of azeltins it even
had it been known. There Was another
collision, another breaking up of timber
and another leap over, when things once
more became quiet, but only for an instant,
for in another nome ut the raft pilOted by
Slower showed itself coming around the
curve, but a little way up, and it was
known that another smash-up was inevit
able. Oar informant says that at this time
le felt there were safer places in the world
than just where he stood, but the difficulty
was in reaching them. While lie was
thinking thus the fourth raft crashed into
the wreck of the other three with terrible
force, and playing havoc with the neatly
bound timbers. The lashings were broken
and the pieces of wood thrown about in
all conceivable shapes and forms, some
escaping and going on down the river,
but most of them clinging to
the wreck or to rocks near by.
Some one on shore, noticing the state of
affairs, had sufficient presence Of mind to
run and meet approaching RATS and signal
to them before they were drawn into the
vortex, and this was the only preventive of
a still more indiscriminate scatteration of
incongruous parts of several wholes.
What the loss will be We are not able to
figure out, but will not be incOnsiderablc.
The excursionists, tofwhom We before re-
ferred, were fortunate in being on the first
raft.