The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-08
evenings.

Peaches are 81. rs a basket here.
Slip your house plants this month.
Buy your note paper at this office
Potatoes are selling In this market
at .25 bushel.
The weather still continues to be
very hot and very dry.
M. S. Kline's new building on
Centre street is raised.
100 sacks choice dairy salt, only
&c sack at Morgester's.
so barrels choice lake salt, only
$500 barrel at Morgester's.
The hotels of Ridgway have ad-
vanced the price of board.
&C. L, Dickinson is building fine
house for himself across the river.
Now is good time to lay in a
stock of wood and coal for winter use.
Misses Tillie and Stella Farley, of
Philadelphia, are visiting at Doctor
Earley's.
Large quantities of bark and lum-
Der have been consumed by forest
fires in this section.
Again we call the attention of the
authorities to the wretched condition
of the high sidewalk near Irishtown.
BOY WANTED
To take care of horses, milk COWS,
do chores an6 go to school.
J. S. BoRDwELL.
Iron City College-The advertise
ment of this popular and successful
business college will be found in
another column.
A new stock Of lumberman's
flannel just received at the New York
Store. Will be sold lower than at any
other store in town,
"A Teachers Examination will be
held in the Ridgway School Building
on, Saturday, September 18th, COM
mencing at 8 A. NJ.
The richest, neatest, and incest
lot of piano covers you ever saw for
sale are on exhibition at the office of
Captain Schening in the Court
House.
In compliance with the proclama-
tion of Governor Hoyt chat prayer
be offered for the recovery of the
President, services were held in Grace
Church last Tuesday morning.
Street Commissioner Hagerty has
his trials as well as the rest of the
folks. AT last accounts ninety-nine
men had informed him of the fact
that there was hole in the Elk creek
bridge.
"A daily stage line is now run from
Caledonia to st. Marys. 1t leaves
Caledonia at 9:l5 A. NJ. arriving at st.
Marys at II, NJ. Returning leaves st.
Marys at $3.50, p. NJ. and arrives at
Caledonia at $3.50 P. NJ.
The springs and streams supplying
the water tanks along the p. &. Z.
road have dried up and portable boilers
and pumps are used at several places
to force water up from the creeks with
hose to supply the railroad engines.
"A beauty in the matter of finish.
and unsurpassed in quality and sweet
ness Of tone, is the universal verdict
concerning the upright Sohmer piano
now on exhibition at Captain Schen-
tng's office. Go and see it, for it's a
beauty. While there ask to see those
elegant piano covers.
"A serious accident happened to a
freight train going west early this
morning at Silver creek just west of
the Priest Mills near st. Marys. The
bridge across Silver Creek had been
burned, it is supposed by a spark
from preceding train. This freight
unaware of the accident plunged
headlong into the deep chasm.
LATER-The bridge where the acci-
dent occurred is one and one-half,
miles west of st. Marys. .on heavy de,
scending grade going west. 1t is what
is known as "deck" bridge, is on 50
curve in the middle of a long, high
embankment. The distance from
the bed of the creek to the bridge is
35 feet, the length of the bridge,
single span, from abutment to abut-
ment being about 25 feet
The engineer saw the bridge was on
fire and called for brakes, but too late.
The engine and twenty-eight cars
went into the chasm completely filing
1t up. One hundred and fifty tons of
anthracite coal besides other merchan-
disc was lost in the wreck. Only two
cars were left, one on the track and
the other hanging over the abutment.
The engineer VIM. Kepperley, who
leaves a wife and four children, and
the fireman Charles Mise, who leaves
a wife and two children, went down
In the terrible catastrophy with their
engine and were buried in the wreck. !
The head brakeman jumped from the
train and saved himself. He says |
that he heard the engineer and fire.
man calling for help to get them out.
The wreck soon took fire, and as it |
Ias an impossibility to extricate the
len they perished in the flames.
VThree> fire-engines from Kane,
Remove, and st. Marys, were ordered
to the scene of the accident to put out
,he fire 30 that the bridge could be