The Iola register., 1881-02-18

OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST.
The Depot Accident Mt BuRalo.
BUFFALO. N. Y, February &
SHORTLY after nine o'clock this morning
the arched roof Of the old New York Central
Depot on Exchange street, overweighted with
accumulated snow and weakened by the re-
moval Of former Offices which had formed Q
large portion Of its support, fell. burying .
number Of cars and human beings beneath
the tangled mass of iron, wood, glass, snow
and brick. The number Of narrow escapes
was large. In the cars Of waiting train q
few passengers, perhaps fifteen or twenty
persons in all, were seated. Not one of these
were injured. OF course. all were much
frightened, and, being inside the cars, could
not tell ut first just what had occurred. They
promptly realized, however, that they were
virtually buried, but the roof and side wall
falling had made q sort of archway over the
cars, protecting them. Passengers recover.
ing from the first shock and surprise had no
difficulty in getting out in safety.
The work of clearing away the debris was
completed this afternoon. The killed are the
confidential clerk of Superintendent Tilling-
hast, Henry Walters, Captain John McByrne,
of this city, who was waiting to take q train
for Erie; VIM. d. Wells, Car Inspectors clerk !;
and Levi s. Huntington, clerk in the Of
fee of the Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia
Railroad. Captain McByrne is the only one Of
the victims married. The cause Of the disas-
ter 10 properly attributed to the weakening of
the north wall of the depot by cutting OPEN
ings and passage ways to connect with the
new structure, which attaches to the
old, and by the removal of number
of walls which formed different Offices
inside of the old structure, and
the immense body OF snow which had accumu-
lated, and was made additionally heavy by the
recent rain and thaw. The scene presented by
the fallen structure was most ruinous one.
Large piles of bricks, iron girders and heavy
timbers lay piled in an indiscrimnate mass,
while the ragged walls tottered and fell in Sec
tions. The noise resembled that of an earth
quake, and was heard a mile distant. The
whole old depot was $50 feet long; height Of
the walls, % feet width, 100 feet, and height Of
arch, Is feet. All but fifty feet of the walls
and four arches are a mass of ruins. 1t was
built in 1856. At no hour of the day or night
could the accident have happened without more
terrible loss of life, as the depot at the time
was comparatively deserted. The only train
made up and in waiting was the Lake Shore to
Erie which was awaiting the coming of the
New York Central, and one from the East,
both of which were behind time. The fast
train went out about five minutes before the
crash, and the Eastern train had been gone
about an hour. The fast mail train, due about
the time of the accident, was behind time, and
also the heavy st. Louis and Pacific Express,
No. II.
A Desperate struggle with Two Bears.
LOrrIE MERRILL, the female hunter CT
Wayne County, Pa, has just had another ad-
venture worthy of record, and one which came
so near costing her her life that she will prob
ably in the future never resume her masculine
sport. A few days ago, just after the great
sleet storm which swept over the country.
LotLie determined TO 60 deer hunting. Dom
ming her snow shoes she started to cross Orig
Swamp, dense mass of scrub-oak and laurel.
When she had reached the center of the marsh
she discovered the footprints of very large
bear on the crust. She followed the trail out
of the swamp for about two miles, when she
discovered the den which the animal tnhab-
tied. Entering the cave she found two littlt
cubs on q bed of leaves in one corner. The
cubs were SCOUT the size of kittens and were
easily captured.
Lottie was Just emerging from the cave
when she was met by an immense she bear.
The bear had heard the cubs yell and was
making all possible speed to rescue them. Be-
fore Lottie could draw her rife to her shoulder
the animal was upon her and, graSping her In
her paws, gave her such terrible squeeze that
she tainted, when the bear, thinking her dead,
released her grip. She fortunately regained
consciousness quickly, and when the old beaI
was playing with her cubs the plucky hunter
drew her rifle and shot her in the side. The
bullet did not strike the animals heart. and rs
the brute dashed at her again Lottie drew her
hunting knife and with one bold stroke nearly
severed the bears head from the body.
Lottie was just congratulating herself on
her successful escape when the dead bears
mate made his appearance. Lotties rifle was
unloaded and she was totally unprepared for
second encounter, but determined to fight
it OUT The struggle was a long one. For
tunately the young lady was not incumbered
in her motions by petticoats, for in all her
hunting expeditions she wears pantaloons of
doeskin with long blouse. When, finally,
Lottie thought the bear was dead she stopped
over to cut his throat, and the animal, with
one stroke of his monstrous paw, tore the
clothing almost completely from her body.
During the protracted struggle the bear had
reached the edge of q cliff fully 100 feet
high and sloping at an angle of more
than 45 degrees down to the Wallinpaupack
Creek. As the animal grabbed Lottie he com
menced sliding on the slippery crust down
this almost perpendicular slope. LOttie was
carried with him, and every foot of distance
traversed added to their velocity. When they
reached the foot of the slope they struck
against tree, completely killing the bear and
breaking two of Lottie's ribs, her left arm and
one of her limbs. She managed, however, to
crawl about mile to a house. where she re-
ceived medical treatment. The first bear
killed weighed when dressed 4S3 pounds and
the male one 4S4 pounds. Lottie, who is i'm
proving slowly, has the cubs in her possession,
but she says it will be some time before she
will take another expedition of this kind
Damascus (Pd.) CIR. Net0 York Times.
Thomas Carlyle.
THOMAS CARLYLE was born in 1895 at Eccle-
fechan, a small village in Dumfriesshire, Scot
land, where his father was a farmer. At the
age Of fourteen he entered the University Of
Edinburgh and passed through the regular
course of study. He remained at the Uniyer- |