Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-09
WESTERN TRAGEDIES.
Il HORKIhLE UNoKICDE AND SUICIDE

a Uhiis: of tho Victim Witnesses the Crimes
-.lc!zenrnE Getail>-Lost in rhe snow
Crime ANT! Calamity.
Henry DreeS, q teamster, living in three
rooms of n tenement house in the rear of
No. $500 Mullanphy street, st. Louis.
who had become jealous Of his wife, on
Wednesday killed her and himself
with Il razor. They nad five children.
Drees was hard working man, and had
accumulated $4,000 in savings. He i'll
treated his wife continually, and on one
occasion she left him. She was good
woman, and gave her husband no cause
for his insane jealousy. On Wednesday
night the couple retired at about 10 o'clock
with the two little girls in ono bed, the
two boys in another, and the baby
of two years in the same bed with
themselves. LCuis. the eleven year
year old son, was the only witness Of the
tragedy. The noise aroused him and he
saw his father cutting his mother with a
razor. Then he saw his father spring into
the air and fall down near the stove. The
boy then got up and lifted the baby
(Mina), who was lying on ne bed with
her mothers corpsc-heg night clothes
soaked Wit. her mothers Ulood-into his
bed. He changed the baby's clothes and
both went to sleep again. Next morning,
when the children awoke the floor and bed
we're covered with blood. Louis tried to
find they key with which his father had
locked the door, but could not, and it was
not until nearly nine O'Clock, when Otto
Farenhorst Ga boy of 10 years. came up
and called Louis to go to school with him,
that the condition ofaffairs was discovered.
Otto's mother, who lived in the lower part
Of the house, then opened tho door and 4
most CHASTITY scene was revealed. Drees
had cut bis wife's throat while she was
asleep and there was no struggle. The
heads of both were nearly severed from
their bodies.
Frozen TO Death In the Snow.
\ coach which left Pacific Springs, W.
Z, on the Sweetwater stage line last week
was caught in the storm of Friday Tho
coach was abandoned, and the occupants
started back on foot to the station. The
driver, w. J. Stewart, was found frozen
to death stSnding in the snow, and Thos.
Scott, superintendent of the limo, was also
found standing straight up in the snow,
frozen SO that he could not move. He
will lose Ills hands and feet. w. V. Stark,
a passenger, has not yet been found. They
were out three days and nights. Another
stage driver was badly frozen. He reports
two feet OF snow ON tho level, and cattle
starving. This stage line runs from Green
river, on the Union Pacific railway. to
Fort Washakie, Wyoming, through the
South Pass of the Rocky mountains.
The Flood Ohio.
Serious losses by the floods are reported
from numerous towns in Ohio. At
Marietta it is estimated that $4,000 will
not cover the damage. A woman was
drowned il her house. At POmerOy the
flood is the greatest since 1S47 and prom
ises to exceed that. Three hundred build
ings have from one 20 fifteen feet of water
in them. The damage to dwellings, and
bushes ss houses is; estimated ut from $1OO..
900 TO $3.50, 900 The salt furnaces and
iron works are badly damaged. No trains
have run since Tuesday night. The only
means Of communication in the city is by
skiffs. The river is rising an inch and a
half per hour. At Ironton, Ohio, it is
tiity-iiye feet and still rising. The lower
part of the city is flooded and all factories
are stopped. At Portsmouth, Ohio, the
river is rising three inches an hour. The
water works and nearly all factories are
stopped. y hundred families are driven
from their houses. The railroads no,th
and east arc under water