The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-03-17
HORRORS.


HORRORS.
| DEATH IN THE FLAMES Near Frcder-
| lex, Md, in an old fashoned two story log
house, lived Samuel Cronlse, with his
wife, six children and deaf mute brother.
All slept up stairs, and in the night Of the
9Th inst the lower part of the house took
fire so that there was no ogrcss for the In
mates except from one narrow window up
stairs fifteen feet from the ground. The
| father and Oldest boys leapcd out and the
mother undertook to throw the smaller
children into the arms OF those below. All
had thus been safely landed except one IT.
tie glrl whom the mother held in her
arms and was in the oct Of dropping when
the deaf mute darted between the mother
and child, and getting half way out the
window, hung there In terror, leaving the
horror stricken mother and her child
standing on the brink Of death, with the
flames within a few feet of them, while the
husband and children in safety below
were powerlcss to render any assistance,
Mrs Cr0aiso was unable 10 escape TO any
other window, and shrieked to the crowd
beoI for help, she appealed te the deaf
mute, but he could not hear her, and stub
bornly chung 10 the window, blocking her
eCress. Her frantic cries for ard were in
efcc,ual, and, alter desperate struggle,
she fell back into the building and per
ished IN the flames, clasplng the Child to
her bosom The old deaf mute chung TO
the window sill in the hope or being res
cued, and at last fell to the ground IN o
dying condition
DYNAMITE EXPLosIoE.--At the mouth
Of Deadman's Hollow, McKeesport, near
Pittsburg, four men were employed IN a
stone quarry. They had drilled blast on
Friday evening and next morning propos,
ed to charge it with dynamite. They
found the stuff frozen and placed 1t near q
fire 10 thaw out. OF course it exploded,
and two Of the men were instantly killed,
The others being badly injured.
\ FATED STEAMER.-The steamer Ma
varre, bound from Copenhagen to Leith,
founaered in O gale on the Och of the
English coast There were eighty one
persons mostly em,grants, on board, only
sixteen Of wnom were saved. Most of
them were on their way to America.
BURNED TO DEATH About IL o'clock
on Saturday night Scotl's lodging shell at
Brownsville, the wood camp terminus Of
the Black Hills and Fort Pierre Railroad,
took fire aud burued up. The building
was ore story, with loft overhead, IN
whlch fifteen persons at the time were
asleep. Eleven Of them perlshsd IN the
flames, the other four barely escaping with
serious injury.
COLLAPSE or a THEATRE RooF.-At
Havana, Cuba, on Sunday evening, the
roof Of the northwestern wing of the Pay
rel Theatre crushed thr ough the cntrescl
into q coffee horse below. Among the
many dead taken from the ruins is En-
rquc Sagasuzabal, co-proprietor Of the
theatre Several families escaped mlracu
lousy.
CRUSHED BY TRAIN.--On Monday
aycning the hack which runs regularly
between Charlottesville, Ind, and Alamo,
was struck by the west passenger train,
and the entire outfit thrown up an en-
bankment forty feet from the track.
Green. The driver, Mrs John CLARK, of
Waynetown, lad, and Milton Rush, OF
Alamo, were instantly killed.
BuRNED.--At Luther, Mich, on Mon
day, house of ill-tame was destroyed by
fire, and two inmates, Jennie Goodsell end
Ruben Myers, persisted lt,s stated they
were both intoxicated at the time.
SHOT by AN IDIoT.-Last Saturday
evening, Cathar,no Edwards, a young lady
OF IS years, living at Caseyvllle, ST. Clair
county, H., some ten miles from east 81.
Louis, was shot and killed 10y John Jacobs,
an intimate friend, who though. to fright
en- and have some fun with her by point
ing shotgun and swapping cap at her,
The gun, however. to Jacobs great sur
prise and horror, proved 10 be loaded, and
the young lady received the charge of shot
in her left breast and died almost instantly.
Jacobs surrendered himself, and IL almost
crazy over the event.
At Joliet, on MONDAY Il l0-yesrold son
of Mr.. Kinson's, residing on the West
Side, met with an accident which will
probably cost HIM his life. He was thrown
from a horse and trampled under It's feet.
His skull was crushed and his collar bone
broken.