The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-23

unable to get out Of the window. The flames
began breaking through where l was work
ing, and | was driven back to where l
kaew no hope for escape existed, retreating
merely 10 avoid a fiery death. | went back
to my wife for the fourth time, and now
could only grasp her hair. Again and again
| called to her for one sign of life, but all to
no purpose. The gases and flames now drove
me from her side, and as a last resort | buried
myself in the debris. When hope had left
me. men working from the outside suddenly
and accidentally came upon me. and drew
half OF my body out, but there | became fast,
our combined efforts proving unavailing to
free me from the debris. Finally | succeeded
in dropping through a hole made for me by
INV rescGers. | was the only one vino ever
reached the light OF day from under that
heap OF ruins.
WHAT THE CORONER SAW.
A Bakersfield dispatch saws: "The coroner
who went to the scene of the railroad disas-
ter on Saturday morning, reported to-day.
He arrived on the ground at , o'clock in the
afternoon. A large crowd was there,
and they had already pretty thor
oughly investigated the ash heaps which
represented the train. The remains were
disposed in seventeen heaps, each one of
which was supposed to represent a human
being, Some OF them probably did, but most
of them were bits OF calcined bones
that might have represented several. He
thinks the destruction of human life
greater that is supposed. The leader
OF the two sleepers i'll the downward flight
from which no one escaped is believed
to have been pretty we'll filled,
and it would have accommodated ifty-four
persons. In it were placed the way passen-
gers, and many such always get on. Some
coin and Iewelry was turned over to the
coroner's keeping"
A COOL n STEADY MAN.
Porter Ashe was on the train wrecked at
Tehechipi, and telegraphs as follows;
MY wife, her maid and myself we're occu-
plying a drawing-room of the sleeper. We
were awakened by the swaying of the cars,
going at about the rate of seventy miles an
hour. We had just braced ourselves when
the crash came. The maid was buried in
the debris, my wife and 1 falling on top of
her. The car Immediately took fire. l was
forced to take the timber and burning boards
off the maid piece by piece. The car became
enveloped in smoke, but by the breaking Of
the windows at the top of the car |
succeeded in r%escuing my wife and
her maid. Pushing them through
from the car, nearly sufocated by smoke,
when | heard a man calling for help and be-
| seeching us not TO leave him. | reached
down through a, broken window and sue
ceeded in getting hold of Governor Downey's
hand. and pulled him out, nearly strangled.
While helping the maid to the ground, my
wife stepped on a window and fell through
into the car again. The car by this time was
burning rapidly, and it lie impossible to tell
how | got her out. | jumped with her to the
ground, and Immediately ran down the hill
to avoid the flames. Before leaving the
car l pushed through a window a
sealskin cloak dolman, lined with
fur, two blankets, and one
mattress We had no other clothing except
a night-shirt. The wind was blowing strong
and intensely cold. aud we were surrounded
by the dead and dying. Governor Downey.
Mr.. Cassel. my wife, her maid, Mr.. Howard
Tilton-who rendered us great assistance and
acted splendidly-a child of AR. Warehouse,
and myself occupied the mattress, and were
only protected by a blanket till assistance
came from Teheehipi. The railroad COM
pany did everything in their power to re-
lieye the distress. and from the superintend-
ent down to the brakeman acted with the ut
most delicacy and courtesy. We were pro-
yided at Tehechipi with warm clothes and
comfortably housed"
Story of the Young Couple who Were Saved
from the Wreck,
San Francisco Chronicle. Jan. Is.
Man proposes and mamma contrives, but
the young lady often disposes of the matri-
AiOAtA' SoSiAa ~ q 'etAAi41 a. OifNC NiAiAidA
and decisive. At least, such is frequently the
case in this free country, where marriages of
convenience are as rare as an embarrassed de-
b~utante, and where the ightof the household
reserves to herself the right to pick out the
man she proposes o~beying-when it suits her.
Here Isl case in point: About six months
ago. Mrs. Crocker. of Sacramento, aceompa-
MED by her daughter Amy, was travelling in
Europe. As all Americans do, mother and
daughter visited Gillig's agency, and there
the acquaintance of Henry, brother OF Charles.
the manager OF this useful concern, was
made. Master Henry was smitten with Miss
AMY, and made no efforts to conceal his suit.
Mamma thought she had discovered what
the French call "a good party" and by ma
ternal suasion and a show of hlial obedience
an engagement was made between Mr.. Gillig
and Miss Croker. In the mild frenzy of an
expiring bacheiorhood Henry gave a party,
in which his betrothal was announced. But
Henry reckoned without her who was to be
his young hostess, aud almost coincident
with the rose-tinted announcement of the
engagement came the gloomy report that it
had been broken. Why, oh. why! was the
young mans cry. and no palmer answer can
be given than this:
ASHE-CROCKER-In Martinez. Dec. l6. ly the
Rev. DR.. Abbeernmhie, Richard Porter Aahp,
Second son of the LATE DR.. Ashe, and Amy l..
Crocker, daughter of the late Judge Z. B.
Crocker. OF Sacramento.
The intimation conveyed in this announce
ment would convince anyone who believed
in a newspaper announcement that Miss
Amy Crocker is now Mrs. Richard Porter
Ashe, but it does not explain why the an
nouncemcnt only appeared to-day. when the
ceremony took place ON the 10th of December,
1882. and why the wedding took place in
Martinez. Here it is necessary to explain
that the situations have been reversed.
Mamma objected TO young Ashe. while the
daughter favored him-result as inevitable
as badness. The yonng people met. ex-
changed their VOWS and determined to do it.
And they did. A swell wedding at home
was not practicable, so a quiet wedding IN