The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-01-25

8 depend on. He did the bsst b
: Conld and we tried to make ou
little home comfortable. Oh, this
dreadful, dreRdfulW The poor womal
had failed in strong effort to Contro
4 herself. asked her II she had father o
mother to aid her. She pointed to
little cottage perhaps hundred feet Of
"AIother lives over there, and Frank liveC
with her. Poor little fellow, he WORKED
in the mine trying to keep poor mother
She had nobody else, He's gone too
> they're both gone, and mother and l hAvl
nobody. The Lord help us to bear this
had hoped" abe sobbed, 81 had hopet
that they would be saved, but what Is thl
use to hope Gone! Gonem Frauk Moor
was Mrs, Moore's brother, and the widow
Noon sat at her cherries Areside waiting
for her boy to come back.
TWO PROPS GONE,
Higher up the maintain side, trudginl
over the frozen snow, we met John Coma
way, broken old man who has beer
unable to work Tor six years. The Johr
Conway who ia in the pit is his sou, anC
Morgan freeman is the old mans son.ir
law. Young COnSway had Just past bill
twenty.Grst year. "He was our depend
enCe, said the old man. I'm not able
70 wo K, and have three small children
My other sou has never been OF any usc
10 US. It was John who helped us along
Yes, John Freeman's wife is my daughter
She lives at Irontown. She has one child
and don't know what We are going to dc
for her, No sir, cant keep them l have
at home"
HUSBAND AND SOMA SAD STORY.
The descent Of the iCe'bOund mountain
side is not easy for the unpraC!iced
Making the best Of the way down we
came 10 the home Of Isaiah Timmons, OIL
the bank OF RacCoon Creek. Husband
and son had been raised from the pit and
were then at the undsrtRker'a being dress.
ed. l was told that the wife and mother
had kept their meals hot for them, and the
water was on the stove to wash
off the CRIME of the mine, 80
strongly had she clung to hope. When
We were there she did not know that the
bodies in the rough boxes had passed her
door. Three children, boy and two girls,
stood by the mother-all weeping bitter.
Ily, though the two yoltHger ones
could have had but y vaguO idea
Of the situation. A fourth, another girl,
vas absent at The time. The fifth was
being prepared for burial. The sixth has
not come into the world yet. Mrs. Tim
mons said: ave came from StaEorlshire,
master. My husband has been out here
two years working, and when he could he
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ago. It's took all as lie could earn TO got
this bit Of furniture and keep this little
home. My husband was II and Willie
was but l4--only Il, master, and he's
there too. Ah, who could have thought
we'd come to this!" When aAked whether,
il the worst happened, she would like to
take the children back to England, she
looked up with piLeous gaze, shook her
head and, said, II couldn't go back and
leave them here" The pc 1r souls thoughts
were at the bottom Of the pit, from which
her loved ones had been raised an hour
before. The ladles, she said, had been
very kind, everybody was kind, but.
She did not finish the EentenCe.
THE WIDOWED BRIDES.
We callsd.to see Mrs. Wien and Mrs.
Albright, widowed wiveS OF month.
Wien was "a years OF sge, Albright %.
A bedstead. a trunk, some chairs, a table
and stove furnished the room. There
was no carpet on the floor. The women
said they had nothing. Their husbands
had spent all they could command to lit
up their homes month ago. Mrs. Al.
bright's father and mother are old people
Living at IrondRle, unable to do anything
for her, she says. Mrs. Wien Ia German.
Her father lives In Indiana, was diBpleRsod
with her marriage and told her she could
never come home SHRin. These young
women do not know which way to turn.
A YOUNG HUSBAND AND FATHER.
The Montgomerys live north OF the
railroad, near the shaft. The father Is
unable to work. The son, employed at
the coke ovens, is the support Of a numer-
GUS family. A daughter is the wife Of
Charles Tunley, one Of the men In the
mine. As We entered the Montgomery
house the grandmother was rocking the
fatherless Tunley baby, plnChod looking
infant that had been provided with q
sugar.teat 10 quiet him. Mrs. Tunley was
at her own deserted home. "There's
Charley's picture" said his father.in.law,
Montgomery. A stout, good-looking young
fellow, but 20 years old, "Last December
he hurt his leg In the mine," said his
father.in.law, "And has not been able to
work much since. lie got behind, poor
fellow, and there's nothing for his vile
and child. You see how we arc here"
FAMILIES OF THE LAMBERT BROTHERS.
Across the road from the Montgomerys
and still nearer the shaft is a house that
looks like barn turned into dwelling.
Here lives the mother OF John LamberI's
wife, young woman who was sitting
before the fire nursing her infant. She
said that the mother Of the Lambert BOYS
had nothing 10 eat that morning until she
sent something TO the old woman. "Yes,"
she said, "my husband Ia down there, and
his brother Henry, who leaves a wife and
child, too. None Of us have anything
nobody has anything that | know Of"
Mr.. Evans said Mrs. Lalnbert'B husband
had this winter proiessed religion In his
church and displayed great zeal. lie re.
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strangely. There had been great change
ID her since last night, when Bhe was ID.
consolable, Now she seemed hardly like
woman who was passing through q ter.
rible ordeal. Ho thought her mind must
be for the moment unsettled,
WANT AT INDEPENDENCE.
A mile below NeWburg, at 1ndepend.
ence, is the home OF Daniel Miller, whose
body was taken ouL to-day. The widow
and four little children are left dependent.
There are scant comforts In that home, for
with all Millers work they were very poor
and, the people say, 'iat behind" They
have no resource whatever and are not
comfortably clad.
Near the Millers live the Weavers, a
mother with Ave children, husband and
father In the mine. Not far OF are the
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