Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-14
ANOTHER GRAVEYARD
Brought to Light Near New
MartinsviIIe.
Three Indians Create a SENSATIONAL
RaiIroader Loses His Head
-.-TerribIe Explosion.

Presiding Elder Paine reports that an
ancient cemetery has been discovered at
S:ewart's Landing, on the Ohio river, near
New Msrtinsville. The bodies are laid at
regular intervals from north to south, and
the river RAINING against the bank has ex-
posed the remains. The graves are about
two feet below the surface and the bodies
we're covered with layer of muscle shells
aud the graves then filled with earth. The
graves lie closely together for consider a.
BILE distance along the river bank. The
bones have become soft By age aud can be
broken with the fingers. Trees Of consid.
cradle age are growing over the graves.
Mr.. Ryan came near being drowned
while attempting to cross the Opequon, at
Schoppert's Ford, Berkeley county, last
Saturday evening. He had been to Mar.
tinsburg anu was returning home in a
wagon, and not thinking there was any
danger started to cross the creek but the
embankment upon which the road ran be-.
ing narrow, and the water very swift, a
large part of it bad washed out, into which
place the horse fell and was carried down
the stream some distance aud lodged
against O tree. Mr.. Ryan, who has but
one arm, managed to get out after hard
struggle. But the horse. after being cut
loose from the wagon, was unable to get
out and was drowned.
Some oil the citizens in the neighborhood
OF Oak Ridge, Putnam souuty are great
ly excited over the appearance Of three
strange indians who with mattocks are
digging here aud there on surrounding
farms in search Of. supposed hidden treas.
ures. A good deal of digging has been
done on the farms of Joe Gary, j. l.. Gill.
fillen and Phil. Hedrick Who the Indians
are and where from, no one can ascertain.
Last Thursday afternoon, n little girl ! 7
months old, the daughter Of Mr.. Chss. :
Monroe, O Ronceverte mercbeE., found
upon her fathers premiscrs n vial contain.
ing an oplster T.u:sn she had previously
taken rry3served from her fathers vest
r,ucaet, and lost She swallowed some oil
the drug and was soon thrown into spssms
which narrowly escaped being fatal.
Last Friday while Pink Brown was fish.
ing near Maiden he dropped giant powder
torpedo on his skill, which exploded and Sc.
verely injured him. He had one eye blown
out, his right arm blown off below the
elbow and was otherwise seriously hurt.
At BIacksburg, Monday morning, Chas
Supple, while engaged in coupling care
was knocked down by an engine. He tell
under the cara, which severed his head
from bis body. He lived in St Adams.
At Ripley, few days ago, John Caste
and Henry Parsons became involved in q
fight, in which the former had bis right
arm broken and sustained other serious in.
juries.
Last Sunday night seven prisoners con.
fined in The Nicholas county jail made
their escape By unlocking the doors and
passing through The guard room.
Thomas Jack Woods, Of Glades district
Webster county, is "a years of age and is 6
feet inches in bis stocking feet.
A woman was found, Wednesday night
on the railroad track near Deer Park, with
both legs cut of, aud dead.
]. NJ. Hss kius, formerly Of Monroe coun-
~, was drowned just across the Virginia
line Monday.
Forty colored men from Martinsbure
this Stats are at work On Pittsburg public
Improvements.