Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-08-16
LOST IN BAR HARBOR.
A Society Couple Supposed to
Have Been Drowned While
Yachting.
Wreck on the Erie-Wreck on the
"Q'-Great Fire at Fresno,
Cal.

| BAR HARBoR, Me-, Aug. 13.-There is
great excitement here over the supposed
drowning of two young society people, and
the water is covered with crafts of var ous
kinds engaged in searching for some trace
| of the missing ones. At nine o'clock Satur-
day night, j. Harmon Reed and Miss
Milliken took a cruise out and around Bar
! Harbor. The night was intensely dark,
| and being alarmed at their absence,
searchers went out at eleven p. m. At an
early hour next morning the wharves in
the vicinity were crowded with anxious
| friends who hoped and waited until noon,
when a gun from the steam yacht Nosya,
belonging to Montgomery Sears, an
nounced that she bore tidings. She had
picked up the boat, bottom up, off Egg
Rock, a distance of three miles from here.
I Miss Milliken was a guest at the st.
/ Sauveur and was cbaperoned by Mrs. Van
Voorhees,. Her parents live at New
/ Orleans. Mr. Reed was a son of Joel
/ Harmon Reed, one of the wealthy iron
! foundrymen of Albany, n. Y. The age of
both of the supposed victims was about
/ twenty five years.
/ WRECK ON THE ERIE.
ELMIRA, n. Y, Aug. ia dispatch
( from Corning gives the details of a wreck
on the Erie 4ailroad two miles east of that
village, at two O'Clock yesterday morning.
The locomotive of the Chicago & st. Louis
I limited express, west bound, running at
the rate of over forty miles an hour,
! jumped the track and dashed into Le-
! high Valley locomotive standing still. The
passenger locomotive overturned, and
| crushed to death John Mercereau, of Hor-
nellsville, the engineer. The fireman
escaped. Henry Fisher, the Lehigh en-
/ gineer, was hurt about the head. Two
/ baggage cars and the smoker were
wrecked. Louis F. Demuth, of No. 207l
| Wabash avenue, Chicago, was hurt inter
nally, and Hans Van Open, of Cincinnati,
had one hand hurt. These were the only
! injuries to passengers. The tracks were
! cleared in the evening.
/ CRUSHED BY THE CARS.
RocKPoRT, Mo-, Aug. 13.-Yesterday af.
/ ternoon the mangled body of Thomas
Martin was found beside the Kansas City
/ st. Joseph & Council Bluffs railroad track
near Lang6on. Both legs were cut off
and the body was otherwise broken and
crushed, showing that death had been in
Simultaneous. The victim of the unfortu-
nate tragedy was @ farmer about thirty
! years of age, and he leaves wife and
I three children to mourn his death. He
was last seen alive at midnight last night,
when he was on his way home from Phelps
where he had been with party of friends
1t is supposed that he sat down or went to
| sleep on the railroad track and was run
/ over by the down passenger train. He
was in poor circumstances.
FIRE AT FRESNO.
! FRESNO, Cal, Aug. 12.-Early this morn
F! ing fire started in the rear of eX-Judge
Baly's store. The rear being of wood it
soon communicated to the DOnohue block,
owned by Griffith & Johnson, which it con
sumed entirely. Soon the buildings across
the block caught fire and many were
burned. The block owned by Frank Bark
er burned to the ground. The loss will be
about S200, 600; insurance one-third. Seven
lawyers lost their libraries. 1t is believed
one man lost his life in the flames. Sew
eral men had different parts of their bodies
scorched or scalded. The fire proved to be
the work of an incendiary.
LAKE GOES.
WARRENsBURG, Mo-, Aug. 13.-One of the
heaviest rain storms ever recorded in the
history of Johnson County began at ten
O'Clock Saturday night and continued
without intermission until five this morn
ing. The large lake at Pertle Springs, a
body covering over thirty acres and one of
the chief attractions of the resort broke
; through the dam at two O'Clock yesterday
morning and the water escaped.
CARELESSNESS ON THE o."
CHICAGO, Aug. 13-Carelessness on the
Z of ha-
tween two freight trains yesterday and
of oil cars were struck by the locomotive
of the train going in an opposite direction
and upset. The oil, of which there was
10000 gallons, was soon afire. It destroyed
four Union Tank line cars and ruined the
locomotive which was the cause of the
whole trouble.
THREE DROWNED.
New YORK, Aug. 13.-Three young men,
Solomon Reid, sixteen years; w. Lawrence,
eighteen, and the third name unknown,
were drowned last night in the East river,
opposite Sixth street, from boat which
was upset by the wash from a ferry boat.
They tried to swim ashore in the strong
tide, and their five companions were res
cued after clinging to the boats keel for
half an hour.
SHOT FOR A STAG.
PRINCETON, Ark, Aug. 13.-Robert Slower
went to John Harbor's Saturday and ON
his way home stopped a short distance off
the road to eat some watermelon. Harbor
went out to kill deer and seeing something
red through the bushes, shot, hitting
Stover's mule with three buckshot and
4burying one in Stover's neck, killing him
instantly.
CHILD KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
WHEELING, w, Va, Aug. 13.-During an
exceedingly severe thunder storm at six
O'Clock last evening a child eight years of
age, named Dunlap, living on Coal street,
was struck by lightning in her mothers
yard and instantly killed. A two-story
building near Caldwell's Rut was also de-
molished.
THE DARK SECRET.
LONDON, Aug. 13.-The captain of the
yacht Stranger, which has arrived at
Queenstown from Boston, says he did not
see the dory Dark Secret, and thinks it
foundered in a gale after speaking the
German Lloyd steamer 500 miles from New
York
A story comes from Brewton, Ala,
which may be read with interest and prof
it. A gentleman seeking a residence found
one just suited to his taste in all but the
inside ornamentation Of the house, but be-
ing gentleman of means as well as taste,
he accepted the house and turned it over
to the upholsterer for renovation. The most
elaborate inside decorations were soon
made by the skillful painters, the walls
papered in the highest style of art and in
perfect unison with the furnishings. The