Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-06-28
The Baby was Found.

A recent number OF the Pittsburg
Leader contained a long and very in
teresting account of the recovery of
Mrs. Jennie Moore's baby, which was
supposed TO have been lost in the
Johnstown flood.
About three weeks ago some men in
a skiff at Verona, on the Allegheny
Valley railroad, rescued from a mass
of driftwood passing in the river
cradle containing a living baby. The
child had evidently come from Johns
town. and this fact alone was sutfi-
cient TO secure il the undivided sym
pathy of the entire population of We
roma. After a great deal OF competi-
ton for its possession, il was given to
the charge OF Mr.. Cutcheon. Then
began Mr.. Cutcheon's tribulation.
His mail was an avalanche morning,
noon and night, of proposals from
museum managers for the public ex-
hibition of the infant in consideration
of fabulous emoluments to be con
ferred upon the lucky owner. To all
of these written offers Mr.. Cutcheon
was as impregnable as Gibraltar,
but one day the train brought TO him
Manager Flocker, and when this in
imitable and invincible parsonage
came back TO Pittsburg he brought
the child with him, crib and all, and
it was displayed hourly in the curio
hall of his museum.
Naturally enough, the publication
OF the rescue and the subsequent pro-
ceedings communicated the intelli-
gence to a wide circle OF readers
Among those was John McClusky,
of Kansas City, who arrived in Pitts
burg early the past week TO inquire
what the flood had left OF his rela-
tives. He found that his sister-in-law,
Mrs. Jenny Moore, had lost her hus-
band and two children. She herself
had escaped and was at present with
friends in Wheeling. When Mr.. Nc
Clusky read the item about the res
cue, he realized the possibility of its
reference to his sister-in-law's chill
dren, and he Immediately set about
TO make an investigation. First he as
certained enough to justify his con
lectures; then he telegraphed Mrs.
Moore to come TO Pittsburg.
At s o'clock Saturday evening Mrs.
Moore went to Pittsburg. She was
escorted to the museum by her broth
er-in-law, the baby was carried down
in tender arms from the curio hall TO
the Office of the management, and IA
scene followed. OF course, it need
hardly be explained that Mr.. McClus-
ky's conjectures were verified, that
the handsome woman was Mrs.
Moore, and the baby was none other
than her own.
Mrs. Moore was naturally deeply
affected. She is young, and the wa
ter carried away all her family-as
she thought-all but one, as 1t since
is proven. How the whole thing oc-
Cured she could not tell.
II can't imagine what the poor lit
tie thing has undergone" she sobbed,
alluding to the baby "All can rec
ollect is that | had put il in its cradle
and was busying myself about my
work. Of which / had considerable
that day, when the water came, and
think it must have swept the dar-
ling and its crib out Of the front door.
OF what happened to myself | was
unconscious, and have not now the
slightest remembrance. 1t is true that
my husband and five-year-old boy
were drowned.
Further than this the poor woman's
utterance would not go.
For a few hours during the evening
Mrs. Moore allowed the museum man
agement the privilege Of exhibiting
the baby with the view that the pat
rons who had been attracted by the
advertisement should not be disap-
pointed. Yesterday she returned with
it to Wheeling.