Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-12-07
TWO KILLED.
A SERIOUS RAILROAD ACCIDENT AT RON
CEVERTE.
Burned to Death-Ths Irondale Furnace Sold
Fatal Boiler ExploSiOn-Killsd by a Log.
An Ugly Cutting Scrape-An
Eagle and Dog.

Ronceverte, just opposite the old Rooin-
son house. Engine No. 202, running
light, at the rate Of 40 miles an hour,
colided with the east-bound through
freight Second To- instantly killing
fireman Wm. Carter, fatally scalding
engineer II. j. Jones, and bruising
brakeman David w. Green, all OF engine
2O2. The engineer and fireman Of the
freight train jumped from their engine
and escaped with few bruises. The
collision was caused by the failure OF
the telegraph operator at Anderson to
give orders to the east-bound freight TO
wait for engine 202 at Rockland.
Engine 202 had orders to take the
side-track at Rockland and was running
| for that point when the collision
occurred. The engineer and fireman
of No. 70 saw the situation
as soon as they rounded the curve, and
jumped, but No. 2O2 could not be check
ed, and the men had 10 time TO jump.
! The two locomotives crashed together,
reared up and fell down the bank on the
south side of the track. The shock
broke the connections Of engine No. 2O2,
| but neither the tender or the caooose
left the track. One car OF the freight
was derailed. Fireman VIM. Carter was
| taken ont from under his engine, dead.
His skull was crushed. He lived at
! Hinton, but was a resident OF Romeo
verte about two years ago and worked u
| short time on the st. Lawrence mill.
Engineer Jones was scalded from the
! hips to the face, and stated To the dec
tor that he could not survive. He re-
ceived all possible attention, aud at one
| time il was thought he was in fair way
TO recover, but nature could not sustain
! the Injuries he received, and he quietly
passed away on Sunday.
Col. Felix Nemegyie has sold his Iron
! dale furnace property in Preston county
TO a company in New York city. For
months it has been known that he de-
sired to sell it, owing TO other business
! Early this fall the furnace was shut
down, as usual, for the winter, and the
Colonel and his family went TO New
York TO spend the winter at their city
home. The new company desired the
Colonel to put the furnace in operation
| before they took charge OF it, but he
! declined, and the new firm will open up
! in the spring, and it Is said will run 1t
! TO it's full capacity. The price paid for
! the property has not been announced.
! The Irondale furnace was built about
1889 by the late George Hartman, who
ran it until about the time OF his death.
! In 1877 Colonel Nemegyie purchased IL,
! and began expensive repairs, increasing
it's capacity from ten to twenty tons OF
! iron in twenty-iour hours. 1t Is sixty
| two feet high, fourteen-foot bOsh, and
makes a cold short pig iron, used mostly
for foundry purposes, and in some re-
spects resembles the Scotch pig. IL
works the carbonate ores, known as
rock and she'll ores, which is found in
abundance on the furnace lands. 1t
requires about thirty ovens to supply
the furnace with coke when it is in op-
| GRAFTON.
Last Friday night Deputy Sheriff j.
J. Halstead, of Nicholas county, was
| knocked down and robbed OF S572 In
currency and silver, check for IS, tax
ticket for 500, and other valuable papers,
at Ronceverte. Joseph Boswell, Sam
Rutherford. Cyrus Mccormick and Ed
Eldredge were arrested, but all were
| discharged, the testimony being
purelv circumstantial. The main
reason for issuing the warrant
was the fact that on Saturday last
Boswell entered into an agreement with
HaIstead that in consideration OF $50 he
| (BoswelD would find and return part
/ of the missing money. Boswell failed
to do so, and the warrant followed. III
is thought land Boswell so stated at
the examination) that this was merely
a shrewd plan to induce Halstead TO
furnish the drinks, and thus prolong
the festivities in which both parties
were taking an active part. Meanwhile
the 5000 is still missing, and whether
the money was taken from Halstead, or
lost bv him, or placed in other hands
and temporarily forgotten, is question
which awaits solution.
On Friday last, at Martinsburg, Judge
Hore delivered his opinion IN the case
of Cam VS.. Cam from Morgan county,
which has attracted so much attention.
The facts were these: In 1881, JACOB
Cam died; his son, Harrison, set up
claim for services for twenty years, and
PRODUCED what purported to be due
hin from his father, dated in 1850, and
being for So, 600. The suit was on this
alleged note, and the evidence showed
that II had never been delivered to Har-
rison Cam, but was found by him
among his fathers papers after the lat
ter's death. The Court held that not
having been delivered, it could have no
effect asa note, and rejected 1t from
the debts allowed by the commissioner.
There was also some other evidence OF
an agreement on the part OF JACOB cam
to psy for the services claimed 10 nave
been rendered; as to which the Court
EXPRESSED no opinion, but gave the
pIaIntiff leave to amend his bill so as to
raise the question as to what, II any
thing, could be recovered for labor done
under this agreement.
The children of Jacob Ware, who
lives At Mingo, Randolph county, had
unite n remarkable adventure with an
eagle last week. While they were out
playing with a dog, a very large bird, as
thew thought, perched itself on tree
near them and seemed to watch every
movement they made. Presently 1t
swooped down upon them, seized the
dog in its talons and carried it up sew
ersl feet. when the dog bit the eagle,
causing it to relinquish its victim. The
dog had only gotten few rods away
when the eagle came down a second
time. but this time the dog caught the
eagle and bit it so severely that it was
unable to fly. Being whipped the eagle
ran of into thicket of brush near by
and was seen no more. Mr.. Ware did
NOT return home that evening till dark,
when he made search but could not
find il. Mr.. Ware pronounced 1t bald
eagle OF the largest size. 1t had white