The Press., 1893-11-23

was reached, proceeded at once to gather the facts.
 Down on the notebook were penciled the names of 80 odd men. women and children who had either been killed out right or burned to death in some of the cars which had caught fire. Then fol- lowed the names of about 40 who had been injured. q description of thelr in- juries and the opinions of the physicians who were in attendance as to the possi- ble outcome in each case. Now, any of you who have had experience in gather ing information of that kind can fully appreciate that 1t was not child's play, for the injured were in different places. and it required time to get around to them all.
 'Then there was the obtaining of data about the dead. A number of them were well known residents of this city, others were from San Jose, so it became neces- sary to obtain enough to give each de- cent obituary notice. In addition to this it became a part of my duty to get the ] statements of passengers, so as to de- scribe their feelings when the train de- railed and went over on it's side down little gully and be able to write up the narrow or fortunate escape of each. Then there were railroad officials to in terview. and, as you all know. they are the hardest kind of people to obtain facts from.
 Well, it took nearly three hours to get all the II ter that was needed for a sensational article that was to appear under half column scare head. Then there was the ride back to Oakland set tlement with the livery stable man. who swore that he would never rent team to newspaper man again, rush in a hack to the ferry landing and the trip to this city Without waiting to get any thing to eat made my way to the office and at once commenced to write up, tell ing every one who came to ask for de- tails to let me alone. l did not write in copper plate style, and for that matter never did, but wrote and kept on writ ing until l had enough to fill what would make about four full columns of The Call of the present day and wrote that big scare head. As l handed the last line to the foreman to set up l heaved sigh of relief and exclaimed, Thank good ness, that's donev That is my dream.
 At that moment felt hand on my shoulder. jumped from the bed and heard my wife ask, What are you dreaming about? lit the gas, looked at the clock and discovered that it was l7i minutes after midnight, or, in other words, that in my dream of less than two minutes had performed all that have related
 II have figured on the time it would take me to do what did in that dream and find that it could not be done in less than 10 hours under the most favorable circumstances. San Francisco Call
 The smallest "cat-boil' is large enough to show that the blood needs purifying-a warning which, if unheeded, may result, ] not in more boils, but in something very much worse. Avert the danger in time , by the use of Ayers Sarsaparilla. Cured others, will cure you.
 1 have been troubled with catarrh foI , ten years and have tried number of rem. ! edies, but found no relief until I pur. chased bottle of Ely's Cream Balm. 3 consider it the most reliable preparation for catarrh and cold in the head.-Geo E. Crandall, P. M.. Quonochawntaug, R. 1