Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-10-08

AT THE GRAVE OF THE TWINS.
for some time they occupied the same
house, ate at the same table and drank
from the same canteen. But jealousy
arose, and as results each husband :
built a separate house. Chang would go
over and visit Eng for week, and then
Eng would come over aud spend week
with Chang.
They were passionately fond OF horse
back riding and base ball, Chang play
ing in the Surrv team aud Eng IN the
Mount Airy Sockless nine. This was
told me by the man who claimed that
Chang was married quietly, while Eng
took his wife on tour OF European
travel.
AS farmers they had some trouble In
certain kinds OF work. but M. Dufour
says that they often hoed In tho 6eld,
using the outside" arms 10 take hold Of
the hoe. They also enjoyed chopping
wood, using the AK In the same manner.
BY a signal, consisting OF Rrunt, which
seems 10 be necessary 10 the chopper
anyway, the two struck simultaneously,
the ak helve being grasped by the right
hand OF one aud the left OF the other.
the hand nearest the AK being permitted
TO slip Oh the handle at the right mo-
ment, just as In ordinary chopping.
The children aud grandchildren OF
Chang and Eng are scattered pretty
well over the country. The brothers
married two Misses Yates. and Nancy
Bunker, the eldest child, had some edu-
cational advantages. She Travelled In
Europe with her father aud uncle and
acted as their secretary.
VI. Duiour claims that the two broth
ers did not unite with the Baptist
church, but that the widows and chill
dren did. Peahaps this is correct, for
am gradually losing faith in ,he man
who said whenthe brothers were lm-
mersed Chang had Siamese jag on.
DR.. jacob states that "the connec-
tIon OF the Samese tw rs took place In
their epigastric regis heiweeo tea
navel, which was commO
the ensiform processes, WI
out in a forward direction
closely, held together by a H.
apparatus. Tho coupling ia
eight inches ia circumference a.
and one-half In dlamter. II cont
a connection between the two IN
and was composed partially Of liver q.
sue"
The band was very curious from an
anatomical standpoint, as the skin az
the medaR line was mutually sensitive,
and inside there was q combination or
the perltoneum, so that after death
hand introduced into the abdomen OF
Chang entered two pouches reaching
into Eng, and the reverse produced
almost similar result as 20 Chang.
Separation during life was therefore
impossible.
One evening IN the winter OF 1856
Chang went to bed feeling indisposed,
and Eng, who was OF soclable turn OF
mind, Joined him. After conyersing for
some time about their prospects, and
finally getting somewhat acrimonious
regarding their management, they nc
last COMPROMISED, agreeing that Chang
should 20 under one management aud
Eng under another.
Then they dropped of 20 sleep. In
the night wild cry from Eng pierced
the darkness. and when the family came
Eng was found almost delirions with
the discovery that he was linked 70 the
dead body OF his brother. He lived for
an hour only, the fright and horror OF
his situation precipitatng his death.
No cases are recorded Of successful
separation In cases similar 20 this,
though It has been several times at
tempted.
Considerable trouble was made by the
two sons, who came home from The
West and heard on their arrival that
the doctors had secured the bodies and
gone away TO get them pbotographedi
also 10 see what made the wheels 20
round" They gratiied their morbid
curiosity and then brought back the
bodies with thanks The brothers we're
dlsplessed about II and 90 expressed
themselves. Some people are perhaps
morbldly sensitive about having their
parepts dissecied that way.
A friend OF mine named Quill Pattor-
son SAYS that his old doctor has Quilts
| fathers stomach Ia alcohol, snd though
oulll has offered bin over and over
again four times what the Dryer .
worth from a neTcapsile stand
hoping 70 obtain u and bnryit wi
old gentleman. the doctor claim
| Quill can't positively Identify H.
| lust because Mr. Patterson, beft
| fathers death, did not iK ia bis me
the features Of the old gentlen
stomach 20 that be could recognl
anywhere be 10 Tow denied II byaL
who has no real claim on it.
The SlamsEe twins were careful
examined by Drz Pancoast and Agner
of Phnadelphis, after which they were
uninterrupted, and no one 70 look AZ
them could nave believed that they had
been 80 recently and thoroughly e.
| plored. 80.
but not ln time to prevent the explora-
| ton.
Two modest marble monuments marx
the graves OF these two strange men.
was first suggested that ooe large
stone should be erected. bat this was
given I'd. The motto a. the top was 70
have been:
USrrED VIZ STAND; DIVIDED We
FALL
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