The morning call., 1893-11-26

ing to the train at Sang Hollow and the
men behind prepared for another night OF
toll in the old MILL
That evening at o'clock Melville E.
Mix was seated in the editorial-rooms of
the Post when in walked ragged, un-
portions of it not covered with CRIME. was
pale as death, his eyes protruded. and q
blanket was around his shoulder.
mix" said he. II have got to get big
story off tonight. am not able to write
a word. | want TO dictate to you. l am
going to lay right down on the floor aud
begin. Please keep mesSenger-boys run
ming back and forth to the telegraph Of
fee and please send out for some whisky.
Kick me if fall asleep"
Then the correspondent began to dictate
his story. He did very we'll until 10
o'clock, then began to humble and soon
was doing. Mix shook him. he "braced"
up. took drink of liquor and kept on. A
half hour later he dozed again. This time
Mix had more trouble TO awaken him, but
a vigorous shake and more whisky did it.
From IL o'clock until 80 A. NJ. it was a
continual fight between sleep and news.
Mix had become thoroughly interested
and was bound his friend should finish his
story.
Talking of the incident later he said !:
Shortly after midnight l had to literally
carry out his injunctions and kick him
till he awoke. Indeed, / did it many a
time. Boys were running back and forth
TO the telegraph office. and l realized that
1t was splendid story he was debating.
The strangest part of it was the fact that
when he would wake up from one of the
maps, none of which lasted over a couple
OF minutes, he would continue the story
| just where he left off, never once asking
me to repeat a sentence. He was so thor
| Oughly impressed with what he had seen
"a ia ta1 oil yxyrth nm hoI 10
senses about him."
| When SHOWN the page story in the
World a week later this correspondent
| could hardly believe that it was his.
parts of IL seem familiar" he told NE.
| but others l cannot remember at all"
| Yet he was assured later by Mr.. Cham
bers that his story was used just as it came
over the wire into the office.
| When he had finished debating to Mix
and while the latter was urging him to go
to hotel near by and get some sleep
somebody in the next room said that a
train would leave for JohnstOwn within a
| half hour. Nothing would satisfy him
but to go on that train, and he has subse-
| quently said that he believes be was a
| monomaniac on the subject at that time.
| Once more at the scene of the disaster,
and there again he met Herbert, Murray,
Henry, Connelley and Orr. who had been
| at IL all night. But human strength could
come up On that early morning train, so at
A. NJ. on Monday the six men took the
needed rest. They slept for twenty hours,
not in bed, but in the hay NOW of a
large barn near the old mill, place found
| by Connelley. There they buried them
selves in the straw. clad in all their
garments. and remained In sound
| sleep until Tuesday morning at 1 o'clock.
! Then refreshed they took up work again.
| Although many newspaper men had ar.
rived by this time, score coming from
New York and Philadelphia. yet the week
was a hard one. Cooked food could no,
be obtained until Friday and Saturday
and there was no place to sleep save or
floors and in hay mows. After that it be.
came easier.
One poor fellow died from the exposure
and several were laid up in the Pittsburl
hospitals until June.
| This is how the news of the great disas
ter was sent forth.
CLAUDE FL. WETMoRE.