The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-11-24
Incidents of the Life of the Gear.

some OF the attempts made upon the life
of that monarch aud particularly the
dreadful episode of the wreckng of the
train at Borki in 1888. The Imperial
tram was returning from the Crimea to
st. Petersburg. Twenty one persons
were killed and thirty-sx wounded. The
car in which were the Gar and the I'm
perial family was built of steel The
roof was lifted out Of place, but it did
not fall. An English correspondent who
visited Borsi soon after the accident
wrote at the time:
"The last three carriages, out Of eight
cen, were still on the rails, but the fourth
was driven sideways and overhung steep
incline of some forty feet or more. BE
You'd we saw nothing but a second.cass
carriage in fragments half way down the
hill, number Of bodies covered up and
broken timbers. planks aud general wreck
on the bankside. 1t was out OF the
crushed woodwork Of the one most com
completely ruined that three aud twenty
living souls we're rescued, with one or
two exceptions almost unbruised /, was
The dining saloon, and there their Impe
rial Majestlcs, With every child Of theirs
save the little Grand Duchess Olga, were
seated with the suite at dinner. A sud
den shock sent them all down on the
| floor; a second and the sides of the car
rage were down on them, the root across
The whole; third and dead siop--a
terrible silence, broken by the sbrieks Of
the dying and the Wounded. Those who
we're there told me there was neither time
TO think nor even to feel. Their wounds
and bruises they discovered aiterward.
: One gentleman told me he only found
: that he had lost the half Of bis finger an
, hour later. The Empress was one OF the
q first to cxtricate herself from the wreck
4 and her terrible cry, "Whero Is the En-
i peror2 Whore are my ohildrenf wa
moro heartrendln. than any words car
I describe. But heaven gave them all bach
l. to her all-out from that heap Of ruin
c aud almost unbruised. II was mlracn
7 Ious there Is no other word.
!. "out Of the carriage oyefhanging thu
0 incline the little Olga Alcxandroyna wa
/ hurled with her English nurse, who hat
:, barely time TO snatch her up in her arms
: and the two must haye fallen at leas
!. twenty feet on the slope, slippery will
4 rain. The nurses first idea was that sht
y must roll out of way Of further danger
!, but in doing so she let 20 of the child
!. who got up and ran wildly on, crying
q Don't kill me, good God Don't kill me
Y good Godl' The nurses cries brought hel
!, back TO her, and then the little frightened
> SOUL when she saw her pnpa and mamma
!, her brothers and sisters were all safe
n threw her little arms around her nurseh
i neck crying, How should like to throa
: my arms around Gods neck aud kiss Hin
for saving us allr 4 was very stupid yo'
: know, very stupid, because didn't know
$ where | was running to a Bit the chi,
! said Of her own accord afterward
:. "rhe Empress right hand was badi.
8 bruised aud the.left slightly cut, but sh
l. went al once to tend the wounded rs the
were extricated from the wreck. Fo
nsarly four hours she sat in the drikzlin
!, rain on that sopping bank, binding u
,heir sounds or soothing them. One poe
-, ! f,iln,f ia,, tl,ara ,norto1Iy butt with hi
III face feariuly sealded, and she sat by hii
=. cooling his face with her iandkercbit
"a dipped in water, and he died kissing ht
a hand Ills Majesty and the Grand Duk
Id Nicholas and George Alexapdroyite
10 were everywhere lending a helping han
Z, extrica,ng tho wounded and the deal
n heard nothing but blessings shower u
~ on them wherever | went. When Il
ed last one of the wounded aud the def
=. was placed in the train which had u
nd rived from KharkoG, their Majesties O
ed tered the train 10y which we had con,
aud we fetraoed our way, and by makil
n. a detour of some 500 versts 1000 mile
"a arrived at Kharkon, where their Maiesti
,at visited the hospitals where the wound
lat lay.
in- 80 enthusiastic were the people
~ kharkon that the carriage was nearly u
DOL set, and the Empress must have been p
ut to much pain, for the crowd tried to sci
her wounded hands to kiss them, and
~ was with the greatest difficulty they ",
In kept oif In the hospital the scene IN
$ a have been very moving, for the poor
the lows only thanked God their Msjrsi
ing were safe, forgetting for time their Q
.as su!Fofings. All alons the line the staff
was were packed with dense crowd of
mo- classes, who kept up one continuous |
of hurrahs. Al Moscow the crowds ab
ha- the kremlin were equally enthusias
hips and at ST. Petersburg the enthusiasm |
. he Cured description. The students br
IN the line OF soldiers and literally Ii
the carriage in their arms"
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