Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-08-09
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a strange scene. There were the usu.
al number of morbid curiosity and SOU
venir seekers and some not being able
to get anything else lugged away a
piece of horse flesh to keep in alcohol
as a reminder of the terrible accident
of August 5, 1901. So far as is posi-
lively known there was absolutely
nothing left of the man on the wagon
though a piece of flesh was found
hanging in a tree about half a mile
west that some thought might have
been a finger of the missing man.
Another piece, which might have been
portion of his scalp was picked up a
long distance away and carried off by
some one. A portion Of one of the
horses was lying about $50 feet south
west of the hole in the ground in the
portions were scattered all over the
Ineighboring fields. A portion of the
other horse was lying little farther
away to the northwest Of the fatal
spot.
road were swept away and little is left
to reconstruct them with. Pieces OF
the fences, telegraph poles and other
debris were picked up a half mile
away.
The house in which was rs.Abraham
Teal and her two sons, Willie and
Roland, aged z and presents sorry
sight. The interior could not have
been worse destroyed IL some giant
had picked up the house bodily and
pounded it with big hammer till every
DIT Of plaster had been knocked OH the
wallis, all Of the furniture broken and
smashed and the building wrecked be-
yond repair. The interior was COM
pletely torn out. The windows were
taken out of the frames and the panes
of glass were smashed to tiny bits as
though they had been crushed beneath
some mighty heel. The shades to the
windows appeared to have been cut
into shreds, probably from the flying
glass. The beds and bedding were
twisted and tangled and not a picture
was left on the walls. The ceilings
were like the side walls, completely
stripped of plaster. The room which
was occupied by Mrs. Teal and the
two boys at the time of the explosion
was the least damgaed though nothing
worse could be imagined than It's ap-
a N In nap
and fancy hanging basket made OF
straw suspended from the top of the
room in the middle, appear to have
been the only things in the room not
completely destroyed besides the occu-
pants. Mrs. Teal suffered a severe
shock and was besides struck by
flying door which was torn from the
outside and thrown through an open
ing forced by the explosion. The two
boys were not so badly nurt though
they will feel the effect of the snock
for some days.
There were some queer pranks play
ed about this house. For instance in
one room there is absolutely nothing
let but a clock which hangs on the
wall and was running Monday night.
A joint of stove pipe, the only thing
left of stove up stairs worth any
thing, was in some manner thrown out
through hole in the roof and left
hanging to a tree eight or ten rods
from the house. A screen from one OF
the screen doors was rolled up neatly
and laid on a bench beside shed. A
big horse shoe, as straight as the day
1t was put on the horses foot was
thrown through the side of the house,
making hole like missile from some
big gun and lay on the bed in the
room next the explosion. The shoe
evidently belonged to one Of the horses
killed.
For two hours before darkness en-
shrouded the scene and made further
search impossible pitiful scene was
. witnessed about the place. Mrs. Ems
minger, who was the young man:
mother, his sweetheart, Miss Mabe
Mitchell, the boys brother, Miss Lille
Warner and the young man who help
/. ed the man to load his wagon at the
. Bradner factory in the morning ant
saw him on the way to his death
searched wildly for some portion o
the missing young man. Every nov
and then some one would volunteer t,
help them and pick up something
> which upon close examination prove,
to be but piece of horse flesh. Thei
hysterical weeping and bitter wailini
could be heard some distance an,
their cries for "just anything whicl
belonged to him" were most heartrend
ing. They searched and searched bu