West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-05-29

age and was by trade baker. He
leaves a wife and one child to
mourn his untimely end.
| Harry Flowers tells the story OF
the accident to US as follows:
George Chambers and myself were
sitting In the front of the skif, Ed
Iuglemar was In the stern OF the
skif where the dynamite was and
Roush was rowing the skiff. Ingle-
mar had put of one of the dyna-
mite sticks and had fred gun off
to kill the sound of the dynamite
when 1t would explode. It was
then noticed that the fuses of the
four dynamite sticks In the
skiff lit, and Inglemar said
"oh, OH" and ROUGH said
Jump ont" We all jumped out
into the river. The skiff was blown
into two pieces and turned bottom
side up. / climbed on top of the
bottom of the skiff, took off my
gum boots and all my clothes ex-
cept my shirt and swan to the
island shore and ran down to Mr..
Nash's house and he brought me
down home. Rousch sw Ia to the
shore and was brought home also
by Mr.. Nash. George Chambers
tried to swim to shore but was
drowned while trying to do so.
He never spoke but as he went
down turned and looked directly at
me- He seemed to be dszed or at
least would pay no attention to me
or what I was saying. Inglemar1
said Save me, save me-" two or
three times after the explosion and
then sank into the river and was
drowned. He could not swim. We
were about twenty yards from
shore when the accident occurred.
Harry says he Is never going fish.
ing again with dynamite.
AFTERMATH.
About $3.50 o'clock last night
Phil Rousch was carried into the
Riverview Hotel more dead than
alive, with one eye entirely de
stroyed, his face and hands torn to
pieces and his body badly cut and
burned. In a few moments the
building was thronged with friends
and curiosity seekers and the un-
fortunate man was nearly sufocat-
ed. Chief of Police Thomas NJ.
Williams and others learning of
the stare of affairs, hurried to the
scene with Drs. Grier, West, Meek
and Means, thoughtfully hustled
the people from the building,
locked the doors of the hotel and
took charge of affairs and then the
surgeons began their work of dress
ing the wounds of ore of the vic
Tins of the awful catastrophe
Rousch was In horrible shape and
was suffering untold agony, but
after two hours hard labor the
skillful physicians had done their
work and one of the victims of a
horrible accident was resting well
In a quiet room.
Within short while afterwards
messenger came down the river
with the news that a man was seen
floating In the stream near the
scene of the accident hanging on to
a skif and Robert L. Gregory at
once organized a searching party
and started for the wharf boat to
make arrangements for a steamer
to convey those who composed the
volunteers to the scene up the Ohio
river. The Captain of the Barns
dali could not be found but one of
the owners, Mr.. Merrill gladly con-
sented to lend aid providing that
his boat could be loaded by the
town people assisted by his EN-.
ployes. A large lot of oil we'll SUP
plies. casing, machinery, ETC., were
billed for the steamer and In less
time than 1t requires to tell the
story, Gregory and Templeton had
their coats off and were at the head
of the new river men and In con-
sequence the owner of the boat
was soon satisfied with the
labor of his volunteer help and |
with skiffs, hooks and lanterns
on board, the Barnsdall made
double.quick pace to the head Of
the upper island above Stuart's
Landing. On account of the low
water great care had to be exer-
cised In rounding the island but
the search light was thrown over
the river and banks but no, a
glimpse Of the unfortunates. Ed |
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