Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1907-03-06
STRANGELY FhTED FAMILY.
Grim Reaper Visits the Errin0toRs
in Curious WduS.

Tllgham Errington, of Westphal,
came to his death recently in the same
paradoxical manner as that in which the
grim reaper has visited so many others
OF his race. He was at the limehouse of
Grafterous d Co when the bursting of
the large dam of the Motion Mill Com
pany, far up the valley, released the
stored up waters of Campeechey's run,
and the food, making it's way swiftly
down toward Westphal, burst in the
doors of the limehouse and quickly
drove ErringtOn into the garrett, from
which he had no mes ms of escape. The
sudden shaking of so large d Iuantitv of
lime caused IA great heat which set fire
to the building and soon consumed that
portion above the surface of the flood
and took the life of the unfortunate Err
rlngton IN the garnet. thus bringing il To
pass that he was burned up by q food.
1llgham Errington's brother Peter
male was also victim of one of the
same line of strange happenings that
have been fatal TO so many of the
Errlngtons. Petermane was AT one time
employed IN the immense storehouse of
the Quisquame Brewing Company as a
watchmau, and one night when il is
supposed he was sleeping quietly III the
lower part OF the building "a fire broke
out I'm the roof and spread very rapidly.
The resulting heat soon melted very
large quantities of the ice, of which
many hundreds of tons were stored in
the upper portion of the building, and
the water therefrom poured down i'll
floods INTO the lower part of the ware
house, overwhelming Petermane, and
when the fire was eXtinguished he was
found drowned-drowned by fire at
his post of duty
Mrs. lmmerJane Postowski born
Errington, a married sister of the Erring-
ton boys, also came to her death by
reason of marked case Of contradic-
tlons such as that which characterized
the taking off of the male members of
the family.
She was caught out in blizzard
many years ago in the early frontier
days of the country, and, although she
struggled most heroically to save her
self and two small children who were in
her care at the time, she was verv badly
frozen, her feet especially being as hard
as stone when she was finally rescued
and as soon as the frost was thawed
from her frozen feet fever set in
which soon caused her death, a deadly
heat caused by deadly cold
William Errington, ian uncle Of the
other persons referred to above, was
also victim of one of the almost unpre-
cedented occurrences that have proved
so fatal to members of the family.
Some of his children who were study.
ing physics had heard that even soft
and yielding substance, if it is caused to
move at great speed, is capable of fore
ing It's way through strong obstruction,
and In making experiments to prove the
proposition they loaded a musket with
tallow candle and fired it at the door
being informed that it would break
through the panels. The result of the
experiment proved the statement to be
true the flying shaft burst through the
harder substance against which il was
fired, but their father, William, who
had just come mp to the door on the
other side, received the missile in his
breast and was instantly killed, shot to
death by a tallow candle .-Lesuers
(Minn.) Cor. Chicago Chronicle.
"Do YOU know that bows are
much more particular who they 90
with than the girls are? You may
think this is a strange statement,
but IT IA so. A girl will go on the
streets with young man who gets
drunk, but if boy finds out that
girl gets drunk be won't 90 with
her. We wish our girls would be
as particular about whom they GO
With as the boys sre.-Ex.