The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-05
PARKERSBURG
MAN CRUSHED
WAS CAUGHT IN FALL OF TIE
NORTH WALL WHILE AIo-
ING FIREMEN.
N. @ Buchanan Meets Death on
wall OF lsborstsry-Mother
Arrives 10 Claim Body.

y. G. Buchanan. well known ex-
pressman OF Parkersburg, running
between Parkersburg and Wheeling,
up until q few weeks ago. and whs
mas since that time been working Ia
washington. Pa. according TO his
mother. lost his life Saturday night
IN trying to aid hrehghters while the
magnificent high school building
burned 10 the ground.
b~uckhanan. in company with fire.
men and Charles Talbourt. climbed
10 nte top OF the laboratory roof and
Were pulling a hose with them. hand
ing II to other f~1renghters farther to-
wards the main building. He was
standing with the other unfortunate
man when the walls fell causing
them both to lose their lives. Tai
oourt Tell TO the outside OF the wall
ana buchanan fell TO the inside.
Mhere he had TO stay until after the
nre was declared out al IL O'Clock,
saturday night.
According TO word received from
farkersburg he was always ready 10
neip nremen and gained the name OF
hre-hghting Nat" his first name be-
ing Nathan. His mother came TO the
city last night TO claim the body OF
her unfortunate son. and was taken
schroeder undertaking establishment
by Detective Cleary n from there
TO the Brunswick hotel to spend the
night In sorrow. She will leave this
morning for Parkersburg with the
body OF her dead boy who had lately
passed MS twenty-third birthday.
Father Killed. Too.
Ahother ahalr has been brought to
light by the death OF the boy-the
act mat her husband was blown to
by aitroglycerine. The husband was
formerly a railroad. bat gave up mat
position FOR he one OF shooting oil
wells. and was on his way TO shoot a
Wen in the Aleppo field. He and his
Team were blown to atoms and not
Snougn OF the body was found to be
Idehtlhed other han the fact that he
was known TO be a we'll shooter This
makes the affair all the harder ON the
mother n she is in a he~arr-broken
conuitlon over h sad misfortune
when has robbed her of the second
malnstay OF her now aged life.
His sister. whose home is in Chr.
cago, VIII arrive at Parkersburg This
morning about the same time that the
Douy OF her dead brother arrives M
arrangements for the funeral haze yet
Deen made and will hardly be decided
Tl aIIer the arrival OF The sister.
m coroner pronounced the cause OF
death as accidental
II was learned last night that the
boy mad not been discharged from the
sAPtess company at Akron and that
ne had be@n engaged locally but had
recently been working at Washing
ION Pa. He also had worked for the
wheeling Wall Plaster Company and
Tor Burns a. Church. He had made
a large number of friends in this To-
his sad death. VI
Both the death OF Mr.. Buchanan
and Talbourt have connections which
make the deaths of these two men
more ordinarily sad. Picture the
mother OF the former sitting i'm abiect
sadness with no one TO cheer I'm her
room at a local hotel. How many
tines has III sat at night over this
her only son. n watched every
move TO see that his life was made
easy. Again observe the wife OF The
after sitting in abject poverty and
distress. a mother OF two weeks WITH
Two small children 10 cry unto her
LOT heIp. II Is true hat helping
hands are relieving the situation mo,
mentarily but the wounds made bv
ms sorrowful tragedy can never re-
gone. ~ O"'9