Year: 1874




Disease Of the Ye..g Lady.


(From the Denver Democrat.)


For the facts substantially related in
the following article, our reporter is
indebted to conductor Painter. OF the
Colorado Central, on whose train the
unfortunate lady aud surviving men,
ibers of the family took passage for
Black Hawk, one day last week, and
from whose lips came one of the strang-
est and saddest histories it has ever
been the misfortune of our reporter to
hear.


About two years ago there lived in
Sacramento, CAL, Baptist minister by
the name Of Mr.. Fyler, with his wife
and eight children, four Of them being
daughters.


Mrs. Fyler had for several years
been afflicted with IN aggravated form
Of cancer, for the relief of which all
known remedies had failed, her case ap-
parently 1efying medical skill. The
youngest Of the four daughters was
also constant sufferer from heart dis
ease and it was for the supposed bene'
fetal effects Of the climate on mother
and daughter that the family located
in California.


There being no apparent relief afford.
cd them, they were advised to go abroad
for treatment. It was therefore agreed
upon that the father and three eldest
daughters should remain in California,
the four little sons to be sent to niece,
named Margaret Stuart, residing in
Black Hawk. Co.., while Mrs. Fyl Ter and
her youngest daughter went abroad, in
the hope Of getting at least relief for their
bodily ailments.


Shortly after their departure, Mr..
Fyler and daughters returned from CAL
ifornia to Colorado, locating in Black
Hawk.


After an absence of about year and
half, MIR. Fyler received letter from
his wife stating that it was her inten-
ton to leave Europe for home on a
certain date, and requesting that the
family meet them at New York. For
this purpose, father and daughters left
Black Hawk for that city, where they
waited and watched for the return Of
the sufferers. Not knowing the name
of the vessel in which they sailed, and
the probable date Of their arrival hay
ing passed, their anxiety gave place to
serious apprehensions and surmises as
to the probable cause of the delay.


The passenger-list Of each incoming
steamer was eagerly searched in vain
for the names Of their loved ones, and
all inquiries seemed only to envelope the
affair in greater mystery.


Receiving no further communication
from his wife, MIR. Fyler and daughters
went to New Jersey, to visit some &C.
Iuaintances, in the meantime having ex-
ertcd every possible means that would
be likely to result in the discovery Of
the whereabouts of mother and daugh-
ter. The convalescents sailed from Eu-
rope at the appointed time,in the sailing
vessel Mary Ann, and when four days
out, the vessel encountered a severe
storm, and was wrecked. Among the
few passengers who escaped a watery
grave were Mrs. Fyler and her daugh.
ter, who were picked up by an English
steamer, bound for New York, at which
they arrived a little over four days
ago.


Having reason to expect that they
would be met in that city by the re-
mainder Of the family. they in turn be-
came anxious as to their whereabouts.
inquiries in every direction proving un-
availing, their information from Black
Hawk being to the effect that Mr.. Fyler
and daughter had left that place for
New York some time previous. Being
in weak bodily condition, they were
lily able to bear up under this new af:
Fiction.


In New York without friends, the
great city seemed to them wilderness,
and they resolved to come to Black
Hawk, which was to be their future
home, but which now had for them no
interest other than the possibility of
their getting some information that
might give them = clue to the where
abouts Of husband and father.


When the train bearing them westward
reached New Brunswick, N. j., the.
daughter picked up newspaper which
had been left in an adjoining seat, and
busted herself in looking it over. The
paper might be said to have been her
death moment. In it she read the an
nouncement of the death by drowning,
of her father and three sisters, while
sailing off the coast Of New Jersey.
She communicated the sad intelligence
to her distracted mother, and then sank
back in her seat, and without uttering
another word, she died Of heart dis
case, SO suddenly and unexpectedly did
this affecting dispensation visit her, as