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On tbe Hun.An eye witness of tbe disaster on Caldwell's ran tells the following talc of the wreck of Stentzel's and How ley's booses: ' “Mr Stenzel’s bonne wm tbe liret to move off*, and after going some little distance it lodged on a point ol ground. While it was there a nnmber of men on a coal abed attempted to throw Mr. Stezal a rope, hot it fell abort every time. While tbia wan going on John Hohraan, who was in his kitchen, was carried away. The sides » and top of the kitchen were swept off, and i he was left doating on the door. He aaw that he was honud to he lost, and as tbe 1 lloor swept pvt Stenzel'a boose be jumped i in, as the whole end had been knocked lt;out.“The scene inride tbe Htenxel hon.e was heartrending in the extreme. The mother was held tightly clasped in tbe arms of her lt;son, and the Wingert girls were standing by paralysed with fear. All were eagerly ' watching the efforts of the men to throw tbe rope to them, bnt each time it fell a * few feet short of the mark. f‘ ‘Then snddenly the boose began to move . again and Stenzel hallooed above tbe noise lt;of tbe torrent, ‘Good bye, boys, we’re I gone.* No sooner had begot the words ont « of his month than the hooae crashed like 1 an egg shell and sank from sight Tbe only thing seen of the bonse or its occupants after that was a hand sticking from I tbe water, which disappeared in an in- lt;stoat.“Tbe Howley boose was the next to move off, and as it started off, Mr. How-lew made a noble attempt to save hie wife lt;and children, almost losing his life in tbe t endeavor. He was seized by several men i iast as he was about to be swept away. The picture of Mrs. Howley looking with i
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Wheeling Sunday Register
Wheeling, West Virginia, US
Sun, Jul 22, 1888
Page 6
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