The Democrat.
HUDAT, DECmiBIR 18, 1*.
CONGRESS and the country are awaiting
with much interest the announcement of
the House Committees by the speaker.
Much of the action of Congress depends
upon the compasition of the different
committees.
It is rumored that Emperor William, of
Germany thinks of visiting America. We
have no crowned heads in this country
who will present him with diamond
hilted swords or give his wife $240,000
necklaces, but we can take him to a
Canstatter festival where 800,000
achooncrs of beer are consumed in one
day. That would prevent lnm from
feeling lonesome.
CHRISTMAS is coming, the merriest holi
day of the year. It is especially so to the
little folks whose belief in Santa Clans
has not yet been disturbed by the en
croachment of time. All the Sunday
schools are making preparations for its
proper celebration, while domestic
thought is almost entirely absorbed in ar
ranging for its demands. It takes so little
to amuse a child that there can be u J
good excuse offered for not making
juvenile joy universal on Christmas
morning.
NOTHING is better titled to point tlie
words of the Preacher—" Vanity of van
ities, all is vanity "—than the sudden rise
and quick decadence of a reputation.
Just fifty years ago a volume came from
the press named Proverbial Philosophy,
and in the then dearth of great writers in
England its author was at once accepted
as a considerable poet. America was not
slow to follow, over 500,800 copies being
sold here iu a few years, and translations
into foreign tongues still further extended
the author's reputation. But when the
cable flashed the news last Friday that
Martin Farquhar Tupper was dead, at
the age of seventy-eight, many a reader
of the message must have asked himself,
And who is Tupper? It is hard to realize
that this writer of truisms and and com
monplaces, inutile baldest of mcasmcd
prose, could ever have been hailed as a
great poet, but he deserved the oblivion ot
his lutest years as little as lie did the fame
of his youth. Those who toil for the ap
proval of "the public" serve a master
whose fickleness i> equalled only by its
lieartlessncss.
A New Yokk paper recently opened iis
columns to correspondents who could
give some information as to the best way
to keep husbands homo nights. It was
presumed, of course, that the informants
would be found among experienced mar
ried women. And so they were. The let
ters were interesting reading, and thou
sands of recipes was given. It was, how
ever, reserved for Gen. Wagner Swayne
to tell a story before the Ohio Society the
other night which seems to tit the case.
It was about a young wife who had great
admiration for her mother-in-law, be
cause of the manner in whish she man
aged her husband. The honeymoon was
hardly over before the young wife came
to the older woman to beg for knowledge
how to make her young husband as good
a man as his father. " You have some
Mcrct about it, mother, I am sure ; and
now that I am your daughter, you can
tall me about it, can't you ? " The old
lady insisted that she had no secret, and
knew of no special plan by which to make
a man always as he ought to be, but
finally, under repeated urgings, she
smiled and said simply this : " Daugh
ter, feed the beast."
HINDSIGHT,
The Coroner's jury in the Opera House
case concludes by asking tbe authorities
to prevent any public gathering in the
building as now constructed. That is a
good recommendation, but of what
use is it? Ten lives have been lost.
Public opinion would not tolerate
another gathering in the place.
Is it the duty of no one to see to such
things? It should be somebody's duly to
see whether places where large bodies of
people assemble are safe or not. We now
sec the remedy after the occasion for its
use is past. Who will teach the public to
take preseculiou against danger? But
perhaps the insufficient menus of exit was
not the only cause of death. When men
loose their manhood and stampede like
wild animals before they even know
whether there is danger or not. most any
thing is likely to happen.
There is another matter about which
something might and should be said in
this connection. The present dangerous
condition <f the wretched apology of a
structure taking tho place of the i la
col n bridge should-rccoievc attention.
The Dbmooi;at has repeatedly called i'le
attention of the public to its dangerous
condition. It is nnother death-trap.
Some lime ago it was announced
that a better structure was to
be put there. It is not there
yet, and the good weather is pass
ing. Winter may set in any day and the
river freeze over. No bridge can then bo
built. With snow and ice on the bridge
and its approaches the danger from it
would be much increased. There is not
even a guard-rail to prevent any one from
falling over the edge. How long people
will wait on the contractors and allow
this source of danger to life to
remain as it is, is a question. The delay
of a day may mean the loss of many
lives. Then there will be another cor
oner's jury and a verdict condeming tho
tructiire, and tbe people will say, "I
pold you it would be o," and things of a
like kind. How much longer will the
wait to have the daner gremoved ?
From Wednesday Morning's Daily:
HORRIBLE!
A Cry of Firo Causes an
Awful Panic at the
Opera House.
DEAD AND INJURED.
Men Go Mad, and Women Faint—
The Crowd Panic-Sttieken Rush
lor the Narrow Stairs.
100 STRUGGLING PEOPLE
Hehl in u Muss in the Doorway—Men and
Hoys Jump from the Galleries oil the
Heads of the People lfelow—Crazed by
Excitement the Audience Loses Pres
ence ot Mind and Makes a Mad Kush
for the Narrow Exit—Ten People Tramp •
led and Three Times as Many
More Badly Hurt—ruths and Death
Cries Commingle—The Coroner's In
quest.
Another dreadful disaster was on last
night added to the list of horrors of the
year, 1889. Parke's Opera House was
packed to the doors, and as has long been
predicted if the occasion should present
itself, a panic resulted from a cry of
Are. The crowd rose en masse and made
a frantic rush for the narrow stairway.
No second thought was taken. In a
moment the stairway was packed full of
human beings. Those inside could not
gel out. There was a genuine panic.
Women screamed, men and boys yelled,
a number fainted. The scene was inde
scribable. Outside at the foot of the
stairs was a heartrending scene. Piteous
shrieks came from the bottom of the
seething mass. People begged to be re
leasod ; others had the breath crushed out
of them at once.
THE DEAD.
When the crowd had been fought hack,
the dead and injured were carried to dif
ferent places. The morgue authorities
were soon on hand and the dead were
taken to Henderson's. The list is as fol
lows
JOHN MILLER, colored, C'hambersburg,
Pa., employed at Koch's saloon.
GEORGE SLONICKER, Mt. Pleasant,
Pa., a teamster.
LIZZIE CLAYCOMB, aged 19, domestic
at John Bowser's Bedford street, from
Bedford county.
MRS. WESLEY BURNS, 40years, Morris
street.
CLARA BURNS, 19 years, daughter of
above, Morris street.
ISAAC FOHLER, 60 years. Cone
maugh borough.
GEORGE HORNER, aged 11 years, Park
building, Park Place.
MRS. JOHN W.NESTOR, aged 2.0, Na
, poleon street,
EDDIE BIGLER, aged 8, son of John
Bigler, of Gautier street. Conemaugh
borough.
GEORGE FRIBCHHORN, Baltimore,
Md.
THE INJURED.
, The number of injured* cannot be
known at this writing, 2:30 A. M., but it
is thought that not less than thirty or
forty persons were seriously hurt. Those
now known to be seriously hurt are :
ALBERT OWENS, 18 years. Peelorville.
JAMES ICELLEY. 15 years, Conemaugh
borough.
DANIEE KELLY, colored, Kcrnville.
LOTTIE JACLSON, Brownstown.
LEWIS IJUNDY, colored.
JOHN WELMER, Peelorville.
CHARLES VAUGHN, Prospect.
STEWART BLACKBURN, Morrellvillc.
RICHARD WORTIIINGTON, Morrell
vtlle.
EDWARD BTAUFFEH, Shermnn street.
WESLEY BURNS, Morris street.
MRS. CLAUSON, Upper Yoder town
ship.
MRS. M. S. McGARRY, Sherman street.
CLARENCE ENGELBERTIL
JOHN WEIMER, Peelorville.
MARTHA OWENS. Peter street, Cone
maugh borough.
JOHN DEVINE, South street.
MRS." WILLIAM PLATT, Grubbtown.
WILLIE DIBERT, South Side.
HOW Tn At ARM STARTED.
Dr. A. N. Wakefield's hostler lives in a
smnll building bnck of the doctor's resi
dence on Morris street. Before preparing
to go to bed he stirred up his fire. The
flue comes but a short distance above the
roof. The building is low, and as the
smoke came from the flue, it enveloped
Dr. Wakefield's residence, the air being
very still. Some one going past thought
the building was on Are. and went on to
ring uu alarm. It is also said that the
bell on the engine at the corner of Main
and Franklin streets was rung onee or
twice. This was a few minutes after
half-past ten. Some on in the upper
gallery, said to have been a boy, yelled
" fire !" A panic ensued ; men and boys
jumped from the galleries and lit on the
heads of the people on the floor.
A scat in the gallery broke with a crash.
Some thought the building was falling.
Shrieks, cries, and oaths mingled in
awful confusion. Tumult reigned. A
hundred and fifty people seemed to go
down the narrow stairway at once. Those
down first were pressed upon so closely
that they fell in the doorway. The crowd
came confusedly upon them. Thd stair
was piled full of Agon
izing shrieks came from those undernea'h
who were pinned to the floor and steps.
Others were suffocating. Such a scene
was never witnessed in Johnstown. It
was simply indescribab'e. The uproar
could be heard squares away. The
police were ou hand and fought back
those who were trying to get out by walk
ing over the unfortunates in the
stairway. A great crowd soon
assembled on the street aud had to be
fought back to give room to remove those
who were lodged in the doorway. These
latter were so lightly held to the floor
and sleps thnt strong men could not pull
them out. It was not until the crowd in
the upper Dart of the stairway had been
forced back, that anything effective could
be done toward removing the jam in the
doorway.
CALLED BACK THE CItOWD.
When the alarm was announced inside,
a few of the more collected persons called
to the people to keep their seats. Nobody
I seemed to listen. Several persons leaped
to the stage and assisted the actors in en
deavoring to call the people to their seats.
The play Uncle Tom's Cabin, acted by
Stetson's Company, was nearly over, the
scene being where Lcgree orders Tom to
whip Cassy and upon Tom's refusal
Legree whips him. The actors behaved
with great presence of mind, and pre
vented the catastrophe from being worse.
Mr. Frank Buchanan knew of a hack
stairway which lie quickly ascended, hut
not before nnmy persons had used it as a
means of exit. He came to tic front of
the stage and attracted the attention of
the people. He said that he had come in
from the outside and that there was uo
tire. To prove it he said lie would stay
right where lie was. By this time a great
part of the crowd had cooled down and
most of them returned to seats or to the
space in the neighborhood of the stage.
Then it was that progress began to he
made in the clearing the stairway
The dead and badly injured were
dragged up aud placed on the stage,
and others less badly hurt were helped to
the top of the stairs.
The policemen and workmen were
much hampered by the crowd outside.
The firemen at the engine near by turned
a stream of water from the hose toward
the crowd and scattered them a couple of
times.
The dead and dying were carried to
different places near by. Several died in
a few minutes after being released. Others
were lifeless when removed. The several
places to which dead and wounded were
taken were Moses' tailorshop, the Hulbert
House, Opera House Saloon, the Opera
House Restaurant in the basement, and
the tobacco and cigar store next to the
Opera House. Miss Clara Burns
died after being carried to John
Thomas's partly completed show window.
The dead bodies were takeu to Hender
son's undertaking establishment, and the
wounded to their home.
While the dead and wounded were be
ng removed there were dozens of people
from all parts of thw town running about
looking for friends who were known to
have gone to the play. Tt was very diffi
cult to give these people satisfaction.
CORONER'S INQUEST.
The following gentlemen were em
paneled by Coroner Evans as a jury to
view the remains and ascertain the capse
of the death of a number ot individuals
in Parke's Opera House on the evening of
December 10, 1880:
JAMES SBUMAKRK,
GEO. I'URNER,
E. ZAND.
JOSEUU PRICE,
TOM SEIBERT,
JACOB HORNER.
Being duly sworn they proceeded to
cull witnesses.
A. E. Humphreys, of Johnstown, Pa.,
being duly sworn, testified as follows :
I was up behind the railing, and 1 heard
the cry of lire from above, that is the
railing on the first floor of the Opera
House; the ratling around the stairway.
I tried to get around the corner of the
railing coming from above to save my
self, and was carried to the foot of the
stairs by the crowd. I was crushed there
and was forced down stairs to door and
had my head out of door. There was a
lndv that was either dead or in a faint,
that lay on my right shoulder. My feet
were fast between two bodies lying mi
ller me ; there was a hoy lying across my
left shoulder, he was also helpless. My
left arm was fast between the heads of
two other parties and the feet of a third
party was in my side. In the struggle 1
got my left arm loose and moved the boy
away from my shoulder ; two men pulled
the lady off me. There was an alarm of
fire given from the upper gallery; it was
neaaly at the end of the show. A good
many shouted that there was no fire; to
be seated and that all would be right, but
the people kept rushing down stairs. I
know of four who tramped over the heads
of the people. 1 was pulled up the stairs
by a couple of men. I .don't know how
long I was in the jam. Tin- lower door*
were open as far as T could see, but there
was a jam below as well as above. The
stairway is about six feet wide. The hall
is a very bad one to get out of on account
only being one stairway, snd it
is so narrow.
Mr. Turner—What about the back
stairway? Answer—l don't know any
thing about that. I saw several persona
crawl down the post from upper gallery.
The cry to he quiet seemed to como from
the stage.
Question by Coroner —Do you consider
the house a safe one ? Answer—l do not.
A. E. HUMPHREYS.
John Morley, Johnstown, Pa., sworn—
I was not at the show. I was coming
down Main street shorily alter the cry of
fire, and when I had reached John
Thomas' store there was a woman laying
in the window, her head was held by John
Harris (not the Chief), and Dr. Sheridan
was attending her. I was there when her
atliei ident ifled her as his daughter, Miss
Burns, of Kernville. JOHN H. MORLEY.
L. W. Washburn, sworn—l reside iu
Utica, N. Y. lam the proprietor of the
company which gave an exhibition in the
Main Street Opera House on the evening
of December 10, 1889. I was not in the
hall when tho alarm was giveu, had left
about 9 o'clock. Iu the case of an alarm,
or an accident, or when there was an ac
tual fire the exits are not sufficient for the
escape of the people from the house.
L. W. WASHBURN.
Will C. Yeager, sworn—l am a mem
ber of the company which occupied the
hall December 10, 1880. lam a musi
cian. The first alarm I heard was on the
inside of the theatre. I thiuk it was given
by boys on the upper gallery. A panic
ensued at once. The hall was full of
people. The people on the stage spoke
to tlie audience and told them to keep
quiet, that there was nothing the matter.
The audience crowded me to the stage'
and I could not see what was going on at
the door. I, together with some of the
members of the company, helped some of
the ladies on the stage to save them from
being crowded. The company made no
effort to escape, but all I saw were help
ing the people. I do not consider the hall
a safe one in case of a fire. I have been
in a great many theatres and do not re
call one in which the exits are so bad as
this one. I reside in Westerly, If. 1.,
when lam at home. The puuic occurred
just as the last act was fairly started.
WILL C. YEAGER.
B. F. Reininger, affirmed—l reside in
Johnstown. Fa. I was at the theatre,
thtre was quite a large crowd there, I
was on the first gallery and heard the
cry of tire and thought it came from the
upper gallery, and the people 011 the gal
lery where I was all made for the stairs
to get down. I saw some of the people
on the lower floor run for the stage aud
others for the stairs. I heard some one
from the stage cry out for the people to
take their seats, that there was no danger
of fire, I didn't come off the gallery, I
staid there until order was restored and
then saw them carry five persons that
seemed to be in a faint, towards the stage*
I judge it was fifteen or twenty minutes
from the first alarm until order was re
stored. I didn't hear any other alarm
but the cry of fire. B. F. Rbininger.
t E. D. Pugh, sworn—l reside in Johns
town, I was at the show on Tuesday even
ing, I was in the top gallery and heard
the alarm of fire given on the upper gal
lery. The gallery was crowded, I started
for the stairway and seen it was crowded
so, that I held back, the crowd kept push
ing behind and I was carried to the lower
end of the stairs on the first floor. I snw
and knew Mary Burns and Clara Burns
of Napoleon street, Johnstown, Pa. I
seen the dead bodies of both these per
sons lying in Henderson's morgue. The
alarm was given in one of the front rows
of the gallery. It was about fifteen min
utes from the time the alarm was given
until I got to the prvement. I heard the
showmen hollowing to the people to keep
quiet that there was no fire. I dou't
know anvtliiug about a back way to the
hall. I didn't hear the fire bell ringing.
E. D. PCGII.
-Inquest adjournod to meet at Coroner
Evan's office this evening at 7:30.
HOW TUB SEWS WAS SENT ABROAD.
The Western Union Telegraph Office
was closed,the operator having retired,but
the unllasiging Master Jas. A. Blough, a
repoitcrfora Pittsburgh paper, went to
Cambria and aroused one of the operators
and sent the news of this disaster to his
paper. Soon came the inquiry from '
everywhere for particulars.
BIDS FOB liACHELOKS.
Agree with the girl's father in polities, 1
and the mother in religion.
If vou have a rival keep an eye on him.
if ho is a widower keep two eyes on him.
Don't put too much sweet stuff ou
paper If you do you will hear it read in :
after years when your wife has some o<~
pedal purpose in inflicting upsu you the |
severest punishment known 10 a married i
man.
Go home at a reasonable hour in the
evening. Don't wait until a-girl lias to
throw her whole sole into a yawn that i
she can't covet- with both hands. A little
thing like that might cause a coolness at
the very beginning of the game.
The Rev. Dr. F. S. Delias.?, who had
becen lingering so long at tiie point of
death, from cancer of the face, died at 11
"o'clock Sunday night at iiis home in Mar
tin's Ferry, Ohio. He was born in Wash- ;
iugton county, Pa., in 1821, and was edu- j
eated at Washington and Jefferson Col
lege. He entered the ministry of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and for
many years was one of its most earnest I
workers. He built the Metropolitan
Church at Washington. D. C'., aud was
Consul at Jerusalem during the Grant Ad
ministration.
Both the Pennsylvania and the Balti
more & Ohio Railroads will sell holiday
excursion tickets this year as heretofore.
Tickets will be sold from December 21st
to January Ist, inclusive, good to return
until January 4th.
FURTHER DETAILS
OF THE FATAL DISASTER AT PARKK'9
OPERA HOUSE.
i Tho Disposition of the Dead—The Condi
tion ot the Wounded—The Building
Now UseloHM to the Lessees—All En
gagements cancelled—How a Greater
Panic Was Prevented.
In addition to the full report of the
dreadful disaster at the Opera House on
Tuesday night as published in yesterday
morning's DEMOCRAT, there are not many
important details. None of the injured
have since died and most of them are on
the street to-day. But everybody is ex
cited, and the accident is the topic of con
versation everywhere. Many tell how
near they come going to the play, and
yet they did not go How fortunate they
were ! The number of those injured is a
mere matter of conjecture.,
now THE DEAD WILL BE DISPOSED OF.
The body of Miller, the colored man,
will sent to Chambersburg yesteday
on Day Express at 10:13.
Miss Claycomb's body was taken yes
terday overlaud to Bedford county.
Mrs. Wesley Burns and daughter will
be taken this morning at 7:45 to Snyder's
Station, Somerset county.
The remains of George Horner will he
interred iu Grand View this afternoon at
half-past 2 o'clock.
The body of Mrs. John Nestor was tak
en to Somerset yesterday afternoon on
the 3 o'clock train.
The funeral of George Freshcorn will
take place from No. 051 Wood street, cor
net 1 of Poplar, this'afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Interment will be made in Sadyvale.
The remains of Isaac Foler are still
awaiting the orders of friends.
The funeral of Eddie liigler will take
place from the family residence, No. 500
Cltapin street, Conemaugh borough, at 3
j o'clock this afternoon.
The body of Mr. Slotiicker will he
taken to Mt. Pleasant, Pa., for burial.
His friends came yesterday.
LOSS TO THE MANAGERS.
The managers of the Opera House are
Messrs. M. McCann und James Fliun.
Mr. McCann's wife and child were in at
tendance, as were Mr. Fliuu's mother,
brother and nephew. None of tiieni
were hurt, as they kept their places. Mr,
McCanu had been iu all parts of the
house during the evening, and just prior
to the pauic, had gone to the foot of lite
stairs at the street. While there he heard
the fire bell ring in Kernville. He did
not know just what it was for the sound
of the Loll was new. When he saw what
it was lie remarked to some who stood in
the stairway near to him to keep quiet,
aud immediately staited up the steps in
anticipation of trouble. On the way up
he met the first of the crowd. They bore
him down in front of them to the street.
Mr. McCanu thinks- that about twenty
five persons got down before anybody
fell Then it seemed like a spill. Some
jumned over the guard railing around the
stairs on the crowd iu the already clogged
stairway.
Mr. Flinn was in the audience, and
when the rnsh came, he with several
others who did not lose their presence of
mind, leaped to the stage and trid to re
store order. His most able assistants in
that particular were D. S. Sheheuberger
James Davis, the- photographer, and
Frank Buchanan. Others whose names
are not known also rendered able assis
tance.
Many of those present also state that
great cred't is dus to Reddy Hawkins, an
employe of T. Benton Brown & Co., for
his efforts in keeping back the crowd in
the gallery.
There were many acts of heroism,
which of course, must pass unnoticed,
because those who did them were un
kuown. There were many also many
cases of total loss of manheod and good
sense. These of course will pass unnoticed,
but the man or bov who so senselessly
cried tire, should be kuown and gagged
hereafter, when lie goes to a place where
crowds of people are assembled.
The managers had recently had the
building fitted up at their own expense
with electric lights and new scenery.
Everything was in good working order,
except, of course, the means of exit,
which lias always been pronounced insuf
ficient. They bad plenty of good offers
from companies, and several engagements
had been booked. These have all been
cancelled by telegraph, and it is likely
that the house will now stand idle. Public
opinion would not now tolerate the holding
of entertainments there. As it was just the
communeement of tlie season tl-e man
agers will lose all they have spent in re
fitting the house.
JUMPED FROM OAM.KKIES AND BOXES.
Mr. James Flinn, one of the managers
of the Opera House, %yas the first to leap
to the stage and assist the actors in the
eudeavur to restore order. He says that
four or five men or boys jumped from the
first gallery to the lloor. Several people
were injured by these men alighting
against them.
Two men leaped from the upper box
on the lett lo the stage, and two ladies
from the upper right hand box followed
suit.
A VISIT TO THE OPERA HOUSE YESTERDAY.
The Opera House was visited yesterday
by a representative of the DEMOCRAT. It
was found that the back to one of the
seats on the upper gallery was broken.
The cracking made by this break is said to
have intensified the excitement caused by
the first cry of fire. Some other seates in
the gallery were also displaced.
On the firstgallery there were foot
prints OD all the seats, indicating that the
audience in that part of the house ha
walked over thefurtiturc.
On the main floor, or parquet, the
chairs were standing around in a con
fused manner. Marks of shoes or boots
were plainly visible on most all the chair
seats, as well as on the guard-rail of the
stairway.
The narrow stairway was marked with
blood in nearly a dozen places, there be
ing one large pool on the step just outside
the door.
The stairway is tive feet in width, aud
between the jambs of the swinging doors
on the second step above the vestibule, it
is just four feet.
run WOUNDED.
Those injured are all reported to be do
ing well, and the attending physicians
are quite confidant that none of the in
juries will prove fatal.
TUB NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN ATTENDANCE.
Mr. McCann, one of the managers, "
says that 713 admission tickets were sold.
There were perhaps twenty other persons
in the house. One of the boys killed,
George Horner, is said to have been ad
mitted for holding a torch. His parents
did not know that he. was there.
AT THE MORGUE.
The scene at the morgue was a reminder
of the days after the flood, or of the rais
ing of the dead. A large crowd, mostly
women and children, hung around there *
all day. A constant train of people passed
to anil from the morgue to view the bodies.
MAKING A NlitV EAR.
Expert Surgical Operation on u Victim o)
tiio Johnstown Flood—Flesh Cut From
the Head—The Reconstructed Member
Will Soon lie us l'erfect as the Uninjured
Ear.
Philadelphia Dally News. „
An uuusal surgical operation has just
been performed on Miss Margaret E. ■
Jones, of Johnstown, by Dr. Maik L. *
Nardyz, of tbis city. The yaung lady
was one of the victims of the disastrous
flood that devastatid the G'oncmnugh
Valley. Besides linving her right arm
broken in three places, and receiving
gashes on her head by being dashed
against the floating debris, Miss Jones
was so unfortunate as to have a portion
of her right ear torn away.
now IT WAS DONE. w
Tlie young lady was carefully nursed,
her arm was set and she finally, after a
severe struggle, recovered almost her
usual strength. The one noticeable de
feet was the disfigured ear. This caused
her much annoyance, as it was noticeable
at the slightest glance. She was brought
to Dr. Nardyz for examination and he
said immediately that lie could remedy
lie defects if she would submit lo an
operation. He promised to rebuild the
damaged ear.
Sbe promised to do so and requested '
that the flesh needed for the purpose he
taken from her arm. The doctor, how
ever declared that flesh from the arm
would not do, agd he decided to cut
away a portion of the flesh on the side
of the head, immediately adjoining the
lacerated niemher. The laceration was V
shaped and the surgeon skillfully cut a
similar portion of flesh from the head
sewed it to the remaining portions of the
ear with seven stitches and bandaged it. '
This was done last Wednesday, and
he operation was so successful that Miss
Jones proposed to leave for Johnstown
on Saturday next. All that is required
is time to heal, the thing being uow
merely a matter of growth. I)r. Nardya
said to-day that in thirty days no one
will ever be able to detect the slightest
difference between the two ears. The
doctor is delighted with the successof the
operation, and said it is one of the best
surgical feats performed in this country "
for many years.
nOW THK KAJt LOOKS.
A JVeut reporter saw Miss Jones at
the residence of Dr. Nardyz, 718 Pine
street, this afternoon, and had a look at
the reconstructed ear. It is healing fast
and lready looks nearly as well as the
perfect one. There is now a scar behind
the ear, caused by the cutting away of
the flesh, but this will also heal, the doc
tor say*, and will besides he covered by
the hair, so that it will not he visible.
Miss Jones had a very narrow escape
from death during the flood. Her
mother, sister and three bothers were all
killed. She and her father only arc left
of the family. She was carried gfrom
the second story of her hotel and im
mediately became unconscious. When
she awoke she was several miles away
and found her head pinned between the
roofs of two houses, with her body im
mersed in water. She was extricated
from her perilous position by a stranger,
taken to the hospital, and expects short- ' (
ly to lie in her usual 'health and appear
ance. a
STOUK ROllllKll IX KBENSIIURG-
The Store lioomof V. S. Darker A: Uro. En.
tered by Thieves on Tuesday Xiglit—
They Secure Si'-M.
On Tuesday night, between the hours
, of 1 and 2 o'clock, the store room of V. S.
| Barker & Bios., High street, was entered
i by burglars, and flie fruits of their devlish
deed consisted in securing from the till, ►
or drawer therein, about .*24 in cash. The
entrance was made through the front
door of the store room, by means of a
pole-ax, which was found laying at the
door in the morning by one of the clerks
in the store. The lock had been burst
off. A few years ago Mr. A. A. Barker
baited a bold scoundrel in the same act
as above stated, with powder and lead,
and had he the same opportunity this
time, an effective cure would no doubt , ,
have followed. That would have served
him right. There is no clue to the guilty
parties.