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ADVENTURES AND ESCAPES.
Xo ScAKCiTV OF Mishaps and Wonderful Deliverances— All Night in Trees— Huki.ed
Under the Stone Bridge—Six Davs Pinned in the Ue^ris—A B. 'X-Car as an Ark of
Safety — Landed on the Telegraph Wires — Praving in an Attic — Wedding
Guests Wading— Floating Long Distances and Reaching Shore— People Alive
WHOM Friends Supposed to ee Lost— Wrested from the Very Jaws of the Destroyer
— Tales of Survivors that Almost Stat.ger Credibility.
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Man is born on a hatlle-held. Round him, to renu
Or resist, the dread Powers he displaces attend
By the cradle which Nature, amidst the stern shocks
That have shattered creation and shaken it, rocks.
He leaps with a wail into being and, lo !
His own maker, fierce Nature herself, is his foe.
Her whirlwinls are roused into wrath o'erhis head.
•Neath his foot roll her earthquakes. her solitudes spread
To daunt him."'— Lord Lvtton.
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ALL SIGHT IN A T.^l
D\ LNTUKES, some ludicrous and others serious,
and escapes so wonderful as to stagLjer credibility
were almost necessarily part and parcel of a
calamity so prodigious. Stories of mishaps more
or less grave were by no means a rarit\' on Saturday.
Friends greeted friends whom the\' supposed
to be under the charred ruins of the
bridge, buried in cellars or King on the banks
of the Conemaugh. and heard with bated breath
of their astonishing deliverance. Daniel in the
dtn of lions seemed not more certain of immediate
death. Men and women are walking the
ill-paved streets of Johnstown who, had they
been marvellously wrested from destruction last ^fa}-. would be walking
the golden streets of the Xev.' Jerusalem. Call it Providence, Luck, Fortune,