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CONYERS WEEKLY.
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I A QTTNYx TN J-i COLORADO.
-went which befell a
pRtTY twenty years ago.
l‘d*Deniolishes a oSiiFwr Mile* KUlin« Lon*, Several the
a Store,
ei-BODS. ___
fce coasting accidents recorde 18
recall one that oecurre m t oe
t«r settlement of Colorado
l T days oi the
which probably has no equal, at
t in this country.
1 1865 there had develope a con
rable population in ^en ra , ac
fk, and Nevada, three mining cen res
, ° r ln some 30 or 40 miles from
° 'about Creek Forks,
ver, the Clear
r l )niB Co unty. From Nevada to
te , wk via Central City, there was
main roadway, up and down
,h every day in the year there were
unending processions of quartz
fflS. It was something like four
esirom Nevada to the lower part of
klawk by this road. It was nearly
a ig ht line from Nevada to Central
tlie road, but at one point the
rortfare deflected to the right
telj, and passing on down and over
ar Creek entered Black Hawk
tie right hand of that stream,
inward grade descends in this
I journey perhaps 250 feet to
mile, and at some points is perilously
Ip for vehicles, while at others for a
fat distance there may be a compara
t]j fin level stretch, only to be broken
by a sudden falling away of the
pks. Of course, the necessities of the
iie had developed a very fair road-bed
far as its surface was concerned. Con
Int teaming had worn away the rough,
(even places, and the gullies and
gged parts had been filled in, so that
e wagons, with their strings of mules
;adily pulling at the heavy loads, could
hauled with comparative ease or by
:ong brakes kept steady in descending
le heavy grade.
It was just after New Year’s, in 1865,
at a party was made up to take a
;igh ride over this coarse. The night
osen for the great coasting partv was
ty cold, the thermometer showing a
jistry of about zero, but this gave a
ispiness to the snow, and lent an ex
hration to the light air that sent the
bod dancing through the veins. The
•nagers of the coasting party— the
jent fcat deal had been of interest—had looked forward to with a
Jwerence with arranged by
teamsters and others to
P t!ie r °ad clear about 12 o’clock that
lit, which was easily accomplished,
fere being but little traffic at that hour.
I immense “pung” had been secured—
»ngh sleigh, or runners, rather, about
9 '
iTe l°kg, which was calculated
hold fully twenty-five people,
lor the purpose of directing the
se °f this sleigh a steering con
pace f btoeved, was placed in the rear, and this,
would enable the occu
l 7 ° tnm the an fi le m the road, in
.
FA,, where the stretch to Black
Lp L a 6gan e j° ' Ugl1 Tt t0 Was make not f °und difficult party,
fir U P
L . lad ; >es even bravely, if not fool
lusist ed on being counted in. At
‘ted . f me at Nevada a g re ed upon all had congre
and were soon crowded
wn the P^g. and, a stout fellow at
»t half mfi 6 8eUd was "° a ff comparatively WaS given - light The
, the
e , sleigh sped along at splendid
a
’ and all on board were joyous in the
a Pect of a successful
“ f run to the
i n showed ° ^ signs lo ng of increasing hill. The sleigh
^ ade Creased, speed as
; and those who ■were
inclined to manifest timidity
i grasped the side of the pung
^ cl0BeI y to one another. There
JciiL i ever ei \. *like 0f 400 brake 2 reat had been 8 Peed, a
jgA rea bed pro¬
's Basil T 7 V ° rked f With toe tout pung and
e - to check
ived ,i' ireer °* toe sleigh it was be¬
lt ha ** « 0 danger °°tod arise that could
Down promptly met.
toe hill they flew. Once, as
satral was Deared collision with
lateA ~ > a a
rr,' 1Eer , 8 t€
it Vo if am seemed imminent,
r0US Warnings enabled them
Pass in n 8af ® ty Bown.
ey a ew an ^“toal's - down, down
tered. main street was
his thoroughfare, hardly wide
0Q 8b for !
aer j wo toams to pass each
bug’-y BT1 * Mdl , to day-time,
^\Tm^ - presented
7B0eile ’ waanowde8eH -
; but the sidewalks were
Independent in All Things.
CONYERS, ROCKDALE CO., OA„ FEBRUARY 29, 1884.
thronged with people who had congre
gated to witness the great coasting
event of the season. As the sleigh
rushed down in its wild course a loud,
long shout went up, in which the pleas
ure P art Y joined. By this time the
sleigh was sweeping on at most terrific
speed, which fairly took away the breath
of those who stood by gazing at the
grange spectacle. It seemed as though
^ gjgjgjj p a( j no sooner appeared upon
the scene than it had shot out of sight
^ ^ gpace . it was one sudden dash
and then gone.
As b eil( j j n the road was reached,
those who had the management of the
gjgjg^ ° Lent all their energies to the evo
. hltion that to them Pf a11
obstacles. The slightest miscalculation
mi S ht P rove fatal 5 a moment’s delay
might jeopardize their lives; a failure of
their brake or Peering apparatus might
8e * d the f a11 to heaven -
0ue of the participants in that awful
nde ® aid afterward, that none appeared
to realize the danger that beset them
““til the turn in the road was ap
proached. The sled had gathered such
momentum that it seemed impossible to
stop it, and the steadiest head and
the strongest hand appeared to be of
little avail. The shouts of merriment
instantly died out. All was still as death,
Men clutched each other in frantic
grasp, and the ladies, so brave before,
looked despairingly for help. At the
turn on the lower right-hand side was a
d ™g store. Like nearly all the build
mg 8 ol those days, it was constructed of
light material. It stood close to the
sidewalk, which was slightly higher than
its floor. The rear of the store was,
perhaps, twenty-five feet from the
ground or rocks, and was supported
there by large timbers. The gulch fell
away very precipitously from the road
on the right-hand side on the way to
Black Hawk.
As the sled approached this comer an
effort was made to check and turn it, but
for some reason the brake refused to
perform its work, and, the “rudder” de¬
flecting the front end, caused it to turn
with a suddenness that threw four of the
occupants far out to the opposite side of
the road. Like a flash of lightning the
sled bounded across the sidewalk, and
struck the drug store with such force
that it cleaved its way through like an
ax through a muslin sheet. There was
a sudden crash, a loud cry, a fall, and
the next instant all was quiet, save the
groans of the injured ones. The people
who had been standing on the street at
this point to witness the flashing by of
the party hurried over. The pung had
passed through the store, demolishing
its contents, and had fallen upon the
rocks and snow where it lay wrecked.
Here and there, far and wide, were the
pleasure party who had made the fearful
plunge. Six of them—two ladies—were
found dead, their skulls smashed and
their bodies crushed almost out of hu
man shape. The living were terribly
ma imed, and such as were sensible cried
piteously for aid. They were cared for
tenderly, but before daybreak four more
had paid the penalty for their rashness
in death. Those who witnessed the
flight of that sleigh through the store,
like an arrow through an apple, declare
that it was the most awful sight they
ever beheld, Such was the outcome of
this great coasting excursion up among
the Colorado mountains away back in
the early days of that country’s settle¬
ment. It served as a permanent cure
for such foolhardy enterprises.
• g AVEr) Him.— Nerve and presence 01
mind saved John H. Feldkamp’s life,
He is a cutter in a Cincinnati clothing
'tore While operating a machine a
spring broke, and as he reached to pick
up a detached piece, his long beard was
caught and rapidlv wound into the ma
chinerv which threatened to draw in
his head and crush it. Instantly he
threw out his arms and braced them
against the frame of the cutter, and thus
he stood until his beard had been pulled
out bv the roots and a part of his cheek
had been torn off, exposing the gum of
his lower jaw.
When a man enters a sample-room
and sees a person there with whom he
has sworn off, the man inside says he
entered to warm his hands, while the
other says he just dropjted in to as¬
certain the time of day .—PocK
THE HUMOKOUS PALMS.
WHAT WE FINI> IN THEM TO LADGB
OVER.
A SNOW-BALL.
“Oh, the snow, the beautiful snow,”
(But the rest of this beautiful poem yon
know.)
'‘’Tis the stuff that the small boy rolls up iD
a sphere,
(The snow, not “pome”), and inspires with
fear
The unfortunate man that haps to be near,
That the small boy who holds it is going to
throw
At his back, as he passes, the beautiful snow ’
—Oil City Blizzard,
IN A NEW YOBK BOUDOIR.
“No, indeed, nothing could induce me
to live in Philadelphia.”
“Nor me, either, I think that little
town just horrid.”
“Yes, m Philadelphia they always
ask questions about Your grandfather.”
“That is just what I hate about it.”
“No one asks such impudent questions
in New York.”
“No, indeed; if they did some one
might ask who their grandfather was.”—
Evening Call.
THE MATTER.
Customer—“Those shoes you sold me
are frauds.”
Shoemaker—“You must be mistaken.
They are as good $5 shoes as I ever sold
in my life. The leather is of the very
best, they are well made and an excel¬
lent fit.”
Customer—“Yes; I admit all that.’
Shoemaker—“Then what is the mat¬
ter?”
Customer—“Why, you see, they area
five-doilar shoe but they have a two-dol
lar-and-a-half squeak.”— Pkila. Eve'g
Call.
HR WAS OVEBWOBWFP.
“So you have left your situation ?”
“Yes; gave it up last week.”
“What’s the matter ? Can’t you gel
along pleasantly with the boss?”
“Oh, yes; wo got along pleasantly
enough; but he expected me to do too
much. I had to open the store at 6
o’clock every morning, sweep out, wash
the windows, keep the stock in order,
and finally whdt does he do but put an
advertisement in the newspaper, That
settled it. I am willing to work hard,
but I won’t kill myself for any man.”—
Philadelphia Call.
OPPOSED TO PBOHXBITION.
“Yes,” said the Widow Flapjack,
who is chief executive officer of an Aus¬
tin boarding house, “yes, I must say I
am very much opposed to prohibition
and closing up the saloons, and all that
sort of thing. It’s all a base scheme
against the best interests of the hotel
keepers and landlady’s,”
“Why, I am surprised to hear you ex
press such unchristian sentiments, and
you a church member, too. How do
you make out that prohibition is against
the interests of the landladies ?”
“If prohibition goes into effect ail the
saloons will be closed up and then all
the free lunches will stop. Now, I’ve
noticed that among my young men
boarders the dissipated ones are the
most profitable. Before they come to
dinner they always step into the saloon
and get a sour beer or a schooner ol
toddy, or something of that kind, and
they fill up on the free lunch, and when
they come to the dinner table they don t
eat hardly anything, while the steady
young men who never drink just gorge
themselves. Oh, my, you ought to see
’em eat! They just take the profits off,
and if it was’nt for the free lunches and
the ‘next morning’ feeling that some
of the boarders suffer from occasionally,
I don’t know what we poor Jandiadies
would do. There’d be no profit m the
business. Yes, I am oppoosed to pro
hibition for purely economical reasons,
And the Widow Flapjack sighed, and
went out and gave orders to cut the pies
into seven pieces instead of si x.— Jexas
Siftinas.
A couNTBr weekly paper says :
“During 1883 we reduced our debt
$ 110 , 000 , 000 , and we now owe only
$1,690,000,000.” This gives one a very
clever idea of the capital required to
conduct the business of a country
weekly. _
NUMBER 51.
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