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Show THE FINGER OF FATE. The Chapter of Shocking Misfortunes: by Which a Park City Pamily Were Wiped Out. THE BOASTING ALIVE OF TWO BOYS ' J ' - "' ' ? " '.''.' Followed Tortures That Ushered, the Mother Into the Asylum a Violent and Baring Maniac. Affr an lnonlry in'o her case by ocal phy-iolan phy-iolan Doctors Greg r and Wilson -Mrs. J. Sivaire was ad ui'gs j lmane, a id In company with Sher fl Web xr was remove! to the asy-Ju.n asy-Ju.n atPovo, This was the legend handed down from Park City to the constant reader. Remove its misty cerements, its mask, and one of the most pathetic life-pictures over executed by tho relentless brush of death is revealed. A few years ago this raving Niobe was the proud mother of two boys. Then came a family jar that demolished the idol and a second marriage in the rugged little house of worship that lifts its - weather-beaten spire above tho head of the frontier flock was modestly solemnized. solemn-ized. ' v Skulking and designing fate had decreed de-creed a terrible termination to this luckless allianco, and today the unfortunate unfort-unate mother is divorced by grim dementia. de-mentia. The cause traces itself back to the most shocking episodes in the annals an-nals of Park. Its particulars are yet ripe in the flush of a flame that suddenly sud-denly coiled its lurid tongue about the dry rafters of Mrs. Savage's cabin and ' glutted itself at the roasted bodies of her two boys. The mother narrowly : escaped an equally hideous death. Dazed and scarce capable of appreciating appreciat-ing the solemn ceremonies at which she was chief mourner, she saw the charred figures deposited in the grave. Then i returning from the earthen tenement in which her own happiness was perpetually per-petually sealed, she turned and was taken in charge by the kind-hearted inhabitants in-habitants of the camp. Heartless fate had put its awful signature upon her however, and from that moment the torture to which this poor creature was ' subjected beggars description. descrip-tion. Darkness was rapidly falling fall-ing on her life, and through the fast gathering clouds she began to grope ' her way, helpless as the suckling infant. Against its confines her bleeding heart began to beat itself to liberty. Within raged a veritable volcano of despair. The physicians, who found in the . case a thrilling test of mental endurance, watched her case with unflagging zeal. Sleep had abandoned her. From food she recoiled. The citadel of reason began to quiver and sway. Her wonderful won-derful physique was the only thing that delayed the awful crash. Stimulants were administered but soon their power was wasted. No human aid could wrest her from the abyss of pitch-dark- ness into which insane despair was dragging her. Then came an incessant moan with violent and intermitting wails for children to whose heartrending heartrend-ing fate her memory seemed to have been deadened. "It's cruelty," said the doctors 'one morning recently, "to throw any light whatever upon her mind. The sooner she is left to the inevitable, the. sooner Will she be released from this agonv." Left to the mercie of dementia that grinning foeman continued with its merciless work. It was the work of but few hours. The thread was snapped and the woman who was a few months ago happy in tho worship of two bright boys is today a childless maniac. The doctors say she can endure the tax but few weeks at farthest and this will end one of the most blood-curdlihg tragedies ever depicted by the brush of fate. . Since the fatal occurrence two new graves, lying side by side in the little - cemetery tinder the hill, have been scattered with mingled sighs and flow- ' - ers. 'The wooden head boards prosaically prosaic-ally registers Bodie Bloevers and Charles Douglas Bloevers. The former it will be remembered was removed from the buried mass a blacked corpse. The other lingered in dreadful torture for a few hours and then followed his brother to the grave. Mr. Savage, the step-father who abandoned the mother . in March last makes this city his home. The wreck of the family was indeed complete. |