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Show Richmondites' Awful Accident fl Newly Married Couple Put Into Different ilH Rooms With Tragic Results. '"M Nolls Petoison and Carrie Olsen, si inutile young piopleof Richmond, canto to Logan Wednesday ami were married They decided to remain In the city over night and went to the Eagle hotel. In the "ecstatic ccstacy" that sometimes follows the union of two souls with but a single thought, It was forgotten that the young lady had changed her name, anil when they had finished scribbling on tho register that record bore the names Nells Peterson Pet-erson and Carrie Olsen. Proprietor Zcph Thomas, his faco wreathed in smiles at the thought of getting twodollars where but one had been expected, assigned tho couple two different rooms and proceeded to pilot them to their scparato bunks. Thoyoung people looked at each other rather ruefully and finally tho young man sought to mako a protest, but .eph Is hard of hearing at times and on this occasion paid no attention. At this the newly married swain wilted and meekly followed the bustling bust-ling proprietor to the dllTcrcnt rooms. All went well (apparently) until about 1 o'clock when tho night clerk was almost startled out of his w Its by a half-dressed, slccpy-cycd and altogether alto-gether haggard looking apparition dashing down the stairway. It went up to the register, and, pointing to the two names mentioned above, ytlled, "We're married!" Tho clerk didn't take time to consider the matter mat-ter but grabbed the poker to defend himself. The apparition, with his finger on the names, repeated, "We're married!" "Well, what of ItV" finally said the clci k. "Nothing," said the apparition, "only the boss gavo us two looms " "Oh, that's all rlgtil," Mid the clerk, "we'll only charge you for one. That will mako It satisfactory, won't ItV" "No, It won't," said the now thoroughly thor-oughly exasperated Peterson "I don't want two rooms I want only one and the one SHE is In now." At this the clerk tumbled, but how did he know Nells Peterson and Carrie Olsen weru married? Might this not be some slick "play-actor" trying to give him the razzle-dazzle? With a vague suspicion that some fellow was tiylng to outrage the honor of the house under the gulso of having a marriage certificate which In truth h'ad never been Issued, the wlso night clerk hied himself to the door of that room from tho transom of which soared Mr. Thomas' familiar treble- clef serenade, and by a series of iat-a-tat-tats succeeded in arousing not only tho proprietor but all the sleepers In the vicinity. Ry the time eph had enclosed his Chesterficldlan form In robes more classic and substantial than the abbreviated abbre-viated gauzery In which for hours he had been courting the sleep-God Morpheus, a dozen others In garments at least as white us their faces wcro at their doors making Inquiry as to "tho lire " Mr. Thomas' good right car, so dull earlier In the evening, heard the word "lire," and even as tho blood surged back to his heart and his tongue "clove" to tho roof his mouth, ho grabbed himself by the bosom of his Star Spangled Manner and dashed from the room, which In his fancy was now filled with smoke that was choking chok-ing him. Tho night clerk, who stood outside the door waiting, was bowled over easier than Hon Frank NcbeUcr "HHHfl ev cr disposes ofn bunch at the Rcnner ''HHH alley , and as the excited proprietor of HHH the popular hostelry dashed for 'he j vHHHJ water pipe connection and fire hose at IHHHJ the end of the hallway it was with the -HHHi swiftness of "The Ihglc" and with HHHJ the resounding cry 'HHHJ "Where Is it? Where Is it?" I'HHI "Hero It is! Hern it Is!" came In a wHHI shrill treble from an excited feminine IHHHJ who stood at a door waving what "iHHHl might have been most any article of 'HHhI unnamable apparel, but which in re- 'jBHHJ allty was a roll of paper flHHHj With visions of Tho Eagle burned 'HHHa to the ground and hundreds of guests HHHl Incinerated beforo his eyes, tho HHHJ daughty lire fighter, with a Herculean HHH strength born of despair, unreeled a HHHl hundred feet of hose in the twinkling HHH of an eye, and as a two-Inch stream of HHHJ water played o'er form and feature HHHJ framed In doorways, dashed to the HHHJ rescue of the little woman still frantic- ' wHHJ ally endeavoring to "shoo" the tire 'HHHJ back Into her room. 'WHHJ Onward the light brigade, HHHJ Forward on dress parade, .HHH Volleyed and thundered! "'HHJ eph as he blundered. HHH "Rut where Is the lire?" yelled .eph HHH as ho searched beneath the bed, back HHHJ of tli3 dressing case, under the carpet HHHJ and finally felt of tho radiator, which HHHJ was as cold as Ice "where Is the lire?" rBHH "Fire!" said tho little woman as she HHb turned from a palc-bluo yellow to, a .HHfl sky-blue pink, theie Isn't any lire here. HH "Rut here's the certificate, though," HH and she blushlngly unrolled .i scroll -t-HHfl bearing a big red seal. HHH "Certificate be blowed! Uy wy " HHH "Yes,ccrtlllc:ite,'SaUl the valiant lit- HHJ tic soul "I have been awake ever since HHH I went to bed I heard my husband, HH Nells Peterson, go down stairs awhile 'HHjb ago and tiy to make explanation to HHH the clerk and then I heard tl.c clerk HHfl go to your door. When you lushed HH Into the hall and yelled, " Where Is It,' ' HHh I thought you meant the certificate to HHh show that Nells and 1 wiro married HH1 and here It U, you old mean HHJ HJ With that, Mr. Thomas craw led into HHl the nozle of tho hose and pulled the HHJ hole In after him. The night clerk HHl who had picked himself up In pieces H and hobbled to the last, scene of the H drama, felt satisfied at tho cxplaua- tlon found In the final episode, and H started back downstairs to notify the H wild-eyed Peterson that the darling of H his heart was awaiting him In room H 2.1, but Neils had heard the seraphic H tones of the Richmond siren to whom H he had but a few hours beforo sui- H rendered his birthright and on the H vvlngsof lovo sped toclalm tho biblical return which he had been so cruelly B denied. In his excitement ho ripped HB tho carpet oil the stairs, toro out a section of stair banister, kicked over HH seven water pitchers on the landing HH and finally walked over both eph and HH the night clerk, but nothing stopped HVJ his onward oiogrcss until ho had HH locked himself in tho room with his HH dulclna and pushed the bed against HH HB And there we leave them until the HH second tialn for Richmond next day. 'HH Tui: Rni'uiiMCAN can't vouch for tho .BH eviiel authenticity of each Individual HH incident in this iku rati ve, but these HH arc substantially tho statements that HH came over our grapevine connection HH with tho Journal's special leased who HH tiSenegambla. |