The Ouachita Telegraph - Distressing Casualty Date: Mar. 2004 Submitted by: Lora Peppers ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** The Ouachita Telegraph March 29, 1866 Page 2, Column 3 DISTRESSING CASUALTY.-A couple of gentlemen living on Boeuff river, were out hunting hogs, when becoming tired, they dismounted, and hitching their horses, lay down to sleep near an old tree on fire. Eight days after this a neighbor was hunting in the vicinity, when, attracted by the barking of his dog, which would come to no calls, he went to the spot where the men lay down and found that the tree had fallen across the head of one, and across the chest of the other. One of the horses had broken loose, the other was still standing where, eight days before, he had been tied. One of the gentlemen, a Mr. Day, leaves a wife and six children in distressed circumstances. The wife's history has been rather a sad one of late years. The conscript authorities, alway(s) too loose or too rigid, dragged her first husband from home and sent him to Shreveport in a cart. His wife followed just in time to see him conscripted by death. She returned home, and in about a week, had her house with every thing she possessed but a wheel a saddle, and a pair of cards, burned up. After frequent impotunities she married Mr. Day, who was a widower with three children, which added to her own, made six. This helpless charge is now left upon her hands. Her condition calls loudly for relief, and we trust it will be afforded at once by those of our citizens who have and (sic) to spare-and there are not many who have not in such a case. # # #