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THE ASHTABULA DISASTER.

appalling for man’s reason, and those in com-mand seemed to have lost their judgment in theexcitement of the hour and were held by themisunderstanding which so unjustly arose.

There w T as no evidence that this burning wasintended. It is not reasonable to suppose it.The report was entirely untrue, the suspicionwrong, but in the excitement of the hour, itwas felt, and was a strange feature in the event.

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