“The blue-faced bodies arrived in a freight wagon that parked outside city hall, and when Oskar Janacek’s four-hundred-pound wife saw what had happened to her husband she collapsed in the street. It took three men to lift her onto the boardwalk where smelling salts were administered and then brandy. But Andrea Janacek rallied when she saw the emotional state of the young widows. She insisted on getting to her feet, and then she hugged them to her ample chest and comforted them as she would cryin...g children. But in the end it did little good. People were already leaving town. By midafternoon the hardware store was closed and locked after Mark Logan the proprietor loaded his wife and three children onto a wagon and left for places unknown. Carson’s Rod & Gun followed. Big, laughing Andy Carson and his wife left in the company of the baker Lucas Mellon and his wife Agatha with their brood of seven. More were preparing to leave the next day, filling wagons and even handcarts with supplies and a few sticks of furniture.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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