A Daring Deed.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5840, 1 February 1887, Page 4

A Daring Deed.

How Thomas Flanagan, the Man who Saved General Sherman's Ammunition at Eesaca, Ga., and the lives of 5000 Soldiers, was Severely Wounded. EECONCILED TO HIS LOSS. (From the Louisville, Ky ., Courier Journal.) j The Louisville, Ky., Courier Journal , publishes the following war reminiscence : Police-officer Thomaa Flanagan, 2526, Bank street, is a man of great courage and determination. He served with marked credit throughout the civil war, and is now a prominent member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was the hero of a thrilling adventure at Eesaca, Ga., while serving under Sherman. All the ammunition of this entire army was in charge of his detachment, as also about 1000 wounded. The ammunition was stacked in piles, and the wounded were in tents near at hand. Suddenly a fearful storm came up, and the lightning struck so near the ammunition as to set fire to the tarpaulins covering it. In an instant 5000 people were fleeing in all directions. Flanagan stood his ground. He seized the tarpaulins, all ablaze, and threw them into the creek near by. The rope handles of the ammunition boxes were next found on fire. Flanagan leaped into the creek, bucket in hand. Some of the boxes began to flame up. Still he persevered. He threw them also into the creek, until at last, singlehanded, he succeeded in preventing an exploßion, and the fearful destruction of the lives of the wounded. " There was enough ammunition there, had it exploded," he states, "to have shaken the state." To a question by a reporter, whether he was not rewarded, Mr Flanagan said ?— " The Quarter-master presented me with a canteen of whisky. I never got a pension and never asked for one, though my wife applied for one against my wish." And as to his injuries during the war, he said :— " I was severely wounded at Pittsburgh Landing, where I received a bullet in my leg ; and another leg was crushed at Chicamanga by my horse falling on me, injuring my arm also. Sometimes I have thought my wound 3 and injuries would drive me crazy. I seemed to have a spasm of the bones in my crushed leg. The strongest opiates gave but temporary relief. It must in the end have driven me wild. But recently, upon the recommendation of a large number of acquaintances and friends, I was persuaded to use St Jacobs oil, the great pain cure. It gave me relief in two days, and after one week's use I was entirely cured." Mr Flanagan speaks enthusiastically of his marvellous recovery. " Who were these parties who so highly endorsed St Jacob's oil?" queried the scribe. Mr Flanagan thereupon named numerous persons, and the reporter S9t out to look them up. The first person encountered was Mrs Marie Ginoris, whose beautiful artificial flowers for sale, near the fountain of the Southern Exposition, attract so much attention from all who ccc them, who said she had been a sufferex for more than, two years from sharp pains in the back, as well as in the region of the heart. She was much distressed and exceedingly alarmed by these piins, when she heard some of the exhibitors remarking about the efficacy of St Jacot-d oil. " I tried it," said Madame Ginori&, " and the relief was almost instantaneous. I feel like a new person, and have not finished my first bottle." " Yes," said Lieutenant Chas.W. M'Kim, who lives at Portland, Ky., "I tried St Jacobs oil. For twenty years I have suffered off and on with rheumatism. During the recent rainy and cold weather my suffering was so terrible that I was about to give up my position as an Exposition policeman, when someone suggested the application of St Jacobs oil. I tried the medicine, and its relief was rapid, as in half-an-hour I could stand up ; and, as I no longer suffer with the pains in my ankles, I know St Jacobs oil relieved them, and should the pains ever return, which I do not think probable, I shall certainly give it another trial." Mr Fred. S. Stoddard. cashier of Israel's refreshment stand, and who resides at 803, West Jefferson street, is enthusiastic in his praises of St Jacobs oil. "I suffered/* said he, "with muscular rheumatism to such an extent that I could not step. All the doctors failed to relieve me until I threw their physic to the dogs, and tried St Jacobs oil. In four days, after suffering that number of years, I was entirely well, to my amazement and gratification. The pains were in my chest and iii the region of the kidneys." Mr Stoddard is an officer tinder th*s Registration Act recently passed by the General Assembly of th 3 Commonwealth of Kentucky. " I had rheumatism for nearly four years," remarked Miss May Ulrica, in charge of Pain's celluloid stand, and who resides at No. 1335, Southall street, Louisville, Ky. "It was located in my shoulder. Recently I used St Jacobs oil and it did me more good than anything I ever tried before. It is just splendid." Alexander Hays, a resident of 904, Franklin street, Louisville, Kentucky, is the engineer for the Kentucky Machinery Company, a corporation | which furnishes the motive power to all exhibitors desiring it. Mr Hays' trouble was what lie termed a stitch in the neck, shoulder, and arms. St Jacobs oil is a great remedy," he said, " and I heartily endorse it as such. I was well before I used half a bottle." Mr Chas. M. Coffey, in charge of the cleansing compound exhibit of M. B. Kendricks and Co., of Cincinnati, hearing this conversation, remarked, " I never used it myself; but Miss Gresham, of Cincinnati, who boards at my house, No. 519, First street, feprained her wrist, and tried it. I do not think she used more than half a bottle upon her wrist, and it is now as well as before." Mr Guy West, 610, Shelby street, an attache of the Kentucky Machinery Com- j pany, says : "My wife laid flat on her back for nine months, suffering with inflammatory rheumatism in her sides and face. The first application of St Jacobs oil gave her right smart relief. She did not use two bottles before she could walk about the room. In a week she astonished the household by getting breakfast. It is the best medicine that I ever saw." Officer J. J. Troutman, 733, West Walnut street, says : "My brother Will was sorely j afflicted with rheumatism for ten months ; he couldn't sleep and felt that death would be a relief. The doctors had monkeyed with him for a long while, but all for no good. He tried St Jacobs oil, and before the second bottle had been used was up and able to get around. He has since removed to Wyoming Territory, and has never been troubled with it again. I regard his cure as little less than miraculous. St Jacobs oil's efficacy cannot be too highly praised." Mrs Mary Parfitt, a young lady connected with the glass hen exhibit, and re* elding at 1691, Second street, told the reporter that she had suffered with rheumatism for nearly eleven yearo, contracted while skating in Canada. Physicians had tried in vain to cure her. One day her mother, who suffered with severe neuralgic pains in her face, bought a bottle of St Jacobs oil, and taking a 'stand near the stove in the kitchen, rubbed the spot where the pain was situated, and was surprised to find the relief so great, and later on, feeling the same old pain about her thighs, called in old St Jacob again, meeting with the Bame successful relief as at first* She then made her daughter use it, and instead of staying in bed bemoaning her fate, she is now well and earning sdols a-week. Mr J. F. Haydn, of No. 1616, First street, Louisville, Ky., is the gatekeeper at the Southern Exposition. As manager of the turnstiles be has to remain in tbe open air from 11. o'clock in the day until 11 o'clock at night. The chilly atmosphere of autumn nights made him a victim of acute rheumatic pains, from which he suffered many months. He tried St Jacobs oil. " I never saw anything act better; it is the best thing I ever saw," he said, with enthusiasm, on being asked about the remedy. " I must heartily endorse it for all' it claims." I