CHARACTERISTIC INCIDENTS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 6, 6 January 1872, Page 4

CHARACTERISTIC INCIDENTS.

(From the Chicago Tribune, October 10.) At the East St. Louis depot, last Monday evening, considerable confusiou occurred among: the passengers who were board iup the passenger train for Chicago, by an individual, carpet-bag in hand, and very much excited, shoving and pushing the crowd in his desperate efforts to reach the cars. He crowded aside and elbowed men, women, and children, making a nuisance of himself generally. Finally, a gentleman whose ribs had beeu crushed by the excited man's elbows, and his temper ruffled by the unceremonious manner in which he had been hustled, inquired in sharp tones, " What's the matter with you, old fellow ? " Individual iu a hurry — " Must get that train." Other mau — " Well, there is plenty of time, the train does not start for ten minutes ; aud, besides, there are several other people here who want that train." Excited individual — "I must get that train, and that's fixed. I'll get that train if it costs me my life." Other man — " What's the necessity of your reachiog Chicago by this train anyway ? " Man in a hurry —"I must get to Chicago to-morrow on this train, or those people up there will have built up the whole town again, and I won't see them ruins." ANOTHER. On the Monday morniog of the fire, at about six o'clock, at which hour the Tribune building was considered safe, and the people began flocking into Dearbor-street, a man was observed carefully examining the bricks oi the rains of Reynold's Block, picking them up carefully and " feeling " them. An observer asked him to explain his conduct, when he replied, " I was just seeing if they were cool enough to build with again."