Bedford Inquirer And Chronicle

SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—On last Thursday night, about 10 o'clock, a man went to Mr. Oberhaltzer's, in Warwick township, Lancaster county, Pa., knocked at his bed room window, and called him by his name demanded fifty dollars of money in a hurry, or he would set Mr. O.'s house and barn on fire. Mr. O. did not do as requested, and the barn was soon all in flames. It contained forty-seven head of cattle, horses sheep and hogs. Not one head was saved. The family did not dare to go out to save their stock on account of the burglars. A man, after the fire was over, was found under the foreshot of the barn, burned so badly that he could not be recognized. How he come there nobody knows.