The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-11-29
Incidents and Accidents.

A woman in Pennsylvania recently ex-
ploded kerosene lamp by blowing down
the chimney. The report was like mus
ket, and the careless woman, Mrs. Mathews.
narrowly escaped death A portion of the
lamp was thrown with great violence against
one of her eyes, and the brass neck Of the
lamp within which the chimney was set, was
blown into many pieces.
Mrs. Eliza Alison, aged sixty-seven years,
in Avon, Rock county, Wis, while watching
with sick child, got asleep sitting too near
the stove, her clothes took fire and burned
completely off her body up to her waist.
She was terribly burned, the flesh being
fairly roasted off the bones Of her limbs.
She survived until next day when death put
an end to her terrible sufferings.
man in Providence, r. l., recently de-
keeping. A cold snap coming on while he
fire in the stove and the hard earnings of
years were in moment reduced to ashes.
Mrs. Bonner, resident of Erie, Pa. was
so shockingly burned, last week by the ac-
cidental overturning of q kerosene lamp,
that she died in great agony.
Among the death recently registered in
London was that of an infant from a splinter
Of wood, swallowed accidentally in little
sugar, causing perforation Of the bowels.
A man passing through mill in Lockport
N, Y. was sucked in and buried under TWEEN
ty feet of grain, being smothered before he
could be removed. Rm
Twochildren, named Antoine Morle, aged
FIVE years, and Hervaiso NORM, three years
of age residing with father ut Wellington
Bridge, near Montreal, were recently scald-
ed to death by the upsetting Of pot Of
boiling water. The children were sleeping
beside the stove, when u man came into the
house drunk, and while attempting to light
his pipe upset the stove and large pot Of
boiling water upon the children.
Ast. Louis lady's hoops caught on the
steps Of a street car as she was alighting,
and the mishap being unobserved by the
driver, his horses were started rapidly and
the lady dragged some distance over the
stones. Though severely bruised, she was
not dangerously injured.
Henry Rover, of Toledo, had difficulty
with his wife, and put pistol in his mouth
and fired it off. He never knew what hap
pcned after he pulled the trigger.
A man near Lansing, Iowa, got married
and then hung himself
The Bloomington, Tll } Pdntagroph says
that ". II Lawrence, formerly q compositor
in that Office, fell head first into well, about
sixty feet deep on Friday evening and was
taken out but little hurt.
On Thursday, a freight train on the Tole-
do Wabash nd Great Western railroad was
thrown off the track at Island Grove station.
The locomotive and several cars were smash
ed; the engineer, David Johnson, was kill
ed; and the fireman, Mr.. Us brother was
seriously injured.
Dr. Chambers, Of Kingston, N. r., was
beset by two stout highwaymen in a lonely
part of the road few nights since and his
money demanded. The doctor said, "Well,
if must give up my money had better do
it," So he quietly took off his glove, and,
putting his hand into his side pocket, he
drew out-not his pocket book-but neat
revolver, and bringing it to bear in an in
slant, he shot one OF the robbers dead. The
other other rufian then fired at the doctor,
but the ball went harmlessly through his
hat The doctor then took his turn again,
and wounded the fellow severely. lie then
rode back to Kingston and made known the
facts, but, on returning, the wounded man
had escaped,