The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-02-14
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

worsted mill, ut North Providence, X. L., on
Friday night the I'd, was between 500, 900
and $3OO, 900, with an insurance of $780,
zoo. The mill, which was run night and
day, employed about GOO hands in the ma
nufacture of hoods, breakfast shawls, SON
tags, etc., and when the fire occurred a ter
riblc panic prevailed among the 200 opera
tives in the mill, very many of whom were
females, and rs the watchman refused ut
first to open the doors, they lcaped from the
second and third story window to save them
selves from death by flame or suifocation.
In jumping from the windows. many limbs
were fractured, and other serious injuries
inflicted. There are rumors that some did
not escape, but persisted in the burning mill.
At q party at town Of Avoca, five miles
from Russclville, Ala, thirteen persons, out
of party Of thirty, were fatally poisoned
from drinking whiskcy which, it is sup
posed, had been drugged
East st. Louis is dclectablc locality
Within the last ten days seven men have
been waylaid and robbed there and there.
abouts one has been murdered, three seri-
ously wounded, and a full complement Of
minor crimes has been committed.
railroad train broke through rotten
bridge near Bloomfield. N. j., on the 9th,
"uu SSNeHhl cars were CotHpieleiy Snatcreu
One person was killed and xix severely in
jured.
Mrs. Torrance, wife Of Mr.. William Tor
rance, Of Christian county, ILL.,, committed
suicide on Monday night last by hanging
herself with rope, in an clubhouse. Mrs.
Torrance has been an inmate Of the insane
asylum at jacksonville for several years
past, and was sent home rs incurablc, u
short time since, in obedience to an order
issued by the authorities of that institution
A sensation was created in an Episcopal
church in Rochester OH Wednesday by the
| sudden death Of lady during the reading
of the rsaltsr, and while the words,
Though walk through the valley of the
shadow of death will fear no evil were
being repeated.
1t is rumorcd that Lucius Polk and Capt
Wildwood, Of the Spottswood hotel, Rich
mona, who had an alteration the other
night, met on the 9Th and exchanged shots
Capt. Wildwood was wounded in the stom-
Ach.
A conAagration in Joliet, early on the 7th
consumed the large "Masonic Hall" and
an adjoining building Several stores, the
Republican printing Office, and the hall of
the Masonic fraternity are included in the
ruins. Total loss, $4,000.
Almost at the same hour the Baptist
Church at La Crosse, Wis, was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $15OOO. And a confiagra-
ton at Memphis, Tenn, consumed seven
business buildings. Total loss, $2OO,OGO.
BY the explosion of a boiler in mill at
Petersburg, Va, on the I'd, four persons
were killed and ten wounded.
A strange succession of steamboat disast-
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narrowing casualties which befell the Mis-
souri,, Miami and the Carter we hear of
several more. The steamer American, while
bound up the Arkansas river, few days
since, exploded one of her boilers, between
Lewisburg and VanBuren. We have no
particulars relative to the loss of life. The
American did not have tubular boilers. The
Dora Martin, from Shreveport, bound for
New Orleans, snagged and sunk in Red
| river, with six hundred bales of cotton on
| board, on the 10th ult. The boat is total
! loss, but the principal part of the cargo can
be saved. The steamer Victoria, with one
hundred bales Of cotton, was also sunk in
Bayou DArbonne, few days since. No
particulars.
The Richland (Wis.) Observer notes the
death Of young man named Darius Bible,
% years old, from the kick Of vicious
horse. Mr.. B. was drawing logs, and in
going up hill his horses baked. He stood
behind them and commenced whipping
them, when one of them kicked aud struck
him directly in the forehead. He lived only
about two days thereafter.
The steamer w. r. Carter exploded her
boilers thirty-five miles above Vicksburg, at
o'clock Friday morning The boilers pas
sed forward Of the pilot house, tearing away
the forward part Of the cabin. After the
explosion the boat took FIRE, and continued
to burn till o'clock, compelling all who
had escaped death by the explosion to jump
into the river. The boat soon after went
down. The steamer Evening Star picked
up all survivors floating in the water, and
carried them to Vicksburg. There were
two hundred passengers aboard the Carter.
hundred and twenty five were lost, at the
lowest estimate.
A little four year old son of Mr.. Reeves
of Middletown, CT, fell into well 40 feet
deep. An older brother gave the alarm
and gentleman who was passing lowered
the bucket and drew the child up uninjured,
save good scare and q cold bath.
A small boy in Fond du Lac, Wis, lately,
in attempting to jump on pedler's sleigh,
missed his footing and fell forward under
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perhaps fatal.
On Sunday, 28th ult., the up train on tho
Mobile and Ohio railroad collided with .
down dirt train, near Purdy. The up train
was loaded with soldiers Of the 47th illinois
volunteers, on their way home. Three were
killed and fourteen wounded. The engineer
Of the dirt train, who is said to have been
intoxicated and grossly at fault, was also
seriously injured.
A little girl, six years old, daughter Of
Mr. Alvin NJ. Fisk, Of Baraboo, Wis, had
been left by her mother at neighbours,
where they were ut the time engaged in
making an ointment, composed in part OF
quicksilver and some yirulent poison. These
ingredients were in cup, and were swal-
lowed by the child during temporary ab-
sence of the members Of the family from the
rom. She lived only some twenty minutes
after imbibing the poison.
The Freeport, ILL.,, Northeast says that
little girl, named Hazard, in that city, frozc
both her feet n short time since while spend
ing her :. incoming" at school one cold day,
in the yard, she living at an inconvenient
distance from the school-house, and not be-
ing permitted to occupy the school room
during the intermission.
A man named Wingmiller, living in West
Union, Iowa, struck hog \ slight blow
over the snout with the breech of loaded
rifle, last week. The jar discharged the
weapon, the ball passing through his breast.
A man in Virginia City, Nevada, was
pouring can-full Of coal oil from one can to
another. During the operation, having oc-
CaSiOn to repnlate the sfrpam NV nla cinn his