Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-04-30
Incidents and Accidents.

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+ Incidents and Accidents.
HOLSTERS and milk, in unlimited GUAM
titles, killed colored man in New Haven,
|. the other day. 1Tfrc fgfnF fult1
Many animals were killed by light
ming during late thunderstorm in Mas
sachusetts and Rhode Island
A boy fell into distillery vat of boil
ing slop, in Chicago, the other day, and
was so badly scalded that he died.
|. Several families in Springfield, Mass,
have recently been made seriously sick by
eating unwholesome oysters.
. Mrs. A. w. Allen, of Vergennes,8 VT,
was painfully burned recently by the mis-
taken application of vitriol instead of pain
killer for lame back.
A forgotten meerschaum called back
the clerk of the Fairhaven (Mass.) Bank.
the other evening, just in time to prevent
a robbery and secure the robbers d.
A man by the name of William J.
Handy chokcd 10 death while trying to eat
Rhode Island beefsteak, at Providence,
the other day f Nt-.-.,,-. ,-
Robert Delaney, of New Orleans,
caused the death of his eldest son, aged Il
years, by the accidental explosion of re-
volver which he was showing linn how to
load The father has gone insane. I1Q
A letter has been picked up on the
lake shore near Chicago, purporting to
have been written by a passenger on
board the ill-fated steamer Sea Bird, while
the boat was burning. 1t is signed Carl
BOsthwick, West-"
Among the ashes of the Erie Railroad
wreck was found body, and on il an ac-
cident insurance ticket for $4,000, around
which the fire had burned everything
away, but leaving this, and thus identify
ing the charred remains.
An old lady of seventy-seyen years
accidentally stepped off the platform of a
car, when under full Roadway, on a New
York railroad, the other day, and was af.
| forwards found composedly sitting by the
side of the track, in an uninjured cOndi-
ton. ru ..-.-. ,t..t ..-.l
A little girl eight years old, i'm st.
Louis, recently poured kerosene oil into a
CRATE to assist in kindling fire, when an
explosion occurred, setting her clothes on
fire. Her mother attempted to save the
child and was herself severely burned
The child died of her injuries.a--
"A, Hartford, CT, man had the blades
at both ends of pen knife open, and
dropped it. As it fell, he Instantly closed
his legs to prevent it from going to the
floor, and a blade went into each leg a
considerable distance, severing an artery,
which weakened him by the loss Of blood
before the wound could be dressed.
in Cleveland, recently, a woman gave
her little boy piece of pie, and seeing
him, shortly after, rolling on the floor in a
paroxysm of pain, recollected that in open
ing the bottle from which the fruit was
taken to make the pie, she had broken it,
and pieces of the glass, had got into the
fruit, portion of which the child had
swallowed The recollection came too
late. fitfis 81 sea fsst ei issf q. eH
I'm one of the burning cars in the late
accident on the. Erie Railroad, was an un-
known gentleman Imprisoned bya bar of
iron, but help reached him Just as the fire
began its fearful work. upon him. His
screams were frightful When he was re-
leased he was covered with blisters, his
clothes in smoking rags. He ran off yell
ing fearfully, and nothing has been seen
OF him since. tsuifftsq isii1ssss gisss i.s.
"A couple of young men at Petersburg,
Ill, on the 22d, were engaged in firing on
a rusty cannon i'm celebration of the result
of the recent municipal election in Chica-
go, when premature discharge took place
blowing off both hands and severely burn
ing the face of one, and taking of one
hand and also burning the face OF the
other. Their names are w. j. Este1i, Jr.,
rand Charles Mills.asi srsf aie.Ts''sarf isfl
"A Beckett man, the other day, hitched
his oxen to the butt of lodged tree and
freed it from its rest to fail into the fork
of another tree, where the top overbal-
anced and jerked the other end twenty
feet high, carrying the oxen with it, To
relieve them from choking, he with fif
teen-foot pole managed to see-saw the tops
so that their hind feet could occasionally
touch the ground, and continued 50 doing
for four hours before aid arrived TO climb
up and release The tree The cattle were
saved 4,s- t,,--t -
"A survivors Of the Erie disaster tells
! the following :" In the mail car were thir-
teen of the worst cases Of wounded. In
this car We found q young lady, Miss Lib
bic Grayes,H Of Binghampton, n. Y, one
! of the : two or three ladies on the train
! who were IN the car that remained stand
ing on the track. She. had worked for
J nearly four hours before our train left the
scene Of the saccident, bathing the wounds,
washing off the blood, and bandaging the
broken, bruised and iacerated limbs Of the
poor victims. - Unable to find cloth to
bandage with, she had removed her skirts
| from her person and torn them up into
bandages, and had given her stockings TO
/ relieve the wants of one poor and needy
i person She worked incessantly, and her