The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-10-02
STATE ITEMS.

ACCIDENT AT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH,
On Wednesday last the scaffolding
erected in the audience room of the
new Catholic Church in this place for
plastering, gave way and fell crashing
to the floor, distance of twenty-three
feet. Two of the plasterers-Mr. Am
brose Snively and Michel Snively-
and Rev. Welch were thrown down with
it. Both plasterers were considerably
injured, one seriously. Rev. Mr. Welch,
however, luckily escaped without injury,
-Grafton Sentinel.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT WITH A THREsH-
ING MAcHINE,-On Tuesday last, Mr..
Jacob Shroyer, of the Coves, Barbour
county, met with an accident while
working with a threshing machine,
that was terrible in its results. A belt
ing-strap got loose near the tumblng-
shaft, and Mr.. Shroyer undertook to
adjust it, when his clothing was caught
by the rapidly revolving shaft, aud in
an instant he was drawn around it, and
before the machine could he stopped,
had made many revolutions, breaking
his limbs and bruising his body in
frightlul manner. His lett arm was
broken in five different places, his
collar-bone broken in two different
places, his right arm broken in two
places below the elbow and once above,
and the right leg broken near the ankle
and knee, and the fractured bone forced
through the flesh, making q terrible
wound.
DR.. Thayer, of this place, and DR..
Harter, of Knottsville, were sent for,
and the mans wounds dressed. DR..
Thayer informs us that there is a
probability that he may recover
GRAFTON Sentinel.
RAILROAD ACCIDENr.-On last Thurs
day morning the Fast Line east collded
with some freight ears at Valley Falls,
badly MASKING the engine and demol-
ishing several passenger and freight
cars, injuring a brakeman seriously.
The brakeman, Mr. Griffith, was stand
ing between the baggage Car and the
front passenger car wEeu the two
closed upon him, breaking both legs
below the knee and the right thigh near
the hip, and MASKING and bruising his
hands badly. He was brought to this
place the same evening and taken to
the Grafton House, where he was at
tended by Drs Dougherty and Thayer
His broken limbs were set and his
condition made as comfortable as pos
sible. The injuries received upon the
right leg were so serious that it was
thought at first that it would probably
be necessary to amputate it, but circula-
ton OF the blood was effected and it
will probably not be necessary. Mr..
Griffith is a young man and belongs to
Philadelphia. The cause of the acct
dent was the breaking of freight
train which was ahead Of the fast line.
Several OF the cars of the freight train
had broken loose in ascending the grade,
and the conductor made efforts to have
the coming train stopped, but from
some cause failed to do so. 1t ran into
the cars with the above result. Where
the responsibility rests seems to be a
question.-GrattOn Sentinel.
HORRIBLE ACCIDgNT-Henry Price, a
colored boy, living on Colonel Chas. L
ROLES place, was burned to death on
last Saturday. He was subject to epiliptic
fits, and during the absence OF those
who had charge of him he fell into the
fire and was burned to death before he
was discov red.-CaJeN Co. Press.
ATTEMPT AT ESCAPE.-Last Wednes-
day evening four Of the prisoners con-
fined in the jail at this place made a
desperate attempt to escape. Officer
Scott was absent at the time and NJ
Wesley Fisher had charge of the Jail.
About 6 o'clock Fisher went into the
cell in which lack. and jeff. Taylor,
Schell and another prisoner were con-
fined to remove the ashes from the
stove. When he entered the door the
four men caught him, threw blanket
over his head and attempted to gag
him. They stifled his cries for help
and made the usual signal for the door
to be opened, Fisher having had II
locked from without. The suspicious
Of a servant girl being aroused at the
noise made in the cell, instead OF imme-
diately opening the door she went to the
window and looked in, and seeing the
position of affairs, she raised an alarm
and several men went to Fisher re-
lease. 1t was only through mere &C
cident that the design was frustrated.
If the door had been opened when the
signal was made nothing could have
prevented the escape OF all the men
named. 1t was found that Fisher had
been pretty roughly handled.-Marion