The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-06-14
A FLY-wHEEL BURSTS.

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A FLY-WHEEL BURSTS.
A fearful accident occurred yes
terday morning at the York Iro
Furnace, near Lancaster, Pa. TIL
S immense fiy-wheel, 90 feet in diam
D eter, and weighing about 20 tons
| burst asunder while running at
! speed of 100 revolutions per min
ute. Two segmeBts shot througl
the rolling-mill, cutting the heaY,
timbers OF the mill as if they wer
pipe-stems, passed through tn
roof and landed on the track of tn
Northern Central railway, abou
100 yards distant, breaking one raj
in two pieces and bending others
Three other segments of the vince
and q spoke were forced upward
and carried over the roof of the pud
ding furnace, landing in meadow
in the rear of the mill. These
pieces weigh at least three tons
The saddest part of the affair is the
loss of life. When the immense
| grinders of the rolling mill were
cut through, the whole structure
toppled in a complete wreck. Three
of the workmen, John Miller, Geo.
Knoche and William Wilson were
caught in the debris, and received
such injuries that it is impossible
for them to recover. Wilson is al
ready dead; Knoche is a pitiful
| sight. He had almost made his es-
cape, when his heel caught, and the
falling timbers pressed him down
| n hot h.,r =
in horrible manner. A number
of others were mole or less injur-
ed, but were taken home by their
friends.-[P Philadelphia Telegraph.
VERY FUNNY.-Did you ever see
a woman throw stone at hen
1t is one of the most ludicrOus
scenes in everyday life. We re-
Gently observed the process. The
predatory fowl had invaded the
precincts of a flower bed, and was
industriously pecking and scratch
ing for the nutritious seed or the
early worm, blisstully unconscious
of impending danger. The lady
now appears upon the scene with a
broom. This she drops and PICKS
up a rocky fragment of the Silurian
age, and then makes her first mis-
take-they all do it-of selling the
proiectile in the wrong hand. Then
with malice aforethought, she makes
the further blunder of swinging
her arm perpendicularly instead of
Observation-Disclosures the stone
flies into the air, describing an ir-
regular iiliptical curve, and strikes
the surface of the earth as far from
the hen as the thrower stood at the
time, i'll a course due west from the
same, the hen then bearing by the
compass north northeast by half
east. At the second attempt the
stone narrowly missed the head of
the thrOwer herself, who, seeing
that any further attempt of the kind
would be suicidal, did what she
might have done at first, started af-
ter the hen with an old and familiar
weapon. The moral of which is /:
Stick to the broom-stick.
From members of the circus, the
following history of Prof. Fisher
was obtained: His right name is
Geo. f. Clark, and he is a man
twenty-three years of age. He is
of a most respectable family now
residing in Columbus, Ohio. About
two years since he Joined Grady's !
circus, then travelling IN the North,
as a general utility man, afterwards |
becoming what is known as Scan
dy butcher" While with Grady |
he made one or two ascensIons I'M
der the superintendent of Prof |
Fisher, whose name he afterward |
assumed. In November last he
perfected an engagement with Mr.. |
c. w. Noyes, and has since then
regularly made ascensions.
While in Texas, he was injured by
being dragged through horse rack,
and again in Louisiana he was con-
siderably bruised by being thrown
against the center pole of the circus.
Neither accident was serious in its
results, however, and he continued
his ascensions until yesterday, when
he made his final one.
Before starting yesterday on his
flight to death, he remarked TO n
friend, "Jim this will be my last as
cension in q balloon" and as he
scared away he repeatedly hal
looed: Goodbye, boys" ''good-
bye" and continued waving his
hands until far above the crowd of
spectators. The fatal result of yes
terday's ascension, with the other
flight at Decatur last week, where a
young man was drowned in the
Tennessee river, should convince
every one that this species of dar-
ing is simply foolhardy.
After loosed from the eronaut
yesterday, the huge yellow messen-
ger of death moved about fifty feet
further on and then collapsed. Some
of the "canvas" men of the circus
came after and carried it back dur
ing the afternoon. There will be
no ascension to-day.
Mr.. Clarke, while being removed
to the hospital. never recovered his
consciousness, and last night, about
IL O'Clock, he breathed his last.
From the time the ropes severed,
he never spoke an Ineligible
word. Toward the last his moan
ing ceased, and when his spirit wing
ed its flight, the transit from life to
death was hardly noticed, SO peace
full was it.
The CAPTURED SPEcIE.-Several
of the Virgins banks have claim
before the Senate committee on
claims for about 100000 in specie,
which was captured with JEFF Davis
and turned over to the Treasury
Department in 1865. In 1866 Presi-
dent johnson ordered the money to
be paid to the claimants, but on
consultation with Secretary Stan
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