Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-10-31

Michigan Lake Shore Railroad, was struck
on the head as the train was passing under
bridge at Black Lake Station, the other
day, and received fatal injuries.
The merrinent of wedding at Tion-
lister, Pa, was checked ore evening re-
Gently by the giving way Of one OF the
! beams supporting the floor, the catastro-
phe precipitating the entire bridal party
! into the cellar
AS lady was walking up Jefferson
avenue, Detroit, dog leaped out of a
| second-story window, and alighted upon
her head, demolishing her new love Of a
bonnet, and intiicting some severe bruises
upon her person,
&C. W. Starr was standing on the rear
end Of load of straw at his residence,
near Monroe, Oregon, when the team
started and he was thrown backward to
the ground, striking on his head, receiv-
ing such shock as to completely paralyze
him
AT Indianapolis, Ind, a few days
ago, two valuable race horses came into
collision while practicing in the park, and
one was instantly killed and the other
| seriously injured. The one which was
killed was valued at 100000.
james II. Parmeter, an old resident
of Concord Mich, rose in his usual
health and went to a stand in another
room for some matches, when he was
heard to groan, and fell backward to the
floor, dislocating his neck, and dying in
stantly.
Cornelius Doyle, an engineer on a
freight train of the Michigan Central
Railroad, was run over aud killed by the
express train at the Grand Trunk June
ton, Mich. While waiting for the eX-
press, he sat down upon the track and
fell asleep, and hence the fatal accident.
Arthur Fullen, stopping at the house
Of DR.. Henry Dixon, In Guthrie, Ind,
and retiring for the night found an OBJ
stacle in the way of shutting his room
door. Removing it with his hand, he
found it to be a copperhead snake, which
gave him a poisonous bite, By the free
use of whisky his life was saved
They tried anexperimental blast of
nitro-glycerine on the New Jersey Central
Railroad thesother day. and the explosive
force of the agent was fully demonstrat.
ed. One man who, behind boulder
forty feet off, thought he was out of
danger, had an arm blown off, and was
otherwise terribly mangled. Two others
were fatally injured, and piece of rock
weighing | 900 pounds crashed through
roof of dwelling 200 feet distant.
"A laborer in a salt and lumber mill in
Saginaw, Mich, while fitting belt to a
stave machine, the other day, was caught
by the shaft, whirled around few times,
and set him down again, denuded of
every stitch of clothing No further in
jury was done the man, and wrapping
some rags around him, he went on his
way rejoicing.
A tough storyof tougher dog appears
to an incrcdulous public for belief from
the papers Of Washington County, n Y
A gentleman and his dog, according to
his veracious story, were walking by the
railroad track, when passing train ran
over the dog cutting him in two but
when the gentleman, hoping to re-asscm-
bic his scattered dog, called to him to
come off the track, the part with the head
moved toward him about ten feet, while
the other fragment refused to obey.
About twelve o'clock yesterday, while
the wOrkmen at the lower end of the
canal were letting down large stone
" lIiA u ANl ltht tIlt cihNh pau VI AhC l'l'I
became twisted and kinked. One of the
hands, named Martin Mullen who is a
boy about sixteen years Of age, com
menced loosening the kinks, when the
rope was suddenly twisted aronnd his arm
near the wrist. He was pulled up twenty
feet in the air, when sudden twist cut
his hand off below the wrist Joint, and he
fell to the ground, -Leu5SctJ1e Courier
J0Urnd5
"A man in johnson County, Ga,
while riding in an unfrequented section,
was thrown from his horse, paralyzing
his arms and one leg. Although perfect
~ conscious, he could not move and re-
manned in that situation thirty-six hours.
When he was discovered he was found
to lie in a most pitiable condition. His
face was blistered by the rays of the sun,
his hands lacerated and swollen from the
biting of insects, while his ears were
filed with bugs from which he could not
protect himself. lie says cattle beloved
and paved the earth around him, while
the buz2ards perched upon the trees near
by, waiting, as it appeared, for life to be
come extinct before commencing their
work