Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-06
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.



from the stove. sr
James Manning, in trying IN get on
departing train on the Ohio & Mississippi
Railroad AT Louisville. Ky, tie other dag
fell between the cars and was literally tori
TO pieces.
a shanty, occupied by a famil,
named Kelly. st Toledo. Ohio, was dc
stroyed by fire the other morning, ant
Kelly, his wife and grandchild per
ished in the flames.
A. G. Laughlin, of Kane County, Ill.
was cleaning his plow recently, when ibt
horses attached to 1t started, and tht
point entered his abdomen, so severely
wounding him that he died.
A train on the Pennsylvania Railway
ran over horse near Greenwich Point,
the other morning, and eleven freight cars
were thrown from the track. the engi
neer was killed and the fireman badly
wounded
-Four small boys at jacksonville, H.
set fire to pile of straw in a cellar. One
OF them. Johnny McSherry, was so Sc
verely burned that he died, and boy
named Corcoran was nearly suffocated by
the hot smoke.
A sad accident occurred at ViroQua,
Wis, the other day A young man named
Perry Allen was accidentally shot in the
woods, while in pursuit Of game for his
sick wife. The wife has become insane,
blaming herelf as the cause Of her bus-
bands death.
Dallas Parker was killed at Dubuque,
Iowa. the other evening, while descending
a mineral shaft to recover a bucket The
"a - LrnLn lattinn
him fall distance Of 10S feet. His body
was brought 10 the surface after some de-
lay, but life was extinct.
y. Two boys at Keokuk, Iowa, we're com
pletely buried by the sliding Of a gravel
bank, from which they were loading a
wagon, few days ago. One Of the boys
received very severe internal injuries, and
had leg so badly broken that fragments
of bones projected through the flesh
"A young man named Alex. Merri-
man. twenty four years Of age, died recent
ly near Altoona, Iowa. from injuries re-
ceived by being caught on tumbing-rod
Of threshing machine The knuckle.
joint Of the rod caught 10 his clothes just
below the bowels, horribly mutilating him.
AT Kalamazoo, Mich, the other day,
a negro, while engaged in putting belt
on pulley, was caught by the shafting
and carried around at a fearful rate, his
body being beaten 10 a jelly. One foot was
thrown through hatchway and found on
the roof.
AN accident occurred on the Kansas
City Road, the other morning, near Trad
er's Point, Neb., to freight train. Seven
cars were ditcbed A brakeman named
Parker, who was on fiat car, was almost
instantly killed by the car turning com
pletcly over and falling upon him and
crushing him.
"A boy named Edward Parker, at May
field, H., was recently leading colt, and
for better security tied the halter strap
around his waist. The animal ran and
dragged the boy around the field for half
an hour, continually tramping upon him.
When recovered almost every bone in the
body was broken, and the flesh reduced
TO a mass of pulp.
"A Winona Mimi Polander, had an
interesting experiment the other night.
He tried to see how near he could hold
lighted match TO the kerosene can while
he filled the lamp. He got the top Of the
lamp unscrcwed, had the Oil ready TO
pour, struck the match and-"the subse-
quent proceedings interested him no
more" 1t was only by the op)ortunc ar
rival Of passcrby that the house was
saved from burning.
The boiler Of a portable steam engine,
used in the town mill ut Lake Crystal,
MINI, exploded recently, instantly killing
Mr.. s. j. Phelps. one Of the proprietors.
At the time he was sitting behind the en-.
CINE, and the explosion severed his head
entirely from his body, throwing the latter
a distance of several rods. The head was
torn TO atoms, and scattered in all direc-
tons. Several Of the employees were
slightly injured.
AT Hopkint0n, Iowa, recently, man
who was feeding threshing machine had
an eve put out A stick eighteen inches
long flew from the cylinder and was driv-
en- with such force, that when he graspcd
the stick to pull IL out he was unable to
do so with both hands, and only succeed
ed in breaking it off close up to the orbit
Of the eye, after he had braccd himself to
nut his greatest force on the pull. II took
his attending surgeon the better part OF
two days to remove the portion of the stick
left embedded in his eye.
The othor day the prairie was set on
fire by sparks from the railroad engine
about two and half miles east of Bur
lingamc, Kan, near the house of Robert
NcPhilamy. Mr.. McPhilamy, with others
went to put out the fire, leaving his wife
at the house to take care of the children
but she became anxious, and went to as
sist in extinguishing the fire. Unfortu
nately, her clothes caught fire, and before
her husband could reach her she was bad
ly burned, In fact, almost literally roasted
alive.
Cora Wilson, q girl Of fifteen, died a
Shoreham, VT, recently, after suffering
for year from very singular disease
and one that was beyond the ken of tn
physicians. She was completely paralyzet
could not even move her little finger
and every particle of her hair, even TO he
eyebrows, dropped of, and thick incrus
tation formed over her entire body. Thi
scab was white az snow, and would drol
offregularly every month, leaving her ski
soft and tender, but anew one would form
within twenty four hours. Her appetite
was even good, and she has suffered littl
pain. No physician who attended he
ever heard OF q similar case.
The most horrible and heart rendinl
occurrence we have heard OF In some tim
was the burning Of J. c. SCOTS dwelling
three miles east Of Clarksburg, Tenn,
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