Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-02
Incidents and Accidents.

Fourteen lives have thus far been
lost in the construction of the East River
bridge, New York.
BERTHE Pfauff, daughter of Peter
Pfauff, of Rapldan, Mimi, was choked to
death with small pebble.
"A child of John Schiarle, OF Chelsea,
Mich, was burned to death by its clothes
taking fire at the stove.
BY the burning of street car stables
in Brooklyn, n. Y, seventy horses were
burned to death.
Joseph Watson died at Cleveland, O.,
from disease said to have been caused
by hanging green wallpaper.
-Ignatius Hurlbut, of Bellevue, Wis,
pitched his loaded shotgun into wagon,
and has gone to the happy hunting
grounds.
"A three-ye old child of John Reed,
of Vernon, Iowa, died the other day from
bleeding of the gums, they having been
wounded by fall
"A youth of Atkinson, Kansas, drank
two quarts of raw whisky on q wager
and his epitaph runs: "He smiled and
died"
Alfred Elliot. of Nooseport, Ind, was
thrown from loaded wagon the other
day, which passed over his back, causing
death IN few hours.
"A little daughter of Jacob Rider, of
Carpenter, Iowa, was frozen to death.
She lost her way coming from neigh
boris and was overcome by the cold.
By the fall of scaffolding in the
new addition of the Cincinnati Water
Works building, eight workmen were
precipitated down a distance of eighty
feet, killing four and iniuring the others
seriously.
The boiler in Cooks saw mill, at
Paw Paw, Mich, exploded, killing in
stantly Charles Gates, engineer, and
Charles Winegardner, laborer, and iniur-
ing three others. The mill was total
wreck.
A farmer named Kelley, living near
Dubuque, Iowa, while handling bits from
the mouths Of diseased horses, got some
mucous on bruised finger. The poison
rapidly spread, resulting in the amputa-
ton Of his arm. 1t was thought he would
lose his life.
New York babies are said to ''play
horse" with great attention to details.
One very young woman up town cut up
her mothers toilette cushion, ruined a
carpet, and nearly scalded a younger
brother to death, treating him to bran
mash for "play" epizootic
"A practical chemist the other day
| dropped weight into tin can that had
contained nitro glycerine, to see if any
| explosive matter adhered to it. Up to
| the present time no inquest has been held,
as nothing can be found for the coroner
to sit upon.
Miss Sarah Peters has place to hang
one earring only, since she rammed her
head out Of a car window on the Penn
| sylvania Railroad, the other day, to hear
what was going ON outside. A bridge
| came along and amputated her ear very
successfully without using chloroform
"A train Of cars ran into a wagon near
| st. Joseph, No, the other day, killing G..
| W. Reno, F. II. Jones, and Mrs Hannah
Bransella, and fatally injuring John Bim-
inge and Susan Molkly. The horses took
fright at the locomotive and ran on the
track in front.
! AT Providence, r. l., two men who
were employed at wood chopping kept up
a warm fire under an overhanging rock.
| While they were warming themselves by
the fire the rock suddenly cracked with
! the heat and tell on them, and their bod
les were found under it couple of days
afterward
| An unlighted lamp, filled with kero-
sene, exploded the other day, in the house
of 7. j. Sawyer, Jr., in Noank, Ct, in
broad daylight. The lamp had been
burning several nights, and the wick,
which fitted closely, had become air tight
from incrustations. Mr.. Sawyer built a
warm fire in the room, which generated a
naphthaline gas, and caused a pressure
beyond the capacity of the lamp to sus-
tain.
AS Mrs. Jacob II. Greybill. residino
near Petersburg, Pa, was sitting at the
| table with her youngest child in her lap.
| the child caught hold of and overturned
lighted coal oil lamp, which was at
once broken, and in an instant the room
was filled with flames. Mrs. Grevbill
and five of her children were all badly
burned, the youngest SO severely that it
died the next night, and it was feared that
the next youngest would also die
As Mrs Jacob H. Greybill. residing
near Petersburg, Pa, was sitting at the
table with her youngest child in her lap.
the child caught hold Of and overturned