Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-12-11
Incidents and Accidents.

Incidents and Accidents.
while some.men were excavating for
.,,ts under the sidewalk of new build
10 Cleveland, Ohio, recently, the earth
s ss way and Lewis Heisel was thrown
v;olently against stone pier as to
saak in the skull and cause almost i'm
mediate death.
Elder James Hammond of Wexford,
p T. was killed lately by being thrown
rom a carriage at Davisville. He was on
his way to Frenchtown to hold an even
mo meeting, when the horse became
sr;ghtened, and while proceeding over a
h,;dce the carriage struck the abutments,
and Elder Hammond was thrown into the
water
Among the thousands who wear al
naca cloth, very few know what it is
made of. The alpaca goat is q species of
llama. whose home is in the mountain re-
lions of Peru. It lives on the coarsest
fare, the scanty heritage Of the rocks, and
has beautiful wavy coat of light chest
nut.brown wool, which is nearly foot in
length, very soft and elastic, and nearly
az fine as that of Cashmere goat. This
il sheared off and sent to England, where
Il is sorted, dyed, steamed, singed, and
turned into the market.
-One day recently, resident Of De
troit, Michigan, named Kinney, was stop
ned by highway robber, who made the
usual demand. Kinney, who is slow and
thoughtful, considered the matter, and an
swered that he had but So in his wallet.
that he was out of work, and had large
family on his hands. The robber doubted
his word, and Kinney exhibited the mon
ey, the robber striking match SO that he
could see, but holding his face away from
the light. When he had inspected the
bill, he handed it back, with the remark
that he wouldn'trob working man, and
that he had more money than that in his
own wallet.
AT Canton, ILL.,, recently, Miss Addie
Bower, while riding on horseback, was
suddenly thrown off backward. Her
riding.skirt caught upon the saddle-horn
and held fast, the horse starting to run.
By an extra effort she managed to grasp
the saddle and partially raise herself, but
the girth was loose and the saddle partial
" turned with her. The horse ran up
ward of a mile with the lady hanging in
this manner, her body occasionally strik-
ing the ground, and being struck by the
horses legs. Miss Bower retained her
presence Of mind, and maintained her
grip upon the saddle. The horse was
finally stopped by running into the fence,
and Miss Bower released herself. For
tunately no bones were broken, but her
nervous system sustained such severe in
iuries that it was feared she could not re-
cover.
One of those terrible accidents which
so shock the heart, and for which all are
so little prepared, occurred few days
ago at Burlington, Iowa. At the planning
mill of w. e. Cook 81 Co., a six fue boil
er, one of three similar, exploded in
the middle, tearing the roof from over
head, hurting pieces of the iron boiler,
brick and solid iron distance of at least
200 feet in every direction, and dashing
out the brains of Henry Provost who was
standing near by warming himself. The
mill had been running about three-quar-
ters of an hour, had stopped, and while at
least ten or twelve of the employees were
warming themselves near the boiler, the
explosion occurred. Provost was instant
ly killed, and seven others were more or
less injured. The boilers showed evil
dence of having been heated to a red heat,
and with only six inches ofwater. Either
culpable, careless, criminal neglect, or
gross incompetency, equally to be con-
demned, are at the bottom of the fearful
accident.
"A short time ago there was received
at the Office of the New York Comptroller,
a small wooden box about eight inches
long and four inches wide, neatly
wrapped up in paper, and addressed,
"Hon. Andrew FL. Greene, Comptroller,
Personal" One of the doorkeepers
opened the box, and found it contained
another box, with sliding lid. Suspect
ing evil of some kind, instead of drawing
the lid he inserted knife inside the box,
intending to open it in that way. On
Withdrawing the knife blade, several
grains of powder fell out into his hand.
He at once threw the box into pail of
water, and, after it had remained long
enough to allow the thorough saturation
of its contents, he removed and cut it
open. 1t contained about half pound
OF loose gunpowder, and eighteen metal
lie cartridges of the kind used in the
largest size of Smith 81 Wesson revolvers.
A piece of Emory paper was fastened to
the under side Of the sliding bed, and on
1t rested the heads of several lucifer
matches. The continuance was such that,
should the lid be removed even half an
inch, an explosion would be inevitable,
and it would seem impossible for the per-
son who opened it, or others standing
near, to escape severe injury, if their fate
was not instant death.