The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-10-16
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.

CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.
Two freight trains collided at Dayton,
Mich, q few days since. Engineer Ben.
nett was seriously hurt, and fireman and
brakeman slightly injured.
H. ]. Shredder, q laborer at the Rock
Island (lll) Arsenal, was lately struck by
q large piece of rock thrown up by q
blast, and terribly mangled. Death fol-
lowed.
Thomas Randall, of Woodstock, VT,
sitter 80 years. Incarceration in the Brattle-
boro Insane Asylum, has lately been re-
leased and pronounced cured. He is "a
years old.
"A few evenings since son of P. p.
from his horse, striking his head against
a fence and breaking his skull. He died
from the effects of his fall in one hour
"A teacher at the Rockwell street
school house, Cleveland, O., named Miss
Jennie NJ. Silcox, died recently from in
juries received few hours previously by
falling down the steps of the school build.
ing.
I'm the town of Clyman, Dodge Co.,
Wis, the other morning, German named
August Tormy was caught by the tum-
bling rod, wound around it two or three
times, and so badly hurt that he was not
expected to live.
Willy Fountain and John McCallis-
ter. colored boys aged about ten, were
shooting birds with revolver near Cairo,
ILL.,, a few days ago, when the revolver in
Fountains hands was accidentally dis
charged, instantly killing McCallister.
Charles Galpin, aged Is, while care.
lessly handling loaded gun recently, at
Southwick, Mass, laughingly remarked
to his sister that he would shoot himself,
at the same time drawing the gun toward
him, muzzle foremost, when it exploded,
lodging nearly the whole charge of shot
in his brain, killing him instantly.
AN accident occurred in the tunnel at
Fifth Street and Washington avenue, st.
Louis, lately, which caused the death of q
young man named William Johnston.
Johnston was attending to one of the ma
chimes for hosting the earth from the ex-
cavation, when he slipped and fell, receiv-
ing internal injuries from which he died
shortly after.
If ever man suffered three deaths
in one, Mr.. Arnold, of johnson Co., Mo-.
has so suffered. Recently, in attempting
to extinguish the flames of q burning
threshing machine, the insatiate thresher
caught him, of course. To save him from
burning, friend considerably seized an
Ak and chopped off his leg with three
stout blows. The victim died, of course.
"A brave young woman, Minnie Jack.
son by name, rescued an old woman from
being run over in the Providence, r. l.,
streets the other day, stopping runaway
horse just as he was about to pass over
the old woman, who had fallen down
from fright, and herself receiving con-
siderable injury to her arm. Miss Jack
son seems to be obtaining quite reputa.
ton for her deeds of heroism, having
saved small child from similar fate
less than year ago.
"A young lady of Jacksonville, ILL.,,
named Ellen Summers, said to be slightly
deranged in mind at times, boarded a
passenger train on the Toledo, Wabash s.
western Railroad the other evening, and
when just outside the city limits she, for
some unknown reason, stepped to the
platform and leaped from the train while
it was in rapid motion, breaking one of
her legs, and badly, and it is feared fatal.
ly, injuring herself otherwise.
AS a streetcar was crossing Almond
street, st. Louis, the other evening, a
heavy transfer wagon collided with it and
broke its brake. The car started again,
but the horse became frightened and ran
away, and, in endeavoring to check him,
the driver broke the other brake, and the
car became manageable. There was
another car Immediately in advance filled
with ladies who became greatly alarmed
at the prospect of being run into, and
jumped from the car in the face of the
runaway horse. Mrs. O'Malley was run
over, and her skull so badly fractured that
she died in few minutes. Mrs. Mary
Ryan had her leg broken, and nearly
every one in the car was more or less in
jured. The driver of the runaway horse
was also badly bruised and cut.
Recently, old Squire Vaulx, we'll
known colored man of jackson, Tenn,
while cleaning out well, was imprison-
ed for four hours by the caving il of the
curbing and walls of the WELL The curb
ing from two sides of the well caught him
midway the body, while other pieces
formed kind of roof over his head,
against which the caving dirt pressed,
holding him prisoner and yet saving
him from certain death. In this immi-
nent peril he remained for three or four
hours, and yet was rescued without serious
injuries. Whites as we'll as blacks dug
and otherwise worked to save him, and
to their untiring efforts, he owes his life.
The San Diego (Cal) World tells of a
fQrrlhI0 Nnrnhof hofv 80
lioness and Jake Bergman, supervisor
of that county. One day recently Berg.
man was aroused by the peculiar noises
made bv his stock. He looked down the
valley and saw his cattle grouped together
in hollow square, the calves in the
center. A rampant of horns was present
ed to whatever danger might menace. He
LETT the house without arming himself,
and in passing a clump of trees was at.
tackled By large California lioness. The
ferocious animal mastered him, and tore
his breast and arms. An Indian servant
arrived to the rescue. The lioness pounc.
ed on the Indian, and was mangling him
fearfully, when Bergman struck the beast
on the head with heavy club, killing it.
The lioness measured six feet from the
nose to the tip of the tail. On being cut
OPSAA AVo 0GOAA0NA W do AOuuN W Cmptys
leading to the conclusion that it had been
made unusually ferocious by hunger.
Industrial.
-Twenty.two ships are building al
Bath, Me-, giving employment to 1900
men.
New Haven, Conn.,, claims 347 manu-.
factories, employing q capital of $12, 600,
600 and 5000 hands.
The lumber and salt operations OF
Bay City, Mich, have agreed to a reduc-
ton of wages of twelve and o half per
cent.
One hundred tons of American bar
iron were recently sold at Liverpool, at
Eli los, thus undertaking the English
market.
One million three hundred thousand
pounds of zinc ore was recently turned in
at CRANKY, Mo-, in one week, and 133, 900
pounds Of lead mineral.
Bennington, Vt, has nine knitting
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