Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-09
Incidents and Accidents.

Richard Nicholson, of Sarnia, Mich,
was killed by falling tree.
William O'COnnor, a youth living in
st. Paul, was gored to death by bull
Mrs. Mary Quinn, of Milwaukee,
caught her clothes on fire at the stove
and was burned to death before disc0v.
cred.
A man at Montclair, n. J., was kick
ed to death by horse, while taking some
oats into his stall to feed him.
Mrs. Thomas Kane, Of West Warren,
Mass, died from the effects Of ether
taken in order to have some teeth ex-
tracted
William Bowles, brakeman, fell from
freight train near Martinsville, Ind,
and was crushed to atoms.
"A boy named John Walsh threw
putty balls at companion, at NIilwau-
kee, and put out an eye.
"A little girl named Alice Sheldon, of
Chicago, fell into a bucket of boiling
water and was scalded to death.
A man in Nebraska died, recently,
from the poisonous effects of the mercury
in an amalgam, with which some of his
teeth had been filled.
"A young son Of F. B. Machold, o.
Columbus, O., upset coal oil lamp, and
was so seriously burned by the fluid that
he died in great agony.
By the caving in of the sides of a
ditch at ST. Louis, on the premises of the
Insane Asylum, four labOrcrs lost their
lives. 4 fifth was taken out uniniured.
Mrs. Patty Morse, of West Campton,
n. H., was slightly scratched on the arm
by kitten. During the night her arm
began to pain her. 1t subsequently grew
worse, and in spite of medical aid she
died.
"A few days since, in Hartford, Conn,
three little boys, from eight to twelve
years old, got on sled to go down a
slight declivity, and went at such speed
that they all went into the river, and two
of them were drowned.
AT Granville, Wis, a rail on the Mil.
waukee & st. Paul Railroad broke over a
rotten tie, precipitating the entire train
down an embankment fourteen feet high.
Two men were fatally and twenty serious
~ wounded.
Joseph Camp, young man about
thirty years of age, residing near Waka-
tomaka, Ohio, was accidentally shot with
rifle, the ball entering the back and
passing through The liver. He died about
three hours after the accident.
Mrs. Eliza Durfee, of Newport, r. T..
was SO badly burned by her clothlns
taking fire, that she died the same night.
She was burned almost to crisp from
head to feet. She was alone with her in
valid husband when it occurred, and he
could give no account Of how it hap
pened.
Hugh Padden, a section overseer on
the HastingA& Dakota Railroad in Min
nesota, while aiding in unloading tee-
graph poles from moving train, was hit
by one Of the poles and knocked sense
less, and, falling under the cars, had both
legs cut off, and every bone in his body
broken His death was instant.
AT Cleveland, O., a girl ten years old
attempted to fill a burning lamp with
kerosene from can. An explosion i'm
mediately followed, covering the child
from head to foot with blazing oil. She
rushed into the next room, where her
mother and two younger children were,
and then into bedroom. where she fell
dead, killed by inhaling the flame The
mother, frightened out of her senses,
seized her youngest child and tried to
break open window, badly decorating an
arm with the glass. At this critical mo-
meRt the father, Patrick Jacobs, was near
ing his home, coming from his work, and,
seeing the flames set by his daughter
burning clothes and by the scattered oil,
he fastened into the house, and, with the
help of the alarmed neighbors, succeeG ed
in eXtlnguishlng the fire, but too late to
save the girl. The other children were
bad y but not seriously burned, and the
mother was so weakened by the loss of
blood that she tainted and lay all nj ght in
a critical condition.