Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-02
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

"A laborer named johnson, employed
in a brick-yard at Carver, Ill, fell from
the bank to the bottom of the clay pit,
short time ago, and broke his neck.
Charles Mcclellan, employed upon
the schooner Contest, in the harbor Of
Kenosha, Wis, got up the other night
saying he was sick and would sleep on
deck. During the night he rolled over
board in his sleep and was drowned.
s. Brown was recently killed while
at work in sash and blind factory at
Norwich, Conn. A stick struck him in
the abdomen, penetrating four inches.
He pulled it out, and, walking about ten
feet, said: Il am a dead man." and i'm
mediately expired.
Otto Schmidt fell from velocipede
at East Saginaw, Mich, the other night
The lad had under his arm long-necked
bottle, which, in the fall from the veloci-
pede, was broken, the pieces of broken
glass entering the boys stomach, cutting
a hole from which his intestines pro-
truded. He lived about twenty hours.
"A few days since William Tumble
son, Of BentOnville, Ohio, started out to
hunt ground hogs, and made an appoint
ment with his son to meet him at GER
tain place later in the day The son
came earlier than the father expected
and lay down under a tree to await his
arrival. The father came up, mistook
him for a ground hog, and discharged a
load of shot into his head from which
the boy died in an hour.
"A horrible accident occurred at
Minneapolis, Mimi, the other morning
A man named Hayes crawIed under a
shaft to remove loose shingles His
clothing caught in the rapidly-revolving
shaft, and the body of the unfortunate
man was hurled round and round and
against the floor by the shaft before the
engine could be stopped Both his legs
and arms were broken and his skull frac-
tured, besides being badly cut about the
head
The following accident recently oc-
CURED to Mr.. Rice Saunders of Lakenan,
Mo-: He was carrying loaded gun on a
corn-planter, which slipped from the
wooden brace of the planter, and the
hammer striking a casting fired the
charge, which entered the arm and body
The arm was wounded between the wrist
and elbow, and from elbow to shoulder
was terribly mangled, both as to flesh
and bone. A large blood-vessel was
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hours after from escape of blood.
An explosion occurred a few DAYS
ago at the Moosic Powder Works near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, by which one man, Ed
ward Fielder, was killed. The terrific
shock reused the whole neighborhood,
while the flying timbers and the black
smoke resting over the spot, combined
with the flight of the terror-stricken peo-
pie, lent a fearful interest to the scene
The mill was completely wrecked, as was
a duplicate corning mill standing about
400 feet away, which took fire. The mill
had been working admirably and the
cause of the explosion is mystery.
Here is where chloroform was adj
ministered under entirely novel circum-
stances. A gentleman crossing the
bridge at Fultonville, Montgomery
County, n. Y, saw small boy strug-
Cling in the river below. Down went
the philanthropist to the rescue, but the
small boy struggled so that both were in
danger of a watery death. Just then the
gentleman remembered that he had a
bottle of chloroform in his pocket. To
take it out and to administer the an
aesthetic to the wriggling lad was the
work of a moment, and then the uncon-
scious form was towed safely to the
shore
-Athol, Mass, has a strange case of
depraved youthful propensity ia four
year-old child, who from its very cradle
has evinced a constant desire to bite or
gnaw his fingers and hands, until an in
diligence in the appetite seems to be al
most his only source of qualification. If
left alone he will lie on his back for an
hour at time, chewing his fingers and
tearing out pieces of flesh and bone with
the voracity of a savage animal. He has
pursued this habit with such fatal per
sistency as to reduce all the fingers of
both hands to raw and bleeding stumps,
while of the thumb of the left hand moth
ing whatever remains