Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-06-11
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

Three men were recently killed in a
California silver mine by the fall of the
cage used to hoist the ore from the mines
to the surface.
Andrew Johnson, a carpenter at work
on building in Chicago, recently fell
from the third to the second floor, a
distance of fifteen feet, breaking his neck.
Miss Duncan, a passenger on the
Union Pacific Railroad, lately, fell from
the platform of a car upon the track
Both legs were cut off, and the poor girl
died in an hour afterward.
"A short time ago, at shaft No. 2 of
the old Baltimore mine, Wilkesbarre, Pa,
Edward Scandleberry and Thomas Freth-
way were descending in a bucket when
to the bottom, $50 feet. Scandleberry
was instantly killed and Frethwav re-
ceived mortal injuries.
A very interesting operation was
recently performed in Chicago. A Ger
man resident being very low in conse-
quence of pulmonary disease submitted
to the operation of TRANSMISSION Eight
ounces of blood were satisfactorily trans
ferred from the veins of a lamb to those
of the almost dying patient. At last &C
SObthUS 11O pdGlCI1t was OOlIlS WClIs dllu 1t
was thought he would ultimately recover.
The following series of appalling &C
cidents recently occurred to Mrs. Bennett
Kyle, of Western Missouri: She had gone
a short distance from the house to do the
family washing, taking with her her III
FAINT child, leaving the other, some two
years old, at the house, with her husband
working upon the roof She had occasion
fO no oho hon child
ments, and when she returned she found a
rattlesnake had fastened its fangs upon
the wrist of her babe. She quickly dis
patched the snake and freed the child,
which almost Immediately died. Clasp
ing her infant in her arms she hastened to
the house, where she found her other
child drowned in a tub of water Her
screams of agony upon behOlding this
second bereavement startled her husband,
who, losing his presence of mind, fell
from the roof and was instantly killed
Thus, by this singular train of accidents,
was this poor woman rendered a widow
and childless in few brief moments.
The following incident occurred at
the recent fire in Chicago which caused
the destruction of the boot and shoe man.
ufactory of M. D. Wells & Co.: A lad
der had been placed against the Madison
street wall, reaching to the third story,
and Anderson was directed by the fore
man to ascend to the window at the top
and remove part of the window frame,
which he was afraid would fall. The man
reached the top of the ladder, performed
his task, and was about to descend, when
his feet slipped and he fell, turning a
complete sOmersault and coming down
under the ladder. His companions stood
below horror-stricken, expecting to see
him dashed against the pavement. But
as they watched they beheld feat which
it would trouble the most accom-.
plished gymnast to attempt As he was
getting through the atmosphere at the
rate of about a thousand knots an hour
the idea suggested itself to him that he
had gone about far enough at that gait
and so he quietly stretched out his hand
for the ladder, grasped a round, and
brought himself up with a jerk, thus pre-
venting funeral at his house He swung
himself upon the opposite side of the lad
der and came down as if nothing particu-
lar had happened, amid deafening ap-
plause from the spectators, and imme-
diately went to work. The circumstances
and escape are almost unparalleled.