Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-07-16
Incidents and Accidents.

| The house of John ID. Scott, OF
Green County, KY, caught fire few
| DAYS ago and he and three of his daugh
tiers were burned to death.
Freddie Caswell, eldest son of Wal
lace Caswell, of the Gault House, Chi
cago. was instantly killed recently by
being thrown from his pony.
A thousand pounds of nitro glycerine
in the Government magazine near
Shreveport, La, exploded the other day
with terrific force Houses were shaken
and windows broken, but fortunately no
lives were lost.
While party of young boys were
stealing cherries in the yard of resi-
dent of Dayton, Ohio, few days ago, a
young son Of the proprietor fred shot
gun at the lads. One was killed and one
severely wounded.
The conductor of train on the
Pittsburgh Railroad, while approaching
bridge near Monroeville, Ind, the 9th
err day, put his head outside the car line
just in time TO come in contact with the
bridge. He lived but few hours.
A few days ago John T.. Borden, a
Greenwood 0ll.) farmer, while attempt
ing to stop his runaway team, fell with
his head through the hind wagon wheel,
and was whirled around several times,
tearing off both ears and so managing his
neck that he died soon after from stran-
gulation..
A young brakeman on the Delaware
81 Hudson Railroad recently met with
serious accident. While working on the
track his foot was caught in frog near
the switch, and, while he was making
frantic endeavors TO extricate his foot,
he was run down by heavily loaded
coal train
in Oakdale, Washington Co, Mich,
child of James Armstrong, eighteen
months old, the other day, was drowned
in small stream near the house. The
first the parents knew of the occurrence
was by the house.dog inducing the
child's mother to go to the bank of the
stream, where the dog had drawn the
body from the water
During recent thunderstorm in
Minneapolis the lightning struck a house
in which were two little girls lying in an
improvised bed upon the floor. The
electric fluid ran down a partition stud,
struck the youngest child, drove her ribs
into her lungs and tore out piece of her
hip ) The older child's hair was singed
Off but otherwise she was not danger
ously hurt.
AS the express train on the Toledo,
Wabash 81 Western Railroad, near Ma
pies, H., was passing curve, few
evenings ago, the engineer saw two
year old child playing on the track. The
mother attempted to rescue it, and both
were struck by the engine. The child
was instantly killed, and the woman was
thrown from the track and fatally in
jured. The engineer was unable to stop
the train.
"A few evenings ago as train from
Saltwater for st. Paul was two miles
beyond White Bear, an unknown man,
deliberately removing his coat and hat,
laid his head on the rail. The engine
was reversed and brakes applied, but the
whole train passed over him, crushing
his head and entirely separating it from
his body He had been seen during the
day at White Bear Station, walking
along the track, but nothing was noticed
nor found by which to identify the re-
mains.
The Denver Times says that May 81
was an eventful day on Pixies Peak.
Two feet of "sleet snow fell during
daylight and clouds rested like pail
upon the summit. Discharges of the
electric fluid were so frequent that at
times the rooms on the signal station
seemed to be filled with flames. The
wires were all melted to the ground, and
the stove was the object for many an at
tack. Once the signal officers were all
Frustrated by furious bolt. Indeed, SO
terrible was the situation and so fearful
the constant and repeated discharges,
that Sergt. Leary was frightened into
fits.