Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-19
Incidents and Accidents.

"A young man named CorwIn, at work
in saw-mill at Moran, on the l.. G. 81 s.
w. X. r., was recently caught by buzz
and literally sawn in two.
Miss Barto, young lady living in
Osceola, Pa, was impelled by curiosity
to search male friends pockets. She
drew out a revolver, the hammer OF
which caught in the cloth, and she was
shot dead.
The other day, as Mr. ]. F. Hazen
was going into Cincinnati from Clifton,
his horses became frightened at a drove
of hogs and precipitated the carriage
down an embankment fifty feet high.
Mrs. Hazen was fatally hurt.
"A barrel of vinegar prevented the
burning of a house in Brady, Mich, the
other day The fire caught in the upper
floor from the stove-pipe, near which
stood the vinegar, and burned off the
hoops, letting out the liquid and thor
oughly extinguishing the fire after it had
burned two or three square feet OF the
floor
The founder of Essexville, Mich,
Ransom p. Essex, left his house the other
afternoon and was seen NO more until
the next morning, when he was found
lying dead in ditch near his house.
When leaving the house Mr.. Essex was
accustomed to pass through an aperture
in the picket-fence by tearing off couple
of pickets. When the body was found
the hands were full of grass and the
boots kicked off, showing that he had
stuck in the passage-way and died in
consequence OF his efforts to escape.
"A little girl, while playing on rail
road track at Hollidaysburg, Pa, the
other day, got her foot so wedged in a
frog that she was held fast. Her mother
saw the predicament, and heard an APP
preaching train. She ran to the rescue
Of her child, but could not extricate the
foot. The train came on, and, although
the engineer applied the brakes, it was
clear that it could not be stopped quick
enough. The mother, finding that the
girl could not be less than manned, held
her as far off the track as she could
while the cars went by. A foot was
crushed, but life was saved.
"A sad accident occurred in the yard of
the st. Louis, Kansas City q Northern
Road, at Moberly, Mo-, recently Mr..
Joseph Doolin, who had been in the SER
vice of the company for long time, was
engaged IN coupling cars, making up
freight train for the West. Several
couples had been made, when his foot
became fastened in frog, and the pony
engine ran over him, crushing his thigh
and giving him internal injuries from
which he died in few hours. He dis
covered the engine approaching and gave
the alarm, but it was too close to reverse,
and the poor man had TO succumb to his
fate.
Recently Mrs. Faulkner, residing
near Pappinville, Mo-, received mortal
wound under the following circum-
stances: Two men stopped at her
house to stay over night, and, being
scarce of bed room, bed was made for
them on the floor. The men had
loaded revolvers with them, and on re-
firing placed their pistols under their
heads. Next morning Mrs. Faulkner was
cleaning up the room and moving the
bedding, when one of the pistols fell, and
striking on the floor discharged itself,
the ball striking Mrs. Faulkner in the
forehead just above the right eye, and
passing through the head.
The st. Charles (Mo) Neos says: ave
in Missouri know little of the distress
that prevails among the farmers IN our
sister State across our western border,
ocCasloneu Dy tnelr late teTTlDle grass
hopper visitation. A victim of the
calamity came to this city last week,
with an only child, a boy about fourteen
years. The scourge had ruined him.
Gathering together all he possessed of
this worlds goods he started with his
wife, daughter and son for his cid home
in Southern Illinois. On the way the
first two sickened and died. When he
reached this place his son was burning
up with fever, and he was penniless and
heart-broken. He obtained a lodging
place in an old shanty on the river bank
near the ferry landing, and managed by
some means to exc out an existence and
care for his sick child until last Sunday,
when he, the last remaining one, died."