Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-03-26
Incidents and Accidents.

Incidents and Accidents.
"A Cambridge (Mass.) girl was treated
To gum camphor by school-mate, recent
| ". and was soon insensible, but an emetic
saved her.
Robert Ingram was mangled TO death
few days ago at Furl's Rock, Va, on the
James River, by being caught in the gear
Ing of mill while grinding an ak.
| "A whole family living near Lafayette,
Ind, were nearly fatally poisoned lately
| by eating root supposed to be wild pars-
nip, found oy the children in the woods.
Recently, In Chicago, child eleven
| months old fell from It's cradle upon q
red.hot stove, and before it could be ex-
| treated one side OF its face was burned TO
a crisp. OF course 1t died.
"A widow In Sutton, VT, recently Wis
| tied dying woman and said: II have
been wanting for some time to see some
one about to die, that / might send a
| message to my husband. Tell him that
we are we'll here and send our best re-
| CARDS"
An Irasburg (Vt) lover took a ride
with his lady the other day, and she was
thrown from the sleigh and her hip was
broken. The gallant and affectionate
young man gave the crippled beauty to
somebody else to carry home, while he
pursued his travels.
Two or three weeks ago Fred Lewis,
a Chicago barber, had his jaw fractured
while having tooth extracted. Soon
after lock, jaw set in, and he fingered
along in great agony until few days ago,
when death relieved him of his sufferings
For nearly week previous to his death
| he was unable to take sustenance Of any
kind.
Susan Glider, aged fifteen, was put
ting cartridges into box at the cartridge
works in Lowell, Mass, the other day,
when they expoded, and she was struck
| by over hundred bullets, none of them,
however penetrating very deeply. In
addition to her bullet wounds she was
badly burned. Some Of the windows in
the building were blown out, but nobody
except the girl was hurt
t "A family in Linnwood, Ind, recently
lost a little child about two years old in
the following singular manner: The
parents were chatting in the sitting-room,
and the child came in and said, "Good-
| by, papa and mamma, I'm going away"
| and went out of the house. Not returning,
they went to look for the child, and found
it In pail of water, head down, dead.
"A most remarkable occurrence took
place on the Northwestern Railway track
| at Oshkosh recently. The engine of a
| freight train going north jumped the
track and alighted on another track six
feet distant, landing with all the wheels on
| the track. The tender was partly drawn
across, but the cars remained safe on the
| first track The sudden stop created con.
siderable havoc In the caboose, where
there were many passengers, and many
were bruised, but none seriously injured.
As Robert Williams was clearing ou,
a well in the town of Rose, Wis, a few
days since, he being at the bottom and
his wife drawing up the dirt in bucket
\ from the top, the sides of the well sud
denly caved in and Mr.. Williams disap
peared from human vision. The neigh
bors were quickly summoned, and after
eight hours of incessant labor succeeded
in unearthing the unfortunate man at q
depth of twenty feet below the surface
He was found standing upright, appar
entity In deep slumber, and upon being
brought TO the surface speedily revived
having suffered no serious injury.
The Nashville Banner OF Ia recent dat
SAYS: Yesterday morning as Mr.. Edgal
Jones, Cashier Third National Bank, wen
to open the vault In the bank, ne detected
gas escaping and stepped back. ii,
waited, as he supposed, sufficient length
of time for the gas to evaporate, blu. wheI
he went in and lighted the gas and hat
lust gotten outside the door q loud ex
plosion took place, the report of which
was heard several squares away. TIL,
windows of the bank were blown out ant
the occupants were considerably stunned
but no one met with any serious injury
i Mr.. Jones had his hair, eyebrows an,
lashes well singed. 1t was narrow ant
miraculous escape"
"A horrible accident occurred In
soap and candle factory at Cincinnati ,
few days ago, which resulted In the dealt
Of Frederick Coon, one of the workmen
Coon was carrying candle through thl
rooms on the second story, and for SOM
reason placed the candle on the floor. Sool
after, while leaning over the candle, hi
spron, saturated with tallow, caught fire
The flames soon enveloped his whole per
son, driving him into perfect ecstacy o
fright. Rushing down stairs he was me
by several companions who, in their ii
tempts to assist him, were attacked ant
Obliged to fee for their lives. He raj
into the street, and his friends, securing
weapons, gave chase, knocked him down
rolled him over and put out the fire, whel
II was found that the flesh upon his per
son was literally cooked. He LINGERIE,
through the night, and died next morn
ing.
I. When the mail agent going rortl
on the train yesterday morning threw tn
Dundee mail bag of at Starkey, some
thing inside exploded, and smoke wa
seen TO come out OF the bag. On exami
nation it was found that some inferno
machine in the shape of small cannon
| had been placed in the bag, and so Al
.. ranged that slight jar would set II Of
No one was hurt. The agent took It II
charge for Special Agent McDonAlds =