Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-03
Incidents and Accidents.

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An old man named Flaherty had his
head severed from his body by the cars
on the Old Colony Road near Boston, a
few days ago.
Mr. Charles F. Granger, of Suffield,
Conn, was recently fatally kicked in the
abdomen by horse which he had just
turned loose in the yard.
Frederick Dane, farmer living in
the westerly part of Enfield, N. H., was
seriously, if not fatally, injured lately.
While drawing a load of railroad ties
down steep hill the ties slipped for
| ward and threw him between the horses
so that one wheel passed over his chest.
"A woman has just died at Stoneham,
Mass, who would not allow a physician
to attend her during her illness, both
she and her husband believing that God
would miraculously interpose in answer
anointed with oil during her sickness, and
tasted for ten days.
MIR Graham, of San Luis Rey, Cal,
was shot last spring by man named
Blanchard and all efforts to find the bull
let or trace its course were unsuccessful.
But recently Mr.. Graham was thrown
from wagon AID dragged some distance
by his team, and the bullet, fiattened like
a two;bit piece, was elected from his
mouth.
About two miles below Carbonate
mines, Pa, a man whose name is not
known was recently found nailed to
beam, in lonely and unfrequented
place. Strong nails were driven through
his coat at the wrists and his pantaloons
at the ankles, and in this position he
was undoubtedly left to die; but, by
mere accident, was found and released.
The present sensation of Newark,
N. j., is the deliberate suicide of six
year-old girl named Theresa Gressel.
She was found by her mother hanging
dead in the wash house, and was then
stiff and cold The little one had been
swinging and had made a moose of the
rope by tying the loose end of the swing
to the beam. Then she drew herself up,
| as is supposed, by her hands, and placing
her head in the twisted moose swung off
and was strangled.
"A tragic occurrence happened in
Green Ridge, Mo-, recently. George and
| Florence House, sons of DR.. House, of
that place, drove up to their fathers
house in wagon. While Florence was
in the act of taking gun out of the
wagon, by some means it was discharged,
| the entire load entering his mouth and
the side of his face, tearing entirely off a
| portion of his head. Strange to say, he
| lived in this condition about forty-five
minutes, but of course was entirely un-
conscious.
An innocent person met with very
naipful aecidpnf nndap r,acnlior air
| stances in Boston. An Italian peddler
being insulted by street gamin retorted
with some epithet whereupon the boy
| took up large stone and threw it at him
| from the opposite side of the street. 1t
| struck the curbstone with such violence
as to rebound and strike the nose of a
gentleman who was passing in wagon.
| His nose was broken and turned COM
| pletely over on his cheek, showing an
| orifice clear into his head The gentle.
man tainted from pain and loss of blood
The boy mingled with the crowd and
escaped.
Mary Quinn and Nellie O'Neill, two
young girls employed in Worcester
(Mass.) dry goods store, met with
| singular accident the other day. Miss
Quinn was standing at the top of long
flight of stairs waiting for her friend
| Miss O'Neill, when the latter, who was
| approaching her, stepped on piece Of
coal and was thrown forward with such
force as to push Miss Quinn down stairs
backward and head first. Miss O'Neill
followed her, but feet first, and both of
them were stopped violently at the bot
tom of the stairs. Miss Quinn was very
seriously injured about the head and
shoulders and was Immediately taken
with fit. Miss O'Neill was also very
seriously hurt.
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