The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-06-12
RIRRS AND CASUALTIES.

"A thrilling incident OF railway travel, and
a genuine act of heroism. are related i'll p
telegram from Council Bluff, Io~s: AS
al extra stock train Oh the Red Oak Branch
OF the Burlington and Missouri railway
WAS nearing Farragut, Jack Evans. the en-
gineer, discovered a small child on the track,
about sixty yards distant. The engine was
reversed and the brakes applied, but the en-
gineer knew that the train could not be
stopped in time to save the child. Jack ran
out upon the COW catcher, and when the
train had reached within about ten feet Of
the child he made a flying leap, caught
the child in his arms and both rolled
into the ditch in time to escape the train.
which was running at nfteen miles an hour,
The child. / year old, was uniujured. The
engineer sprainei his ankle. AMI was consid-
eraDly bruised. bu; not seriously injured.
Lewis Trous-cll and three boy-, Willie
Harden, Charley Pitt, and Robert Lloyd. all
Of New Albany. Ind, while ont in II skia the
other evening. were drawn anGcr a coal barge,
and all Drowned.
Three boys were drowned in the Ale
gheny river, at Pittsburgh, last week, by the
capsiZ:ng of a rkif.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Jones, living near
GAINESVILLE. Ohio, went to sit M with q sick
neighbor. the other night, leaving their four
children alone in bed. The house caught
fire, and the three youngest, aged 3, II and
6, were consumed in the flames. The oldes.
boy, aged lG, saved himself by jumping from
a second-story window.
Five miners were recently crushed to
death in the Amador mine, Sutter creek. Cal,
by the falling Of a cage in the mine.
AT an amateur game Of baseball in Hart
ford, Conn, the other day. one PLAYER had a
finger broken, another his jaw broken and six
teeth knocked out. and a third received a
severe cut in his head, which threatens a fatal
result.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican thus
figures up the Joss OF property by the Mill
river disaster: THE figures FOR Williams
burgh foot up :l5i, 800, including Sl7, 100
for furniture, :I2, 600 for clothing, &c. 100
for tools, teams and wagons, and $1,000
money ard bonds lost. Tho losses at
hiiih 'iiO aSsitSatc .-ff.-vb, IHe'uuiib
sl2. 255 for furniture and Sl2. Cos for clothing.
The Haydenville losses are not yet quite fig
ured up for the final summary, but Will vary
little from S3i5, 600, exclusive of furniture and
clothing. Leeds reports a loss Of S107, 900,
not counting III clothing and furniture. The
grand total for the four villages by this recx-
oning is 1854, 100, which the additions for
clothing and furniture destroyed in Hayden
vile and Leeds will swell to fully 81, 000, OC9.
This does not include the damage to roads
and bridges, which is put at about :1l5, 900 in
tho tow of W~illiamsburgh, and $50, goo in the
town of Northampton, nor the lane damages
all along the course of the flood"
Chicago had a $3.50, 600 blaze on the 1st
inst, the property destroyed being the large
boot and shoe establishment of NJ. D. Wells
4 Co., on the corner OF Madison and Market
streets.
-Four persons were killed near Elmira,
N. Y, the other day, by being run over by a
freight-trsin on the railway, while attempting
to cross the track in . wagon.