The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-09-14
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

The opening of coffin of young
man at Derry, N. H., who died thirty
three years ago, discloses the singular
or more, and Is heavy, bright and fresh.
In Atlanta, Ca, few DAYS ago a
young man named Thomas Jouruan was
working before a saw making 40, 600 rev.
olutions minute. He slipped on some
shayings and fell forward upon the saw,
which cut through his body in an instant.
He lived only long enough to send some
messages to friends and say farewell to
the workmen who gathered around him.
"A few weeks ago, on the farm of Mr..
Eli Reno, of Chippewa Township, Beaver
County, Pa, hawk alighted with the in
tention of helping himself to some of Mr..
Reno's poultry. He was at once tackled
by game rooster of the ginger red spe-
cics, and a furious fight between the roost-
ter and hawk ensued, at the expiration of
which the hawk fell over dead, and the
rooster was left master of the field.
"A man named Julian was driving
wagon load of giant powder along a St.
Louis road, when he discovered fire in the
bottom of the vehicle. One box had just
caught, when he coolly turned and threw
it out. Finding he could not extinguish
the flames, he drove the wagon into a
ditch, and, unhitching the horses, drove
them short distance away before the
explosion came. People were thrown
down and houses wrecked, but the plucky
driver got away with his uninjured horses.
Mrs. Sarah F. Holt, an aged lady of
Nashua, Mass, expired suddenly upon
her husbands coffin recently. She had
gone into the parlor, where the remains of
her husband had been prepared for burial
Looking into the face of the dead, she
said, quietly: How can 1 live without
you, Henry?" Then, putting her hand
to her head, she tottered and was about to
fall, but being caught by friend, she
was assisted to chair and Immediately
expired
Amos B. Miller was taken to the
station house at Titfin, Ohio, the other
evening, a raving maniac. He came to
that city about two weeks previous from
Chillicothe, with a young wife, for the
purpose of attending Heidelberg College
to prepare himself for the ministry. They
rented house and bought quite cxten-
sivcly in furniture, getting credited for
most of it. He expected 81 800 from his
home the week before, but was disap-
pointed. Creditors began pushing him,
and this, together with the disappointment
of not receiving his money, drove him
crazy. His friends were tclegraphed for,
when the first symptoms were discovered,
but failed to respond.
"A late Vallejo (Cal) Chronicle says
AN eleven-inch pivot gun, the heaviest
piece of ordnance in the armament of the
Tuscarora, was dropped overheard this
forenoon while being hOistcd out of that
vessel. Just as it had been raised by the
crane, and was swinging between the ship
and the dock, the chain parted, and the
gun, with great splash, fell into the
water. The crane used was built to lift
wei gifts as heavy as twenty tons, and the
gun weighed about 10000 pounds, OF
eight tons, from which it is evident the
chain in use on the crane was very unf
for that service. An attempt was made t(
raise the sunken cannon by getting a rope
around it, but not being half strong
enough, it snapped like twine."
IA remarkable death occurred il
Montgomery County lately. Mr.. w. D
Lord, Frank Lord, George Elland ant
Thomas Ballard went to Viewers Mill
scining. Messrs. Ballard and Ellanc
were dragging the seine, and had caught
| two small fish. Mi. W. ID. Lord, who
was some twenty feet from them, swan
through water about waist-deep to them
took the two fish and placed them
between his teeth, and undertook to swim
back to shore. One of the fish being
larger than the other, the smaller was no
secure, and, with an effort to get away
went down Mr. Lords throat, lodging sc
curcly in his swallow. Becoming aware
of his condition, Mr.. Lord appealed to hi:
comrades for help. "Help me, boys!'
were his last words. They sprang imme
diately to his assistance, and got him t.
shore. He made several strong efforts t.
get his hand down his mouth to pull ou
the fish, but in five minutes Or less tim,
life was extinct. A post morton examin
alton was made, and the fish-a percl
about four and half inches in len 9Th
was recovcred.-Cor. Montgomery Ola.
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