The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-04-25
MCIDENTs AND ACCIDENTS.

Edward w. Chase, Of North Par
son6eld, Me-, shot himself fatally ne
Gently ON account Of depression and
fright caused by q false report that he
was to be arrested for setting FIRE to .
neighbQr's barn.
While trying . new boiler-cleaner
Ct Beocherss sugar refinery, inst Louis,
the other morning, the barrel which re-
ceives the mud and water after it has
come from the boiler, exploded, throw
ing the mud and water over MI. Err
skine, the Superintendent, and Joseph
Kelly, the engineer. severely scalding
them from their waists downs the skin
peeling OF and their clothes sticking
so tightly to them that their cries Of
agony could be heard several blocks
away.
"A tramp who was stealing a ride
in an empty car the other night on the
Erie Road attempted to jump off at Ok
ford. A hook on the side Of the car,
used for fastening the door, caught the
unlucky fellows clothing at the waist
and suspended him in mid-air. The
train dashed on and he was carried to
Greycourt three miles distant, when
some one saw him, stopped the train
Immediately, and the man was taken
from his very dangerous position.
There was not . scratch on his person,
but the mental suffering he had en-
dured, expecting momentarily to be
dashed to pieces, completely overcame
him.
"A horrible accident occurred near
Rome, N. T., the other day. A man
named George Howser. fifty-six or fifty
seven years of age, was running a cir
| cular saw in the saw-mil owned by his
SON. In4leaning over the saw to pick
something up, he slipped and fell on
| the saw. His left hand was cut off at
the wrist, and his arm was caught by
the saw and mangled, all the flesh and
tendons being stripped from the bone,
leaving it nearly hare, from the wrist
to the shoulder. In his struggles to
lift himself clear of the saw, he brought
| his right hand in contact with it, and
the fingers of that hand were cut COM
pletely off at the knuckle joints, leav-
ing only the thumb.
Some fifty years ago two clock
makers, Phillips and Brown, resided at
Hopkinton, N. H. The former spent
| $8 for a ticket in a foreign lottery, but,
growing weak-hearted ere the drawing
took place, sold it to Brown for 81.
Brown vainly endeayored to sell it to a
farmer for a 81 load of hay, and had it
when it drew a prize of $25, ZOO. The
money reached him in due course, and
Brown nearly lost his wits. For the
first two nights he fancied that robbers
were prowling round the house; he took
the money to the woods in the dark and
hid it in q hollow tree. When he came
to look for i the forest bore by day SO
different an aspect that he could not
find the hiding place he had chosen,
and it was not till some days later that
the almost distracted man CHANGED
upon his treasure. With it finally he
made investments in real estate which
did not prove remunerative as far as
concerned himself and family, and in a
few years his 1926, 600 dwindled away,
and he was not as well off as he would
have been had he never drawn the
prize.
While Engineer Brown was back
ing his engine, the Monson, down to
the New London depot to attach it to
the morning steamboat train a little
before four o'clock. he saw, through
the darkness, an engine coming up the
track on which he was. 1t was pro-
ceeding at a quite rapid rate of speed
that threatened a collision. He re-
versed his engine and sent her ahead,
timing his speed SO that when the adj
vancing engine finally struck his own,
at a point near the drawbridge, the
shock was but slight. He then clam.
bered along the boiler platform of the
Ooiiioas-6 v.5i..os .i.ioi- %h~ Ke-~
moe, and shut off its steam, having,
meantime, shut off that in the Monson.
1t appears that while the Konomoc was
standing at the freight depot some mis-.
creant detached it from the train Of
eight freight cars to which it was at
tached, and set it in motion. As il
went on it gathered speed, and but fol
the accidental meeting and fortunate
stoppage by the Mons1n it would have
dashed up the road and stopped no.
body knows. where. -New London
Conn TIeLe0raDk.