Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-29
ON LAND AND WATER.
sIuKENINa RAILROAD ACCIDENT.

Especial Telegram to the Globe. e
MENoNoNEE, Wis, Dec. 27,-At about a
quarter to IA last night a. the eastern bound
passenger approached this station, the engineer
felt q sort of jerking Of the engine along the
s1de-track switch at the approach of the sta
ton. On pulling up at the station he men
toned the fact to the operator, and sug-
gested that there might be something wrong
with the frog of the switch. and that he had
better 60 up. The operator complied, and
on approaching the frog, at 9 short distance
mangled body of man. The body was an
almost undistinguishable mass of tattered
clothes and lacerated flesh. His legs and arms
were almost pulverized, and portion of them
missing his entrails torn out and the upper
part of his head severed. Upon following
occasional fragments of his body were found,
his heart being discovered off to one side of
the track, separate and alone from
any other part of The body: It
appears that the deceased was struck by the
engine at the tres tie work and carried down to
the frog partly on and partly under the cow
catcher, as fragments Of his body were ooca-
sionally found where he had been pressed be-
tween the cow-catcher and the ties. On reach
ing the frog his body came in contact with 1t,
mud was pressed in, which called the atten-
ton of the engineer as above stated. Deceased
had been around the depot all day in serious
ly intoxicated condition, was an utter stranger
and unknown to all. He seemed to intend to
take the train that night, as he made several
inquiries at the Office as to when the train
would arrive. He was young man about
twenty or twenty-five years old, and claimed
to have been in partnership with some one in
the butcher business at Hudson. When found
he had but twenty cents about his person.
TOO MUCH OF A PRACTICAL JOKE.
ID
Gould, both prominent and respected business
men, this afternoon, thinking to play a practi-
cal joke on the colored janitor. disarranged the
cealing themselves in closet waited until the
janitor appeared. The latter, becoming ex-
cited at the condition Of the room, procured a
revolver, and hearing q noise in the closet tried
to pull the door open, and failing in that fred
through the door. The shot passed through
Mr.: Gould's head, and he died shortly after.
The coroner's Jury tonight rendered a YER
dict justifying the janitor and discharging
him from custody.
MYSTERIOUS MURDER,
The ooroner'a jury, after several days ses-
sion upon the body of young Gustav Tindau,
who was found dead on the street with re-
volver near his head, and whose death has
been attributed variOusly to suicide or murder,
his death from pistol shot fred by an I'M
known hand, with murderous intent. The
men who have been under arrest suspicion
were discharged by the police. The case is
most mysterious one.
STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Dec. 27.-The Prairie City,
plying on the Wabash between New Harmony
AID Wabash station, on the st. Louis & South
eastern railroad, blew up this afternoon above
Lodges landing, The fireman, cabin boy and
cook are missing. The body Of Mrs. Capt. Nc
IntYre was found on shore with both arms off.
Capt. Cox, who was at the wheel, was blown
up with it and fell in the wreck beneath the
debris, and had his arm broken, his ankle
sprained. and was otherwise cut and bruised.
The engineer escaped with slight injuries. The
survivors escaped on a barge, and were taken
to New Harmony for medical aid.
BURNED TO DEATH.
New ORLEANS, Dec. 27.-Mrs. Clara Caviss,
aged 103 years, burned to death by the explo-
sion of q lamp.