The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-08
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with his limbs across one rail.

lglneer ne was lying INSIDE OF the track
with his limbs across one rail.
AS Thomas Manning, Jr., we'll to dc
farmer was returning home on horseback,
crossing the dyke at Columbus, Iowa, the
bank, being covered with water, gave way,
precipitating horse and rider down Il steep
embankment into deep water. Both horse
! and rider were drowned. The body has
not been recovered.
THOMAS DAVIS, Welshman, one day
last week leaned out of Michigan Cen
trail railroad car window, near Jackson,
! and had his elbow shattered by the unse-
cured door of a freightcar. The limb was
amputated and, although the patient
showed every sign of recovery, he suddenly
fell dead in the hospital Oh Tuesday at mid
night.
T. T. OWENS, of Marshall, Texas, To-
comotive engineer of the Texas and Pacific
railroad, was last week bitten by taran-
tula, and has suffered untold agony. For
time his life was despaired of, though at
tended by six able physicians. He has so
far recovered as to be removed home, and
his ultimate recovery is thought probable.
WHILE Robert Wheelock, middle-aged
man, was grinding a moving machine sec
tion-knife at l. NJ Clarke's foundry and
machine-shop at Howell, Mich, the belt
that run the stone caught the knife, and,
tearing it from Wheelock's hands, swung
it against his body, cutting one leg and
one hand so badly that the hand, and pos
sibly the leg, will have to be amputated.
THE Steam Cordage Company's store
house of Elizabeth. n. Y, was burned on
Goth inst. Loss, $4,000; insured. The
fire was caused by spontaneous combustion.
While the tiremen were at work the south
wall fell, killing William II. Wood, fire
man, and William Losby, an employ in
the rope works, fatally injuring James
Marsh and James Moore, and seriously
MICHAEL WEIGH, trackman in the
employ of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad company at Yorkville,
ILL.,, was sunstruck about l o'clock on the
oath inst and remained unconscious until
half f-past o'clock, when he expired. He
was sunstruck while at work on the track.
Deceased was a single man, aged 40 years,
and had only been on this section few
days.
DURING the prevalence of thunder
storm at Carrillton KY, lightning struck
locust tree in the yard of L. e. Evans,
about three miles east of that city, and in
stantly killed Albert Robey, "a years of age
son Of Richard Robey, of Bluttdale. The
current struck him in the top of the
shoulder, driving splinter from the tree
into his body, and passed down his right
side, tearing off his clothing and his boot.
One or two buildings in the city were
struck, but no serious damage resulted.
AN accident occurred on the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe railroad, three miles
west of Sargent, Kan, resulting in the
death of one person and the wounding of
several others, two probably fatally. The
train was running about twenty miles per
hour, when the smoking-car jumped the
track, the last two cars following it, going
down fve-feet embankment. The engine,
baggage and express car escaped. The scene
in the cars was beyond scription, women
and children crying and screaming for help
and men bleeding from wounds, crawling
out of the windows One lady was caught
between broken seats. Her husband lay
unconscious short distance away, while
her child sat unharmed among the cushions.
The sleeping-car kept the track.