Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-12
A TRAGIC CHAPTER.
SHOCKING SERIES OF FATALIT:E
OIL Fires, Land Slide, Cyclone, Mills lsurne
and Other Accidents.

OIL Fires, Land Slide, Cyclone, Mills Burned,
and Other Accidents.
John Brown, school teacher, of Madoc,
Canada, aged twenty-five years, missed
his way in the woods on Saturday night,
perished from cold and hunger. The body
was found four miles from where he
started. He seems to hate wandered
round and round, walking a great dis
tance.
A Fatal Land Slide.
The sides Of deep cut on the C. s R.
r. r., about half mile west of Grange
Court House, Va. yesterday, caved in
while construction train with fifty hands
were working. An immense mass of rock
and dirt fell, crushing several men against
the sides of the cars, killing instantly
Powhatan Taylor and Edward Field, col
ored, and seriously injuring five others, all
colored. 1t is supposed that others are
yet under the fallen rocks, which are now
being rapidly removed.
Burned to Death.
The flour mill of MIR. Edward T. Getz-
endanner, situated at the mouth of Fish
ing Greek, seven miles north of Frederick
City, Nd, was destroyed by fire yester
day morning at about o'clock, together
with all its contents. George Shaun, who
was employed by David Trimmer, the mil
Ter, and who lodged in the mill, was burn
ed to death. He was in his bunk in the
mill at 10 o'clock 1T night and was missing
after the fire.
A Cyclones Track OF Death.
A cyclone passed over Keachie, Kansas,
literally demolishing the town, including
the Baptist church and Baptist female COL
lcge, killing Professor Reynolds, and badly
wounding and breaking tho leg of Rev.
Mr.. Tucker, principal Of the college; also
breaking the leg and shoulders Of his son,
Bush, and wOunding Mrs. Anna Thomas
badly. The following received painful
but not dangerous injuries NJ. Buseman,
Mrs. Sidney E. Hall and son, Mrs. Jasper
McMullen and daughter, NJ. Pelten and
Miss Beulah Ward. The residences and
outbuildings of Sidney Z. Hall, Jasper
McMullen and Mis-. Thomas and the Bap-'
tist church were blown entirely away.
! A Destructive Fire.
A destructive fire occurred ON the York
turnpike, near the village of Waverly,
Nd, which resulted in the total destruc-
tion of the dwelling of Mr.. E. J. Coll, a
book-keeper in the employ of Messrs.
Thomson s. Muth, Nos. "A and 16 German
street. The family narrowly escaped with
their lives. Mr.. Coll states that about
daylight in the morning, shortly after 5
o'clock, he was awakened by 4 cracking
noise in the lower part Of the house and
also noticed smell of fire. He sprang
out of bed, hastened down stairs, and
opening the dining room door, was driven
back by dense cloud of smoke. Closing
the door, he hastened up stairs to the room
| :o%n
his four children were sleeping, and grasp
ing one under each arm, rushed out into
the York turnpike, crying fire. Returning,
he succeeded in saving the other two chill
dren and assisted his wife out of the house,
which was now enveloped in flames. The
fire is supposed to have originated from a
Latrobe stove in the dining room, which
had been left burning over night. Mr..
Coll and his family were rendered home
less.
Tlle Fatal Cup.
A number of men were gathered at their
boarding house at Browns saw mill, Bor-
dill city, IN the Bradford oil region. The
fire being low in the stove, one of the men
| took cup of oil from bucket and threw
| it on the Goals. The oil remaining in the
cup catching fire and burning his hand. he
| threw it away and it fell into bucket
nearly full of oil. An explosion instantly
ensued and the burning fluid was scattered
all through the room, deluging the clothes
of the men with flaming oil. They ran
out of doors covered with a sheet of fire
and writhed ON the ground in their agony.
! Meanwhile the house burned rapidlytO to the
! ground and in the embers were found the
charred bodies of four men who had gone
up stairs. Their names were Elliott,
Brown, Hcaly and Hisdc. or those who
were down stairs Joe Dannock, Henry
Monroe, Frank Welsh and another man,
name unknown, are dead. Another victim
is not expected to recover.