River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-09-02
Accidents.

Mis- LAURA MILLER, aged % years OF
West Springfield Mass, took hy-poison by
mistake and died in few minutes
JoHxSIE LoFTUs, - years old, of Iowa,
City, Iowa, while playing with a little
pocket pistol discharged it into his body,
killing him instantly.
were sixteen persons on the elevator, only
two whom were injured.
J. WILSON, section hand on the Burling-
ton and Ohio railroad. was run over and
killed near Newark on the 9th inst lie
was drunk and lying across the track. His
head and one hand were severed.
AT Peoria Sunday-school picnic,
twenty persons were poisoned by eating
ice-cream frozen in a copper freezer.
Though some of them were very sick, none
died.
W H. BoGAR, the telegraph operator at
Arlington, H., received a telegram on the
oath int that his brother had been instant
lv killed and almost entirely devoured be-
fore help could reach him, while perform
ing in a cage of hyenas connected with a
.henagerie in Pennsylvania
A FIRE at the Boston navy-yard, on the
23rd inst, cost the government 100000. 1t
originated in the rope-walk, anc the prin-
1
good deal of valuable machinery was also
consumed Cause, an overworked engine,
which produced combustion by friction.
CHAsE's thrashing engine, at work near
Nandalia, Ill /, blew up killing Ed Luster,
engineer, and scalding Ed Brash and Jacob
Smith seriously, and setting on fire and
completely destroying four stacks of wheat,
two stacks of oats, ard the separator. The
accident is attributed to carelessness. The
property DESTROYED is estimated at - 200.
4 SICK child of Prof L. J.. Stone. on
Battle Creek. Mich, was accidentally pois-
oned hy the nurse, who by mistake gave it
dose of morphine intended for its mother.
Separate doses for the infant and adult
were put in papers, which were in some
way misplaced, and the nurse gave the
wrong one to the child The child became
stupid, and went to sleep soon after taking
the morphine. 4 physician was then call
ed and prompt efforts made to restore the
child, but it died in an hour.
+. 4. NASEY, of st. Louis, who is sum
mpring IT Coney Island, was seriously in
jured while bathing. He went to the
Nterhis hath-hOuse to swim. The bath
house is connected with the beach by a
plank walk which crosses a shallow pool
of water not more than Il foot in depth.
Massey. thinking that the water in this pool
was deep. dove OFT from the walk He
struck Oh his head, dislocating his spine
lie was picked up helpless His body and
legs are paralyzed, and il thought he can
not live.
AMAN generally known as Kentucky"
"a Springfield. H., met with a fatal acct
dent on the 27ta inst He was engaged
nall ,rb;ab b, boJ
completed When being drawn from the
we'll and when near the top, the bucket
in which he was standing turned, precipi-
tating him head foremost To the bottom of
the we'll. and upon bed of rock. When
lifted ont it was found that his skull Just
above the ewes had been crushed, and his
body terribly bruised, and that the unfortu-
nate man WAS almost in a diving condition.
He was conveyed to the city, and taken to
the hospital after his wounds had been
dressed
Texas was visited by tornado Of ter
rife and fatal power onthe DIST inst. 4
special THIS recites particulars. Mata-
moras looks a ii bomharded, brick build
ings being torn out of long blocks. Ii Is
estimated that 2(0 houses are demolished
or unroofed. The stocks of goods destroy
ed is estimated At 100000 Brownsville is
in but little better shape. At Point Isabel
and Brazos the storm was most disastrous
In Brownsville Iatimer's china shop and
adjoining baildiug is in ruins, the streets
full of debris, houses wrecked and trees
and fences blown down. The infantry
barracks are badly scattered and consider
able damage done to officers in quarters,
twenty-eight horses and seven mules be-
longing to The government We're killed.
The artillery. barracks were unroofed and
the cavalry stables blown fiat. The con-
vent was ais unr0Ofed and its fence blown
down The tug Ethel and the steamboats,
John Scott ANA George Brown were sunk
at Point Isabel. The Petuo was wrecked
and the schooner Julia Willet was blown
ashore. The Bravo went 10 pieces and the