Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-09
CRIME AND DISASTER.
Results Of wickedness Carelessness Or II

At the Sligo iron mills in Allegheny
county, Michael Fenton leaned against a
pile of iron plates. They fell over on him
and crushed him to death.
While engaged in tearing down derrick
ut Beaver City, tho crown block fell and
struck a man named Croy on the head,
badly cutting it open across the top.
Catherine Grant, New Brunswick, N. j.,
was so badly burned while attempting to
light a fire with kerosene, on Friday, that
she died the next morning.
L. W. Jamison, a horse-trainer, at Spring
field, Ill.,, shot and fatally wounded Will
liam Lewis, 4 negro, on Friday night, for
attempting to feloniously assault Hattie
White, young servant girl.
A switch-tender, named Emery, who re-
sided at South EastOn, was run over and
instantly killed on Saturday afternoon by a
train, short distance above the Lchigh
and Susquehana railroad depot.
NJ. II. kimball, hardware merchant on
Broadway, Baltimore, was drowned while
bathing at Bay Ridge. He was not missed
until the bathing suit which he had hired
was sought.
In y Meadville hardware store Willie
Hanratty, aged Is, was passing under a
hosting apparatus, where a heavy stove
was being raised when tho rope broke and
the boy was crushed beneath it, cutting a
fearful cash in his head, breaking both his
legs and internally injuring him.
| The body Of Patrick Corcoran, aged a.
was found on the third pier Of the Tenth
street bridge, Pittsburgh, with his skull
fractured and several other wounds on his
head, evidently made with some blunt
| Of &c l>o
dered in some house near by and carried to
this point.
The bark Nova Scotia, Captain Kibbell,
loaded with 3, 800 barrels of naphtha and
lying at Williamsburg, was burned last
night. Loss, a., 900. The flames extend.
ed to the barks Antonette and Cyclone,
also loaded with naphtha, and caused dam
age Of $4,000 to each.
| Mr.. Walter Bryant, Sr., a Philadelphia
millionaire, aged u, who was Temporarily
staying at the Hyde House, Ridgeway,
Elk county, rose from his bed while asleep
able distance tc tho ground, receiving i'll
,juries which resulted in his death tho fol-
lowing day.
| At Franklin Square, near Hampstead,
L.. L., on the farm Of Charles Hickman, a
row occurred between two of his farm
hands, Gautieg Yajan and George Govlin,
In which the former cut Govlin's hand
with sickle, inflicting dangerous wound.
Yajan was pursued aud captured by the
citizens. Govlin may die.
Burt Keith, farmer of Girard town.
ship, Erie county, becoming enraged at
one OF his horses for some reason or other,
took it by the tongue with his hands and
| yoNo otor Of &1,n
| cruel farmer was arrested and taken be-
fore justice of tho peace where no plead
guilty to avoid exposing the evidence, and
was fined $40 and costs-$4.39.
John Sharer was digging cellar, and
him lunch Of bread and coffee. Willie
he was eating, the bank above him began
| to give way, and the girl cried to her father
to take care. Sharer, however, was SO ir
tent on getting his daughter out of danger
that he was Ovcrtaken by tho falling mass
and died before assistance came.
| Alexander Holland, treasurer of the
American express company, who has a
summer residence at West Park, ON the
Hudson, was terribly injured by his horses
running away while out riding with his
family. Mr.. Holland was dragged over
the dashboard at tho heels of the horses,
| and badly bruised about the head and diff
fercnt parts of the body.
Thomas E. Snelbakcr, keeper of an ope,:.
house on Vino street, Cincinnati, shot Po-
liceman A. Clumlcy twice, once in the
groin and once in the abdoman. Clumley
will not survive. Snclbaker was under ar
rest at the time for row in which he.
Clumley's S son, two of Clumley' s daughters
and vlrgie jackson, an actress, were en-
gagged in Vine street car.
The excursion propeller E. Corning, bo
longing to John II. Starin, was leaving
Glen Island, with between 700 and 500
passengers, and while backing out from
tho pier, she ran her stern on rock.
stoving hole in it, when she filled and
sank to the guards. The passengers were
transferred to the steamers Laura N. Star
in and st. Nicholas, without any loss Of
life.
An old lady by tho name of Pender-
grast, who resided with her son on West
Carson street, South Side, Pittsburgh, had
gone np the road to gather coal and was
not seen by the engineer until too close
upon her to reverse tho engine. He
sounded tho alarm, but the woman.
who was between sovcnty-five and
eighty years Of age, no doubt failed
to hear the whistle on account of the
noise from the MILL Her head was entire |
ly severed from her body, her bowels cut |
open and strcwed along the track and |
otherwise horribly mutilatcd.