Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-12
BY LAND AND SEA.


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Twenty five persons were injured by
railroad disaster near San Antonio,
Texas.
Seven bricklayers were seriously injured
by tho fall of 4 scaflOld at the new Ocean
oil works ut Constable Hook, near Jersey
City.
News is received at Sarnia, Ontario, of
the sinking of the steamer Asia, in Lake
George, near Sault Ste. Marie by collision
with barge. No lives were lost.
In Utica, William Bayne, 4 colored
waiter, aged twenty two, who recently
came from Washington, was drowned while
bathing.
Mrs. McGuirc, who lived in the Short
Hills, near Plainfield, N. J., while picking
cherries, fell from from the tree and broke
her neck. She died in half an hour.
Just as they were getting tho stranded
steamboat, Britannia, Of the White Star
line, ready to float, she sunk into the
sand, leaving only her masts visible.
Dennis Harrington, aged 90 years, while
at work in building in Park Place, New
York, was killed by falling into the sub
cellar from the third floor.
A fire in Toilette, Quebec, destroyed
thirty five buildings, causing loss Of SO,
600. David Sternberg's dry goods store,
in Louisville, Kentucky, was damaged by
firc to tho extent of So, 900.
Two firemen were caught by IL falling
wall at fire in Montreal, and one of them
named James Towers, was killed. The
other, John Smith, is believed to be fatal
ly injured.
John Stephenson, a fireman, and John
Moriarty, a boy oftwelve years, were kill
ed by the ditching" of locomotive
near East St. Louis. John Higgins, the
engineer, was scalded and bruised.
A violent hurricane from tho cast swept
along the Newfoundland coast on tho 1st
inst, destroying nearly all the small craft
in many of the harbOrs. At Isle A'BOis a
schooner and two brigantines were totally
wrecked.
The bark Princess Louise, from Balti-
arrived at Halifax, on Sunday, having been
disabled in a squall on the Oath ult., dur
ing which she lost three of her men over
board.
James johnson, cOlOred, while loading a
truck with iron rails, in Wilmington, fell
into tho water where it was barely over
his head, and was drowned. Three fellow
workmen, all colOrcd, were unable, like
himself, to swim, and could not rescue
him.
While tending travis, \ dOry contain
ing two men, William Reynolds Of Canso.
and James Baker Of GuysborO, capsized
and both were drowned before assistance
could reach them. Reynolds leave wife
and several small children. Baxter was
unmarried.
Fourteen cars of 4 freight train on the
Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha railroad,
broke loose ut Hudson, Wisconsin,, and
crashed down steep grade into another
fOeight train, causing damage estimated at
SO, 200, and killing George Frider, an ell
gineer.
while the daughters of tho Prince OF
Wales wcro taking drive in tho neigh
borhood Of Hyde Park, tho horses boltcd
and 4 wheel Of the vehicle came in COLI
sion with lamp-post. The carriage was
stopped by policeman and tho prnccsses
:.lighted, terribly scared, but uninjured.
A four-ycar-cld sou Of James Comley,
Hamilton township, Van Buren, county,
Mich, was playing in i wheat field unEO-
ticed by his father, who was driving u
reaper, when ho was struck by the
machine, which severed his right leg
twice below tho knee and cut the left leg
in a fearful manner.
On tho recent tour Of the Marquis of
Lorne to tho maritime provinces, eNtraOr-
dinary precautions were taken by tho in
tercolonial railway authorities to guard
against accident. Not only were the
switches locked rs usual, but all switch
rails were spiked down SO that thoy could
not be opened. A detective in the employ
of tho government Travelled on the same
train with him throughout the trip.
At the Little Beaver crossings on the
Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne railroad, sew
cral families of farmers were returning
from church ut the latter place when :.
horse belonging to ono of the number, Il
wealthy farmer named Robert McChesncy
balkcd 1T the crossing. The vehicle fol
lowing, in which was widow lady, also
stopped at tho track. At this moment the
Atlantic express train turned Il sharp curve
in the hills, and was OH the party almost
in moment. Mr.. McChesney, his daught
or, aged nineteen, and the widow Yero all
struck by tho locomotive and will prob
ably die. Mr.. McChcsncy had both legs
broken. His daughter had one leg cut off
while the widow was injured internally.