Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-10
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
A MANS cOAf CAUGHT IN CO0s

AnasAo Wearer1 Aeck Broksn-Sad Death
q Of an 1sslmable Young Man.
An accident which resulted in the in
Simultaneous death Of John Eshleman Oc-
CURED ON the fourth floor Of John N.
Brandt & Co.'s steam Touring mill, Mar
ket street, Mount Joy. Shortly altar
O'Clock last evening the young man went
to the upper floor. The grist In some
spouting at the bolt had cloggsd and its
free passage was retarded. With stick
about . yard in length in his hand he
stopped to right the working Of the apps-
ratua While in tho oct his tight waist
coat which he had ON vas causht In the
cog wheels and he soon became il victim.
The machinery was Jared, and his
fellow-workmen who were in other
parts Of the mill below ionedi-
ately rushed to that part Of the
mill, where they found him dead, with his
neck and collar bones broken. Every
thread of clothing had been torn from his
upper extremities. No one was present to
see the circumstances Of his sad DEATH
There are several theories advanced, but
NO one can tell with any degree Of certainty
how it happened, except that it Was IN o.
cident.
Mr.. Eshleman was an unmarried man,
N&CA 0OVuS Sf yCAsASs "a 0ACoANCut Cu0I0Cs
ter, Industrious and economical. As such
he was we'll known throughout the borough
and vicinity, and his sudden death awakeLs
general sorrow, and sympathy for the
family in their distress. He was son
of Martin Eshlemau, to whose residence,
on West Donegal street, his remains wcre
taken on Friday evening.
About 81 o'clock Deputy Coroner L.
ID. Gallagher, with jurors j. NJ. Hip
pie, Il. F. Plummer. H. II Nissley, j.
F. Pyle, J. Il. Dennis and William Man.
ming, viewed tho corpse ut the scene Of
the accident. They heard the evidence in
the office Of the mill and from il rendered
the following verdict : That John Esh-
leman while attending to his duties in the
mill Of John NJ. Brandt 4 Co.. was caught
in the gearing of said mill and instantly
killed, his death being accidental and not
otherwise"
Mount Joy and vicinity News.
Diphtheria prevails to an alarming ex-
tent in the vicinity Of Springville.
A bright little boy, aged II years, 500
of BENJAMIN Croft, died Of dipththeria
He was buried last Friday.
4 petition from our citizens to the
Pennsylvania railroad company for
watchman at the Main street crossing, has
been handed in. Since tho fatal accident
two wesks ago, the air is rife with acci-
dents that might have Deen." DR.. John
J. Newphcr made narrow escape ut the
crossing ut West Main street the other
night.
Bernard Eidleman has been the faithful
watchman at the Landisville railroad
| crossing for many years. He enjoys .
joke rs we'll rs any one, and is fond Of per-
petrating them. He was taken in nicely
on Wednesday evening. \ trainman ON
the Dillerville local brought with him a
lead rabbit, set it along the railroad and
called Bernard's attention to it. He went
to the watch house, and with his gun shot
the dead rabbit. The man has but one
arm, but he illustrated if the joke was at
his expense that he knows how to handle
firearms.
4 protracted meeting is now being held
in the Bethel church at Landisville.
The lyceum. which meets every Friday
evening, is we'll attended. Last week they
gave special programme.
Levi Buch. u dealer in leaf tobacco, has
rented DR.. Croft warehouse.
Frank Ganty, colorcd, Of Mt. Joy. was
thrown against wagon anil had one Of
his ribs broken.