Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-16
CURIOUS CASUALTIES,

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Any blind man could see you were smitten,
But you've only lieutenaEts pay
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CURIOUS CASUALTIES.
Ii there should arise some day an author
or dramatist who would present in his
tales or his plays nothing but facts, he
would be regarded-and justly-as wildly
sensational inventor of impossible incidents
and condolences. For instance, it would
be thought absurd to have sheavy vii
lain killed off by letting ship fall on
him, as John Hart was killed last fall in
the floating dock at the foot of Clinton
street, East river, or to have woman who
was in the garden hanging out the clothes
crushed by horse falling on her from an
adjoining house, which was the fate of Mrs.
Spier, of No. GAL Hudson street. At At.
lantic, N. j., Jacob Wagner was crushed
by horse falling into the we'll he was dig.
giDg. On the other hand, at Lewis, oppo.
site Quebec, a farmer with his team and
sleigh loaded with cordwood fell over
a cliff sixty feet high without himself
or the animals or the sleigh suffer.
ing injury. The cow Of Edward
Beekmsn, of Middletown, n. j., was
doomed animal. She had bsen mired, but
was drawn ont and placed in straw heap
to recover her strength, and spark from
locomotive set fire to the straw and
burned her to death. Two men were
mending tank in Louisville, when red.
hot bolt dropped into can of turpentine
at the bottom and set the tank on fire.
They could not agree which should climb
through the exit hole first, and both were
burned to death. At Reading, Pa, John
Goerner went to varnish the inside of
beer vat with a lamp in bis hand, and the
gas exploding blew him out of the man.
hole, but he was not killed. At Erie a
boilermaker, Joseph Herbe, was similarly
blown out of boiler and terribly injured;
while at Bradford, while John McCleary
was torpedoing an oil well, it made
flow, hurting him distance of 100 feet and
exploded the As. pound nitro glycerine tor.
pedo without injuring him severely When
A. OConnell, of Helena, Mont, fractured
rib while sneezing, city contemporary
called it can accident perhaps with
out parallel" At Indianapolis Mary
Haurehan burst her eyeball while sneezing,
and over in Brooklyn officer George S.
Payne yawned his shoulder out of Joint.
At Newark, in August last, a red-bot bar
from a rolling mill machine pierced Michael
McEvoy through the leg as he sprapg to
prevent fellow-workman from being per-
forated by bar from another machine. At
Albany Daniel killeen was killed not long
afterwards by similar bar entering his
body while he was sleeping. As fireman
Daniels was driving engine 80 out of the
engine house in this city one of the ropes by
which the understandable from the roof
caught him round the neck, and he was
within an ace of being hanged. At Client,
n. Y, boy driving along tree shaded
road was caught up by a bough which
ran into his thick wooden muller,
and had an escape as narrow. So had Mr..
Church, CT Passaic, who drove into hang
ing telephone wire. At Saginaw, Mich,
while man was sitting in the crotch of
tree to saw off limb, the crotch split as
the limb fell, letting him down into the
opening and then closing on him. 1t took
an hour OF choppipg and prying to get him
out OF the trap, and several of his ribs
were broken by the squeezing. A lady in
Philadelphia, who leaped up to hang
dress upon hook, caught her ring in the
hook and hung there, her feet not touching
the ground. A similar accident befel
Boston woman, who jumped up to light
hall gas.iamp, and was hooked to the tap
by her ring. Bob Johnson, of Winnipeg,
going home drunk, stepped into slough by
the fence and was unable to get out before
his feet were frozen into the mud, so
that he persisted of exposure. A priest
of Puchkirken, in Syria, who had
careless habit Of leaving his pens in
the ink.stand point upward, pricked
himself in the palm Of the hand and died
after eight weeks of agony from blood.
poisoning. Mrs, Mary Ferguson, of Brook
Ign, was killed in three days by a prick
from pin in the finger. A schoolgirl at
Franklin, Ind, fell and put out her eye
with the slate-pencil she was carrying
Mary Rolla, of Lincoln, ILL.,, fell and drove
the stem of the tobacco-pipe she was smok.
ing through her tongue. Both accidents
belong to most numerous and fatal class.
A Cincinnati inebriate put his open pen.
knife into his pocket, and, falling, received
fatal wound which he insisted had been
given him by an enemy. Mrs. Crowley
was caught up ii the streets of Paterson by
a passing locomotive, and carried thirty
miles on the COW. catcher without receiving
serious injury, and ]. B. Hays, a track
walker on the Geneva, Ithaca and Sayre
road, was struck by train running forty
five miles an hour without being hurt
If Philomena Lang. Of Chicago, had not
endeavored to pull her dog away from in
front of an approaching locomotive she
would not have been killed. At Niblos
Garden, Samuel Nixon, one of the soldiers
in " Michael Strogoff," was shot twice in
the leg, the audience applauding his real
istic writhipg; at Indianapolis, Albert
Mathey selected the moment at which
cannon was discharged in The World -
to peep under the door, receiving the blank
cartridge In the face. At Kingston, n.
Y, Master Shoot, aged s. attempting to
produce an imitation OF "Zazers" mortar
act with firecracker and chair, threw
himself backward out of third story win.
dow, and at Harrisburg, Pa, seven year.
old boy, playing circus, stood ON his head
till he brought on a fatal attack of brain
fever. Mr.. Rhea, of Norfolk, Va, fell
dead while romping with large company
of children on the sand, and the little ones,
thinking the fit a part of the game, enjoyed
it greatly. DIR. Ruisill, of Forsyth, Ca,
BOWED himself over while playing tenpins
and broke his leg A bee few into the
mouth of MIR. Van Meter, of Oroville,
Cal, and stung him so that the throat
closed up. aud he died instantly. At Mar
ham, in England, an owl whipped three
boys who had taken her young, blinding
one for life. In one street in London two
children were killed by gamecocks within
month. As Michigan youth was lead
ing horse by the halter, the animal
leaped suddenly to one side and the jerk
broke the boys neck. In the Liverpool
workhouse, Ellen Colman, aged l04, died
of swallowing pinch of snuff Mrs.
Halves, of Leicester, while coughing swal-
lowed two of her false teeth, and was stran.
gled-a common accident Thomas Clarke,
Of Wakefield, England, while attempting
to puff dart armed with needle through
a tube, sucked it into his windpipe and
died. At Westield, Texas, James Worse
worth, caught by q terrible storm in an
open field, WIS., pelted to death by hail.
stones. A Cincinnati clerk, while re-
moving an article from the shop win
dow with a brass rod, touched an
electric light wire and was hurled through
the plate-glass out upon the sidewalk.
Jacob Bohrer. brewery hand in Norris
ania, turned stream OF compressed air
into hogshead of beer and the barrel ex-
ploded, killing him. A woman of Wooler,
Northumberland, carrying home fagot by
a strap passed round her head, leaned the
bundle against fence to rest herself, when
it slipped over and the strap strangled her
Ia common accident. Julia Joel, of En-.
mis-, Tex, tried to crawl into the locked
house through window, when the sash
fell on her neck and she was strangled.
MIR. TerrilI, of Monroe, n. c., while fenc-
ing his child's grave, tripped and fell upon
it. breaking his neck on the rail he was
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