Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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inthe Bessemer Steel Works at Cleveland,
Ohio, on thes Sd. One Of the converters,- =
manipulated by hydraulic power, was
handled by boy new at the business, and
~bezletitfip so far that afarge quantity of
the melted metal poured out on the damp
sand.in the pit, causing an explosion which
shattered many panes OF glass in the mill
and adjacent building.
A CRAZY fireman on North Pacific
freight train, near Olsop, recently over
powered the engineer and undertook to run
the train to suit his own idea Of speed, about
. mile per minute. The engineer finally
succeeded in stopping the train, just in time
to save collision, but had his coat and vest
torn off by the maniac, who, as soon as the
train was stopped, started across the prairie
and disappeared.
KELLOGG's HOTEL, Nashville, Tenn,
was totally destroyed by fire the other night.
The thirty people in it escaped in their
night clothes, many Of them jumping from
second-story windows.
s JAMES PHILLIPS, IA years old, son of
widow living in Corwin, Ohio, deliberately
killed himself with an old musket the other
day. He had been reading pernicious lit
erature. f 1&
Rosa RoscoBy of Turner's Falls,
Mass, recently attempted to kindle fire
with kerosine and was fatally burned.
= THE explesien-of a steam-tank in the
rendering establishment at East st. Louis,
III. J, on the 5th, created no little consterna-
ton in the stock yards and vicinity. Sheds
inf oyItn inf
work went into the air like tissue paper.
One workman was instantly killed and two
others were seriously injured. While John
Caszca, Jerome Tyler and John Meyerhoeffsr
were at work about press near the boiler,
the large tank connected with it shot up in
the air Ike a rocket, crushing through the
roof. In an instant the whole place was
filed with steam, smoke, pieces of iron
and brokenLtinfber. The tank, hurled
nearly hundred feet in the air, fell
back a shattered, shapeless mass. Great
pieces torn from it went flying in
all directions, some being found at
distance Of nearly 800 yards. The roof was
| torn off completely and fell in, strewn about
/ like kindling wood. The explosion was ter
rife, and resounded for great distance.
1 Men at work in other portions Of the estab-
lishment were almost thrown from their feet
by the shock, so great was its force. John
Meyerhoeffer was discovered firmly pinned
to the ground by two heavy beams. He was
still alive, but suffering great agony. The
steam escaping from one Of the tank pipes
had spurted on him, scalding him almost
from head to foot. lie was quickly released
and carried to his home near by. Tyler was
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as Meyerhoeffer. He received some severe
cuts on the face and body, and his head was
badly gashed.A He was also horribly scalded.
THE body of Caszca was shockingly mangled,
the top of his head having been blown off
and the face crushed to a pulpy mass. The
explosion is attributed to gases generated
from fatty substances and too much steam.
GEORGE G.. STEKETEE, Mayor of
Grand Rapids, Mich, has been arrested
on the charge Of selling intoxicating liquors
contrary to faw. The Mayor. who is
druggist, has been very Jealous in enforcing
the liquor law, and many saloon men have
been made to suffer in consequence. \
Hon. CHARLES MCLEAN, a Green
back member Of the MassachusettsLegisl
ture, was recently arraigned in the munich
pal court at Boston as a common drunkard
and sentenced to Imprisonment for three
months. ,lr GLE III
JOSEPH MHHAN, of Cleveland, o., re-
Gently found a handsome powder-horn on
the knob of his hall door, and hung it about
the neck of his little son. An explosion
soon took place, two children losing their
evesight. 1t is thought the horn was an in
fernal machine.
A YOUNG. girl named Angelina Nc
Sweeny, who had been committed to the
House of the Good Shepard, East New Y ork,
l.. l., lost her life ON the 4th while attempts
ing to escape. She sprang from the fifth
story window to the roof of an adjoining
building, and was SO badly injured that she
died in an hour. .-9T1..s 4- 80 ~
GEORGE b. HOYT, son of a Vermont
Judge, has embezzled several thousand
dollars worth. of goods from dry goods
store at Portland, Me-, and made full con-
fessiOn. .-z-- --o Z
y WILLIAM JACOBS, of Grafton, N. Y,
Killed his sister in-law, from Jealousy, the
other dav and then took his own life. -
= VIM. WAYNE and Lloyd Hunt, aged
- and 13 respectively, while coasting in
Cincinnati the other day, ran into pond OF
water forty feet deep.and were drowned. -
CHARLES SMITH, a New York board
ing-house keeper, was fatally shot the other
night vby his step-fathen Henry Purdy.
THREE burglars were recently killed
at Tunnelton, Ind, while trying to rob a
saloon. go
:. RECENT fires The Jefferson School,
house. Washington, D. c.; loss,
s1s5. 900. The Commercial Elevator,
Buffalo, n. Y; loss, $125,OOO, insur-
ance. sec, 900. Jaynes Co.'s barrel
factory, Cambridge, Mass; loss, Sl2o,O0O.
Three hotels and other property in Four
Mile, N. T.; loss, 100000.
EoumV SEVENTH E0NGRESS