The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-12-23
THE ACCIDENT FIEND.
OF moving accidents by t,ood and neld.

EV6Iy moIuiuS suc o'"oVA"'o HS"' "'s
patches In the large city dailies are libcr.
lily interpreted with accounts Of loss OF
lie by all sorts of ccidents--railroad
,mash.ups, steam explosions, careless use
If firearms, sc. A weekly newspaper that
should attempt to give an epitome OF all
.hese would have room tor very little else,
yet it may not be uninteresting to take q
sort Of Photographic glimpse of the acct
dent world as 1t flashes around us tor a
few days in succession. After such view,
a little imagination will enable the reader
to form pretty clear idea Of how the pro-
cession moves continually day in and day
out, and how nobody IN fact is wholly safe
against being tripped up some day by the
accident fiend. The subjoined list covers
about Dec. 18th to 18th:
At Philadelphia, Pa, on the 10Th, four
children were drowned by a skating acci'
dent. The children in Dobson's carpet
mills, at Schuylkill Falls, were given
holiday, and many used 1t skating on the
mill pond, where, too many gathering at
one spot, the ice gave way.
James Brennan went into a Brooklyn
restaurant last Friday and ordered meat,
remarklng at the same time that he was
Roman Catholic. While eating piece
of meat lodged in his throat, causing his
DEATH
Hon. Clinton Briggs, Of Omaha one of
the most prominent citizens of Nebraska,
was killed on Sunday by falling from a
railway train.
Mr.. Frank f. Strlnger stock dealer OF
New Hartford, Iowa, on his way to Chlca'
90 on the 10Th, fell from the caboose near
Independence, and was run over and
killed.
Two miners, Sheppard and Levi, were
killed near Lewistown, Pa, IN the Juniata
Sand Mines by the sand caving in on
them.
At Woodstock. N. j., on the 18th, Nor
ris Loller, a drover, IS years old, was killed
by an infatuated bull that he was at
tempting to drive.
At Canton, ILL.,, last Saturday morning,
two boilers in Parlin & Orendorff's Agrl-
cultural Implement Works exploded, kill
ing nine persons, wounding many others,
and largely demolishing the buildings
which the explosion set on fire.
On the morning of the 10th the British
bark Langrigg, from Hull, struck on
Turkar Neck off Wexford, on the English
coast, and immediately went down, twenty
four of her crew beng drowned and but
two escaping.
On Monday the boiler burst in the Globe
Rolling Mills at Cincinnati, killing two
men instantly and badly injuring six oil
eight others.
A powder mill, eight miles from Pater
son, N. l., blew up on Monday, killing
three men.
BY THE RAIL.
Friday of last week, while freight trair
was being taken up the Poplar street grade
on the Iron Mountain road IN st. Louis l
broke in two, fourteen cars dashing dowI
the grade, colliding with wagon of TIT
transfer company, killing driver ant
horses then demolished the corner of Kahl
& Co.'s drug store, dashed into the bacl
yard and spent its force upon stack
glassware and chemicals.
Last Friday night, while the passenge
train was passing Cseston, Iowa, at thirt.
miles an hour, Charlie Dyer, 12.years old
half asleep, stepped off the rear platform
and was so badly injured that he vii
probably die.
Park Lane, a cousin and his two sister:
near Altoona, Pa, on Friday evening o
last week, while returning from praye
meeting, were run down by an englh
while walking on the railroad track AM
killed.
Engineer Brown was fatally injured OF
the 18th by collision of two engines OF
the Air Line hallway near London, on
The accident was caused by careles
switchman.
Near Waterbury, Conn, on the IAN
two men we're killed and .our badly ID
jured by collision on the New Englan
railroad.
Near Mobile, Ala, on the 18th, COLI
sion occurred on the Mobile and Obi
railroad between the north and soutl
bound freight trains. Conductor Hunte
Meyers was killed. His train was out Q
time
Near Woodhurn, Ohio, on Saturda
night, passenger train on the Wabasl
road was thrown from the track by
broken rail, and half dozen of passenger
were severely injured.
By collision on Monday on the Pitts
burg, Cincinnati & St LOUIS railroad, nea
Kings Station, thirty miles west of Gin
cnna.i, w. II. Wharton, postal clerk o.
the east bound train, was instantly kIlleC
and Mcmahon, on the same train, injured
Postal Clerks Hanover, Holhngshead, ant