Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1882-08-03
Curious Casualties.
From the New York World.l

Some ofthe Singular Accidents that II a p
| pen to People from Time to TIme-Good
| Luck and Bad.
From the New York World
| If there should arise some day an author OF
a dramatist who would present in his tales OF
his plays nothing but facts he would be re-
| garded-and justly-as wildly sensational
| dences. For instance, it would be thought
| absurd TO have a heavy william" killed off
| by letting a 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
a woman who was in the garden. hanging
| out clothes crushed by horse falling on her
| from an adjoining house. which was the fate
| of Mrs Spier, of No. GAL Hudson street. At
Atlantic, N. j., Jacob Wagner was crushed
by horse falling into the we'll he was dig
ging. On the other hand, at Lewis opposite
Quebec, farmer with his team and a sleigh
loaded with cordwood fell over cliff sixty
feet high without himself or the animals or
the sleigh suffering injury. The COW of Ed
ward Beekmen, of Middletown N. j., was
doomed animal. She had been mired, but
was drawn out and placed in a straw heap to
recover her strength, and spark from To-
connective set fire to the straw and burned her
to death. Two men we're mending tank in
Louisville, when q red hot bolt dropped into
a 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 a
beer-vat with a lamp in his hand,
and the gas exploding blew him out of the
manhole, but he was not killed At Erie,
boiler-maker, 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, hurl-
ed him the distance of 100 feet and exploded
the 4S-pound nitro-glycerine torpedo with,
out ipjuring him severely. When MIR. A.
O'Connell, of Helena, Mon, fractured rib
while snsezing city contemporary called it
IAN accident perhaps without parallel"
At Indianapolis Mary Haurehan burst her
eye-ball while sneezing, and over in Brook,
lyn Officer George S. Payne yawned
his shoulder out of joint. At Newark, in
August last red-hot bar from rolling mill
machine pierced Michael McEvoy through
the leg as he sprang to prevent fellow work
man from being perforated 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 SO out
of the engine house in this city one of the
ropes by which the harness is suspended
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 bough which
ran into his til, ok wooden muller and had an
Passaic, who drove into hanging 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 chopping and
prying to get him out OF the trap and several
of his ribs were broken by the squeezing. A
lady in Philadelphia, who lsaped up to hang
a dress upon hook, caught her ring in the
hook and hung there her feet not touching
cy,r Sl1x SI0,.k AfnI
man, who jumped up to light hall gas lamp,
was hooked to the tap by her ring. Bob
johnson, of Winnepeg, 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 Styria, 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 Brooklyn, was killed in three
days by prick from pin in the finger.
school girl at Franklin, Ind, fell and put out
her eye with the slate, pencil she was carry
ing Mary Rolla, of Lincoln, ILL.,, fell and
drove the stem of the tobacco pipe she was
smoking through her tongue. Both acct
dents belong to most numerous and fatal
class A Cincinnati inebriate put his open
penknife into his pocket and falling, received
fatal wound which heinsisted had been given
to him by an enemy. Mrs. Crowley was
caught up in the streets of Paterson by
passing locomotive, and carried thirty miles
on the COW catcher without receiving serious
injury, and Mr.. j. B. Hays, a trackwalksr on
the Geneva, Ithaca and Sayre road, was
struck by a 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 approach
ing locomotive she would not have been kill
ed. At Niblo's Garden, Samuel Nixon, one
of the soldiers in michael Strogoff," was
shot twice in the leg, the audience applauding
his realistic writhing; at Indianapolis Albert
Mathey selected the moment at which u can
non was discharged in The World" to peep
under the door, receiving the blank cartridge
in the face. At Kingston, N. Y, Master
Shoot, aged eight, attempted to produce an
imitation of "Zazel's'' mortar act with fire.
cracker and chair, threw himself backward
out of third story window, and at Harris
burg, Pa, a 7-year- boy, playing circus,
| stood on his head till he brought on a fatal
attack of brain fever. Mr.. Rhea, of Nor
| folk, Va, fell dead while romping with a
| large company of children on the sand, and
the little ones, thinking the fit part of the
game, enjoyed it greatly. Dr. Rudisill, of
| Forsyth. Ga, bowled himself over while
| playing ten pins and broke his leg. bee
| flew into the mouth of Mr.. Van Meter, Of
| Oroville, New, and stung him SO that the
| throat closed up, and he died instantly. At
| Marham in England, an owl whipped three
| for life. In one street in London two chill
dren were killed by gamecoeks within a
| month. AS Michigan youth was leading q
| horse by the halter the animal leaped sud
| denly to one side and the jerk broke the
| boys neck. In the Liverpool workhouse,
Ellen Gel. man, aged 1O4, died of swallowing a
| pinch of snuff. Mrs. Halves, of Leicester,
| while coughing, swallowed two of her false
| teeth, and was Etrangled-a common acci-
dent. Thomas Clarke, Of Wakefield, Eng,
while attempting to puff dart armed with u
! needle through q tube, sucked 1t into his
windpipe and died. At Westfeld, Tex,
James Wordsworth, caught by terrible
storm in an open field, was pelted to death
| by hailstones. A Cincinnati clerk while re-
moving an article from the shop window
with brass rod, touched an electric light
wire and was hurled through the plate glass
out upon the sidewalk. Jacob Bohrer, a
brewery hand in Morrisania, turned stream
OF compressed air into hogshead of beer
and the barrel exploded, killing him. wo-
man of Wooler, Northumberland, carrying
home fagot by strap passed round her
head, leaned the bundle against q fence to
rest herself, when it slipped over and stran-
glsd her-a common accident. Julia Joel, Of
Ennis Tex. tried to crawl into the locked
house through a window, when the sash fell
ON her neck and she was strangled. Mr..
! Terrill, of Monroe, N. O., while fencing his
child's grave, tripped and fell upon it, break
ing his neck on the rail he was carry ing.
Mrs. Spicer, of Wellsyille, Pa, caught her
foot on ragged oii-eioth, and, pitching
headlong upon the stove broke her neck.
Deacon Ellis, of Rumford, r. l., cut his
hand while opening bottle of communion
wine in church, the wound bringing on lock
jaw. At Troy, young man set fire to his