Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-21

Boston Gesterday-The College AuthOri-
ties Acursed Of NegIectIng Needed Re.
pairs to the Balcony Supports.
LOT OF BROKEN LIMBS.
BOsToN, Oct. ga platform crowded
with spectators watching the tub races OF
Harvard students on Charles river to-day
broke down and several were seriously
injured, having legs and arms broken.
The most injured are Harvard men. A
student named Meade, of south Boston,
class of '87, had his skull fractured and
both legs broken and will probably die.
The injuries of nine others are principally
fractures of limbs.
The crews were getting into line for the
start, and about $50 students had crowded
to the front of two balconies which stand
out from the river front of the Harvard
boat house, about an equal number on
each balcony, all pressing forward to see
the race, when both balconies gave way,
precipitating many into the river, while
many others standing in the lower balcony
were pinned down and bruised by the fall
of the upper balcony upon them. Fortu-
nately ii was but half tide, so that those
who fell into the river escaped with wet
ting. As quickly as possible the upper
platform was raised and several men re-
leased in more or less injured condition
and carried into the boat house. Physicians
sent for promptly responded. Most of
those seriously injured are hurt internally.
The names as far as ascertained are A
White, senior, WillIamsport, Pa, inter-
nally injured; E Il Allen, a freshman,
Cambridge, internally injured and arm
broken; G 7 Hardwick, junior, Quincy,
internally hurt; L p Frost, sophomore,
Boston, injured in head and back; 81
Drake, freshman, residence unknown,
bruised about the back; Fred S Mead, a
freshman, Boston, internally injured
and bruised about the head,
probably fatally; II R Curtis, junior,
Boston, back bruised; George A. Stewart,
a senior, South Boston, knee sprained and
bruised about the head; Charles S. Hamlin,
of tbs class of '83, grandson of Hannibal
Hamlin, Boston, bruised about the head.
Others are less injured, and able to take
care of themselves, but those named were
conveyed to their rooms in carriages.
The crews, who saw what had happened,
fastened to the boat house and assisted in
caring for the injured. All thought of
racing was given up. There will doubt
less beno scratch races this fall. It is al
legged the attention of the college authori-
ties had been called TO the very spile that
caused the accident.
FATALLY BURNED.
TOLEDO, o., Oct. 2O.-Mrs. Charles
Schriber, the woman who was so badly
burned last Wednesday night from throw
ing lighted paper on the floor, which
set fire to her clothing, died to-day, after
suffering most excruciating agony. Her
flesh was literally roasted in number of
places.
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION,
BURLINGTON, Iowa, Oct. 2O-By a boiler
explosion at Mount Pleasant this morning
in Ross Bros planning mill man named
Breckwith was instantly killed and another
man badly injured and thought to be dy-
ing. Four or five others were more or less
bruised. The mill was blown to atoms
with hardly enough left to burn. Dwell
iugs in the vicinity shook with the explo-
sion and the glass was broke in many win
dows. 1t was new steel boiler and the
cause of the explosion is unknown.
e CARELESS HANDLING OF A GUN.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Oct. 20.-Wm.
Flynn was shot in the head and killed &C
cidentally by the discharge of a gnn his
brother Michael was removing from boat
on Stockbridgc lake, yesterday. Michael
was badly wounded in the hand and side
but may recover, though he will lose an
arm.