Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-09
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


glad such men have been among them"
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 2Sth train of the Nash
vile, Chattanooga & st. Louis Railroad
was derailed near Chattanooga, Tenn, and
the engineer and firemen were fatally in
jured.
FIRE destroyed the Phnnix Glass
Works at PnillippsDurg, Pa, on they3Jth
loss, $4,000.
AT Rome, n. Y, during a fire on the
Both, an explosion occurred by which two
men were killed.
AT Southwick, Mass, by an accident
on the New Haven & North hampton Road
on the 80 b, several trainmen and passen-
gers were badly injured.
A TENEMENT on Sixth avenue, New
York, burned the morning of the 3'th, the
occupants escaping by way of the roof.
Two women were fatally burned and others
were seriously injured.
AT Dubuque, la, on the 3Oth, Fred
Schubert, an old man seventy years of age,
was struck by train of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railroad. He clung to
the cow-catcher and was dragged several
hundred yards, receiving injuries from
which he will die.
In Hamiltc n, Canada, four dwellings
were crushed by weight of accumulated
snow on the 31st.
On the 31st the Monon passenger
train ran into White RIVER, seven miles
from Indianapol S, Ind, where the bridge
,ro1,a xuou Savon rprconc ara rannrtn1
killed.
On the 31st train struck boulder
near Chattanooga, Tenn, and was wrecked.
several train hands being injured. A SIM
liar accident occurred near the same place
three days previously.
On the 31St a tWO-year-Old child
killed its baby brother, aged three months
in East st. Louis, ILL.,, by blow with
nursing-bottle.
On the 31st Harry Lee, clerk for
Woodrough & McParlin, Cincinnati, wa
arrested in Toronto, Ont, charged with
forging the firms name for S1O,00A
FIRE destroyed Adamson's elevator
at Toronto, On, on the lst; loss, S25n,0o.
GREAT excitement has been created
at Wood Haven, L. l., because of stroll
ing peddler's attempt to choke woman
who refused to buy of him.
On the 1st frghtful gasoline explo-
sion occurred in Alliance, o., demolishing
the new store of F. M. Orr and burying
eight or ten persons in the wreck. Several
are reported killed.
On the morning of the 1st Henry B.
r TO- thnt.
thirty head of cattle, in his barn near
Bloomington, Neb
On the 1st Henry Loop and John Fin
layson were Instantly killed, man named
Gerrod fatally and several others seriously
wounded by the explosion of a boiler in. a
shingle mill near Blanchard. Mich.
| A NEGRO named Sandy Robinson,
who had murdered Deputy Sheriff. was
taken from Jail by mob at Crockett, Tex,
| on the morning of the Sd and lynched.
ANOTHER sensation agitates Long Is
land This time it is an atrocious poison
ing case.
On the I'd grain warehouse at Min
neapolis, Mimi, burst letting out $1,000
bushels of wheat; damage, $4,000.
On the Sd the floor of Erkson's Hall
| at Guilford, N. Y, iell while members of
| the Masonic fraternity were preparing to
attend funeral. Seventy men were pre-
cipitated to the floor below, many of whom
were quite severely injured, none fatally,
however.
On the morning of the Sd four prison
ers alta ked the Sheriff at Monticello, n.
Y, in an attempt to get free. Two were
secured, one was shot dead and the fourth
escaped.