Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-04
A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.
One Man Fatally Hurt ana Several Badi,
Injured.

One Wan fatalIN hurt ana SeNsfai bAuiy
Injured.
Yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock
Jerry Hayes, an employe of the Belmont
Blast Furnace, met with an accident that
cost him his life. He worked al the top
of the cupalo as top filler" his duties
being TO wheel the trucks of coke and ore
OFF the elevator and dump them into the
cupalo.
At the aforementioned time he had
Just dumped two barrows and wheeled
them back on To the elevator, and started
il on its downward course. When il was
a few feet below the top he noticed
that the borrow was not in place and
stepped out onto projecting timber tn
brace himself in order to push the vehicle
into position. While doing this his foot
slipped and he was prccipitated headlong
down the elevator shaft to the ground be-
low, distance of seyen:y-iiye feet.
His fellow workmcn Immediately rushed
TO his aid and picked him up. He was
placed on n large board and carried to his
home on Twenty Fourth street, where DIR.
Alderman was summoned. II was
discovered that Hayes had sustained
fatal injuries although he was conscious
almost up to the time of his death. The
right arm was terribly shattered, his skull
was fractured, and his body generally
bruised up. Human aid was powerless,
and at $50 o'clock the injured man died.
He was about forty years Of age, and
leaves wife and three or four children Il
mourn his sudden and untimely death.
Robert Dabney, a well known colored
man, was accidentally shot with small
rifle ball, at the New Fair Grouds yester'
day afternoon, The wound was inflicted
by gentleman, who fired his gun beior'
he was ready to shoot, the ball striking
Dabney in the right ankle, just above thu
foot. He was taken 20 DIR. Dickey's ofiic'
where the wound was dressed and Dabney
made comfortable, The wound, which Il
nainful, is not at all serious,
Jack I.anahan, the well-known cartman
had a marrow escape from death about
o'clock yesterday morning. He was load
ing his cart at the y. 4 o. yards, between
Chaplinc and EOlr streets, south of Six
teenth, when an east-bOund freight caught
his cart and overturned both il and the
horse the latter falling with its head
against moving car. Luckily the train
was moving very slowly, else horse, driver
and cart must have Jared badly.
On Friday night while Panhandle
freight train was standing on the siding al
Golfers Station, q brakeman named Kin
ney. son of Officer Kinney, Of Steubcn
vile. discovered a tramping Jew on tho
train. The Jew offered Kinney bras
ring if he would allow him to continue his
ride, explaining that "the ring is pur,
gold, bought him for ten dollars in Pitts
burgh, &c" Kinney got the ring in hi,
hands and commenced codding the Jew
about it, and the latter, in making an ef.
fort to grab it from him, lost it on thu
ground. The jew wanted Kinney 10 pay
for it, which he refused TO do, whereupon
the tramp went to a saloon near by and
tried to procure revolver. Failing IN
this, he got large knife, with which he
stabbed Kinney in the legs and body sew
eral times. inflicting serious wounds. Al
first they were thought TO De fatal, but
later, they were decided less dangerous
than at first supposed.
William White, miner employed IN th'
Spaulding shaft at Brilliant, had his head
seriously cut By cage coming down upOr
il while standing at the bottom of the pit
on Friday night. DR.. J. ". McDonalo
dressed the wounds, which though nc
serious are not necessarily fital.
Yesterday morning man named Georgs
Robb. of Toronto, O., fell from the &. 4 J.
passenger train, while in motion, a
Browns station, breaking leg and iniie.
ing severe scalp wound where his hea6
struck the track. He was picked up ant
put on the train and taken 10 Browns
where medical aid was procured. He wa
intoxicated when the accident occurred.
A man named Smith fell in ct on Mar
ket street, about 2 O'Clock yesterday after
noon. cutting his face badly by coming il
contact with the bricks Of the sidewalk
Officer Carney assisted him into n neigh
boring store, where his injuries wer
dressed.
William Dickman hOurished n reyolye
around, on the Fair grounds yesterday, AM
scared number Of people half silly. III
was told to behave by Officer Lukens, bu
paid no attention to the cfficer's advice
the result being that he went 10 the cooler
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