Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-30
THROUGH THE STATE.

4 report has reached st. George, Tucker
county, of II strange phenomenon that
occurred on Red Creek, i'll a recent
storm The lightning struck clitf OF rocks
with such terrific violence that it tore out
great cha%m in it, and threw rocks en-
tirely across the valley, several hundred
feet, and where they struck the timber
against the opposite mountain, it looked
like cannon balls had been fired among the
trees. The bark and limbs were torn away
and the trunks broken. \ bunch oflaurcl
that had grown on the top of the cliff was
thrown entirely across the valley.
On last Sunday morning while the fast
train coming west was about three hun
drcd yards from the CanncltOn depot, the
brakeman called ont the name of the sta
tion. when a lady passenger whose eXper-
icnce hy rail must have been limited, hur-
redly Came forward and jumped from the
train, striking head first on the croSstiOs,
She was conveyed to al upper room of thG
HanSiord House and DIR. Hoover called
who after an examination, pronounced her
injuries serious but not necessarily fatal,
One day last week Mrs, Rudolph Bond,
of MOrgmtOwn, attempted to ktndle Il fire
with 4 lot 0fTOc& blasting p0wder-taking
from Jug small handful at time and
throwing it into the crate, with, of course,
the usual result, viz: Il blOw-up and terri
BILE burning. The jug was blown TO pieces
and Mrs. Bonds arm was terribly burned
with the powder, and other portions of her
body very seriously burned and bruised.
On June 10Th Mr.. Ralf King, 4 well
known lumber man, was accidentally
killed while running a raft of railroad ties
in Elk river Engaged with a number of
other men they We're coming through what
is called Observation-Disclosures, when the
raft struck an obstruction of some kind,
which piled the ties up, catching Mr..
King and crushing him to death.
The body of Milo Cooper, the fireman of
the Emma Graham, who was drowned At
the sinking of that boat last winter, was
found fiOaiiRg in tie river at l,etart last
Friday, II is supposed the body had been
entaagleI In the wreck all these months,
and the divers in working about the boat
had caused it to float away.
A new rule has been adopted on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by which
curtains are used on the engine headlights
When train goes on q siding the curtains
must bc dropped down over the light after
it has rIe.ISd ihe main track and the
switch set right again.
Near KeySer, on Sunday last, Misses
Clara and Cora Miers were pursued by
mad dog and forced to take refuge in an
apple tree, where they were compelled to
stay until rescued by their father aud sew
eral other gentlemen. The dOs was killed
after lively chase.
John GreathouSe, n respectable citizen
and business man of Calhoun county, was
attacked by mob of men day or two
since on West Fork and left for dead.
GreathOuse was stabbed and cut in eight
places 1t is believed he will recover.
On the 18th John McClister, foreman of
the J. L. Rumbarge Lumber Company at
Dobbins, Mas struck in the stomach by a
piece OF wood he was ssly ing and 50 badly
injured that death resulted in a few days.
The Warrington wooden mills are addil
three new looms to their factory, making
in all about dozen, and to-day will start
off double set of hands and run day and
night 70 The end OF the season.
John McAtee, of Randolph county, was
attacked by large panther while walking
through the woods and was severely
scratched befoFe he dispatched the beast,
The work of granding the KingwoOd q
Tunnelton narrow guage railroad has been
completed.