The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-09-06
Accidents and Casualties.

A west-bound Union Pacific passenger
train, while running thirty miles an hour.
was thrown from the track by a broken rail
aear Kimball, Neb. Three sleepers and Claus
Spreckles' car went down fifteen-foot bank.
Three passengers were injured slightly.
The excursion boat Tourist took q party
rom Ashland, Wis, and on it's return trip,
aear the mouth of the bay, Frank Kading
ell overheard and was dro wned. fresh
wind was blowing and white caps we're plenti-
MI The boat rolled, and Kading, standing
close to the outside railing, lost his balance.
and as the boat rolled to one side pitched
over into the water.
The other evening, while party of young
people were returning home from a picnic,
walking on the Chicago & Northwestern
railway track, they were caught on the high
trestle near GAINESVILLE, Wis, by freight
train. Miss Maggie Punzle, twenty years of
age, was knocked from the trestle and in
,tantly killed. The other members of the
party escaped by crawling out on the end of
:he ties. Miss Punzle struck on the rocks
thirty feet below and was terribly mapgled.
A west bound freight extra on the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy collided with the rear
of construction train at Rock Creek, nine
miles west of Fairfield, Iowa. G. A. Rose of
Burlington, road master; Patrick Ready and
Patrick Griffin, section men, were instantly
killed, and John Kelly and Timothy Murphy
injured. The construction train had orders
20 pass n passenger train at Batavia, but
undertook to back into Krum, and seemed
TO have been running more than twenty
miles an hour.
An electric motor at Pittsburg, Pa, be-
came uncomfortable and started down the
road at terrific speed. At the sharp curve
aear Pine street the motor and car jumped
she rails, turning over several times before it
stopped against q telegraph pole. The motor
vas smashed to pieces and the car badly
wrecked several persons were dangerously
aurt The cause of the accident is attributed
10 insufficient electric current. The motor
vas the property of the Daft Electric COM
pany of New York.
A man fell down the well hole of the stairs
,f the Palmer House, Chicago from the sixth
ioor. The railing protecting the stairs is
lot more than two feet high, and the won
,urred there before. DR.. D. M. Ogden was
summoned that the wrist, collar bone and
very rib on the left side were broken, and
that the sufferer was bleeding internally. He
lied before the doctor was through his ex-
animation. The deceased arrived at the
,otel the same day and registered as H. r.
Read, Jr. of Evansville Ind.
AT q fire. in Chicago the horses lie
Benefits barn, as well as those
rear, numbering over 100 altogether.
stampeded and broke their fastenings and
rushed out ON to North Clark street, creating
panic among the crowds of people on the
street. A temperance meeting which was be-
ing held in q tent q short distance from the
burning building, also dispersed in great con-
hsion. Several people were knocked down
Turing the stampede, but none were seriously
INJURED. The fire was extinguished after caus-
ng 81 900 worth of damage.
An east-bound stock train on the st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Manitoba road met with Sc
ious mishap near Fort Buford. While run
atng along at o high rate of speed cattle
we're observed on the track. The engineer
blew his whistle, shut off steam and reversed
his engips, but too late to avoid the conse-
1uenses. The engine jumped the track fol-
owed by seventeen Gags, About two hundred
,attle escaped. A little less than half that
number were killed outright or sefieusly
NAMED. Five trainmen were injured. three
,f them probably fatally. No blame is at-
tached to the railway company.
The new Chesapeake & Ohio railroad bridge
course of construction between Cincinnati
and Covington collapsed with report that
s0pjd BE- beard two miles away. For several