Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-10-13
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.

Nine stores in Clarinda Iowa, were burned.
/ Loss, SD, 600.
The large carriage factory of Fitzgibbous
IL Crisp, ut Trenton, N. j., was burned.
A. E. Fairchilds grocery in Toronto was
damaged by fire to til. amount of So, Oo0
Tho Wholesale paint, oil and glass house of
Campbell g. Cutler, in Kansas City, was
burned. Loss, $40, QUO.
Antonio Ketmos was killed by the blowing
out Of plate in boiler at tue Chicago Coal
Conpnnys shaft in SGreator, Illinois.
Jerome Buckingham, coniactor-on
Baltimore and Ohio train fell off at Hoods
Mills, Nd, and received injuries which
caused his death.
Three persons drank embalmiag oil at a
wake in Racine. Wisconsin, mis;aking it for
beer, and it is believed one of them, James
Payton, will not recover.
man, named Clarke, employed by the
Thomas Houston Electric Company i'll Chi
cago, was killed by shock from an electric
light wire he was testing.
Mrs. Zimmerman, her infant, and two chill
dren Of Mrs. Phillips, all OF Dorchester
county, Md !, were drowned by the capsizing
OF boat in the Wicomico river.
A prairie Gre which started near Ayr,
Dakota, swept the country north aud asst
for miles. Frost neirly ruined the grain and
fire has finished it in that locality.
A fire in Cincinnati destroyed tue tobacce
factory Of L. B. Tenant g. Co., and build
ing occupied by George Duebel 81 Co., rag
dealers, and c. Toenjies. Loss, S36. 600.
The rains in Mexico have ceased and all
the waters are receding. Official figures to
date state that the losses throughout the
country by the floods exceed 50 600 ,O00
A work train on the New York Central
Railroad was telescoped near Jordan, New
York, BY an engine. Vim. Peck was fatally
al a dozen other men severely injured.
passenger train OH the New York Cen
tra Ra lroad left the track ut Byron Station
New York. The cars We're greatly damaged.
No person was killed, but one man was
badly injured.
George Sparks coored, aged d years, was
accidentally wounded in the neck by shot
from pistol said TO have BEEN in the hands
OF George Grant, also colored. Grant has
been arrested.
John Miller and Alfred Gross, aged re-
sp.cti, ely II and Is years, were shot and
killed at Hyndmann, Penna.. by the accl-
dental discharge Of shot gun i'll the handi
Of Albert Lobb.
a capsiz.d sailboat, containing the body OF
man, drifted ashore lie II Oshkosh, WIscon-
sin The boat WAS seen with Two persons i'll
It, but it is believed that more than that
number persisted.
a boiler exploded in the house of Ezra W.
Chaplin, in Cnapinviile, Northboro, Massa-
chusetts, causing damage estimated at S25,-.
0O0. The family being in the back part OF
tie house escaped injury.
JAS McGrath, Peter Tregunsi, Andrew or
son and +. Nelson were drowned at San Fran
CISCO while fishing outside the Golden Gate,
their boat being capsized by the swell from
il steamer bound out.
As several miners were descending shaft
of the Kingston Coal Company, at Wilkes
barre. Pennu. on the cage, some heavy object
fell ami struck Richard Hook, miner, kill
ing him instantly. He was about 35 years
old, ard leaves family
A freight train and an express train on
tie Lehigh Valley Railroad collided near
aclerton, and both engines and three
freight cars were SMASHED. Thomas Force,
fir man OF the passenger train, WAS fatally
injured.
News from Moisic, 2O9 miles east of the
Saguenay, Quebec, is TO the effect that the
whole population of that district are on the
brink OF starvation. The fisheries this sea-
son have failed and the crops also turned out
badly.
Atan agricultural fair at Kutztown, Berks
county, Peuna., span of Texan ponies ran
away and dashed into a crowd of people,
causing q panic. David Levan, aged go
yeurs, was fatally, and Miss Anna Barto Sc
verely injured. A little boy and girl were
also hurt.
Five workmen were severely burned by an
explosion of accumulated gases in q new
water works tunnel being excavated in
Cleveland, Ohio. The tunnel is lighted by
electricity, and the circuit of lights was
being extended further into the passage,
when an ell. ctric spark ignited the gases. 1t
is thought all the injured will recover.
A work train OH the Chicago and Atlantic
Railroad, with a gang of Italians on board,
stopped at water tank near Kouts, Indiana,
when fast freight train ran into it, causing
a general smashup. Three men were Sc.
verely, though not fatally, injured, and
about 30 others were more or less cut and
bruised.