The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-08-30
CRIMES AND CAsUALTI.1-"

CRIMES AND CAsUALTI..-.
! SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, August &C.
The explosion of twenty thousand pounds
of powder occurred 10 the drying house
of the Giant Powder company, near
West Burialey, yesterday. Two white
men aud three Cinnamon we're killed.
The white men we're Josiah Lewis and
C. Bunce. The buildings we're blown to
atoms.
ZANEsy1LLE, O, August 21.-In
attempting to get down from load of
hay farmer near here slipped end fell
on four pronged fork which bad been
carelessly leaned against the load with
the propgs up, three of which entered his
breast. He pulled the prongs out, walk
ed around the wagon to where his wife
was standing, fell into her arms and
died.
CHATTANOOGA, August 26.-At Stew.
enson, Ala, forty.eight miles from Chat.
tannooga on the Nashville and Chat.
tanooga Road, passenger train to day
struck buggy containing J. T. Moulton,
wife and child, Moulton was instantly
killed, the child fatally injured and Mrs.
Moulton escaped with slight injuries.
Moulton attempted to drive across the
track when his horse baked.
STAFFORD SPRINGS, Conn, August
2l.-Arthur Adams, aged twenty years,
residing at Stafordsville, attempted sui.
eide last night by shooting himself in the
head. The physicians have so far been
unable to extract the bullet. Young
Adams was visiting Miss Hattie Benton,
to whom he had been paying attention,
and committed the act because she re-.
fused to marry him. he asked her to get
him glass of water. and while she went
for it he shot himself. He will probably
die.
Macon, GA, August 23.-Five miles
from Monticello to-day, during Baptist
Association meeting, desperate fight
occurred between the Tyler and Malone
families and their friends. Thirty shots
were fred in less than one minute.
James Malone and Samuel Tyler were
instantly killed. Edward Tyler was
mortally wounded, and Walker Malone
severely. One ball struck Frank Mid.
dlebrooks's watch, thus saving his life.
Others are wounded, but are out Of reach
of. the sheriff. A few arrests have been
made. An old family feud is the cause
of the trouble.
Baltimore, August 23.-The captain
of the steamer Mason L. Weeks, which
passed down the Rappahannock River
during the storm of Tuesday afternoon,
reports that when the storm came up the
members of colored Baptist Church
we're gathered at Carter's wharf, Va,
witnessing an immersion. Rain drove
the crowd into an empty freight shed,
and while they were huddled together q
bolt of lightning struck the building and
seemed to lead right into the midst of
the crowd, killing three persons and
stunning nearly the entire number. A
candidate who was being immersed was
one of those killed,
MACON, GA, Aug. 24.-The passen.
gers on the incoming Montgomery train
this morning report q perilous leap made
by negro near Walden. He wanted>to
get off at Walden, but was asleep. He
was walked about half q mile from the
station while the train was going at q
rapid rate. He rushed to the platform
of the car, valise in hand, and, without
looking where he was going to land,
jumped making complete somersault in
the air, striking the ground with great
force and landing on his shoulders and
back. To the great surprise of every one
who thought he had been killed, he was
seen to rise and begin walking towards the
station.
CINCINNATI, August 2l.-While pre-
parations we're being made at the house
of Michael Willem, at No. 696 Race
street, this morning, for the marriage of
his youngest daughter, tragedy occur.
red 10 another par. of the building. The
eldest daughter, Catherine, gave the
finishing touches to the four tables laden
With delicacies that constituted the we'd
ding feast. Soon after she went up into
the garret and cut her throat, dying
instantly. She appeared to worry over
her sisters approaching marriage, and
from aIlthat can be learned she feared
that she was doomed to live the life of
an old maid, being 81 years of age. 1t
was decided not to postpone the wedding
On account of the suicide.
AUGUSTA, GA, August 2l.-An acci-
dent occurred at the Georgia Chemical
works to day by which Peter McArdle. q
young white man, met peculiar and
distressing death. In one department Of
the extensive fertilizer mandatory,
phosphate rock is ground into powder
almost as light as air-literally dust.
This pours out Of tin tube on to plat.
form. McArdle was stationed on this
platform, scrapiug it off into the mouth
Of funnel shaped bin or hopper through
which it emptied into room below.
An idea of its insidious nature can be
gathered from the fact that the men who
work Ia this lower room wear bandages
over their mouths and nostrils. These
men were Mortified to day to discover
McArdle's feet protrudipg from the ori.
| fee of the hopper into the room. They
rushed above to the platform where he
had been at work and lifted him from
the bin, but his heart had ceased to beat
and he was stark dead. His mouth and
nostrils were chock full of the deadly
dust, which he had inhaled when he fell
| Into the bin, and it is believed his death
was almost instantaneous. He wss liter.
ally drowned in dust.
NEENAH, Wis, Aug 23.-At 11SO
last night George Writings paper mill,
large three story building in the su.
burbs, of this city, was discovered in
flames. An alarm brought several thou
sand persons to the scene, who were
standing about the blazing structure
when the battery Of boilers exploded.
Eighteen persons we're killed, seven
fatally Injured and thirteen SO seriously
hurt they may die. Many we're cut and
bruised by the falling debris. The
building was of brick. The explosion
lifted the roof and sent 1t on to the heads
of the spectators. The walls were blown
outward, masses of bricks, stone and
broken timbers. burying scores of people.
The work of removing the bodies was at
once undertaken. The dead were remov.
ed to the city hall and prepared for burial,
and The injured we're carried to neighbor.
ing residences. The mill was operated
day and night. At the time of the ex-
plosion fifty men were in the building.
|. When the FIRE was discovered they made
heroic efforts to extinguish it, many being
severely burned, When the alarm was