Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18
Record Of Casualties.

NJ. A. Pearson, q Swede about thirty years
Of age, engaged at work on the bridge on
the Duluth railroad, was instantly killed Of
Palisade, Oak, by getting his head caught
and mashed under a heavy beam.
A short but severe hail storm, followed by
rain, occurred at Browns Valley, Mimi
Lightning struck a threshing crew OF fifteen
ten miles from town, killing one man,
name unknown, and severely shocking the
rest.
A lateffeight train on the Chicago, Nil
waukee 4 st, Paul road struck the rear
car OF a freight train on the Illinois Central,
near st. Charles. Mimi, cutting the car in
two and scattering the contents. The Mil
waukee engine was considerably damaged.
No one was injured.
At the fair grounds at KeitEtown, Pa, the
Roman chariot race had just begun and two
chariots, each drawn by four horses hitehed
nbreast, had made one circuit of the race
course, when the teams became unmanage-
able and dashed into the crowd ofspectators.
Several people were fatally hurt.
Carl Reechster, a farmer living three miles
from Omaha, came home drunk, lit q lamp
and upset il in his drunken wanderings
around the house. The building TOOL FIRE
and was burned to the ground. He escaped
without injury himself. but his wife, 3-yeae
old child and the hired man who were asleep
at the time, were burned to death.
The number Of victims of Sundays church
accident at Reading, Pa, now foots up 40.
Broken arms and legs constitute the great
majority Of injuries. Very many of the vic.
Tins are in destitute circumstances, and the
priests of both the leading Catholic churches
have made an appeal for public aid. No
deaths ere yet reported.
II. F. Jones ofColumbia City, Ind, while at
tempting to board a freight train Mt Millbank.
Oak, fell and was run over. Both arms were
horribly crushed, and also his right foot. He
was badly under the influence OF liquor.
Three local surgeons amputated his arms
close to the shoulder, and also his foot. The
injured man is resting comfortably consider
ing his condition. His relatives have been
telegraphed. He had been working on a farm
near Millbank for two weeks.
At the Badger paper mill in Kaukauna,
Wis, Fred Hedky was caught upon q line
shaft and instantly killed. The shaft was
running at the rate OF about one hundred
revolutions, and a little burlap apron which
the man was wearing fell upon it and was
immediatiately grasped by the revolving rod,
a large spike projected rom the wall just be
yond, and this was driven into the back OF
the mans head. The force Of the blow bent
the spike down to the wall, and the man
went around several times and then dropped
of dead.
Word has been received from Two Harbors,
Mimi, Of q fatal accident which occurred at
that place on the Duluth & Iron Range road
The ore train from Tower was derailed by a
misplaced switch, and the locomotive and
our cars were destroyed and Engineer
Campbell was killed. The instant the engine
ran of the track the fireman leaped, as did
also the engineer. The engineer was buried
beneath the engine and two cars of ore, and
,is remains were horribly mangled. Neither
the fireman or any OF the rest Of the train
rev were injured.
The corner stone of the Polish Catholic
church, was laid at Reading, Pa, on Sunday.
During the ceremony the floor, on which full
ly 5000 men. women and children were stand
ing, gaYe way, precipitating several hundred
persona to the basement, n distance of fifteen
feet. Over one hundred men und women were
thrown in a heap and all were more or less
injured, some seriously and Others fatally.
The widest excitement followed, and the
5000 spectators became panic-stricken.
Cooler heads, however. went to the rescue OF
the unfortunate, and the injured were taken
into n~eighboring dwellings and physicians
hastily summoned. Later the wounded were
removed to their homes and to the vsrious
hospitals by ambulances.
A frightful collision occurred near the Han
nibal station of the Rome, Waterfowl &
railroad. A Lehigh Valley
passenger, using the Rome, WATERFOWL 4
0g~densburgh tracks between 0swego and
Sterling Junction, collided with q wild cat
train from Oswego on a curve in q deep cut
They came together with a terrific crash aad
the " locomotives were smashed into
thousands of pieces. Engineer Martin ID.
Slattery, of the wild cat, remained on his
engine with his hand on the lever and was
instantly killed, the lever going through his
caught in the wreck and frightfuIly
Conductor Moss and Brakeman
Thomas Maxey, Of the wild cat were also
badly injured.