New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-09-05
Accidents and Casualties.

A west bound Union Pacific passenger
train, while running thirty miles an hour,
was thrown from the track by broken rail
near Kimball, Neb. Three sleepers and Claus
Spreekles' car went down fifteenfoot bank.
Three passengers were injured slightly.
The excursion boat Tourist took party
from Ashland Wis, and on it's return trip,
near the mouth of the bay, Frank Kading
fell overheard and was drowned. A fresh
wind was blowing and white caps were plenti-
full. 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 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
stantly killed The other members Of the
party escaped by crawling out on the end of
the ties. Miss Punzle struck on the rocks
thirty feet below and was terribly mangled.
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. C. 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
to pass 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
near Pine street the motor and car jumped
the rails, turning over several times before it
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was smashed to pieces and the car badly
wrecked several persons were dangerously
hurt. The cause of the accident is attributed
to insufficient electric current. The motor
was the property of the Daft Electric COM
pany of New York.
A man fell down the well hole of the stairs
OF the Palmer House, Chicago from the sixth
floor. The railing protecting the stairs is
not more than two feet high, and the won
der is that similar accidents have not oc-
Cured there before. DR.. D. NJ Ogden was
summoned that the wrist, collar bone and
every rib on the left side were broken and
that the sufferer was bleeding internally He
died before the doctor was through his ex-
animation. The deceased arrived at the
hotel the same day and registered as 81. E.
Read, Jr. of Evansville. Ind.
At fire in Chicago the horses in
Benefits barn. as we'll as those
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rear, numbering over 100 altogether,
stampeded and broke their fastenings and
rushed out on to North Clark street, creating
a panic among the crowds of people on the
| street. A temperance meeting which was be
ing held in a tent short distance from the
! burning building, also dispersed in great con-
fusion. Several people were knocked down
during the stampede, but none were seriously
injured, The fire was extinguished after caus-
ing 1000 worth of damage.
An east-bound stock train on the ST. Paul,
Minneapolis & Manitoba road met with Sc
| rious mishap near Fort Buford. While run
| ming along at high rate of speed cattle
were observed on the track. The engineer
| blew his whistle, shut off steam and reversed
| his engine, but too late to avoid the conse-
quenses The engine jumped the track fol-
lowed by seventeen cars About two hundred
cattle escaped. A little less than half that
| number were killed outright or seriously
| manned. Five trainmen were sinjured, three
of thep probably fatally. No blame is at
tached to the railway company.
The new Chesapeake. & Ohio railroad bridge
in course of construction between Cincinnati
and Covington collapsed with report that
could be heard two miles away. For several