Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-09-15
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES

Six section men were killed near Bonne.
eille, Wisconsin, by Il freight train jumping
SIC track
Adam Miller was killed by falling under a
grip CAR which lie was trying to board, III
Chicago.
T. ~. Belts planning and saw mill, in
Washington, was burned. Loss, 50 90;
partly insured.
John Gavcr accidentally shot and killed
himself while hunting for squirrels near
Frederick, Maryland.
gan explosion of gas in Packer Colliery,
No. 3 near Shenandoah, Pennsylvania,
badly burned Anthony Shaw, John and
Martin Burns, Joseph Rosennis aud George
Setback.
Thomas McKcnney was dangerously in
jured by falling out OF q tIlirtl-story window
of the Hotel Windsor in Houngstowr, Ohio,
while intoxicated.
While freight train was crossing bridge
al HalIflX, /. brakeman named Cummings
accidentally ran against another named
Christie, and both fell into the t-cstle work
and We're killed.
While working in the streets of Duluth,
/ Minnesota, n stream OF water from hydramt
struck Gabriel Marilo in the face and knock u,
his false teeth Il WI his throat IL died
from Il iiclnorrlage following their removal.
Thirteen buildings were burned i'll Catta-
ranSuS, New York, among them Miss Clerk
millinery store, j. a. Andrew ~ Co., dry
goods; Maitby u Sons drugs; Rich Brothers,
general store; u. Rich, groceries; PostoIlce,
: CattarauSlls Bank and Rich's Hotel.
The Summit County Agricultural Society's
stables at Akron, Quo, were burned. a. Is.
Ewal, WHO had charge of the stables, is
missing, aud is supposed TO have persisted.
Three horses, valued at $1,000, were burned
b death.
A premature explosion occurred in Collins
Brothers stone quarry, in Bellefonte, Penna.
Patrick Dill IL WAS struck in the face by o
stone, and it is feared that his sight has bcen
, destroyed. Another man was injured,
though not severely.
! A twenty.G vc-tIlousand-b barrel oil-tank in
Cygnet, Ohio, exploded and tho oil was scat
tered in all directions. Bert Wcnecke, whu
was holding Il lantern when the tank burst,
was burned 10 death.
The bodies of Hlrs Stelule aud her two
children, n boy and girl, aged nine and TN
years respectively, were found in the river at
Cincinnati. 1t is believed that the mother,
in tit OF insanity, dragged the children
into the river with her.
The freish: st amer City Of Lawrence, of
the Norwich Transportation Company,
caught lire while of New Haven, Conn,
The lire originating in cotton in the hole The
crew and male passengers succeeded Ill
checking the flames until The vessel reached
Norwich, whcll they were extingulshed
There were nearly 40 passengers on uonrd.
A boiler exploded in thu Perry Stove
Works. il. South tittsburg, Tennessee Five
men were killed and much damage vas
! done. Tho killed were: Charles Taylor,
Superintendent: j. B. Mills machinist; NJ.
V. Donovan foreman of Mounting Depart
meut; VIM. Plumb, Inouldrr; VIM. Wilson,
mouder; George n. Carter, jeweler. WIN.
Grass aud Rock Scruygs We're badly injured.
In Chicago Louis Larsen crawied into an
iron cylinder used for tho piston of by
draulic elevator, for the purpose of cleaning
it, He took with him L lighted cand lie and
bucketful of benzne In 4 short time the
cylinder was filled with inliammahle gas, m
explosion followed the man IVES caveloped III
flames, which filed tue entire cylinder. Ills
fsllow-worknIcn were unable to get at him 10
help him, aud enough water cJud not Ge Sc
cured to quench tho flames, SO his compan-
ions could only stand helpsss!y 10y and listen
to his cries until they were stilied il death.
Six COW boys were drowned northwest OF
Pueblo county, just west Of fixes Peak.
There was large party Attending Il cattle
roundup Seven Of them lrltcd-1 their
camp on the Beaver crce6, y small Stream
that usually has no water i'll il. Beng very
tired and sleepy, they paid 10 attention to
The slight shower that came up during the
night 1t, however, proved 10 &c the edge
of a large black cloud that burst u short dis
lance above them. The result was Il breast
of water six feet deep swept down upon
saved himself by clinging to branch OF