Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-10-06
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES

The Court House III HOT springs, ArhauS"s
WAS burned. The county records were saved.
Tho Island Sash and Door Company's
factory, st Milwaukee, was burnel; loss sou
partly insured.
Oliver i. Lonkey's planning mill, lumber
yard and store, i'll Verdi, Nevada, were
burned; loss $4,000.
Justin York, a well-Snown jockey, was
fatally injured on tie Queens County New
York; race track.
\ large store-house and several dwellings
in Mount Holly, Penn, belonging to Mrs
Moore were burned.
William r. Williams, II mining engineer,
WIS strucl, by a train at WillieSbarre and so
badly injured tina. he died in short time
Prairie fires have been raging near Elm
dale. Dakota for tho last three days, causing
loss of farm property estimated at ssO,UJ0.
Two feiclt trains Oh the West Shore Rail
TO nd collided near West Point, n. \. Both
tracks were blocked, but no loss OF lie oc-
Cured.
The Board Of Freeholders of Warren
county, New Jersey, estimate the damage
to bridges and highways b the recent lreshet
ut $4,000.
About fifty m N were cxcavating trench
at Little Rock, Arkansas, on Tuesday, when
bank 20 feet high caved in. Three OF the
worlmen were killed
An unknown young man jumped over,
board from ferry-boat on tho Delaware
River to recover his hat, which had bl-wn
Off and he was drowned.
The body of P e. Petty, q travelling sales
maa was found in JonesS Falls ut Baltimore.
1t is thought that while looking OYER the
bridge he was taken with vertigo
The fall of the roof i'll shaft Of the Della
I,,,l-o ('nrntt1pv'S rDul mines
Scranton, Penna, killed Martin MalIady,
aged 60. and Christopher Gabriel, aged IS.
Oliver S. Powell was instantly killed in the
machinery of his sugar mill, III River Falls
Wisconsin. He was Vice President OF the
Duluth, Red Wing and Southern Railroad
A freight train on the Chicago, st. Paul
and Kansas City Railroad colided with Il
working train ut Menominee Station. Illinois.
One man was killed and three badly injured.
:, two story dwelling in jamestown, II. y.
occupied by Thomas Loucks aud family was
demolished by an explosion of natural s.
Loucls was badly burned. The others es-
capped with slight injuries.
4 til gram from Eagle Pass Texis, say;
the Sabines river IS very high, ana lna6 u
German teamster while attempting tocroSS
the stream on Sunday was drowned, and his
W. gon aud team OF mules were swept away.
\ carriage containing James Stone and
Clarce Becker, WAS struck by q train on the
New York. Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad,
| near Kennedy New York. The man, woman
hIlicu ana JUS "uBOh Suou
| tered.
While two half-brceds were trying to break
4 colt TO saddle near Pembina, Dakota, the
colt reared up, striking one man with his
| fore feet, killing him instantly, and throwing
the other and dragging him about nile
| When foun.l the mau was dead
George Crocker, a son of the recently de-
| ceased California millionaire. Chas. Crocker,
was severely injured in Chicago while riding
in cab. The horse stumbled aud fell, and
Mr.. Croker plunged through the glass doors
il front an fell into the street.
y large silk balloon. with its car deserted,
was caught among the trees on Cumberland
Hill, near Providence Rhode Island. The
address, Carl Myers, Mohawk, n. "" was
found on it. and piece of Buffalo news
paper pinned to the basket, which was pen
cilied. Met our death in the cluunds."
An engine OIL til southwest branch Of the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad struck q COW, between
Fairchance and Union own, while moving 1T
the rate OF thirty miles all honr. The ell
CINE was overturned and Leander Miller was
killed Engineer Thompson brakeman Rush
and conductor Din5ees were badly injured.
AS Forepaughs circus was being unoaded
ct Dubois, Penna., John Peggy, an elephant
trainer OF Salem, New Jersey, was attacked
and killed by the elephant Tip, Peggy
was trying to get the animal out OF the car,
but it had been fingered by men and boys
feeling it apples which contained tobacco
and pepper.
Two severe earthquake sllocis wero felt at
Guayaquil, Ecuador, lasting about two mia.
utes. The shocks We're followed by flashes OF
lightning. at this time of year lightning has
been unknown heretofore. Reports Of tho
damage done have not been received. The
people, however, are panic stricken. at
Helena, Ecuador, a shock OF earthquake was
felt the sumo night. about the same time as
at Guayaquil.
At Teacky's Station on the Wilmington
and Weldon Railway i'll North Carolina, a
baggage.nastern named VIM. Patrick vas stand
ing in the door of tile mil car, and, leaning
out, held letter in his hand In some way
tae hook that forms part Of the mail catcher
caught him III Ter the chin, ami he was
swung clear OF the car. In this manner, with
the hook tearing his throat and sustaining
his entire Weight, he was carried tally one
, hundred yards before lie was thrown down.
His recovery is doubtful.