Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-09-01
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.

BY the falling of horse i'll race ut
Augusta, Maine, four persons were injured.
Jacob and VIM. Mathew, brothers, were
killed near Bcllairc, Ohio, by premature
explosion of powder i'll quarry.
Two boys, named Hoehl and Carey, aged
about 10 years, were drowned in the Ohlo
river at Rochester, Penna., while bathing.
Dennis Rearlon and Richard WEIGH, who
were unable to SWIM were drowned at Troy
New Y, by the ovcrturning Of their boat.
In Sargcnts Bay, Lake Memphremagog
WIN. l.. Hilton and Miss Nellie Archibald,
of Montreal, were drowned. Their boat was
capsizcd.
While walking in political procession III
Allentown, Pennn., W. Reimer Tell dead IN
the rLnks. He was n prominent citizen anu
IL former County Treasurer.
In getting down from q lond Of hay near
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, n fnrmer slipped arc leu
On prongcd fork and three Ok the
pIOngS entered his breast. lie oleu sooil
| alter.
Edward Call and Salio Fahey were
| drowned in the Allegheny river at Pittsburg.
Call, who was drunk, jumped into the water
and upset skif in which the girl was SIT
cing.
George Rainsford breeder of blooded
horses near Chug Wafer, Wyoming. Terri
tory, lost Is of his horses. valued ut 2O,UOo'
and narrowly escaped death himself, by a
lash of lightning.
AS Profession Bartholomew was about as
cending in balloon Mt Lagrange, Mississippi,
the pole, % feet high, fell Into the crowd,
killing two boys, Charles Graftmiller and
Gilbert Appleman.
During storm passenger train OH the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad struck a tree
across the track, between Memo aud Oakdale,
| Tennessee, and was derailed. Five pas
sengers were slightly injured.
BY the explosion of small retortt filled
with molten metal, which by mistake was
| plunged into barrel of water at the
| Chicago and Aurora Smelling WORKS at
| Chicago. Ruse Erozlau was instantly killed.
Robert Holmes and Jennie Lowry, living
near Oswego, New York, hired sail boat to
20 to to a picnic several miles from the
harbor. The boat has has boon founl on the
bench, and it is feared they have been
| drowned.
While Samuel Williams, with his wife and
six-year-old child, was returning from Il field
to his house near Aurora, Arkansas, large
oak tree fell upo them. Williams and his
child were killed and the woman was danger
ously wounded
Isaac Spreckter, merchant of Kansas
City. Mo-, was aroused by his wife and told
there were burglars in the store. A moment
later shadow crossed the door and Spreckter
fired, fatally wounding his wife. Rats caused
the noise i'll the store.
While hunting for leak in the gas pipe in
tie cellar of A. Schneider's Saloon in Balti-
more, an explosion occurred which blew OUT
the front of the building. A young son OF
| Mr. Schneider was thrown nearly across the
| ,,.il1 nah v
was badly burned
John Holmes, of Cloves, Ohio, became
drunk ct O party. Returning home he grew
weary and Law down on the Ohio and Mis-
sissippi Railroad track, at North Bend and
was run over and killed by q freight train.
On the same track and in the scme locality,
q few hours later. Mrs Mary Ladd, G5 years
old, was struck aud killed by the st. Louis
limited express
A New York, AIahoning and Western
Railroad passenger train coliidel with q
freight train on the Lake Erie and Western
Railroad, at Findlay, Ohio. Both locomo-
tives were wrecked and considerable damage
was done. B. Powell, who jumped from the
train, was severely injured. The other pas
sengers were badly shaken up.
August johnson, q Dane. aged 81 years,
who was admitted to the County Hospital ut
Chicago was found to he suffering from
tubercuIar leprosy. Johnson came to this
country when three years old, and enjoyed
goo health until eight months ago, when
the loatllsome disease appeared in the form
of small red blotch on bis right loin. He is
now covered with tubercles. The origin of
the disease is mystery to the Chicago doc
tors.
The tower. 15S feet high, Of the new Church
of the Covenant, ut Washington, D. c., Rev.
entire front portion Of the ediflce. The dam
age is placed at from $4,000 to $4,000
The builder said the foundations of the tower
were all right, but tho trouble was with the
piers at the four ends or corners of the t5wer
were took weak. The entire weight CT the
superstructure was carried by arches on the
piers.