Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06
Accidents and Casualties,

A w~est-bound Union Pacific
Train while running thirty. TTg an haSr
Eas thrown from the traek~a LraLo, LII
9snr hlmoali Nen. InIT8 ~sleepers and Claus
- ear ~e'u.SG o ffteen-foot bank.
lnrss were injured slightly.
mSsss6fsion boat Tourist took a party
49, Viz. and ON it's return trip,
.2rar thu mouth OF the bay, Frank kading
ell overheard and was drowned. A fresh
Kind was blowing and white caps we're plenti-
/ ul. The boa rolled, and Kading, standing
Hose to the outside railing. lost his balance,
and as the boat rolled TO one side pitched
over into the water.
The other evening, while q party of young
people were returning home from a picnic,
walking on the Chicago & Northwestern
railway track, they were caught ON the high
trestle near GAINESVILLE. Wis, by n freight
train. Miss Maggie Punzie, twenty years Of
age, was knocked from the trestle and in
SANITY killed. Til other members of the
party escaped by crawling out on the end OF
he ties. Miss Punzle struck on the rocks
thirty feet below and was terribly mangied.
A vest bound freight extra on the Chicago,
Burlington 4 Quincy eoliided with the rear
Of Il construction train ut Rock Greek. 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
10 pass a passenger train Mt Batavia, but
undertook 70 back into Krum, and seemed
to ave been running more than twenty
miles an hour.
An electric motor at Pittsburg, Pa, be-
.ame uncomfortable and started down the
road at u terrific speed. At the sharp curve
aear Pins street the motor and ear jumped
the rails. turning over several times before it
stopped against a telegraph pole. The motor
vas smashed TO pieces n 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 FORK.
A man fell down the well hole of the stairs
Of the Palmer House, Chicago from the sixth
Hoor. The railing protecting the stairs is
DOT more than two feet high, and the won
der is TINT similar accidents have not oc-
cured there before. Dir. ID. NJ. Ogden was
summoned that the wrist, collar bon and
every rib on the left side were broken, and
tina the sufferer was bleeding internally. He
died before the doctor was through his ex-
animation. The deceased arrived OF the
hotel the same day and registered as III. L.
Read, Jr. of Evansville. Ind.
At q Ere IN Chicago the horses lie
BENEFITS barn, as well as those
d that OF the ehlon Livery company IN INN
rear, nuhiDef,h4 over Avo ai.ogetner;
rushed out on to North Clark street, creating
. panic among the crowds OF pevpie on the
street 4 temperance meeting winch was De-
,ns heiu ~ anehta shor. distance rom ,he
pufb,hg euhuing' aiso aislersed IN gteal con
nsioh. oesefai people Mere knocAeu uoMn
nuIhlg .gs s.aHpepe. un.hone "sre ssIiousiy
| ing 81 o worth OF d1mage.
An east-bound stock truin on the st. Paul,
Minneapolis 4 Manitoba road met with a Sc
rious mishap near Fort Buford. While run
ming along at a high rate OF speed cattle
were observed en- the track. The engineer
blew his whistle, shut OH steam AMI reyerfei