Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-10-27
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES,

Several stores in Galena, ILL.,, were burned.
Loss, s35, 005; insurance light.
William Rue, agel So years, wealthy
farmer, vas killed by a Pennsylvania Rail-
road train, near Jamesburg, N. j.
The boiler IF an engine exploded on farm
near Highland, ILL.,, killing Christian Raffer-
man and injuring four others severely.
The Count of Prem:o- Real, Spanish Consul
General at Quebec while handling a revol.
yer, accidentally shot aud killed himself
Thomas Cullen and james OBrien were
fatally Injured by al explosion of dualn at
the Knickerbocker collery ut Shenandoah,
Penna.
Several men wero imprisoned in the
Braastoo mine, near milwaukee,, by falling
rock. A rescuing party at once set to work
to release them.
A boiler in the Ypslant Paper Company's
mill at Ypsilanti, Mich, burst, killing John
Slawson andinjuring Frank Sinkler. About
5,OO0 damage was done to the building.
f. J. Jimpson, marine reporter at Macki-
raw City, Mich, fell out OF his boat and
was drowned. He had been engaged in
marine reporting at the Straits for IL years
The barn OF James Thompson, in Walker
township, Junata county, Penna., was de-
stroyed by an ncendiary fire, with its
contents-live Stock crops, implements, etc.
Loss, 5000.
John Moscow, one of the victims Of the
TaInanend railway disaster, died at the State
Hospital, at Ashland, Penna This makes n
total of nine dead, and another man is SAID
to be dying at the hospital.
The house of C. F. Smith, in Fifield, Wis,
was destroyed by fire. Two children, ag, d
respectively years and is months, who
were alone in the house, were burned to
death
Joseph McGrath and c. A. Swenson were
buried under falling rock in the Winthrop
mine, ct Ispemng, Mich. Swenson was got
out alive, but it was found that McGrath,
who was badly injured, would die before he
could be extricated.
The Cameron Colliery, at Sbamokin, Penn,
owned by the Mineral Mining and Railroad
Company, of Philadelphia, was burned. The
FIRE originated from an explosion of gas.
Loss, about So. 900; insured The colliery
cnployed about 10 0 men.
The warehouses of the Standard Oil Com
pany at Duluth, Mimi, were destroyed by
fire, with % 600 barrels of oil and an oil train
which had just been switched in. The loss
is estimated at $4,000, with no insurance.
Sparks from locomotive started the fire.
Mrs. William Morse, of Pawtucket, R. L..
who was confined in an insane hospital, was
found by her husband in room adjoining
their bed-chamber, III her night clothes, EN-
veloped in flames. The flames were snloth
cred, but the woman died in few hours.
NJ. J. Horpman, who has been investiga-
ting the condition Of the farmers in Ramsey
county, OAK, has returned to Minneapolis,
MINI. He says there are 70 families who
are absolutely destitute of food and fuel and
that something must be done for them i'm
mediately
An extra freight train on the Chicago st.
Paul and Kansas City Railroad crashed into
the caboose Of train ahead, near Freeport,
Ill john Brown, stockman, of st. Paul;
james Orr, Of Larrmer. Mimi, and Edward
Hickey, of Fairbanks, MIMI, were killed,
and two others badly injured. The train
hands escaped
Anexpress train on tho Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad ran into an open switch near the
dep t, i'll Washington, Pcnna., and was pre-
cipitated over q trestle u distance OF ten feet:
James Noonan, engineer, was killed, ana
William McAulilre, the fireman, was prob
ably fatally injured In addition to these
twenty-five others were injured, but none,
it is thought, dangerously.
Two passenger trans on the Cumberland
Valley Railroad collided on curve near
Shppensburg, Penna. Charles Bitner, bag
gagemaster, was killed and eight others
injured, Conductor Dim, it is feared fatally.
The accident was caused by Il disobedience
of running orders OH the part of Conductor
Dim, of the west bound train, which had on
board about 3 0 passengers for the Hagers-
town Fair. The mail car caught fire and
considerable of the mail was destroyed.
A Pennsylvania Railroad fast freight train
struck The caboose of gravel train on the
Pottsvillc Division Of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad, near Tamanend. The caboose
contained number Of Hungarian aborers,
six of whom were killed and 2G injured, two
of them dying while being conveyed to the
hospital at Ashland. The responsibility for
the disaster is said to rest upon the shoulders
of llagman, who failed to flag the freight
train in time.
When train from Weehawken reached
point in the West Point, n. Y, tunnel
where the roof is being repaired, large
mass Of rock and earth came down on the
baggage and express cars, crushing them
and suddenly stopping tue train. Nobody
was injured. The damage to the tunnel is
great and it will be nearly a week before
it can be used. The tunnel runs under the
parade ground OF the United States Military
Academy, which is $50 feet above. The
cave is beneath Gallows Hollow, and there
the surface of the ground, for the diamet r
Of 10 feet in extent, sank down 20 feet.