The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-11-15
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES

| =, Cy runaway accident IN MARLBOROUGH III
rev York, Mrs. RobortJ. Diokoy was killed.
anu her husband and mother were badI,
NV EngITshman, named Neil, were run ovel
and killed by an express train ut Metuchsn
New Jersey.
George Sabourin, nged 81 years, fell from
shs spire Of the new Congressional Church IN
was fatally injured. I, y. sgs.,.. ,s,.,.,
wabash, Indiana, Killing sasIaess Thomas
Callahan and fireman John Ma1d0ck. Low
water CAUSED che Aocide31k 81
pennoa Isins ersd et 8 political meet,
ramming down the charge. \,
The Department. OF Agriculture is aivised
OF three moro casos OF pleuro pm ,umonis dis.
covered among cattle landed at Deptford,
London. from New York and Boston.
Two trains collded at Holton, Indian1,
owing to switch being left oper, and both
engines and several cars were dem olishsd.
One passenger was slightly injured.
During an auction OF unclaim'd Grand
Trunk baggage in Montreal, aportion OF the
qoor gave way and thirty p,r:ons vero pre-
cipitated into the cellar beneath. No one Was
fatally injured. 90"
There was an explosion In tho gas house of
the Lockwood Cotton Mills. in Waterville,
Maine. Tho building took ilre, aud Henry
f.. Wnshburn, nged 81, the workman in
charge perished in tho il,mcs.
Yardmaster II. l. Denmark eutersd q
freight car with lantern at Whining ton,
North Carolina. Almost inIn III ,tely bar.
rel of gasoline exploded, setting lire to the
car and Turning Denmark to doath.
Mag ,is Camack anil Jessie Truitt, aged
RESPECTFULLY % and 25 years. were killed at
Thur,ow Station, near Chester Ia. They
were employed ut Trainers mills anl were
returning to their homes, walking on the
railroad.
assisting his wIte to do til, washing, nni
poured lot Of beazino into ths tub. Tn,
water was hot, an exp osion followed, tear-
Ing out the sido OF the house, and badly scald-
Ing Mr. Bailey.
a collision occurred on the cros sing ot tho
Santa Fe and clcc:r ric street iilway in Wich.
ita, X ,nsns, by which fifteen persons wero
injured, one OF them mortsliy. The collision
occurrod on curve, grove OF trees pro-
venting the engineer from s,.ing tho danger,
AMI the street car WAS hurled by the enuino
u distance OF sixty feet.
The captain OF tho schooner Bs II janin r.
Lee, at Baltimore for Charo ,ton, reports
that on the 18th instant, h was sp )kcn by
tn, British barken;ina William Graham, Of
Liverpool, whose mate reported that tn. g ip.
tain (Atkinson) was washed overheard and
lost during the storm Of Oc.o3er ID anI lG.
A number Of school children found a dyna-
mite bomb nenr u school t3ase on ths Gallo
way farm, at Franklin Penra. WLila. tFH--
lnrin2 G1n cnudrsn, Two OF them, named
Fitzgerald an 30 :es. morta'ly. The other
children are seriously injured The bomb
\ I'd been made by some oae for the purpose
Of killing fish.
A dispatch from Waterville Minnesota.
snys that It is almost impossible to state the
.evsrity Of the drousht in that region. aud
All the creeks and ,iyers are dry, and have
been for SONS time. the lakes we're never
so low in the history ,s3, country. Recent
excavations in the yillaA perfectly dry
errth at depth Of seven I>4
The Relief Committee of the CaamIer Of
Commerce Of ST. Paui, Minnesota, has pre-
scnted a report dealing with the destituLion
existing in the Dakotis. IL Is said that the
suffering and dcstitution is much greater
than has yet been reported. lmmeliat, ro-
lief is needed, and the supplies most urgently
REQUIRED are boots, shoes, hosiery, mitteus,
undergarmsnts, h)ur, coGnmeal, groceries
and grain for STOCK. W
\ north-bound q light train on the Lake
;rie and WesterrB IIlroal was wrecked ut
kokomn Indiany Tho eIgipe striIc.. au OBJ
struction onny IN and was thrown from
tha track with 4 or ton cars Twelve oil
tanks exploieV uiclt succession, and two
clrs of mcrcH 81 anI four of coal w.is
consumed, Ed er Mehl Fireman T. lward
Burnett AMI ~ Brakeman John Spellman
were thrown l 81 tho oil cars and burned
TO death. Tha iSaster was tho work OF
wreckers, this h ~ tn, third attompS mad,
in that vicinity within tho last two months
Another inclined plane accident happened
in Cincinnati. 1t was at the Mouat Adams
plane. where horses and wagons are carried
up as woll Ps passengers Henry Newmln,
driving a/fso horse wagon foiA cracker
tnanufact y, drove on to the truck to as.
cend. w IN thirty foet from the bottom tho
horses 4 denly backed against the rear 6 ites
of the truck, which snapped apart, and
horses, wagon and driver wore thrown To tn ,
bottom. Newman escaped without serious
injury. The wagon was wr. .cked ana the
horses killed.