The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-01-17
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


HOLLY HILL, Jan. .1l.-A horrible
accident occurred near here this afternoon
at the saw mill of Perry L. Smith. Ellie
Scott, workingman at the mill, stumbled
over a piece of scantling and was precipi-
tated across the saw while in motion.
His body was severed just below the hips,
death resulting almost Immediately.
CoRYDoN, IND, Jan. 10.-Ed Stark
was killed in a peculiar manner while
hunting in Meade county, Kentucky.
While blowing in the muzzle of his gun
his dog came up, wagging his tail, with
which he struck the trigger, discharging
the gun. The top of Stark's head WAS
blown off and death was instantaneous.
socAsrEE, HoRRY Co., January 13.-
News of q most horrible accident has been
received here by wire from Port Harrel-
son, this county. Yesterday little son
of John Davis, colored, fell into bin Of
boiling rosin at the distillery of J. R.
Dusenbury & Co., and was literally
cooked alive before help could reach him.
The child was only about 6 years old, and
was horribly burned.
TAUNTON, MASS, Jan. 13.-Milton
Rean died this evening at New Morton
hospital of the effects of frightful burns
received Saturday night. Read while
drunk upset lighted pipe in his pocket
as be laid down on the roadside: The
pipe ignited some matches, and his
clothing, covered with tar, caught fire,
and the man in a second was q human
torch His suffering we're frightful, not
an inch ofhis body being spared by the
flames.
WARRINGTON, Jan. 13.-Passengers
who arrived to night on the Piedmont
Air Line from the South report a delibe.
rate attempt to wreck the train last night
near the Western border of South Caro-.
lima. The train left Atlanta at 6.15
p. m., and while coming down mountain
side at great speed between Fredala and
Westminster it suddenly collided with an
obstruction, throwing the passengers out
Of their seats and badly damaging the
cars. Upon investigation it was found
that an oak tie had been placed upright
on high trestle over a ravine, and that
two large stones had also been placed
upon the track. The rate Of speed at
which the train was going, however,
broke the tie in twain and ground the
stones to atoms: The passengers say
that the high speed of the train was the
only thing that averted great disaster.
OswEao, N. Y, Jan. 1.-THE body
of Rev. W. L. Parker, rector Of Christ
Episcopal church, this city, who mys.
teriously disappeared on November 80
(st. Andrews day. Immediately after
holding services at his church, was found
on the lake shore near here this morning.
The violent gale of Wednesday brought
the body to the surface. tt is now GER
tain that the unfortunate man, who con.
stantly gave to the needy more than he
could afford, committed suicide to escape
his creditors.
P1TTsBURG, Pa, Jan. IA special
from youngstown, Ohio, says: Passen-
ger train No. 8, bound for New York, on
the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
Railroad, while running fifty miles an
hour this morning, struck a freight train,
head on near Talmadge, Ohio. Both
engineers, both fremen and eight pas.
sengers were killed and fourteen passen.
gers badly injured. The freight train
was attempting to make siding, and had
sent out aagman, who failed to signal
the passenger train.
HARTsELLE, Ala, Jan. 11.-Rev.
Berry Rains, a Methodist preacher, was
murdered last night in the western part
Of this (Morgan) county. Rains, bis
brother Bob, and a man named Sims had
been to Somerville, Morgan county, and
started for their homes late in the after
noon. The minister's horse reached
home riderless late at night, and the
family of the missing man at once insti.
tuted search. This morning they found
the dead body of Rains lying by the
roadside, about eight miles from his
homo. He had been stabbed to the heart
with large dirk knife. An inquest is
now in progress, but the murder is still
shrouded in mystery.
ST. PAUL, MINI, Jan. lO.-Ten years
ago Jacob Bird was sent to the peniten-
tiary from Dakota county for murder.
BE has spent the past ten years in Still.
water and fully expected to spend the
remaining days of his life at that insti-
tuition, but the governor heard certain
matters which led him to issue pardon.
Recently the brother of the prisoner
died, and on his deathbed confessed the
murder for which his brother was then
suffering an undeserved punishment.
The presiding Judge, the prosecutor and
Others connected with the original trial
petitioned for pardon. Bird never gave
any intimation of his knowledge that
he was suffer- ng for his brothers crime