The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-05-16
Minor Casualties.

Leopold Steiner, while trying to descend
from q box car in o moving train; while in
toxicated, fell under the wheels and was
instantly killed at Spokane Falls. From
papers on the body it appears he owned
considerable property at Glenwood Springs,
Colo, yet he. was trying to steal q ride.
An unknown man, about forty-ive years
old, was run over and killed in the Northern
Pacific yards at jamestown, N. Y. From
papers found on his person his name is sup
posed to be Walter Chappell. He had been
working on the Montana division at How
ard. A deed to five lots in Manormin.
pocket. He fell between the cars while the
train was being switched, and was probably
beating his way over the road.
A serious accident on the Milwaukee & st.
Paul occurred q mile north of Dell Rapids,
Oak. The furious wind which has prevailed
for several days blew d box car that was
standing on the side track on the main line
and u southbound extra freight train of four
cars ran into it. The engine and two cars
were badly wrecked and the track was twisted
out of shape for u distance of two or three
rods. The engine buried itself in the ditch
and the cars were piled across the track.
One OF the brakemen, named Fred Smith Of
Egan, was instantly killed. The engineer
and fireman remained on the engine and es-
capped uninjured. There were three passen,
gers in the cabOOse, but they were not in
jured as that car did not leave the track.
Seventy families were rendered homeless by
a fire which swept the suburban village Of
Moreland near Chicago. The fire started in
the Presbyterian church and burned alto
gether thirty-eight buildings, including most
of the village stores and many residences.
1t is estimated that the ruins cover over
twenty-five acres of ground. The burned
district is that portion OF the village lying
east of Forty-eighth street recently annexed
to Chicago. The Presbyterian church., which
first burned, was u frame building and made
q tremendous blaze, and the sparks were
thrown long distances by the strong south.
west wind. The families burned out were
mostly in poor circumstances. Many of
them will be forced to camp out all night on
the prairie guarding the property which they
had saved. The loss is estimated at $780,
900; insurance about 10000.
The town of Stafford, Kansas, was wiped
out by a cyclone. A number of people we're
killed and about fifty wounded. The wind
had been blowing q gale for three days and
| developed into a cyclone that swept over the
counties of Stafford and Rice in a north
westerly direction. Crops, farmhouses and
barns we're moved down, and the full extent
of the damage cannot yet be estimated.
The town of Stafford was almost entirely
| the cyclone coming and had time to escape
to cellars and places of safety. Three are
known to nave been killed. Mrs John Love
was down fifty feet from her house into a
wagon and fatally hurt. The Eureka school
house was blown away. All the houses were
path OF the cyclone was clearly defined, III
the houses on either side were scarcely
shaken. To the north and south of Stafford
| the farmers have suffered severely. In and
around Huntville the destruction was nearly
as great. Medical did is badly needed.
At the Kaska William ~colliery, near Mid
dleport, Pa, the cage containing. ten miners
was ascending the shaft and had reached a
from the bottom when I'm empty car was
pushed over the top Of the shaft by two
Hungarian laborers. The car struck the as.
cending car with awful momentum shattering
| it to splinters and instantly killing every
one Gifts occupants. The cage with the ten
victims was hurled to the dump" a hole at
the bottom of the shaft, where the water
from the workings accumulates. The mine
is operated by the Alliance Coal company.
1t is an old working and the shaft is 600 feet
deep. Michael Boyle leaves a wife and seven
children. 1t was not his turn to ascend, but
he exchanged with @ young man named
| Hoolihan. He was a brother-in-law of Mrs.
Pullavische, who, with Agnes Katch, was
murdered about a year ago by Pietro Bar
anovicy, now awaiting execution here, the
intended husband Of Miss Katch. All the
other men, the victims of the accident, were
single men. There is intense indignation
over the employment of stupid Hungarians
in a position of such responsibility as at the
mouth of the shaft. There is thirty-fve feet
of water in the 'sump'' and the work of re.
covering the bodies is very difficult.