Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-18
A DEATH BY FALLING.
Joseph Dietz' HeadlOng Flight
Down a Shaft.
THE BR0ADAX EXPLODED.
EditOr Smith Becomes a Living
Anachronism.
He BROADAX EXPLODED.
MINOR ACCIDENTS OF THE NIGHT

When an elevator takes a drop there is
always a serious possibility of someone
being hurt, bat when the victim walks into
an open hatchway the lie insurance COM
panies rejoice at not having an extra
hazardous risk, and the accident companies
take another text for the sermon on the neces-
sity of watching ones chances.
Joseph Dietz, a packer at Matchett's box
factory on Seventh avenue, opposite No. en-
glne house. started to pull the elevator up from
the first floor. Dietz was on the second floor
and, the machine beng operated by hydraulic
pressure, come up to where he stood very
quickly. AS it passed the second floor men,
Der of the firm jumped on the elevator platform
and Dietz attempted to follow, but he was not
quick enough and instead OF stepping on the
elevator his foot went under and he fell head
long to the cellar distance of about Is feet
TIE elevator was stopped before IL reached
the roof and another ac@dent prevented Dlefz
was picked up unconscious and taken to the
Homeopathic Hospital in the patrol wagon,
where he died an hour ana a half later.
He was 20ycars of age unmarried, and lived
with his parents at No. A Pike street, Allie
gheny.
BRoADAX DISFIGURED.
The misfortunes of a day eliminated in an
explosion of natural gas about P. M yester-
day at the corner of Fourth avenue and Cherry
and actually disfgured the editor, the Rev.
Broadax Smith, which has heretofore been
held 20 be literally impossible. Another loss
is the edition of the BrodddI the forms being
pied in the general confusion.
Mr.. Smith was sitting at a case setting up the
type for this weeks issue when the explosion
came. He was thrown down, and as wave of
flame passed through his little Office, it burned
the skin and hair from one side Of his face.
The cause of the explosion was street gas
leaking into a vault under the pavement in
front of the Office, which was ignited from a
coal stove in the Office. The loss by fire was
very trifing
SOME MINOR ACCIDENTS.
Last night about 10 o'clock colored man.
whose name is unknown, jumped from
passenger train on the Allegheny Valley Rail-
road at Seventeenth street. and had his skull
very severely fractured. he was removed to
the West Penn Hospital where he lies in a
critical condition. All that could be learned
about the injured man was that he got on the
train at the Union station. but when at Seven
teentb street discovered that he had taken the
wrong car and becoming excited jumped from
the train.
DaviG Reed, middle aged man whose home
is on Monastery avenue, Twenty-seventh ward,
was struck by P. & l. E. train between
south First and Second streets, about o'clock
last night. Reed was walking along the tracks
and did not hear the train approaching. He
was not seen by the engineer until the engine
struck him. Reed was badly injured. the
chief wound being to the skull on the back of
his head He was removed to the Southside
hospital where the injuries are regarded as
serious if not dangerous.
About u:8O o'clock last night John Moore
the stable boss at the Republic Iron Works on
South Twenty-ffth street, was kicked to death
by mule in one of the stalls. Moore was a
married man. so years of age, and lived in the
IWenty-seyenth ward his body was taken TO
semmelrOck's undertaking rooms on Carson
street.