St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-14
Inflated FIRE LADIES.
Three Hook and Ladder Men Injured
In a Collision.
DOWNEY WILL PROBABLY DIE
A Belligerent Russian Knocked Out by
Neighb0r---West Side
Matters.

Hook and Ladder Company No. S
turned out yesterday morning at 1920
III response to an alarm from the Law
ton block, occasioned by the explosion
OF gasoline stove in one of the rooms
III the upper part of the building. At
the sharp bend ON Dakota avenue, near
KuhFs castle, fiange of the street car
track protrudes three inches above the
paving of the street, and when crossing
this at full speed the driver of the
truck, George Wright, was thrown from
his seat, taking the lines with him. The
wheels of the heavy truck passed over
Wright's left leg and right foot: He
was at once conveyed to his home on
Dunedin Terrace. His injuries were of
such Il nature as to necessitate
amputation of the injured limb.
The truck struck telephone pole at
Channel street and upset, pinning Rob
ert DOwney beneath it, and also injur-
ing Capt. Wright. Most of the men
jumped when the driver was thrown
off, and those who did so escaped with
a few bruises. Capt. Wright was taken
to his home on Congress and Ada
streets with broken ankle. Robert
Downey is injured internally, and is
also suffering from conclusion of the
brain. He now lies in an unconscious
conscious condition at st. Joseph'S hos
pital and is not expected to recover.
Both Capt. and Driver Wright are mar
ried, but are not related. Rogers, the
helmsmen, stuck to his wheel until
there was only pile of splintered tim
bers of the truck left together, and by
his presence of mind saved the life of
Driver Wright. throwing the rear wheels
OF the truck across the street just in
the nick of time to prevent their pass
ing over the body OF the PROSTATE man.
When the collision occurred Rogers
was thrown twenty-five feet. escaping,
however, without serious injury. The
horses were upinJured.
A mass meeting of citizens interested
in the levee affair will be held Monday
evening at the hall OIL Fairfield avenue,
near Dakota.
A meeting of the st. Michael's ORA
matte club was held last evening in the
hall of the new school house.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the I. NJ.
c. A. met yesterday at the rooms of the
association for the transaction of
routine business.
The Citizens Union of West st. Paul
will hold a meeting at the hall on Da-
kOta avenue tomorrow evening.
The treStle work of the WabaSha
bridge is about completed, and the work
of tearing doWnthe old iron will COM
mence about the first of next week.
The petition for the opening of /; foot
way across the bridge during repairs is
going the rounds. and the signerS. run
UP into the thousands.
Thomas Nhelan, while inspecting the
progress of work on. the Mohawk ave-
nue. bridge yesterday, fell from one of
the piers and struck on the Ice below.
His injuries are not serious.
Shortly after the accident on Dakota
avenue yesterday, runaway occurred.
Pat Berry, who was driving meat
wagon belonging to Connor Bros, of
Minneapolis, dropped one of the lines
while going down the hill on South
Robert street. In his efforts so stop the
team with Il single line the whole outfit
became mixed. Berry being underneath.
lie lost two front teeth and large eX-
panse of cuticle.
Additions to the police telegraph sys-
TEN in West st. Paul were made yester-
day at the corners of Oakdale! and Page
and State and Concord streets.
Pete Aistenhoff, bad man from the
Russian provinces, took on an overload
of tangleieg Oil Tuesday evening, and
announced the fact by series of wild
W IcottS. SuppiShiSiitCu by a SiultiHcIb
That he could whip his weight in wild
cats. Unfortunately for him, he run
against Thomas Mulyaney, who put
AistenhOff to sleep on his own doorstep.
Numerous applications are being re-
ceiyed for admission to membership to
the new gun club in West st. Paul.
are being made for the
holding of a liye-bird shoot early in
April.
Several of the recently organized
amateur ball clubs are already dated
three months ahead. The first match of
the season will be played by the Colts,
of West st. Paul, against the junior
nine of ST. Cloud, on April 81.
r. G. Elwess, who has taken numer-
Gus rides in the West ST. Paul patrol
wagon, was rearrested on Tuesday
evening, charged with purioining his
wife's dry goods. He and a man named
to whom the clothes had been
sold. were brought before Judge Cory
Yesterday and discharged for lack of
evidence
a. Spangleberg was yanked before
Judge Cory yesterday, on charge of
reckless driving. His case will be
settled this morning.
A horse belonging to J. S. Eldridge
strayed upon the river, near the new
bridge, yesterday, and broke through
the ice. The animal was almost
drowned before reScuing party
effected its release by means Of another
team and a log chain.