The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-10-11
DISASTERS AMI

Merritt Wright, a cont tractol(
fenna, was killed by the caving inn
bank.
Corporal Laudgrave. OF Battery B, IT.
Artillery, was drowned at Fort Monroe, ,Vifd(
ginia, by a sail boat capsizing.
Frank Haussen and an unknown man who
was in the carriage with hun were killed In
Chicago by being struck by "a train.
Mr.. Matthews. a wealthy railroad contrac-
tor, died in an opium joint In Butte, Montana,
alter having smoked ten pipes.
Hugh Roberts and Anthony Marchetty,
miners employed at the Alaska Colliery, at
Moant Carmel, Pa, were killed by a fall OF
rock.
The recent wet and windy weather has done
great damage to the late peach crop In New
Jersey. In Hunterdon county alone the loss
~ estimated at 800, ,OO1.
building IN the outskirts Of Chicago was
blown down, dangerously, il not fatally, I'M
juring Johu RcSela, and Johu Hohl. rs
freight train on the Mexican Central
Railroad was derailed near Lhgos. Ten men
were killed and three i'm njured. 1t is supp Ised
thut the train was wrecked by robbers.
Two freish trains on the Boston aud Maine
ltailroad were wrecked by u collision near
Lancaster, Massachusetts, A fireman named
Warren was killed and two other trainmen
were injured.
During Sunday-scaool services in a small
q
Lightning struck the budding, killing two
| girls each about IL years OF ay.. len others
| were stunned.
a waterspout burst over Cerro Gordo, Mex
| leo, causing several deaths. Live stock wus
| swept away and house es destroyed. The exact
number OF deaths aud the extent OF the dam
age douo are not known.
During supper in celebration Of tho OPEN
ing Of q new urmory i'll Burlington, Ala
bama, the guests, nearly one hundred in NUM-
Der, were made violently s.cx by the icl
| cream, which contained some poisonous subj
stance.
| While some laborers in tho stone quaTries
| near Vancouver, British Columbia, were
opening cans OF powder with chis.ls, d terri
b,e explosion occnrred, killing Patrick Nor
| gun and Patrick Delaney. Four otner men
were iearfully burned.
An explosion of gas In Nelson's shaft. .yat
| ShamokIn, Penna., burned Alexander Crow.
John Tocas, john Murphy aud William Cal
| vim, the first two named fatally. The explo-
sion was caused by Tocas, who was Ignorant
| or the presence of the gus.
passenger train was deraicd near Leon,
Butler county, Kansas, by the spreading tie
rails Three coaches rolled down fifte.n-
foot emil ankment. II. NJ. Bemis was killed
and Isaac Dean, Mrs Malseka and Mrs. n
A. Hodges were fatally injured. A number
of others were badly hurt.
John Iuinthal and his ten children left
Boone, Iowa, in II wagon about Septem Ger
Is. for Milwaukee. They were ten days on
the road, and Oh arriving In Milwaukee, nine
of tho children were takeu with diptheria.
SIX dying within six days. They contract I'd
tho cisease on the road.
a train of seven cars going south from e
mira, Now York, ran into al engine at II
Junction, Penna., causing bad wreck
wreck wreck caught fire and the injured pass
persons were injured, mono fatally.
Whie q loaded wagon containing a party
of tive was crossing q ford near ,PurcelisviiIe.
Virginia, the stream being swollen, the hoi sss
became uliTanageable, and the wegou was
swept some distance Mrs Susie Gator. of
Georgetown, District Of Columbia, and Miss
Eta Atwell, OF Alexandria, jumped into The
water and were. drowned. The rest OF tie
party reached shore.