The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-07-05
KANSAS CITY ACCIDENTS.
Three Boys Drowned While Picnicking-
Fatal Blast-Death In . Sewer.

Three Boys Drowned While Picnicking-
Fatal Blast-Death In q sewer.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June 2S.-While
swimming in the Blue river near Sheffield
about two O'Clock yesterday afternoon
Fred Brice, Edward Camp end Willie
Oviatt, aged ten. fourteen and fourteen
years and six months respectively. were
drowned 1t was q sad termination o.
what was intended for a picnicking party.
The boys had left home in the morning
with the consent of their parents, who
had provided them with we'll f.led baskets,
and it was the intention TO spend the en-
tire day fishing and swimming
The youngest of the party, Fred Brice,
was the son of Fred H. Brice, a butcher at
S07 Delaware street; Willie Oviatt was the
son Of Frank L. Oviatt, boot and shoe
dealer at 1921 Main street, and Edgar
Camp was the son of Edgar L. Camp, at
$40 Independence avenue. Allen Oviatt,
a ten-vear- brother of Willie Oviatt,
and Walter Cheney, aged fifteen, COM
pleted the Inflated party.
FATAL BLAST.
KANSAS CITY, No.. June ga fatal
accident occurred at 5:l5 O'Clock yesterday
,veniDg at the stone quarry at twenty.
18th aud Grand avenue. in which NJ. c.
Hill, q ngle man twenty -eight years old,
met horrible death. Hill was for man of
the gang of quarrymen and boarded on
Grand avenue, half a block from the
quarry. The men were engaged in blast
ing and had just started The fuse of an
unusually heavy blast two feet deep in
the solid rock.
The fuse burned within half foot of
the pocket aud then hung fire. After
waiting until he believed the fire had died
out Hill approached 10 see what was the
matter. just as he was bending over to
examine the fuse the blast went of, tear
ing an enormous hole in the wal of rock
and throwing out sections of stone as
large as bushel basket. The other men
rushed up to see what fate had befallen
Hill when a second explosion followed,
throwing out ano,h her though smaller
piece of rock. Fortunately none of the
workmen was hurt by this second blast,
but as soon as they recovered q CHASTITY
discovery was made. The dead body of
their foreman was found lying among the
mass of broken rocks with the whole left
side of his head mashed in and torn, and
his brains spattered about over the rocks.
He had probably never known what hurt
him.
FATAL SEWER GAS
KANSAS CITY. No., June .S-Several
workmen i'll sewer district No I'D had a
terrible grappls with death while exca-
waiting for q connection in the rear of 1921
Flora avenue. about six o'c ock last even
ing, and Thomas Linquist lost his life in
the struggle. Linquist was digging for a
pipe connection with The vault in the rear
CT James Hobson's residence. when sud-
denly the cesspool wall gave way and the
gas began to pour forth from the orifice.
Hobson himself was standing at the edge
of the hole in which Linquist was digging
when the accident occurred.
81 dug too close TO IT," Linquist said,
and suddenly fell upon his back. Hobson
gave the alarm and J. H. Winters, Otto
Alback, Jack Best, laborers, and George
Schultz. a teamster in Hobson's employ,
went to the rescue. The sewer men fear
lessly leaped into the pit, which was 1T
least twelve feet deep. and attempted to
lift their comrade out They would have
been unable to do this had not Hobson and
Schultz lowered rope When Lin
qust had been taken out, Jack
Best tainted. and after heping him
out the others made a scramble for
their lives. Once on the outside
of the pit. the laborers fell fanting TO the
earth and We're carried into engine house
No. 10. Linquist died a few moments
later and Best life still hangs in the bal
ance. All the others were more or less af-
fected by the gas poisoning and were re-
moved to their homes