Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-01-24
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Newsy Stories, Novel Facts aid Queer
Happenings Here and There.

says that more money has been sunk in
the ditch than is required to complete it.
l enquired how this money had been
wasted. Through sheer oarelessness. .
ne replied. IN give you an instance.
The best make OF American locomotives.
Baldwln's, think, are used for hauling
away the dirt as it is excnvated. They
pull the cars put on the dumps, where
the unloading is done. The tracks are
down grade, and il screw gets loose.
nine times III dozen it goes over the
dump. / counted no less than twenty
brand new Baldwin engines lying at the
base of these dumps. 1t was impossible
to get them back on the rails without
taking them to pieces or lifting them up
with derrleks There were no derrioks
big enough to handle them, and taking
them apart was too much trouble, or the
men did not like to go about it; conse-
quently they were left where they fell.
to be covered up by the waste earth.
These twenty locomotives must have
cost, delivered at tho Tsthmus, $8. 600
apiece. SO here's one item Of $3.50. 1000
literally buried out of sight and nothing
to show for it,
THE largest wheel of the kind ever
made III this country, and probably the
largest of any kind, is now in course of
construction at Scranton, Penn. It is
WHAT is called sand wheel, and It is be-
ing made for tho Calumet and Hecla
Copper Company, of the Lake Superior
region. The great wheel will he fifty
three feet in diameter and several fee !
wide, and the Dickson Manufacturing
Company will get $4,000 for it. II is
being built around 20-inch hollow
shaft OF gun metal and it will weigh
between $50 and 100 tons when com.
pleted. When the great wheel is put in
place at the copper mines it will be
made to revolye slowly by means of
enormous cogs on the surface of its cir
cumferenca. These cogs are being cast
IN segments, and will weigh many tons
In the aggregate. On each side of the
mammoth wheel there will be fifty
buckets, elch of which will hold about
100 gallons, and these buckets will ele-
yate the washings and dump them into
sluiceway. After the great wheel has
been built up and all the finishing
touches have been put on, it will be
taken apart and shipped. Every piece
will be numbered, so that there will be
no trouble in putting the wheel to-
gether, aud it v i'll take eight or ten
cars to transport it.
Docs that are caught and taken to
the New York Pound and are not claimed
by their owners and consequently are
condemned to death for yagrancy, have
been the subject of considerable discus
sion by the health officers and some of
the officers of Mr.. Bergh's society re-
Gently. Such dogs have heretofore been
drowned by putting them in an iron
cage and letting the Gage down into the
water Some experiments have recent
ly been tried of killing them by gas.
They are placed in an air-tight box, ten
feet long, four feet wide and three feet
high, and the gas is turned on from
number o. npes running into the box.
1t is thought that this is less painful
death even than drowning. Shortly
after the gas is turned on, the animals
become dizzy and fall over as though
intoxicated. Their eyes close and they
seem to die a painless death. Another
experiment is to be tried with chloro-
form in few days. After the box has
been closed up the air will be strongly
permated with chloroform until the
animals are dead. 1t has not been de-
cided whether the new device will be
adopted permanently or not. The only
objection to it thus far is its cost; the
drowning apparatus costs little or no.
thing.
JOHN I. TRAINoR, an employee of the
Delaware Lackawanna and Western
Railroad Company, suffered death under
the most terrible conditions. While
crossing the railroad track his heel
caught in frog. He tried to extricate
il, but only fixed it more firmly in the
grip OF the track. Presently he saw an
enst bound passenger train approaching
rapidly. He struggled vainly to release
his foot The engineer of the train saw
Trainor's plight and shut down the
brakes and reversed his engine. 1t was
too late. The unfortunate man realized
in an instant that his leg must be sacri-
feed and that he had but chance to
survive the misfortune, and raising both
arms above his head, he shouted God
help me r Then he cast himself on
the track. The rapidly approaching
engino nm instant la'er reached him.
It's wheels crushed out all life, and when
the train had passed over the uufor-
tunate man nothing but mangled re-
mains were left. These we're tenderly
gathered up and taken to Cranes Nor
que. Trainor was about twenty-five
years old.
A MAN named Pritchett, living near
Somerville, Ga, while working out in q
Aeld, hung his coat on the fence. The
coat contained tire, S20-greenbacks,