The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-16
NUMBER 3s.,
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES

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three men. 49, =,
George ii. Fletcher. while standing near
an unfiushe elevator In New Orleans, was
killed by a brick which fell from the sixth
story.
NJ: ii. Horney, while putting up an own
ing in the .cond story OF a building I'm Bal
timore fell to the ground, and, striking his
bead was killed.
Two freight trains on the Central New
Jersey Railroad collided near Dunelleu, N.
y, making bad wreck. A tramp who was
stealing n ride, was killed.
Two men were struck and killed by q
w Western express train at South Harrisburg,
pa' One was apparently 20 and the other
oo years OF age. paper in the pocket OF
one bore the address OF John Keiser, Jersey
| City.
Sevcn year-old johnnie Green disappeared
during picnic near Chicago, and after n
continuous search in various directions his
body was found In q cesspool on the picnic
| grounds.
Arnold Francis and young man named
i,in heiin were killed by the bursting OF n rap
idiy revolving milk and cream separator, at
kimoerton Creamery, near Kimberton
Chester county, Pa.
Joseph Larson, aged II years, was over
| come by the damp while cleaning well near
Macedonia, Iowa, and J. A. Wilson who was
lowered 10 rescue tho boy was also overcome
| Both died.
| Frederick Tullier, ageI ~ years a waiter
at the Hotel Gorlach New York, fell down
the elevator shaft from the ninth story to
tho basement, q distance Of ITO feet, and
was killed
Three fourteen year- old boys attemptine to
! cross brook at Lowell, Massachusetts,, be-
came en;angled in weeds, got beyond their
| depth, and two of them, named Fortier and
George Cyr, were drowned
A passenger train ran into freight train
freight cars and the freight engine. The
engineer and conductor were injured, and n
colored tramp stealing n rido was killed.
A severe storm of wind and rain passed
over Morgan county, Illinois, doing great
aaaee e lie FmfnE Horsss and cat
tie, and severely injurins number of per-
sons
A hand car propelled by four section men.
on tho Western Railroad, ran into a wagon
at n crossing in Saybrook, Illinois Two
men were fatally inJured-J b. Wells, driver
Of the wagon and one Of tho section hands
I uumed Nelson.
News from Ounaiaska, by thu steamer
! Bertha which has arrived at San Francisco
confirms the recent reports Of the loss G:
three whaling schoouerS-James A. Ham
ilton, Otter and Annie. The vessels carried
about W officers and men.
An explosion Of gns took place in No. II
Shaft at Port blanchard, Pa, operated by
ers, named Barrett, Harris, Daugher, Nc
Donald, and an unknown Hungarian, were
burned, the first three it is said, fatally.
The steamer St. Nicholas, with 500 coll
ored excursionists on board ran into the
closed drawbridge over st. Augustine cre,k
four miles south of Savannah, demolishinp
the forward portion ef the steamer, killing
two women md IN juring twenty-eight mei,
and women, some, it is feared fatally.
Charles Degnan was killed Mt Southingtop.
trs %he Ha fods daaEs, aaaEs
step of the caboose and. he fell backwards
his foot wedgng so as to hod him, and was
dragging in this way quarter of n mile bo-
fore he was discovered.
A freight train frightened horse I'm Har-
4 mony, Penpa. The animal backed the wagon
over the railroad embankment. throwino q
the occupants out. Miss Mana Oppenhemer
was thrown hnderthe train and instantly
killed. Miss, 'Amanlai Klee was fatally in
jured, and Misses Rella Woemser and Flor
helm were badly hurt
John Myers, n carpenter, was at work ON
n small building i'll Baltimore when a gaso-
line stove exploded Within threatening the
dwelling with destruction. He rushed into
the house, grasped the flaming stove and
carried it into tho street. The burning gas
oline poured down his back and arms, but he
clung to the stove until he had placed il
where it could do no further damage. He
was so badly burned that there is little hone
Of his recovery.
A landslide has occurred on tho Northern
Pacific Railroad, near Miles City. Montana
- ,S rsspDe',ed at point ON the Yellowstone
Division w6errsS r66rSh'S r. track skirts Yellowstone
river, with the turbulent ssream on one %M'., SIDE
and high alkali bank on the otfer <s.sss ss
out warning or apparent cause this bank
gave way, and the mass Of earth for a dis
tance OF 500 feet along tho track and from
800 feet away slid down the river, ,com pletelv
burying the railroad.