The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-07-01
A SERIES OF NSHAPS
With Fortunately only One Fs-
tally Among Them,
.AMANDRoWNED INTHE river
And a ColoFed Boy Narrowly Escapes
the Same Fate Bicycle and
Motor Accidents Yesterday,
Awsgop Wrecked, Etc.

Yesterday as the 8 O'Clock motor on
the Elm Grove road was going out to
the Park, a young woman named LIZZIE
Lodge was standing up iua car, The
motor stopped on the east end OF Six
tenth street, and when It started again
the girl, beingoff her guard, wasthrown
from the car, falling violently to the
ground. The train was stopped and the
conductor went back and helped her up.
Her hands and one Of her arms were
painfully cut, but aside from this and
the injury to her clothes she was not
hurt. How she escaped serious injury
Is a marvel.
Yesterday James Waiter, il. and a
friend started to ride out to West Lib
erty on their bicycles, Aiew miles east
ofthe city Walters wheel struck q small
obstruction, and he took q header, strik'
ing on his face on the pike, His chin
was badly cut and nearly torn OF, and
he was otherwise scratched and bruised.
A colered laborer at the eastern end oil
the Wheeling & Harrisburg Railway
Company's eastern tunnel, had his left
hand so badly crushed Saturday that 1t
was found necessary to amputate the
thumb. The company's physiclan per-
formed the operation,
DIR, John Frissell had q narrow escape
from being hurt yesterday afternoon as
he was driving In his buggy in the
lower part OF the city, He started to
turn the corner OF Main and Twenty
sixth streets at the same time that an
electric motor did. The street Is narrow
at that point and the curve is a sharp
one. The end Of the motor swung
around and struck DR., Frissells buggy Q
sharp blow, badly dishing all the wheels,
but fortunately not upsetting the We
hicle.
"Buck" Tyler, q well known young
colored man, fell into the river at the
wharf, and was sinking the third time
when Otto Snyder, who had fastened to
the rescue in q skiif, pulled him out,
It was a close call for Buckley.
An accident which might have result
ed Eeriously occurred about four O'Clock
Saturday afternoon at the corner Of Eof
and Thirty.third streets. Two children
were playing on The electric line, and
not paying any attention to the approach
OF amotor, narrowly escaped being run
over, The car lust touched one OF them,
Robert Weigel was drowned off the
tow.boat Hornet No. . al the Pittsburgh
Coal Works below Bellaire Friday night
at $3.50 o'clock. He made a misstep and
fell in the river, and all efforts TO save
him were unavailing. He was q single
man, about 25 years Of age, six feet tall
and resided with his parents at Phillips
burg, Butler county, Pa,
About 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon
John Neary, a boy aged about fifteen
years, fell from the top Of the trestle. al
the belmont blast furnace, sustaining
very serious injuries. He was removed
to his home and a physician summoned
Saturday afternoon the delivery wagon
OF Lutz Brothers laundry was struck by
electric motor d on North Main street
and knocked against a telegraph pole,
Two boysin the wagon were both thrown
to the ground. One boy who was driv'
Ing had the reins around his body under
his arms, and the horse broke out Of the
broken harness and tore up street, pull
ing the boy after him, and looked very
much as Il. he would DO killed, but lie
extricated himself, and aside from agood
many bruises he was unhurt. The Other
boy was also bruised, and the horse sut'
fered a good deal, while the wagon IL
almost q wreck. The car was only dam
aged slightly,