The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-26
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES

over aud killed by locomotive In Ra,ti-
more.
Carrie, the IS year old daughter Of Hiram
Frost, was burned to death at Hopkins, Min.
nesota-
Sixty cases of typhoid fever are reported
10 Wilkesbarre, Pa, and an epidemic Is
feared.
at Baltimore by the Chicago express on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Elwyn Latham, young drug clerk OF
West Washington, was drowned in the Po-
tomac by the upsetting Of n boat.
William Schletz aud Charles Schroeder,
boys, were drowned whilo boating, on the
picnic grounds, at Riverside, near Chicago.
BY the explosion of boiler in the works
Of the Asphalt Paving Company, in Wilkes
barre, Pa, John Boyle, the engineer. was
mrs, L K Cameron, Mr.. nosee and her
Lake Myre t2sss ys5s m dTaSpsd T,ss[ IL II
Local rains In Richmond, Va, caused the
water in Shockoe creek to back up, and tho
lower floors and cellars OF at least fifty bus.
Iness houses were submerged.
BY the siuking Of ferry-boat In the Tai
lapoosa river in Alabama, three colored men
merchandise for Wetumpka were lost.
Two hundred persons were injured, about
hait OF them severely, and child was killed
by the fall of grand stand during races
at Oklahoma, Indian Territory.
Tho Buffalo fly is reported to have ap-
pear,d q among cattle at Three Mile Run near
New Brunswick, New Jersey. It's presence
was disclosed by two fatal cases
LizzIo Hawks, aged IA years, and Mamie
Hawks, aged eight years, wero killed by
lightning while in swing on the farm OF
John Hawks, about three miles from Lock-
port, N. Y.
passenger train on the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad was thrown into a ditch by cow
about twenty miles south of Cairo, lii. Six
passengers were in jured. one fatally.
Nellie Burton, aged Is years; May Royal,
aged 16; Ida Cassidy, aged %; Fannie Nc
Court, aged IS, and Bert Freeman. aged 20,
were drowned by the upsetting OF barge
near Allegheny City, Pa.
passenger train from Macon to CoIum
bus, Georgia, wns thrown from the track
nnd into Il ditch while rounding a curve.
near Geneva. Eight passengers were in.
jured.
A cloud burst over Akron, Ohio, and two
inches OF water fell in an hour. Consider
able damage was done to property and sand
was washed upon the railroad tracks i'm such
quantities as to prevent transportation.
John Boyle, fireman i'm the stone crushing
works Of tho Barbour Asphalt COMPANY
at Wlkesbarre, Pa, was blown through the
roof of the fire house by tho bursting of n
valve, and fatally injured.
A connective on the Northwestern Rail-
road crashed into a farmers wagon at May
wood, near Chicago, killing August Mullen
tour and fatally injuring his brother in law,
Frederick Liebentour. Three children were
badly hurt.
While ex- President Cleveland and Joseph
IaH tnk m ;In
Bav Mass ono of their h9rsas In,rn nm
thrown out. Both escaped with slight bruises
and severe shaking up.
The steamers Bay Queen and Eolus col
fded near Gould Island, in Narragansett
Bay. thick fog prevailed Mt the timo.
Both vessels were haa!y damaged and Lad
to be towed to Newport. No person is be-
lieved to have been injured ON either boat.
An explosion Of gas occurred In tho Boston
Towbo 1t Company's ofic", in the Fiske build
ing, at Boston. A leak in the pipe. was ig-
nited in some unknown manner. Two men
and woman were injured, tho latter-Miss
Laura Lincoln, severely.
There was n collision on the Chicago, Bur-
linGton and Quincy Railroad, n ,ar Glendale,
Ohio, between a passenger and live stock
train. Express Messenger Blackburn was
fatally ami several others severely hurt.
Considerable OF tho 1.-Two stock was killed
and injurel
1t is reported that tho engine baggage
car and one coach of a railroad train broke
through a defective bridge near Terrell,
Texas, and that ono man was killed and sew.
eral persons were injured. No particulars
are given.
An autopsy on the body Of Mrs Morris
Rubens, who was found in Albany New
York, dying beside her dead child, showed
tnat death was caused by uremic poisoning,
the result Of acute Bright's disease. The
child was suffocated by the mothers rolling
over upon it in her death struggles.
A steam bleacher in tho mill OF tho Ly ons
Paper Company, near Clinton, Iowa. ex-
ploded. wrecEing half of tho large brick
building and killing Alexander Hart and
Thomas Mcbride, workmen. A man named
Callahan was badly scalded.
George Gould, president of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company. received a de-
spatch from San Francisco verifying the re-
ported loss OF the company's steamer Gran
ada on the rocks at Punta Tejohan. The
vessel and cargo will be a total loss. The
Granada was valued at 3250,OOO, and the
cargo at $T5.0Ou.