The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-05-17
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.

Two coiored firemen named Balls:r and
Davis were killed by boiler explosion at the
Bessemer Rollings Mills In Birmingham,
Alabama.
Mrs. A. Fl. Lucas, her two daughters and
her hired man, were drowne1, while trying
to cross n swollen creek, near Carthage,
Missouri.
A storm on Lake Superior broke upa num-
ber Of hooms of logs and scattered the tim
bers out in the lake. causing q loss to lumber
men estimated at SlOO,O0l.
James Connor and James Harris were
mite, hsar Homer, Michigan. They were
blowing out sturnps with dynamite.
Engineer j.. s. Burns and Fireman James
Merrinian were killed by "a train running
into wash out on the Rieboush ;I5 .:3nn, tto
fffArst "n,tne onSsn Tsne ,nS tgee- -ctlpafen were
lapsed. AlIsr-ltoexSpln ln feil and all were in
jnfed
Railroad broke apart near Worcester, Massa :
chusetts, and then came together again,
wrecking several cars and tearing UP q por-
tion of the track.
| Two freight trains colided near G len Mary,
Tennessee, as a result Of the forgetfulness OF
the engineer of one OF them. Brakeman
Taylor and Conductor Hineline were killed,
and Engineer Rusk fatally injured. Two
Others were slightly injured.
| The Emmons dynamite factory, about a
mile from Harrison, Westchester county, N.
| ", caught fire in the engine room, and soon
| afterwards the factory blew up. Newton
Emmons, son of the proprietor, and Anier-
son, the fireman, were injured, the former
seriously.
During heavy fog one freight train or
the Pennsylvania Railroad ran into the rear
of another, near Trenton, New Jersey, The
train hands jumped and were unin jured. A
man supposed to be William A Hefton, oil
1909 Moravian street, Philadelphia, an iron
lwork Iepaircr, who was riding iii the ca
fboose, was killed.
In Chicago, Nicholas Nelson was engaget
in drawing oil from tank car on the Chica
go, Milwaukee and St~a-2aAl- Railway tracl
to u tank on a wagon used in hauling the oi
over to kilns, where it was used In burning
lime, when both tanks exploded. Nelson wa
fatally burned The cause of the explosion
was unknown.
The British steamer Pine Branch arrived a
Baltimore, and reports the yellow fever a
terrible at Santos and Rio Janeiro, a numbe
of deaths at the latter port reaching 100 q day
Chief Engineer william Thomas, of the Pin
Branch, was left in the hospital at Rio. sui
fering from the fever. On March 81 q DO
belonging to the crew, died. and was burle
at sea
While Easter services we're progressing i
the Hill Street Methodist Episcopal Churc
I'm Newark. New Jersey, a large congregatio
being present, Il Toy in the gallery shoute
Il 'fire" three times. causing panic. III
Pastor and ushers with much difficulty con
vincei the people that there was no fire, an
: order was restored. One woman was injure
o in the crush. The boy that raised the fals
alarm was arrested.
,, A mixed train Oh the Central Railroad
Iowa was wrecked near Berwick Illinois.
u wheel broke as the train was crossing
1T bridge at Cedar Creek, and two cars We
b. hurled into the creek and caught fire. bur
,e ing the bridge. The conductor, Colyin al
m The son Of section foreman Savage, the on
10 passenger, were drowned. Express age
u. Roberts, brakeman Reed aud a mail cie
id were dangerously, if not fatally injured.
nj An explosion of natural gas In Mckee
OF port, Pa, Wrecked the Hotel Lundma
ne and dangerously injured the proprietC
ke John Landmark, and little girl, who "
q. standing in the door aud were blown acre
LII the street. The building took fire and W
he entirely consumed, together with the thr
IS. frame dwellings, ad joining. During the pI
at gress OF tho fire Chief McCallister, of I
'n Fire Department, was painfully but u
all fatally burned. The loss was SIS coo, tbTe
fourths covered by insurance,