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

DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES
John Bromwell, bricklayer, was run
over aud killed by locomotive In Ba.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 Wllkesbarre, Pa, and an epidemic Is
feared.
Two unknown men were instantly killed
at Baltimore by the Chicago express on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Elwyn Latham, n young drug clerk OF
west Washington, was drowned in the Po-
tomac by the upsetting Of 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
e Mrs L k: Cameron, Mrs. Losee and her
L,ks q, h,sseais- z hifi ~ the apsettsSs oi u
Local rains In Richmond, Va, caused the
water in Shockoe creek to back up, and the
lower floors aud cellars OF at least fifty bus
mess houses were submerged
BY the sinking OF q ferry-boat in the Tai
lapoosa river in Alabama, three colored men
were drowned, and two wagons loaded with
merchandise for Wetumpka were lost.
Two hundred persons were In jured, about
bali OF them severely, and a 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 among cattle at Three Mile Run near
New Brunswick, New Jersey Its presence
was disclosed by two fatal cases.
LizzIo Hawks, aged II years, and Mamie
HAWKS, aged eight years, wero killed by
John Hawks, about three miles from Lock-
port, N. Y.
passenger train on the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad was thrown into ditch by a cow
about twenty miles south OF Cairo, lii. Six
passengers were injured. one fatally.
Nellie Burton, aged is years; May Royal,
aged 10; Ida Cassidy, aged %; Fannie Nc
Court, aged 1S, and Bert freeman, aged 20
were drowned by the upsetting of n barge
near Allegheny City, Pa.
passenger train from Macon to Colum.
bus, Georgia, was thrown from the track
and into ditch while rounding q curve.
near Geneva Eight passengers were in.
jured.
A cloud burst over Akron, Ohio. and two
inches of water fell in an hour. Consider
ablo damage was done to property, and sand
was washed upon the railroad tracks i'm such
quantities as to prevent transportation.
John Boyle, fireman in the stone crushing
works OF tho Barbour Asphalt Company,
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, was blown through the
roof Of the fire house by tho bursting of a
valve, and fatally injured.
connective on the Northwestern Rail-
road crashed into a farmers wagon at May
wood, near Chicago, killing August Multen-
tour and fatally injuring his brother. in law,
Frederick Liebentour. Three children were
badly hurt.
While ex-Prcsident Cleveland and Joseph
Jefferson were taking ride near Buzzard's
-Bay. Mass ono nf THAR h9rsas h..cn ma nm
thrown out. Both escaped with slight bruises
uni y severe ling up
The steamers Bay Queen and Eolus col
lided near Gould Island, in Narragansett
Bay. thick fog prevailed Mt the time.
Both vessels were badly damaged and had
to be towed to Newport. No person is be-
iieved 10 have been injured on either boat.
An explosion Of gas occurred In tho Boston
Tow6olt Company's otfica, In the Fiske build
ing, at Boston. leak in the pipes was ig-
nited in some unknown manner. Two men
and a woman were injured, the latter-Miss
Laura Lincoln, severely.
There was n collision on the Chicago, Bur-
linston 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 the live stock was killed
aud injured.
It Is reported that tho engine. baggage
car and one coach of q railroad train broke
through defective bridge near Terrell,
Texas, and that one 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 the mill OF the Lyons
Paper Company, near Clinton, Iowa, ex-
ploded. wrecking half Of the 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 de-
spatch from San Francisco verify ing the re-
ported loss Of the company's steamer Gran
ada on the rocks at Punta Tejohan. The
vessel and cargo will be total loss. The
Granada was valued at $3.50, 900, and the
cargo at $75.OO0.