Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-22
Some Of the Worst That Occurred
the Past Week.
Fatal Wreck ON the Rock Island-Playing
Hebrew Children with Fatal Eject
Other Accidents and Events OF
Similar Nature.
Wreck on the Rock Island.

washout The re suls was the total wreck
Of two locomotives and half dozen
cars. including the pile driver. the i'm
slant death of l. n. Courier, ex.
injury of Pat Barney, fireman on the
express and the serious injury of Lon
Bailey. Of Troy, Kan. belonging to the
bridge gang that was on the construction
train. Courier IL q resident Of St Joseph.
where he has a wife and child. No was
due in Top eka at 2:40 p. m, and was rum
ming on time at the rate Of twenty miles
an hour. Tho construction train was
made up here in the yard and was trying
to make Valencia ahead of the vestibuled
express, totally forgetting there was such
q train as No. on the line. The collision
occurred in the aristocratic suburbs Of Pot.
win place As No. rounded on the curve
the engineer saw the coming train, reversed
his lever, pulled the throttle wide open
and jumped, escaping unhurt His engine,
No 2s6 plunged into the pile driver which
No. 414 was pushing. with dreadful force.
The tank telescoped with the combination
baggage and express car. was driven clear
into it and crushed the partition. The
1886" landed in the ditch with the bag
gage car and pile driver on top, hiding the
engine completely from view. Fireman
Barney was pulled out Of the wreck
badly scalded his collar bone
broken and injured internally.
Bailey. the bridge man, had one leg
crushed of. Railroad men say they never
saw such a wreck. It was q miracle
scores were not killed. but not a passen:
ger was hurt. Train No. 4 came up few
minutes later and the passengers were all
Transferred around the wreck, which was
not cleared away before this morning.
Thousands Of citizens visited the scene
and watched the wrecking gang at work
till dark. It Is conceded that the exist.
ence Of No 2 was forgotten by the crew
of the construction train. The body OF
Carter Is now lying at Undertaken Palm
er's awaiting the inquest
The Hebrew Children Act.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 14.-For some
time past an old negro named Tobias
Daniel, the Prophet and doing all kinds
Of singular, wild and queer things He
has completely awed the simple-minded
negroes. Saturday last he persuaded.
three young negroes that they were rep.
resentatives Of Shadrach, Meshach
and Abednego, the three Children Of Faith
who entered the fiery furnace Of Neb-
uchadnezzar OF old He proclaimed that
q cofSaana1urnHcO>sxhef ID melted
and cast was the furnace of Nebuchad-
nezzar and that the three could all
pass through without danger. The
three negroes, under the influence
Of their new prophet, deliberately
entered the gate OF the cupola Of the fur
mace and rushed headlong into the white
heat Of the melting iron. When they failed
to come out jackson proclaimed that he
saw them rising in the air with the smoke
Of the furnace. attended by angels,
and that they would revisit the
earth again next Sunday. The me-
groes propose to meet at church
next Sunday and pray, awaiting the de-
scent of the three children of Israel The
mother of one of them said: II feel jes'
as sho' my boy is in Heaben as il I'd done
been dar and seed i'm. Jackson the
prophet comman' Tim to walk into de fiery
furnace and he 'bleeged ter hey i'm"
Accident in New York.
CHARLOTTE, N. Y, Aug. 11.-Near For.
est Lawn, on the Rome, Watertown &
Ogdensburg railroad, about eight O'Clock
yesterday morning the night express
train, bound west ran into the Rochester
train, which was backing down, telescop-
ing four cars and killing two persons and
badly injuring seven others. Miss Emma
Perrin, aged twenty three, OF St Johns,
Mich, was killed. Her father and
mother were on the train.
Mr.. Perrin was bruised and in-
jured internally. Mrs. Perrin had her
collar bono broken and was otherwise In.
jured. Andrew Tiffany, engineer of the
steamer Hazeltou, Of Oswego. was badly
injured internally and died In few
hours. Among tho injured were: Mrs
Lewis Moore, Of Gratwick, N. Y. right
leg broken; I. c. Brown, Of Sherman. N.
Y, one leg and the toes of the other foot
cut of. Two are unknown yet
An Internal Attempt.
An0 II nk
was made yesterday to assassinate L E.
Baxter. q newspaper correspondent by
the explosion Of . deadly machine, which
was loft at the Leader Office. directed to
that gentleman. There was sufficient
dynamite in tho parcel to blow up any
building in the city. and It only failed to
accomplish its deadly purpose owing to
the percussion matches not igniting.
Queer FREAKS of Lightning.
La CRossE, Wis, Aug. 1L-During the
storm Wednesday night Henry Smiths
twelve-year.old daughter while running
from the house to the barn was struck by
lightning and instantly killed. In Chris
Mueller's barn, which was struck and de-
stroyed, was q horse from all four feet
Of which shoes were ripped and the horse
left otherwise uninjured
Fatal Boiler Explosion.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. 1.-THE boiler
of Thomas Anderson & Co 3 stave factory
at Dawson, KY. exploded yesterday
morning. James Jackson was killed and
six others were seriously injured. Laton
Menser and Dennis Purdy, who were
wounded, have since died.
Supposed Intoxicatlon.
OMAHA. Neb.. Aug. A-An engine ct
the South Omaha stock yards struck and
instantly killed James Connolly and Owen
Mcdonald yesterday morning. They are
supposed to have been intoxicated
Killed ON the Track.
KANSAS CITY, Kan, Aug. A-A man
walking along the Santa Fe track about
mile west Of Turner station, was struck
yesterday by the engine Of . west bound
freight train and instantly killed
Gored to Death BY . Bull
WMoHA, Mimi, Aug. 12-George Sci.
ick, we'll known milkman, was gored to
death by IN infuriated bull on his farm IN
this county ysstsrday afternoon.