The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-05-29
RECORD OF CASUALTIES.

In New York, an italian bootblaek named
Joseph Schleasitiana, while engaged in clean
ing windows, placed his hands on an electric
light wire that ran into the building and was
instantly killed.
A peculiar accident befel William f. Miller
at Union, Mimi, which resulted fatally. He
started to run across a railroad track,
tripped and fell, striking his neck on therail,
breaking his windpipe.
AT Kingston, N. Y, during the perform
anoe of Lees circus, portion of the reserved
seat gallery fell, carrying down several per-
sons and causing great excitement. Many
persons were cut and bruised but no one
was seriously injured.
Peter Smith, Jr., son OF Contractor Smith
OF st. Cloud, Mimi, while working on q
scaffold, fell by the breaking of a plank, sus.
tanning the fracture of three ribs and also
spinal injuries. Fears are also entertained
that he has suffered internal wounds.
During the gale on Lake Ontario the
schooner Jessie Brock, loaded with lumber,
from Toledo, bound for Garden Island, cap
sized near Nine Mile Point and all on board
we're lost. The vessel was in command of
Capt. Thomas Mackey, his brother, Joseph,
being mate and another brother, John,
shipped as a sailor.
AS Peter Conloy, who lives in Burns, Near
Anoka Mimi, was going to his dinner hesaw
his r-year-old grand-child, Paul Witchie,
lying under q sulky cultivator directly under
meath the wheel. when he reached his side he
found life was extinct. No horses were hitch
ed to the cultiyator, and the boy must have
been swinging on the wheel and been thrown
heavily on the ground. His mother is Mrs
Mary Witchie of st. Paul
Two freight trains on the Illinois Central
collided near Remsen, ten miles east OF Lee
mars, Iowa. An extra going east had orders
to switch at'Remsen. but freight which does
not switch at Remsen came laundering west
thirteen minutes ahead of time, and the two
engines collided. Three fat cars on the east
bound freight were made into kindling wood
and the engines upturned. The engineers
and firemen jumped, and one, the engineer on
the west-bound train, was bruised about the
shoulders to some extent.
A terrific cJclonic wave, rain, and hail
storm passed over parts o. Dakota county,
Ohio. In Congress hail stones, which ranged
in size from pea to hens egg, fell to the
depth of eight inches on the level. Entire
orchards and strips of oak and timber were
blown down or twisted to the ground. The
hail stones were SO large and fell with such
force as to be driven through roofs covered
with oak shingles. At-RoWsburg hail fell to
the depth OF eight to twelve inches on the
level and drifted to the depth OF thirty-two
inches. Hundreds of sheep were killed by the
hail.
James Fl. PARCELS, night dispatch in the
New York postofice, was killed by the cav
ing in of we'll on his place at Woodside, L.
/. Mr.. PARCELS was repairing the well, when
it partially caved in, burying him nearly to
the neck. The quick sand continued to run
down. and the efforts OF neighbors to extri-
cate the unfortunate man only increased the
| danger A rubber tube was procured and
placed in Mr.. ParceilS. mouth SO that-.he
could breathe after tfieSsandf n d5covered his
head. After several hours labor the sand
was cleared away again, but it was found
| that Mr.. PARCELS had been unable to retain
the tube in his mouth, and been choked to
| death.