The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-08-28
DEATHS HARVEST.
A Long List Of Disasters In Various Parts
Of the World.

DEATHS HARVEST.
A Long List Of Disasters In Various Parts
Of the World.
4 RUNAWAY TRAIN.
READING. Pa, Aug. GA car con-
tanning eighteen passengers on tho
Mount Penn gravity road ran away
Friday morning and rushed down the
mountain, = distance Of five miles -
the road runs at tho rate Of eighty
miles an hour. When the car reached
the station at the foot Of the plano
it jumped the track and rolled down
fifty-foot embankment. where 1t
landed upside down, with the passen-
gers imprisoned inside. The greatest
excitement prevailed and soon
large crowd gathered. Doctors and
the ambulance was sent for and the
dead and injured removed. Four
were taken out dead. They are
Charles Rettow, Edgar NJ. Levin and
Misses Rosa Pfeiffer and Harriet Shink-
ler. Mrs. Hiram Shinkler and Mrs. w.
A. H. Schmel will die. Among the
other injured are Sallio Bye and Mary
Guthrie, Of Wilmington, both badly
hurt, and Willie Schmel, this city, both
legs broken.
SIMILAR ACCIDENTS OUT WEST.
EMIGRANr GAP, Cal, Aug. ga
freight train became derailed from Its
engine ct Summit Friday morning and
ran rapidly down the heavy
grade at Cascade. Another freight
train was pulling on to the sid
ing when the runaway cars struck
it. In the wreck which resulted
Conductor Kingsley, Of tho runaway
train. and Conductor Connolly and two
brakemen of the other train were
killed and two other brakenen badly
hurt The station building wss thrown
down precipitous hill and the snow
sheds demolished for considerable dis.
tance.
DENVER, COL, Aug. 2a-Three men
were killed and three seriously injured
by the running wild Of q stone train Of
seven cars in the vicinity Of Lyons, COL,
Friday morning. The train was on .
down grade when the en-
troll of the engine, whcreupon the
whole train started on wild run
down the mountain side. The train
rushed on until the dump was reached,
! when all the cars went over and piled
up in promiscuous mass of ruins The
killed are: F. Norton. engineer; Fer
guson and w. Gurker, car-repai-era
Three others were seriously injured.
OVER A HUNDRED DEAD.
LONDON. Aug. 2S.-A dispatch from
Geneva reports fearful cyclone in the
canton of Vaud, in which $50 persons
were killed and nearly 1000 injured.
The storm was furious, and moved a
swath OF destruction through the
center Of the canton. Several hamlets
were devastated and one is reported
to have been completely wiped
out. not . single building remaining to
mark the scene of ruin. Thousands OF
people have been rendered homeless.
and every thing in the path of the
storm was swept out of existence. For
ests were torn up, vineyards destroyed
and houses leveled. vi the injured
many are fatally hurt, and the death
list will he greatly increased. Particu'
lars are meager. and the people are
dazed by the horror that has befallen
them.
PARIS STRUCK BY A CYCLONE.
PARIS. Aug. GA cyclone Of grea,
violence struck st. Cloud In the suburbs
Of Paris 1t was OF brief duration. bu,
its path was marked with great destruc
tion. Twenty houses were utterly demol
ished, the occupants being buried II
the ruins. Seven dead bodies have al
ready been recovered. and the ist vii
certainly be increased, as several per
sons are still missing. One family nameC
David is known to be buried in thu
wreck Of their house.
CIRCUS TRAIN WRECKED.
KALAMAZOO. Mich, Aug. 23.-Tht
first section Of the Barnum & Bale!
circus trains was wrecked at Shelby
Vile. on the Grand Rapids s. Indian;
road by a coupling breaking and severa
cars flying the track. Three men were
badly hurt Two have since died
} TORN TO FRAGMENTS.
LONDON, Aug. An explosion oc
CURED in one of the outhouses OF thu
Government powder-mill at Waltham
, Two men were blown into fragment
! and several others were injured.
NINE BURNED TO DEATH.
VIENNA. Aug. 23.-The town OF Szany
near Oldenburg, Hungary, IVES de
I stroyed by fire Friday. Nine lives wer
lost.
FATAL COLLISION AT SEA.
ST. NAZAIRE, France, Aug. 33.-Th
| French steamer Amerique on Friday ra
| down and sunk the English steamer Re
, Brook off this port Three persons wer
drowned.