The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-09-04
MINOR ACCIDENTS.

The list ofvictims of the Wilkesbarre (Pa.)
cyclone now numbers sixteen.
Fire has swept the SOukais forest in Al
rpirs Two villages were destroyed by the
contagraton.
fire broke out ut Tokay. Austria, the
antCrpot for the noted Tokav wine, and the
whole town, with the exception of thirteen
louses, was destroyed.
William Higgins, u contractor. was parti'
uIly pmboweled while loading logs on
carat Groundhouse, Mimi, and will obabIy
lie.
An epidemic of disastrous fires has occur
red in the frontier towns oiPruSsian Pc land.
in all these fires have rendered $50 families
homeless.
At Sundridge. Ont, the Queens hotel, to-
gether with its contents, was burned. Two
men Thomos Powers and Herbert Dayton
were burned to death, and two Others were
badly burned
Six persons were recently bitten by a mad
wolf near Moscow. Three of the victims
have since died o hydrophobia. The other
| three are under treatment by Pasteur OF
Paris, and will probably recover.
The boiler of u locomotive on a freight
train on the New York Pennsylvania Ohio
exploded near Mansfield Ohio. En- ginepr
Albert Graham and Fireman Joseph MUIR
phy we're instantly killed and fifteen cars
OF oil burned
By the mistake Of n druggist at Knoxville,
Tenn. John P. Smith. the eleven year-oid
son OF State Superintendent OF Public In
struction F. NJ Smith, and n boy named
Hutchns died from dose o. morphine, tax
on Tor Quinlne,
Wilhelm Schmidt OF Bloomer, Wis, was
ound near that place having been run over
by IL train at night. He was still alive, al
though having laid there all night with one
!ey smashed to q elley. He expired the next
morning.
Tie hail stones that fell in recent thunder
storms in Connecticut were eXtTaord inaTIiy
large, and cut like flying shot. In one tenn
pest along the sound thev were simply mis-
happen chuncEs oI ice. They tore corn into
tattprs, and pierced the hide of cattle so
that blood followed the impact of each ice
ball.
Afarmer named H. A. Smith was killed on
his place near MuIvaney, Kansas. by q mad
horse. Smith was tying up the brute when
it turned on him. seized him by the should er
and threw him down. Just then the barn
door closed shutting off all means OF escape
and the horse viciouslv attacked the man,
|
seized q club AMI with it killed his horse. He
was SO badly exhausted. however, that he
died shortly after being discovered, when he
had just strength enough to tell OF the fight.
While Wisconsin Centeral engine with a
train of ten cars loaded with coal and eight
ampties was engaged in switching on the
locks of the Ohio Coal company at Ashland,
Wis, it ran off an open switch on to the ties.
| The dock extends OutintO Chequamcgon bay
or q considerable distance and the ties are
on piles TIE englne ran on tIv 9irs anu LiGo
| So l.,,, bins t1yrupierety submerged. The
angin er and fireman jumped and were not
hurt except the former sustained slight
sprain of an ankle. Owing to the break in
the dock wrpcking trains cannot get at tho
wreck and the engine will probably have to
be taken to pieces to be recovered.
While Frank Roberts was hunting for his
calves about a mile and a half west of Ban
Gro t. Iowa. he was attacked by wild and
taro.ions animal According to his account
the animal bore q resemblance to panther.
The animal sprang upon him rom a bunch
of weeds on the edge of an ad dining slough,
clearing ten feet at the first bound, knocking
aim down and covering his whole face with
it's enormous mouth, displaying at the same
time n hugh set of blunt yellow teeth. He
Says the animal was about six teet long
having short legs, built heavy in front, but
slim through the flank. Once he though
The animal had him down or the last tim e
but fortunately he caught it by the lower
iaw with one hnnd and by desperate effort
pushed him off and got on his feet again and
pscap ped.