Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-03-04
A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS
or a More or Lees Serious Chara cter in and
About tho CITY.

or a More or Lees Serious Chara ter In and
About the CITY.
There was a railroad accident on tie
Csd'z branch Of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati
and 81. Louis railroad, Sunday night,
which resulted in very considerable loss.
Walter Craig, Of the Walnut Grove
farm, and w. F. Houser bad loaded a csr
of fine blooded horses at Cadiz. and the
train left Sunday night. While en- route
the car containing the horses left the track
and went over a bank about forty feet
high, turning over two or three TINES IN
making the descent The confusion
among the horses, shut up, as they we're,
in a close car, may be imagined. When
the car was opsned, and the frightened an
imals released, it was found tnst stallion
valued at two thousand dollars had BEEN
killed and several other horses wounded.
Oae or two msy have to be killed.
There was rumor. yesterday afternoon,
that e colored man had been very badly
wounded, over at the Chaplire hill tun-
mel. by a fall Of rock. E1quiry showed
that the only foundation for the report
was that colored laborer, whose name
was not learned, had strained his back IL
attempting to lift heavy stone. He soon
recovered from the immediate effects Of the
injury.
A great deal OF excitement Was created
on Sixteenth street, about o'clock yes
terday evening. by what people supposed
was the explosion Of a locomotive. En-
CINE No. As, Engineer Harry Drummond.
hauling a heavy freight tIair, WAS labor
ing up the grade at tbs corner of SIX
tenth and Eoff streets, when steal bolt
on the steam box gave away and in about
Ave mirutes 140.pound pressure Of steam
had escap' d, that whole section being filled
with steam, hot water and Eoise; and had
any one been standing anyways near tie
location, they would have been badly
scalded.
A large crowd was soon around and the
excitement was intense. The engine had
10 be hau ed to the shops by No. 81, where
shs will be repaired. Will Kalbaugh was
CONDUCTOR, and neither he or Drummoad
we're injured.
Chss. Jorel, seventeeu-year- son
of Biddla Jones, who ia employed at VII
son q Co. 3 planning mill, while working at
a Joiner at the mill yesterday morning
sbout 10 O'Clock, got his left hand caught
in the machinery and three fingers were
amputattd. He was taken to his home on
Sixth street and surgical aid rendered.
A peculiar feature of the accident wss that
the Young man had hurt the came hand
several days before and hsd bardsge
over tie wound. While on bis way to
work Yesterday morning friend asked him
what wss wrong, and be remarked okins-
ly that he had three fsgers cut of He
then did not think how the Joke would be
realized.
Charles Burke, feed boy at the Pan
handle Grocer cffics, got bis right hard IN
press vest srday, and several fogefs were
badly crushed.
Ernest Gsyer, an emplcye of Schenk's
slaughter house at Fulton, me: with Sc
rious accident yesterday. Hs was work
ing at chOpping block aud reached ont
20 ia o hold of the foot Of dressed hog,
when another employe who was choppiog
off feet les d. with big oleayer, striking
Carer on the wris. and almost severing
the hand from the arm.