The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-09-25
ACCIDENTAL.

A fire at Lynchburg. Va, burned half q
block, including the Western Union telegraph
Office. Loss, $3.50, 900.
The body of George Ford, who was killed
by the explosion in the South Wilk, ARE,
Pa, shaft, is still in the shaft. Tt are
now nine bodies in the mine, eight from the
explosion last March.
The Union Pacific east-bouud fast freight
and west bound special freight trains colided
near Black Buttes Station, Wvo Ten cars
and both engines are q complete wreck.
Engineer Dan PhPlan was instantly killed
and several other trainIflen slightly injured.
At st. Joseph, Mo-, by the caving in of the
banks OF sewer which a number OF men were
building two aborers. Louis Erickson and
William Frazier, lost their lives. Five others
were buried under tons OF earth; they were
taken out injured but will recover.
W. A. Collins of Hagerstown, Md, who
is reported to have fallen off train near
Recine, Wis, receiving probably fatal in
juries, was for many years one of the pro-
prletors OF the Pittsburg Chronicle and later
editor of the Chronicle Telegraph.
Miss Carrie Dodd, the tfteen-year. old
daughter of H. B. Dodd, agent for the Ameri-
can Express company in Madison, Wis, was
found dead in her bathroom. She had
tainted while dressing and fallen into the
water and drowned. Gas in the room
caused the fainting fit
A dose of poison taken by mistake for
medicine, ended the life OF Rufus T. Bush,
the we'll known yacht owner and oil merchant,
in Brooklyn. Mr.. Bush owned the schooner
yacht Corona, which beat the Daun tless in a
race across the Atlantic in 1887, and his sue
cess in the race brought his name prominent
ly before the public.
horrible accident accurIeu at O farm
| house some eight miles west of Muscatine,
Iowa. While Joseph Altkouse, Jr., and his
family were in the city on business, his mother
| aged eighty, while preparing dinner, ignited
| her clothing, and was so horrible burned that
she will die. Her aged husband in the next
room was unable to go to the rescue. She
was found shortly afterward by a hired hand
on the floor Her entire body was burned
to crisp, her flesh dropping off in places.
fatal accident occurred on the Black
Hills Fort Pierre railroad, in which Judd
Belden, Mrs. Snyder and boy OF Lead City
were killed outright and many others serious
ly injured. The railroad was running an ex-
cursion train from Deadwood a. d Lead City
| to Masonic picnic, in which there We're
| about 800 eXcursiOnists. Az the train
passed along high embankment heavy
| tree fell across the rear car. throwing the
car from the track. PLY scians were sent to
! the scene of the accident.
A bad wreck occurred on branch of the
st. Louis, Iron Mountain G Southern FIVE
miles west of Coldens Ark 1t occurred to
the east bound train consisting Of several
| freight cars, baggage and a mail car and
ore passenger coach, about forty five pas
sengers being on board. The engine in pass
ing over a weak rail broke it. The freight
cars passed over without displacing the rail
but the cgage car and passenger coach
jumped tbs track, rolled down the embank-
ment and were badly wrecked, Fifteen of the
passengers sustained injuries.