The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04
MINOR ACCIDENTS.

MINOR ACCIDENTS.
The list ofyictims of the Walresbarre (Pa.)
cyclone now numbers sixteen.
Fine has sswept the Soukais forest in Al
geirs, Two villages were destroyed by the
caufagration.
A fire brake out at Tokay, Austria, the
enterpot forsthenoted Tokay.wine, and the
whole town, with the exception of thirteen
houses, was destroyed
William Higgins, a contractor parti
ally ,disemboweled while loading logs on a
carat Gro undlsouse,i Mimi, and will pro bly,
die.
An 'epidemic.c of disastrous fires has occur
red in the frontier towns Of Prussian Poland.
In oil these fires have rendered $50 families
homeless.
At Sundridge. sOnt., the Quee MS hotel, to.
gether with it's contents, was burned. Two
men-Thomas Powers and Herbert Day ton
were burned to death, and two Others were
badly burned.
Six persons were recently bitten bye mad
wolf near Moscow. Three of the victims
have since died of hydrophobia. The other
three are under treatment by Pagteur OF
Paris, and will probably recover.
The boiler of a locomotive on a freight
train on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio
exploded rear Mansfield, Ohio En- gineer
Albert Graham and Fireman Joseph Muir
ply were instantly killed and tifteen cars
of Oil burned
By the mistake of a druggist at Knoxville,
Team, John P. Smith, the eleven-year-ol old
son Of State Superintendent of Public In
struetion F. III. Smith, and boy named
Hutehins died from dose OF morphine, TAX
en- for quinine,
Wilhelm Schmidt of Bloomer, Wis.,, was
found near that place, having been run ,ovaz
by train at night He was still alive, al.
though having laid there all uight with one
leg smashed to a jslley. He expired the next
morning.
The hail stones that fell in recent thunder
storms in Connecticut were extraord ina1ily
large, and cut like flying shot. In one tenn
pest along the sound they were simply mis-
happen chuncks Of ice. They tore corn int O
tatters, and pierced the hide of cattle so
that blood followed the impact efeach ice
ball. w.
Afarmer named H. A. Smith was killed on
his place near Mulvaney, Kansas, by mad
horse. Smith was tying up the brute when
it turned on him, seized him by the shoul der
and threw him down. just then the barn
door closed, shutting off oil means OF escape,
and the horse viciously attacked the man.
biting, paving and kicking. until Smith
seized club and with it killed his horse. He
was SO badly ex hausted, however, that he
died shortly after being discovered, when he
had just strength enough to tell of the fight.
While a Wisconsin Centeral engine with a
train of ten cars loaded with coal and eight
empties, was engaged in switching on the
docks Of the Ohio Coal company at Ashland,
Wis, it ran off an open switch on to the ties.
The dock extends outinto Chequamcgon bay
for q considerable distance and the ties are
on piles. The engine ran off the ties and into
the bay, being completely submerged The
engineer and fireman jumped and were not
hurt. except the former sustained a slight
sprain of an ankle Owing to the break in
the dock wrecking trains cannot get at the
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.
croft. Iowa, he was attacked by q wild and
1erocious animal According to his account
the animal bore resemblance to panther
The animal sprang upon him from bunch
OF weeds on the edge of an ad; dining slough
clearing ten feet at the first bound, knocking
him down and covering his whole face with
it's enormous mouth, displaying at the same
time hugh set of blunt yellow teeth. He
says the animal was about six feet long,
having short legs, built heavy in front, but
slim through the flank. Once he thong hit
the animal had him down ior the last ii me,
but fortunately he caught it by the low er
jaw with one hand and by desperate effort
pushed him of aud got on his feet again and
escaped.