Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-09
A SMALL BOYS FATE.
He is Drowned While Taking a Bath
in the Monongahela River.
A PICNICKER KILLED BY A TRAIN.
Swift Cable Cars Collide With and Over.
turn Buggies.
CHAPTER OF SABBATH DAT ACCIDENTS

John McConville, IL years old, living on
Murphy street. Soho, went swimming in the
Monongahela river near the Copper Works
Yesterday iafternoon. He was seized with
cramp and drowned before assistance could
reach him. The body was recovered.
Henry McAfee, % years old, employed as
baker at Morganza, was run down by q
train on the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charles
ton Railroad some time after II o'clock on
Sunday morning, and died five hours later
at the West Penn Hospital. The deceased
had evidently been at the Amalgamated
Association picnic, as a return ticket from
Rock Point was found on his person. How
be got into the Pittsburg, Virginia and
Charleston Yards on the Southside is not
known, but some of the employees of the
company found him lying beside the track,
with both legs cut off at the knees. The
body of the man is at the morgue.
A PICNIC PARTY UPSET.
A picnic party met with a very serious
accident while riding home from spending
Saturday in the woods near Etna. There
were % persons on the wagon, including sew
eral ladies. They were driving at lively
pace along the Butler plank road and the
see much ahead of him. The wagon was
precipitated over an embankment about IL
feet high into Pine creek. Several of the
party received painful but not serious in
juries. The wagon was pretty badly broken
up. Squire McNeirney, OF the Eighteenth
ward, was with the party and was injured
somewhat. The party procured another
conveyance and reached the city, where the
injured received surgical attention.
james Stewart, a brakeman on the Penn
sylvania Railroad, had his right arm very
severely crushed last evening while coupling
cars near Roup station. He was brought to
the West Penn Hospital, where his arm
will likely be amputated.
Henri Moselli, Pole living in the
Eighteenth ward, fell from the Junction
Railroad bridge, Thirty-third street, yester-
day afternoon. He suffered a compound
fracture of the skull.
Edward Finner, aged 20 years, of Char
tiers, was driving along Alexander street,
West End, Saturday night, when his horses
ran off. The buggy colIided with tele-
graph pole, throwing the old gentleman out
and badly injuring his head and back. He
was removed to the residence of his son-in-
law, Edward Sellers.
CABLE CAR COLLISIONS.
W. c. Brady & Son, while driving along
Penn avenue yesterday morning, were run
into by cable car No. 80, which swung rap
idly around the corner from Shady lane.
The buggy was upset and smashed, while
the occupants received slight injuries.
A buggy in which were Drs. Murdock and
T. w. Shaw was overturned on Fifth ave-
nue. by cable car last evening. The buggy
was thrown against another one occupied
by Letter Carrier McCabe. The latter was
thrown out and had his face cut.
Yesterday afternoon horse attached to
barouche, which contained q Bloomfield
family, ran off on Item street, Allegheny.
The barouche struck fence and the family,
consisting of husband, vile and three
seriou injury. The barouche was wrecked.