The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-01-09
UNCOMMON ACCIDENTS.
Fatalities That Are as Strange as
They Are Rara
-uaY rnings which Though More OF Loss
ANisty with Age illustrate the Ex-
IRENE Uncertainty of This Eife
Curious but Interesting. 49,

happenings Which Though More or Less
hAisty with Age Illustrate the Ex-
treme Uncertainty of This EIfe
Curious but Interesting.
IA singular action was tried in the
Greenwich county court In March, 1888.
wherein widow sued baker for dam
ages medical attendance and loss OF
time, from the sticking Of pin in her
throat 1t appeared that the woman
purchased Bath bun at the defendants
.shopand wentout eating it. When she had
got haif-way through it she felt some-=
thing stick in her throat, and at once
went to house close BY and asked for
q drink of water; shortly after which
! the pain became SO intense that~she
wentto adoctor, who, after trying various
measures for nearly an hour, succeeded in
extracting the pin. The bakers counsel
submitted that there was no case Of neg
ligence; but the Judge, after remarking
thatit was OF course an unfortunate ac-
cident for both parties, gave verdict
for the plaintiff for the amount claimed
and costs,
Though this particular accident fortu-
nately did not prove fatal, others of an
Equally trivial nature have suddenly
severed the thread on which the life Of
man hangs At Macclesfield in Feb-
1889, Isabella 0,Grady, wife of
Frank O'Grady, died of punctured
wound received in the chest. While
playing in Eviction" she commenced
some knitting while waiting her turn to
go on An actor passed her as she sat in
the wings, and in order to allow him to
do so she stopped forward, when the
knitting entered her chest She
finished her part, and medical aid was
then called, but the case was hopeless
from tho first.
In August, 1868, harvest laborer
went into the Cock and Bell at Rom
ford, Essex, to refresh himself after his
days work. He called for a pint of ale;
hut before he had finished it his throat
began to swell, and in about two hours
the poor fellow expired in agony. Upon
Opening his windpipe it was found that
he had swallowed wasp, which had
stnng him, causing his death.
very similar thing happened in 1850
to horse belonging to farmer named
William Cross that had been turned
out to grass. In the morning he was
in perfect health; but at about five in
fhe evening he was observed to give
over feeding, and on examination his
meek was found to be considerably
swollen. 1t continued to swell until the
fourth day, when he died. The owner,
anxious to know the reason of the ami
mails death, caused his neck to be cut
open, when, to the great surprise of sew
,eral spectators, large adder was found
in the throat, and the parts all round
mortified, !.
About midnight on August Is, 1902,
two fishermen belonging to Hull were
employed near the Spurn. One of them,
named Samuel Sallies, having both his
hands occupied in drawing the net,
caught the head Of sole, which was
endeavoring to escape through a hoe
ain-the= net, between his teeth-a very
common practice among fishermen. The
fish, making an effort sprung into the
mans throat, who, being thereby rem
dered incapable of crying out to his
companion, went towards him and made
him sensible by signs Of his melancholy
situation. His comfade instantly laid
hold OF the sole's tail; but not being
able to extract the body the man4was
p suffocated very soon after reaching their
boat. -
A tea-table accident of an extraordi-
nary nature befel DIR. Hoare. principal
of Jesus College, Oxford, and preben-
Diary of Westminster. As the family
We're seated at their evening meal one of
them moved the table upon his favorite
cat, causing the animal such pain that
it flew directly at the doctor, wound
ing him with it's claws. The wounds
thus caused brought about the doctors
death.
In all the cases thus far narrated the
cause Of death was of the most trifing
nature, reminding us forcibly how Sin
the midst Of life we are in death.
Those that follow, though indorsing the
= same truth, are remarkable rather for
their popularity.
On the nth OF October, 1914, the
neighborhood of ST. Giles, London, was
thrown into CONSERVATION by one OF
the most extraordinary accidents ever
recorded. About six o'clock in the
evening one of the watts in the extensive.
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Company, in Banbury street, burst, and
ina moment New street, George street
and several others in the vicinity were
defttgcd with the contents, amounting
to three Thousand five hundred bar
rcls of strong beer. The fluid in
its course swept every thing before it.
Two houses adjoining the brewery were
totally demolished. The neighboring
inhabitants, all Of the poorer classes,
were nearly all at home. In the first
floor OF one house mother and daugh-
ter were at tea; the mother was killed.
on the spot, and the daughter swept
away by the current, In clearing away
the debris nine bodies were found, and
: enc poor creature was dug out alive.
Many cellars were completely mum
I dated, and in some houses the inhabit-
ants only saved themselves by mounting
their highest pieces OF furniture
In November, 1915, melancholy ac-
cident happened at Waltham Cross.
y The Boston coach stopped there for a
short time, when the horses suddenly
turned into low, covered gateway,
where there was no head-room for the
passengers on the roof. The conse-
quence was that four of them we're 80
completely jammed between the coach
and the roof oyer the gateway as
actually to stop the vehicle. When the
sufferers were relieved from their I'M
happy situation one Of them was quite
dead, and the others were so crushed
: that they survived but short time.
After detailing such category Of
disasters we may make some amends
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