Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-10-04
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.

BY THE collision between two trains in Chi
cago, four persons were killed and ten or
twelve others severely injured.
IL Lima, Ohio, Joseph Linegener, boy,
asked little nirl named Minnick to look in-
side the barrels of shotgun he carried. AS
she did SO the gun was discharged and the en-.
tire top OF her mead was blown off.
TIE boiler of a freight locomotive exploded
at Sherman Heights, Tennessee. All that
could be found of the engineer and firemen
was coat The brakeman was badly injured
The locomotive was blown to atoms.
JAMES and John G,alson, father and son,
were killed by a wild engine Oh the East Ten.
nessee Railroad, near Oltewah, Tennessee
They were riding in wagon. The horse had
just cleared the track when the wagon wa,
strucE.
MICHAEL FITZPATRICK, a lineman in New
York, while repairing "a telephone wire. came
III contact with an electric light wire. lie re.
ceived a heavy shock, and was thrown irom
the pole to the ground. lie was badly burned
about the neck, had his collar bone broken
aud received internal injuries.
A DISPATCH from Fort Smith. Arkansas
says that during storm in the mountains n
party OF ID Turks who were travelling south
with a lot of dancing bears lodged in a creek
bottom in one of the gulIieS. The heavy storm
caused a torrent in the raviue, and seven OF
the men and all of the bears were drowned.
FEW days ago Henry Warner farmer.
near Rankin, Illinois, bought a new suction
pump from an agent aud put in well near
the kitchen. Soon after, when they began TO
use the water, Warner, his vile and three chill
dren were taken violently i'll. "A physician.
who was summoned Immediately, pronounced
it a case of poisoning, The little girl died
one of the boys cannot live and it is doubtful
If Mr.. Warner can recover. Investigation
showed that rough on rats had been put in
the pump at the store"
EXCITEMENT was occasoned on a train at
Humboldt Nevada, by an explosion in the
mail car. A registered package addressed ia
Anderson, Texas, sent by Chellis & CO., True.
kee, exploded while the mail clerks were nj
lunch. The oppOrtune return of one of the
clerks prevented the destruction of the entire
car. All the letters and packages in the same
box were scorched. On examination of the
package it was found to contain a coRicaI
shaped hard rubber tube which had been filed
with explosives.
THE 7-year-old daughter of George David.
son, who lives in Mentor, Indiana was taken
ill., and in eight hours died. An hour later a
9-year-od son was attacked, and died in eight
hours. Next day his only remaining children
three in number were attacked, one after an
other and died. All the physicians in the
neignborhood admit that they never saw any,
thing like it, anu don't know what it was or
how o treat it. So great is the sorrow and agi.
taton o. Mfr. and Mrs. Davidson that it is
feared they will not escape the fate of their
children.
News was received in Winnipeg, Mani,
toba, of tlit wreck of the steamer Keewaten
on Lake Winnipeg J. s. Tyrell, of the Geo
logical Survey, writes from Swampy Island,
Lake Winnipeg, that the yacht and portion
Of the hull of the boat has been found on the
island. The boat left there on July last, Mr.
Watts in charge, with detachment of North
west mounted police, whose duty it was to
prevent whisky smuggling at the mouth of
Saskatchewan river. A fearful storm passed
over the lakeou the seventh day after the boat
was last seen, aud it is thought that those on
board persisted. So far as known, only three
men, all members ofthe Northwestern mount
cd police, were on board.