Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-02-07
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES


A. c. HOY aud wife were struck by train
at Clathe, Kansas. Mrs. Hoy was killed and
Mr. Hoy badly injured.
EVA WEIssNER, 5 years Of age, was burned
to death while playing with matches at her
home in Baltimore, Md.
AUGUST HARRINGTON, aged 10 years, was
killed in St LOUIS by falling through an
elevator shaft from the fifth floor Of building
CHARLES MAcGREGoR, clerk in the Cen.
sus Office in Washington. was found dead in
room, having been asphyxiated by escaping
gas.
GEORGE BuLMER was killed and four
fellow-workmen were badly injured. by the
falling sheds Of lumber camp near Desc.
ronto, Ontario.
LOUIS HITCHCOCK, 65 years old. who had
been guard in Sing Sing Prison for over 30
years, was Killed while on his way to the
prison by an express train.
ALFRED ROWLAND was killed and James
Rowland and Wesley Rutt were fatally iu.
jured by premature blast Of dynamite In the
State quarries at Bangor Penn.
By the caying in Of the roof of niue
chamber at Ameret, Missouri, two men were
killed and Ave buried under the debris Tits
feared that they cannot be rescued alive.
II. II. LORD, of DEVILS Lake, North Da.
kota, was killed and eight other persons we're
badly injured in a collision between two
trains on the Northern Pacific Railway.
IT was reported In Stafford City, Indiana,
that an explosion had occurred at gas well
at Millgrove by which four men we're burned
one fatally. There is no telegraph communal
cation with Millgrove.
THE building OF the Western Art Associa.
ton, ia Omaha, Nebraska, collapsed the other
night. Bougereau's picture, 'Ihe Return Of
Spring." valued OF 10000, and many other
valuable works on exhibition were ruined.
LARGE straw bleach in a mill at Rock
Falls, illinois, blew up. killing John and
Fidas and Henry Page. Three other work
men supposed 10 be IN the mili--Oliver Miller,
Henry PATHS and VIM. Bell-are missing.
WORD was received in Pittsburg Of an
accident at the Duquesne Steel Works A
large ladle OF molten steel was accidentally
upset and the contents poured out upon four
men, burning them TO death The works arc
on the Monongahela river, 10 miles FROM
Pittsburg.
AN electric fnoter car on a street car line
between indianapolis aud the suburb OF
Irvingtou, jumped the track aud turned
bottom side up IN ditch. Mira Mary Brown
and Miss Minnie Frederick, Of lryington,
were badly, and perhaps fatally injured, aud
Conductor Thomas Kennedy was seriously
bruised. The ear was a complete wreck.
Miss ORA CLARK was found dead IN her
room in Washington d. G., few days since.
Her death was the result Of breathing illumi-
mating gas. A younger sister, who occupied
the same room with her, is IN critical con-
ditioa from the same cause. The girls went
10 Washington from Hunters Mills Virginia,
some months ago, and secured employment rs
seainstrt sses-
ADvICEs received in San Francisco, from
Toluti, 10 the Society Islands, report that
wreckage has been discovered, supposed to be
from the missionary schooner Phoebe Chap
man, which left Honolulu a year ago, IN
charge OF Elder J, IL. Cudaney, Of Nebraska,
was bound for Pitcairn Islands. She carried
a crew Of six men. All hands are given up
for lost.