Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-04
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.

JOHN WALLACE, aged IA, and Frank
Miller, aged IL years, were drowned at Jersey
City while bathing.
FORTY persons were poisoned at Brushton,
/ franklin county, New York, by eating ice
cream not properly prepared.
A GRAVEL train and passenger train on
the Harlem Railroad collidedat White Plains,
New York. Ten or twelve persons were in
iured, none fatally.
THERE was a cloudburst in Cherokee
county, North Carolina. Harvey Agnew and.
Jacob Newton were killed A number of
farms were inundated.
By the fall of rock in the shaft of the CaId-
well Coal Company's mine, near Hamilton,
Missouri. Paul Bloise was killed and four
others were badly hurt.
FREDERICK BRoKAw, aged % years, was
drowned at Long Branch, while trying to
rescue Annie Doyle who had got beyona. her
depth in the breakers. Both went down
together
A DESPATCH from st. Joseph says the
Missouri river is higher than it has been for
several years, and is still rising. All Govern
nent work on the Kansas shor. has been
abandoned.
A TORNADO passed over the counties of
Monroe, Metcalf and Washington, in Southern
Kentucky, and. swept about 50 farm houses
away, besides damaging crops to the amount
of s25, 900 or $50, 600.
A DESPATCH from Kansas City Missouri,
says: Jefferson A. Harlow, letter carrier.
slept near an open window with the moon
shining full upc- this face. When he woke
he was totally blind. "
SPREADING rails caused the wreck of a
train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Road, near Thomas, Kansas. John Welch,
fireman, was killed, and Engineer Newcomb
was badly hurt. The passengers were un.
injured.
A CONSTRUCTION train ran off the track at
Million, near Richmond Kentucky, killing
four c0lored men and injlring six Others
The conductor was dangerously injured
Those who remained in the cars were unhurt.
Those who jumped out were caught under y
ear that rolled ever.
BY the explosion Of a barrel of alcohol IN
the basement of Columbia College Nov York,
DIR. John I. Northrop, an Instructor in
zoology, and two assistants, William Simpson
and Thomas Tighe, were seriously bul ned.
DIR. Northrop's injuries are such that his
recovery is doubtful
A DoUBLE-HFADED freight train Oh the
Chicago and Alton Railroad and an engine
and caboose collided near WilIiamsville,
Illinois, during fog, both trains running at
high speed. Georre Brown an engineer. was
caught under one of the engines and fatally
injured, and several others were injured.
JULIA ADAMS, Is years of age, living in
Redheld, Maine, has taken no food whatever
and only one swallow of water for twenty
days, and yet is able to sit up, and says she
does not feel the need of food and has no feel.
ing Of faintness. During this time she has not
slept more than two hours in the twenty four,
and says she does not feel the need of sleep.
Her disease is inflammation of the bowels.
Mis-. JAMES PARISH, Who attempted to
drive ferocious bull dog away from passef-
by whom he had ottaclled, in Lansing,
Michigan, was attacked by the animal Mrs.
Parish's left hand was bitten in nine places.
The dogs teeth were driven entirely through
her left wrist aud the feshy portion of her
right arm below the elbow was chewed to d
pulp. In her efforts 10 keep the dog from her
throat the plucky woman finally thrust her
hand into hs mouth and, grasplng his tongue,
hung on. The animal soon became exhausted
and gave up the struggle, and was killed a
short time later.