Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-01-03
CAPTAIN wALIAcn's RECORD.
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.

JENNIE MosHER, aged fourteen years. was
drowned while skating ut Hayerstraw, On the
Hudson.
CHARLES HENURICKSoN, aged 90 and
Charles Reed, aged ii years, were drowned
by the breaking of the ice on Cheyenne Lake,
near Colorado Springs.
SEVERAL members Of the family of Noah
kunz farmer. near Cerro Gordon, ILL.,, were
burned lay the explosion of a coal oil lamp, a
three-year-old child fatally.
THERE was an earthquake shock in Knox
vile, Tennessee, and surrounding country.
Houses were shaken and dishes ratified. Many
persons were aroused from their sleep.
An electric motor car in Omaha, Nebraska,
Jumped the track and turned bottom up.
Mrs. Dennis O'llailoran and Mrs. Aggie Nc
Naughton, passengers were badly hurt
PASSENGER train on the Western New
York and Pennsylvania Railroad was
wrecked by spreading rails, near Watson
vile, Pa. Twenty passengers were injured.
A PECULIAR disease has attacked the
horses in Jefferson aud Swanee counties, Kan
sas, and scores have died within the past ten
days. The disease has also made its appear
ance IN Missouri, and is proving fatal to
horses in several counties
AN explosion, caused by throwing water on
furnace ashes to cool them quickly occurred
IN the New Jersey Steel and Iron Works at
Trenton. Two men were injured, one, named
Michael Funda, perhaps mortaily.
CHARLES +. FOLEY, 80 years of age, was
hurned to death in his carpenter shop in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, the other night.
1t was his custom to sleep in the shop. The
gre is supposed to have originated in an over
heated stove.
THE wall of an old packing house in
Chicago, the property OF Armour & Co., was
being torn down when il suddenly collapsed.
hurying number of workmen. Michael
Barry and an unknown man were taken out
dead, and William Devlne and John McIn-
erney were fatally and several Others severely
injured.
The residence of Victor Rodgers, at jesse
vile, Michigan, was burned and his two
children, aged three and ten years, persisted
in the flames The mother and father were
away, and the children were locked in the
house.
SPOTTED fever or perhaps meningitis, pre-
walls at Fairfield, Texas. Nearly all the
stores are closed, ami business is almost en-
Iirely suspended, The disease is so fatal and
dreadful that the people are closing their
dwellings and leaving. Eight or ten deaths
have occurred within the past few days and
quite a number are now sick.
\ UNION Pacific Passenger train was
wrecked near Beatrice, Nebraska. An oh.
struction evidently placed on the track out OF
malice, caused the engine to jump the track,
carrying with it the tender and mail car.
Bridge Inspector, W. II. Mercer, who was
riding on the engine, was fatally scalded and
Abe engineer seriously injured.
As train on the Chicago and Grand Trunk
Railr0a was entering Nicholas, Michigan,
the heater IN the frSt-ciass car exploded, till-
my the car with gas and burning coal. The
wood work anu seats in several parts of the
ear caught fire and several OF the passengers
were burnet. The windows were speedily
broken which saved the passengers from suf-
location. Two men jumped from the win.
dows and were severely cut Two families in
the car lost considerable clothing. and eight
persons, one tour-months-old babe, were
injured by burns