Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-01-17
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.

JOHN DELANEY was killed in New York
by the explosion Of some cartridges that had
been frozen and he was thawing out.
A CENTRAL Massachusetts Railroad train
struck a sleigh at Hsdiey killing Henry
Learned and Mabel Il. fiinkley and injuring
four others.
ELEVEN or twelve men were killed in the
Utica mine near San Andreas, California, by
the breaking Of skip 10 a shaft. They fell
a distance 40 feet.
An EXPRESS train went through a trcstle
near Slepstnc KY Engineer l. A. Hlburn
and Edward Mcneil were killed None Of
the passengers were hurt
Two brothers named Bell, aged % and Q
years got lost in blizzard at Medicine Lodge,
Kansas, and we're frozen 10 death. Their sis
ter, aged 10 years, who was with them, sur.
vived.
VIM. WELD, prominent agricultural Jour.
nalist, and proprietor OF the Fori-aers' Adro-
cate, In London Ontario, accidentally fell
into water tank at his residence, and was
drowned.
EDWIN SOLOMON was killed at his home
in Salt Lake City, Utah, by the accidental
discharge OF breeeh loading shotgun he was
cleaning. He did no. know that there were
cartridges in the gun.
A BARKING machine in the Cascade Wood
GufD MlIls at llpfkVDfh, view IOfkt tApfONG1s
wreckiug part Of the mill and dangerously
ipjuring three men, including the Superin-
tendent George Neleh.
A PASSENGER train on the Pan Handle
Road ran into hand car containing a nun.
Der Of workmen near Coshocton, Ohio John
Curran and Robert Davis were killed and
Silas Burgess was fatally injured.
JOHN ROONEY was burned TO death in his
barn, near Plattsburg, New York. II Is
thought that he went into the barn while
smoking, and, being under the influence of
liquor, lay down 70 sleep, and spark from
his pipe set FIRE TO the structure.
AN EXPRESS train on the Fort Wayne Roai
jumped the track near Madison Ohio, while
running ~ miles an hour, and ran the entire
length OF the train on the ties. The veaibule
attachments prevented the cars from toppling
over, and not single person was injured.
The accident was caused by the breaking Of a
frog
THREE towns have quarantned against San
Antonio, Texas, on seeouut of smallpox.
Agents there do not sell tekets 10 San Marcos,
on the International aud Great Northern
Road, and Luliug and FiatOna, on the South
and no one from San Antonio is allowed 10
get Of at those places without showing GER.
ti6cate.
In BUCHANAN county, Iowa, Mrs Edger-
ton died last November OF diphtheria leaving
eight children destitute. An infant and i've
other children successfully Tell victims 10 the
disease; on Friday the seventh child died, and
On Saturday the remaining one was al the
point Of death. No other case Of diphtheria
is reported in the community.
THE day before the recent storm in Kansas,
John Brooks, farmer OF Logan county, went
to Russell Springs. Knowing that there vas
insufficient provision against cold and hunger
at his home, he tried 10 get back with suecor,
but no trains were running, and lie did not
reach home for several days During his ab-
sence his wife tried TO reach her nearest neigh
Dor, distance " four miles bot sureun'bed
in the road, and was found in an luseHsibie
condition and nearly frozen, whiie the babe
she carried in her arms was frozen to death.
The wife, it is feared, will die from the effects
Of the exposure.