Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-01-23
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES

a. b. CHURCH, aged 81 years, was burned
b death in his house at Jersey City, n. j.
FRANK BRADY was killed at the Midvallcy
Colliery, Mt Carmel, Pa, by runaway car.
lie had been employ ed at the colliery for the
FIRST time tut few hours before.
GEORGE NEwcoaBE the mine boss at the
COTE Mill Mine. Mt Hillsboro, Illinois, was
killed by the breaking Of the cage rope. lie
Tell 100 feet 70 the bottom OF .he shalt
A DESPATCH from the City of Mexico says
ehat Smoke is issuing from the Almolonga
mountain, IN CHAP s, and an earthquake Is
feared" The volcano Of Colima is also in
eruption.
ANDREW STARK died at HARRISBURG Pa,
II injuries received by being struck by atrain.
lie was tramp, but a savings bank book was
found in his possession showing credit OF
1875
JOHN DoNNELLY and his two daughters, OF
PHtsburg, were poisoned by taking remedy
Tor the grippe" sold them by an unknown
peddler. Prompt medical attention saved the
lives of the sufferers.
Two children of David Buckner, Of Smith
ton, Mo-, were burned to death the other
night They had been locked in the house
while their parents went 10 make visit and
the house caught Gre.
Is Chicago. an incoming Fort Wayne Rail.
City Railway Company 1T Forty-sevenih
street. Two passengers on the horse car were
killed and IL others were injured.
AN explosion of dynamite occurred In Bos-
ton in shaniy constructed in connection with
the building Of a sewer. John LannOn was
seriously injur' d; houses in the vicinity were
damaged and panes Of glass we're shattered in
dwellings mile distant.
A CARRIAGE containing John Stanks nnl
his wife, who were returning TO their home
after their wedding, was struck by train at
Pueblo, Colorado. Stanks was fatally injured
and Mrs. Stanks had an arm cut of and sus.
tanned other iujnrifs
FRANK SALvE was killed in Chicago by
being struck by dummy. lie had been riding
on locomotive and jumping upon an adjoin.
ing track, was struck by n second engine,
which in turn threw him In front Of the
dummy.
MICHAEL BULAvosKT, aged II years, was
killed at the Cambria Iron Works, Johns
town, Pa. An are light was burning dimiy,
and Bulavoski reached up with an iron bar 10
make il burn brightly, aud touching wire,
he fell dead
{ A BROKEN rail threw Monon passenger
train down a 50-foot embankment at Nichol-
son crossing Indiana. benjamin Hamburg,
Of Cincinnati and Nine. Erna Van Hockey
were killed and 20 injured, some Of them
fatally.
The pork packing house Of A. H. March,
at b idgeport, Montgomery county, Pa, was
wrecked by boiler explosion. Two men
were killed AMI several others injured. The
killed are John shaw, Of ConshohockeD, and
John Myers, Of bridgeport.
d. NJ. CAREY. of he construction firm Of
Paige, Carey & Co, Of New York, fell from
III" new stone bridge being built over the
Wheeling creek, at Wheeling, W. Va, and
WIS drowned. The water in the creek was
very high and the body was swept away.
CLAREscE MCKINNEY aud George w.
Michael we're drowned 10 the Su>quehsnna
River. ut Harrisburg. Pa. With Louis y.
Shindier they were out in a small boat catch
ing logs brought down blythe high water, when
their boat was overturned. Shinder WAS the
only one Of the three rescued.