The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-10-20
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Killed Fatal Railway DISASTER II Isdi.;
80 Otner Asrtass Alshaps.
PlrTsBuRaH, Pa. Oct. Il. "A disaster
attended by loss Of life tefell . portion
Of the repub lican parade ct 7:8o Satpr-
day evening. The dead ara Henry
sAkel, aged 10 years, and Ward Runner.
aged 1a Ten others were more or less
injured. 500,
The Eleventh ward marchinR club,
with the American national band, $40
STRONG, and some other organisations,
were marching down Wylie avenue
from the hill district, en- route to the
south side where the big re-
publican parade was to take
place. When near the Town
send street crossing q street car
came down the incline with such head
way that the gripman was unable to
control it. The marching paraders
separated right and left as rapidly rs
possible, but Henry Able, Of Jacobus
alley, aged Is, who was carrying q
torch for the band, was knocked down
and crushed under the front trucks.
The car stopped. Members of the
band and of the parading club and 9TH
ers took hold of the car and just sue
ceeded in backing it of the boys man
gled but living form when another car
crashed into the living mass of
willing helpers, ground them
up against the front car and
threw them right and left. This
mishap pushed the trucks Of car 81
again upon the boy Abel and instantly
killed him. 1t also fatally injured
Ward Ruffner, member Of the
Eleventh ward marching club, and, in
addition, injured seven other men7bers.
Ruffner had both legs crushed, received
internal injuries and died at midnight.
AUBURN. Ind. Oct. IA head-end
collision occurred Saturday morning 8
miles east of this place on the Baltl-
more & Ohio railroad. Charles Hen
thorn, of Obisco, Ind, head-end
brakeman, and John tanning, fire.
man, of Garrett, both of the
west-bound train, were fatally in
jured. Engineer Jack Harrison, of
the west-bound train, had orders
to sidetrack at Inverness lie is said
to have forgotten his orders and had
just passed the Inverness switch when
the east-bound freight crashed into his
engine. The dense fog prevented
either engineer from seeing the APP
proaching train until they were within
q few rods of each other. Brakeman
Henthorn was pinned between the en-
CINE and tender for three hours, and it
was necessary to cut both feet off be-
fore he could be extricated. Fireman
Lanning's clothes caught fire and parts
of his body were burned to a crisp.
Both men will die. Thirty cars and
both engines are total wreck The
engines were driven into each other
with such force that two engines could
not pull them apart.
ST. Louis, Oct. 17.-At II o'clock
Saturday night, just after the close OF
the speaking at a political rally here,
fourteen persons were hurt, two fatal
~, by the explosion of skyrocket.
Michael Batchford, candidate for the
legislature, was struck in the right
eye by q flying missile; and Fritz Mar
quart was hit in the right temple,
skull fractured. Both will die
At the close of the meeting a fire.
works display was had. The rockets
| were fired from wooden chute, around
which the crowd was gathered. One
of the giant rockets exploded, hurting
stones and pieces of board among the
crowd with fearful force, and the effect
noted above.
SENAcA FALLS, n. Y, Oct. 17.-After
the Gleason mills closed Saturday
night force of men was set ut work
to clean out the flume and clear the
causeway. At 8 o'clock in the evening
the f1ume caved in, burying the men
who were at work. Three dead men,
George Seigfried, Michael Mansell and
Michael Conroy, have been taken out
of the pit. Patrick Martin was taken
out alive, but died few minutes later.