Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-12-24
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES

TORNADO plss d near Summit, AI s.. A
eoiored woman and c.llJ we're HI led aud a
sumber Of persons were IN. ured.
ANDY 7 KRoxAN Philip Rarbee, who
wore in charge Of raj roai operation near
Lynn, Mass, were III lei by the explosion Of
boiler.
VIM Hopewell, eight years OF age, die OF
aydrophoba at his Others LONE in Tren-
Ion, N. }. He was bitten By dog about
aine weeks o.
HENRY HEPBURN, aged "A, a farmer OF
Paoli, Pa, was st iclsen with apoplexy while
irving alo X road. His dead body was
tound ID the bushes.
=, LARGE boiler in Swift's rolling mill, at
Newport Kentucky, exp oded. Two tramps
were lie and two woTkmep, Herman
Weis ing and George Rad were MORALLY
wounded TIE bli er house was wrecked.
The Imam coal mine, the 70 of Cum
lie land Mountain, near JAS er, len { see
caved in. tn entire side of the hull fell
bver the only entIaue. IL is thought two
tolvics guards are i'm ,ri.one |.
WrLLI,M HcSr and Geo ge Ralph. miners
IN the Westnor-lantl Mines, at G eeast urg,
Pa, were terribly b rned while removing
pi r, BY an explosion OF gas that was
forced down by tae falling of the roof.
Four gils employed in the Rip on Carpet
Mill at Kings on. n Y, were iniuiei nv
/ the fall OF cIpoia and bel Several boys,
I In spirit Of mi CHI f cought no d Of the
( rope, intending 10 ring the bell, with the
above +, suit.
! Az expl sion Of damp pow der occurred at
I Oh ems powder m H. at Laurel Run Pa,
and David Kemalia was fatally burns d.
/ Three o. her workn en- were seriously burned.
| The fire was subdued beiors it reached the
+ dly powder.
! A LARGE raft OF logs In Wolfe riv r, Ten
/ uesses, wa to u fTom its n3ooTisgS by the
swift. current. Il das ed .aia-t a nun ber
( OF shanty boats add tore them & om the
| sh IRE. c aries Wi arI WIS drowned and
two men are reporte missing.
THoa IS g. LAMAR, Of A ken, S. c.. well
known rs the owner OF the ext usiye Faolin
deposi at Da gley, S. C., was killed at
| Aiken on III mail street b. Mayor Rot ert
| A Chaffe,, The Mayor having been already
serious shot, mi the Chief Of Police,
/ Robert CASTOR, robaCly fatally wounded
by Lamar
TIE st amer Peru, a. San Francisco,
brought news that he fire in I, kio on No
We Der 18th de,irsyed nearly seven hundred
houses. S Seventeen fremen were injured
while fighting tbs coniiagration. On Novem-
Der b a portion Of limestone mine in
Nsgayamlry, Japan collapsed, killing %
miners.
The vi tim OF tn !. dynamite explosion at
(, NJ lnesvile Pa, wers. James Defraue. ed
Z "A; Dominic Walker, aged ~ and Mike
+ Parrish. agel % years. William Walker
the con rIcio was not XII led, rs was II 81
rerorte II nas been ascerI aimed ttat so
lounis Of dyna1 lie exploded.
THE surf ice Of the ground three hundred
/ wards east Of Packer colliery. No. 2 near
10 Creek Pa, began to crack, aud seseral
minute + a freight tran and a coal train
ha "a ; Il over the spo, the & oand gave
way, earring with il both traces OF the
I Lehizh Valiev K tiIroa !. Tbs cavity this
m d. Is IS f-rt deep aai ab0at ~ feet in
am ter.
4 RoBERr MEANS, OF Kenyon, Ohio, ard
Chas Ran <, o. New Yo.k Stste, two stu
+ nts at Kenyon College, a. Gambler, Ohio,
went canoeinz IN t,ic Kokosing river. The
canoe as found witt tao holes ieut in ths
/ bottom. Tie Ear h0ated over Il the shore
TIE stul- nts' over, cats were found on thu
| bank wle-e th@ir rip commenced.