Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-12
rHH ACCIDENT EEOonD.
Various Casualties Reported From About
Town Yesterday.

AOaA ACatGGuaIs
Miss Ida Downing. of the South Side,
employed At McMechen's works. had 4
finger badly mashed yesterday by let
ting o large box fall on it.
Daniel Heiskell, Of South McColloch
street. had his thumb cut of By catch
ing the member in Il machine at the
South Side tool works, last Tuesday.
Charles North, q boy Of T~hirty-sev-
enth street, wa showed over the bank
into Caldwell's Run, at Tw~enty-nlnth
street, last evening, and his arm badly
broken.
George, a son OF Thomas Robinson, OF
South WetZel street. fell from the ban
Mister al the Eighth Ward school, yes
trrday, and cut a long cash in bis head
above the eye. The boy fell a distance
OF fifteen feet aud was badly bruised in
other ways.
: The condition of John Keenen. OF
South Chapline street, stableman at the
Riverside bar mill, W ose bad accident
the REGISTER reported recently, is very
critical. Last Tuesday night he be-
came Gelirious aud it Was thought the
old gentleman would die.
George Hage, of East Wheeling,
caught his finger In a machine at the
Whitaker mill last Tuesday and the
member was badly torn. He is of work
as o result. On the same day there was
another accident at the mill, John
Stanley, OF Sixteenth street, having
his finger cut of By catching 1t in a
machine.
About one o'clock this morning,
Philip Dobbs, OF South Main street, was
seriously burned by a gasoline explo-
sion at his home. His right shoulder
and both hands were terribly burned.
His Injuries were dressed al George II.
Ebeling's S0uth Side pharmacy, and II
was not then known how serious his
injuries would prove.
j. Sadler, employed at Hugo Lsos'
cigar factory, fell from q street car at
Thirty-seventh street a few days ago
and had his wrist sprained, and his eve
badly bruised. He is laid of work SIS a
result, and will endeavor to get the
company to make good his loss OF time,
as be claims he wasn't given sufficient
time to get from the car.
Andrew White, OF the Island, got a
bad fall at Tenth and Main streets
Yesterday. BE was riding toward the
Suspension bridge in q wagon. Another
wagon collided with the vehicle In
which Mr.. White rode and be was
thrown out with great force on his
back with his head under the wheels.
Fortunately he was little injured.
A girl five years old, q daughter OF
August Schultze, Of Thirty-eighth
street, suffered a painful accident late
last evening. The child was playing In
her fathers yard, when she stepped on
a sharp piece OF glass and 1t penetrated
deep into her ankle, severlng a blood
vessel and cutting a cash three inches
long. DR.. Ford dressed the injury.
John McCAllister, OF the New York
Theater Company, was accidentally
shot In the face with q blank cartridge
during the performance at the Grand
Opera House, last night DR.. Joseph
Karl, who is a member OF the company,
extracted the powder. The operation
was a difficult and painful one, but Mr..
McCallister will be able to appear In the
part OF Squire Rodney, In Hazel
Kirke," tonight.
Antony Monohap, Frank Bowers,
Henry Michael and WIN. Platt, we'll
known young men OF this city, went to
the country yesterday to hunt squirrels.
Platt saw q squirrel up a tree, and
climbed to q distance Of fifteen feet
to get the animal in better view. Mr..
Michael was following and he had got
ten q distance OF ten feet from the
ground when Plat fell, striking Mr..
Michael. and both fell tosthe ground,
getting a terrible jar. Both men were
tadly bruised, but no bones were bro
ken.