Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-11-25
MANY CASUALTIES
FRIDAY WAS AN UNLUCKY DAY IN TRUTH
THIS WEEK.
A Long List Of Accidents Reported From
About the City and Vicinity,
Yesterday.

About 7:30 o'clock yesterday morning
there was an accident along the B. IL
o. at Forty-eighth street. John Gill
ingham, engineer of the Cannon Ball"
was taking his train South at rapid
rate OF speed. Several men operating
a hand car were coming North. The
hand car was loaded with rails, and
William Coyley and Michael Kelley sat
on the car The engine was checked
but not In time to avoid a
collision. The men on the car jumped
in time to save their lives. The hand
car was wrecked. The rails ran under
the ties and raised the tracks couple
of feet for several yards. In trying to
loosen one OF the rails it flew up and
struck Mr.. Kelley in the head, cutting
q deep cash in his head. A doctor
dressed the injury.
w. McNary, car murderer in the
Ohio River employ, met with a most
painful accident near the Riverside iron
works about three o'clock yesterday
afternoon. He was standing taking
numbers with foot on each car One
of the cars were loaded with skelp, and
had no rear enclosure next the
injured man. The train gave a sud
den jar, and the skelp slid forward,
catching and terribly crushing Mr. Nc
Nary's foot. He was held there till the
workmen sawed the end Of the car of to
release him. He was brought to this
city on an engine and medical aid called.
1t is believed an amputatiOn OF his leg
or foot will not result The Injured
man lives in North Wheeling,
A horse and buck wagon, owned by
Louis Zimmerman, the cigar dealer, OF
1892 Wood street, was being driven
near the Bellaire bridge yesterday after
noon BY Albert Zimmerman when bad
runaway occurred. The horse scared
at a train and began wild chase to.
ward McMechen. The driver lost con-
troll of the animal. AT Croyan's saloon
MIR. Zimmermaa was thrown from the
wagon and got bad cut on the head.
Barber Charles Notle caught the AMI
NAL in front of his shop. The vehicle
was wreck and the horse was badly
skinned.
James Quinn, living near the street
car barns, suffered terribly painful
accident Yesterday. He was at WORK at
the Riverside furnace. The first tap
in the morning was being run oil, and
the injured man had one foot on each
side OF running streams of molten'metal.
One foot slipped into the stream, and
the member was terribly burned clear
to his ankle. Dr. j. n. Mcdonald, of
Benwood, dressed the injury. II is now
thought it will not be necessary to am-
putate the foot. The workman will be
laid of work for long time.
Thursday evening there was a bad
runaway on Fifteenth street. Otto
Cappel, the eXpreSSman, left his horse
and buggy stand in the street. The
horse became frightened and dashed
down toward Albert Shane's meat mer-
ket. The animal ran on the pavement
and against the large plate glass in Mr..
Shane's window. Strange to say the
horse was not cut by the smashed pane.
The buggy was considerably damaged
Charles RosseI, clerk for Henry
Scbrobe, the Forty-eighth street grocer,
suffered a painful accident yesterday.
The young man was backing the deliY-
erv wagon and was about to put a stone
under the wheel. The wagon was
backed on his finger, mangling the
flesh aud tearing it most painfully.
The injury was dressed at Richards IL
McElroy's Forty-third street pharmacy.
Tho Riverside switching engine is in
q bad fix and badly broken. About
1870 O'clock yesterday heavy train OF
loaded cars was being pulled from the
tube works. Making curve, just out
side the fence, the engine jumped the
track and landed square across it. The
cars smashed against the engine badly
smashing it.
Yesterday afternoon Frank Tape,
of South Water street, was hitching up
his horse. Tue animal took fright and
ran toward the power house at fast
rate Of speed. The harness was broken
and the vehicle was badly mashed.
Charles Driehorst finally caught the
horse.
George Butler, driver at the Eighth
ward hose house, suffered painful In
Jury yesterday. He had the horses out
exercising. The lines became tangled,
and in getting from the wagon Mr..
Butler fell, badly hurting his knee. He
will be laid up for few days.
John Calavanski, a Polander, en-
bAA O hillnr