Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-09-05
A LIVE WIRE
CAME NEAR RESULTING IN A BAD ACCIDENT,
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
Nearly Lost an Ear-ACcidsnt to Street Jar
Broken BOnes-A Teacher IlJured-A Fire
man Takes a Header-0ther MishapS

railway wire. AS result It instantly
became heavily charged, and was
source of danger TO many persons pass
ing along the street. Home Dresseu
Beef Company wagon was driven rap
idly down street moment AFTER the
wire fell, and the driver not seeing the
dangling strip Of metal, allowed the
horse to run against II. In an instant
the horse had gone down on his knees,
and the driver, not apparently KNOWING
what was the matter, yelled at the anil
NAL and pulled it on its feet again, only
TO have 1t drop again as the electric
current passed through the auimaFs
ANATOMY. In this manner the morse
went up and down four or i've times
for although the driver saw the wire at
last he made no effort to jump from
the wagon and lead the horse away, but
contented himself with sitting still and
yelling at the horse until advised to get
down. Several men ran to the wire,
but were warned not TO touch 1t, ana
needed the warning. AS soon as the
horse was led away, he Quoted down,
and other drivers being warned by peo-
pie attracted to the spot, the street un-
der the wire was kept free until street
car No. 43 came along. This cars pas
sage caused the wire TO catch under the
trolly, and il was broken, but as the
piece hanging from the feed wire did
not fall, the danger was no less. Final
ly, after repeated efforts, the motor
man got the wire down, receiving
slight shock while doing so, and then
the crowd dispersed. The wire was very
heavily charged, and was very dan
gerous thing for time.
One of the new street cars Tor the
Bellaire, Bridgeport and Martins Ferry
line was being taken over the tracks OF
the Wheeling Street Railway Company
Yesterday, and at Twenty-sixth and
Jacob streets an accident occurred.
One of Schmubach's beer wagons was
passlng there and the car collided with
it, The car was consider ably damaged,
but the wagon only slightly. These cars
are unloaded from the railroad at Forty
eighth street, and are being transferred
to the new line across the river.
Harry Scarborough, young man OF
South Eoff street, suffered u peculiar
and very painful accident yesterday.
As a result his left ear was nearly sever
ed from his head, the member being
held by the smallest sinew. he Is
timer in the employ of Otto Auber, OF
the South Side, and was repairing
roof for Mrs. Is. Fisher, on Jacob
street, near Forty-third. He was on
scaffold twenty feet from the ground.
The structure gave way, precipitating
him to the ground, causing severe
bruises, particularly on the head. His
worst injury he received during his de-
cent from short piece OF protruding
tin. The ear caught on this tin caus-
ing him great suffering, and profuse
bleeding. BY wagon, he was hauled TO
DR.. Pipes office, where the doctor sew
ed the ear on, placing in 1t seven
stitches.
Miss Alma Mater Wilson, teacher in
the Eighth ward school, is able to at
tend 10 her duties, but is suffering from
painful injury to her hip. During
her summer vacation, spent at Viola,
she got kicked by mule, causing the
injury from which she now suffers.
Nelson Smith, living near Ford's
Crossing, met with painful accident
at his work at the Belmont mill yester-
day. He was unloading steel slabs.
when he fell from the car, spraining his
ankle and prlnfully bruising himself.
He now goes on crutches.
Fireman VIM. Boehs, of the Niagara
engine house, has become quite a BIZ
.yclist. Riding near the hose house
few evenings ago, he suffered an acct
dent. His friends say IL was a miracu-
lous escape. He was riding very rap
idly when he ran into telegraph pole,
taking q dangerous header and badly
bruising his head, but otherwise es-
Gaping injury.
The driver Of the bottle wagon of the
Pabst Brewing Company left his horse
standing in the alley at Hotfmann's
tannery yesterday afternoon, and
runaway resulted. The horse ran at a
friChtful rate of speed along Main
street and up Twenty-fourth. Clark
Stamm was standing near the Niagara
engine house, and succeeded finally In
stopping the frightened horse on Mar
ket street. The wagon was slightly
damaged.
While Frank Brown and Edward
Stanley were wrestling at Elm Grove
Yesterday afternoon Brown fell and
fractured both bones of one Of his legs
between the ankle and knee. He will
necessarily be laid up for several weeks
as result.
Butcher Hofer, Of Twenty-siXth and
Market streets, was driving his wagon
at Twenty-fourth and Main streets
Yesterday evening when one Of the
animals fell receiving very bad injuries.
The wagon was being driven around
the corner at a very rapid rate Of speed
when the horse tripped on the street
car track, cutting both the animals
nee joints open, skinning the pastern
ioin IS and cutting the valued animals
head. The animal may be permanently
crippled.
Yesterday about twelve o'clock, q
four-year-old son OF u. +. Robertson,
residing ueas the corner OF Virginia
and South Front streets, set his cloth
ing on fire while playing with matches,
and was badly burned. DR.. Baird was
summoned.
John Yochum, who works at Hasen-
auer's Manchester coal bank, had one
arm broken, yesterday morning, by be.
ing caught between a car and the side
Of the mine.
A wagon loaded with provisions for
stand on the State Fair grounds was