Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-02-08
Record of Accidents.
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BALTIMORE. February 7.-William New
ton and 'lilghman Waters. colored labor
ers employed on the PatapscO. farm of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Halthorpe.
were knocked down and killed on the rail
road last night by Baltimore and Chic
passenger train at the foot of Vinegar
Hill, just east Of st. Denis station. New
ton was mangled IN q most horrible man.
ner and beyond recognition.
NEW York, February THE schooner
John 5. Ames, from Gloucester for New
port News, went ashore near the BellpOrt
Life-Savlng Station last night. The schOon-
er IL IN good condition aud Will probably
be fioated without damage. All on board
were rescued by the life-saver5.
NEW YORK, February 7.-Superintendent
Havens, OF the Fourth-District Life
Saving Service. Point Pleasant, reports
that the Norwegian bark Alice. Captain
jacobson. from DunkiTk December 2lst
for New York, in ballast. came ashore last
night at the Long Beach N. j. Life-Saving
Station. Before an attempt at rescue
cOuld be mnde by the life-sivers five of
the crew attempted TO land their own
boat, which was capsized In the surf and
all were drowned. The lfe-sayers finally
succeeded IN getting lifeline attached to
the bark. and by the use Of the breeches-
BUOY rescued eleven remaining members
of the crow, including the captain. The
bark's fOremast IL gone. She will pro-
baby prove a total loss.
later. One of the sailors who left the
vessel in the boat drifted ashore twenty
miles north Of the wreck and is now safe
at the lsland-Beach Life Saving Station.
Two bodies have been recovered. Two
are still missing.
PABKERsBuRG, w. Va, February The
vestibued fast train from Cincinnati for
New York on the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road jumped the track Just as Tunnel No.
was reached last night. The engine and
every car but the sleeper went on. Ine
train was going forty miles an hour and
dashed over the ties scraping the sides Of
the tunnel until II emerged from the other
side. The engineer William Myers, was
badly scalded and his fireman hurt. The
track was blockaded for twelve hours.
WAsaINGTON, ID. c., February An eX-
ploslon Of naphtha occurred at No. -
Grant Place to-day, as result OF which
Mrs. Gcsin Kant was seriously and her son
and two servants we're severely burned.
The naph ha was being used TO polish
wood work when the explosion occurred.
The fluid took Ere Immediately and en-
yeloped Mrs. Kant and one servant, who
was assisting her. in flames. The son and
t}s other servant received their burns
while attempting. the work OF rescue. The
damage 10 furniture by smoke aid water
was So. .OOO while the damage TO the house
was trIhing.
ATLANTA, Ga, February 7. - Thomas
Grammage, merchant living az Gram
mage. n suburb Of Atlanta, was instantly
killed. by passenger train tonight. He
was crossing the track near his home,
when he was struck by an incoming train.
PITrsBURG, Pa. February Last night
the big gorge of ice in the Beaver river at
Rock Point broke and IN. running out
caused much damage. At one point the
track of the Pltts5urg and Lake Erie rail
road IS washed out for over mile, while
for distance of several miles the tracks
are piled high with lee. the telegraph lines
have been carried away. and the water Is
cutting under the road-bed. All of the
many factories along the river have been
compelled TO shut down. while some Of
them have been badly damaged. The rise
at Pittsburg is twenty-three feet, but 1t
has been checked by intense cold.