Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-11-03
MANY CASUALTIES.
A LARGE NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS REPORTED
YESTERDAY,
About tho City and Su6urgs-Ds!ails Of Dozen
MishapS Mora er Less
Serious.

Serious
! Luther Irwin, a puddler at the Lower
Benwood mill, suffered most painful
accident while at his work yesterday.
He is employed at furnace No. l, which
is nearly directly under the curve Of the
coal incline. The incline is ten feet
above the furnace. A car was being
taken around the curve filed with coal
at rapid speed. For some unknown
reason, it jumped the track, falling to-
ward the puddler at work below. Mr..
Irwin narrowly escaped being crushed
to death. as he just got from under the
falling car in time to prevent this, but the
falling car struck him terrible side
ways blow, telling him to the ground.
There was a long and deep cash in his
head and his leg was badly crushed. DE
was taken to his home in Benwood, and
DR.. ]. w. Mcdonald was called in and
dressed the injuries. il was found
later, too, that his foot had been very
badly cut by the accident.
Late last night, it was reported that
Mr.. Irwin was hurt much worse than
was thought at first. His companions
stood awe struck, when they saw the
heavily laden car falling, expecting TO
see him crushed TO death beneath 1t.
| Mr.. Irwin made one Of the narrowest OF
escapes from death.
A heavy iron railroad wrench, weigh.
ing probably ten pounds, fell about ten
feet Yesterday aud struck Thomas Kel
lev, a brakeman on the head cutting a
terrible cash, inAicting most painful
wound. A Panhandle train vas on
the Terminal tracks pear Twenty-ninth
street, and the railroaders were adjust
ing something about one OF the cars.
Mr.. Kelley was on the ground, and
fellow workman was standing on the
TOD OF the car with the wrench. The
tool slipped from his fingers and de-
cended on Mr.. Keley's head. A fright
fol cash several inches long, 10 the
bone. was cut in his head. de was
carried to DR.. j. r. Manley's office
across the street, whore the injury was
dressed. The doctor considers that
Mr.. Kelley made a morrow escape from
death. The injured man lives in North
Wheeling.
Jesse Smith, a metal wheeler at the
tube works, was on an elevator at the
mill Yesterday, when 1t broke and de-
scended twenty feet with the work
man, who got painfully hurt To make
his injury worse the elevator, which
descended at frightful rate OF speed,
was filed with metal bars, several OF
which fell on Mr.. Smith, when the ma
chine struck the ground. When the
elevator struck the ground the injured
man was thrown violently forward and
his leg was painfully crushed and his
back was badly hurt He will be laid
up for sometime with the injury. The
Injured man lives near Forty-Third
street.
About 7 o'clock two buggies coIlldei
on Chapline street, below Twenty
seventh. caused considerable excite
ment. Stifel's dry goods delivery
wagon was being driven down
street, and Daniel Hickey ofthe South
Side. was driving bis horse and buggy
up the thoroughfare. When the rigs
were nearly meeting each other, Stiie's
wagon, which was being driven In the
street car tracks, was quickly pulled
from the road by 3 car rapidly APP
preaching. The rigs dashed together,
knocking Mr.. Rickey's horse down, and
breaking both vehicles considerably.
Neither driver was Injured.
Wier Sanford, OF Twentieth street,
employed at Arbenz's South Side chair
factory, caught his left hand in ma
chine at the works, yesterday afternoon,
and had four fingers terrible crushed.
1t vas at first thought his hand had
been ground off, so proiusely did the
| blood how. Mr.. Sanford was taken to
DR.. Walden's office, at 29l9 Wood
street, and the injuries were dressed,
twenty stitches being required TO sew
up the cut flesh. 1t is proba BILE the
middle finger and possibly another will
have to be amputated.
A son, aged four years, OF VIM. Scha-
fer, OF Thirty-third street, was badly
scaded last evening. A tub OF scalding
water was on the floor and the boy was
playipg beside it. The mother left the
room for a moment and returned TO find
the little fellow in the water. Evidently
he had gotten on chair and fallen from
IT, The little fellow, who was most
painfully scalded, was taken from the
water and medical aid was called. The
bows hands and feet are the most Sc
verely scalded, but he will recover from
the injuries.
Sherman Brown, a young colored
man OF Bridgeport, an emploYe OF the
Etna-Standard coal mines, while work
ing about some cars In the bank yester.
day morning, was seriously injured. He
was in some manner caught between the
cars and badly crushed. he was re-
moved to his home, where DR.. Heinlein
dressed his injuries.
Bernard Wills, young boy, was play
ing with some companions on Byron
street yesterday afternoon when ne met
with a painful accident. The lads were
having a sham battle when boy named
Hupp Mccullough struck young wills
with a stick, cutting a cash over his
eye. DR.. lie Moyne Hupp dressed the
injury.
Edward Buugardner, OF South Wood
street, met with a painful accident at
his work at the Riverside tube works
last evening. A bar Of pig metal being
thrown, struck Mr.. Bumgardner on the
leg, narrowly missing his head. His leg
is badly skinned, and he will be laid of
work as result.