Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-05-17
THE CASUALTY RECORD.
The Accidents Reported From About the
City Yesterday.

Last Tuesday Nicholas Zimmers, boss
of the Koehulue coal mine, in Atna-
Vile, had one of the narrowest escapes
from being killed. As II was, he was
badly bruised, and in other ways hurt.
Mr.. Zimmers lives in the upper end Of
Bridgeport, and started TO walk up the
Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad toward
Ftnavlle. He was near the platform
at the lower end of Htnaville, and did
not see the rapidly approaching yard
engine. The engineer, thinking the
old man would get from the tracks, did
not foot his whistle until he was very
near him. The old gentleman was then
unable TO step from the tracks, and was
hit by the engine. How he escaped is
the mystery. He was knocked down
and fell Just beside the track. So close
was his call that the hat on his head
was run over by the engine wheels.
When the cars the engine was shifting
were passing above him he went to
raise his head and he got bad bruise
On the scalp from contact with the
car wheel frame. People ran TO his as
sistance and lifted him from his posi-
ton. The old man was terribly scared,
but is not seriously injured.
Last Tuesday evening Blackburn, the
son OF Coroner j. w. Schulze, OF the
South Side, had very narrow escape
from being drowned. The boy, aged
twelve years. was at the LaBelle land
ing, standing on a boat A boy in the
| boat showed pole out on purpose and
struck Young Schultze, knocking him
into the river. Had he not been good
swimmer he must have drowned, as the
water was deep. 1t is only for the rea-
son of the respect the Squire has for
the parents OF the boy who did the act
that he does not prosecute.
Frank, the four-year-old son OF
Andrew Morris, Of Forty-fifth street,
met with a painful accident yesterday
morning. The boy was playing with
clothes wringer and caught the index
| finger OF the left hand in the cogs Of
the machine. The member was badly
ground. DR.. j, w. Myers, of Forty
third street, gave the medical atten-
! ton.
A Young son OF John F. Patterson,
proprietor of the Valley Home. west OF
! Bridgeport, met with quite painful
accident yesterday morning. The lore
finger Of his right hand was caught in
! the cog wheel of q cheese cutting ma
chine. Drs. Wagner and Heinlein. OF
| Bridgeport, were called and found 1t
necessary TO amputate the finger.
Fred Vogt, one OF the best known
South Side mill men, met with very
| painful accident last Tuesday, and came
very near losing the sight OF his left
eye. He is one of the tack shearmen al
! the La Belle mill, and was Tightening
a screw when the wrench flew off, and
made an ugly cash very near his eye.
Alice Edwards OF Thirty-frst street,
met with an accident Yesterday morning.
She fell into a kettle of scaldlng water,
and was badly burned. DR.. H. Wechsler,
of South Chapline street, was called.
Last evening a buggy was hit and
! broken by a street car on South Chap
line street, near Twenty-seventh. The
owner OF the buggy was not known by
the people Of that locality.
William, the son Of John Jones, OF
Caldwel's Run, fell from fence yester-
day morning and his arm was fractured.
DR.. H. T. Ford dressed the injury.