Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-10-16
ouI OF Ins ORDINARY.
Issidsnt showing That Death Come. On
the Mo-t sisguisr wsy.
lsPciAI corre'p"ndsh ]


CHICAGO, oct li.-Twioc within tbs
past ten days has the telegraph told %
death caused by unprecedented acci.
dents Tho firt oocurrud In the state u
New York on railroad leading from
Buffalo Afreight car in the middle Il
q moving train was dorailed. but a. the
track was straight II bumped along ON
the ties for mile OF more. and mo- one
noticed IT, When the frst curve came.
however. IL plunged 90 the left Unfor.
tunately AZ that moment another freight
train was passing on the opposite track
In the opposite direction. and the lung
Ing car struck the locomotive cab aud
killed the fir man. The other singular
and fatal accident occurred Ia New Jor.
sey. where . bicyclist ooliidod with .
carriage at night. and the handle bar Of
hi machine was driven into his aldo.
men. causing almost instant death.
Although the first accident was un'
prccedcntod. - FAR A. ! have been able
90 learn. rail casualties somewhat simi'
lar have occurred several timos. the
most serious bsing on the Philadelphia.
Wilmington AMI Baltimore railroad q
little south ~ Northeast, Nd, On Oct
~. 1859. At the location of the accident
fact express going north met freight
going south ON double curve. Tho
door ~ ono ~ the freight cars was lOoso
and fell on the north bound track Ill.
rcctly In front ~ the flying express en-
gine Tho hugo machine was thrown
high In air. and a general smash Of the
passenger train followed Two persons
wcro mortally hurt and u others pain
fully.
Unloss you rad the dispatches that
tell ~ accidents regularly you cannot
have any adequate idea of the horribly
curious ways In which death may come.
Nearly every one will remember, how.
ever. the singular death ~ Brooklyn
clergyman few years ago. One II his
children was ailing. aud the father
wished 20 administer doso 0f medicine.
lie took the curk out u the bottle and
held IL b.twccn his teeth Then, In OF
der to amuso the little one h. threw
his heal back and laughed. drawing the
cork into his thrUat and choking. sur
gical aid was summoned at onco, but the
cork could not BE- removed, and after
two OF three days u the most intense
suffering the minister died
More singular still was the fate of
Mr. Anna Beatty % Milwauke. in
1890. A fiy - the blue bottle variety got
int her nostrils and was removed with
difficulty. leaving a strange itching.
She supposed IL would shortly disap-
pear. hut 10 persisted, and the next day
her nu,o aud throat were badly swollen.
A doctor was called, and he discovered
that her noso aud thruat were infested
with maggots. The fly had laid IT, eggs
Ina the poor woman nasal passages. She
dietl after about two weeks u awful tor
turc. a, IL Wa found impossible 10 do
anything Tor her.
Jonathan Mackcy Of Monmouth. Ills.
met death few years ago In quite ~
unusual though not - painful man
ner lie was seated on the iron seat Ofa
combined ,hrashing and traction engine,
steering the unwicldy machine over a
rough road. when one wheel ran into
deep rut. The jar detached a chain bolt.
and IL few upward, striking him In
the head. and killed him instantly.
Near Akron, o., Farmer Barnes caus-
I'll hiding burglar 90 come To hi death
In a most singular and unexpected man
ner In 1891. The farmer went to hi.
barn to do the evening "chorcs' and
noticed q movement In the hay In the
NOW. skunks hail recently troubled
him a good deal. and h. jumped % the
conclusion that the movement was
caused by one u those odOriferous ami.
mails 50 he grabbed his pitchfork and
stcalthily got close enough 20 jam the
implement into the hay where the sLunk
was supposed 90 b. The tines struck
something solid AMI stuck. Pushing the
hay aside, the farmer found that be- had
struck a negro. and that one % the
tine- had passed into the head Just b..
low the lef, eye. Inconsistencies fol.
lowed shortly and then death. Later the
negro was found to b. one who had
broken into several Akron houses and
hal been pursued by the Akron pSIcs
the night before his death.
JonS r. WnLoCGnBY.