Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-02-16

The Accidents Reported From About the
City Yesterday.
Henry Troutwine, an employe OF the
water works street force, fell yesterday
morning on Sixth street and badly hurt
his ear.
Yesterday Chas. Jones, the black
smith, of Thirty-ninth and Jacob
streets, had lever to fly up, striking
him in the face and causing a painful
injury.
August Ambrose, of Forty-eighth
street, got one of his fingers badly
crushed at the tube works yesterday
afternoon. He will be laid up for several
weeks as a result.
John Caldwell, a boy aged about
eighteen years, of Twenty-ninth street,
broke mis- leg yesterday while coasting
out the run. DR.. Fl. Wechsler, of South
ChapIine street, dressed the injury.
Albert Myers, a lad. while coasting
on Twenty-Second street last night, fell,
and apidly-moviDg coaster struck him
on the head, cutting an ugly cash. The
injury was dressed at G. Menkemeller's
drug store.
John Roby, boss of the lapp-weld
furnace, suffered an accident yesterday
which is causing him great pain. A
blast from the red-hot pipe blew out,
striking him in the face. MIR. Roby
liYes In Benwood.
Last Wednesday George Tracey,
foreman at Peter Erb's livery stable,
suffered a painful accident. A horse
stepped on his foot, severely MASKING
his toes. DIR. Billiard dressed the In
jury. Mr.. Tracey will be laid up for
some time as a result.
Yesterday, at the Riverside tube
works, Harry Teagarden, an employe,
met a painful accident. He was walk
ing a plank when he fell distance OF
about six feet striking his head on the
railroad track. The injury is very pain
full The injured man lives at Nc
Mechen.
VIM. Pfefferman, young man aged
% years, formerly Of this city, met a
most serious accident in Pittsburg
last Tuesday. The young man is steel
worker and was going to his work. He
missed the passenger train and boarded
freight. In getting from the car he
slipped and fell, and his right leg was
cut off. The young man is married and
is a brother Of Jacob Pfefferman, a
cigarmaker in Conrad Bremer's South
Side cigar factory.
A lean horse, owned by Robert Con-
well, of Twenty-sixth street, fell yes
terday in front OF John 4. Miller's cigar
store, on South Market street. The
horse was hitchsd TO wagon, which,
before the horse was gotten up, was
badly damaged. The horse was also
nurt. A big crowd collected there and
whenever the animal would be gotten
up he would proceed to fall again.
Finally barber and a druggist, by
catching the horse by the tail, with two
cigarmakers at his head, got the horse
on its feet again.
August Seller, of 1925 Wood street,
suffered most painful accident at noon
yesterday. He is an employe at the
Riverside tube works, and was seated
by the furnace. Some boys were snow
baling, and at last they began to throw
at a Polander, who did not take the
matter as a Joke. The foreigner picked
up piece of pipe foot long and hurled
it at the boys who were throwing at
him. The piece of iron missed the boys
and struck Mr.. Seller on the left side of
the head, not q half incl from the tenn
pie, cutting a deep cash two inches
long, but not injuring the skull. The
injured man was unconscious for time,
but was at last able to come to DR.. w.
E. Stathers' Office, where his injuries
were dressed.