River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-17
FATAL ACCIDENTS.
Death Appe ars In Varied Forms
to Many Persons.
Pittsburgh Trolley Carries Three to
Their Destiny-Four Iowa Miners suf-
Administrations Perish in Prairie
fires-A Yawl Boat Capaizes.


P1rTsBURGH, Pa, Oct. l5.-Three per-
sons were killed outright and ten
others injured in a runaway trolley
car on the West End electric line jump
ing the track and going over an EN-
bankment at GEO o'clock Sunday night.
The victims are:
KILLED-George Rothman. aged so, furni-
ture dealer. Carnegie Pa; Fred Eeisel, aged
55. glass worker, Carnegie. Pa; unknown
woman, about 30 years n age. body taken &c
nlorgue.
ISJuRED-Mrs. Michael Foley. Pittsburgh.
b d scalp wound and internal injuries, may
die. Conductor Albert Mcclure, aged 30, Of
Pittsburgh, scalp wouni and Internal injuries
Fred W ddel motorman, ased 3D. Pittsburgh,
shoulder diSlocated Michael Foley, Pits
burgh. bad sc Up wound; James Foley aged 4
son of Michael. slightly injured; Mrs. Leach,
Pittsburgh, slight injuries: Henry Stills. aged
II. Pittsburgh leg broken; Prof Alex Phil
lips. OF Grafton. right knee lacerated ald may
have TO be ampatated; Katie Foley young
child, slightly bruised; - Baldwin, skull
fractured
The disaster occurred on the Car
negie branch of the West End electric
line, and the car left Carnegie at 6:04
o'clock. Just before the city limit is
reached there is sharp curve and hill
along the track for about a quarter OF
a mile. When the car reached tn is
poiut, the brake rod broke and
the motorman lost control. The
car dashed down the hill until il
reached Mccartney street, where there
is sharp curve. Here it jumped the
track and turned completely over,
landing in a ravine alongside of the
road The car was broken into splin-
tiers and the three persons killed we're
horribly mangled.
Miners Perish Near Story city. Ia.
WEBSTER CITY, la, Oct. l5.-Four
men were suffocated by gas ami smoke
in a coal mine "a miles from Story
City Saturday night at 6 o'clock. The
dead are: Albert Peterson, Alexander
Eastman, Inc Ingeson and George
Payne.
The men were in the mine just at
closing time. The engineer had built
"a big fire in the furnace which hoists
the cage and left for his supper. While
he was gone the timber adjacent to the
furnace caupht fire, and the
flames reached the cable attached
to the cage. When the engi-
neer returned he attempted to
hoist the cage with the men, but the
cable broke and they fell TO the bot
tom of the shaft The fall was not
over feet and they were uninjured.
The mine was filing with smoke from
the burning wood, and there was no
other mode of egress for them.
Death by Fire.
WINNIPEG, Man, Oct. Is. There was
loss of life and great damage to prop
ertv Saturday night in the Winnipeg
district by prairie fires. The
fire started about o'clock in
the afternoon and spread with
cyclonic rapidity, destroying hay
stacks and dwellings At Elm Creek
station Foreman Thomas Hannah and
Ed Lubyan, well-known young men,
were burned TO death while fighting
the flames. At St Vital Arthur St.
German, aged IL, was burned to a
crisp and his brother fatally injured
while endeavoring to save hay stacks
on their fathers farm. At Headingly
ID. TAFT. young farmer, was caught
by the flames while driving home and
badly burned.
-Four Drowned.
BALTIMORE. Md. Oct. ia ferry
mans vawlboat in which SIX persons