Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-10-17
FATAL ACCIDENTS.
Death Appe ars IN Varied Forms
to Many Persons.
A Pittsburgh Trolley Carries Three to
Their Destiny-FOur Iowa Miners Suf-
located Canadians Perish In Prairie
F'ires-A Yawl Boat Capsizes.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. Ii Three per-
sons swere killed outright and ten
others injured in runaway trolley
car on the West End electric line jump
ing the track and going over an ems
bankment at 600 o'clock Sunday night.
The victims are:
KILLED-George Rothman, aged 50, furni-s
ture dealer. Carnegie, Pa: Fred Heisel, aged
81, glass worker, Carnegie. Pa; unknown
woman, about 80 years OF age. body taken to
morgue
INJURED-Mrs Michael Foley, Pittsburgh
bad scalp wound and internal injuries, may
die: Conductor Albert Mcclure. aged IS, OF
Pittsburgh, scalp wound and internal injuries
Fred w: ddsl, motorman, aged 3d. Pittsburgh,
shoulder dislocated; Michael Foley, Pitts
burgh, bad scalp wound: James Foley, aged q
son of Michael, slightly injured: Mrs. Leach,
Pittsburgh, slight iniuries; Henry Suits, aged
IT, Pittsburgh, leg broken: Prof. Alex Phil
lips, of Grafton, right knee lacerated and may
have to be amputated; 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:o4
o'clock. Just before the city limit is
reached there is a sharp curve and hill
along the track for about a quarter of
a mile. When the car reached this
point, the brake rod broke and
the motorman lost control. The
car dashed down the hill until it
reached Mccartney street, where there
is a sharp curve. Here it jumped the
track and turned completely over,
landing in ravine alongside of the
road. The car was broken into splin-
tiers and the three persons killed were
horribly mangled.
Miners Perish Near Story City, Ia.
WEBSTER CRY, Ia, Oct. 15.-Four
men were suffocated by gas and smoke
in a coal mine ~ miles from Story
City Saturday night at 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 caught fire, aud 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
erty Saturday night in the Winnipeg
district by prairie fires The
fire started about 8 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
D. TAFT, a young farmer, was caught
by the flames while driving home and
badly burned.
Four Drowned
Fl BALTIMORE, Md, Oct. IA ferry
mans yawlboat in which SIX persons
were crossing the eastern branch of
the Patapsco river Sunday was cap
sized and four of its occupants were
drowned. The accident was witnessed
by hundreds of people who lined either
side of Spring gardens, and several
boats Immediately put off to the res
cue. One of the unfortunates was
found clinging to the overturned boat,
and another had managed to keep him
self afloat by the aid of an oar. The
other four had sunk. The bodies were
recovered.