Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-07-29
TRAIN WRECKED.
Fifteen Excursionists Badly Injuy ed
Near Marietta, o.
DRUNKEN HUSBANDS CRIME.
A Storm Creates Scare at Guthrie, Ok
Two Men Drowned Suicide and Muir
Ler-A Mill boiler Explodes-Ar-
rested for MiscegenatiOi.

MARIETTA, o., July CAS- an eXcur-
sion train was returning from Zanes-
vile. O., at $3.50 last night, the trestle
work over bottom land, 81 miles from
Marietta gave way and two of the
four coaches We're precipitated to a
corn field below. The coaches were
filed with people. but by II miracle no
one was killed About 10 persons were
badly injured and all We're more or
less bruised. Miss Nellie Purdy, of
this city, was injured in the breast
and will probably die. One of the
coaches took fire and some of the pas
sengers were singed and had their
clothes burned before they could es-
cape
A DRUNKEN HUSBANDS CRIME.
ERIE, Pa, July 70. Charles Edwards
attempted to beat his. wife to death
Saturday night, Edwards was drunk
A fellow employe named William Ali
son and their employer, John Kane,
heard the woman's cries and rushed to
her assistance. When they entered
Edwards house Edwards fired with Il
revolver, the bullets taking effect in
both men. Allison died shortly after.
Kane was shot through the neck, but
NAV recover. Mrs Edwards was badly
beaten and physicians fear that she
has suffered internal injuries. Ed
wards escaped.
A SCARE AT GUTHRIE.
GUTHRIE, Ok, July a6. After very
hot weather, a terrific thunderstorm
struck this city at 4;3o yesterday after
noon, continuing necessarily until $3.50.
Ominous clouds caused hundreds to
rush to cyclone caves, but no damage
whatever has been done by the wind,
so far as can be learned. The rain
was warm and will be very beneficial
to crops, which are already beyond
danger.
| TWO YOUNG MEN DROWNED.
BRADDoCK, Pa, July 20. Two young
men, Richard Clair and James Scoon-
over, were drowned in the Mononga-
hela river at this point yesterday aft
ernoon by the upsetting of skiff in
which they, with three companions,
were crossing the river The skiff
was upset by the swell from an excur-
sion steamer, and though assistance
was promptly sent to the party, Clair
and Scoonover, who could not swim,
were drowned. Their bodies have not
as vet been recovered.
| SUICIDE AND MURDER
| UTICA, N. Y, July 26.-Dohn Phelps,
aged sS years. clerk and his wife,
aged II, were instantly killed by a
train on the West Shore railroad
about six o'clock last night. They
were seen struggling before the train
struck them and it is thought that the
man intended to cause the death of his
wife and himself. lie had been heard
to threaten her.
A MILL BOILER EXPLoDEs.
PUNxsurAwNEY Pa, July ga boil,
err explosion Saturday evening in the
lumber mill of Klipp & Kiser, at Cor
tez, killed Pete Duff and seriously in
iured ten others, The mill is badly
wrecked. A 14-foot piece of l6-foot
boiler was blown distance of 400 feet
Two hundred men will be thrown out
of work.
ARRESTED FOR INCORPORATION,
GUTHRIE, Ok, July 26-William
Bradley and wife were arrested AT
Pawnee on the charge Of miscegena
ton, Bradley being negro and his
wife white. They had been married
but two days and the arrest is the first
one under the new territorial law pro
hibiting the marriage of whites anc