Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-07-01
AN ELEVATOR FALLS
Terrific Descent of Eight Women
and One Man.
BLOODY MELEE AMONG STUDENTS.
Villagers and Burglars Fight at Falls juno
ton. O.-Father and Son Drowned In
the Illinois Kiver-Fatal ExpiO-
sion OF a Sawmill

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June PA
freight elevator in the building occu-
pied by the C. J.. Baker Tent and AVN
ing Co., at l0i West Third street, in
which We're eight women and one man,
got beyond control at the fourth floor
at 1870 last evening and went to the
bottom, 40 feet below, with great We
locity, 1t was terrific fall, yet no
one was killed outright, nor was one
OF the nine fatally injured, although
there were bones broken and spraned
tendons and serious shocks in plenty.
Stretches and cots were utilized and
the police, with the aid of the work.
men and reporters, soon had the
suffering women upstairs. They
we're conveyed to central station
in the ambulance and two patrol
wagons and the station was trans
formed into a temporary hospital
The police constituted themselves
hospital corps and soon the police sur
geons had applied dressings and the
work of removing the injured began
The accident was doubtless due to the
carelessness of Ernest Parker, the
foreman of the machne-operating
room, in which the injured women
were all employed, in not applying the
brake soon enough after the elevator
left the fourth floor and it got beyond
his control.
BLOODY MELEE AMONG STUDENTS.
CHICAGO, June pa bloody melee
on the battlements of Ryerson phys
ical laboratory, in which heads were
thumped and backs belabored, put an
abrupt end to the senior class exer-
cises at the University of Chicago.
1t was senior day, and when the
flag of that class was flung to the
breeze it was signal for several
hard battles between the defend
ers and small army of under
classmen. The flag was saved from
capture, but the face of President
James Scott Brown, of the senior class,
was badly battered in the conflict, and
Harry Coy was thrown down the stairs
of the Ryerson tower, and picked up
at the bottom with a dislocated
shoulder. Many other students were
more or less seriously hurt. An in
vestigation of the fight is to be made
by the university authorities. and stu
dents believe that it may result in the
expulsion of some of the leaders in the
conflict.
VILLAGERS AND BURGLARS FIGHT.
CLEVELAND, o., June "a. "A running
fight between villagers and burglars
occurred at Falls junction yesterday
morning The burglars broke into
the office of the Austin Powder Co. and
blew open the safe The residents
heard the explosion and, arming them
selves with shotguns, opened fire upon
them. Dozens of shots were exchanged
and the burglars finally escaped on
stolen horses. One of the burglars
was badly wounded, but escaped.
FATHER AND son DROWNED.
LAsALLE, ILL.,, June "a. August
Brechner, a coal miner, who for years
has been resident of Peru, with his
eight-year-old son, was drowned in the
Illinois river at Peru last evening.
They were in skiff loaded so heavily
with wood that the stern swamped
Both were thrown into the river and
were drowned within 50 feet of shore.
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION,
ROCKVILLE, Ind, June24. The boiler
in Ferguson & Co.'S sawmill exploded
yesterday. Scion Ferguson senior
proprietor, was instantly killed, Ed
ward Straughn fatally and Walter Fer
guson seriously injured.