Rock Island Argus., 1898-07-05
ACCIDENTS ARE FEW,
Care in the Handling Of Fire
works on the
Fourth.
SEVERAL BURNED BY POWDER,

Emil Larson on the Street Railway
in Moline Yesterday Body OF Henry
Mueller. Drowned in the mississippi.
Recovered.
| Few accidents attended the celebra
tion of the Fourth of July. 1t has
been seldom that the day passed
without at least one serious mishap
resulting from the explosion of fire
works. This year there was not one
really bad accident reported. the doc
tors having little to do, because the
small boy. profiting by the experience
of others in former celebrations. kept
a safe distance from the firecracker
and the cannon.
j. j. Burgess. of Thirtieth street.
got too close to cannon when it eX-
Iploded. and the powder burned his
face quite severely.
| Sam Willis is carrying a badly in
lured nose the result. he SAYS. of an
attack by two fellows on Twentieth
street Saturday night. one of whom
he believes struck him with brass
knuckles.
Cad, son of Mr.. and Mrs. O. NJ.
Cloudas, of Eighteenth street had
one side of his face burned by explod-
ing powder.
| Roy Maxwell. Youngest son of Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Maxwell, residing at
1000 Third avenue, was badly burned
in the face and hands by an explos-
ion of powder.
A slug fired from toy cannon
lwent through a window of the home
of Mrs. Elizabeth Pausen, $40 Twen-
lty-first street, and lodged in the wall
| j. NJ. Neal, of Davenport. had his
hand badly lacerated while shooting
fireworks.
Emil LarsOn's Fate.
Emil Larson, the victim of yester-
lday's street railway accident, was %
lyears of age, and had left the house
for the first time in several weeks,
having been confined bv illness. He
Twas riding to Rock Island on the
Fourth avenue line and was stationed
on the footboard of the trailer. In
entering the switch near Fourth
street. Moline. the trailer left the
track and collided with the east bound
train. Larson being wedged between
the cars and his life crushed out in
view of large crowd of people. DR..
Beam arrived few moments after
the accident. but Larson was dead.
He was unconscious when eXtricated
from between the cars. Larson was
a paper hanger, employed by Dierolf,
Moline. He was the son of Charles
Larson.
An inquest was held today by Coro-
ner Eckhart and the jury. f. l.. East
man, Nels +. Peterson, Nels Pierce. j.
, +. Carlson, Carl G.. Goodmanson and A.
; L. Foster, returned the following ver-
dict: We find that Emil Larson
came to mis- death by a collision of
street car trailers on the Blue line OF
the Tri-City Railway company on
Fourth avenue, in the city of Moline,
said collision having been due to the
derailing of trailer No. $50 west
bound, on which deceased was riding
as passenger. The jury finds that
the death of the young man was due
to carelessness of the employees of the
east bound train. who started up the
train after knowing that an accident
had occurred
Mucllsr's Body Found.
The body of Henry Mueller, the Mo.
line young man. mention of whose
drowning was made in last night:
ARGUS. was taken from the river
! while floating along the shore of the
arsenal last evening and taken tC
Moline in the Rock Island patro
wagon. Mueller was % years old
and the son of John l.. Mueller He
fell from boat in which he anG
Charles Schneider were running trOt
line quarter of mile west of Flat
Rock, in South Moline township, Sun.
. day morning. Schroeder SAYS he
Jumped in after him and caught him
as he was disappearing the second
time. He held him with one hand
and swan with the other and shouted
for help. Mueller could not swim.
i They floated for about half mile,
when Schneider said he became ex
hansted and was obliged to let go O
Mueller in order to save himself. Ar
! inquest was held over the remains
today by Coroner Eckhart. The jury,
composed of A. I. Foster. +. l.. East
man, Nels +. Peterson. J. f. Carlson