The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-11-24
.A CHAPTER Of ACCIDENTS
SLIGHT OCCURRENCES LEADING
TO FATALITIES.
Deaths That Were Not Murders-Accl-
dental Poisonings shipwrecks Gas
Suffocaton-The Fatal Hat Pin.

A young bachelor in London, SAN
guine of participating in the wealth of
a certain country uncle, invited his rich
relative to spend a week with him in
town. During dinner one evening the
nephew-quite unaware of the perilous
character of the combination-passed
Chartreuse wine and bananas to his
uncle, who partook freely of both, thus
producing a peculiarly potent poison,
which caused his death. The nephew's
deep concern turned to dismay when he
learned later that the absence of any
will shattered his hopes of fortune, and
his chagrin prompted him to perma-
turely end his existence.
A once removed French actress lost
her reason through trifling occurrence.
She was visiting an ancient chateau, in
the vicinity of Mentone, when a friend
challenged her to pass the night alone
i'm an alleged haunted chamber. She
accepted the challenge. During the night
she called for aid, and an attendant
found her in state of pitiful fright
through certain unCanny sounds she
had heard. Finally she developed a ner-
vous disorder, which eliminated in in
sanity. The ghostly visitants were rats.
| A trihing but irreparable misunder-
standing between the captain and engi-
neer of a stately steamship, some
years since. led to the loss of the YES
sci, with 400 passengers and a costly
| cargo. The ship was steering through
perlous seas, when the electric bell
sounded stop" to the engine room.
From some unexplained cause the sig
nal was taken for full speed ahead
and was so interpreted and obeyed, with
| the result that the huge vessel struck
rock and foundered.
An Italian countess, entering her
chamber one evening, with a stout still
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over a pet dog and fell PROSTATE upon
the floor the perilous pin piercing her
heart and causing instant death. The
| beartbrOken count, SuSpeCting a jeal-
Gus noble of the supposed murder shot
him dead on the street next day. The
following night the brother of the muir
dered man stabbed the count. After this
triple tragedy the true cause of the
trouble was revealed.
A German family, seven in number
lost their lives by a somewhat unique
accident. They slept in one large apart
ment. lighted by gas. Before retiring
the father hung his overCOat about the
gas burner. During the night this gar
ment slipped and fell on the tap, turn.
ing the gas on, and so suffocated the
slumbering inmates.
A faulty link in a huge hosting chair
caused one of the direst disasters of its
England. The chain was attached to {
colossal crane. and snapped at critt
cal moment, allowing some enormous
iron girders to fall upon a score OF
workmen beneath, twelve of whom los
their lives thereby.
In a Lancashire coal mine a few years
ago callOW youth ViciOusly pricked {
pony with his penknife. The wounded
animal kicked out furiouSly, OVerturn
ing and breaking several safety lamps
The naked flames fed the foul gases il
the air and created an appalling eXplo
sion. which wrought the death of over
hundred miners.
sun rays shining through a decante
of water onto the cartridge of lOade
rifle, slew a sleeping man on a lounS
near by. The innocent owner of tn
rifle was arragned for the suppose,
: crime and was sentenced to DEATH whe
the testimony of a shrewd detectiV
solved the mystery and secured his re
prieVe.
, A defect in an axle, so small as to es
! cape the scrutiny of the Vigilant plat
) layer, led to the most melancholy disas
= ter ever known in the United State:
S The fated train first caught fire, the
e left the rails and descended a steep de
clivity. In this appalling accident nor
|. than 200 lives were lost.
e A spark from a truant fire balloon
Il the neighborhood of New York one celC
s bration day drifted through the ope
door of a gunpOwder factory and creat
ed in a moment a miniature earthquake
Staying six men and wofully woundin
several others.
s. 4 popular Polish tenor singer, of OF
cratic celebrity. some years since los
: his life by eating milk scone in whiC
a careless cook had unintentionall
, dropped a brass nail. The nail cause
cancer, from which death ensued.
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