Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-08-03
ACCIDENTS.
Peter Eckman of Mt Chestnut cut
his foot while chopping. recently.

Peter Eckman of Mt. Chestnut cut
his foot while chopping. recently.
Harvey Evans had his right hand
badly crushed and lacerated, Friday IN
lath in his fathers machine shop
Costin McElroy went to work in
Shermans machine shop, Monday, after
his wedding trip and celebrated the day
by getting his LETT hand painfully cut
in a lath.
Lewis Kamerer Of Mercer, Pa, wa
killed on July -. last by being struck
| by the crank of a wiudlass III the engine
! house Of the Mercer Milling and Lum
1 Der Co. He was q relative to the Kan
| erer people of this town and county
Harry SPAIN. aged u years, son of
| Nicholas SPAIN of Clearfeld twp. was
| thrown from his horse and killed, Mon
day He caught the horse IN the field.
and hitched him for a ride but the
horse ran of and threw him. He was
found dead on the road
Last Sunday afternoon as Mr.. and
Mrs Daniel Markell and Mr. and Mrs.
John Helm of Evans City were ont
driving the pole of the surry broke and
the horses ran off, throwing the Occu-
pants to the ground, all escaping serious
injury except Mrs. Helm, who had
leg broken and was otherwise injured. |
The west-bound vestibuled train on
the Erie was wrecked at a point near |
Lackawaxen on the Delaware river last |
Saturday night. and the engineer and |
fireman We're killed The wreck was |
caused by a tremendous storm, which |
wrecked freight train, and then the |
TY1tn +ll vr~paaLraF /
freight.
The Watson boys of Buffalo twp. who
We're scalded by the boiler explosion.
are at home and both are doing well.
VIII was scalded from head to foot and
viii lose n great part Of his skin. Lon
was scalded from the knees down. but
he was worse hurt by the shock than by
the scaidiDg. His back was sprained
and he had to lie perfe city still for ov
er a week.
At the German Lutheran folk fest at
Maple Groye, Wednesday, a Mars boy
was struck by freight train and sus
trained fracture Of the skull and other
serious injuries. He was trying to avoid
passenger train and got in front OF the
freight After the accident he was
taken to Harmony where doctors re
l4ONtu SOME OF IDt Skull DOutS. Ills |
name is Russell Mccormick.
While Milton Blaine and Miss Nc
Williams Of Centre township. were re
tvrning in buggy from West Sunbury
Friday evening their horse scared at &
deg while going down the McDevitt hill
and commenced kicking, once striking
Mr.. Blaine on the knee. inhicting a
serious injury. The buggy was over
turned and the young people thrown
ont. The horse finally kicked itself
loose and ran away Aside from Mr..
Blaine's knee there were no serious in
luries
The Apollo Accommodation which
leaves Allegheny at $40 p. IN. was
wrecked at Herrs Station, near the
Round House, last Friday evening
The cause of the accident was a defec-
tive or unlocked switch, the one leading
into the round house. The engine and
baggage car of the train passed over in
safely, but the rear truck of the smoker
took the tracks Of the siding. and the
car was thrown upon its side and drag
ged, swapping off a telegraph pole, and
humping into locomotive. The whole
top Of the car and part of one side were
ripped off and yet nobody in it was kill
iured. Those injured were men living
in Tarentum, Apollo and other places
along the line returning home. The
train was in charge of conductor Chas.
Gray, former Butlerite who was
emong the most seriously injured.
Three men were nearly asphyxiated
by dynamite smoke at the West Win
field quarries Thursday evening, under
odd circumstances. A gang of work
men under John Taylor had put in
heavy blast at the bottom of a 40-foot
shaft. 1t was near quitting time and
they were not expected to enter the
shaft again until the next morning
when it would be clear Of the deadly
dynamite fumes. The blast did not ex-
plode right and Mr.. Taylor went down
a ladder into the shaft to see what was
wrong He was quickly overcome by
the gas and smoke The workmen be ;
came alarmed and sent for supeintend-
ent George Milliron, who went down to
rescue Taylor and was also over come
L. Anthony, a workman, then went
down and after vainly trying to sue
cor others started ont himself and was
overcome when about halfway up the
ladder and fell lighting on his head and
very severe injuries. Final
ly after the three men had been in the
hole nearly forty minutes William
Krugh went down and got them all ont
safely. Aside from a few bruises. Mill
iron and Taylor were all right the next
day but Anthony will be laid up for
some time