The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-11-26
ADIRONDACK DEATH LIST.
Many Hunters Killed This Season in
 Spite of Increased Warnings.

Many Hunters Killed This Season in
 Spite of Increased Warnings. The season for deer hunting in the Adirondack Mountains, which closed this week, had the usual number of shooting accidents in spite of the in creased warnings to hunters to be more careful. It is not possible to give complete record of them. as many are never reported in the world outside the wilderness.
 In some instances it has been found that the man who fired the shot that killed or wounded somebody was under the influence of liquor at the time. Just to what extent intoxication figures in the shooting accidents of the Adj randacks in the course of a season is hard to determine.
 Of all the accidents the killing of Ma jor Smylle by Judge Storrs while night hunting on Grasse Pond, near Blue Mountain Lake early in September at- tracted most attention because of the prominence of the men. Another mo- table case this season was the killing by accident of woman. Mrs. Will liam Bruce of Blue Ridge was acciden- tally shot by woman friend in the town of North Hudson on October 17 and died as a result. There are many women hunters in the region annually, but this is the first accident of a seri- ous nature in which two women have figured.
 John Beecher, Jr., was accidentally hv nur cIipnad from log upon which he was stand ing and the gun was discharged as he fell
 B. J. Stackhouse. walking behind Benjamin Newport, slipped and fell. As his gun struck the ground it was discharged. The shot entered Burkett's thigh, inf1icting wound from which he died the same evening.
 One Sunday at the foot of Mount Kill bourn, near North Walpole, bullet fired from the gun of an unknown per son wounder E. c. Young and killed Fred MacKalune of Plattsburg.
 Fred Nearing, while hunting in the woods, attempted to get to the top of a stump, but fell and his gun was dis charged. He was wounded mortally
 Near Ogdensburg, Leonard Place lost his eyesight through the accidental ex- p1osion of his gun.
 Joseph O'Kassuck, aged thirteen, was killed when he attempted to draw his brothers gun through a hedge.
 John Seitz, aged seventeen, while hunting rabbits with William Welch at Van Wie's Point, received the charge from both barrels of the gun in his body and fell back dead.
 William Wall, while shooting in the woods three miles from Ogdensburg, lost his right arm, which was blown off at the shoulder by the accidental dis charge of his gun.
 George, the twelve-year-old son of l.. N. Catlin, was accidentally shot while taking a gun from skiff, The whole charge entered his side, killing l him instantly.
 William Wilber, of Newark, while ! hunting muskrats, accidentally dis charged his gun. The charge entered l his neck and killed him instantly.
 Elton Shaver set out from WatertoWn | one morning to hunt woodchucks The | first time he fired the barrel burst near | the breech and tore his left hand off at l the wrist.
 Peter Stock, farmer was shot and | mortally wounded near Garoga, Fulton Although he called out after the first shot, the hunter fired again and Stock was struck by two bullets.
 William Abrams shot and killed his brother, Fred Abrams, in mistake for deer while hunting near Piseco Lake in Hamilton county. Both were sons of Floyd Abrams, an experienced Adiron- dack guide.
 Besides these cases there have been a larger number of accidental shoot ings in which the results were less se- Special.