Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-07-09
ACCIDENTS.

Coon Campbell had his hand badly
cut by an electric fan. Sunday.
William Snyder had the ends of two
fingers sawed off at the car works.
DIR. Atwell had the skin of his neck
cut by the wadding from toy pistol on
the 4tb.
Mrs. Mary Nanny of Water street
was bitten in the face by a horse last
Sunday.
A young woman of s. Main st. acci-
IDENTIFY shot policeman Hoover in the
leg, the other night.
A young SON of Albert smith of Sum
init township had his elbow broken by
falling from cherry tree.
Three boys named Critchlow of near
Renfrew were thrown from their buggy
by a run-off on the 4th. and one was
badly hurt.
A son of VIM. Knowles of Penn twp,
cut an artery in his wrist last Saturday,
and boy who was visiting them was
kicked by horse.
Joseph Lindsey fell from hay left at
his place on the Freeport road last week
and broke two ribs. Two years ago he
fell from a cherry tree and broke an
arm.
The houses Of ]. NJ. Mckinney and j.
e. Plaisted. and shed on Geo. Henshaw s
place and the Purviance store were
struck by lightning at Petersville, June
28th.
Joe Cause, q Slav, workman at the
plate glass works. was caught between
q car on which he was riding and the
factory wall. and was very badly rolled
and crushed.
Warren Pitsley, freight conductor on
ing car at Hartstown few days ago,
missed his footing. fell under the wheels
and was cut in two.
Karl Schluchter, the tailor, and his
bicycle were struck by Q street car at
Miff1in and Main street, last Wednes-
day. The bike was knocked ont for
keeps and Karl was badly bruised.
While Robert McGarvey Of Mercer
township was helping to roof George
Morrows barn, last week, his foot-hold
gave way and he fell, feet first, dis
tance of about twenty-five feet. He
was picked up and taken home, and
though no bones were broken he was
badly hurt.
OBy the bursting of the dam at Oak
ford Park. near Jeanette, last Sunday,
about forty people were drowned, and
number are missing. Seventeen
bodies have been found. The Park was
in q valley, and the dam was above it,
and was bursted by the heavy rain.
embankment,
Among those drowned was Albert j.
Brown, q son of Nathan L. Brown of
Pittsburg. formerly Of Butler, nephew
of Mrs. Cyrus Anderson.
History repeats itself in gas explosions
as in other accidents The explosion
that wrecked Elmer Schenk's house en-
West Penn street few evenings ago,
was somewhat similar to the one that
wrecked the Goetz house twenty years
ago. In both cases the gas accumulated
in the basement or cellar. Elmer and
his family were in the sitting room OF
their house that evening, when they
smelled gas. The Welsbach lights were
burning. Elmer lit q match and applied
it to the gas pipe at the floor; the flame
followed down instantly to the gas
under the floor; the whole house-a foul
room cottage. with kitchen-was lifted
foot or two and dropped, the walls
spreading from their posts. Almost
everything in the three rooms of the
first floor was wrecked, and yet none oi
the grown people nor the two babies
were hurt.
OF ali the accidents that happened on
the Fourth the one at the corner OF
Forbes street and Oakland ave., Pitts
burg, was the most remarkable. A
large flag, over q grocery store. became
soaked by the rain, and the end of il
wrapped around an arc-light wire; then
the wind exerted such pressure upon
the flag as to snap the wire and the end
| of it fell into . pool of water on the
street. Water is as good conductor Of
electricity as is metal, and thus the
pool became death trap to any who
touched 1t. A young man who was
sheltering himself from the storm in a
doorway on one side of the street
thought he could do better on the other,
and started across; his loot went into
the water. he was instantly killed, and
nobody dared touch him-A man-whe
started with his family in a surry for
the Park, turned back on account of the
storm; as he neared the pool people
yelled at him to stop. but the noise of
the storm prevented him from hesr-
ing what they said; when the horses
feet touched the pool they fell, and the
people in the surry jumped out; four
got out on one side and were safe, three
got out on the other and were killed as
soon as their feet touched the water,
and all had to lay there till the current
WAS 6hut of.