The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-11-17
Accidental HappenlnQ8.

ings of that body.
Accidental Happenings.
A fire in the lumber yards of Nc
Phee & McGinty at Denver destroyed
lumber and cement to the value of
$S5, 900.
Fire at Los Angeles completely de
stroyed the Bimin bath and sanitar-
ium in the west end of the city, en-
failing a loss OF $250,0OO.
One person, the engineer, was killed
and six were injured by a headon col
lision of trains on the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton & Dayton railway in the western
part of Troy.
Fire which broke out in the Ameri-
can house at Mauch Chunk, Pa, partly
destroyed that structure. Guests We're
compelled to flee in their night cloth
ing. Loss $25, 900.
Five persons were killed and sew
eral were fatally injured in a wreck
on the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western railroad about ten miles
south of Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Jacob Haugh, his wife and son Jesse,
were cremated in a fire which destroy
ed their cottage, eight miles north OF
Dayton, Ohio. Oliver Haugh, another
son, was seriously burned and vas
taken to the hospital.
The Southern Pacific south-bound
coast limited passenger train dashed
into a train of tourist cars at Santa
Margarita station, fourteen miles
north of San Luis Obispo, Cal. Nine
teen people we're hurt, several of them
seriously and two probably fatally.
William McManaway saved a spe-
cial train on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad from crashing through a
bridge over the Oakaw river at Pana,
H., and but a few minutes later fell
sixty feet while helping to repair the
structure receiving probably fatal in
%juries.
Mrs. F. Douzuk, wife of a progress
sive Galician farmer, at Valley River,
near Deuphin, Man, was found dead
at her home. The woman's death was
the result of a gunshot wound. From
what can be learned Mrs. Douzuk's
death was accidentally caused by her
youngest son, aged IL.
While running under full head OF
steam, a freight engine was blown to
atoms by the explosion of the boiler,
near Ennis, Tex. Practically the entire
train was derailed, seven of the cars
r.-- l:4al1l ,,1 ro,,o ~ @la~> x0%o1lx,
destroyed. Two men were killed and
one probably fatally injured.
General.
William Tod Otto, former district
court judge of Indiana, friend of Lin
coin, educator and author, is dead at
his home at Philadelphia, aged 80
years.
w. D. Vandiver, state superintend-
ent of insurance Of Missouri, suspend
ed the certificate Of authority of the
New York Life Insurance company to
do business in that state.
The United States army transport
Sherman sailed from San Francisco
for the Philippines with the Fifteenth
infantry and companies l and ] of the
Fourth cavalry, which are being trans
ferred from Monterey to Camp Kelley.
on the island of Mindanao.
Preliminary figures Indicate that
1000, 900 tons of iron ore were shipped
from the upper lake ports in the month
of October, bringing the total for the
season beyond $4,000, 900. Shipments
this month are expected to bring the
total for the year to 33,O00,000, which
will exceed any previous yearly rec
ord by about 5,000,0 900 tons.
In the death of Mrs. Alma Hake at
| Hanover, Pa. a nurse sacrificed her
life for her patient. She was nursing
Mrs. Albert Rodgers and her babe,
when a kerosene lamp exploded in the
bedroom. Unable to open the win
dows. the heroic nurse picked up the
burning lamp and carried it down
stairs. She was SO terribly burned
that death resulted soon afterward.
Neighbors removed the mother and
| child and saved the house.
Keyed to such a high pitch Of excite
ment after eleven hours Of work, III
der trying and exciting conditions,
that his heart gave way, Matthew
Kurtz, aged 25, Republican election In
spector of New York. died suddenly.
Kurtz was a small, slight young man,
and the work was too much for him.
At a meeting Of the chapel of print.
ers in the composing room of the Bal.
timore News ONCE. Prince Louis OF
Battenberg was elected a member, 1t
having been developed during his Wis
it to the Office Of that newspaper that
his highness learned the printing art
] when he wal q young man.