Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1905-08-04
Wrecke1 Rail Mill.

Cumberland Md, Juy 25.-The
large fly wheel Of the big Corli.s ell
CINE IN the plant of the Maryland Rail
Mil. in South Cumberland, burst into
a h ousan pieces and ~ result the
plant is very badly damaged, one m ~
is dead from his injaries, and ten others
are seriously injured aud lying III hos
pital+.
A number of ether work men are
Il shtlv cut aud bruised.
1'he des rdciiun of the burst wheel
was most wides Jread. The lower half
Of the ID H. tie mil beiug three hun
bred feet long ani one hundred feet
wide, was co npletely demolished and
the valua0le ichinery, cbasis ing of
the engine roll furnaces, pumps
boilers, etc., were either badly dam
aged or totally destroyed. Tie huge
steel fran :, which Imported the of
and side, was twisted in slmost every
conceivable shape. The of md sides
fell IN, ana the Interior of the mill was
in a s1apel ess mass OF steal 81 ,eting
iron girders and braces, heavy timber
and machinery.
Tue large piece Of fly wheel which
tore through t. girders, WAS carried
f,r several hundred feet and finally
fell OH pil of old rails in the rear OF
the establishment 1t had been care
fully examined just previous to fine &C
cident and pronounced fiawless. AT he
time OF the accident it was making los
revolutions minute.
Five persons were killed at the Park
way Baths. at Brighton Beach, and
one at Gravesend Bay, ~ lightning,
during thund er storm that passed
over Coney Island last Sunday. The
five men at Parkway Baths were kill
ed in the sight or 5000 people who
were in bathing. or had taken refuge
rom tbs storm, in the restaurants
nearby.
A good deal has been written re-
Gently ofthe varied and va liable pro
ducts of Berkeley Countg. Mr.. J. H.
Blondell has reported new one.
An enquiring stranger asked him
few days ago, what they raised in
the conny. He said almost every
hing sometime they raise a good
deal of IL, especi.ly on the 4th OF
July.
Miss Emma Thatcher, a d aughter
of the late Brannon Thatcher, died at
her home in Winchester, Va, last
Saturday night, s.ter long illness,
aged about 50 years. She leaves three
sisters, Mrs S. r. Wells. of San An
tonic Texas; Misses Ella and Flora
Thatcher. and one brother Miller
Thatcher, OF Winchester. The deceast d
was a relative of the Thatchers
this county.
Mr.. ! c. Siler, of near Jones Spring
who has been studying for the minis
try at theolog ical seminary at Rich
mond, is on 2 short visit to his rela
tives and friends in this county and
city. He is supplying the pulpit for
Presby terrain congregation, near
Richm ond, during the vacation of the
seminary.
Col. TDm has presented w. E
Patterson the chairman of the Tucker
county de III cratic committee, with
handsome gold watch, for the largest
pains at the election June 9th. The
democratic gain was $40. This was
in accordance with a promise that
Col. Davis made, during the cam
paigu, of watch TO the chairman Of
the County committee 81 owing
the largest democratic gains.
The Lutheran Sunday school is
planning for picnic, at Inwood Park
during the month of August, but the
date has not been definitely settled.
The immigration of foreigners into
this country within the last22 month
was the largest that has ever beer
KIN Dwn, in the history of the country.
The number amounted to I OPP All,
which is more than the entire four
years of I89498 OF these, much the
largest number came from Hungary,
II ext Italy and third Russia, these
thre- berg the principal sources of
this enormous influx of population.
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