The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-03
Accidental Happenings.

ed. The loss is 100000.
switchman named Bulls, employ
ed in the railroad yards at Winnipeg,
| cars.
The lubricating Oil building of the
| Atlantic Refining company in Phila-
delphia was destroyed by fire. Loss,
| $4,000. Three men were injured, one
seriously.
Three trainmen were seriously in
| iured by the explosion of a freight en-
CINE on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
railroad at Jackson yards, north of
| Terre Haute.
| Stella Dleyer, 16 years old, mes
senger of the Postal Telegraph COM
pany, was instantly killed on the Rock
Island track at Iowa City. Iowa, by be
ing run over by switch engine.
Nine men were seriously injured in
IN explosion at the Martin Iron and
Steel company's plant at Ironton.
Ohio. The explosion was caused by
gas accommodating under the iron in the
| cupola
Two men were killed and three in
sured by the explosion of a boiler on
the sand dredge Colorado, while the
boat was tied to the wharf at the foot
of Market street.
In a head-on collision between a
passenger train and switch engine
in the yards at Pittsburg, Kan, ten
people were injured, none fatally, and
both engines and mail and baggage
car wrecked
Henry L. Taylor, coloreu, employed
as rubber at the Alhambra Hot
Springs, fifteen miles south of Helena,
Mont, fell into the plunge while in
toXicated and drowned before assist
ance arrived.
Patrick McGrath of Chestorton,
while apparently under the influence
of liquor. boarded an engine at Ham
mond, Ind, opened the throttle, and
ran into work train, injuring four
men. He was arrested.
While wrecking crew was engaged
clearing the track near Fort William.
Man., after the wreck caused by tail
end collision, a train ran into the
turned switch. The caboose was
smashed and brakeman Fred Arm
| strong was killed.
Word comes from Humboldt. sask.,
of a sad accident. An eight-year-old
boy named Bonnie, picked up a gun
his father had left loaded on returning
from hunting and pointed the weapon
at his mother. 1t was discharged, kill
ing her instantly.
Fearlessly responding to a dare of
a party of girl friends to climb the
iron-spiked steps of an electric light
pole at Petersburg. H., wAile return
ing from social affair, Miss Florence
Morner touched her hand to live
wire and was hurled to the pavement
below, breaking her back. She died
few hours later.
Losing his balance as he was about
to board west-bound train which was
approaching the Fifty-second street
station of the Pennsylvania railroad
in Philadelphia, B. Frank Clyde, vice
T..
Steamship, and millionaire clubman,
was dragged under the wheels of the
locomotive and instantly killed.
A passenger train of several coach
es was snowbound for a day on the
Montana railroad. according to adj
vices received from Harlowtown,
Mont. An immense drift of Snow was
encountered between Harlowton and
CARMEL, and an effort to dash through
resulted in the train getting stuck so
badly that it required twelve hours
work of a large force of shovelers to
free the cars.
General.
The strike of the job printers in
Utica, N. Y, has ended. The employ
ers have acceded to the mems de-
mands.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., has been
made a member of the Douglas Ath-
letic club, a well-known boxing or
ganization at Harvard.
DR.. Edward Martin, director of the
department of public health and chart
ties of Philadelphia, sent his resigna-
ton to Mayor Weaver. The position
paid $4,000 year.
Samuel Subtitle, chief Of the bureau
of street cleaning of Philadelphia, has
resigned his $4,000 position and Sam
uel B. McHaffey. his chief clerk, also
resigned. The designations are due
to the strained political conditions in
the city.
While engaged in cutting timber,
NJ. H. Low, aged Is, living at Hesel,
Chippewa county, Mich, was instant
ly killed by falling tree. 1t was the
third similar fatality in the upper pc
ninsua within week. The other VIC
Tins were John Schriber of Harbor
Beech, killed in Luce county, and
Mrs. B. c. Bartlett of Daggett. killed
in Menominee county.
Passengers on the Red STIR liner
Finland, which docked at New York
last week, were witnesses of q most
pathetic sight during the trip, when
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