The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-11-03
RESUME OF THE NEWS
Accidental Happenings.

Acctoentaj 0~appensU0S.
The sawmill at Kewatin, one of the
largest in Western Canada. was burn
ed. The loss is $50, 600.
A switchman named Bulls, employ
ed in the railroad yards at Winnipeg,
was crushed to death between two
cars.
The lubricating oil building of the
Atlantic Refining company in Phila-
delphia was destroyed by fire. Loss,
$50, 200. Three men were injured, one
seriously.
Three trainmen were seriously in
jured by the explosion of a freight en-
CINE on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
railroad at Jackson yards, north OF
| Terre Haute.
Stella n'eyer, 16 years old, a 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 a switch engine.
Nine men were seriously injured in
an explosion at the Martin Iron and
Steel company's plant at lronton,
Ohio. The explosion vas caused by
gas accommodating under the iron in the
cupola.
Two men were killed and three in
.ured 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 a switch engine
in the yards at Pittsburg, Kan, ten
people were injured, none fatally, and
both engines and a mail and baggage
car wrecked.
Henry l.. Taylor, coloreu, employed
as a 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 a work train. injuring four
men. He was arrested.
While a wrecking crew was engaged
clearing the track near Fort William,
Man., after the wreck caused by a tail
end collision, a train ran into the
turned switch. The eaboose 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. It was discharged, kill
ing her instantly.
FearlessIy responding to a dare of
a party of girl friends to climb the
iron-spiked steps of an electric light
pole at Petersburg, ILL.,, wAile return
ing from a social affair, Miss Florence
Morner touched her hand to a live
wire and was hurled to the pavement
below, breaking her back. She died
a few hours later.
Losing his balance as he was about
to board a west-bound train which was
approaching the Fifty-second street
station of the Pennsylvania railroad
in Philadelphia, B. Frank Clyde, vice
president of the William P. Clyde
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 ad.
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.
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