The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-08-23
GRIM ES
AND
CASUALTIES.

near Asbury Park, n j., on Saturday,
lifting the machine high IN the air and
throwing the occupants many feet
away. Laffargue and his wife were
killed Mrs. Charles Lurch, a friend of
the Laffargues, was also killed and her
husband so badly hurt that he will
probably die.
Plunging through a binding rain
storm at the rate of forty-hve miles an
hour, fast freight train ON the Penn
sylvania railroad crashed into slowly
moving work train at Sang Hollow,
Pa, on Sunday. killing seven and seri-
ously iDjuring seven others Of the
work train crew. Three of the latter
will probably die.
Within the shadow Of the home of his
victim, Miss Jennie Brooks, after hav-
ing been identified by her and after
Governor D. c. Hayward, who went to
the scene of the trouble, had addressed
the mob in vain, Bob Davis, negro,
was lynched at Greenwood, s. G.
Bob Etheridge, the negro who at
tackled the seven-year-old daughter OF
I. H West. a well 70 do farmer of the
Mount Vikings section of Saluda
county, S. c., was taken by the girls
father to the scene of the crime, where
he was shot to death by a mob.
As the result of battle at Butler
junction, Pa, between union and non
union miners Stef Reaway, nonun-
ionist, was fatally stabbed and Steven
Mosely is missing and Is supposed to
have been killed. Twenty-Five Others
We're more or less seriously hurt.
Another suicide was added on Mon
day to the list caused by the wreckine
of the Milwaukee Avenue State bank
when Edward Kollereb. forty five
years of age. who two months ago de
posted $3.50 in the institution, hanged
himself.
One of the most spectacular fires il
Schenectady, N. Y, in years occurred
on Thursday when the big lumber mil
of Austin Simpkins and three frame
dwelling houses were totally destroyed
The loss will reach fully $4,000.
Miss Gertrude Reynolds, a native Of
the Isle of Pines, had a narrow escape
from death on the premises of Henry
Calvert in Bloomfield, n. j., when she
fell down a seventy-ffye foot well anc
escaped with trifing injuries.
Three people We're killed and dozeI
injured in wreck on the Western
Ohio electric railway at Wapakoneta
o., on sunday The car, which was
running ut high speed, left the track OF
"A curve.
An unprecedented rainstorm that re
eo.n I'd eioudburst flooded Moxpam
Il, in a. Enable residence section OF
lgstywn Pa. on Sunday and caused
sands of dollars worth of dam
we've persons lost their lives in the
waters aDout New York on Sunday
Nlr3st Of The victims We're bathers,
.r.e persons were drowned in a
..5sp near Manhattan Beach
Burglars broke into the Greek Catho
lie church at Mayfeld. Pa, opened the
tabernacle and stole two gold chalices
and a ciborium, the three articles being
valued at about $1,000.
Abraham Horne of Boston saturated
the front of his clothing with the con
tents of two quart can of gasoline at
Somerville. Mass, and set himself on
fire He will die.
Two persons were seriously hurt al
Connellsville, Pa, during a fireworks
exhibition A spark set off ten giant
rockets. which shot into a crowd
Fourteen men were overcome by gas
at the Eliza furnace of the Jones &
Mclaughlin Steel company in Pitts
burg on Monday Three died.