Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1906-10-18
ACCIDENTS.
Jos. Smith of Great Belt was cut oyer
the eve. last week. by a loose wheel.

Jos. Smith of Great Belt was cut oyer
the eye. last week, by loose wheel.
Chauncy White, Bessie freighttrain
fiaxman, was shot through the window
Of a caboose, the other day. by a sudden
stop. was badly cut and was taken TO
the Hospital.
The clothing of Mrs. John Aggas of
Centre twp. took fire. last Saturday,
while she was stirring apple and
she was seriously burned.
Six cows were killed by the morning
train on the B. r. & p. near Fenelton,
Monday.
Ed. Sweeny. an oil well engineer, was
badly scalded at well in w. Virginia,
lately.
Fred Barker of Arch St, Allegheny,
| a travelling man, walked from Butler
out the Three Degree road, Friday
night. to see the Car Works in opera
ron at night, fell over an EN- bankmenr,
broke a leg and lay there all night He
was found and taken to the Hospital,
| next morning.
Geo. Walters had some toes mangled
by saw, and John LorenZ had foot
crushed at the Car Works, Tuesday
Frank Ferguson of Mars was struck
by train and instantly killed at Gale
ry, Tuesday night
VIM. BARLEY mad foot crushed by
the fall of a steel plate, at the Car
Works Tuesday.
T. Phi,ippi, Roumanian living at
Zelienople. was knocked off the b. q u.
trestle, near Ellwood, last Saturday
night, fell eighty feet and was killed.
A remarkable accident lately hap
pened on the Valley X. K. train was
running forty miles an hour when the
engineer noticed farmer diving
across the track He applied the
emergency brake bat the train could
not be stopped before the engine struck
the wagon about midway between the
front and hind wheels, cutting 1t IN two
neatly Frank Crawford who was re-
turning to his home in Emlenton, and
who is an old time engineer, put up the
window as soon as possible after the
emergency brake was applied, and TO
his astopisnment saw the farmer and
team with the front of the wagon going
down the road at bYeak-neck speed, the
farmer not even having been knocked
from the seat. Mr.. Crawford says 1t
more like chariot race than anything
else The train was stopped and back
ed up to the scene of the accident, the
trainmen expecting TO fiud some person
killed, and were overjoyed when IN
formed that no one was even injured.
One of the hind wheels of the wagon
was on the pilot of the engine.
at Fort William, Ont, recently, one
of the most peculiar accidents which
might befall a modern grain-handllng
plant occurred when the gigantic eleva-
tor of the Ogilvie Milling Co. slid from
its foundation in the Kaministikwla
river in much the same manner as a
vessel leayes her ways on being launch
ed The structure, which cost $780,
900, was one of the tubular steel type,
60 feet wide about 100 fit long and $50 TT
high, built on concrete foundation,
which was supported by 65-foot piling
driven through clay to solid rock. The
elevator had storage capacity of 5OO,
900 bushels. and contained about 400
600 bushels 1t was built two years
ago. and was one of the most modern
grain handling plants on the continent.
it being electrically operated through
out, induction motors supplying the
blOllft pOWCI. IL 10 5CACAdliy pCliOfOu
that the defective concrete work was
the cause of the accident. The cement
foundation was 16 feet high and only 16
inches in thickness, which, it is now
claimed, was not sufficient to Withstand
the enormous weight. The foundation
gave way at one corner, and the whole
wall Immediately went to pieces, letting
the steel building slide 80 feet into the
river