The Washburn leader., 1909-11-05
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

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DR.. William l. Terwilliger and Rob-
ert yVelch. a real estate dealer, both
Of Erooklyn, were instantly killed and
Gilbert Rhodes, a law student of Mil
ton. n. Y, was probably fatally in
jured when an automobile in which
they were riding was struck by Il
Long Island passenger train at Lynn.
brook, L. l.
Amidst smiling jack o'lanterns ard
while making merriment for the audi.
ence during a Halloween entertain
ment at Lorctto academy at Kansas
City Miss Virginia Owen and Miss
Mamie T;srn,an, student actors, were
SO severely burned that they died
later from their injuries.
At least a score of lives were lost
when the steamer Hestia, bound from
Glasgow for Baltimore, struck a shoal
on Seal cove, in the Bay of Fundy.
Fcur of the victirrs-youny Scotch1en
were passengers and the others were
members Of the crew.
Herman Tiedt, aged thirty-four, and
his wife Emma, aged twenty-seven,
we're burned to death AMI fourteen
others were seriously burned as the
result OF an incendiary fire which de-
stroyed two three-story tenements in
New York city,
Charles G. Dickinson, who is presi-
dent of the Carnegie Trust company
and is an officer and director in tinan-
cial and railroad companies, was
thrown from his saddle horse in Cen
trail park, New York city, and serious.
ly injured.
In collision between a westbound
Immigrant train and an eastbound
freight train at Tocsin,. Ind, thirty.
FIVE immigrants-men. women and
children--@ere injured, some of them
perhaps fatally.
Nine lives were lost in fire which
practically destroyed the Citizens
Savings Bank block, the principal busi.
ness building of st. Johnsbury, VT.
Two other persons were probably IA,
tally burned.
AS the result of a terrific boiler ex-
plosicn in the power plant of the
Pabst Brewing company ct Milwaukee
one man is dead, another seriously
injured ard property worth $250,000
destroyed.
Twelve men we're killed in the
| Cambria Steel compapy's coal mine
near Johnstown, Pa, as the result of
] what is supposed to have been dyna-
mite explosion. All the dead are for
eigners.
| Five children. ull inmates of the
nursery, were incinerated in fire
which totally destroyed Shelton cot.
:agc at the Virginia synod Presby.
terian Orphans home near Lynchburg.
William Dresser, fireman, was
thrown into the ftrebox of his engine
and roasted alive in rear end col
lision in the freight yards of the New
york Central at Rochester. N. Y.
AZ total Of ninety.five lives and q
property loss Of upwards of $4,000, ,00O
II tkH toll taken by the Great Lakes
waters and reefs during the present
season of navigation uD to date.
Three children Of Henry Kissner
while playing with matches in their
fathers barn near Lehigh, Kan. set
are to the building and were burned
to death.
Orville Sullivan, q thirteen.year.old
boy Of u. bana, ILL.,, is dead from a
broken neck received on Oct. IL while
he was playing football with school
mates.
Severe earthquake shocks were felt
in Northern California. While no
livesvwere lost and. the property dam.
| age Is slight the Inhabitants were ter.
sriAed. -.
. Cadet Eugene q. Byrne, who was
injured in a football game with Har-
ward, is dead IN the Cadet hospital at
West Point.
Three vessels, the steam whaler
Olga, the tug Defiance and q barge
were lost in a storm en- Behring sen.