The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-09-12
Several People Killed and Others
Injured in Mishaps In Various
Parts of the Country
Yesterday
FALLING ROCK KILLS nine
Other Fatalities Yesterday - Two
Boating Mishaps Result in Four
Drownings, and Two OuarreIs
End in Murder.

New York, Sept Mime laborers
were killed outright and ten others
were injured yesterday in the collapse
Of an over-hanging shoulder of rock
from above the western mouth of the
old Erie tunnel under Bergen hill, con-
Meeting the Erie terminal and Jersey
city with the Eries westward divi-
sions. or the known dead, four were
Americans, three are unidentified and
two were foreigners. For years the
Erie has been working at the task of
carving an open cut for passenger
trains through the solid rock of Ber-
gen hill. which in some spots Is three
hundred feet high. The cut was COM
pleted not long ago, but there still re-
mains the task of hewing a common
portal for the old tunnel and the new
cut out OF the ledge where they meet
west OF Hudson boulevard. The fall
came at that point today.
Three Fatal Automobile Accidents.
Nahant, Mass, Sept. 12.-Albert f.
Ham, thirty eight years of age of
Lowell, and Mrs. Fannie Reed of Ma
hant, were killed and Herman Steg-
man Of Jamaica, was slightly injured
when their automobile crashed into an
electric light pole here yesterday.
San Rafael, Call Sept. 12.-.Pinioned
beneath the weight of an automobile
| not ha
on the Corte MADEIRA road i'm Marin
county yesterday. Miss Florence NJ.
Pardee. aged twenty-one eldest daugh-
ter OF former Governor George c. Par
dee of California, was instantly killed.
La Crosse, Wis. Sept 12.-nfrs. r.
b. Mccoy. wife of Judge r. Il. Nc
Coy of Sparta, was killed and DIR. Carl
Beebe, Sr., Sparta, was seriously in
iured when their automobile skidded
and plunged into the La Crosse river
near West Salem last evening. The
car contained Mr.. and Mrs. Mccoy and
two children. Mr.. and Mrs. Beebe and
Harry Kurtzman. the chauffeur. The
latter was badly injured.
Two Murders in Illinois.
Springfield, ILL.,. Sept. 12.-On a
crowded North Ninth street car last
night, Ike Mcdonald, forty-five years
of age, lunch stand keeper, was shot
through the heart and killed. At least
dozen persons witnessed the killing
and saw the slayer leap from the car
and escape. Mcdonald and the man
who fired the shot were heard quarrel
ing by the conductor and the passen-
gers. Suddenly the man who was with
| Mcdonald arose walked to the rear of
the car and fired. The police hope to
find the slayer within a few hours.
Vienna, H., Sept. 12.-Thomas Sher-
idan. states attorney OF Johnson coun-
~, shot and killed Harry Thacker
here Saturday night. The trouble is
said to have been the result of criti-
cisms on the part of Sheridan of off,
cial acts of the father of young Thack-
er. The father is county commission
er. The son had called upon Sheri-
dan for a retraction of the criticisms
he is alleged TO have made I'm his pa
per In a quarrel which followed.
sheridan shot and killed the younl
man.
Four Die by Drowning.
81. Louis, Sept. IA man and I;
boy were drowned here yesterday after
noon when the ferryboat Samuel b
Virgins ran into and capsized sail
boat which they were sailing with {
companion on the Mississippi river
The dead were August Eichelburg
aged twenty-five and Charles Levison
aged nine. both of st. Louis. Thei
companion was saved.
Kankakee. Ill. Sept. 12.-whiie can
oeing in Kankakee river Saturday
, Otis Brady and William Loherma'
were drowned by the capslzing of thei
canoe.
Two Killed in Wreck.
indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 12.-Tw
!. persons were killed. two severely In
i jured and a dozen slightly hurt nea
y Brightwood. a suburb of Tndianapoii
: in the wreck Of Big Four train fror
I Louisville. carrying Kentucky ma
tional guardsmen to Fort Harrison.
The dead:
T.. c. Ike Anderson. and fireman.
Samuel Densmore. sf Indianapoli
q engineer.
W None of the soldiers were injured.
: The collision was caused by an ope
switch, the passenger train crashir
n into a special standing on the side
a track.
a Wreck Is Fatal TO Three.
4 Toledo. Ohio. Sept 12.-Three pei
: sons were killed. and three moi
J. hurt In a Hooking Valley passeng
n train wreck near I.amoyne. Ohio 4