Steele Scrapbook – May 12, 1885
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Category Archives: Accidental Death!
An Actress Burned To Death
Steele Scrapbook – January 5, 1886
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The Shocking Fate of Miss Mary Bird, of the “Straight Tip” Company. CINCINNATI, Jan. 5.—Miss Mary Bird, a member of the “Straight Tip” Company, playing this week at the Grand Opera House, died to-day from the effects of burns received last night. She was about retiring at her hotel when her clothing caught fire at the grate from some inflammable substance accidentally spilled. She ran down stairs before assistance reached her, and was so horribly burned that she died to-day. |
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A Thrilling Scene
Steele Scrapbook – June 19, 1885
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AN AERONAUT FALLS FROM A BURNING BALLOON AND IS CRUSHED TO DEATH. CHARLESTON, W. Va., June 19.—Among the other attractions at the circus here to-day was a balloon ascension, and just as the ropes holding the balloon cast off a hot air stove used in inflating the balloon was overturned, causing it to catch fire. The burning balloon shot up into the air at a very rapid rate with William Patterson, an aeronaut, in the basket. When a short distance up the crowd yelled “jump,” but he did not heed the advice, and after going several hundred feet up the balloon collapsed and Patterson fell to the earth a lifeless mass of humanity. It was his first ascension. The balloon was totally consumed by fire. |
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No Food For Seven Days
Steele Scrapbook – 1892
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NO FOOD FOR SEVEN DAYS THE HORRIBLE SUFFERINGS OF A LEBANON COUNTY MAN. While Hunting on the Mountain He Falls Into a Deserted Mine 130 Feet Deep, and Lays There Seven Days Before Being Rescued—Still Alive but Life Despaired of. READING, Sept. 8.—While Clayton Klink, aged 19, a resident of Lebanon County, was hunting on the mountains one week ago he fell into a deserted mine 130 feet deep, terribly crushing both feet and sustaining other serious injuries. His friends scoured the mountain, but failed to find him until last night, when he was hoisted to the surface. He was still alive, but was unconscious and almost dead, having lain in torture at the bottom of the cold, damp mine with nothing to eat for seven days. If his life can be saved it is probable that both legs will have to be amputated. |
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Fell Into a Mine Hole.
HAZLETON, Pa., Sept.—John C. Morgan, a resident of Eckley, a small mining town near here, while walking from this place to his home last night, fell into a mine hole about forty feet deep. He managed to crawl out and was found this morning by some passers-by. He cannot survive his injuries.
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Fell 200 Feet To Death
February 1, 1892
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From the collection of The Comtesse DeSpair
The 1892 Morbid Scrapbook
Death In A Powder Mill
Steele Scrapbook – January 18, 1892
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DEATH IN A POWDER MILL. FRIGHTFUL RESULTS OF AN EXPLOSION NEAR CEREDO, WEST VIRGINIA. How the Awful Wreck Was Brought About Not Likely Ever to Be Known—Names of Some of the Killed and Injured—Damage Done for Miles Around the Place. CINCINNATTI, Jan. 18.—Special from the cities near Ceredo, W. Va, tell of terrific explosion of the Phoenix Powder Mills which was very distructive [sic] to life this morning. The Phoenix mill is situated at Central City, near Ceredo, and about half way between Huntington, W. Va., and Cattlettsburg, Ky. This is the third explosion at this mill within three months, and is by all odds the most destructive one. The last one before this happened six weeks ago and was a trifling affair. How the wreck to-day was brought about will never be known, because not a soul that was in the mill is left alive to tell the story. At half-past eight o’clock this morning people in Ironton, twenty-five miles away, heard the terrible detonating roar. In Ceredo, three miles away, windows were broken and wares in the stores were shaken from the shelves. In Cattlettsburg, nearly ten miles away, the earth shook and people were alarmed. Everybody divined the cause, and there was a rush from all directions to the scene. The local authorities organized and surrounded the ruins with a cordon of police, through which none of the thousands of spectators were permitted to pass. It has been ascertained that the first explosion was in the glazing-room, where there were ten tons of powder. Thus successively the packing-house, the magazine and the four-wheel mills, and lastly a carload of gunpowder, went hurling in the fiery fragments through the air. No vestment of the entire plant remains, and the country for half a mile is strewn with fragments of the buildings and of the bodies of five men, victims of the disaster. It is not known definitely, but at the present writing it is believed that not less than thirty-five tons of powder were burned in the several explosions. The killed are: ARCHIE LIVINGSTON, a Scotchman, who has been superintendent of the mills since they started. He was blown to atoms. Only his hand was found. ED WINTON, the architect and engineer, who built the works, was in the magazine when it exploded and strange to say his body was very little mutilated. JOHN BENTON, a workman, body horribly mangled. JOHN SCHLOSSER and CHARLES SCOTT, workmen, were both terribly mutilated. All these are either known or supposed to have been in the buildings when the explosion occurred. Robert Cook, a glazing mill hand, was approaching the glazing mill when it blew up. His clothing, hair and whiskers were burned off. He ran 200 yards to a stream and jumped in. He will not live till midnight. The seriously injured are: K.O. Reece, James Esteep and John Justice, who happened to be in the vicinity when the explosions occurred. There are no doubts but that there are many slightly injured, whose names have not been ascertained. |
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Can you imagine why anyone would want to work in such a place? 3 explosions in 3 months? I don’t like those odds!! Senselessly Stolen From Alf
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An Old Veteran’s Sad Death
February 1, 1892
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From the collection of The Comtesse DeSpair
The 1892 Morbid Scrapbook
Drowned In The Delaware
February 1, 1892
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From the collection of The Comtesse DeSpair
The 1892 Morbid Scrapbook
Fearful Death Of A Young Wife
Obituary, Norfolk, VA – June 22, 1869
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The wife of Hezekiah Greenlee, of Mason County, West Virginia, was instantly killed a few days since, under circumstances of a most distressing character. In company with her husband she was returning home by a near path through the woods from a neighbor’s where her husband had been at work during the day. They were walking hand in hand, not dreaming of any danger, when a dead tree they had just passed suddenly fell brushing the shoulder of Greenlee and striking his wife on the top of the head, crushing her to the earth so that her remains could scarcely be recognized as those of a human being. Strange to say Mr. Greenlee was not injured in the least, further than being stunned for a few moments. The evening was a calm one, and it is supposed that the tree, which was rotten at the roots, gave way from it’s own weight. Mrs. Greenlee had been married a little less than six weeks. |
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Crushed to a Shapeless Mass
Latin Reader – January 18, 1886-1890
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Crushed to a Shapeless Mass. Doylestown, Jan. 18.—Edwin Beck, aged 20 years, who has been working in the Belgian block quarry near Quakertown, was instantly killed yesterday, eight tons of rock having fallen upon him. The rock was thrown 100 feet from an adjoining quarry. Beck saw the large stone coming and started to run, but tripped, and the rock fell upon him, literally crushing his body to a shapeless mass.. |
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