Body Is Recovered. Bakerton, W. Va. – The body of Mrs. Kate Gross, 28, of Shenandoah Junction, W. Va., drowned December 3 while crossing the Potomac river in a rowboat, was recovered Tuesday a mile and […]
Bakerton, Md. — Amos Williams, 17, was the victim in a fatal accident where he was shot to death accidentally by a gun thot to be unloaded and being handled by three of his friends, Sunday.
LEAKY BOAT DROWNS TWO; THIRD ESCAPES.One-Arm Man Unable to Bail Fast Enough as Oarsman Pulls to Escape Sinking. Special Dispatch to The Star.MARTINSBURG, W. Va., December 4.— Mrs. Mary Gross, 40 years old, of Dargan, Md., […]
Left Leg Broken. Frank Knight, 21, of Gargon [Dargan], near Sharpsburg, who is employed at the Bakerton Cement and Lime Company, Bakerton, W. Va., had his left foot mashed and left leg broken when a hauling […]
Ralph Rankins, employed at the Bakerton quarries, experienced a severe injury today when his hand became caught in some machinery. The man was brought to the City hospital, where it was found that one finger had […]
Last Thursday night an old gray horse belonging to James Wright, colored, fell on the ice on the public road near town, and could not regain its feet, dying a few hours afterward. Later while Walter […]
GOT BY FOE PRISON, KILLED IN ACCIDENT.HAGERSTOWN, Md., May 9. — William M. Smith, recently returned from Germany, where he had been held a prisoner for two years, met an instant death in an accident at […]
Killed at the Bakerton Quarries.- William M. Smith, engineer in charge of the dinkey engine, at the limestone quarries at Bakerton, this county, was killed last Monday by a collision of the engine and a string […]
Ex-Soldier Engineer Killed in Crash.Special to The Washington Post.Hagerstown, Md., May 7.– William M. Smith, locomotive engineer at the Bakerton quarries, near Williamsport, Md., misinterpreting a signal, ran his engine into an open switch and was […]
Killed by Train in QuarriesSpecial to The Washington Post. Harpers Ferry, W. Va., May 5– William Smith, of Samples Manor, Maryland, was killed today at the quarries in Bakerton. While running a dinky engine in the […]
Amos Brosser, a boy about fifteen years old, was struck by a truck and fatally injured at the quarries near Engle’s one day last week. He was taken to the Hospital in Charles Town, but died […]
Disastrous Fire at Bakerton. The thriving town of Bakerton was the scene of another disastrous fire last Friday night, when the big store of Preston S. Millard was utterly consumed by the flames. Mr. Millard, who […]
ELEVEN BLASTS AROUND HIM.Quarry Foreman Feels As Though Barrage Had Hit Him. Winchester, Va., Nov. 25.– Howard Hetzel, a foreman at the Bakerton (W. Va.) stone quarries, feels confident he could withstand a German barrage fire […]
Finds Death in Rattlesnake Run Last Sunday afternoon Lewis Woods, a boy about 14 years of age, met with a peculiar death in Rattlesnake run, two or three miles south of Shepherdstown. The little fellow made […]
THREE DROWN IN POTOMACThey Were Crossing River When Ice Upset The Boat. Hagerstown, Md. – Jan. 24.— William Grimm, aged forty-three, his son, Raymond, twenty, and Richard Shipwe, forty, all of Dargan, Washington county, were drowned […]
LOST CROSSING RIVER. Huge Cake of Ice Sinks Skiff in Potomac. Harper’s Ferry, W. Va., Jan. 24– Three men were drowned early yesterday morning below Knott’s Island while crossing the Potomac river to their work at […]
WILL LOSE EYE. Dr. J. Nelson Osborn, the eye specialist, endeavored to save the eye of Joseph Gilbert, who was injured at the Bakerton quarries, but the optic had been too seriously injured when a piece […]
John Moore, of Sample’s Manor, who works at the Bakerton lime plant, had a trying day of it last Wednesday. He was first struck on the head by a flying stone from a blast, which caused […]
