Instantly Killed.W. S. Stewart, the well known livery-man, and highly esteemed resident of Harpers Ferry, while crossing the B. & O. bridge Monday afternoon, was struck by No. 5 and instantly killed. His body was hurled […]
Benjamin Curry, son-in-law of Mr. Patrick Higgins, of Keep Tryst, Md., who was employed in the B. & O. yards at Brunswick, was killed by a train there Thursday morning. — H. F. Sentinel.
W. J. Burgan, assistant supervisor of the lower division of the C. & O. Canal, at Dam No. 4, narrowly escaped being crushed to death by a sack of cement, weighing 200 pounds, falling. He was […]
Lewis Hoffman, son of Frederick Hoffman, Sample’s Manor, employed at the West Virginia ore bank, was struck by a hugh [huge] rock which fell from overhead. His leg between the knee and ankle was broken.
Fatal Railroad Accident.HARPER’S FERRY, May 18– 6 P. M.We have again to inform you of another fatal accident on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad this afternoon, near this place. A man named Jacob Greenhodge, or Greenwood, […]
FATAL ACCIDENT.– As a man named Joseph Priestly, of Harper’s Ferry, in company with several persons, were going up the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, by some misstep he was precipitated over a ravine some ten feet […]
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.– We regret to state that about five o’clock yesterday morning, while a burden engine, without any lading attached, was passing over the railroad bridge at Harper’s ferry, one of the spans of the bridge […]
A letter from Harper’s Ferry, Va., states that the new church near Jefferson’s rock was consumed by fire on the night of the 7th inst. The flames originated in a school room.
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.– Mr. James Cromwell, of Kentucky, when on his way homeward, stepped from the cars at Harper’s Ferry, on the 6th inst. and unfortunately fell from a bridge over a precipice of 15 or 20 […]
FATAL ACCIDENT. — We regret to learn, says the Baltimore Sun, that Mr. John O’Hara, a young man about twenty years of age, was killed on Tuesday evening. From what we can ascertain of the particulars, […]
A most distressing accident happened at the U. S. saw mill at Harper’s Ferry, on Friday, the 13th inst. A little girl, daughter of Mr. Grymes, had gone to the mill for the purpose of collecting […]
A horse owned by Mr. T. J. Boerley, of Harper’s Ferry, became unmanageable while being hooked to a cart on Tuesday last, and backed over a wall about 15 feet high and injured himself so badly […]
We learn that a Mr. HURLEY, a native of Ireland, fell from a scaffold, while rough-casting the front of Dr. Marmion’s house, at Harpers Ferry, and was instantly killed. We understand an accident occurred in one […]
The brig Juliet, belonging to Mr. Henry Lee, of this city [Baltimore], lying at Flanigan’s wharf, was struck, and her main mast shattered. Several persons were prostrated by the shock, but soon recovered.
Electrocuted At Plant.Hagerstown, Aug. 5. — Elmer Giffin, 27, of Samples Manor, Md., was electrocuted today when a switch at the Washington Building and Lime Company, at Bakerton, W. Va., where he was working, was accidentally […]
