Cripple Killed Near Harpers Ferry.Special to The Washington Post. Harpers Ferry, W. Va., March 2.— Passenger train No. 8 on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad struck and killed a white man named Graham this morning, just […]
Carpenter Killed by Fall.Special to The Washington Post. Harpers Ferry, W. Va., April 22.— C. A. Adams, a carpenter, from Martinsburg, while working on a scaffold at Bakerton to-day, fell and broke his neck. The body […]
MAN INSTANTLY KILLED.Former U. S. Marine Crushed to Death in a Quarry.Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., December 13.– Thomas Delaney, who was formerly in the United States marine service, was instantly killed shortly […]
Killed On Railroad Track. Special to The Washington Post. Charleston, W. Va., June 6.— Walter W. Rouzee, an employee in the cooperage shop of the Washington Building Lime Company, at Bakerton, was killed Thursday evening at […]
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 […]
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 […]
A dynamite explosion, which it is said may have been caused by static electricity, killed one man and injured three others in a quarry at Bakerton, W. Va., Monday. The dead man is Thomas P. Griffith, […]
The works of the Washington Building Lime Company, at Bakerton, Jefferson county, W. Va., were totally destroyed by fire last Sunday morning. Loss estimated at $15,000; insured for $10,000.
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 […]
The Earth Caved in on Him. A young man named Marshall, from Sharpsburg, was pretty badly hurt last Monday at the Virginia ore bank, near Bakerton, Jefferson county, W. Va. He was at work getting out […]
Thomas Boyer, of Stumptown, near Sharpsburg, was yesterday struck in the head by a large rock in the Virginia Ore mines, near Bakerton, and he is not expected to recover.
Bakerton, W. Va. – July 14. Mr and Mrs. Clay Moler, who were married in March, have built themselves a new house near Bakerton and moved into it. There will be preaching in Oak Grove school […]
Jefferson County Items.Charlestown, W. Va., May 12– Mr. Thomas Welsh, an employee of the Standard Lime and Stone Company, at Bakerton, was seriously injured by the explosion of a blast at their quarry yesterday. One arm […]
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 […]
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 […]
