Run Down By No. 8 A cooper named Grimm who worked at the lime Kiln’s at Bakerton, was struck and instantly killed by No. 8, last Friday, on the B. & O. at a point about […]
Fell Asleep on Track and Killed Clarence Colvin, a B. & O. Brakeman, Struck by No. 4 at Flagg’s Crossing Sunday Morning. Clarence P. Colvin, aged 30 years of age, a Baltimore and Ohio freight brakeman […]
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 […]
HOUSEWORTH. Mr. Smith Houseworth, one of Martinsurg’s most venerable citizens was instantly killed at Bakerton on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad on Wednesday last about 2 o’clock. Mr. Houseworth had been on a visit to friends […]
KILLED BY FALLING ROCK.Thomas Delany Meets a Tragic Death at Bakerton. While at work at the Bakerton stone quarry, on the West Virginia side of the Potomac river, about eight miles below Sharpsburg, Thomas Delaney, a […]
Fell from Train.Wm. Huff, a young man about twenty-five years of age, residing at Bakerton, Jefferson county, fell from freight train No. 98 about a mile this side of Kearneysville Sunday morning and sustained painful injuries. […]
CHARLES TOWN, Aug. 2 (AP).– A dynamite explosion, which witnesses said may have been caused by static electricity, killed one man and injured three others in the quarries of the Washington Building Lime company at Bakerton. […]
Double funeral services for Terry Lee Gifft, 10, and his cousin, Wallace Eugene Gray, 14, of near Bakerton, who drowned Wednesday in a quarry near Harpers Ferry, will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the […]
A train of empty cars, in charge of conductor Rodrick, with John McAbee engineer, Charles Rosenberg fireman, and William Caton brakesman, was thrown from the track near Edinburg, on the Valley Branch of the B. & […]
KILLED.– An unmarried Irish woman, named Caton, was run over by a train on the O. A. & M. R. R., near Timberville, in Shenandoah county, a few days ago, and killed.
Engine No. 215, of an east-bound stock train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, ran into a coal train at Watersville at 1:30 on Wednesday. The train in front had broken loose, leaving eight hoppers on […]
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.– On Friday last, Laurence Boyl, a native of Ireland, and laborer upon the bridge now being built by Mr. Dunn, on the line of the Rail road, about four miles east of town, was […]
FATAL ACCIDENT.– We learn that whilst Mr. Thomas Hand was engaged in blowing rock upon the County road, near the residence of Mr. James V. Moore, near Leetown, on Thursday, says the Shepherdstown Register, he was […]
Fatal Accident — We learn from the Frederick Examiner, that an accident occurred on the line of the Rail road near the Monococy, on Saturday last, which resulted in the death of the individual who was […]
Mr. James Doody, who left Martinsburg January 1st for Pittsburg, was accidentally killed by being run over by an engine in the yard of the Connellsville & Pittsburg Railroad, at Pittsburg, on last Monday night.
An accident occurred at Harpers-Ferry, on Monday morning last.–Just as a salute was fired, a small boy, a son of Mr James Copeland, ran across in front of the cannon, and had the left side of […]
We live in an explosive age, and that’s the truth on’t. A short time since a grindstone burst at Harper’s Ferry; the Administration lately blew up at Washington, as the Calhounians have it, and now we […]
