Strange Railroad Accident.

New York, 1895

James Brice, of New York, was thrown through the window of a Long Island railroad car at Freeport Monday morning by the sudden stoppage of the train. His head and one arm went through the window and an artery in his wrist was severed. His stiff hat protected his head. His wrist bled very freely and he became so weak that he left the train and was taken to Dr. Hutcheson, who sewed up his wound.


Blinded by Mortar.

James O'Donnell, of Flushing, a mason, will probably lose his eyesight. O'Donnell was employed on the new factory of the Kleinert rubber works, at College Point. An Italian laborer, on the top of the building, accidently dropped a quantity of hot mortar. O'Donnell was looking up at the time. The mortar struck him in the face, filling both eyes.


Drowned in Hunter's Point Canal.

While unloading hay from a boat in the Hunter's Point canal, Thursday afternoon, William Misch, 20 years old, of Brooklyn, fell into the canal and was drowned in two feet of water. The unfortunate young man fell head first and his head became fastened in the muddy bottom of the canal.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 31, 1895, p. 1.