Iowa Old Press
Burlington Weekly Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines co. Iowa
March 9, 1861
Iowa News
SERIOUS ACCIDENT- We regret to be compelled to chronicle the occurrence of a very serious accident at the close of the entertainment given at the Court House, last Friday evening. Mrs. Geo. Reeves, while going down the stairs leading from the court room to the first floor, slipped and fell a considerable distance, bruising and cutting her head, and otherwise seriously though not dangerously injuring her. She was picked up insensible and taken home, where her wounds were dressed and she is now doing as well as could be expected; but it will be some days before she will fully recover. There is no railing at the sides of the stairs, which are winding, and to this deficiency, to some extent, we think this accident attributable. The contractors should never have left so important, and so small a piece of work unfinished; and we hope before another similar gathering is held in the court room this defect will be remedied. --Fort Dodge Republican.
FATAL ACCIDENT- Yesterday a little after noon while engaged in oiling the bolting gear in Burrow's mill, a German operative named Phillip Zwirngiebul got accidentally caught between two bevel wheels at the thigh, and drawn in, smashing it in the most horrible manner, stopping the machinery and causing death in a few moments. His arm was broken in two places, and his body considerably bruised. He was 50 years of age, was an honest, industrious man and leaves a family, who reside in the lower part of town. Coroner Baker viewed the corpse after it was sent home to the bereaved family.-- Davenport Democrat.
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. Singular as it is, it is nevertheless true that on the 22d inst. the lightning struck the stable of Mr. John Croskey, who lives about two miles east of Tipton, and would have burnt the stable and much other property has it not been for the very heavy rain that immediately followed, enabling the family to get water handy and in abundance.- As it was, it was narrow escape from a destructive conflagration.-- Tipton Advertiser.
FIRE. We understand that the store of Mr. Wiehe, at Calmer, was consumed by fire on Saturday night, the 9th inst. and nearly its entire contents consumed. Some 400 bushels of wheat were also consumed.
A COWARDLY ASSAULT. Mr. Samuel Bradford of this city, while returning home, last Saturday afternoon, from his work on the other side of the river, and was attacked by a party of ruffians and females connected with the bawdy house opposite this place, and, had it not been for the interference of other parties, would have probably been murdered. Mr. B. informs us that he received a severe cut on the head from an ax in the hands of that notorious villain, Sol. White, and, also one in the arm from a dagger held by a female. The only excuse made for this dastardly act was that he shot a hog belonging to the establishment. This, however, they know to be false.--Muscatine Journal.