News: Items from the Lancaster Intelligencer, May 31, 1897, Lancaster, Lancaster County, PA

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Items from the Lancaster Intelligencer, Monday, May 31, 1897


Injured While Jumping a Freight.

Harry Farmer, who lives at Lexington, in Warwick township, was badly hurt at 
Mill creek water station on the Pennsylvania railroad Sunday morning.  The young 
man was in search of work, and he wanted to go to Quakertown, Bucks county.  A 
fast freight train came along and he attempted to board it.  He is very lucky to 
be alive to-day for he slipped just as he was getting on and narrowly escaped 
being cut to pieces.  The wheels did not strike him, as he was hit by a bumper 
and knocked down an embankment twenty feet high, by the side of the train.  The 
trainmen found him and he was sent to this city.  At the county hospital it was 
found that a leg and one arm were broken and he was cut about the head, while he 
is said to be injured internally.


A SUNDAY FIRE.
A Dwelling House and its Entire
Contents Destroyed.

On Sunday afternoon the dwelling house of John Hess, in Strasburg township, on 
the road from White Oak to Strasburg, a half mile from the former place, was 
destroyed by fire.  The building was frame and almost new, having only been 
erected about a year ago.  The fire is supposed to have been caused by a 
defective flue, and it broke out in the attic near the roof about half past 2 
o'clock.  It burned so quickly that despite the efforts of the family and 
neighbors they only succeeded in getting out a part of the furniture, the 
remainder being destroyed.  The building was insured in the Chester County 
Mutual company, but the insurance will not cover the loss.