Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1891 — COLLIDED WITH AN OIL CAR. [ARTICLE]

COLLIDED WITH AN OIL CAR.

Two Railroad Mm Meet u Horrible Death— Another Fearful y Ruined. At Fargo, N. D . an oil car sianding on a sidetrack was set in motion by a switch in 3 train and started on* a down gra e The oil car dashed on and eol- ■ licled with the engine of an incoming stock train with t*.-rrifi ■ force. In an instant the oil was ablaze, and the engine p owed through the flaming mass. Engineer J. J. Curtis, Fireman Eoige, and lirakeman J enton were instantly env loped in l ames. They all three jump d and tried t > cho flames in the grass Dodge was literally roasted to ‘ eatlp on the spot, while Curti3 died shortly afterward. Benton lost both eyes an t was otherwi e badly burned. • Scott County, Kansas, has but one physician, and he has had to give up for lack of business, the atmosphere being so pure and the people io healthy that there is not enough for him to do in a population of 1,?G0. To polisii deer horns, scrub them with a brush and sand to take off the.dirtand loose fiber, then polish with rouge and rotten stone and a cloth, and varnish with copal varnish.—Scientific American. ," Presumption is our natural and original disease.