Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1893 — A HAPPY NEW YEAR. [ARTICLE]

A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Sports at Norwich, Conn., observed watch night with a prize fight. Wbil* the mill was In progress in a third B tory room of the Miantonomah hotel, a squad of police surrounded the house. Then ensued a panic—a mad, revu soilless fight on tho part of one hundrefl men to escape. Without a moment’s hesitation the wholo compnny~nplunged through the windows at the rear of tha room and amid the sounds of crashing panes of glass and splintered sashes, dove headlong t-liree stories to the ground. The hall was cleared of every man in about one minute. The air In a moment was filled with falling bodies. Sima fell on the top or carriages, three or four on tho backs ol frightened horses, others came down turning over and over In the air, and one heavy man struck a policeman on tho shouldei and boat him to the ground. Most ol them escaped dangerous injury aud they dived uwii-et horses’ bellies and without hats or overcoats tied through the country. Oils man, Echvard Walsh; weighs 203 pounds, dived head foremost through a window. Ills head struck a projecting stone and his skull was crushed in from above the temple to his lower jaw bono. He died instantly.