The damage to the mill and machinery will
probably amount to several thousand dollars. The upheaval is supposed to
have resulted from some hydraulic pressure between the seams of rock
beneath. A panic occurred among the mill operatives at the time of the
shake-up, but nobody was hurt in the stampede from the mill.--_Boston
Transcript_, _September_ 10.
ELECTRICITY'S VICTIMS IN EUROPE.
[Illustration: Monument to Minine and Pojarsky, Russia.]
Although the greatest number of deaths from electricity have occurred in
this country--more than one hundred--of which twenty-two occurred in
this city, yet other countries have not been without such "accidents,"
as has been erroneously stated by experts in the employ of the companies
interested in the deadly high-voltage currents, and as the subjoined
list, compiled by C.F. Heinrichs, the electrical expert, shows. The list
is by no means exhaustive. Many European newspapers contain articles
advising stringent measures to stop the causes of those accidents and
the use of currents of electricity above six hundred volts.
Following is a list of victims of electricity in Europe:
In February, 1880, Mr. Bruno, the euphonium player at the Holte Theatre
in Ashton, near Birmingham, touched the conductors of a two-light
electric plant and received a shock which rendered him insensible, and
he died within forty minutes.
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