Attempted Rape.
Commissioners McNider and Emmons were called upon last Wednesday to render assistance to a young woman who had received severe injuries from some fiend who had attempted to violate her person. It seems that the young woman in question (no names at present) was invited to take a drive out, and she consented. After a short ride he attempted to accomplish his purpose, and was only baffled by main strength. she is now lying in a critical condition, with her person badly bruised, showing marks of violence in several places. She notified the above named gentlemen of her condition and all the circumstances connected therewith, and they immediately caused the arrest of the party that she claims is guilty of the atrocious deed. He is now in jail awaiting a preliminary examination, which will probably be had soon.
Bismarck Tri-Weekly Tribune, 8/31/1877
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Killed by Fast Mail
Last Monday night a young man by the name of Carl Sorenson was struck by the fast mail train near Towner and instantly killed. The train stopped and picked up the body which was taken to Minot. Carlson worked for Axel Gumelius, who lived a couple miles east of Towner. In walking to town he usually went along the track. Monday night a very heavy wind was blowing from the west and made it practically impossible to hear. When the mail train came along it was running at top speed and the chances are that Carlson never knew what hit him. Almost every bone in the body was broken.
Williston Graphic, 9/1/1910
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MANY HAVE DIED
Peculiar Disease Which Has Carried Off Many Russian Children
Williamsport, N.D., July 29. For some days rumors have come to this village, which is the county seat of Emmons county, that in the southern part of the county a virulent and peculiar disease is raging among the children. Dr. Muench, of the county health board, has just visited the locality. In one neighborhood he found that there had been 18 deaths of children, all among the Russo-German settlers. From reports from other parts of the Russian settlements it appears that between 40 and 50 children have died recently of some peculiar disease believed to have been imported from Russia. The disease is something like diphtheria. It begins with a sore throat, then the face swells and becomes spotted, and death is usually the result. Nearly all attached have died, and those that haven't {illeg.} sight and hearing.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 7/29/1897
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ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
E. R. Welch Creates Some Excitement By Shooting at Himself With a Shotgun Saturday Night
E. R. Welch, a young man in the earlier twenties who has been cooking at the Club restaurant, made an unsuccessful attempt at suicide Saturday night—so unsuccessful that the principal damage done was to the window in the room where the attempt was made. Unrequited or disappointed affected is given as the cause for the young man's attempt to disfigure himself with the charge from a shot gun, which he rested against his hip, pulling the trigger with his tow. His aim was poor and aside from scratching himself slightly with a few pieces of the shot, the major portion of the load passed out through the glass in the window. Welch has been rooming at Mrs. William Walton's residence and the shot alarmed the other inmates and assistance was summoned. Although he was not injured more than slightly in the attempt, Welch lay in an apparently unconscious condition, and remained so for an hour or so, until Dr. Quain by the administration of an emetic brought him to his senses. Welch was then lodged in the county jail.
It is probable the nerve of the young man failed him when it came to shuffling off the coil that he has found burdensome. He left several letters which were taken possession of by the authorities.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 6/20/1904
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COOK CAR FELL; WOMAN INJURED
SUSTAINED A FRACTURE OF THE SKULL AND BAD BURNS AS CAR TIPPED OVER
Tillie Helland, employed as a cook in the cook car with the threshing rig of Hans Peterson working twelve miles north of Williston, was badly scalded and otherwise injured last week when the car tipped over as it was being hauled along the road. The accident happened when a slanting place in the road was reached. A heavy stove fell on the woman and her skull was fractured, in addition to receiving severe scalds and burns about the arms. Others in the car at the time escaped serious injury.
She was brought to Williston and placed in the City Hospital.
Williston Graphic, 9/11/1913
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On the 27th ult., Lew Vincent, a brakeman on Conductor Law's passenger train, in passing from the express section to the mail end of the car on the outside, while near Bismarck, lost his grip and fell. The car was moving at the rate of twenty miles an hour. No one saw the fall, and Vincent had been unable to tell how it happened. It had not been discovered that any bones were broken or any internal injuries (serious) sustained. He was unconscious for some time.
Jamestown Alert, 7/4/1878
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