Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-03-01
AND ACCIDENTS.

The loss by the burning or the Valley
worsted mill, at North Providence, r. l., on
Friday night the I'd, was between $500, 900
and 100000, with an insurance of $780,
coo. The mill, which was run night and
day, employed about 600 hands in the ma
nufacture of hoods, breakfast shawls, SON.
tags, etc., and when the fire occurred ter
rible panic prevailed among the 200 opera
tives in the mill, very many of whom were
females, and as the watchman refused at
first to open the doors, they leaped from the
second and third story window to save them
selves from death by flame or sutfocation.
In jumping from the windows, many limbs
were fractured, and other serious injuries
inflicted There are rumors that some did
not escape, butperished in the burning mill.
At party at town of Avoca, five miles
from Russelville, Ala, thirteen persons, out
of a party of thirty, were fatally poisoned
from drinking whiskey which, it is sup
posed, had been drugged.
East st. Louis is o delectable locality.
Within the last ten days seven men have
been waylaid and robbed there and there.
abouts, one has been murdered, three seri-
ously wounded, and full complement of
minor crimes has been committed
n Ial1TOdQ trdlu tUFUuSu IL TOIteu
bridge near Bloomfield, N. j., on the 9th,
and several cars were completely shattered.
One person was killed and six severely in
jured.
Mrs. Torrance, wife Of Mr.. William Tor
rance, of Christian county, H., committed
suicide on Monday night last by, hanging
herself with rope, in an clubhouse. Mrs.
Torrance has been an inmate. of the insane
asylum at Jacksonville for several years
past and was sent home as incurable, a
short time since, in obedience to an order
issued by the authorities of that institution.
A sensation was created in an Episcopal
church in Rochester on Wednesday by the
sudden death of lady during the reading
Of the psalter and while the words,
g Though walk through the valley Of the
shadow Of death / will fear no evil " were
being repeated. 5s F9'9 @
1t is rumored that Lucius Polk and Capt.
Wildwood, of the Spottswood hotel, Rich
mond, who had an alteration the other
night, met on the 5th and exchanged shots.
Capt. Wildwood was wounded in the stom-
ach.
A confagration in Joliet, early on the It'll,
consumed the large ssMasonic Hall and
an adjoining building, Several stores, the
Republican printing office, and the hall of
the Masonic fraternity are included in the
ruins. Total loss, $75 200. <o4e~@
Almost at the same hour the Baptist
Church at La Crosse, Wis, was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000. And a confagra-
ton at Memphis, Tenn, consumed seven
business buildings Total loss, $2O0,0G0.
By the explosion of a boiler in mill at
Petersburg, Va, on the I'd, four persons
were killed and ten wounded. 4.rsla
A strange succession of steamboat disast-
ers has taken place of late (. Besides the
narrowing casualties which befell the Mis-
souri,, Miami and the Carter, we hear of
several more. The steamer American, while
bound up the Arkansas river, few days
| since, exploded one of her boilers, between
Lewisburg and VanBuren.J We have no
particulars relative to the loss of life. The
American did not have tubular boilers. The
Dora Martin, from Shreveport, bound for
New Orleans, snagged and sunk in Red
| river, with six hundred bales of cotton on
board, on the 10th ult. The boat is total
loss, but the principal part of the cargo can
/ be saved. The steamer Victoria, with one
| hundred bales Of cotton, was also sunk in
Bayou D'Arbonne, few days since. No
l.articulars.
The Richland (Wis.) Observer notes the
! death of young man named Darius Bible,
% years old, from the kick Of vicious
horse Mr.. B. was drawing logs, and in
was gol hill his horses baked He stood
I behind them and commenced whipping
4 them, when one of them kicked and struck
him directly in the forehead. He lived only
about two days hereafter -
The steamer W. R. Carter exploded her
boilers thirty-fve miles above Vicksburg, at
o'clock Friday morning. The boilers pas
sed forward of the pilot house, tearing away
the forward part >of the cabin After the
explosion the boat took fire, and continued
4 to burn till O'Clock, compelling all who
had escaped death by the explosion to jump
into the river. The boat soon after went
down. The steamer Evening Star picked
up all survivors floating in the water, and
carried them to, Vicksburg. There were
two hundred passengers aboard the Carter.
A hundred and twenty five were lost, at the
lowest estimate. Il s.. 4 E}{ " Z
A little four year old son Of Mr. Reeves
of Middletown, Ct, fell into well 40 feet
deep. An older brother gave the alarm
and gentleman who was passing lowered
thO DuOhOG duO QIGW tuG Cullu up
save good scare and cold bath.
| A small boy in Fond du Lac, Wis, lately
IN attempting to jump ON pedler,s sleigh
missed his footing and fell forward under
the runners. His injuries are serious, and
perhaps fatal.
On Sunday, 28th ult., the up train on. the
Mobile and Ohio railroad collided with 8
down dirt train, near Purdy. The up train
was loaded with soldiers of the 47th Illinois
volunteers, on their way home. Three were
killed and fourteen wounded. The engineer
of the dirt train, who is said to have been
intoxicated and grossly. at fault, was also
seriously injured. ~ da4Tra e1e
A little girl, six years old, daughter Of
MIR. Alvin NJ Fisk of Baraboo, Wis, had
been left by her mother at a neighbor's
where they were at the time engaged in
making an ointment, composed in part q
| quicksilver and some yirulett poison. These
ingredients were in cup, and were swal
lowed by the child during a temporary alb
sence of the members of the family from the
| rom. She lived only some twenty minutes
after imbibing the poison.
The Freeport, H., Northwest says that g
little girl, named Hazard, in that city, frozt
both her feet short time since while spend
ing her &C incoming" at school one cold day
in the yard, she living at an inconvenien
distance from the school-house, and not be
ing permitted to occupy the school-roon
during the intermission.
A man named Wingmiller, living in Yves
Union, Iowa, struck hog slight blow
over the snout with the breech of loaded
rifle, last week. The jar discharged tn,
weapon, the ball passing through his breast
A man in Virginia City, Nevada, wa