Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-08-06
CASUALTIES.

A FLOOD of water fell at Wooster, O.,
July goth Great damage was inflicted.
A TERRIBLE cyclone passed over
Larkin, Kas., July 29th.
JOHN OSPREY, IS years of age, resid-
ing at Bushnell, H., was thrown from
the top Of car July Goth and killed.
G.. Z. MORRIS, a lad fifteen of years was
run over and killed by the cars at Galena,
Ill, July 2Sth.
A LITTLE boy named George Salisbury
living near Sandwich, H., was run over
by reaper July Goth and instantly killed.
REV. FATHER VANERr, a Catholic
pastor at Ann Arbor, Mich, was thrown
from a carriage July 30th and fatally in
jured.
A MAN named Daniel Grove was run
over and killed by a train on the Mil
waukee e st. Paul railway, near the Sol
diers' Home in Milwaukee, July 9th.
A ST. PAUL dispatch of July Both says
John Kranz, of East Pennington, Polk
County, Wis, drove into lake, with six
children in his wagon, to water his
horses. The horses became frightened
and ran into deep water when the wagon
was upset and kranz and five of the chill
dren were drowned. One boy escaped
by swimming The eldest child was Il
girl of II.
DISPATCHES of July 9th from various
parts of Pennsylvania give still further
information concerning the great storm.
The towns of Petrolia and Harms suffered
terribly. MANY mountain railroads were
washed out, mines flooded and houses
swept away. The damage TO crops is in
calculable. At Irwin's Station seven
inches of water fell.
A GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, special of
July 3lst says; August Peterson, a
Swcde, employed in the brick yard of
Brown, Clark q Co, was the victim OF q
terrible accident yesterday morning.
While oiling the crown wheel OF brick
machine, his clothing caught in the ma
chinery, draw him in the wheel in such
manner as to cause a portion of his lungs
and internal organs to prelude. His
| death is hourly expected He is 30 years
of age and has wife and four children.
A DISPATCH from Livingstone county,
| Ky, of July 31st says; Two sons of DR..
| \. II. 5 Boyd being i'll, their father de
| termined to give them santonlne, but
| through mistake gave them some poisin.
| In half an hOnr they took spasms, and
one died in a half and the other in three
| quarters of an hour. DR.. Boyd is one OF
the most respectable citizens OF Living.
stone, and the boys were promising
youths.
| 4 DISPATCH of July goth from Petrolia
| Pa, speaking of the great flood in that
vicinity, says he loss in that neighbour
| hood is roughly estimated at 100000.
| The scene during this destruction was
| terrible Men, women, and children
rushed hither and thither in search of
/ elevated positions where life would be
| secure Many of the people lost all their
! effects, and are left in a state of destitu-
ton. The storm was most severe up the
Monongahela and all the Allegheny
/ valleys,
A DUBUQUE, Iowa, dispatch of July
| Both says a disease akin 10 cholera is
( ravaging Centre Point, Linn county, this
| state. Fully twenty persons have died
| from its effects during the past thirteen
| days, and an equal number are Frustrated
| by it. The disease is also raging in Walker,
! little town seven miles from Centre
/ Point, several deaths having occurred
/ there. An order for forty collins was re,
1 ceiyed flom Centre Point to-day by a
/ Dubuque undertaken. The physicians
4 at Centre Point are worn out. and resi-.
dents are fleeing from the place