The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-12-12

ALLIs PACKARD's grain and plow
mill at Brockton, Mass, fell on the 9th inst
c. A. NouIse, Dennis Lynch and Dennis
Reardon, who were shoveling corn in the
upper story, were precipitatsd into the
ruins q distance of twenty feet and smoth.
cred in the grain.
AT New York, on the 9th, Otto Wolf
and wife went out TO work, locking three
children in q room. By some accident q
fire occurred, and before assistance came
the two youngest were burned to death.
FRANK THOMAS, a merchant of Wins
low, Ind, was killed on the LIST instant, by
being thrown from his buggy.
The Touring mill of J. Schreiner, at
Manchester, No., burned on the Sd inst.
Between SO. 600 and 40, 900 bushels of wheat
and q considerable amount Of -four was de-
stroyed; insurance about $4,000.
THE Presbyterian Church, corner of
Broad and Oxford streets, Philadelphia, was
burned on the Sd, nothing remaining but
the stone walls and steeple. Loss about
$4,000.
THE stables at Bow Park farm near
Brantford, Ont, containing a number of
prize cattle, were burned on the right of the
I'd instant. Loss $4,000.
THE schooner N. Il Z. Henderson, of
Philadelphia, went ashore at Kitty Hawk
n. c., on the I'd instant, and Capt. Swim
two mates and the cook were drowned.
Two boilers of Girard furnace at
Youngstown, Ohio, exploded ON the I'd
instant, wrecking the engine house and
killing Amos Lewyllen.
SAMUEL REBER, of st. Louis, was
found dead in bed at the Burnell house, Gin.
cinnati, on the I'd inst.
The front and back walls with the
rosf OF The new Baptist church on James
street, Hamilton, Ont, fell on the lst inst.
The church was recently built at a cost of
$4,000.
HE boiler In the Eau Claire wis
Lumber compaDy's planning mill blew up
on the LIST inst, instantly killing Wright
Haskins, fireman, A. Gallagher and NJ.
Helping. Z. ID. Carroll, Thomas Hall and
Charles Seaman were badly hurt about the
head, and several others slightly hurt
HENRY Cords, q German, aged 10,
and two girls named Young and Hart, were
drowned in mill pond at Baraboo, Wis,
on the list inst, by the breaking of the ice
while the party were sleighing thereon.
CordiS sister, aged yesrs, was saved.
A FREIGHT train on the Little Rock
railroad jumped the track on the 1st inst,
for.y-six miles west Of Memphis, and ran |
into trestle, ditching fifteen cars loaded
with cotton, all of which burned. A negro !
woman, her two children, and George
Forsythe, o white brakeman, were killed ,
outright II. z. Trowbridge, conductor,
Joe Hooker and 0'Brien, brakemen, were
seriously injured.
Two children of Donald McNorron
were killed by an explosion of powder at
Ottawa, Canada, on the LIST instant
THREE children broke through the ice
on mill pond at Csyugs, Ont, on the LIST
instant, and were drowned.
FIRE broke out on the LIST inst, in the
cellar OF A. N. Collins paper mauufsc.
turers warehouse, at IL Decatur street, Phil.
adelphis, and communicated through the
to the second story of Megarge
Bros. d Co.'s paper and rag warehouse next
ioor. The flames spread fercely and en-
Teloped Megarge 4 Co.'s store on Sixth
treet, but were there subjected by the FIRE.
men. Loss in the Deighborhood Of $500, 700.
A WAREHOUSE at Hanover, Pa, con-
aiming %, 1000 bushels Of grain, collapsed on
he 10th. Etsel, who was caught by falling .
rail- Just as he was leaping FROM the build
NJ, was instantly killed.
The steamer Atlas arrived at Boston
a the 30th ult. with the survivors Of the q.