River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-12-25
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

4 FIRE at Appleton, Wis, Dec. 18th
destroyed Spauiding's stove factory and
outfit Loss $4,000; half insured.
THE Union Touring mill at Jonesboro,
H., burned Dee. 18th. Loss $4,000. In
sured for $4,000
NINE business houses in Addison, N.
Y, burned Dee 18th, causing loss OF
$4,000. Insurance $4,000.
THREE persons persisted and two others
were Injured by the burning of the
court house at St. Jean Parjoli, near
Quebec, Canada, on the 18th inst.
THE boiler in Louis Trumbull's saw
mill at Collins, Ind, exploded Dec. 10th,
killing Trumbuil, his two sons, and two
other persons employed in the mill
A FIRE in Stoughton Hall, one of the
Harvard College buildings, occurred on
the 15tla inst. The building was greatly
damaged by water as well as by fire,
although it was not total loss.
GEN CROOK was caught in a blizzard
while hunting geese on the Platte river
in Nebraska, on the 10th inst, and mar
rowly escaped perishing. His hands
and fee were badly frozen.
4 FIRE occurred in the Omaha smelt-
ing works, Dec 18Th, damaging that in
stitut:0a $4,000; fully insured. Seventy
five men were thrown out OF employ
ment, bat the works will be immediate
ly rehu Il.
A s,clE broke out in Harringten's opera
hnua,, port Hizrnn Mich about three
O'Clock on the morning of the 18th inst.
and destroyed that building. Haverly's
juvenile Pinatote troupe had played there
the night before, and all their baggage
and scenery were destroyed.
A STAGE driven by j. A. ID. Dwyer was
overturned by { sharp wind in Boulder
Canon, near Denver, Dec. 10th, and fell
down an emoankment seventy feet,
Dwyer receiving injuries which resulted
in his death. No other persons were Sc
riousls' hurt.
SAYS jersey City, n. j., dispatch of
Dec. 18th: Ths lad, John McEvoy, so
terribly injured by circular-saw cutting
his head nearly in two at Paterson, one
week ago, is now dead. His father was
talkin- to t e hoy when the little patient
was suddenly taken with commissions,
one succeeding another, until he fell
back dead.
A MESSENGER in from Elm river, 30
miles from Fargo, Dec 18th, reports a
German family frozen to death on Sun
udys "A ldI ultl@ hdppChCo " fl9i0 III
Germans cabir and found the father and
two children dead from frost, and the
mother and a little boy nearly dead On
Saturday the mother gave birth to a
child that was frozen.
AT Newton, iowa, on the morning OF
the 18th of Dec, locomotive No. %, of
the Newton 81 Monroe rOad,while stand
ing on the track in front of the Metho-
dist church, wilh engineer William Glib
bons ard fireman Alexander Jones in the
cab, suddenly exploded. Gibbons head
was nearly blown from his body, and
Jones was so badly scalded he will die.
The church was terribly shattered, and
the front fence blown away as clean as if
it never existed The cause of the ex-
plosion is unknown.
4 FIRE in Bismarck; Oak, Dec. 18th,
started in q restaurant on Main street and
burned twelve stores and buildings. The
Sheridan house was saved with difficulty.
Loss $4,000; insurance small. The
heaviest losses are: Bisenberg, dry goods,
$4,000, small insurance; ID. Bailey &
Co. hardware, $40 000, no insurance :;
McKinzie 6 Graffin, $4,000, no insur-
ance; II. Morshall, boots and shoes,
$4,000, fully insured Other individual
losses are under $500.
a KANSAS CITY dispatch of the 10th
gives ,he following particulars of a
strange and fatal accident: A gentle
man who arrived this evening from Ne
maha county, Kansas, furnishes the par
ticulars of the tragic death of David
Meisenthaler, a well-known stock man,
by being struck by falling meteor, or
aerolite. The man was driving some
cattle from field, and it appears as if
the meteor had come from q direction
little west of south, and fell obliquely at
an angle of about sixty degrees, for it
first passed through a tall maple, cutting
the limbs as clean as though it had been
a cannon ball, and then struck him APP
parenily on or under the shoulder, pass
ing clear through him obliquely from
below the right shoulder to above the left
hip, aud buried itself about two feet in
the soft black ground The poor mans
head and legs are uninjured, but the
gre alter part of his body seems TO have
been crushed into the earth beneath the
terrific aerolite, which is about the size
of a common patent bucket, and appar-
emily of roughly round shape. 1t APP
pears to be formed of what is called iron
pyrites.