Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-10-16
DESTROYED bv Fire.

Destroyed BY Fire.
The Homestake mining company's saw
and shingle mill in Grizzly Gulch, D. T,
together with about $4,000 feet of lumber
was totally destroyed by fire on the night oi
the 18th inst. Loss estimated at $4,000.
| The Cincinnati railway and docks, burned
on the night of the 11th inst. New steame,
Bostonia on stocks also burned. Loss est.
mated at $150,O00.
An extensive planning mill, sash, door
and blind factory with all its contents was
burned at Ludiugton, Mich, on the 18th.
Loss 100000; insurance 5000.
A dispatch from Dubuque. Iowa, says the
damage by prairie fires around Cherokee.
Fonda and Newell, Iows, is estimated at
$4,000,
A portion of large cotton mill at Ten.
dres, France, 81 900 spindles, burned. Dam.
age 100000.
A great fire occurred at Riga, Russia, on
the 9Th inst, destroying forty houses and
the new government building.
A great fire in the French Concession,
Shanghai, China, destroyed nine hundred
and ninty-one houses. No lives lost.
Wood land four miles about Madrid, N.
Y,is on fire and farmers are rapidly remov-
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great damage has been done.
Prairie fires are doing considerable dam.
age and creating much alarm in Dakota.
The woods along the Missouri river arc on
FIRE and the town of Mandand was only
saved by the activity of the citizens. The
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burned over thoroughly. Four miles of
ties and a bridge at Crystal Springs were
destroyed. The telegraph operator at Dead.
wood reports the woods all atire thereabout,
and several saw mills reported burned, or in
great danger. The Inhabitants are busy
using means of protection, telling trees, etc.
Death ON the Rail.
Henry Greer and John Donovon, tie cut
ers, were run over and killed by railroad
train near Ef6ngham, ILL.,, ON the 18th inst.
They were sleeping on the track.
Conductor Hawkins fell between the cars
at Hyndman, Pa, on the 18th inst, and was
horribly mangled.
A passenger train collided with an ex-
press on the Baltimore and Ohio road, n ear
Relton, West Va, on the 18th inst. Both
trains were going at the rate of forty miles
an hour and were well filed with passen.
gers, who miraculously escaped, with the
exception Of one little girl, who was slight
ly hurt about the face. James Asken, engi.
neer and John Smith, fireman of No. l, were
instantly killed, while fireman Jasper of
train No. 10 was seriously hurt. Engineer
Boylun of train No. 10 escaped injury by
jumping from the train. A boy named
Flanagan, who was stealing ride, was in.
stantly killed, and negro boy who was
stealing his way to Clarksburg, between the
ten1er and postal car, wac badly hurt. Geo
Shinn, postal clerk, was dangerously iniur
ed. Both engines were made complete
wrecks.
A serious and painful accident occurred
on the Michigan Central railroad shor
distance east of Jackson, Mich, about ont
o'clock on the morning of the 10th inst
The Pacific express train, bound west, which
left Detroit forty minutes late, collided viii
a switch engine on the main track at tina
place, teleecoping the baggage and expr 81
cars and pi]ing the remaining coaches
eleven in numter, one on top of the other
The first coach was filed with emigrants
most of whom were killed or seriously in
jured. M.ny occupants of the other coachel
were also killed or injured. It is supposed
that there are about twenty or twenty-five
killed and an equal number wounded. Th'
majority of the number il thought to b,
emigrants and second.class passepgers.
Later-A correct list of the casualties BY
the collision at Jackson, Aich., shows tina
fourteen were killed. Thirty were wound
ed. From testimony before the coroner
jury it seems that Colwell, the yardmaster
Sawyer the switchman, and Jones the en-
gineer of the switch engine, are al alik'
responsible, and that all were guilty of boil
bad judgment and the violation of the rule
of the company.
Freight conductor George H. Fsrbeck, o
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern rail
way, fell between the cars at Wauzona, O.
on the 11th and was instantly killed.
Murderous Deeds.
Henry Hayden, county judge of Woo
county, Wis.,, and editor of the Centrali
Enterprise, was deliberately shot dead q
Grand Rapids, Wis.,, on. the 9th inst, b
VIM. H.. Cochran, cashier of the Fir
National bank Of Grand Rapids. Th
affair was the outgrowth of scandal i
which Mrs. Cochran and the Judge figured
A band of forty disguised persons visite
the cabin Of q negro woman named Esther
near Gslveston. Texas on the 11th inst