Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-07-04

igan, says as Mrs. William Peacock,
living near Charlesworth, was riding
with a man named Reppeman on a
load Of shingles, TO visit her parents, a
bunch of shingles fell of, which fright
ened the team into running away,
throwing the woman and her child un-
der the wheels. The child's head was
crushed and the woman's neck broken.
She lived about an hour.
REPORTS on June 9th from Dallas,
Iowa, say that Tuesdays storm was the
worst known in that section. Not
bridge is in place in the county, and
the grain il nearly all destroyed. In
Adair county William A. Anderson was
killed by lightning. The North river
rose 70 quickly, near Casey, that the
bridge-builders were unable to save
their wagons and tools, which were
swept away. Near Polk City, Polk
county, the dweling-house of Joseph
Rohr turned over several times VITA
the family inside, who were badly hurt.
A New York telegram Of June 29th
says the steamship City Of New York,
of the Alexandria line, which sailed on
Saturday for Havana with sixteen sa-
loon passengers and general cargo,
returned to-day disabled. Capt Daken
reported that about IL o'clock on Sat
urday night he ran into and sank the
iron bark Helen, Captain Bar
clay, of Dundee, Scotland. The
collision took place about tif-
teen miles south-southwest Of Absecom.
There was dense fog; the night was
dark and there was II high sea, but the
southerly wind was moderate. The
steamer struck the bark on the port
quarter, about five feet forward Of the
mizzen rigging, and cut big hole
through the plates. The bark sank in
few minutes and five Of the crew, in
GLIDING the captain, were lost.
Ar Mendoza, ILL.,, June Goth, while
Louis Sicka, the foreman, and some Of
the employees of the Mendoza brewery
were searching for leakage in the
boiler, ar iron plug burst from the hue,
and stream of steam, seventy-iive
pounds pressure, struck Adolph
Stadel, who was leaning directly over
il Mt the time, scalding him
frightfuly. He is one complete
black blister all over his body, his face
and head included. The foreman is
badly burned about the face, neck, ana
hands, and one or two of the other
men less severely. The proprietor, Mr..
G. Hcnning, who was in the engine
room Mt the time and close by, had n
very narrow escape. The unfortunate
man Stadel is in precarious condition.
THE boiler o. the excursion steamer
May Queen, on Lake Minnetonka,
Minnesota, burst June 28th. A
dispatch of that date says that
ut about II o'clock this forenoon, rs
the steamer May Queen-Capt. Rock
well--was living ut Rockwell's Island,
Lake Minnetonka, Is miles from this
city, boiler exploded, severely iniur-
ing Capt. VIM. Rockwell, N. +. Haines,
engineer, Mrs. Blaktly, st. Louis, aged
60 years. Haynes will die and the
chances are against Mrs. Blakey's and
Rockwels recovery. Isaac Dean, Man
kato, and Mr.. and Mrs. Walker, St.
Louis, seriously, and Mrs. II. Hough,
Malone, Ill.,, and sister name
unknown, slightly injured. A party
consisting of ID. NJ. hawthorne wife
and two children, John M. Giles, Belle
PLANE, Mimi, and Mrs. Cowdry, Fair
bault had Just disembarked. The roller
was blown two hundred and tift, feet
into tho mir, passing over their leads.
The steamer is total wreck, ald has
sunk. The injuries are mostly from
steam.