Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-07-09

Iowa, and bad been in the city only a
short time.
AT Grand Rapids. Mich. says dis
patch OF July lat, Frank Myers, wheat
huver for the firm of Voight Kusterer
* Co., of the Star FIGURING Mills, fell IN
to large bin Of corn in the mills while
trying to remove an obstruction at the
bottom in the hopper, and was sutfo-
Gated to death. His body was recovered.
He leaves a wife and three children.
SAYS Keokuk. Ia, telegram of June
81 tn: August King, a prominent cltl-
zen of Pennington, Ia, was thrown
from a buggy In runaway accident
yesterday aud received Injuries from
the effect OF which he died this morn
ing. He was thrown against fence
and the end OF rail driven into his
head.
A CARLINvILLE, Ill.,, dispatch of June
29th says an unknown man met with a
terrible accident Friday night few
miles south of this city. Attempting to
board freight train, he fell and one
leg was severed from his body. He re-
ceived other injuries which render his
recovery impossible.
A CARTERvnLE, H., dispatch OF June
Both, to the Tribune, states that while
John ONeil, prominent farmer and
ex-rallroad man in that neighborhood,
was driving into Shipman this morning
his horses became frightened, throwing
him from the wagon; his foot caught
in the wheel ard his leg was complete
ly torn from the body. He lived but a
few minutes.
A MINNEAPdIs telegram of July
lst says MIR. Haynes, engineer
of the steamer May Queen, which
exploded her boiler, on Minnetonka
lake, Saturday, is dead. Just before his
| death he confessed that when he landed
at Rockwell's Island, the water was low
in the boiler; that when he started the
machinery to hack up, the pump was
set in motion, and the explosion imme-
diately followed, and there is no doubt
that pumping cold water into the heat
ed boiler was the, cause of 1t.
A BIsMARK, ID. r., special of July
lst saws: A terrific wind storm of "A
halfhour swept over this city and Vi
clnity thus evening, unroOflng houses,
tearing up trees, and wrecklng the
largest aud finest steamer montana
on the Missouri river. The Montana
was lying at Blsmark loading, when the
storm raised up from the prairie behind
Fort Lincoln, and moved up the Mis-
souri river with startling rapidity. Ii
broke every chair in the steamer and
carried the cabin ashore. Pieces Of the
cabin were blown 500 yards. Over
$50, 900 damage was done. The Da-
kota, of the same line, lost half her
hurricane deck. These were new boats,
the largest ever floated on the Missouri.
A New YoRK telegram of June Goth
says the steamship City of New York,
of the Alexandra line, which sailed on
Saturday for Havana with sixteen sa-
loon passengers and general cargo,
returned to-day disabled. Capt Daken
reported that about II 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 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.