Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-08-27
CASUALTIES.

TIE steamer Royal Welsh, from Bal
timore, struck the pier while trying to
enter the harbor of Dieppe, France,
causing a loss of 500 tons of wheat. This
occurred Aug. 18th.
A BUFFALO special of Aug. II, report
ed that Y delayed crafts were beating
down the lake having been detained by
the heaviest storm experienced since
1869
A CLINTON, Iowa, dispatch of Aug. 10
says at Center Grove, Sunday morning,
in shooting at chicken, James Nc.
Dermott shot his sister Bridget, aged H.,
dangerously and perhaps fatally. The
latter was behind a hedge ia range of the
gun, unseen by her brother
A DETROIT special of Aug. Goth says
Bev. W. r. Tillinghast, rector of Trinity
Episcopal church in this city, camping
at Fox Island, at the mouth of the De-
troit river, was accidentally shot and
killed by the careless handling of a re-
volver by young man named Wright.
A EVANSVILLE, Wis, dispatch of Aug.
2Oth says: A boy named August Baum
gartin, employed on a farm mile north
Of this city, was badly gored by an angry
COW yesterday forenoon, the horn pass
ing between his shoulder blades and his
ribs, intlicting serious wound. He
also received internal injuries.
AN Augusta, Ga, dispatch of Aug.
| 10Th says two coaches of the south
! bound train of the Charlotte, Columbia
! x Augusta railroad were thrown down
an embankment near Columbia by a
| broker rail, on Sunday night and turned
| completely over Sixteen persons were
! injured, more or less, seriously.
IN Elk River township, Sunday after.
noon, says II Clinton, Ia, dispatch of
/ Aug l0th, two brothers named Hans and
! Claus Gehlson returned from hunting
and were talking in the house, when a
| gun in the hands Of Hans was accident
ally discharged, the charge entering the
heart of Claus, killing him instantly.
The coroner's jury exonerated Hans,
A UTICA, n. Y. dispatch Of Aug. 21st
relates that Mrs. John Tillinghast during
"A temporary fit of insanity while reCov-
er;ng from an epileptic fit, poured kero-
sene on coal fire. The can exploded.
The neighbors, rushing into the house,
found her sitting in a rocking chair, en-
veloped in flames She died soon after,
| Her husband was i'll upstairs at the
time of the explosion
ONE train on the Baltimore and Ohio
road was run into by another, Aug. 18th,
near Piedmont, West Virginia One
train was loaded with grain and the 9th
or with stock. The stock train was bad
ly wrecked, the engines being thrown
over the bank, killing the engineer, Nj
Mcdonald, of Marlinsburg, and seriously
iniuring the fireman \ large number
of cattle, hogs and sheep were killed.
DURING the terrific storm that ragged
on the Atlantic coast Aug, 18th the At
lautic House at Morehead City, North
Carolina, was utterly demolished. There
were 80 guests in the hotel ut he time,
all Of whom except one escaped with
their lives, but their etlec's were rendered
a total wreck. John Hughes, Of Newbern,
lost his life. Nhe Ocean View House at
Beaufort was badly damaged and many
houses ruined There is not whaflett
in that city
An Atlantic city special of the 18th
inst says: 4 severe storm set in early
this morning, increasing at noon to 4
fierce gale \ steady wind IS blowing
at rate Of forty miles per hour. There
was heavy rain fall, and many Of th,
streets are inundated y large coas
schooner is in distress from loss OF sails
She has cast anchor within short dis
lance of the beach. Five persons are
dashed to the rigging, but as yet all ct
turts Of the Ate.saying crew 70 reacl