The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-10-31
CASUALTIES.

BY the WRECK of the schooner Nancy
ON the Cariboo Islands, the captain, four
seamen and boy were drowned.
The body Of q man has been found on
the lake shore near Tolleston, Ind, sup
posed to be the companion Of Professor
Wise, who left st. Louis in the balloon Path.
finder.
ABOUT thousand feet of the Bay st.
Louis bridge on the New Orleans & Mobile
railroad burned on the Gath.
A FIRE in the village of st. Jean the
Bastiste, a suburb OF Montreal, destroyed
twenty houses, on the Esd. Loss $4,000.
A GASOLINE tank at the Michigan
house o. correction blew up, on the night Of
the 22d, and also blew up the engineer
Louis Essec, and O convict named Thomas
Crystal. Crystal died OF his injuries soon
after, and Essec is in critical condition.
The steamer Louise H., from Algiers,
Africa, on the night Of the 18th, picked up
in the Bahama channel seventeen survivors
OF the burned steamer Nusvo Parajo del
Oceano, including Captain Diaz and two
mates. The rescued were In O terrible state
OF exhaustion, having been clinging to the
floating debris for IS hours.
BY an accident on the Pittsburg &
Lake Eie railroad, near Bridgewa' er, Pa,
a freight train was badly wreck cd, twelve
cars being thrown from the track. n.
Lennon, Q brakeman, was instantly
killed, and George Fulton, fireman, and Il.
L. Knorr, engineer, painfully, but not seri-
ously injured.
A FIRE In Cincinnati on the 22d dam.
k,.sl
to the value of $4,000.
Two painters, Patrick Thornton and
Thomss Burke, fell from staging 30 feet
from the ground, in Boston, on the 22d.
Thornton was instantly killed, but Burke
caught window sill and hung till rescued.
The Montauk cotton mills at Sag
Harbor, l.. l., burned on the 22d. The loss is
$500 1900, with an insurance OF 800, ZOO. Two
hundred operatives are thrown out OF work.
THE steamboat Rapidan, a Tennessee
river packet, 10 sunk at Diamond Island
chute, and total loss. Valued at $4,000.
AT Pittsburg, Pa, on the 22d, three
little girls Damed Stella, Lille and Mary
Dunn, obtained possession OF a railway tor.
pedo and exploded 1t with stone. Stella,
aged three years, was fatally injured, and
Lille had one eye torn out and the sight OF
the other probably destroyed. Mary 90.
capped with badly lacsrated hands.
DAVID DIXON, while carelessly hand
ling an old revolver, at Embarrass, Wis on
the 22d, shot and instantly killed Miss Mary
SwintoD, 10 whom he was engaged to be
married, and who 90 the time OF the fatal
occurrence was at WORK upon her wedding
dress.
TIE U. 3. revenue cutter Richard
Rush has arrived In San Francisco, from
Onalaska. Her commander, George w.
Bailey, was lost overheard on the 9th, during
heavy gale Of Cape Flattery.
The county Jail at Breckenridge,
Minn., burned on the night Of the 2Oth.
The only prisoner, q colored man named
Henry Wilson, burned to death.
STEAM fire engine No. 6, while going
to fire at Cleveland, on the 21kt, went full
speed into the river at the Columbus street
bridge, drowning both horses and badly
iniuFing three men.
The Mason House and three stores at
Big Rapids, Mich.. were destroyed by fire
on the 10th. Loss $4,000.
On the Goth q supposed incendiary FIRE
destroyed the large barn and outbuildings
belonging to Charles Lsggatt, near Spring.
dale, Hamilton county, Ohio. Many vaIu. l.
able FLOODED horses were destroyed. Loss
BIO, 600; no insurance.