River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-04-03
CASUALTIES.

Queen Victoria was at Lake Naggiore
March Goth
Prince WaIdemar died of diptheria at
Berlin, March %.
There vas a $4,000 at Lebanan, KY,
March 3lst. Sixteen houses were burned.
The Gar of Russia is expected to at
tend the Emperor williams golden wedding
at Berlin in June.
There was a $4,000 incendiarv fire at
Niveryille, on the Hudson river, near Hudson,
y. Y, March 3lst.
The bridge over Soldier Creek on the
Kansas Pacific railroad, about two miles from
Topeka, has been destroyed by fire.
A recent fire at AkYab, farther India,
which was accidental de stroyed the native
portion of the town. Loss estimated at
G5O0,0 900. Thousands of people are rendered
homeless.
BY q collision on the New York ele-
waited railway, caused by a misplaced switch,
four persons were injured, among them the
wife Of Prof. William Henry Prent, who had
her collar bone broken.
A landslide on the Lehigh Valley rail
road, near Pittstown, Pa, March 81, threw the
locomotive of the New York passenger train
from the track killing the engineer, and seri-
ously injuring the fireman
By the falling of bridge over the
Whitewater Valley railro ad near Cambridge
City, Ind Adam Depner was fatally injured,
George Davis had al, arm broken and John
Pacey and Charles Gallagher were severely
bruised
A large Norwegian church, five mics
from Eden, Iowa, was burned by the late
prairie fire. In the same neighborhood a
child was fatally burned, and the father was
terribly burned in trying to save the child.
Three lives were also lost near Beloit.
AT Claremont, New Hampshire, early
on the morning of March 10Th, the fremont
House was burned and five persons persisted
Mrs Hannah P. Gibson, of Chester, VI,
mother Of one Of the proprietors; Charles
Morgan, boarder; Lydia Merritt, table girl;
Ann johnson, chambermaid, and Mrs. s. 4.
Place, cook William Butler, OF B. eleboro
Vt, ana Frederick Warren and VI, we're
severely injured in leaping from the windoFs
At Seneca, ILL.,, March Both, nearly the
entire business portion Of the town was de-
styoved by fire. The fire originated under
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to other buildings, and as the town was with
out fire apparatus, all efforts TO stay the flames
we're powerless Among the losers were
e. Il. Fleckinger, druggist; c. A. Thomas,
dry goods; D. H. Underhin, groceries; Mark
Taylor, hardware; and II. Billings, dry goods
and groceries. In all, about twenty buildings
were burned, including sixteen business
houses. The loss is placed at $4,000; insur-
ancv, $4,000.
On the nightof March 31st, a fire was
discovered at Minneapolis, Mimi, in the feed
store of Day & Gilmore at 9O3 Washington
avenue south. A delay of ten minutes in
sounding the alarm, the indamable mat erial
with which the store was stocked, caused the
ire to make rapid Roadway, and when the
fremep reached the scene the building and
the one adjoining, 200 Washington avenue,
were all ablaze. In few seconds the build
ing on the south side, 905, caught fire. The
brisk wind which prevailed, caused the fire to
burn iercely, but the frcmen worked with Il
viii and in an hours time had it under con
troll. The three buildings named were con-
sumed. The fire caught from stove in Day
Il Giimore's feed store. Loss about $4,000
Insurance $1,000.