River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-08-07
CASUALTIES

The Cholera is abating at Cabul
Sudden great heat followed by rain has
damaged the crop in Hungary and Gallicia.
A small bomb was exploded July 81,
in the church or ST. Louis, at Madrid, spain.
No person injured.
The Colorado beetle has made its APP
pearanee at Cork Ireland
Disastrous floods are reported through
out Belgium. and hoods in the valley Of the
Rhine caused great loss Of property.
Five persons were killed, eleven Sc
riously and forty slightly injured by a railway
accident between Nancy and yezelize, France
Gen Garibaldi's suit for the annulment
of his marriage with Signora Raminda viii be
brought before the court of appeals at Rome,
August7.
AT New York, July so, Jno. Jenkins,
diver, was suffocated while endeayoring to re
cover an anchor at the battery, the air tube
having burst
at Pont Wan, Quebec, August 4, a
family of seven persons were poisoned from
eating bread which had been standing near
Paris Green. Three are dead.
At Petersburg, Va, the other day,
Capt. Daniel Dodson, with his whole family,
was poisoned by ice cream The captain is
dead, the family remain quite i'll.
A body was found in Boston arbor.
July 80, supposed to he Samuel Farrell, the
Cincinnati journalist, who was lost in the
storm Of the 10Th. Thus far twenty bodies
have been recovered of the twenty three
known to have been lost in that storm.
The cholera epidemic at Centre Point,
Iowa. as the local physicians call it, is still on
the increase. Not less than 100 cases have
been reported in the rural town and immedi-
ate ncighborhood, with fatalities occurring
every hour. Six deaths are reported at the
town Of Walker, distant only few miles, from
the same disease, which is an indication of its
epidemic or contagious character, which is
truly alarming
A special from Battle Greek, Michigan,
reports the burning of the pleasure steamer,
Lew Clark, ON Geogunoc Lake on the morning
of July 81; also the dwelling of James Cleye-
land and three boat houses. Mrs Cleveland
and her infant persisted in the flames, and two
other children were SO badly injured that they
aIe not expected to live Cleveland saved his
own and one of the children's lives by jump
ing with it from the second story of his burn
ing house into the lake. The fire originated
in the steamers engine room.
July 30 advices state that a disease
akin TO cholera is raging at Centre Point,
Lynn county, Iowa. Fully twenty persons
have died from its effects during the past thir-
teen days. and an equal number are prostra-
ted by it. II is also raging in Walker, town
seven miles from Centre Point A number of
deaths have occurred there An order for
forty collins was received from Centre Point
July 80 by Dubuque undertaken. The physi-
clans of Centre Point are worn out and resi-
dents are fleeing from the place.
On the morning of August 4, tire town
Of Volcano, in West Virginia, was destroyed
by fire, started by an incendiary. Everything
is a total loss The fire originated IN the
stone building of Thompson & Barnes. 1t
was discovered about o'clock. The flames
spread rapidly, and reaching some oil tanks
they caught fire and bursted, the burning oil
running through the streets setting fire to
everything ON either side of the streets
through which it passed, Transforming the
streets into lake of fire. There were 5000
barrels OF heavy oil burned, ten stores, the
post office, railroad depot and telegraph office,
nine dwelling houses hotel, Walking Beam,
printing Office the West Virginia transporta-
ton office, Smiths boiler works, one pump
ing station and several other small buildings,
Almost the entire contents of the stores and
dwellings were consumed, the flames, spread
ing with such lightning rapidity, all dwellings
being wooden structures. Total loss $4,000;
insurance $4,000