The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-05
CAST tI.TIES.

Ar StonSLton, Mas, ON the 9th ult.. flic
caused loss of $40, 900; insurance $4,000.
TEE Daily Commercial Office ut Toledo, o.,
was partially burned OH IN" 27th ult. Loss
about $1,000.
A HOTEL, livery stable and several business
houses at II. Joseph, No.. were burned on the
night Of the Goth. Loss $4,000; insured.
The steamship Para struck rock of Cape
Sable and sunk. She was bound from Boston
for West Hartlepool, Germany.
The residence Of an aged couple named Car
men, living about eight miles from Secedah,
Wis, caught fire on the roof on the 18th ult,
and in endeavoring TO CxtinSuish the fianios the
Old man fell to the ground and was so badly ill.,
jured as to be entirely helpless. His wife procured
q feather bed, made him as comfortable a. she
could in the open air, the house being rapidly
destroyed, and started for help. She fell on
the way hurting herself so badly that she too
was HELPLESS, and during the night froZe TO
death. A the aged pair lived alone mile or
more from the travelled road Mr.. Carmens
helpless condition was not known, and he lay
where his Inflated wife placed HIM until the 22d,
when some boys discovered the remains OF Mrs.
Carmen and then proceeded to the house, which
was found in ashes, and Mr.. Carmen almost
famished and with both legs frozen above his
knees. A hen proyidentially laid an egg every
day within reach If the injured man, thus giving
life intact. He will recover, but his condition
is litiable in the extreme.
The breaker at Mount Carmel, Pa, owned by
Montelins 4 Co., Of Philadelphia and New York,
burned Oh the 18th. Loss $4,000,
4 FOUR story brick house on Elizabeth street,
New York city, burned on the 2Gth. Loss about
FPS, 600. Firemcn had a narrow ESCAPE from
the falling roof, but escaped with loss of
hats and implements.
The bridge Oh the JefiersonyiIc, Madison and
indianapolis railway al Langdon is burned.
Loss $4,000.
BLOCK Of six stores at Saginaw City, Mich,
were destroyed by fire on the 25th. Loss s15,-
900; insurance $500.
The Delayan block, Albany, Y. y, WIS de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss 100000.
4 MILL at Frontenac, Mimi, was burned on
the 18th. LOss 100000.
OSE-THIKD Of the business portion Of the
village Of Brewster " Y, burned on the night
of the 23d. Loss SlG0,OO0; insurance $4,000.
DALTON 4 Co.'s wholesale grocery at Trenton,
! y. j., burned on the 9th. Loss heavy; instir-
I ance $4,000.
! OS the afternoon OF the 23d, the bottom fell
/ out Of q dtill containing 1900 barrels Of crude
! oil, at the standard oil works, on Broadway,
/ Cleveland. The oil caught FIRE and coumuni.
: Gated the flames to another still. The burning
! oil flowed down kingsbury Run, threatening de-
/ struction to the Standards works. Five hun
I dred men were put at work and dam construct
! ed across the run, combining the fire in marrow
/ limits and saving the property. Loss estimated
at go, 900 on machinery and $4,000 on oil.
Oh the night Of the 18th, q tornado visited
! Cedar Chapel, small town in Hardin county,
rixty miles northeast Of Memphis, which did
serious damage, blowing away several houses,
seriously iniuring several persons. Three
| dwellings took fire during the storm and burned
! down. Loss about $4,000.
TaR Arsenal Street Methodist Church, Water
loo, n. Y, burned on the 2zd. Loss $4,000
insurance $500.
JOHN SHAY, stablcman, lost his life on thu
22d, by the burning Of Hayward's stables, New
port. r. l., en- the 221. Twenty carriages, ter
horses and a large amount of grain was con
sumed. Pccunary loss $4,000.
BATEsyIII.E, Ark, was visited by disastrous
con6agration ON thG 2lst. During tine progress
Of the fire falling wall killed c. l.. Gersucl
and wounded Thomas Jablin and T.. w. Nor
field. tlss former fatally. Loss by the fire :75,
900; about half insured.
The sloop Pearl, with all hands Oh board, il
reported lost of Cape Iiatteras.
Four men were buried by snow slide nen
Franktown, Nevada, on the 21st William Fou
IVES rescued badly injured. Samuel Kennedy
Alex. McLane and John Burney were not founc
at last accounts.