The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-11-25
thirty-root we'll, was instantly killed by
the falling of large bucketful of earth.
He was highly respected citizen of Glib


the falling of a large bucketful of earth
He was highly respected citizen of 9Th
son, Ill.
1t is believed that the barge Mornin,
Star, Capt. J. w. Thompson, has beel
lost on Lake Erie, with all hands. Sh
was valued at $4,000. and had a cargo o
10000 bushels of wheat.
DURING republican celebration at SAT-
Harbor, Penn, a small cannon exploded
killing James Taylor and John Aument
Mrs. Thos. Grow, Mrs Elmer and Ella
! Funk, were seriously injured. Funk wa
| firing the cannon, and as the charge failet
to explode, he reloaded with the resul
mentioned
| A LAD named Fred Palmer, son of the
manager of the Western Union telegraph
Office at Elmira, N. Y, has lost his ey'
| from epizootic poisoning. The other eve
is endangered. 1t seems the lad had wi pee
his face with handkerchief that he hat
used to clean expectoration that his horse
had coughed on his coat sleeve.
CHARLES ALT, respected young me
chanic, of Alton, ILL.,, was almost instantly
killed on the 18th inst, by the accidental
discharge Of his gun, while out hunting
He was endeavoring to draw his gun Out
of wagon, with the muzzle toward him
when it was discharged, the whole loaC
entering his breast, resulting in death ir
few moments.
WILLIE Burns, years old. and Charley
Zelenka. living in an outlying ward o
Cleveland, not returning home on the 18th
inst, the parents. neighbors and police
prosecuted search, when somebody no.
ticed that a sand bank in the vicinity pre-
sented the appearance of having caved in
Digging into it the lifeless bodies of the
children were found, covered under three
to four feet of the embankment.
A SAD accident happened at Cedar
Falls: Iowa, recently, which resulted in
the death of Fred Knoche, young man
employed in the feed mill of G. N. Miner
1t appears that he went into an upper sto-
ly afterward peculiar jerky motion was
up stairs young Knoche was found lying
on the floor dead. His clothing had been
stripped off him, and was wound around
the shatting. One arm was torn off and
his head and body badly mangled. The
deceased was highly respected by all who
knew him, and was the chief support of
aged parents. His brother is pastor of the
Evangelical Lutheran church at Dubuque,
Iowa.
A HALIFAX dispatch of the 18th inst
says: About $50 A. NJ. to-day an explO-
sion Of gas occurred on the south side OF
the Ford pit, near Stellerton. All the
miners were at work in different parts OF
the mine. The explosion was SO terrible
as to sweep across to the other side of the
pit, killing all the men and horses within
| each. Almost all the men on the north
side will be saved. while all at work on the
south side have been lost. AT least sixty
are missing. Five men have been brought
up and are likely to recover. Probably
Forty are shut up within the fallen cave
on the south side. The accident was pre-
shot in a forbidden part of the works. The
Albion mines. All who have come up are
likely to live. A working party is down
There is not much nope for the safety OF
A SPECIAL from St. Peter, Mimi, on the
18th inst, says: 1t is still difficult to gel
at the names and particulars Of the awful
calamity that came upon us last night
All is terror and excitement, and the
grim ruins and slowly rising smoke strike
the heart as a sullen reminder of the
shocking fire. To get at a complete list O.
those killed and hurt, is not now among
the possibilities. DR.. Bartlett, of the
asylum, says there are not more thar
twelve lives lost, and possibility of a:
many more people hurt and suffering from
the bitter cold nj ght Indeed more people
are believed to be hurt and dying from ex
posure from the wind than from burn:
last night. SO many of the patients have
disappeared that it cannot be told who are
dead and who ran away. The suffering
has been terrible and no pen can describe
it or human mind can realize it. Hun
dreds of the patients are as helpless a!
children and are seemingly shocked, anc
dazed so as to render them almost insensi
BILE. The real damage to the hospita
building will amount to 100000.