The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-05-21

Vastated by forest fires. The loss on cranberry
hogs alone is estimated at $4,000, while the
cedar timber burned VAS the most valuable in
the state. The air is sitting with smoke and
the sun il obscurcd. Thousands of birds and
animals lying dead i'll the woods tell of the de-
structlon.
Ten cars jumped the rails near Frankfort
n. y, on the 18th inst, and were wrecked. On
the same day live tanks of oil took fire in a
freight train near Rome, n. Y, making terri
iic explosion. Rails were twisted like cord, ties
burned and fences destroyed.
Ar Island Pond, VT, on the 18th inst, n
terrific wind storm blew down steamboat house
and large covered bridge across the railroad
track.
CHEAP lodging house kept by Chas.
Schuctze st. Louis, burned early on the morn
Ing of the 18th inst, and four men, Mike Eber-
lem, cripple, Il blind man named Fisher, Fritz
Scholte or Scholter, and another man, name ur-
known. were suifocated. Several dodgers iumped
from the third story windows, their exit by the
stairs being cut of, and were more OF less in
jured.
DAVID X. =. SHANNON & Co., junk dealers,
Baltimore, purchased Il quantity Of congeal,d
shrapncl shells at Fort Mcllenry, and took part
of them outside on the 18th instant, 10 break
up. Francis q. Shannon, u brother of David
H., with Herman Bush. John Farblce and Henry
llamlin, were the men engaged i'll the work:
ana Robert Stcinman, Il boy named John Burke,
an unknown boy and German man were pre-
. sent, looking on. An anvil was used for break
ing, and one of the men held the shells on II
while another struck them with a heavy sledge
! hammer. Before the shells were sub iected 10
blows water was poured on them. Nutwth-
standing tins prccautlOn one of the shells eX
plOded and the boy John Burke, and Herman
Bush, John Farblec, Robert Shannon, the Ger
instantly killed, and Francis Shannon and Henry
llamln severely wounded.
ADAM BENsrER's furniture factory at Buffalo,
burned Oh the 18th instant. Loss $1,000; i'll
sur.tIIcc 100000.
Duane the storm near Columbus, o., on the
18th inst, Il bah of lightning struck barn. set
ting il Oh fire and instantly killing Henry Davis,
who was at work i'll the structure. Various per-
sons We're Frustrated by lightning III other por-
tions of the county, but no other fatal injuries
are reported.
FAYEIrE. Mich, the present terminus of the
/ Chicago and Canada Southern railway, suffered
severely Icy fire On Sunday. Forty buildings
were destroyed, causing II loss of $4,000.
Ar Woodlawn, ILL.,, on the 9th, tornado de-
stroycd many buildings and killed -four persons
and many head of live stock.
The steamer Hattie Nowland of the Memphis
!
Lake. Ark, on the 9Th inst. She was two years
old, valued At 80 900 and insured for $4,000.
1t is thought she is Il total loss.
ANDREW DopGE, an engineer, was accident
ally run over lv an engine at Lafayette, Ind,
Oh the 10th inst, and instantly killed.
TIE saddlcry and harness hardware cstab-
lishmcnt of EbCrhardt a Co., Akron, o.. WAS
destroyed by fire on the 10th inst. Loss 49,
0oJ; insurance $4,000.
4 TERRIBLE tornado swept over portion of
Illinois and Indiana on the 9Th inst. The vii
lage Of Alsey, near Winchester, Scott county,
ILL.,, was nearly destroyed Twenty buildings
were either partially or totally destroyed. No
lives were lost. Heavy damage was done i'll
/ McLcon county, III the same state. In Arrow
smith township twelve dwellings were utterly
/ demolished, and a one hundred and sixty acre
orchard eradicated. In Empire township the
damage nearly widespread, and many
persons were injured. Guthrie station a ham,
let of half Il dozen houses was struck by light
ming aud totally destroyed. Near West Jeffer-
son, o., lightning struck the barn of Jacob
High, burning ii and the contents and killing
Henry Davis. who had sought shelter there.
Al Union City, Ind, number Of building Were
. blown down.
One $4,000 barrel iron oil tank of Mcleod &
Morrison, and the $4,000 barrel iron tank of
the United Pipe Lines, at ReXford, Pa, burned
on the 18th. Loss about $4,000. Several
/ dangerous fires were raging i'll the woods near
Baruum City and CoeSllle oil property, thicky
located through the forests i'll sections. -Four
, hundred men are fighting the flames near Cole
| vile and Il large number near Barnum.
II Rome, \. Y, on the 10th inst, Oh starting
the engine III the Merchants iron mill, one of
the boilers burst, killing Jason c. Enar, Vim.
/ Frorys. Reuben Davis and JOS. BcssOck, and II
Is supposed fatally wounded Adam Buscnderfcr.
! Several others were slightly Injured.
ALLEGHENY CITY, Pa, suffered severely by
fire. on the 9Th inst. Thirty buildings, mostly
| residences. were destroyed.
PoRIIoNs OF Minnesota were ravaged by q
| heavy wind storm on the It'll INST. In Waton-
van county the storm developed into vcrtable
/ cyclone, wrCchiug several dwellings, and killing
Mrs. Pond. Mr. Pond was severely injured
Blue Earth county also suffered somewhat and
near EOscmOnt village III Dakota county, Il
Methodist church was cntirc y demolished.
4 TRAIN on the st. Louis and Iron Mountain
railroad ran into washout near Bismarck,
Dakota, on the 9th insl. Engineer Chas Me-
Pucrson and fireman Nicholas Stoorics were
killed and number wOun 4ed. The easlne wa
wrecked and baggage. express and second
class passenger car, ditched and turned over.
Two storchouscs burned at Dauyille Va, Oh
the 9TH inst Samuel GRAFTON, sleeping in on'
Of the buildings, persisted. John Does, a fire
man attempting CraXton'S rescue, also burned
TO death. Pccuniary loss 100000.
FIRE at undertook, n. J., on the Sth inst
destroyed the business PORTION OF the village
Loss S4O,OOO: insurance 100000.
TIE Queens Lake ice house on the shore OF
Queens lake, st. Clair county, Mo-, was strucl
by lightning on the 9Th instant and burned
Loss On 5000 tons of ice and house about 80,
900: insurance go, 1000.
KEIFER, SrIEFEL X Co.'S tanery, Wellrich.
tanncry and twenty-eight buildings, including
slaughter houses, stables and dwellings, Will
their contents, were burned at lfttsburg on the
9th instant, involving a loss of Sl20,O00 anC
rendering twenty poor families homeless.
NELLIE and Howard Lambert, children o.
Valentine Lambert. of North Lansing, Mich.
aged 10 and years respectively, was drowned
in the mill race OH the 9TH instant.
Il the storm of the ith inst, OFF the moutl
of the Columbia river, Oregon, more fishermen
than at first supposed We're drowned. Thu
bodies of twenty-five have been recovered.
few men were picked up after clinSing twelv
hours to the swamped boats. Boats with bodic
dashed to them have been seen drifting scaward
The storm was the most severe i'll many years
) Az explosion of sulphur in Henry Clay COLI
: cry, near Shamokin, Pa, on the It'll inst. prob
Joseph Griffith, Jerome Reed and Samuel Straw
, A ERE at WIlamsport, Pa, Oh the 7tll
' caused loss of 100000; insurance $4,000.
, A PILLAR Of ore forty feet high, III TiT'
= shaft, Mneyillc, n. Y, fell on the 9Th inst.
killing Roger Moynahan and Willie Okeill, an
injuring several others.
The Union Steamship companys mailstcame
4 American, from Cape Good Hope for SouthamI
, ton, foundcred close to the equator on the 2st
= Of April, after breaking her shaft. The pas
scngcrs and crew took to the boats. Tire,
!. containing tifty-four persons, have been pickle
&. up and the passengers landed at Madeira, Fiy
t remaining boats, when last seen, were workin
for Cape Palermo, Liberia, with fine weather
. There was no loss of life when the vessel wcI
| down.
Two children, Ray McCrosan and Tomm
), Garland were playing with matches in a bar
II, al Rochester n. Y. on the Sth inst, when the
n set fire to the structure and were burned I
q DEATH
4 TEE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.