The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-30
WEEKLY CASUALTY RECORD.

that Chauncey J. Filley, of st. Louis, will be
posfmsster general.
WEEKLY CASUALTY RECORD.
There was 10000 fire in Providence,
4. l., Dec g.
There was $4,000 fire in Corsiland.
Texas, Dec. q.
There was $4,000 fire at Wilbur, Nc.
braska. Dec. &c.
Two men were drowned in the canal al
Holyokc, Mass, Dec. ~, while drunk.
Nine front buildings were burned in
Kirkenville. Missouri, Dec. q. Loss $40, COO
The Baptist church at Chebousc, ILL.,.
and several other buildings, .were destroyed
by fire,Dec %.
The office of the "South Side Sentinel -
published at Burkviile, Ya., was destroyed by
fire. No Insurance.
At Patterson, N. j., Van Dyke & Co. 5
establishment was burned, Dec. q
Loss $46, 600; insured $4,000.
A boiler explosion in a stave factory al
Mass, Dec. 81, killed three
men, and demolished that and another estab.
lishment
Jones wholesale book and stationery
at Burlington. Iowa, was destroyed by fire on
the night OF Dec. %. Loss $1,S20,O0O. Gov
cred by insurance.
The Millburn hotel, in a manufactur.
ing suburb OF Toledo, o , burned on the morn.
ing OF Dec. 81. Loss, $1,000. Henry Zien.
man 'eaped from the third story Of the burn.
Ing building, and was killed.
In Chicago, Dec. 20, at the Harris
street crossing of the Pittsburg 4SFort Wayne
railroad, switch engine and freight train
collided, fatally injuring two employees, and
seriously wounding several others.
At Coney Island, N. Y, Dec. eth,
the eea swept away the piazza of the Oriental
hotel and carried off about 600 feet of the
bulkhead. At the Manhattan Beach hotel
the view piers remain, but some of the outly.
ing bath houses were smashed into kiudlinp
wood.
A New York telegram of Dec. eth,
says storm on the New Jersey coast has
ragged for seventy-two hours. A Asummer resi-.
dence at Monmouth Beach is damaged $4O,.
co., The roads about Long Branch are block.
adtd by snow, and some drifts are ten feet
deep. Bulkheads and porticos OF hotels have
been carried away.
About noon Dec. 20, a team on West
Third street. st. Paul, Minn., ran away, and
collided with buggy at Seven Corners. in
which Mrs. Benjamin Thompson, and a driver
we're setting. Mrs. Thompson was thrown
out. She was taken up in an insen.
sible condition and carried into Wilkes drug
store, where restoratives were administered
and she was restored 10 consciousness, and
conveyed to her home on Summit avenue. No
bones were broken. The driver was painfully
injured, and the buggy badly broken up.
AS Col. Alien, the keeper of the Mer-
chants hotel, St. Paul, Minn., was driving in a
sleigh with party OF ladies on Summit
avenue on the afternoon of Dec. %, he sud.
denly became unconscious from taintness,
and the lines dropping from his hands, the
horses ran away, upsetting the sleigh and
throwing all out, out none received serious
injuries. The horses were soon arrested in
their flight; and the ladies were rescued, and
Col. Allen was taken to the hotel in still un.
conscious condition. Restoratives were ad
mtnistered and he soon recovered.
: A Chicago telegram Of Dec. q, says
the cold wave which struck there on the
morning Of that day and Manitoba yesterday
sending mercury to forty degrees below. has
been growing in intensity all day. Although
the sun shone brightly to-day for the frs,
time in fortnight, at midnight the ther
mometer registered thirteen degrees below, ,and
at present rate will reach twenty below be-
fore morning. 1t is by far the coolest spell Of
the season, but an absence of wind and clea,
sky make it less trying than weather which is
not so severe
A Charlotte, NC, telegram of Dec. 22
has the following: A fearful accident occurred
on the Carolina Central railroad, about two
miles beyond Lincolnton. An entire passen
ger train, excepting engine which passed ovel
safely, went through the trestle at this point
which is fully fifty feet high. Full particulars
cannot be learned yet, but it was definitely
known that mail agent David Bloom, and {
passenger named ]. w. Goodson we,e dis
abled, and subsequently burned up in flames
which communicated. it is supposed from
coal stoves used on the road, to shattered and
splintered cars which were piled on top OF on,
another in the chasm. Conductor Captai,
Harris Johnson escaped with slight injuries
There were very few persons on the trai,
and 1t is not known that any one else wa
killed.
) A Charlotte, N. G. telegram of Dec
90, has the following: Additional particular
in regard to the railroad disaster on the Caro-
lima Central railroad, yesterday, at 1ndia1
Creek trestle, come in slowly. 1t is known
however, that the following were killed: j
F. Bloom, Of Charlotte, mail agent; g. "
Goodson, of statesville, and gcne1al agent q
the Piedmont and Arlington Life Insuranc
company, OF Richmond, Va; Smith, salesman
of Benedict Hall, New York; Bill McKenzi
and Jas. Warlick, colored brakemen; Il. (
johnson, conductor, escaped without injuries
and Messls. Richard Limebrick and 8. L
Griffin statesmen, of Austin, Nichols s. Co
New York, were taken from the burnin
wreck to the hotel in Lincolnton, with doc
tors in attendance. The bodies taken fror
the wreck were unrecogniz able. Both brake
men are thought to have been killed in th
fall. Bill Mckenzie was seen in the burnin
debris. transfixed through the chest with
piece of shattered timber.
| CRIME AND CRIMINAL RECORD
Dec. %, five lottery dealers in Ne,
York were fined $500 each.
Two murderers were sentenced in s
Louis, Dec. y, to be hung on the 18th Of Eel
ruary next.
Anderwert, elected president of tn
Swiss confederation for 1881, committed su
eide the 25th on apublic promenade by shoe
ing.
On the night Of Dec. ~, all the ree
istered letters were stolen from the postofie
in Toilette, says dispatch from Delhi, Ont,
rio.