Morris tribune., 1880-04-08
CASUALTIES,

On the morning OF March 81, the wind
was blowing a gale and attained a velocity OF
90 miles an hour, at st. Louis, Mo-,
In New York city, March 80, two tin
smiths were blown from the roof of the sew
enth regiment armory and killed.
Sunday night, March 90, Fred Luber-
ing was run over by alscomotive at Louisville,
Ky. and killed. He leaves wife and several
children.
A cyclone passed over Lawrenceville,
Brunswick county, Virginia, on Saturday,
March q, demolishing houses, urrooting
trees and doing an immense amount of dam
age.
Two boys at Toronto, Ontario, playing
in boat on Sunday, March %, drifted out in
to the lake. The boat containing their dead
bodies was found near Niagara, on the morn
ing of March SOth.
During thunderstorm at Foxburg,
Pa, on Sunday night March % lightning
struck a 10000 gallon oil cask belonging to
Fox Farm Pipe line. The cask was almost
full, and total loss.
Halifax dates to pril l, states that
the weather in Nova Scotia, continues exceed
ingly stormy. Snow in the streets of Halifax
is from to 4 feet deep, and in the country in
some places 10 feet deep.
On the afternoon of Sunday, March %
fire damp explosion occurred in the Gorton
coal mines at Fairmount, W. Va. by which
two men lost their lives, and a number of min
ers were more or less bruised and burned.
A dispatch from Constantinople says
terrible distress prevailed in Asia Minor, cat
tie, sheep, and goats are being carried off in
large numbers by disease and the country be-
tween Angcra and Ismid is becoming a des-
ert.
n. Y. March 80 a fire broke out in the
galley of the police boat Seneca. All on board
were asleep at the time. The steward, Chas.
II. Berry, was burned to death in his bunk
and Officers Patrick H. Kelly and Robert j.
Vail are probably fatally burned. The others
escaped serious injury.
At Pittsburg, Pa, on the 80 of March,
additional facts developed at the coroner's in
vestigation relative to the murder of John
Goehring, inmate Of the Allegheny City aims
house, are, that the morning of July 9th, S. B.
Crawford, in charge of the insane department,
found an Insane man named Wanswan, severe
ly beating Goehring. Wanswan was locked
up, and Goehring ran into the dining room.
Crawford called Coolhatt, a half crazy inmate,
to assist him in taking Goehring back to the
room. Goehring resisted, kicking Coolhaff in
the stomach. Coolhaff was greatly angered
and returned the kick, knocking him down.
While Goehring was on the floor, held there
by Coolhaff, the latter asserts that Crawford
kicked Goehring on the head several times.
Finally they succeeded in getting him as far as
the bathroom, where he again became violent.
COolhatf then seized the roller on which the
towels were hung and struck Goehring on h
head, knocking him insensible. He was then
taken to his room, where he died at 1890 p.
m, Crawford and two inmates burying the
body very quietly the next day. In the
monthly statement of the poor board Goehring
is reported as dying from mania potu. The
affair was kept quiet. but finally leaked out
through the medium of an inmate coming to
the city and getting drunk, and telling the
story. Crawford and Coolhaff will be arrested
on charge of murder.
The building at Troy, N. Y, of Adolph
Hermann, occupied by Geo. B. Cluette, Bro &
Co, shirt aud collar manufacturers: ]. Stett-
heimer Il Co., collar manufacturers, and Her.
mann, Ankom & Co., felt shirt manufacturers
burned Saturday March 20. Loss 100000
The girls employed saved all the sewing ma.
chimes.