River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-09-16
Accidents.

The Simpson knitting factory at Toron-
to, Can, burned on the Sth inst. Loss
heavy.
THE Eagle facing works of $. Obermeyer
y Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio, burned on the
9th inst, involving loss of $4,000.
WHILE Mrs August Menzie was ironing,
on ;he 9th inst, herllittle daughter strayed
away, and was found two hours after
drowned in a cistern.
FREDDIE, an S-year-old son of John NJ.
Gallon, of Atlanta. Ill.,. was instantly kill
ed, while visiting in the country, by a wag-
on loaded with wood passing over his
body
BY an explosion of boiler Of mill on
the lower Bergs place, near Concordla,
Miss, VIM. Pole was killed and four ne
groes probably fatally scalded.
FROST froze the cranberries quite severe
Is, i'm Berlin, Wis, on the 10th inst On
Sacket's marsh, one-fourth, it is estimated,
were frost bitten, and some other marshes
were even worse affected.
TIE forest fires in eastern Quebec have
not vet burned themselves out, but there is
no longer any danger to human life. An
area thirty miles long by fifteen miles broad
has been laid waste.
THE coast of Florida is piled high with
wrecks Some of the Inflated vessels are
so thoroughly destroyed that they can not
be recognized The loss of life has boon
very great.
4 FIRE in the business quarter of Mobile,
Ala, DESTROYED the buildings occupied by
D. 4. Dunlap. I. P, Miller q Co., Overill
d Bestor l. W. Porter 4 Co, and f..
! 4 no - % ~
sur.nce 100000.
The captain and fireman of the tug Je-
rome, at Grand Haven, Mich, went to
sleep. the one in the pilot-house and the
other in the engine-room. After a while
hc boiler exploded, out, although the YES
sci vas literally demolished, fragments of
it being thrown a distance of three hun
dred feet, and the captain dumped out on
the dock all in heap, neither of the men
received serious injuries.
Az late hour Sunday night, special
oyster train on the b. x @. r. r.. ran in
to 4 calf near Foster, Ohio, and was thrown
from the track. Engineer VIM. Sander
son was TANNED against the fire box and
held until roasted to death. The fireman
jumped and was injured in such a manner
as 10 render him insane, and he wandered
found. Six cars were demolished.
The Atlantic coast of Florida is strewn
for forty miles with articles of freight and
equipment witch are supposed to have be
longed to the steamship Vera Cruz, of the
Havana and Mexican line She sailed
from New York on the 18th ult., and is be-
lieved to have foundered during the hur
ricauc which recently prevailed in the
southern seas. She had crew Of the
usual number, and twenty-seven passen-
gers, all of whom are probably lost.
A FIRE broke out in the business portion
of Salamanca village, Penn, and consumed
some twenty-fcur properties. The entire
loss is estimated at 100000. The fire
gained great Roadway on account of the
scarcity of water. Locomotives were kept
running to the tanks on the road to bring a
suppl, TO the hand engine of the village
fire department The heaviest losers are
w. T. Fisher, dry goods 800. 1000; Berz &
Colvert. hardware, $4,000; Heivener
Bros. $4,000. 1t was rumored that three
persons persisted in the flames. The fire is
supposed to have been the work Of an in
cendiary.