The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-12
CASlAl.TIES.

Or the morning Of the 18th Marsh Dyer, W.
+. Amer and DIR. ". Wolf, white men, with one
MeUcalf aud another colored man, III attempting
10 row across the head of the ldlcwild, lying AT
Cascyyille, Ind, were carried by the current
against tie bow of the boat and prcGpitated
into the liver. All except one of the eoiored
men were drowned. They were all prominent
and highly esteemed citizens of Cascyville.
BY an explosion of fire damp in mine ut
Scranton, Pa, on the 9th inst. one man WAS
killed and eight more, still in the mine, were
supposed to bc killed by foul air.
Two men were killed and Il number wounded
by the breaking of Il skip i'll II shaft in the
Shurtliffe iron mine, at Water,own, \. V, on
the 9Th inst.
MCKENzIE's grist aud box mill at Barr Mills,
Me-, burned on the eth inst, together with Il
covered bridge $50 feet long. Loss ~GO,UU0;
partially insured.
4 rERRrHiE wind storm swept over portions
Of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, on the 9Th inst,
making sad havoc among loose chimneyS, signs,
etc., and insecure buildings. The damage, al.
though not heavy IN any one locality, will aggrc-
gate quite large III the territory Visited by tho tor
nadu. At Cleveland falling wall killed Julius
Brown and injured several other. AZ Toledo,
Il chimney OF the Buckeye brewery fell and
crushed the engine house, killing Policeman
John llassett and VI. L. Doyle.
LEHRKIND's brewery, two miles from Daycn
port, Iowa, burned ON the 18th inst. Loss S2i,-
OOo; insurance $1,000. 1t contained about H.
600 bushels of grain.
| AT Circleville, Ohio, ON the morning Of the
! ith inst, the Muskinaim Valley railway depot
Was struck by lightning and burned to the
ground.
/ 4 FIRE in Brincklcy, Ark, on the Sd instant,
burned large hotel. Loss $4,000; insured.
4 - MIA nip mill md In
factory of the Domestic Sewing Machine COM
pany in New York city were entirely consumed
| by ire on the "a instant. Loss to both about
Sl50,000. Stewards carpet factory, adjoining,
| suffered heavy loss by flooding. The engineer
I of the planning mill, karetz +. Decarcy, was fa
| tally burned.
! A rIRE on Main street, WikesbsIc, Pa, on
the "a Instant, caused II loss of $4,000
The village Of Bergen, GcneSoe county, n. V,
was DESTROYED by an incendiary fire on the 81
inst. Every business place i'll the village but
/ onc-tweuty-ciSht i'll all-was burned to the
! ground. Nine families were lett homeless. The
lire commenced with loud explosion supposed
TO be caused 10y kegs of powder placed under
some buildings by incendiares. Fourteen wears
ago the village was burned i'll the same manner
and suspicion points TO two persons who hen,
as now, carried heavy insurance on property de-
stroyud.
rhis, Tenn, Was DESTROYED by lire on the LIST.
, Loss about S65,uO0.
Two Dung men named RuStin and Knox,
who Il ppeared from Evansville, Ind, wer
found ON the lst inst, about live miles from ia
ity and mile from the river, dead. They had
become bewillercd in the deep mud left by the
overflow, and persisted miserably from cold and
exhaustion.
BY railway collision at Chicago, on the 1st
inst. one ,4ianc and freight car were wrecked.
.Jsmage about $1,000. No lives lost.
The Atlantic and Virginia Fertilizer compa-
! ny's factory at Orient Harbor, Long Island, was
| burned Oh the 18th. Loss Sli0,OU0; insurance
| S75,OUU.
GooDwuIIE Bios box factory and Han
sons picture frame manufactoiy at Chicago
! burned on the 18th ult. Loss between SlO, 900
! and $4,000; insurance small.
THE steamer IIindoo. from Hull for New York,
was abandoned at sea, on beam ends, on the
22d ult., in latitude IL degrees so minutes and
longitude fl degrees minutes. The first and
second officer and quartcrmastcr had been
swept overheard. The remainder of the crew
and pas.cngcr'-j2 in number-were picked up
by the steamer Alexandria and brought to New
York. The Alexandria also brought in the crew
Of the brig Julia, abandoned at sea in a sinking
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