Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-01-30
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

PETER hUNZ, an old resident OF Mil
waukee, suicided Jan 30, by shooting
himself through the head with revolv
err.
jules METzLER, young German,
committed suicide at his room on Ran.
dolph street, in Chicago, Jan. 22, by tax.
ing arsenic. Cause unknown.
Two men were killed and several in.
jured by the explosion of a threshing
machine boiler near Clinton, Ont, Jan.
leg.
A FIRE at GAINESVILLE, MINI, Jan. 22nd
destroyed the stores of w. McGreer,
Rogers Bros, Carter 81 Merrill and John
Bracish. Loss $4,000; insurance about
$4,000.
THE shoe shop attached to the Kings
county, N. Y, penitentiary, burned Jan
Goth. All the prisoners at wcrk in the
shops were rescued in good order, none
escaping.
| FRITZ CUEsNER, postmaster at Bass
Lake, Mimi, died yesterday, says a
Minneapolis special Of Jan. 25th, from
injuries received few days previous, by
having load Of wood tip. over on him.
THE steamboat Charter, with 2,100
bales Of cotton, was totally destroyed by
| fire 10 miles above the mouth of Red
river, Jan 28 Eight lives were lost, two
chambermaids, two cooks, Two cabin
| boys, one fireman and one deck hand.
The boat and cargo were valued at $780,
600.
A TRAIN on the elevated railroad in
New York city was thrown from the
track by misplaced switch Jan. Gath.
The engine fell % feet into the street, but
all the coaches remained on the track.
| There were five men on the engine, all
Of whom we're badly though not fatally
hurt
ADyIcEs from Cherry Valley, Kansas,
Jan. %, say that the building occupied
by the Globe printing office and sleeping
rooms on the upper floors, and a furni
ture store below, was burned night before
last, and that Il. G. Henderson, foreman,
and William McLain, printer, of the
Globe company, persisted in the flames.
An cmploye of the St. Louis and San
Francisco railroad company was serious
ly burned. Three others were sleeping
in the building, but escaped by jumping
from the windows.
City, H., Jan oath. The losses were:
H. tOuh, BlOCtIJj Pl,OVO iuoulVu VI ibS
Palmer, millinery, $500, small Insurance.;
"a 800; Stuart ~ Stuart, drugs, 81 900,
insured; J.. B. Eulass, grocery, $1,100,
insured; y. M, Riddle, shoe store 81 500,
insured; Saylor Bros, grocery, $4,000,
insurance $500; G. W. Ellsburrey, at
torney, $1,000, insured; DR.. r. W.
Sharpe, 5000, TO insurance.
ABOUT nine O'Clock on the morning of
Jan. 25ih at Iowa City, Iowa, pistol shots
were heard in quick succession in the
upper part of Mahon's European hotel,
corner of Dubuque street and Iowa ave.
nue.. Servants rushed up stairs and
found the dead body Of the proprietor,
Thomas Mahon, lying at the head of the
stairs, pistol in his hand, and his al
most frantic wife bending over him. For
the past ten days he had been
drinking quite heavily, so that
he was some days confined to
his bed, and suffered from brain fever.
The shooting of himself Is claimed to
have been unprecedented The grief of
his wife was extreme, and II is feared
that she w,'l not Withstand the shock.
The coroner at once summoned jury,
and after examination of Mrs. Mahon
and the servants, returned verdict that
the deceased came to his death by the
accidental discharge of pis tol in his
own hands. Mahon was "a years old.
A TERRIBLE collision occurred be
tween two heavy freight trains on the
Philadelphia and Erie railroad, Jan. 22nd
between tho stations of Cameron and
Sterling, by which three men were killed
and three others fatally injured. The
wreck was complete, the broken engines
and cars being scattered for a long dis
lance. Engineer Dean, of the west
bound train, and the fireman and head
brakeman Of the east. bound train were
found buried beneath the debris, and
when taken out they were all dead,
Three other train men were rescued rs
soon MS possible, and though still alive,
no hopes are entertained of their re.
covery. Both engines and twenty cars
arc total wreck, and the loss is very
heavy. The cause of the accident was
the failure on the part of the operator at
Cameron to deliver orders to the east
bound train, which would have held IL
at Cameron, and which the operator had
in his possession. AS soon IA the ac-
cident occurred, and Its fatal results
were learned, the operator was ar
rested and jailed, while excited men in
large numbers clustered in groups, and
talked loudly of lynching him. The
sheriff with posse of fifty men are
guarding the Jail, and doing everything
possible to quiet the angered multitude
SO great was the catastrophe, and so un.
expected its results, that the citizens
and friends Of the killed clamor loudly
for vengeance, and may yet add lynch
| law To the horrors OF the occasion.
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