The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-12-11
Burned 10 Death.

Wllhelmina Shindler, a servant girl at Detroit
Mich, undertook TO ldndle slow fire by pour
ing on kerosene oil. The usual result followed
ignition of the oil. explosion and setting the
girls clothing on fire. When discovered she
was one mass of flames. and lived but a short
time.
On the morning of the I'd inst, Mrs. Carey
was found in bed at her residence in Toronto,
with her two children in the same room roasted
to death.
At PALMYRA, n Y. on the night of the 9th
ult.. q man named Gallagher and two comrades
all drunk. went aboard a canalbOat. An hour
later the boat was III flames and the cham ed
corpse of Gallagher was found in the cabin so
burned that the limbs crumbled into ashes.
Lee and Johnson, the men who accompanied
him to the boat. have been arrested on charge
of murder
Two children of George Malloy, cotton
planter. residing near Laurinburg, \. c., met
horrible death on the Goth ult The old people
went off distance of half mile from the
house to see after the cotton picking. and before
leaving tied the children close to the fire place,
in which good log fire was blazing. The old
people returned at sunset and saw the house i'll
flames. All that was left of the imprisoned
children IN the morning was a few small bones.
The twO-year Old girl of John Cain, rail-
r0ader, living at indianapolis, Ind, was left
asleep by her mother while she went across the
street for water, on the Goth nit In her alb
sence the little one woke up and began playing
with the fire. Her clothing caught, and, before
the Mortified mother could rescue her. her en-
tire body, except the right arm and upper part
of her face, was burned to a crisp. She died in
half an hour.
Marine Disasters.
The ice IN the River Volga, at Mini Nov
gorod, broke on the Both ult.. in consequence
Of the warm weather which prevailed in that
region. The breaking Of the ice caused the de-
ltq 1,or, a
the spelling of a large quantity Of grain,
naphtha, and fish. The loss is very great.
The steamer Nanitoulin arrived at Owen
Sound, Ont, on the Both, from Manitoulin isl
and. She brought J. G. Perkins, first mate.
JnO Nesbitt first engineer. Robert McEnerv.
wheciaman. Matt. Mobiles, fireman, and z.
Croft. deck hand. of the steamer Simcoe, which
fouHdered the 9th inst, in the vicinity of
MaIltoulln island. The five named succeeded
in leaving the wreck in a boat and made ineffec-
tual efforts to rescue their companions who
we're cliuging TO the floating upper works of the
steamer. The following are the names Of those
lost: Richard Hill captain; Robert NcNab,
second mate; Ben MIlwood, Wheelsman; John
Henry, fireman. Tom 0'Hare, Tom Lew, Donald
Car aud McDougal deck hands; Julia Gibbon,
ladies' maid; Lydia Williams, cook; George
Pelton, porter; and one deck hand name IN
known.
Captain Worthen OF ife-saving station No. Z
on the Massachusetts, coast and Elisha y. Tav-
lar ard Frank Mayo, surfmen, were drowned on
the night Of the 18th. The crew had rescued
three of the men of the stranded schooner g.
f. Trumbuil and was about to take off the re-
mainder when the boat was struck by the boom
Of the schooner and capszed. The crew not
drL wned got ashore in an exhausted condition.
TLescho0ner drifted away with the captain and
pilot on board, and finally came to anchor of
Chatham, Mass.
The bark Mosolle, Of Prince Edward Island
from Montreal, with a cargo Of grain for Ham
burgh. was dismastcd III the Gulf, recently.
One of the crew died from exposure and fouI Of
I'VE others were badly frozen Bark Oranio
from Quebec for Montevideo, lumber laden
was totally wrecked in the same gale. Bark
Alice, from Quebec for Montcyideo, with &
cargo Of lumber, was roughly handled by the
storm and had four Of the crew badly injured