Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-01-15
CAbUALTIES.


T. B. RICHARDS, father of Professor
Richards, of Yale college, was killed at
Stamford, Conn, on the 9th, at the depot
by the Harlem railroad train. The coach
man was seriously cut and the carriage de-
molished. A young lady in the coach was
uninjured.
MITCHELL, LEWIS & Cos. extensive
wagon works ut Racine, Wis.,, were par.
TALLY destroyed by FIRE on the 9th inst,
Two children were drowned by break
ing through the ice on pond near Boston,
on the 8.h.
Two men were fatally injured by an
explosion in the glycerine buildiag of the
Latin 4 Rand Powder Co., at Whitehall,
n. Y, on the 9Th.
PETER MEATH and Edward Leonard,
two fremen, we're killed at FIRE in Mem.
phis on the 9th.
The best business house in La Grange
Mo-, were destroyed by fire on the 3th.
Loss $4,000; insurance small.
TWENTY-FIVE cars of freight train
got loose on the 9TH, at Athol, Mass, and
ran back down the grade, crashing into an
extra freight train, the engine and six cars
of which were badly wrecked. Two men
were jured.
A JAM of ice and driftwood formed at
the upper end of the boom in Grand river,
in Grand Rapids, Mich by the food, and
breaking the boom carried off about ,000,-
600 feet OF logs. Five bridges on the Grand
Rapids and the Newago road were swept
away. Damage & eat
The steamer Fisher exploded her boil
er near Pensacola, F.a,, on the 9th, killing
her captain, engineer and one other.
By the collision of two stock trains,
near Galesburg, ILL.,. on the 9th, two stock
men were killed and both trains wrecked.
THE explosion of still in Lombard
& Ayers oil works, foot of Sixty.sixth
street, North river, New York, on the 9th,
set the buildings on fire, fatally burning
James Reilley, workmsa, and seriously
burning and wounding another, James
Egan.
A LOCOMOTIVE and four freight cars
of a train on the Long Branch railroad fell
through fifty feet draw at Woodbridge on
the 9th. The wreck took fire aud several
cars were burned. The engineer was slight
ly burnt. The draw Of the bridge had been
left open.
A FREIGHT train consisting of an
engine and eleven cars broke through
bridge near Union City, o., on the Oh inst.
The engineer, fireman and brakeman were
killed.
Mrs. DANIEL HAsKINs, her daughter
Annie, aged IS, son Eddie, seed 4, and
baby, were burned TO death in fire which
consumed their home ut San Francisco,
Cal, on the 9th inst.
THE fifth floor in section of the
Greenway Brewing Cos. building at SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, fell on the 9TH and carried down
with it all the floors beneath. Two men
were slightly injured. Loss $4,000.
The railroad and turnpike bridges st
Millersburg, KY, on the Kentucky Central
railroad, were totally destroyed by fire on
the 4th. Loss $4,000.
A FIRE broke out on the morning of
the 9th in the basement of the Turner hall
on East Fourth street, New York, occupied
by VIM. Wrinkle rs ball room, and when
the flames were extiuguished William Geib,
10 years, Louis Schmidt, 80, and Teresa
Erhard, 25 were found on the top floor
dead. Wrinkle and wife were badly burned.
Annie Bauer aud Louis Meyer received
internal injuries by jumping from the
fourth story window and were badly burned
about the hands and face. servant girl
named Rose had both legs broken by jump
ing from the top floor, Henry Gehrweiler
jumped from the fourth story window and
received injuries from which he died.
Damage to building and sock $4,000.
A MASS of celluloid in machine for
grinding aud mixing material in the Cellu-
loid Manufacturing Co.'s works at Newark,
n. j., exploded on the 5th, instantly killing
WIN. Fenter aged Is, Frederick Stiles and
John Yates. Spencer Atwood died in ten
minutes from conclusion OF the brain.
Elmer Bogart, and Frederick Pierce, were
eagfully burned and taken TO the hospital.
There is no hope OF their recovery. Stephen
" wade WAS severely, but not dangerously
injured. A man named Bloom WAS fatally
burned by inhaling flame. Loss on build
ing and contents estimated at $4,000.
TIE Jenkins Manufacturing Co.
braid mill al Carver, Mass, burned on the
9Th. Loss over 500, 200; insurance $4,000.
ATRREE-YEAR.OLDF French boy named
George Bizgiuet, was found frozen TO death
in marsh near Fall River, Mass, on the
4h inst. Tbs child had wandered away
from home four dsvs previous.