The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-07-08

barges were sunk and the steamer was bad
ly damaged. The loss is about 100000
Navigation of the canal is interrupted:
The Burlington, Wis.,, wooden mills,
owned by Fred S. Alderman, were burned
to the ground on the LIST inst The super
intendent, Mr.. J. P. Willard, slept in the
factory and was burned alive. The build
ing, machinery and stock are total loss.
AT Woodsdale, six miles north of Ham
ilton, O., the large paper. mill of the
| Woodsdale Paper Company, was entirely
destroyed by fire on the Goth inst. Loss
estimated at $4,000; insured for $4,000.
Sixty employees thrown out of work.
As Thomas Manning, Jr., a we'll to do
| farmer was returning home on horseback,
crossing the dyke at Columbus, Iowa, the
bank, being covered with water, gave way,
precipitating horse and rider down a steep
embankment into deep water Both horse
! and rider we're drowned. The body has
| not been recovered.
| THOMAS DAVIS, Welshman, one day
last week leaned out of Michigan Gen.
trail railroad car window, near Jackson,
and had his elbow shattered by the unse-
cured door of freight-car. The limb was
amputated, and, although the patient
showed every sign of recovery, he suddenly
fell dead in the hospital on Tuesday at mid
night.
T. 7. OWENS, of Marshall, Texas, To-
connective engineer of the Texas and Pacific
railroad, was last week bitten by taran-
tula. and has suffered untold agony. For
time his life was despaired of, though at
tended by six able physicians. He has so
far recovered as to be removed home, and
his ultimate recovery is thought probable.
WHILE Robert Wheelock, middle-aged
man, was grinding a Rowing-machine Sec
tion-knife at l. NJ Clarke's foundry and
machine-shop at Howell, Mich, the belt
that run the stone caught the knife, and,
tearing it from Wheelock's hands, swung
it against his body, cutting one leg and
one hand so badly that the hand, and pos
sibly the leg, will have to be amputated.
THE Steam Cordage Company's store
house of Elizabeth. N. Y, was burned on
Goth inst. Loss, $4,000; insured. The
fire was caused by spontaneous combustion.
While the fremen were at work the south
wall fell, killing William H. Wood, fire.
man, and William Losby, an employ in
the rope works, fatally iniuring James
Marsh and James Moore, and seriously
hurting John Haven and John Seifert.
DURING the prevalence of a, thunder
storm at Carri1lton KXf,, lightning struck
a locust tree in the yaA of L. E.. Evans,
about three miles east Of that city, and in
stantly killed Albert Rpbey, n years of age
son of Richard Robey, of Blufdale. The
current struck him in. the. top of the
shoulder, driving splinter from the tree
into his body, and passed down his right
side, tearing off his clothing and his boot.
One or two buildings in the city were
struck, but no serious damage resulted.
AN accident occurred on the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe railroad, three miles
west of Sargent, Kan, resulting in the
death of one person and the wounding of
several others, two probably fatally. The
train was running about twenty miles per
hour, when the smoking-car jumped the
track, the last two cars following it, going
down five-feet embankment The engine,
baggage and express car escaped. The scene
in the cars was beyond description, women
and children crying and screaming for help
and men bleeding from wounds, crawling
out of the windows. One lady was caught
between broken seats. Her husband lay
unconscious short distance away, while
her child sat unframed among the cushions.
The sleeping-car kept the track.