River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-08

about a minute and was accompanied
by internal rumblings. Hundreds of
sleeping people were awakened by the
shock, which was lively while it lasted.
Fort Sully reports a similar visitation.
A MANDAU, Dakota, special to the
PiOneer-PreSs, of Dec. Goth, says three
men, John Gallagher, Geo Hall and
John Monaghan, were found frozen to
death in Green River county, at that
point where the construction of the
Northern Pacific is going on. The men
lived in Minneapolis.
CHEYENNE dispatches af Dec. Goth
state that seventeen out of twenty five
teamsters who left Rawlins on the 25th
with supplies for troops at White River
agency were badly frozen during snow
storm thirty miles from Rawlins, and
had to be taken back. Some will lose
limbs, aud two or three cases may prove
fatal. Twenty Transfers left Cheyenne
to day TO supply their places.
AT La Crosse, Wis, Dec. Goth, Mathew
Ibeck, an employe of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St Paul railway, while walk
ing on the main line, was struck by an
engine and car, which was being backed
up, and knocked under the wheels, the
engine and car passing over him. He
was fearfully mangled, being cut entirely
in two, the intestines protruding and coy-
ering the rails and ties. Deceased was
As years of age, and Leaves wife and
seven chilG1cl in destitute circu- staa-
ces.
| THE thrC Ugh express on The Iowa and
/ Minnesota division of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul railroad, Dec. 3lst,
while running at rather high rate OF
| speed on the high embankment along the
| Mississippi river, near st. Paul, broke a
| rail, and three coaches, including sleep
| or, left the track. The sleeper broke a
] coupling and rolled down the embank-
ment into the river, a distance of sixty
/ feet but the fall was somewhat broken
by t.ie Sioux City track, half way down
/ the descent. The car was smashed to
! pieces, and the six passengers it contain
| ed were taken up insensible. 1t was al
! first thought one or more were killed, but
all were alive when picked up, thong b
seriously injured. No one forward OF
1 the sleeping car was hurt. The follow
ing are the names of the injured: Mrs
| Prior, wife of Superintendent Prior, OF
| the Milwaukee & st. Paul road, Mime
apolis; injured in the back and body
with slight bruises on the head. DR. o.
A. Stewart, of Winona, badly injured in
ternally. Ed. Blood, proprietor of the
st. James hotel, at Redwing, slightly
bruised about the head. Mrs. Blood
vile of the above, very seriously injured,
supposed 1t first TO have been killed out
right. Rev. NJ. Cowdery, of Minneapo
lis, slightly hurt. Prof Ii. E. Whitney
of Shattuck school, Fairibault, foot
crushed, will probably require amputa
ton. The three cars, after being thrown
flom the track, ran about one hundred
feet on the ties, until they came to the
end of the bridge; when fairly on the
bridge the coaches tipped toward the
river side of the road, but fortunately the
passenger coaches struck the safe guard
ing on the side of the bridge, which
Strengthened them back, while the sleep
ing car broke its coupling and was pre-
cipitated down the bank sixty feet, max
ing two revolutions ON the way, anC
stopping upon the ice at the rivers edge
a complete wreck, and with a tremen
dous crash that could be heard for miles