Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-05-13
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

A FIRE in Cleveland on the 4th inst
destroyed an ice house and $4,000 worth
of ice.
THE residence of A. S. Allen near
Kalamazoo, Mich, burned on the 4th
inst, loss $3,C00
A WARRENTON n. j., dispatch of the
9TH, says the whole population of that
reglon is out fighting forest fires, whic
are doing great damage in the cedar
woods.
A NEwsBoY named Jimmy Bolan was
| caught in an elevator in Milwaukee
while peddliDg papers and crushed to
death.
THOMAS MCGRATH, timer of Morris
Ill, was struck by lightning while tin
ming on roof on Saturday last. He
cannot recover.
Two young men named Crocker and
MILAN started from Raleigh n. c., on
the 7th inst, in boat to attend the Good
remplars picnic; the boat being cap
sized by squall both were drowned.
AT Crestline, Ohio year old child
of James Sampsell, of this place was
poisoned to death yesterday from eatin G
wild parsnips. The body showed signs
of modification in three hours after
death.
LATER advices from the storm on the
Columbia river, Oregon, report the loss
of life at twenty-five. Some others are
missing and supposed to have been car
ried away by the flood.
AN express train on the ST. Louis &
Iron Mountain railway ran into a wash
out on Sunday morning, wrecking the
engine, tender, baggage and express
cars, and instantly killing the fireman
and engineer. No passengers injured.
RAY McCRosAN, aged four, and
Thomas K. Garland, aged five, PLAYING
in barn on Francis street, in Buffalo,
n. Y, made bonfire. The barn was
burned, and the boys were roasted so as
to have no resent blance to human beings.
They played with matches.
A CoLDwATER, Mich, dispatch says
that while Charles Appleton was driving G
one stallion and leading another, twelve
miles east of this city, the latter became
enraged, seized Mr.. A. by the arm nearly
tearing it off, dragged him from his car,
| riage, and literally stamped him to
death before assistance could be render,
| ed
HUsE, Loomis 6 Co.'s extensive ice
houses at st. Louis, caught fire about 1O
O'Clock, Sunday morning, in the midst
of tremendous thunder and lightning
| storm, and were consumed The houses
were seventy-fve feet front each, by one
b 1ndred and thirty feet deep, forty tc
fifty feet high, and were filled with ice
The three houses contained 10000 ol
$4,000 tons of ice, nearly all of which il
believed to have been destroyed. Los:
estimated at $50, 900 to 100000. The in
surance can not be ascertained tonight
A SPECIAL from Marshfeld, Mo, gives
a horrible picture of the tornado-ruine(
town. 1t says no pen can describe th,
desolateness of the place. The warmth
and brightness of day appeared like {
mockery in the presence of the burial
place of once prosperous town of 1 ,2O(
inhabitants. There are now thirty three
persons in the hospital two of these will
probably die. Five of the wourded hav'
died since the tornado. The exact mum
ber Of dead up 10 date is sixty five Th'
relief committee is now giving aid t
$50 persons.
A BRADFORD Pa, dispatch says tha
destructive fires are still raging in Trail
Hollow and oil Valley. Hundreds o
men are endeavoring to confine and sub
due the flames at that point. The great
est number of rigs and tanks of oil wer
consumed in Foster Brook Valley, alon!
Harrisburg Run; in Kendall Creek Val
ley, and about the summit. The fire al
so ragged near Tarport and DeGolYer
The scope of territory in which the fir
prevailed is twelve miles in extent
Smaller, but dangerous fires are still
burning in all parts of the woods