Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-04-15

COACH Oh ths BeIIaire a1d Southwestern
rzil-1s6 JUMPED : tzzstSe near BeI2irs, O., OK
tie 9Th instant and vent down fftes1 feet
tbs car contained fifteen or twenty passengers,
Of whom fge or Elk arg m 1red more or les. -
rIocszT.
A FIzE ~ Alta, Ioza. on the It'll instant, de-
s7ro.si haE d the buz,nes portioa ofthe town
Fifteen buildings burned Loss Is, 90; III
sEraocs $500
TEE Waterbury, Coun.. watch WORKS we're
damaged by ire Gil the .th. Loss S13, JD: H.
szrznoe 49, Goa.
A DISASTROUS Ere occurred st Dixon Ii, or
the I'll list, breaking out IL Thompson d Co 1
min and before arrested burned Becker It I'm
3er~ood's mil, 8. c. Ellis & Co.'S fa1 mil, and
some milo. buildiLgs. Loss $4,000; one
third insured Ezra Becker slld y iiil2ln SchuIn,
Z clerk II the drug store, acre slEesd william.
Bunk had both arTns bruEel, aid {. L. lAai,
Patrick Duffy, Oryille Anderson. ". ". Saun
and frank Guizenberger were al badly injured.
Z All explosion caused the loss Of life and injury.
4 The Touring mil OF Cock & Abbott, at Lock
port. Ind, was destroyed by fire on the It'll
inst. Loss Sls, coo; insurance $500.
I TIE steamer syria, from New Orle.ns for Li7-
4 eTool with $3.50 bales Of cotton and 30 tons
/ Of ol cake, was abandoned at SEA because Of the
I loss Of rudder and gternpos, and breaking Of the
i.-4i. d47~HAi 5s Ptpe- LIE se~@l'es Oe4ieiI 'DoA
Of the crew.
The manufacturing establishment owned by
I the Isaac Butts estate at Rochester, n. T., and
Z occupied by -ash, door and blind manufacturers,
I burned on the It'll mt Loss about SlDJ, 600;
insurance $4,000.
Z The Gloucester fishing schooner Annie c.
( Norwood, Captain Hurs:, and crew Of fourteen
( men, was supposed to have been lost In the
March gales
/ fIRE at Waverly, No., on the 18th inst,
I burned large bricll warehouse and $4,000
/ bushels Of grain, principally corn, and consid-
( cradle property.
FRED. Coog, a seaman, fen overheard from
I the schooner Goshask, on Lake Michigan, eff
Manitowoc, Wis, on the night Of the 9Th inst,
I and was drowned. The mate and three men
( went IL search OF lin in the boat, but became
! lost in the darkness, and after night Of peril
/ and suffering, reached Chicago.
! The ship shannon, from Baltimore has ar
I rived at Queenstown, with ten of the crew Of
/ the British bark Queen Of Hearts, Captain
4 Matter, from Mobile, February 26th, for Bel
I fast, abandoned, water logged, and after losing
/ fore and maiiImast and five Of the crew.
! The night express that left Boston at 10
I O'Clock on the 9Th instant, for New York via
I Springfield was partially wrecked by the caying
] 81 al tIIDalhIltIlt ABOUT lII6t Uluts NOfJUNtst
I Of Meridian, Conn. Although the two express
cars we're thrown down twelve foot bank and
/ the rest Of the train badly tumbled around no.
/ body was seriously injured. The train was GO
1 ing at a speed Of 80 miles 8p hour.
! BBAcKE1r's block, Minneapolis. Mimi, with
I contents was destroyed by fire on the 9th inst.
/ Loss S172, 600; insurance -52,56
I Os the night Of the 18th inst, near Memphis,
/ three colored children, aged !, 2 and years,
were burned 10 death. They had been left III b
cabin by their parents, who attended church.
The lire originated by the explosion of a coal
oil lamp. All three perished before assistance
came.
A FIRE in a village i'll Savoy killed seventeen
persons and destroyed thirty-one dwellings.
SEVERE rain, bail and wind storm visited
Wheeling, ". Va, on the 4th instant, resulting
IN the destruction of considerable property.
! The roof of the Riverside Nail Works was
blown off to the track Of the BalslEnore and
/ Ohio Railroad. The stbeple Of the Third Pres
| byterian church was blown down and the three
story frame addition Of Reltzs carriage factory
totally destroyed. No lives lost.
Or the evening of the 18th instant, while four
soldiers of the Royal Artillery, Gunners Payne,
/ ONeill, Mclli8h and Hurst, were returning
across the bay at Halifax, from Georges ISL
and where they had been visiting friends, the
| boat soamped and were thrown into the
water. Hurst caught hold Of the boat and
I foated TILL assistance came. The other three
were drowned.
! The white lead works of Mofatt and Scar
! geant, at Joplin, No., burned on the 4th inst,
! together with the foundry Of W. s. Harmony
and machine shops of Leckie & Co. Loss esti-
mated at nearly e250000; insurance less than
| $4,000.
The large building occupied by Brown, Hin
man Co., woodworkers, at Columbus, o.,
| penitentiary was burned to the ground on the
! 4th inst, and its contents, including machinery,
/ two engines, tools and stock, were destroyed.
| The firm loss will probably be $4,000.
The boiler IN the saw mill Of John II. Lamb,
situated ten miles from Rushville, Ill.,. exploded
on the 81 inst. with terrific force, demohshing
the mill and Instantly killing Wesley ". Parker,
| fatally wounding John Randall and Thomas
Jones, and seriously injuring two other persons.
AT Ottawa, Kansas, on the I'd inst, a large
number of residences were lcyeled and the roof
of the X c. l.. &. S. railroad depot torn off 10y
a cyclone. Twelve or fifteen residences were
wrecked by the same zephyr at North Ottawa.
The evening train was caught at the junction a
mile north Of the town and one passenger and
| two freight cars were upset. In the vicinity OF
/ Girard the storm demolished seventeen houses
/ and killed several people.
JAMES WILLIAMS, Of Dunkirk, Ohio, was
burned to death in the fire at Bradford, Pa, on
the End inst.
MksGEIEASE0US