The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-08-26
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

ANOTHER incendiary fire was discovered
in the Opera- house block, ut Milwaukee.
on the 18th inst.
THE Grand Trunk freight sheds at Rich
mond, Quebec, with sixteen loaded cars,
have been destroyed by fire.
AT Como, Col, fire exploded 1000
pounds of powder, kept in the depot, kill
ing Charles Hilton and badly injuring
three other men.
JAMES WILKES. residing onClark street,
between Sixth and Seventh, Milwaukee,
Wis, capsized in boat on the river and
was drowned.
A LAD named Pat O'Donnel, Of Grand
Rapids, Mich, was dangerously shot in
the groin by the accidental discharge of 4
pistol while scuffling with his sister.
ROBERT WILKES, wholesale jeweler, of
Toronto, his daughter Florence, aged Is,
and his son Bertie, aged II, were drowned
at Sturgeon Point.
Mss LILLE NATTER, aged eighteen,
was walking with a gentleman near Mt.
Joy, Penn, when a spark from his cigar
set fire to her dress, and the girl was fatally
burned
The Reading, Penn, railroad bridge
across the canal near the depot, broke down
while a heavy coal train was passing over
it. Twenty cars were wrecked; nobody
hurt.
VIM. GLENDENNING, of Detroit, while
attempting to board freight train at
Furnessville while in motion, fell on the
track and had one leg broken below the
knee blythe cars passing over it. 1t was
amputated.
TIE entire wheat crop of j. P. Cooper,
of Oshtemo, Michigan, the growth of
about 40 acres, was burned in the stack, to-
gether with small lot of oats. The cause
is supposed to have been an incendiary.
AN Ogdensburg, N. Y, telegram of
Aug. 10th says the round-house of Ogdens-
burg and lake Champlai:; railway, in this
city, containing 5 locomotives, was de-
stroyed by fire this morning. Loss, SlOO,-
900; insurance unknown.
Two freight trains collided on the Sus-
quehanna division of the Delaware and
Hudson Canal company's railroad, near
Cooperstown, n. Y. Twenty-Five cars were
demolished, two men killed, and several
injured.
A PORTABLE engine boiler exploded at
Hamlin, near Rochester, N. Y, on the 18th
inst, killing boy and injuring two or
three other people. The boiler was
thrown two hundred feet thorough a
barn.
A s1x-YEAR-oLD son of. 3. Alexander,
of Dunkirk, Ohio, initiating the quarry
men, drilled hole in the ground, filled it
with powder, and tuched it off with a
match. He was frightfully burned about
the face, and will lose the sight of both
eyes.
WHILE two little daughters of Martin
Powell, saloon-keeper of Peoria, III,
were PLAYING in an excavation for cellar,
one side of the pit caved in and covered
them with sand. The youngest girl
cripple, was rescued unharmed, but when
the other was reached, after ten minutes
shoyeling, she was found to be dead.
| A SPECIAL to the Pioneer Press says r
IS. Smiley, of Spring Lake, Scott county
Mian., drove into the lake to water hi:
horses, with his wife and three boys, aged
twelve, ten and one year in the wagoI
with him. The horses became restless ano
unmanageable and overturned the wagon
The bows were drowned and his wife bare
" escaped. Smiley is nearly crazed with
grief.
TIE freight train on the st. Paul ant
& Duluth railroad was wrecked near Pln'
city, on the l4th inst, by.a broken rail
Nine cars we're thrown. from the track
Three boys, living at Minneapolis. names