River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-29
ACCIDENTS.

SECRETARY SrICKNEY. of the Ute COM
mission, has died at Los Pinos, of typhoid
fever
MR4 NEsMTH, wife of lieutenant in
the navy, and two children were drowned,
at Atlantic City. on the Dist inst.
TIE saw-mill of Webster & Lawson, in
Menasha, Wis, has been destroyed by fire
Loss, $4,000: insurance, $5,5Oo.
A FLoUR-MILL, at St. Genevieve, Mo,
was demolished by a boiler explosion. on
Goth inst, and two lives were lost.
GEORGE REYNOLDS, of Vernon, Ohio, 10
wears of age, was disembowled by horse
rake, the horse running away. Ills inlur-
les are fatal.
r. Il. HAMMOND, of Meadyille, Penn,
was Instantly killed by falling limb
while chopping timber, in Wayne town
ship.
An eleven-year-old daughter of Peter
Butt, of Marshfeld, Wis, jumped from a
fence upon a scythe and severed her foot
1t the instep.
The business portion of Gibsonville,
Sierra county, California, on the 24th
inst, was burned. The loss is over $50
900.
AT 1opsfield, Mass, Lewis. aged 10, the
son of Albert Simonds, while bathing got
befonl his depth, and his father going to
his rescue, both were drowned.
WHILE Joseph White. of Gaylord,
Mich, was removing lumber from his
well, it caved in, burying him forty feet
down He leaves three children.
THE Northwestern hotel, at Fort How
ard, Wis, was destroyed by fire, late on
18th inst Many of the guests were obliged
to Jump from windows. The loss is about
$4,000.
ToNY DEFUATEs, deaf and dumb boy,
as run over at Jacksonville, ILL.,, by the
fast express train on the Wabash, st. Louis
and Pacific railway. He was literally torn
to pieces, and killed instantly.
f. Il. CHAMBERs, editor of the Fargo
Times, was fatally injured by fall from a
wagon on the 24th inst.
A ytuNG man named Harry Hunter fell
from car of the Detroit and Bay City
train ON which he was stealing ride near
the junction. and died during the night of
lis injuries.
FHIMoRE, Patterson, x Huttons large
store house, at Denver, Colo, with two
thousand bales of hay and five loaded
freight ears was burned on the DIST inst.
Loss, 5000 to $4,000. An ineendiary set
the flame,
4 SPECIAL from Ninepeg 10 the PtoHeer-
Press saws while Constable Powers was
crossing Red river with Mike Carroll, an
escaped prisoner, Carroll upset the boat
and both were drowned
JosEpH MIDDLETON an employe Of the
Northwestern Railroad Company lost his
footing while stepping from freight train
in motion at Sterling. Ill. The left foot
was crushed by the car-wheels, ard the
limb amputated above the ankle joint.
MoRRISoN's saw-mill at Motley, Mimi,
was destroyed by fire on the 2lst inst.
George johnson. head sawyer, was asleep
in the mill when it t.. < fire, and was
burned to death. The lo-- on mill machin-
erv. and lumber amounts to $4,000. on
which there is no insurance.
WM. KINGS. a boy II wears old. was al
most Instantly killed at Michigan City.
Indiana, by being ammed between the
wheels of a buggy and railroad fence
near the car wards at that place. The
team Was frightened by passing locomo-
tive 4 little sister at the boy was serious
II injured at the same time.
joins BRYAN and Ira Overload, living
near JcticrNon. Greene county, were suff0-
Gated in a well on the 2lst inst As the
well was filled with foul air, it was only by
means of hooks that the bodies could be
reached Mr. Bryan was caught in the
Jaw and hoisted 10 the surface, and Mr..
Oyerhold in the abdomen. 1t was sickly
sight.
MARY ISABELLA, 30 years of age, daugh-
ter of samuel McQuaid. residing atCold-
enham New York. attempted to light q
fire with kerosene. when the can of oil ex-
ploded. and she was fatally burned. Her
father, a sister and hired man also re-
ceived burns in their efforts to save her
While enyeloped in flames she ran wildly
about the house, which took fire in several
places.
AN excursion train, from Indianapolis
Ind, was ditched on the Goth inst, near TT.
WAYNE Edward f. Stuart, of Mobiles
vile, was instantly killed and about TWEEN
tv persons wounded Among the fatally
wounded are Walter Ill. Rivers, private
secretary Of Hon. Wm H. English, John
Gum, of Westfield, and Seward Hurst, OF
Pennsylvania A number OF Others are