The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-07-01
outbuildings, and much other property
Loss, $50, 600; insurance. $4,000.

outbuildings, and much other property.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
f. MIR. Z. c.. CHENowETH, Of Kansas, re-
Gently student in the state agricultural
Ecellege, was drowned in the Kansas river,
on Saturday last. He was teaching school
II in that vicinity, and was bathing at the
A BLAST exploding unexpectedly in an
excavation on the river bank between
West Forty-ffth and West Forty-sixth
streets, New York, caused the death of
| three out of sixteen workmen employed
there. The rest escaped.
The soda and mineral water factory,
owned by C. w. Arnold, of South Bend,
Ind, was fired by incendiaries on the 18th
inst, and burned Four horses which
were stabbed in the basement, were roasted
to death. John Gallagher's barn was also
burned by incendiaries.
Mrs. FRED HOLMAN, wife of grain
dealer at Grand Park, ILL.,, was killed by
being run over by the cars. A child, car
ried in her arms, had one leg cut off. The
coroner's jury hold the train employees re-
sponsible for the accident.
J. L. MYERS, a canvassing agent, living
south of Wiota, Iowa, was killed by freight
train No. 26, the engine and nineteen cars
passing over his body. His limbs were
horribly mangled. When seen by the en-
ginecr he was lying inside of the track
with his limbs across one rail.
A 16-YEAR-oLD son of Walter Montgom-
cry, Of Atlanta, ILL.,, shot and fatally
wounded a lO-year-old brother. The older
brother was handling revolver, and said
to the younger: "Your money or your life, u
and fired, the ball entering just below the
right nipple. The boy said he had no idea
Of shooting, and thought there was no load
in the revolver.
SIMON WRIGHT, a cattle shipper of Mary
vile, Mo-, in attempting to pass from one
car to the other, at Burlington, Iowa, fell
between them and was instantly killed.
The accident occurred near the central
part of the city, and the head, arms, and
legs of the unfortunate man were cut OFT
by the car wheels, leaving the trunk of the
body an unrecognizable mass.
MICHAEL WEIGH, a trackman in the
employ of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad company at Yorkville,
ILL.,, was sunstruck about ! o'clock on the
9th inst. and remained unconscious until
half-past 3 o'clock, when he expired. He
was sunstruck while at work on the track.
Deceased was a single man, aged 40 years,
and had only been on this section a few
days.
A TERRIBLE accident at Yellow Jacket
mine, at Gold Hill, Nevada, occurred on
the 2lst inst, occasioned by a carload of
tools falling from near the surface to the
bottom, where eight men were on the skip.
-Four were instantly killed, namely: Neil
Gallagher, Al. Tcmby, Timothy Wilkins,
and E. Whitcomb. John Frezona had his
thigh broken. H. Williams has an arm of,
and Barney Coyle and Frank Hammond
are slightly injured.
AS the special Of the Burlington and
Missouri river railroad, consisting of an
engine and pay car, were going east over
the Atchison and Nebraska railroad, it
struck an elderly gentleman on the track,
about four miles from Lincoln, Neb., cut
ting off his head, both legs, and most fear
fully mangling his body. All that re-
manned of the unfortunate man, they
gathered in sheet and carried to Race,
where he awaits identification. The coro-
ner has been notified.