The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-09-16
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

FIFTY cases of small pox are reported l.:
Troy, New York on the 4th inst.
TIE Simpson knitting factory at Toron-
to, Cam, burned on the Sth inst. Loss
heavy.
THOMPSON & Co., bankers and brokers,
Philadelphia, suspended. Liabilities,
$4,000,
The Norfolk, Va, knitting and cotton
companys factory was burned on the End
inst. Loss partly covered by $4,000 in
surance.
BAKERS block at Harris Falls, n. Y,
including Parker's opera house, and ten
other buildings were burned. Loss $780,
600.
One man was killed and six others Sc
verely injured by an explosion in the
Kelley Run coiliery at Shenandoah, Pa,
on the 3rd inst.
A BOILER in Metz Bros brewery, at
Omaha, Neb., exploded with deafenine
report, on the 9TH inst, fragments Of it
being thrown many blocks away. One
man was severely injured.
MORRIS SEAMAN, a farmer living near,
Bloomington, Ill.,, had leg broken on
the 9th inst, by a horse falling on him.
His injuries arevery severe.
The body of John Gambler was found
on the railroad track near Perryville,
Ohio, on the 9th inst His neck was
broken, and it is supposed he was struck
by passing train.
ADv1CEs from Florida, state that ter
rife storm swept over the central portion
of Florida, on the 4th inst. The post
roads are flooded, bridges washed
away and mail communication seriously
interrupted.
DURING heavy rain storm, at Rich.
mond, Va, on the 7th inst, whirl-
wind struck the lower portion of the city,
unrooffng several buildings, prostrating
fences and trees, and doing great damage
The whirlwind covered radius of more
than half mile.
A 14-YEAR-oLD son of Daniel Roberts,
living near Arcola, ILL.,, got his right hand
caught in the cog wheels of Il broom corn
thrasher. 1t was lacerated so badly that it
had to be amputated between the wrist and
elbow.
A HORSE belonging to Dr. Geiger, of St.
Joseph, Mo-, kicked l0-year-old boy,
named Julius Eckhart, in the head, frac-
turing his skull. DIR. G. interfered, when
the horse kicked him in the right knee,
dislocating the joint and knee-cap, and
breaking two ribs.
DURING heavy storm at Grand Rapids
Mich, on the 4th inst, the reservoir on
the hill broke, liberating 100000 gal
Ions of water which damaged adjacent
property to the amount of $4,000. Fit.
teen or twenty dwelling houses were
wrecked and many streets and gardens
were either scooped out or obstructed by
gravel and boulders.
AN Ontario dispatch says nine China.
men Were at work on the Canada Pacific
railway and standing on rock over a
blast, when a premature explosion took
place, and they were hurled into the air
Two had their skulls fractured. The
friends of the men seized picks and axes
and started 10 wreak vengeance on the
foreman of the gang, white man. They
chashed him several miles, but he finally
escaped.
A GRAIN warehouse near San Francisco
CAL, containing about 10000 sacks Of
wheat and barley, was burned on the 9Th
inst. Loss probably $25O,OO0. The fire
is believed to have been the work of an
incindiary, as certain characters were
marked on the building few days age
which have been found on previous occa.
sions on warehouses subsequently, fired
The fire is supposed to have been the work
of tramps.
The Atlantic coast of Florida is strewn
for forty miles with articles of freight and
equipment which are supposed to have be.
longed to the steamship Vera Cruz, Of the
Havana and Mexican line. She sailed
from New York on the 25th ult., and is
believed to have foundered during the
hurricane which recently prevailed in the
southern seas. She had crew of the