Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-22
Marine Disasters

Barge No. So, belonging to the Mississippi
Valley Transportation company, laden with 35,
900 bushels of corn, struck one of the piers of a
bridge near st. Louis on the 18th inst, and
sunk. Ihe barge was valued at $4,000 and the
During violent squall OH the night of the 9th
inst, the schooner Joseph Duval, of Racine,
Wis.,. was capsized off Two Rivers point, Lake
Michigan. The wreck was discovered on the
18th inst, but no trace OF the crew of seven
persons was found and it is supposed they were
all drowned. The vessel will be recovered.
The steam barge J. H. Morse of Sandusky,
and propeller City of st. GATHERINGS, colided ofi
Forestville, Mich, at o'clock on the 12th inst.
The latter sunk in three fathoms of water.
There were 80 passengers and the crew on the
propeller, who were taken on board the Morse
and afterwards transferred to the D. w. Rust
MOrtllary.
Judge Stephen T. Logan died, at Springfield,
ILL.,, Oh the 18th inst, aged 81. He was once
Abraham Lincoln's law partner, and had been
active in politics.
David Runnion, venerable and highly-es.
teemed citizen of Chicago, died on the 18th inst
and merchants of Buffalo, died on the 18th
inst, aged 68.
Vim. Dickey, an old and well known resident
of Dayton, o., died on the 18th inst.
Hon. J. A. Campbell, an old-time governor
of Wyoming, and later third assistant secretary
Of state, died at his residence in Washington,
D. c.. on the 18th. He served with distinction
during the war on Gen. Schofeld's staff.
James H. Beebe, who had been state law
librarian for many years, died at his residence in
Columbus, O., on the 18th inst.
P: E. Fletcher, a prominent pork packer Of
St: Louis, Mo-, died on the 18th inst.
Pierre Paul de Pommayra, celebrated French
Tom Taylor, the dramatist, died suddenly al
London, Eng, on the 10Th inst.
Rev. DIR. John Cole Miller, died at Paris or
the 9Th inst, aged 66.
Isaac Pereire, the French banker, is dead
aged "a.
Killed by the Cars.
James Ogden and Chas. W. Rogers, two stove
moulders, while walking on the railway track
near st. Louis, on the 10th inst, were run down
by train. Rogers was dangerously hurt and
Ogden instantly killed.
FOrty-twO cars were wrecked on the New
Mexico and Southern Pacific railroad on the
18th inst. Three persons were injured, none
fatally.
While train of cars were passing over sub.
merged bridge at Hugo, Col, on the 18th inst,
ten of the cars we're washed away.
Engineer Drosin had leg badly crushed and
tramp who was stealing ride was fatally in
jured by railroad accident near Indianapolis,
Ind, on the 18th instant. The engine and par
lor car were demolished and all coaches more or
less damaged.
A singular accident occurred on the 18th in
slant, on recently constructed branch of the
Long Island road, built 10 reach new hotel at
Long Beach. A gravel train with 800 Italian
laborers on board ran under heavy iron cable,
by which derrick near the track was sustained
sweeping the cars and knocking off the unfor-
tunate laborers. Twenty-six we're seriously in-
jured, and it is believed six fatally.
A passenger train on the Republican Valley
railroad, ran into flood-wrecked culvert, near
Napanee; Neb., at an early hour on the 18th in
stant. The engineer, Mike Egan, and the fire.
man, John Best, died at their posts.