The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-05-27
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

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A large frame furniture store house in
St. Paul burned on the morning of the
18th inst..: involving loss of $25, 900,
nearly covered by Insurance..
THE Mahoning powder mill, near Ash
land, Pa, exploded on the 18th inst,
killing Elwood Bensman, and injuring
five others, The mill is in flames.
The village of Stuyvesant, N. j., was
almost wholly destroyed by fire on
Thursday the 18Th. The fire burned
over a square mile and caused loss of
100000.
TIE hospital and stables of the Carbon
county alms-house were destroyed by
fire on the 18th inst. Nine horses, twenty.
four head of cattle. and forty hogs were
burned to death.
DIR. BURLINGAME, city physician of
Elgin, ILL.,, was thrown from his Carriage
by runaway horse and had wrist and
arm broken, and it is feared injured in
ternally.
The steamer Gen. Terry on her way
from Sioux City. Ia, to Fort Custer, on
the Yellowstone, broke her wheel-shafts
and knocked the heads out of both CYL
inders seventy mile below the mouth
of the Yellowstone. She will be lowed
back to Bismark for repairs.
REV. L. NJ. HUNT, pastor of the Con-
gregationalist church of South Haven,
Mich, was instantly killed by the acct
dental discharge of gun he was load
ing, near Galesburg, Mich, this morn.
ing. He was talented, respected di-
vine, whose fame and name we're known
all through this state as an evangelist
preacher.
DR.. RUeEssoN and Adolph Tamm,
boys aged 6 and Z years, OF Washington
Nd, have been poisoned by eating pills
of atrophine, which they found while
playing in DR.. Ruges' Office and mistook
for candy. The doctors son is recover
ing from the poison, but his companion
is unconscious and not expected to live.
THE factory of Nihill's manufacturing
company, of Fond du Lac, was entirely
destroyed by fire, on the 18th inst, con.
sisting of a main building, warehouse,
storehouse, and several outbuildings.
Five cars, loaded from the factory, were
also burned. The loss is estimated at
$685. 900; insurance 100000. One hun
dred and fifty men a-e thrown out of
employment.
A MILFORD, Pa, dispatch of May 18th,
says the terrible forest fires continue
over three million feet of lumber and a
vast amount of valua BILE timber and sew
eral dwellings and barns, have burned.
Six thousand acres are ablaze, this
morning. A slight rain is falling; the
steam saw mill of David Dale 6 Son, at
Moscow. burned last night.
The governor of Pennsylvania, has
furnished the associated press with a
statement that the contributions made
to the Milford sufferers, although liberal,
are far short of the need of the people.
Three thousand people are entirely des-
titute, and knives, forks, spoons, coffee
pots, all kinds Of clothing and bed
ing, as we'll cooking utensils. are as
much needed as provisions. The COVER
nor asks for such contributions, and that
they be sent at once as the suffering is
very great -
"A DISPATCH from Hendrickson, New
Jersey says forest fire of most appalling
magnitude is eating it's way toward the
seacoast. The air is sitting with smoke,
and the sun is ohscured. Thousands of
birds and animals lying dead in the
woods tell of the destruction. A stiff
breeze has been blowing from the west.
The fire seems to come from the direc-
ton of Ridgeway and AleXanders, and
to be feeding upon the halfcharred
woods of the late great forest fire. The
line of coast from the direction of Toms
river to Squam is sheet of flame at dusk
this evening.