The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-04-28
The Casualty Record.

out obtaining any information
The Casualty Record.
There was 100000 fire in Amherst,
Mass, April 49,
A telegram from Bucharest, says that
fire at Joksharry, left 800 families homeless.
The Union window glass factory in
Baltimore, Ma, burned April "A. Loss $685.
600.
Several more persons injured by the
falling building in Madison Square, New York,
have died.
Forest fires are reported to be again
sweeping along the line of the New Jersey
Southern railroad.
The loss by the confagration at Hull,
Ontario, is between tive and three million dol
lars, with no insurance.
The Touring mill Of II. Buckner, at
Shebaggon Falls, was struck by lightning and
burned on the afternoon of April A-loss $40,
900.
The christian committee at Bagdad
telegraphs that famine is raging throughout
Mesopotamia and Kindistan. Immence mass
es of starving christians are reported to be
crawling to Bagdad for relief.
. A serious break in the Erie canal &C.
CURED at Utica, N. Y, on the morning of
April %. The cellars and first floors of thirty
or fourty houses were flooded It will take
from two to four weeks to repair the break
Great foods have prevailed in the val
legs of California and serious floods were
entertained for the safety of Sacramento, Ma
ryville and other towns, but fortunately the
rain changed to snow and tine danger was
over ..-.
A cyclone of wonderful velocity a I'd
terrible in its effects passed half mile north
of Carlenville, ILL.,, on the evening of April "a.
Everything was swept before it. Several per-
sons were seriously injured, and dozen or
more killed.
The steamship Pryor which reached
New York. April %, from Glasgow, had COL
lision with an iceberg, April ID, and had a
hole stove IN her bow. The forward CON-
partment filled with water, and she remained
in the ice "a hours.
An incendiary fire in Byron, Olmsted
county, Mimi, April %, destroyed the stable
ofWilliam Garfield, containing 700 bushels of
wheat, 400 of oats, $50 of corn, horses calf,
plows. wagon, 3 sets of harness and all the
tools used in farming.
On the line of the Central Pacific rail
road, between Alton on the West, and in
Truckee on the east side of the mountains, a
terrible snow storm is reported. In the noun
tains l6 feet of snow have fallen and on the
line of the railroad it has drifted 40 feet deep.
Reports of the disastrous effects of the
tornado of Sunday, April IS, continue
The loss at Marshfield, No., is estimated at
$3OO,0OO 1t is now estimated that in Web
ster county of which Marshfeld is the county
seat at least 100 persons wer killed and over
200 wounded. The town of Licking, Mo-, was
entirely destroyed, but three houses were left
800 persons were left homeless. One person
killed and IL wounded, five ofwhom seriously
Reports of disastersscome from other parts.
In New York City, April 81, an acct
dent OF a fatal character occurred at the Madi.
son Square Garden, The Hahnemann hespi-
tai fair, which opened about week ago, was
in progress, and there were about 500 people
in the building. At half-past nine half the
front of the building facing on Madison aven.
ue gave way, the wall falling outwards. Part
of the roof also fell in with crash. This Dor.
ton of the building was used as dancing
hall and picture gallery of the fair Some
twenty persons killed and wounded. Two
horses in the street were instantly killed
and another SO badly injured that it had to be
shot, and several hack drivers were injured.
The cause of the accident was supposed to be
the pressure of the floor of the dancing hall
and the art gallery upon the floor which sup
ported it. Both these rooms were filled with
people at an early hour. Suddenly it was no.
ticed that the floor of the art gallery was
cracking, and Albert Mckay, manager OF the
fair was summoned to the place. He mount
ed the stairs leading to the art gallery and
noticed that the room was filled with ladies
and gentlemen. Detective lilly, who had
been employed to watch the valuable pic
lures in the room informed him that the
walls were cracking in some places and tina
here was danger of the floor giving away.
Mckay sent man to shut off the gas in that
part OF the building, and called out to persons
near him to leave the gallery as quickly as
possible. His manner of speaking caused
most of the persons in the room to step out
on broad landing which overlooks the gar.
cen. The dancing hall on the same floor was
still full of people and before they could be
warned OF the approaching danger success
sion of loud reports were heard and the front
wall of the building fell out into the street
A large part Of the roof which had been sup
ported by the wall, Immediately fell in upon
the heads of the frightened dancers, burying
many out of sight.
A dispatch of April %, from Norfolk,
Va says tidings OF the terrible work of fires
that ragged in the swamp region of North
Carolina last week, have reached there Life
and property was destroyed and houses and
woods devastated. Zachariah Owens was en-
gagged I'm getting shingles from the swamps on
the Alligator river, and lived there in a house
surrounded by woods. Saturday he left home
on business, but had not gone far before he
saw the flames approaching SO as to imperil
the house and family. He fastened back TO
save them. He hurried his wife and three lit
tie ones away, hoping to get beyond the reach
of the dangee, but they we're overtaken by the
flames in the swamp, midway between their
home and the place of safety, and the entire
family burned to death. Their bodies were
found next day by the neighbors, the mother