The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-24
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

HENRY MYERS, aged Is, was drowned in
Grand river, at Blendon, Mich, while
bathing.
The Excelsior furnace at lshpeming,
Mich, has been entirely destroyed by fire
Loss, $4,000; partially insured
PAUL Bold, son of Louis c. Bold, of
Milwaukee, Wis, was drowned last week,
while bathing in the river.
DAVID MckIBBEN brakeman on the
Rock Island road, was run over and killed
by the cars at Des Moines, Iowa. He was
an old employe Of the company.
The steam saw mill Of William Porter,
in Trowbridge township, Mich, was burn
ed from fire in the sawdust. 1t was not IN
sured. Loss about $4,000.
A LITTLE son of Thomas Wilson, of Cor
sicana, Texas, managed to get hold of his
fathers pistol, and, while playing with the
weapon, it was accidentally discharged,
killing him.
The large foundry building Of Luther 4
Sumner, of Grand Rapids, Mich, has been
destroyed by fire, involving a loss of SIS
600, upon which there is an insurance of
s., 800.
JOIN SIMMONS, a carpenter, living IN
Schoolcraft, Mich, fell from the roof of a
church on which he was at work, breaking
his arm and leg and fearfully brlising other
portions of his body.
WM. S1SSErT, of Granville, Licking
county Ohio while attempting to board a
construction-train on the Ohio Central
railroad, near Alexandria, fell under the
wheels, and was instantly killed.
DURING the cannonading in honor of
at X a
Mich, one Wilcox, who was loading the
cannon, had his right arm blown off and
was otherwise SO disabled that he will not
| live.
For several days the, heat has been op-
| pressive in Central Illinois, one day reach
| ing 96 in the shade at Peoria. Several per-
sons were prostrated, and one fatal case of
sunstroke occurred the victim being 4
carpenter named +. G.. Fowell. He lived
about half an hour after being sunstruck.
JACOB Grow, an old German farmer,
| whose place is six miles from Abba, Iowa,
| was found dead in a little creek near has
| house, A heavy rain had raised the creek,
| but how he came to be in it is not known.
| The west st-bound freight train on the
Texas Central suddenly turned the curve
and approached the Sandy creek bridge,
which wason fire. 1t was too late to stop the
train, which was precipitated throug h the
bridge, and first being wrecked was burn
| ed
A PErT1s county, Missouri, farmer
named John Conner, and his wife, sister
and three children, aged respectively II, s.
i and years, were in a twO-hOrse wagon
going to town. At Fork creek, two miles
west of Knob Noster, in attempting tc
cross the swollen stream, the horses upset
the wagon, threw them all out, and tho
three children were drowned.
| A MOST distressing accident has occurred
in Ghent township, Summit county, Ohio
Mr.. Wolf, residing near Ghent, was build
ing fence, assisted by his son, youns
man about twenty years of age. Mr.
Wolf was raising a heavy sledge-hammel
to drive in post, when the sledge flew OF
the handle, striking the son, who stooe
near. in the head and knocked him senseles
to the ground, where he expired in few
minutes.
A HEAVY hail-storm, accompanied b,
wind and rain, visited Sioux city. Iowa, OF
the llth inst, breaking glass and flooding
stores and residences about $4,000. 1t die
not extend two miles in the country in an.
direction. Hailstones over eleven inche
in circumference were picked up after th'
, storm, and in sheltered places they lay II
drifts till after nightfall. The weathc
continues sultry and showery.
TwENTY-s1x cars broke loose from tn
yard of of the Lake Erie & Western road
at Lafayette, Ind, and started down a stee]
grade colliding with a heavy freight-trail
: with two engines attached, standing on
side-track. The cars were running at
rate of about forty miles an hour whe1
they struck. Valentine Zeigler, who wa
on one of the engines, was instantly killed
Sixteen cars of wheat and oats in the will
train were utterly demolished and the en-
gineer badly injured. 1t was very sin
gular accident The damage will foot VI
f $l5, 600 or $4,000.
| A TERRIBLE calamity has overtaken tn