Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-01-08
CASUALTIES.

THE large elevator of II. p. Halsey,
at Atchison, KS, was totally destroyed by
fire on the I'd inst. Insurance $4,000 on
grain and building.
THURsTON h HARRIsoN's warehouse,
on Bochanan's warf, Baltimore, containing
several thousand bales Of cotton, WAS burpe
on the I'd inst. The loss will exceed $780,
zoo.
A FIRE at Red Bank, N. j., on New
Years day, caused a loss of $25 900.
AN entire block of business buildings
at Menomonee, Wis, was reduced to ashes
on the I'd inst. entsiling loss Of 500 900.
THE -four mill of Henry Shaler, st..
Paul, Mimi, was destroyed by FIRE on the lst
inst. Loss $4,000 on the mill, which also
contained q quantity of wheat and -four
worth probably $1,000.
THE through express train on the Iowa
division of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul road jumped the rails on high en-
bankment on the Mississippi river near
Mendoza Jur ton, Mimi, on the 3lst ult.
The sleeper broke its coupling and rolled
down the bank a distance of sixty feet,
making two revolutions in its descent. No
one was killed, but the six occupants of the
car were more or less injured. The acci-
dent was caused by broken rail.
The boiler of BENZ. Taylor's saw mill
at Halt Creek, Searcy county, Arkansas,
exploded on the 23d ult, instantly killing
Taylo,'s son-in.law, Wade Campbell and
Wade Griffin and Kennedy and Bert Wood
ward. Campbell was blown about 80 feet,
through the top OF an apple tree. One of
his hands was found rs yards distant.
Geiffin was literally torn to pieces. The
other two men were not so badly mangled.
The finishing shop, planning mill and
blacksmith shop and the Wason Car Works,
Chattanooga, Tenn, burned on the 3lst ult.
Total loss $4,000; insured for $4,000.
MATTHEW IBEoK was cut entirely in
two and fearfully msngled by falling rnder
the cars at Mort La Crosse, Wis, on the
30th.
On the 30th ult., Mrs. Henry A.
Smith, of Parkville, near Hartford, Conn,
hearing that her six-yearold boy had bro.
ken through the ice, herself rushed on the
pond, broke through and both were drown
ed.
GEORGE MOVES, aged 81, died in St.
Johnsburg, VT, on the 30th from the effects
before extracting tooth.
TIE elegant mansion Of ex-senator
Stewart, of Nevada, was completely Quilted
by fire on the Goth ult. Mr.. Stewart vas
away and Mrs. Stewart 81 reception, but
their little six-year-old girl was rescued by
the servants.
AT Erie, Pa, on the Goth, George
Sims was caught in a shaft and crushed to
destb,
On the 29th an explosion of fredamr
at the Paintertown mines, near Twins Sta
ton or the Pennsylvania railroad, killed
three men.
HARRY and Thomas Zimmerman
brothers, aged and 10 years, broke through
the ice at Bethlehem, Pa, on the 29th and
were drowned.
THE boiler in the Etna Touring mill
at Springfield exploded on the 2sth. This
engineer named Reder is missing his hs
being found on the top Of a building two
blocks of. The dome of the boiler fell or
| the roof of the Western Union telegraph
| building and passed down 10 the third floor
| The shock caused damage to the amount o.
| $4,000.
A MAEpAN, Dakota, dispatch says
three men, John Gallagher, George Hal
and John Monshan, were found frozen &c
death in the Green river country, beyond
the point where construction OF the North
ern Pacific railroad is going on. The men
lived at Minneapolis.
By the explosion of lamp at her
house in New Orleans, on the 27th, Mrs,
Clara Claviss was burned to death.
The steamer Prairie City exploded
her boiler above Hodges Landing, on the
Wabash river, on the 27th. The fireman,