The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-30

A FIRE on the 22d inst, destroyed the whole
north side Of the town Of Troupe, Texas. Loss
e26, 900; insurance $4,000.
The old Walsh factory at Newark. N. j., part
y burned on the night Of the 2ist Inst. Loss
$4,000.
The business portion of Gibsonville, Sierra
county. Cal, was burned OH the "a inst. Loss
$4,000.
AT about o'clock on the morning OF the 2lst
inst. tho caisson leading 10 the entrance Of the
/ Hudson river tunnel, constructing at Sixteenth
street, Jersey City, caved In, carrying with II an
immense quantity OF earth. Thirty men were
| ut work at the time, twonty-ihree OF whom
| were drowned. Seven men who were engaged
ut mason work some distance above the bottom
Of tho shaft escaped.
GEO. GREEN, rig builder employed In well
IN OH Valley, Pa, was instantly killed on the
21st inst, by huge smoke-stack falling upon
| him.
AN unknown man was run over by mail
| train on the 2lst inst, near Rod House Station,
Ohio, and instantly killed. II il supposed he
was asleep. lie had letters Addressed to Fred
Abbott, Elmira, N. Y.
AT Meadville, o., OH the goth inst, 7. d.
Hammond waS instantly killed by falling limb
while chopping timber.
Ar West Jordan, Utah, on the night OF tho
2Oth inst, tho grst mill of Cooper Bros. burned.
Loss $l2,0 900; insurance $4,000.
GEORGE REYNOLDS, Of Vernon, o., a boy aged
10, was disembowclod by u horse rake, Oh the
10th inst, receiving fatal injuries.
DAVID MCGRuER fell from the fourth story
Of the Jackson block, Memphis on the Goth
| inst, aud was instantly killed.
On the 10th inst. q storm IN Nescopeck town.
ship, on the lower edge Of Luzerne county, Pa,
demolished brick church aud two barns, and
destroyed crops in the vicinity.
A FREIGHT train ON tho Connecticut Valley
railroad was thrown from the track by q mis-
placed switch on the 10th inst, Conductor
Bawn was killed and Engineer Frank Stillman
and Fireman VIM. stanton severely injured.
TnE City Hotel ut Flint, Michigan. kept by
Allan Payne, and owned by Mrs. J. Mcdonald,
burned on the 18th instant, involving u loss of
from $4,000 to SlOO,OO0; insured for 5000.
THE three upper stories OF the front part Of
tho large building OH First avenue. between
city, burned on the 18th instant involving loss
Of 800, 900.
Mn. EDWIN CAIyoR and son OF II, living five
miles from Odcbolt, Sac county, Iowa, were
killedby lightning on the 10th instant.
THE boiler Of tho steam saw mill near Barnes
vile, Charlotte county, Va, exploded Oh the
10Th inst, with terrific force, killing colored
man, fatally wOunding an employe named
Bryant, and severely scalding and wounding five
others.
MONROE county, Mich, was visited bya severe
storm on the 10Th inst. The wind uprooted and
twisted the largest trees while hail accompany
ing the storm was very severe Fields Of oats
and corn we're threshed clean, and fruit trees
stripped. About the worst damage was inflicted
in the vineyards, which are very extensive in
tins region. At Franklin, Ont, OH the same
day, hail fell tn the depth Of seven inches.
AN excursion train from Toledo to Indianap-
oils, on the 10th inst, via. the Wabash railway,
jumped the track near Knox Siding, OHIO. Five
coaches were thrown from the rails. One pas.
senger, Edward Stuart, Of Noblesyillc, Ind, was
killed and nine other passengers injured.
By the upsetting of boat on tho 18th inst,
on the rapids of the Black river, Canada, Elliott
Bryson, aged %, Benjamin Bryson, aged %,
and sister aged six years were drowDed.
THE wife of Lieut.. W. Il. Smith, United States
army, Bessie Forshaw, aged l2, Of German
town, and Helen Deacon, another child, were
drowned while bathing at Atlantic City, N. j.,
on the 10Th inst.
AUGUSTUS A. WHITE, al employe in the depot
yards at st. Louis, was run over and killed by
locomotive on the night OF the 18th inst.
sKIfF containing Buglls Iiarowitz, wife and
three children, while going down the river at st.
Louis on the 18th inst, collided with the
with the steamer Fanny Lewis, and was upset
and the mother and one child drowned.
TnE Archer refinery and starch factory. at
Chicago, was destroyed by tire on the 18th inst
LOSS about S4O,UUU.