Morris tribune., 1880-07-08
The Casualty Record. /.

The famine fever is increasing in Ire
land.
There were 20 tctal'cases of sunstroke
in New Yo,k city, in the 2I hours ending at
noon Julyl.
At Pitsburg, Pa, June 90, by col
lision of freight trains, an engineer and fire.
man were killed.
Saturday, June 26, three colored men
working on a farm s miles from Louisville,
y, were killed by lightning.
Sunday morning, June 81, freight
train flew the track near Martinsville Ohio
killing the engineer and fireman.
The direct damage by the break in the
Lachine canal, is put at $50O00O; and the in
direct damage is likely to exceed $1,000,GO0.
Passengers of the wrecked steamer,
Narragansett, OF tie Stonington line have
decided to bring suits against the company for
damages.
Mrs. Mulverhill, aged 20 years, of Roch-
ester, Olmstead county was instantly killed
the other day by being thrown from wagon
by a runaway team.
John Gallagher, foreman of the stock
yard in st. Paul, Mimi, died June 20, from an
alleged accidental wound received from a
pistol in the hands of John Mcmahon, who is
under arrest.
Mrs. Anna Lockwood, of New York
city, visiting at Louisville, KY, was thrown
from buggy near Cave Hill on the afternoon
of June 20, and was so severely injured as to
cause her death.
New York telegram June 81: Deaths
in this city during the past tweasy-fo hours
show the highest mortality in any one day this
year. Total deaths the past week, 1883. Chol-
era infantum is prevalent.
A freight car was ditched at Conf
denee Hill. on the Vandalia railroad, about Is
miles from st. Louis, Mo, on the night of
June 26. Two men were instantly killed, one
fatally wounded and Others severely hurt.
Between two and three o'clock on the
morning ofJune 2S, Archie Randall, colored,
fell from the roof of Stewards block, Bridge
Square, St Paul, MINI, and received supposed
fatal injuries. He was drunk when he fell.
On the morning Of June &c, railroad
train jumped the track on the Atchfson, To-
peka s. Santa Fec railroad, two miles west of
Sargent, Kansas, resulting in the death OF one
person and the wounding of several others
two fatally,
An east bound Atchison s. Kansas
passenger train, June 80, on the Chicago, Bur
lington & Quihcy railroad had two cars
thrown from the track by running over COW,
and 15 passengers were more or less severely
injured, but not fatally.
The steamer Humboldt, which arrived
az
fire June I8 and was obliged to throw over.
board 90 bales of cargo. The fire was extin.
guished, but the deck heads and deck were
considerably damaged.
A.dispatch from Charlottetown, Prince
Edwards Island, of June 26 says bottle
which was picked up about mile off Harbor,
contained a leaf from pocket memorandum,
and on it was written, apparently in great
haste, the following: april 17tb, 1880. Train
ing Ship, Atlanta. We are sinking in long.
81 deg. 80 81 deg. Any person finding this
will please advertise in the daily papers. John
L. Hutchins.
At five o'clock on the morning of July
LIST. fire was placed in the furnace of the
steamer Mary, then lying at the wharf at Ex-
celsior, on Lake Minnetonka She left the
wharf at $40 a. m having on board no one
except the crew which consisted of VIM. Chad
wick, engineer, John Steward, pilot, and Ed
win 8. Perkins, fireman. The run was made
from Excelsior to the wharf Of the Hotel st.
Louis in about half hour, arriving there at
about 6:25 a. m. At this poiut three passen-
gers got aboard named Mrs. Eginton, her
cousin, Miss Pointer, and Mr.. J.. r. PIatten.
burg Of Canton, Ill, all guests at the Hotel ST
Louis, who intended taking the early morning
train for st. Paul A number of the employees
of the hotel had come down to see the little
party of, and just as the line was being cast
of the boiler of the steamer exploded with
terrible effect, blowing most of the upper por
tion Of the boat into atoms and instantly kill
ing 2 persons, mortaliy wounding 2 more
and severely iniuring several Others
AS stated above the boat was lying at the Ho
tel 81. Louis. John Steward, the pilot, was
his post. VIM. Chadwick, the engineer, hat
Just opened the furnace doors to see abou
the fires.s f s. Perkins, the fireman, had jus
stepped ash IRE to cast of the line. Mr.. Plat
tenbuTg was standing beside the boiler ant
near to Chadwick, and the two ladies, Mrs
Eginton and Miss Pointer, were in the afte
part of the boat within three feet of the rear o
the boiler, and Ca Gaines. the head waiter
of the hotel,was few feet of, having come
aboard to deliver some messaget to the Ia
dies, a number of other persons standinl
on the wharf, when, witnout moments init
nation of what was to take place, the boile
exploded, scattering death and destruction o.
every side. The engineer, Chadwick, wa
killed instantly, in fact rendered mass Q
broken flesh and bones. Gaines the hea
waiter, was blown out into. the lake some fit
feet, where his nfeless remriDs were f0un
about an hour after the explosion. Mr.. Pla
tenburg was picked up alive, but tefribl
bruised, and he expired In about an houl
Steward the pilot was blown out int