The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-27
CASCAITIEN.

The Imperial cotton mills at Dorley Pa,
burned on the 18th. Loss $4,000; insurance
S25,OOO.
TIL Roberts building. i'll Cincinnati, was
burned on the 10th, causing loss TO Victor
BurnhanI, u paper dealer. Of %, 500, and to
Roberts, the owner Of the structure, of between
$4,000 and Sl5,OOo Partially insured.
Az engine and thirteen freight cars were
ditched near Rcnick, on the st. Louis and Wa
bash road. OH the night Of the 18th. The ell
gineer and brakeman were badly hurt. An
other and similar accident occurred on the
Hannibal and st. Joseph, near Bucklin.
Ar Atlantic. Iowa, on the 18th. Gilmans cle-
vatOr with 10000 bushels Of corn were de-
strUyed by fire.
TIE large five-story mon front building. 3si
and 38G Broadway, New York, burned on the
10th. During the progress Of the fire two COM
panics on the roof made an effort to cut holes
through thick plates Of tin, but feeling the
roof giving away, they were obliged to retreat.
! Two members Of hook and ladder company No.
! !, Thos. l.. DouGhety and John J.. Cassidy.
were the last 10 dcsist from their work, and re-
| manned too late to escape. The roof gave way
suddenly near the center, near where they were
| standing, and with blanchcd faces and cries Of
horror the two doomed fremen fell into the
| blazing abyss, to he consumed. Losses esti-
mated a. follows: HaZen, Todds Il Co., i'm
porters Of silk, si00,0 Dickerhon, Ruiilacr 4
! Co., tailOrs trimmings, S250, 900; James Wilde,
! jr., Co., manufacturing tailOrs, 1850, 900.
Loss on the building, $4,000. Insurance un-
! known.
! SERIOUS railroad accident on the Belaire
and Southwestern railroad, III Ohio, ON the 18th.
A train consisting of baggage car, coal car
and two coaches, jumped from trestle sixteen
| feet high, injuring dOZen passengers. One Of
] no min rod A III isI NJ har in
jurieS.
CAPTAIN Ara H,BAID MuLIKES, q. Addison
Rose and Z. W. Rose were drowned at ProvI-
dencc *. l., on the 18th while endeavOTing to
board Capt. Milhken's vessel during gale.
The spoon factory Of Holmes, Booth Hay
den, Waterbury, Conn. burned on the 18th.
Lors estimated at $50, 900; insurance, 81, 900.
The low grounds about Nashville were flood
ed on the 18th. Fifteen hundred people were
forcedt IN vacate their houses. There IL some
loss on the lower Cumberland.
4 SIXTEEN year old lad named Henry Loencr
was whirled to death on shaft at Detroit on
the 18th.
THE boilers in Barton a Babcock's distillory.
at Peoria, ILL.,, blew up on the 18th. Jno. Sill,
fireman, and an unknown man, who had just
come III to find work, were almost instantly
killed. Ben. Babcock. one Of the prOprictors,
and Jno. richardson, helper, were fatally in
jured. Vim. Burns, engineer, Lonis Laufen'
berg. washer, and Oscar Mills, visitor, were
painfully injured.
Al Cincinnati, on the 18th, druing a ale Of
wind. frame house occupied by John Dalfcn-
bach, wife and three children, was blown COM
plctely over, burying the inmates in the debris.
The father was fatally injured, the wife and
two eldest children slightly hurt, md the infant
crushed beneath the timbcrs, and o rafter lying
across its neck when fonnd. II was taken TO O
ncighboriDg house, where, in few moments, il
died.
TBE large summer hotel at Gri1itb's Point
. four miles from jamestown. y. j., burned on
the 18th. Loss on building aud furniture S20,-
600; insurance $4,000.
The boiler Ia John J.. Thompson's steam saw
mill at Randolph, \. H., burst on the 18th, de-
stroying the mill and killing Elder Page, Roger
johnson, Mr.. Prescott and q French workman.
and badly injuing s. j.. Hewey,
The boiler Of J. Kidds salt derrick, near Sea
forth, Ont, exploded on the 10th, killing the
engineer, John Gilligan, and completely demol-
ishing the building.
THREE men, Charles II. smith, aged IS, X. A.
McCauley. jr., and q colored man named Isaac
Jones, were suffOcated To dtath OH the 18th, on
q night-soil barge at Spring Gardens, Baltimore,
Just beyond the southern suburbs OF the city,
The Tuttle & Whittemore company's MALE
bic iron works at Union City, Conn.,, were par-
TALLY destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss est,
mated at S25,000; insurance 100000.
FiRy On the night Of the 18th DESTROYED four