Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1880-03-11
CASUALTIES.

There was $4,000 fire at Davenport,
Iowa, March 4.
Wilkesbarre Pa. had $4,000 fire on
the night of March 2.
There was $4,000 fire in Winchester,
Kentucky, March 4th.
The steamship Massachusetts, on her
passage from Boston to Liverpool lost over
board 10 head of cattle.
There was fire loss from $4,000 to
$4,000 in Chicago on the morning of March
LIST, little or no insurance.
Tho Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley
railroad bridge, at Centreville, Ohio, was
struck by tightening and burned, March 4.
Two men were killed and a number
wounded at Watertown, N. Y, March s, by the
breaking OF skip in shaft of the Shuttlett
iron mine.
A wagon mandatory, the largest in
the southern States, was destroyed by fire
at Memphis, Tenn March 1st-loss sos 600
Insurance $4,000.
A London correspondent of March 4,
says the inhabitants of the Island of Irinlshark
in the county of Mayo, Ireland are in q terri.
Die state of restitution.
AT two o'clock on the morning of Feb
%, the house of Mike Barnaby, at Chippewa
Falls, Wis, was destroyed by ire, the work oil
an incendiary. Loss $1,000 insured for $500.
0. W. Case, one OF the county commls,
sionsrs of Mower county, residing in Grand
Meadows, was found dead in his bed at the
Fleck house, in Austin, on the morning Of
March 4.
Eugene Bernard, ST., died suddenly al
his residence in St. Paul, on the evening o.
March g., of appoplexy. He came to St. Pau
in 1856, and had held the Office of the justice
OF the peace for twenty consecutive years.
A fire supposed to be incendiary broke
out during the storm on the night OF Marcel
s, at New Albany, Indians, in the chemical
works and pot house of .Depaw's plate glass
manufactury. Both were destroyed. Losi
between $4,000 and $4,000: insurance $50,
600 all in eastern companies, except $4,OO(
in the American Central of St. Louis
During the prevalence of heavy VINO
and rain at Toledo, Ohio, March chimney
of the Buckeye Brewery was blown down fal
ng on and crushing the engine house, il
which Policeman John Hasset and NJ. F. Doyle
and the night watchman at the brewery haG
taken refuge. The two former were killed
The later was severely injured. The wind at
tanned a velocity of 70 miles per hour, doing
considerable damage to roofs, freight shed and
Frustrating telegraph lines in all directions.
Joe Hardy OF St. Paul fell from pas
senger train at s o'clock on the merning o
March 4th, and had one arm shatterd by thu
wheels running over it, his left shoulder, ant
left ribs crushed and broken and his head in
jured. His recovery was not expected, though
he was alive about SO hours after the acciden
He died at quarter to o'clock on the even
ing of March s. His remains were taken t.
st. Paul for interment.
A violent storm of wind and hail pre-
vailed at Louisville, Kentucky, early on tn
morning of March s at 800 A. NJ. the speed 0
wind was forty eight miles an hour, the high
est ever recorded at this station, a blow las
month having reached fOrty-two miles, mex
highest. From 800 to A. NJ. the rain AM
thunder continued but the wind quieted dow
gradually, from 20 to 10 miles per hour. s.
far as heard, there was no damage beyond tn
blowing down of a few fences and signs.