River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-10
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

TIE large planning mill owned by Slade
d Kitton, at Columbus, Ohio, was burned
June LIST
THE Elm Place Congregational church,
Brooklyn, burned June Sd. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $4,000
The Lake View malt house of Michael
Cline, of Buffalo, \. Y, together with
10000 bushels of barley, burned. Loss,
go, 900; insured
THREE lives were lost by the burning of
the Keokuk Packet Company's steamer
Golden Eagle, at Martins Landing, thirty
miles above Alton, H., on the Mississippi
river, at o'clock on the morning of the
3lst uIt
TIE large sale and feed stables of Thos.
Fahev. Jr., l54l Broadway, st. Louis,
burned between and 3 o'clock on the
morning Of the 2nd inst, together with
considerable amount of feed and other
property, and between fifteen and twenty
horses. Loss not yet ascertalned.
TIE steamer Golden Eagle, of the Keo-
kuk Northern Packet Company, burned to
the waters edge at Martins Landing,
about thirty miles above Alton, at o'clock
May 31st G. l.. Pinn, a cigar boy, of
Quincy, a stock-dealer named Grierly, Of
Bowles Landing, and man whose name is
II,
keokuk, are missing and supposed to be
lost. The boat is total loss.
A C0LuMBUs, Ohio, telegram of the Bird
inst saws a report reaches here that col
lision occurred on the Bee Line railroad
early this morning, near Gilead, between
one section Of a freight train which had
broken IN two, and a passenger train bound
west Several ears are reported badly
wrecked Harry Bean, of Cleveland, mail
agent, was considerably injured, and Chas
C;ooden, of Cincinnati, express messenger,
slightly injured.
GEORGE w. PIcKENs, an old citizen of
Kansas, had been blasting Il well on his
farm in Benton township, and his wife and
Young son let him down by a rope and
bucket to the bottom. In moment he
called to them to draw him up, which they
proceeded to do. He had been drawn up
hut few feet, however, when he fell back
dead. A neighbor's son by the name of
Frank Waite, was Immediately sent for,
and, on arriving few minutes later, was
let down with the hope that he might re-
cover the lifeless body of Mr.. Pickens.
Mr.. Waite was down but moment when
he called 10 be drawn up. At twenty feet
from the bottom he fell from the bucket,
| fracturing his skull on the rocks, and in
fifteen minutes after leaving home was
dead.
THE WaIford block in Minneapolis,
three-story building, forty-four by one
hundred feet, nearing completion, and into
which II. q. Harrison & Co, wholesale
erocers, were moving, fell on the 3rd inst,
ruined. The building at the time was oc-
| cupied by thirty-five men, all of whom MI
raculousiy escaped with their lives. John
Ginnis, a laborer carrying hod, was, how
ever, thrown through the building into the
mass of ruins, but escaped with injuries
that will not prove fatal. Thos. Gin was
carried out of the debris cut badly about
the head. S. F, Lettle, T. G. Fisher, John
Jenson, and others were slightly injured.
The Disaster IS attributed to inadequate
construction ordered by the owner, a
wealthy man of parsimonious disposition.
The building is almost total loss. Har-
rison & Co escaped with slight damage to
thirty-fve carloads of starch already
placed in the building.