The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-09-10
CASUALTIES.

THE German bark Christal, from New York
for Bremen, was in collision with the steamer
GaTtcOunel, from Java, sugar laden, from
Queenstown. The Gartcouncl sank. The crew
was saved. The Christal was cut 10 the waters
edge and Obliged to throw overheard $500
barrels Of her cargo.
BAKER's block, Harris Falls, n. y, including
Parkcr'S Opera house and ten other buildings,
burned un the Sd inst, also the Schaghticookc
home. LOSs sl50,OOO; insurance s75,OOO.
THE carriage factory of Anderson < Harris,
Cincinnati, o., burned on the 81 inst. Loss
$40, 900; insurance sl3, 900.
A GRAIN warehouse at Washington Corners,
Alameda county, Cal, containing about 10000
sacks Of wheat and barley, burned oil the Sd
inst. Loss probably $3.50, 900.
A FIRE on Hoyne street, New York, on the
Sd inst, caused II loss OF Sll5.0 900.
THE factory Of the Chase Organ company,
Sorwalk, o., was wholly consumed by fire on
the Sd inst. Loss from S60, 900 TO $4,000.
THERE is very little doubt that the steamer
City Of Vera Cruz Of the Mexican line, which
sailed from New York August % for Havana
aud Vera Cruz, vent down in a hurricane of
the Florida coast on the 30th or 3lst ult.
Several bags Of mail which were shipped on the
Vera Cruz have been washed ashore near 81.
Augustine; also n number Of bodies. The
phfFtIktI y VI tilt lI-iultu HNtuHiNi toIithIitu
twenty-seyen names. The steamer war 296 feet
long, measured 1874 tons, and was valued ut
S2O0, 0OO.
WHILE q Chicago 4 Alton freight train was
switching at the yard in Springfield, ILL.,, on the
Sd inst, the engineer Of the locomotive lost
control Of il by the throttle flying open, result
ing in the engine backing nj full speed into q
train. Five cars were badly wrecked, and one
passenge, in the caboose, Jacob Fike, agent of
n ~" -. s.a uVAal4a nn. .,.-l.
fatally injured.
RoBERr REBBoNs, al old colorcd man, was
run over and killed at a railroad crossing ut
He was slightly deaf and did not hear the train
approaching in time TO avoid II.
by the breaking OF a coupling on a coal train
al Whitehouse, n. j., forty coal laden cars ran
down n mountain. The coal was scattered
along the line and many cars were wrecked. A
brakeman Was seriously injured.
A COLLISION between an excursion train and
some freight cars, occurred OH the agricultural
fair grounds ut North Adams, Mass, on the Sd
inst. Two cars laden with corn were ruined,
the passenger engine badly smashed. Fireman
Davis Was seriously hurt.
A HUdE rock fell in n quarry at Rondout, N.
Y, Oh the Sd inst, killing Patrick Marshall, and
~injuring John Noble, Bart Dooley and Chris
Carroll.
The waterworks reservoir at Grand Rapids,
Mich, wan emptied OF the End inst. by the
bursting of a main. six million gallons poured
into the CITY cellars, causing damage 10 the
amount OF S25,O00.
An Ontario dispatch OF the I'd inst. says:
mime Cinnamon at work on the Canada
Pacific railway and standing on n rock over u
blast when q premature explosion took place,
we're hurled into the air. Two had their SKULLS
fractured. The friends OF the men seized sticks
and axes and started 10 wreak vengeance on the
foreman of the gang, a white man. They
chased him several miles, but nc finally es-
capped"
HARRY CASEY, aged 20, drowned while bathing
at ~Narragansett Pier on the I'd inst. lo was
son ol Col. \. i. Casey. Washington, aud
grandson Of Gen. Silas Casey.
WHILE three tramps were sleeping beside the