River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-05-20
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

HoPK1NToN, Mass advices say that
disastrous forest fires are raging in tn ct
vicinity.
ADAM BRUsTRR's furniture factory at
Buffalo, n. Y, burned ON the 18th. Loss
| $50, 900; very little insurance.
THE Cuban village of San Luis was
burned on the 18th inst. Three hundred
houses were destroyed.
THERE is no hope of Mrs. Gov. Viii
liams of Indiana surviving her recent
accident, her death being likely to oc.
cur at any moment. She is n years old.
A NEwsBoY named Jimmy Bolan was
caught in an elevator in Milwaukee
while peddliDg papers and crushed to
ieath.
THOMAS MCGRATH, a timer of Morris,
Ill, was struck by lightning while tin
ming on roof on Saturday last. He
cannot recover.
LATER advices from the storm on the
| Columbia river, Oregon, report the loss
! of life at twenty-five. Some others are
missing and supposed to have been car
ried away by the flood.
A BRADFORD, Pa, special of the 18th
| says the burning oil tank at Rixford,
spent its fury this afternoon. All the
| fires are now extinguished; 700 barrels
of oil were consumed which, with tanks
and machinery, make an aggregate loss
OF 100000.
| THE steamer Hattie Rowland, of The
! Memphis 81 Arkansas river packet line,
sunk in Swan Lake, Ark, Sunday after
noon. She was two years Old valued at
$25 COO; insured for $4,000 in Cincin-
nati offices. 1t is thought she is total
loss.
| AN express train on the st. Louis &
| Iron Mountain railway ran into a wash
out on Sunday morning, wrecking the
engine, tender, baggage and express
cars, and instantly killing the fireman
aud engineer. No passengers injured
A SPECIAL from Everett, Bedford coun-
! ty Pa, says: Four large bark sheds at
the Tecumseh tannery, belonging to j.
Il. Hayt 81 Co, New York, burned this
afternoon. The sheds contained about
| sixteen hundred cords of bark, involving
loss OF $4,000; covered by insurance
RAW McCRosAN, aged four, and
| Thomas r. Garland, aged five, PLAYING
! in barn on Francis street, in Buffalo,
| N Y, made bonfire. The barn was
| burned, and the boys were roasted so as
| to have no resemblance to human beings.
They played with matches.
A WILLIAMSON, Pa, dispatch says
| that a fire which commenced in Milton
! about II 80 o-day, has destroyed fifty
| b Iildings, including car shops, machine
/ shops, and Methodist and reformed
! churches, unless the wind changes en-
tirely, the town will be burned. Milton
! tafa r.1a
| f-apIc communication is now interrupt
e..
A SHOCKING and fatal accident occurred
/ in the Sherman house elevator, Chicago,
Anton Serge, the engineer of the house,
having the upper portion of his head
completely torn off by being caught be-
tween the floor of the basement and the
counter-balance of the elevator. He
was hunting for a missing wrench and
| had forgotten that the balance descended
as The eleSa tor went up.
a FRAME boarding house in 1t. Louis
burned on the morning of the 18th and
| four men Mike Eberlein, a cripple, a
| blind nam named Fisher, Fritz Sholte
or Shotler, and another man whose name
! is unknown,) were suffocated. Several
/ dodgers jumped from the third story
NlNuONss tutlT 6Alt ny INC Sta1ES DCiuE
/ cut off, AID were more or less injured.
! The house was an old frame rookery, and
| burned like finder The loss TO property
/ is small.
THE Queens Lake ice-houses pine
! teen miles east of Belleville, ILL.,.
way, were struck by lightning on 18th
| inst, and, catching fire were burned to
| the ground. The three buildings con-
tanned 1900 tons of ice, valued at $24,-
| 900, and which belongs TO the Missis-
suppl Ice company. The buildings and
machinery are valued at $4,000. The
entire properly is insured TO the amount
of $500.
HUsR, LOOMS & Co.'S extensive ice
houses at st. Louis, caught fire about 10
O'Clock, sunday morning, in the midst
of q tremendous thunder and lightning
storm; ansa were consumed. The houses
were seYcaty-five feet front each, by one
hundred and thirty feet deep, forty TO