The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-25
pistol loaded with shot. The shot took
effect near the femoral artery.

pistol loaded with shot. The shot took
effect near the femoral artery.
AT Gnthries station, ILL.,, Daniel Crum-
ney, while at work at the bottom of a
thirty-foot we'll, was instantly killed by
the falling of a large bucketful Of earth.
lie was highly respected citizen of Glib
son, Ill.
1t is believed that the barge Morning
lost on Lake Erie, with all hands. She
was valued at $4,000, and had cargo of
10000 bushels of wheat.
D1PHTHER1A prevails to an alarming
degree in various sections of the union.
Whole families have been attacked at
Petersburg, Va, and Racine, Wis. In the
latter city four children were buried from
one house.
One hundred and fifty houses in New
port, Ark, including churches, hotels, and
the homes Of two hundred families, were
burned on the 18th inst. The loss is more
than 100000. Newport is town of two
thousand inhabitants, eighty miles north
of Little Rock
A LAD named Fred Palmer, son of the
manager of the Western Union telegraph
office at Elmira. n. Y, has lost his eye
from epizootic poisoning. The other eye
is endangered. 1t seems the lad had wiped
his face with handkerchief that he had
used to clean expectoration that his horse
had coughed on his coat sleeve.
CHARLES ALT, respected young me-
chanic, of Alton, ILL.,, was almost instantly
killed on the 10Th inst, by the accidental
discharge of his gun, while out hunting.
He was endeavoring to draw his gun out
of wagon, with the muzzle toward him,
when it was discharged, the whole load
entering his breast, resulting in death in
= few moments.
A SAD accident happened at Cedar
Falls: Iowa, recently, which resulted in
the death of Fred Knoche, young man
employed in the feed mill of q. n. Miner.
1t appears that he went into an upper sto-
~ OF the mill to oil some shafting. Short
ly afterward a peculiar jerky motion was
observed in the machinery, and on going
up stairs young Knoche was found lying
on the floor dead. His clothing had been
stripped off him, and was wound around
the shafting. One arm was torn off and
his head and body badly nlangled. The
deceased was highly respected by all who
knew him, and was the chief support of
aged parents His brother is pastor of the
Evangelical Lutheran church at Dubuque,
Iowa.
A HALIFAX dispatch of the 18th inst
says: About $50 A. NJ. to-day an explo-
sion of gas occurred on the south side of
the Ford pit, near Stellerton. All the
miners were at work in different parts of
the mine. The explosion was so terrible
as to sweep across to the other side of the
pit, killing all the men and horses within
reach. Almost all the men on the north
side will be saved. while all at work on the
south side have been lost. At least sixty
are missing. Five men have been brought
up and are likely to recover. Probably
forty are shut up within the fallen cave
on the south side. The accident was pre-
sumably caused by some miner firing a
shot in forbidden part of the works. The
disaster occurred at the Ford pit of the
Albion mines. All who have come up are
likely to live. A working party is down.
There is not much hope for the safety OF
80 or IS men known to be in the mines.
A SPECIAL from St.. Peter, MIMI, on the
18th inst, says: 1t is still difficult to get
at the names and particulars of the awful
calamity that came upon us last night.
All is terror and excitement, and the
grim ruins and slowly rising smoke strike
the heart as sullen reminder of the
shocking fire. To get at :; complete list of
those killed and hurt, is not now among
the possibilities. DR.. Bartlett, Of the
asylum, says there are not more than
twelve lives lost, and a possibility of as
many more people hurt and suffering from
the bitter cold night. Indeed more people
are believed to be hurt and dying from ex-
posure from the wind than from burns
last night. So many of the patients have
disappeared that it cannot be told who are
dead and who ran away. The suffering
has been terrible and no pen can describe
it or human mind can realize it. Hun
dreds of the patients are as helpless as
children and are seemingly shocked, and
dazed so as to render them almost insensi-
bic. The real damage to the hospital
building will amount to 100000.