The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-09
The inundation will resalt In great loss both in

The inundation will restlt In great loss both in
stYrk and crops.
The excursion steamer Long Branch, with o
large Sunday school party on board, was run
into by an oil boat Just az she was casting of
from her dock at New York on the Goth ult., and
crushed 30 badly that she sunk All ON board
were safely landed before the boat went down.
LOCK No. 2 Of tho Laehne canal was burst in
on the 10 b ult., by the steamer Bohemian. Two
barges were sunk and the steamer badly dam
aged. Loss about 100000.
A DESPATCH from Warsaw, H., says the levee
which protects the bottom lands Of that section
brrkc oh the 28th ult., and water poured
through crevasses two hundred feet wide. All
wheat and corn and other crops will be lost
and IL, 900 acres of land are OyertiOwed.
Two freight trains came in collision on the
Goth ult., at Petersburg; on the Pennsylvania
railroad. Another freight train with John Is.
Crawford. engineer, and nj. A. Shriver, fireman,
ran into the wreck, and both men were instantly
killed.
NEAR Kalamazoo, Mich, on the 10Th ult.,
Eugene McGregor was drowned while CALAMITY
attempting the rescue Of three young ladies' who
were clinging to capsized boat.
The steamer Humboldt arrived at Liverpool
from New York Oh tho 39th inst, IN n damaged
condition. She had been on fire and had thrown
overheard fifty bales of cotton before the flames
werC cxtinguished.
ACCIDENTS caused by runaway teams in har-
vest fields are commencing to be recorded. At
Battle Creek, Mich, on the 2sth inst, Il chain
attached To yoke of runaway oxen, got ell
tangled in the foot of the driver, and he was
dragged to death. A similar mishap occurred
ut Downcrs Grove, ILL.,, the driver having the
EtaI inI ahn hiu hnlv xrha ton ats 1nI
At Stewart, ILL.,, on the same day, DIR. Mohanna
fell before q mower and was cut to pieces.
Ar Burlington, Racine county Wis, on the
28th inst, the WOODEN mills were destroyed. J.
L. Willard, the superintendent, persisted in the
flames.
The steamer SeawanahalSa, n day steamer on
Long Island sound, while on her regular trip
from New York city to the summer resorts, on
the 28th inst, caught fire off College point and
burned to the waters edge. There were three
hundred and fifty passengers aboard, of whom
about forty were lost. The captain stuck to his
post and beached the burning boat, thereby
averting greater loss of life. Many of the lost
were burned to death.
THREE negroes who took refuge under tree
during thunder storm near Louisville, Ky, Oh
the 26th ult., were killed by lightning.
THREE passenger cars on an Atchison and
Santa Fc train jumped the rails and plunged
down al embankment, near Sargent, KS, on the
Goth. J. J. Jenkins, of Dubuque, Ia, was IN
stantly killed and a Mr.. Keenan, and wife, of
Arkansas, fatally injured. A number of others
were seriously wounded.
DURING the storm on the evening Of the 26th
instant, three hands, VIM. Prinz, ALI. Jones
and John Ball. all colered, working OH the farm
of L q. Mines, eight miles from Louisville,
were killed by lightning. Their remains were
found in a field under q tree where they had
sought shelter.
YAwL boat Of the coast survey steamer
Bache with fishing party consisting of JAS. II.
Patten, engineer of the Bache, his two SONS
Willie and Jimmy Patten, and third boy named
VIM. NJ. Greenwald upset on the 26th inst, i'll
the lower harbor at Baltimore, and the sons of
Patten and Grcenwald were drowned.