Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-05-20

McLeon county, in the same state. In Arrow
| smith township twelve dwellings, We're utterly
demolished, and one hundred and sixty acre
! orchard eradcated. In Empire township the
damage was nearly as widespread, and many
| persons were mi urcd Guthrie station, ham,
| let of half a dozen houses was struck by light
ming and totally destroyed. Near West JefTer-
/ son, o.. lightning struck the barn OF Jacob
/ High, burning it and the contents and killing
Henry Davis, who had sought shelter there.
AT Union City, Ind, number of building were
| blown down.
ONE 10000 barrel iron oil tank of Mcleod &
Morrison, and the Is, 600 barrel iron tank of
the United Pipe Lines, at Rexford, Pa, burned
on the 18th. Loss about 100000. Several
dangerous fires were raging IN the woods near
Barnum City and Colevllle oil property, thickly
located through the forests III sections. -Four
hundred men are fighting the flames near Cole
vile and large number near Barntim.
In Rome, n. Y, on the 10th inst, on starting
the engine in the Merchants iron mill, one of
the boilers burst, killing Jason G. Enarr, VIM.
Frerys, Reuben Davis and Jos. Bessock, and it
IL supposed fatally wounded Adam Busenderfer.
Several others were slightly Injured.
ALLEGHENY CRY, Pa, suffered severely by
fire. on the 9th inst. Thirty buildings, mostly
residences, were destroyed.
PORTIONS Of Minnesota were ravaged by q
heavy wind storm On the eth INST. In Waton-
wan county the storm developed into veritable
cyclone, wrecking several dwellings, and killing
Mrs. Pond. Mr.. Pond was severely injured.
Blue Earth county also suffered somewhat, and
near Rosemont village in Dakota county, 3
Methodist church vas entirely demolished.
A TRAIN on the st, Louis and Iron Mountain
railroad ran into washout near Bismarck
Dakota, on the eth inst Engineer Chas. Nc
hhprInp
killed and number woun led. The engine vas
wrecked and baggage express and second
class passenger car, ditched and turned over.
Two storehouses burned at Danvie Va, on
the 9th inst. Samuel Craxton, sleeping in one
Of the buildings, pershed. John Does, a fire.
man attempting CraSton's rescue, also burned
to death. Pecuniarylo loss $40, 900.
FIRE at Kinderhook, n. Y, on the Sth inst.
destroyed the business portion OF the village
Loss 100000; INSURANCE. 100000.
The Queens Lake ice house on the shore Of
Queens lake, St Clair county, Mo-, was struck
by lightning on the Sth instant and burned
Loss on 5000 tons OF ice and house about S4O,-
900: insurance 800 600.
kEIFER, STIEFEL & Co.'S tannery, Wellrich's
tannery and twenty-eght buildings, including
slaughter houses, stables and dwellings, with
their contents, were burned at Pittsburg on the
9th instant, involving a loss of 100000 and
rendering twenty poor families homeless.
NELLIE and Howard Lambert, children of
Valentine Lambert, of North lansing Mich,
aged 10 and years respectively, was drowned
in the mill race on the 7th instant.
In the storm of the 4th inst, off the mouth
of the Columbia river Oregon, more fishermen
than at first supposed were drowned. The
bodies of twenty-five have been recovered. A
few men We're picked up after cngng twelve
hours to the swamped boats. Boats with bodies
dashed to them have been seen drifting seaward.
The storm was the most severe in many years.
An explosion of sulphur in Henry Clay COLI
cry, uoar Shalnohin, Pa, on the 7th inst, prob
ably fatally burned William and Robert Harper,
Joseph Griffith, jerome Reed and Samuel Straw.
A ERE at Wlllamsport, Pa, on the 7th,
caused loss of 100000; insurance $4,000.
A PILLAR of ore forty feet high, III TiG's
shaft, MineviIle, n Y, fell on the 9Th inst,
killing Roger Moynahan and Willie C'Neill, and
injuring several Others.
THE Union Steamship compauy's mail steamer
American, from Cape Good Hope for Soutbamp-
ton, foundered close to the equator on the 2sth
of April after breaking her shaft. The pas
syngers and crew took to the boats Three,
containing tifty-four persons, have been picked
up and the passengers landed at MADEIRA, Five
remaining boats, when last seen, were working
for Cape Palermo, Liberia, with fine weather.
There was no loss of life when the vessel went
down.
Two children, Ray McCrosan and Tommy
Garland were playing with matches in barn
at Rochester n. Y. on the Sth inst, when they
set fire to the structure and were burned to