Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-08-18
Death OH the Rail.

While q heavy coal train was crossing an iron
bridge over the canal near Harrisburg, Pa, on
the 18th inst, the structure gave way and
twenty cars were wrecked. Nobody hurt.
A freight train on the Denver and Rio Grande
railroad, ran into washout near Littleton, COL,
on the 18th inst. The engine and three cars
were ditched and the engineer named Nolan
fatally injured.
A regular night freight train on the New
England road ran into an extra peach train at
18th instant. Frank Way, engineer Of the reg
ular train, was killed, and number of cars
wrecked. ~
EARLY on the morning Of the 18th instant,
two freight trains eolidcd near Cooperstown
Junction, N. Y, killing Paul Simpson and John
Reilly, firemen, and injuins brakeman named
Mullcns and all engineer named Edward Leon
ard. Twenty-Five cars were demolished.
Thus far eighteen deaths have occurred
among those in jured in the accident on the West
Jersey railroad recently. Others are lying in
critical condition.
On the morning of the 11th instant, two
freight trains colIided on the Chicago division
Of the Panhandle, at point three and half
miles east of Grown Point, Ind. The forward
train had broken in two, and the hind portion
OF it, stopping on curve, was not seen by the
engineer Of the train following lmtil his loco
motive went crashing into the caboose, smash
ing the car into splinters, instantly killing a
u
Wo!cott, Indiana and fatally injuring Frank
Rowan, conductor, and John e. Dennis, brake
man. Two other stock drovers were badly
scalded.
An accident occurred on the 18th instant, on
the Midland railroad, between Leeds and Ian
caster, England, when passenger train left the
rails. Seven persons were killed and twenty in
jured.
On the evening Of the 18th instant, the Soc
ond section of an excursion train which left
Atlantic City, n. j., at o'clock, ran into the
first section, telescoping the rear car and kill
ing two persons. About twenty-five were in
jured.
The fast railway train between Edinburg and
London, known as the :'Flying Scotchman," :"
was thrown from the track on the 10th inst, by
a broken axle, at Marshall Meadows. near
Berwick-on-Twced. The engineer and . brake
man We're killed, the fireman severely injured
and some other employees and q few passengers
slightly hurt.
While walking on the railroad track at New
burg, Preston county, Va, on the 9th inst,
Mrs. and Miss Halbritter were struck by train,
the former being killed outright and the young
lady receiving injuries from which she died in a
few hours.
Work Of the Flames.
The roundhouse of the Ogdensburg and Lake
Champlain railway at Ogdensburg, N. Y, con-
tanning five locomotives, was burned on the 18th.
Loss $100,0OO
Lippcrt's furniture factory at Williamsport,
Pa, burned on the 18th inst. Loss $5G,Oo0;
insured for 1000.
A fire in sarg gent & Halls carriage factory,
Boston, Mass, on the 18th inst, caused loss
Of $4,000.
The building occupied by Lewis Brown L. Co.,
importers of silks, and Seavey, Foster & Brown.
fancy silk dealers at Boston, Mass, was rar-
tally destroyed by fire on the night Of the 18th.
in thu inI Of
The village of Lakeside, Muskegon county,
Mich, had a destructive conaagration On the
night of the 1lth inst. Nine buildings were
consumed, including two stores, a livery stable
and four dwellings,.
The Universallst church at Marblehead
Mass, was burned by an incendiary fire on the
18th inst. Loss $25,000.
William Hel]er's factory at Bushwick, N. Y,
burned on the 18th inst. Loss $50, 900.
Sherlock's mill and store and twenty dwellings,
were destroyed by fire at Whitehall, N. Y, on
the 10Th inst. Loss heavy; insurance $40, ,O00.
The OTIS companys large hoiscry mill at
Ware, Mass, was badly damaged by fire Oh the
thrown out of work.
Hurd's -four mill at Atchison, Kansas, burned
on the 18th inst. Loss $4,000.
The Eden house and several adjoining build
| ings at Sullivan, Ill.,, were destroyed by fire
early on the morning of the 9th inst.
As
which, with cargo of naphtha, was consumed
at Williamsburg, N. Y, on the 8th inst, foated
against the American Export Lumber company g
pier at Hunters Point, N. Y, on the 10th inst,
| and engendered q confagration which spread
over an area of six acres. Two-thirds Of the
| lumber company's stock, four canal boats a
schooner and sloop we're destroyed; Loss
nearly half million.
The inside workings of Kelley Run colliery
at Shenandoah, Pa, were discovered on fire on
the 9th instant All the workings were filled
with smoke, but the mules ana other loose
property were rescued. The fire is serious
one. The mine cannot be flooded and how to
exunguish the flames is the question puzzling
the engineers. This is the mine wherein Reese,
| Woolsey and Wilman lost their lives some sdays
ago, endeavoring to remove the gas from The
! old workings. 81 & +: g I;
By the burning of the upper stories Of :two,
buildings on Canal street, Chicago, OH the 9Th
instant, loss OF $15, 600 was occasioned.
The rolling mill Of Kimberly, Carnes d Co.,
at Greenville, Pa, burned on the 8th instant.
Loss estimated at $lOO, 900; insurance S25. 900.