The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-29
Acme Oil Company was struck by light
Mig and $1,000 barrels of oil were burned.

Acme Oil Company was struck by light
mig and $4,000 barrels of oil were burned.
THE total loss by the First Avenue fire,
in New York, is ,sl5O,OOO, distributed
among many insurapte companies.
HERMAN koHLERs brewery, in New
York city, was partly destroyed by fire on
| the 2lst inst. involving a loss of $500 900.
THE Archer refinery and starch factory
on Archer aven,{W Chicago, was burned
on the Goth inst, the loss being between
$4,000 and $4,000
THE Atlantic Furniture Company's bust
, ness at BALTIMORE, Md, with the stock
and machinery, burned on the Goth inst.
Loss, S35, COO.
THREE brothers named Bryson we'll
known and highly respected in Montreal
were drowned in the river at that place by
the upsetting Of a boat.
THE City Hotel at Flint, Mich, burned
on the Goth inst. The guests escaped in
their ght clothes by the upper windows.
Loss, $4,000. The origin of the fire is a
mystery.
A 4-YEAR-oLD daughter of +. NJ Bruer,
of Streator, ILL.,, fell into pan of boiling
water which her mother had placed in
front of where the child was swinging
The swing broke and let her fall into the
water with fatal results.
TIE Maggie Franklin colliery, owned
and operated by the Enterprise Coal Com
pany, at Excelsior, burned on the 10Th
inst. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $1,000.
Three hundred men and boys were thrown
out of employment.
AMAN named Richardson, a resident of
the township of Ida, Michigan, was return
ing home from the city When about five
miles from town he fell from his wagon,
one wheel of which passed over his head,
crushing it badly, from the effects ofwhich
he died in about an hour. He was about
so years Of age.
AT Sulphur Springs, while Miss Terry,
4 visitor, was asleep, she was attacked by
a rabid polecat, which fastened its fangs in
her cheek and could not be removed until
its head was severed from it's body. The
lady suffers most excruciating agony and
her life is despaired of, the poison from
the animal having entered her system.
A Sr. JoHN's n. B. special says fires are
raging along the line of the St. John &
Maine and the European & North Ameri-
can railroads, through to Mattowamklag
Wednesday night, a fire swept the rail
road between Cork and Harvey stations,
and burned the license steam bridge be-
tween the spans. Section men got to
work as soon as the fire passed, and after
some hard work, got it repaired, so that on
yesterday trains passed over safely.
A VIOLENT and destructive cyclone and
hail Storm visited Monroe county. Mich,
on the 10Th inst, sweeping everything in its
path with terrific fury. The swathmowed by
it is from half mile to mile wide The
wind nprooted and twisted the largest of
trees, while hail was accompanying. The
storm was very severe. Fields of oats and
corn were threshed clean, and fruit trees
stripped. About the worst damage in
ficted was in vineyards, which were very
extensive in this region. These were COM
pletely stripped, and green fruit of this
years product ruined. Besides the great
damage done vines, few houses and
barns were upset, live stock somewhat in
jured, and windows riddled of glass
Loss estimated at $4,000.
AN accident occurred on the Long Is
land railroad near Rockaway Station, on
the 14th inst, by which 26 laborers were
in jured and two killed A gravel train
going east with 800 Italian laborers on
board, ran under heavy wire rope by
which a derrick near the track was sus-
tained sweeping the cars and knocking
off the laborers. Many were manned in
a shocking manner Many had their skulls
fractured apd broken limbs. The train
from which they were swept was going ten
miles an hour; the derrick in question
had been used for the purpose of digging
a huge we'll for the Long Beach hotel, and
the men were making arrangements to
take it down. Unfortunately the guy rope
was lowered as the train was approaching,
knocking the whistle off the engine and
sweeping the cars The unfortunate men
were thrown violently to the ground, and
their screams of pain and terror were
heard for half mile