The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-07
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

EIGHT bodies were taken out of the col
lapsed Hudson river tunnel at Jersey City,
on the 2Sth. -Four were identified.
A MAN named Jacob Zcarnzki was
buried, by caving of the earth, in a sewer
trench at Milwaukee.
A FERRY steamer was capsized while
crossing the Garonne, at Bordeaux, on the
oath inst, and six persons were drowned.
FIRE in Cincinnati, on the oath inst,
destroyed Marmet & Co IS coal elevator
and portion of Lane 4 Bodley's ma
chine-shops.
SMALE-PoX RACES with unabated yiru-
lence among the Indians of Ontario, Can
ada. One tribe is nearly extinct, and
others have suffered appalling decima-
ton.
THE remains Of Peter Woodland, the
assistant superintendent, who perished in
the Hudson river tunnel disaster, have
been recovered.
FIFrY-N1NE families were burned out
by the great fire at Green Bay. Wis. The
loss is about S135 200, and the insurance
$4,000.
A TRAIN struck a carriage at Beverly,
Mass, and killing the occupants, Aaron
Stevens, and Clara f. Trask, both of Bev-
erly.
Miss SARAH VANCE, a patient in st. Vim
cents insane asylum, st. Louis, set fire to
her clothing, and was fatally burned.
AT wedding reception in Hancock
county: ILL.,, the guests were mysteriously
poisoned with. something which acted as an
emetic 1t was by all odds the most bril-
liant social event of the season.
THREE men were scalded fatally, and
two others painfully, by the explosion of
the steam-pipe of the packet Maggie
Harper, on the Ohio river, on the 2Sth
inst
On the morning of the 2Sth the steamer
Florence Meyer Cincinnati ster rn-wheel
boat, en- route for New Orleans, sunk al
Good Hope or Bullets Bay. La, six miles
above Natchez.
A GENTLEMAN who has just returned
| from Desert says 120 deaths have occurred
| from smallpox. In one camp of sixteen
persons all but one boy died. The Tete
Boutes Indians are about extinct.
IMMENSE swarms of grasshoppers ap
peared at Jacksboro, Tex, last week, com
| ing from the north, at times obscuring the
sun. Farms near there are completely de
vastated, even cotton stalks being devour-
ed.
| JACOB SAUL, Jr.. of Havana, ILL.,, a boy
about II wears old, fell out of tree while
gathering pecans, and broke one leg anC
one arm, and tore three ribs from his back
bone. He fell distance of about forty
feet.
WooD fires are destroying considerable
property at Kewaunee, Wis. The house
and barn of Carl Hoppe, and the barn o
Joseph Chmeila and crops of F. w. Smith
of Pierce township, were destroyed on the
oath inst. Everything is very dry.
JOHN ROBERTS, who was bitten on the
finger by one OF his own dogs, near Cross
wicks, n j., about three weeks ago, dice
of hvdrophobia on Friday. He was seizec
with convulsions on Wednesday, and dice
in great agony. He was so years old.
DURING the heavy wind and rain storm
at Norway, Ia, Saturday afternoon, VIM
Tanner and Elling Ellingston, while try
ing to cross Mud creek with their teams
were swept down stream, and both wer'
drowned before assistance could reacl
them. The team of the former was als'
drowned.
DURING the night Augustus Bernard
watchman at the Michigan Central rail
road shops, went to caldron in one OF tn
car houses where water for car washing
is heated, and sat on the edge of the ket
tie while his coffee was getting hot in tn
water. During his wait he fell asleep an
into the boiling water of the caldron.
WM. Sly, of Nicholsville, Clermon
:. county O., went to Cincinnati, on the 29tl
! inst, and exchanged three thousand hv
/ hundred dollars of four per cent. bond
for gold, and put it in valise; and on tn