Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-06-24
CASUALTIES.

JAMES DUFF a bridge Waterman on the Day
ton and Southeastern railroad, near Chillicothe
o., went to sleep with one arm over the rail on
the 18th instant. gravel train backed down
upon him and the entire train was thrown from
the track. Duffy was fatally injured. John
Kennedy had both legs broken and then fell
into the river and was drowned. Martin Coyes
and Marcus Miller were fatally injured.
RUNAWAY accident at Cleveland, on the 18th
instant, resulted in the killing of one lady, the
serious wounding Of another, and boy.
| CLEVELAND dispatch of the 18th inst, is as
follows: "a special says the large Touring
mill of Russell, Dairy & Co., one of the finest
in the state, filed with flour and wheat, was
totally destroyed by fire this afternoon. Valued
at $40, 600 to $50, 000 insurance S16 500. Part
1 of the flour was saved"
| LEWIS CHATrERToN was killed and a fireman
wounded by the fall of wall at fire at Auburn,
N. Y, on the 18th inst.
1 AT Columbus, o., on the 10th, Edward f.
Moyer, brakeman on the Pan Handle road
was run over by locomotive and killed.
Up to the 18th inst, the death roll of the Mar
agansett-Stonington collision on Long Island
sound numbered thirty-nine persons, of whom
six were not identified.
OK the 18th inst, three hundred niles east of
Sandy Hook, during a dense fog, the steamer
Queen came into collision with the steamer
Anchoria, from New York for Glasgow Both
vessels were very seriously damaged and for n
while it was thought both would go down. The
Queens bow was stove in The Queen took of
all the passengers of the Anchoria, one hun-
dred and eighty III number, and brought them
to New York The Anchora succeeded in
reaching port i'll sinking condition.
THE storm of the 18th inst. was very general
throughout Indiana and Southern Ohio. At
Cicero Ind, many houses were blown down.
David Gerbers house was blown over. and Miss
Gerber fatally injured. The Methodist and
German Lutheran church was completely de
stroyed. At Glendale number of houses were
unroofed and the village almost wholly de-
spoiled of shade and fruit trees. At Ripley, o.,
j. A. Tweed's tobacco warehouse was struck by
lightning and destroyed. Loss 900; in
surance $4,000. At Shelbyyile, Ind, Abraham
Clark WIS caught by the wind and carried into
the air. When he fell ne received fataliniuries.
A GREAsER Lad of Is, in love with girl of ID.
at San Antonio, but unable to marry her, owing
to the objections Of her parents, shot himself
through the heart.
THIRTY or more persons were severely
poisoned at the Free Methodist camp-meeting
grounds, near Elgin, ILL.,, on the 18th inst, by
eating canned beet
Two farmers had quarrel at a picnic held
near Atlanta, Ga. One Of the PARTIES left the
picnic grounds, got his shotgun, end, coming
back, shot his antagonist, inilicting mortal
wounds.
THE entire region Of the Upper Wolf river in
Wisconsin is covered with water, and great de-
struction of property has resulted III conse-
quence. Several bridges have been swept away,
and nearly the entire log crop has been set atoat
and is drifting i'll every direction. The En-
barras and Pigeon rivers in the vicinity are also
flooded, and proportionate damage has been
done.
MICHAEL WIENBERGER, a boy Of 10, attempt
ed to jump on an ascending elevator in the fac
tory of s. n. Brown, Dayton, o., the 18th inst,
and fell beneath IT. plunging head downward
fifty feet dashing his brains out on the cellar
pavement.
A TORNADO at Pittsfield, n. H.. or the 18th
nst., caused damage to tho amount of 800.
000 Acres of trees from two to four feet in
diameter snapped like pipe stems.
THE boiler i'll Waldeck d Wirth's distillery,
Milwaukee, Wis, blew up ON the 18th, instantly
killing Dettloif Hansen and seriously injuring
several others. The distillery was badly wrecked.
CAVE, MILFORD & Co.'s planning mill and
sash and door factory burned on the 14th in
stant at Muscatine, la. Loss 49,, 900: insur-
ance $4,000. Several tiremen We're hurt; none
seriously.
THE imported thoroughbred John D. Rysike,
valued at $4,000, was burned to death at st
Thomas, Ont, on the 18th instant.
THE steamers Stonington and Narragansott
collided of Connecticut river, Long Island
Sound, on the night of the 11thinst. The Nara
gansett took fire and afterwards sunk. She had
a large list of passengers, about fifty Of whom
lost their lives. The books of the steamer w6Iu
lost. making it hard matter to arrive at the
exact loss by the disaster. As usual iii sudden
casualties of this nature much confusion and
excitement helped swell the death list.
A PORTLAND, Oregon dispatch, says several
fishermen are reported drowned on the 18th
inst, on Columbia river bar. 1t is believed
seven are surely lost, their boats having been
picked up and the occupants not reported, and
it is believed a number of Others have persisted.