Jamestown alert., 1880-12-14
WEEKLY CASUALLY RECORD.

district OF Erie In pennsylvania.
WEEKLY CASUALTY RECORD.
A 100000 fire occurred at Chicago on
the morning of Dec. T.
In Chicago. Dec. 8, policeman was
run over by railroad train and instantly
killed.
At Bellairt, o., Dec. s, fireman of an
engine was run over by train ana instantly
killed.
John A. Miller,a young man employed
at the Plow Works at St. Paul, Minn., had his
right hand so mangled by buzz saw, Dec. 2,
as to make amputation necessary.
An Atchison, Kas., dispatch of Dec. Z,
says broken rail on the c., R., I. s. P. rail.
road, threw train from the track, and good
many persons were severely injured.
Wilhelmina SCHNEIDER, a servant girl in
Detroit, Mich, on the morning of Dec. 3, used
kerosene to kindle fire. an explosion took
place, her clothes took fire and she was burn
ed to death.
The wife of Lewis Neil, we'll known
merchant OF Yanceyville, N. O., was burned
to death the 4th, by her clothes takiug fire
while at prayer with an infant child before 60
ing to church.
At Chicago, Dec. 8, switch engine
ran into street car filed with passengers,
lifting it from the track and throwing it 30
feet from the track. Many were injured fatal
ly The engineer Of tho locomotive was ar,
rested and locked up.
At Duluth, Minn., on the evening of
Dec. s, the residence of Rev. W. NJ. Tracy,
pastor of the Congregational church was de-
stroyed by fire. Contents mostly rescued.
Loss, $2,4OO. Insured, @1,5OO. small house
along side was also burned.
A Crookston, Mimi, dispatch of Dec. 7,
says: The round house was burned yester-
day, caused by the explosion of infammable
gas in the oil room, and consuming the con-
tents, including two locomotives. There are
three wrecked trains between here and
Glyndon. No one badly injured.
Rev. Fathar O'Kelly, of Minnesota, is
in New York, having been delegated by
tho Bishop of Minnesota to visit the East and
waken new interest in the cause of Catholic
emigration to the West. O'Kelly's mission is
approved by His Eminence, Cardinal Nc
Closky.
At an early hour on the morning of
the 4th, the grain elevator of Cargil Bros, at
Grand Meadow, Minn., was destroyed by fire.
The building cost s4,5OO, and was insured for
$4,000. It contained 1900 bushels of wheat
and l,700 bushels of barley, valued at 5000
and insured for $4,000, making loss above
insurance, $500, from which must be de-
Quoted the salvage on the damaged grain.
Fire believed to be incend;sry.
The Kearssge cotton mills at Ports
mouth, N. H., five story structure, wa
burned the 4th. The mill employed $50 per
sons, many of whom only escaped from the
burning pile with great difficulty and after
being badly burned, some fatally. So far as
an operator named Greenwood. The loss is
estimated at 85OO, 900, on which there was an
insurance of $4l1,00O, all in Eastern com.
panies. The same day Londonbergsr's wool
en- factory, Philadelphia was burned, iphict-
ing loss of $4,000, and throwing 200 per-
sons out of employment. Four firemen were
INJURED, one being horribly crushed by fall
ng wall.
A terrible accident occurred at II
o'clock the 4th, on the Chicago & Northwest
ern railroad, by which fifteen persons were in
jured, but by what seems almost miracle
escaped instant death. The accident occurred
at Carey station, about SO miles from Chicago,
where owing to dense fog, the GAINESVILLE ex-
press ran into the rear cars of the Geneva Lake
express, the two rear cars being demolished
and burned, the colliding engine badly
wrecked, and every passenger in the cars but
one being badly hurt, several fatally, inclu1-
ing Mrs. n. c. Maynard, wife OF the manager
of the Western Associated press telegraph of.
fee at Chicago. Details of the accident and
names of the injured have been suppressed by
the railroad company.