The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-19

| DeSlOe The Union Pacific track this morn
ing by section hands. He had been run
over by the cars and ended his life by
shooting through the heart. The mans
name is probably Stanbrey c. Angelo, a
correspondent of the Liverpool Courier,
where the latter was killed. Angelo has
been writing up the west for his paper and
had left Cheyenne.
ow mn1 engine Of threshing e., MACHINE sI e;
Alias Mccain, near Lakeland, MINI, ex-
ploded its boiler on the 18th inst, killing
the foreman and two men, and wounding
six or seven of the hands employed about
| the machine, some of them seriously. The
| names OF the killed are James Graham,
Hub. Young, and Ellsworth Fay. The
right arm of the latter was torn off and a
fve-inch bolt driven into his forehead.
Ara ball in Dallas, Texas, during the
progress of a quadrille, a pistol dropped
from the rear pocket of Billy Mitchell, a
he was dancing with Miss Susan Cameron.
The ball struck her right leg about the
ankle, passed over the surface of the skin,
and buried itself in the left leg of Budd
Hall, Immediately above the knee-joint.
In both wounds inflicted the course of the
ball was upward Several holes were made
! in the garments of Miss Cameron in the
passage. Halls leg will be amputated.
WHILE their mother was temporarily
absent, two little boys, aged and years,
the children of Mrs. r. H. Mansfield, Of
Clifton, near Rochester, n. Y, were
drowned in cistern. There is mystery
| about the matter, the cistern- opening only
| measuring fifteen by twenty inches, and it
would not seem possible that both children
could have fallen in together by accident
or otherwise, any more than it would seem
probable that one would have voluntarily
followed the other into the water and to
his death.
On the 18th inst, the hull of the burn
ing vessel Victaux, still ablaze, foated
against the pier occupied by the American
Export lumber company at Hunters Point.
The premises occupied by the company oc-
cnpies both sides of Newtown Creek. At
the time the Victaux came in contact with
the pier they were unloading there. A
large number of vessels wers set fire inn
mediately and communicated with the
lumber yard and spread in every direction
with lightning rapidity. From the
lumber yard the fire spread to the ves-
sells and Notwithstanding the efforts
made by several tugs which
fastened to their assistance, six barges, one
schooner and one ship were soon in flames.
Over ten acres of fire were at one time
raging wildly and beyond the control of
the tiremen. Several burning vessels
we're towed into the river and drifted with
the tide toward Blackwell's island, envel-
oped in sheets of flame. The fire spread
in every direction and no estimate can be
formed as tO its nrOhahle extent at nresenr
The scene from the river was one of inde-
scribable grandeur, the flames rising in
every direction devouring everything in
| their path. Fire alarms were sent to some
Williamsburg companies, and later, a
general alarm was sent out calling all the
fire companies of the western division of the
Brooklyn fire department to the place, in
addition to three Bassville companies, two
from Hunters Point, one from Dutch Hills,
and the Jackson hose company worked at
the fire.