The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-01-30
CASUALTIES.

4 CONSTRUCTION train on the Virginia Mid
land road ran of the track near Charlottesville,
Va. on the 23d, going down al cmbanllment
fifty feet, killing conductor Wilson and two
brakcmen and seriously mjurins Captain ii. ID.
Luckct and six road hands. Six cars were conf
plctey wrecked.
The Wholesale drug house Of Robert B. Smith
at Alton, H., burned OH the sd with the Alton
Eu.ming Telegraph and the job printing Office
OF Bcall 4 Danvers. Smiths loss IL about sllO,-
UUO; insured for $4,000. The printing offices
were only partially insured.
TuE building occupied by the Globe printing
Office at Cherry Valley, Kansas, burned on the
night of tho 2Ist. T.. Henderson, foreman, and
Vim. McClain, printer Of the Globe company,
persisted IN the flames.
THE tanncry Of i. :. Dupuy, at Ironton, o.,
burned on the Odd. Loss 10000; no insurance.
The steamer Bavarian from Liverpool, ran
down III English schooner of Queenstown, Ire
land. The captain and two Of the schooner's
se4mcn were droWnedr
rHREsuISG machine boiler exploded in
Clinton, Ont, on tho 22d, killing two men and
lnlur1nB several others.
4 CAR shed in Chnrle-town, S. c., WAS burned
ON the ed, with about forty passenger, freight
and baggage cars, entailing loss Of $4,000.
A FIRE IN Jan"syillc, Mimi, on the 22d
destroyed the stores u =. ". Mc'irccr, Rogers
Bros, Carter Merrill, and John Bradish.
LISs S2G, 900; Insurance about Sl5,0m.
THE sharp county courthouse 1t Evening
Shade Ark, was fired by inccndiarics and total
" destroyed on the night III the 10th, together
with the county records. Loss 80, 900; no i'll
surancC.
PATRICK GrdAETYs knitting mil AT Cohocs,
\. l., was damaged by fire on the 2lSt, Ia the
extent Of $4,000; uninsurcd.
THE Clarcmount, \. H., Paper Manufacture
ing mills burned on the 2lst. Loss 100000;
insured for Eli 800.
HERR K CIssEIL's Touring mill, on the canal
above Georgetown, Virginia, burned on the
2lst. Loss on building S5O,OO0; On stock $780,
900. Insurance on the former $685. 900; on the
latter $4,000.
The sugar boiler at ID. II. CAROLS plantation,
on the BaiIataria, La, exploded, killing Arthur
PorTicr, chief engineer, Willis Wright (colOrcd)
and cOlOrcd man, namC unknown, and SERIOUS
~ wounding thirteen others. Some IRE not
expected 10 recover. The sugar house was
damaged $4,000 worth.
The boilers OF the Montgomery furnace at
Port Kennedy, Pa, exploded on the 10th. The
loss will be heavy, a. the furnaces will have TO
DC pnt out OF blast.
WILLIAM BNDwIs, a fireman, was fatally in
luIeu ny u Will III III
| the lith. He died on the 10Th.
! DAVID GREY, 81 years Of age, was burned to
death in his house in Barton township, Indiana,
on the Goth, in the presence Of his wife, who
was unable to savo him, he having fallen from
exhaustion in attempting 10 escape.
On the 18th, while steammg down Rock river
near GAINESVILLE, Wis, in his yacht, Burr Rob
bins, the Snowman, whose mCnageric il winter
ing on his farm in that vicinity was probably
| fatally injured by striking against bridge with
| his head ~ the yacht passed under. Robbins
skull was badly crushed, and hc lies III an almost
hopeless condition.
Two children Of A. J. Wilson, Of Chatham,
Ont, set fire TO their fathers stable on the 18th,
and burned to death.
THREE terrible explosions occurred on tho
10Th, at the Mama powder mills, three miles
south OF Yellow Springs Ohio. The mills and
machinery were completely demolished and two
employees, named Taggart and Carney, blown to
atoms.
JAS. T.. Boyps large pork packing establish
mcnt, ut Omaha, was burned on the night Of the
18th. The several large three story buildings
were all destroyed with provisions of all sorts
valued at S213,OO0, oh which there was insur-
ancc OF only 100000. Tho buildings were
valued at S3O, 900; half insured.