River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-02-26

building, llnCluHdtl, On Inc Gun, SauS-
ing loss of $4,000 to Victor Burnham's
wall paper store.
A NASHVILLE dispatch of the Goth
says: The Cumberland river is still ris.
ing. The lowlands hearabout have been
covered and 1900 people have been fore
ed to vacate their homes.
A BOILER in John F. Thompson's steam
saw mill at Randolph, N H. burst Feb
II, destroying the mill and killing Elder
Page, Roger Johnston, Mr.. Crescott, and
a French workman, and badly injuring
s. f. Hewey
A SEVERE wind storm passed over Gin
cinati on the 18th inst. John Dalfen-
bach's house was blown down. He and
the youngest child, an infant, were kill
ed. His wife and two daughters were
slightly hurt
ATHE steamer Hibernian which arrived
at Halifax, Feb. goth, reports very
stormy passage. Heavy seas often swert
tho decks, and one seaman went ov Z
l.
a COLUMBUS, o.. dispatch of The 21st,
gives the particulars of terrible acct
4ent on the Bellaire a1d s. w railroad.
a mixed train jumped from trestle six
en- feet high, injuring dozen passen-
gers, some fatally.
On the 18th inst. Thomas Edgar,
bridge-builder from Milwaukee, employ
cd in making repairs on the upper bridge
in Minneapolis, fell from the structure,
| striking on his head with great force,
receiving injuries which will probably
prove fatal. He is man weighing about
one hundred and eighty pounds, and fell
on his head
| w. E. GURNsEY, passenger on
train entering Chicago from the west on
| the 18th, threw himself under the car
and received a fatal injury. In his
pocket was found the following memo
| randum: "My brother-in-law's name is
Frank A Dean, Willsboro, Pa killed
myself because l knew the masons
would when I reached Chicago. w. f.
c." He was from San Francisco.
;. The Cumberland river is still rising,
and 250 families have been forced TO
move from their homes in the various de-
pressions. The lumbermen of Nashville
have suffered heavily. The river is nine
feet higher than ever before, being eighty
feet above low water mark All the
streams tributary to the Upper Cumber-
land are reported higher than ever
k 1own, in consequence of continuous
rain for thirtv-six hours.
| AT supper-time last night says Peoria,
| H., dispatch, of the 10th, a terrible mis-
hap befel the family of James X. Crow,
composed of Mr.. Crow, his sister, Miss
Crow, and four children. Among other
things prepared for supper was dish of
canned salmon. Mr. Crow, his sister,
and three children, partook of the sal
mon, and ere the meal was finished all
became sick, with indications of mineral
poison ng. Mr.. Crow was in terrible
| condition, and for time his life was dis
! tiared of. A stomach pump and emet-
| les, brought into active service, did
faithful work The lives of Mr.. Crow
and sister were saved by only the most
ably get well, although the former was
in a critical condition. The children are
the worst off, and are very low.
THE flood in the Ohio river culmin.
ated at Cincinnati ON the nth. The old
! est steamboat men say they never wit
messed so rapid rise. Below Cincinnati
! the water rose forty-five feet in three
| days. All the bottom lands are covered
with water, and outstanding crops in the
| field and stack have been greatly dam
| aged. Many valuable farms along the
river have been seriously injured by the
caving of the river banks from the I'M
pinging of the heavy, rapid current. In
! Cincinnati the cellars of business houses
on Water and Second streets are filled
with water. The damage is not heavy,
as time was given for the removal of the
| goods. Mill Creek bottom is vast lake,
| and the railroad tracks running through
| . ,by,,a In Y,1o Tho flood &c
the highest since Jan. 90, 1877, but does
not compare with the great floods OF 1882
and 1847.
A LARGE five story iron front building,
| 3S4 and $50 Broadway, New York City
| burned on the evening of Feb. goth /;
| losses estimated as follows Hazen, Todds
& Co, importers of silk, $500, 900; Dick
erhoff. Rufflarr & Co., tailors trimmings,
$250,000; Jas. Wilde s. CO., msnufactur-
ing tailors, $350,000; loss on building,
| 100000. Insurance unknown. During
the progress of the fire two fire compan-
les on the roof made an effort TO cut
holes through the thick plates of tin,
but feeling the roof giving away,
they were obliged to retreat.
Two members of hook and lad
der company No. l, Thos. L. Dougher-
ty and John F. Cassidy, were the last to
desist rom their work, and remained too
late to escape. The roof gave away sud
denly near the center near where they
were standing and with blanched faces
and cries of horror, the two doomed fire
men fell into the blazing abyss and were
consumed. Their comrades who saw
them disappear were nearly unnerved by
the awful spectacle. The remaining
| firemen on the roof hastily descended to
the ground, and the attempt to fight the
fire from the roof was abandoned.