River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-08-25
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

FLAMES inflicted a damage of several
thousand dollars on the packing house OF
King Il Co., at St. Joseph, Mo.
Two southern students at Poughkeepsie
n. Y, were drowned while trying to row
across the bow Of steamer.
NEAR ST. Johns, n. B., an express train
collided with train loaded with rails
One man was killed and several others in
jured.
THE burning of its machine-shops caus-
ed the suspension of the irOn-works at
Reading, Pa, throwing 900 men out OF
employment.
THE planing-mil of J. S. LOOMS, on
the corner of Baltic and Nevins streets,
Brooklyn, valued at $4,000 was swept
away by fire.
THIRTY-FIvE buildings in the village of
Alleyton, Mich. were destroyed by fire,
causing loss of $50, 900. Twenty families
were left homeless.
A FREIGHT train on the Memphis and
Charleston road ran over three negroes
| asleep on the track, killing two of the
number and severely wounding the other.
THE British mar-Of-war Druid struck
heavily on a ledge of rock projecting into
| Fortune bay, Newfoundland, tearing off a
portion of her main keel.
| A MOUNTAIN about twenty miles east OF
| Mount Idaho is sending forth columns OF
| fire and smoke to a height of several hun
| bred feet, and the shock is distinctly felt
| for 70 miles.
WHILE a group of twenty white road
| laborers were standing beside a house in
| Huntsville. S. c., a bolt of lightning
| killed four and dangerously wounded ten
of them.
| NICHOLAS ERIAH, canvasman with a
| show, fell from d train four miles west OF
Geneseo, Ill. The head and arms were
severed from the body. His home is
Philadelphia.
A. ELDRED 4 Sons saw mill, Oconto,
| Wis, has been burned. Nearly one hun
bred men are thrown out of employment.
The mill will probably not be rebuilt. The
| loss is placed at SO 600.
A 10-year old son of Mrs Hess, who re-
sides in Pecatonica, ILL.,, while at work
with reaper on the farm of Mr.. High
barger, south of that town, fell Of the
reaper and both his legs were completely
severed iust above the ankle. 1t is said
the lad cannot survive.
As Thomas II. Crandall, stock-dealer.
living fftv miles south of Denver, Col.
was walking on top of the cars in which
his cattle were being shipped to Chicago,
over the Kansas City, St. Joseph and
Council Bluffs railroad, he fell and was
crushed to death, the cars passing over his
body. He was one of the most prominent
stockholders in Colorado.
AT Omaha, Neb., young woman nah ed
| Carrie Berthelson attempted to light a
fire with the aid of kerosene. The flames
suddenly Jared up, and, catching with the
can which she held in her hand, caused
it to explode, burnin8 the woman SC
badly that she cannot recover. The house
caught fire and burned to the ground.
A TRAIN on the Grand Trunk railway
ran off the track near Prescott, Ont.
John A. Howarth, the engineer, was
found dead, with his arm around the
whistle rope. William Taylor, the fire
man, received a dislocation of the shout
der. arthur King and William Macken.
zie, the express messengers, were injured
| internally. s. p. Hartshorn, of Holton
! Mich, was hurt in the back. The cars
were badly splintered.
A SERIOUS blaze occurred in Omaha
/ Neb The Newspaper Union Building
| caught fire from the furnace in the base.
ment and was totally destroyed, with all
| its contents Two other buildings, one q
| residence, were also burned. The tota
| loss is Sl4, 500; insurance, $4,000. Some
fifty papers were supplied with patent in
sides by the Newspaper Union, and the
| FIRE will cause serious inconvenience
Fifteen paper sides were ready for ship
ment.