River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-08
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.


| Mrs. NoURsE, an old settler of Moline,
H., was killed by windmill falling up
on her.
FOREST fires are raging at South Beach,
Mich. and Huron City is in danger from
| the flames.
THE town of Sierraville, Cal, was wiped
out of existence by fire, the loss being
placed at 100000.
AT Attica, n. Y, on the Erie railway,
disastrous fire has occurred. Loss esti-
mated at about $4,000.
THE fall of wall in Hanover street,
| Baltimore, killed three colored laborers,
and seriously injured two others.
A BROKEN rail wrecked a Grand Trunk
train at Schoolcraft. Mich, by which a
brakeman named Grosvenor was killed.
The works of the Union Stove company
at Everett, Mass, has been swept away by
fire, causing loss of $65, 900.
THE coroner of Savannah has held in
quests on the bodies of forty-six persons
drowned in the recent hurricane.
ROBERT LYNN, of Branch, Mich.
thrust lighted pipe into his pocket, from
which his clothes ignited and burned near
| ly off.
A FREIGHT train ran through burning
bridge at Shiloh, Mich, killing a brake
man named Reeley, and wrecking twenty
cars.
A FIRE at Kankakee, ILL.,, burned the
grocery of w. H. Koon and the millinery
store of the Kline Sisters, causing a loss of
| $4,000.
WHILE planting mines in the harbor of
Newport, Lieutenants b. l.. Edes and
Lyman G. Spaulding were instantly killed
| Inv an accidental EXPLOSION,
| In attempting to run the rapids of Du-
| platte in a small boat, Horace Montgom-
cry and Kate Bartholomew, of Wadding-
ton, n. u, were drowned.
NEAR Greencastle, Ind, spark from a
| locomotive ignited five hundred acres of
| grass, and it required the labor of three
| hundred citizens to subdue the -fiames.
A FIRE in Librty street, Pittsburg,
burned Horns leaf tobacco warehouse and
two other buildings, valued at $4,000.
| Five fremen were seriously injured by the
| breaking Of ladder.
| THE city of Plano. Texas. has been en-
tirely destroyed by fire. Inside of two
| hours every business house was destroyed,
| excepting saloon and lumber yard. To-
tai loss, 100000; insurance, $4,000.
The use of sulphur water in the boiler
of Henry Moody saw-mill at Campbells-
vile, KY, caused an explosion which
killed the engineer, Henry Gaines. and
MORALLY injured Jack Fletcher and Sam
| Cook.
| THE velocity of the wind at Savannah,
! Ga, during the recent tornado, was eighty
miles an hour. Fifty dwellings were more
or less injured, large portion of the city
| overflow ed. and many lives were lott along
the rice plantations.
GRAND Trunk freight trains were near
lv wrecked by colliding near Lancaster,
| Ont. Brakemen Nelson and Anderson
and Fireman Hyslop were killed. The
operator and switchman have been arrest
ed for criminal negligence.
AN accident occurred on the CIR and Trunk
| Railroad at Grand River bridge, Ont,
caused by freight running into passen-
ger train. The locomotive and few cars
| of the freight train were demolished, and
only slight injuries was done TO the pass
enger train, and no passengers were hurt.
A BsNz me vat in the rendering estab
! lishment of Jones x Chambers, Front
street. New York, exploded burying sever
al workmen in the ruins, two of whom arc
missing. Engineer Loomis was blown
! two hundred feet, without injury.
WHEN the east-bound express on the
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Cal, the other morning. two engines and
one car were thrown from the track, the
rails having been removed by highway
men. A fireman and the express messen-
ger, who sprang to the ground, were or
dered to keep quiet, but just at that mo-
ment the robbers became alarmed and rode
off in a wagon, leaving large invoice of
masks, powder, and tools.