Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-06-23
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

MCKNIGHT's photograph gallery al
Cairo, Ill, was damaged $500 by fire.
FIVE men were scalded by an explosion
on the wrecking steamer Baker, near Nor
| folk, Va.
Ice cream poisoned twelve persons at
Atlanta, GA, but It is believed that all
will recover
THE heat at New Orleans is the most
intense for ten years. and six fatal cases Of
sunstroke are reported
A LAD at Canton. O., named Edward
Shumaker, is dying from lockiaw, caused
by wound from toy pistol.
JAS. WHITE, a Chicago laborer, tried to
commit suicide with a sharp screw-6 river.
Cause: Whisky.
Two men named Flanagan and McDer-
mott were drowned by the upsetting of a
boat, near Kemble, Pa.
The mills of the Camp & Randall Man
utactur1pg company, at Warren, O..
were destroyed by fire, the loss being
$4,000.
Mrs. j. M. MCCARTY, a young widow
of Detroit, who was to be taken to the in
sane asylum, escaped from her guards and
drowned herself in the river.
ANDREW D. Robertson, nephew of ex
secretary Robertson, was instantly killed
by lightning at Hunnewell, Kan. The
blow has proven almost fatal to his Young
wife
The chair factory of A. P. johnson, on
the corner of Green and Phillips s.reets.
Chicago, was destroyed by fire. The loss
is 100000, and the insurance $4,000. Six
men were more or less injured.
AT the abestos mines in the township of
Ihedford, Que,, thirty-six houses belong
ing to miners, two saw-mills, and a con
siderable quantity of lumber have been
destroyed by fire.
In consequence of the great fire in Que
bee, the st. Jean Baptist Society decided
to torego theiE usual annual procession.
The splendid church named for their pa
tron saint is to be rebuilt at once.
BY the premature explosion of blast
in the Hudson mine at Plymouth, Pa,
Michael Connolly was killed, Patrick Burke
was seriously injured, and John Hawkins
had leg broken.
AT Elysville, on the main stem of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, a freight
train csllided with an accommodation
train; Thomas Zipp. engineer of the
freight, jumped from the engine and
DTOhe HIS neck.
A TORNADO passed over Colfax, Iowa, |
lpjurIng five persons and DESTROYING sew
eral buildings. Much damage was also |
done in the vicinity of MiIyape |
Kan. At King City, Mo-. six persons |
were Killed and loss of 100000 incur |
red.
Twelve new cases of small pox were
reported in Chicago, and there was one
death. The health department is work |
ing energetically TO abate the disease, but
owing to the filthy condition of the CITY,
has not been as successful as NIGH. other
wise be expected.
LUD1NGToN, Mich, a fourishing town
on Lake Michigan, at the terminus of the
Flint and Marquette Railroad, was al
most entirely destroyed by fire. Most of
the burned buildings were of wood. The
loss is estimated at 100000. The insur-
ance Is comparatively small.
BROOKLYN. n. Y, had a big blaze at
he Excelsior grain warehouses on the
Atlantic Docks, A four-story building.
No. so, stored with grain, was DESTROYED
Is well as large elevator on Atlantic
Basin. The loss in grain, buildings, and
is estimated at 1886, 1000, which
5 all insured. II
Ar Brooklyn, n. Y, fire at Perrepont
I Co.'S stores, consumed Nos. and ).
)ne workman was burned to death and {
mother fatally injured by jumping from
he burning building. The contents of
he warehouses, oils, molases, wool, plum
'ago. ETC., was very valuable The loss,
partly insured, is about 100000.