The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-10
Minor MishaUS.

About o'clock on the night of the Cd inst,
as Samuel Akers and VIM. Scott were entering
the air shaft of coal mine near VaDmetre.
Mich, the rope broke and both were precipi-
tated 200 feet. They were taken out alive, but
Akers' arms were both broken and he was in
jured internally. SCOTS leg and arm were
broken, and he can hardly live.
An explosion In the gas-house of the Cutler
House, at Detroit Mich, on the 1st inst, prob
ably fatally injured Charles Cutler, brother Of
the proprietor of the hotel. Several other per-
sons were also severely hurt.
James Mooney and Bernard Leary were
drowned while attempting to go through the
flood gate at Yellow Mill, Bridgeport, Conn.
Each leaves widow and children.
Henry Meyer, one of the proprietors of the
cheese factory at Hoosier Grove, near Elgin, ILL.,,
was kicked by horse aud instantly killed ON
the 31st ult
Charles Durkas, laborer, fell asleep on a
wharf, at Chicago, on the night of the Both ult.,
and rolled III the river and was drowned.
-Four farmcrs-Henry Berkaw, Marshall Fer
reli. Emery Larpie and James Rudisdell were
drowned in the Wabash River near Terre
Haute, while fishing On the night of the
30th nit.
Three young men, sons of Caleb and Samuel
Dwlgen, and Andrew lIcLeonard. were drowned
in the Saco River at Bloomfield, Me-, on the
31st ult
The wife of William Snyder living on a farm
near Cedar Rapids, Ia. was killed by light
ming stroke, while standing in her door on the
goth ut.
The walls of building being demolished on
Hanover Street, Baltimore, Nd, fell on the Both
ult., burying several coored laborers in the
ruins. Henry Hawkins and Jarret Jackson
were dead when reached. Thomas Bruce died
soon after being released. Two others were Sc
verely, but not fatally, injured.
Robert Lynn, an aged farmer at Branch,
Mich, was horribly and fatally burned on the
3iltb nIf 10 gfIcl a lIUbtpd rir,p in
and from 1T his clothes took fire and nearly all
burned off. The body was terribly scorched.
At Marysburg, Ont, on the 30th ult , Horace
Montgomery and Kate Bartholomew were
drowned.
While practicng at a mark near Monteith,
Guthrie County, Iowa. on the 30th ult., Charles
Mallen was shot through the forehead by his
cousin, George Mallen, and instantly killed.
By the explosion of large can of gasoline
on the 9th ult., Mrs. James, living near Gin
ton Ill, was burned to death, and her husband
fatally injured. She went into a cellar where
the fluid was with light; which caused the ex-
ploFion
At Cleveland, O., on the 28th ult, 1000
barrel still exploded at the works of the Standard
Oil Company. No lives lost. Damage about
$S,CO0
By dispatch from Commander Thos. o. Sci
fridge, the navy department is appraised of the
killing of Lieut.. Commander B. L. Edes and
Lieut.. Lyman G. Spaulding by the premature
explosion of a torpedo at the Newport, R. l.,
station on the goth ult.
AT Cincinnati on the afternoon of 18th, Abel
Warner was killed and several others severely
injured by jumping from the fourth story win
dow of burning building. The place was a
cheap lodging house and was crowded with peo-
pie. The landlord jumped from the fourth
story window and escaped.
While workmen were putting up apparatus
for an electric light at New York, on the 9th,
the lamp weighing over 600 pounds, fell from a
height Of 100 feet, striking the platform and
killing three men. Two others were seriously
hurt.