Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-04-15
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THE Phoenix block, at Amherst, n. IL,
valued at $50, Geo, was wiped out by lire.
a Loss of S25 eco was incurred by the
burning Of the entrance to the Charles
Evans cemetery at Reading, Pa.
NRs. MARY NELSON, 4 blind music
teacher of New Rochelle. n. y, and her
daughter, aged -. were fatally suiioeated
| by gas from coal stove.
BY All explosion in a saw mill at Berkc-
| ley, Va, this morning, four men were
scalded To death, two others will die and
three others badly injured.
| TIE Parkison hotel al Orange. Fla,
was destroyed hy fire on Friday evening,
all the guests escaping. The loss is 3l2,
| GOO
! LIZZIE GRIFFIruS, domestic of \ Youngs-
town, Ohio, tried to drown herself III
cistern because her lover was faithless.
| The water was too shallow.
SMITH +. MANSON, general passenge er
agent of the Wisconsin Central railway,
was dccapitated near Whitewater while
attempting to board freight train.
CiNcINNArI had $780, 900 conhagration
Ia wagon factory, two varnish factories
and large quantities of wagons and other
property being consumed.
TnE steamboat Colbert, having Just
come of the dock at Nicksburg, Miss,
burned at the land. She was owned
at Evansville. No insurance.
MRs. MAGDALENA Minis, residing on
| Fllty-fourth street, New York, became de-
spondent and finally insane about three
weeks ago, and has deliberately starved
herself TO death.
| GEORGE BIANEY Il stove dealer III Gin
einnati, sprang off Marietta train as il
entered the city He landed directly in
front of the Indianapolis express, and his
head was severed in a second.
Two freight trains collided between
| l4itehLeld and Bunker Hill. on the l.. and
St l.. railroad, near ST. Louis, and an un-
! known man was killed and number of
cars demolished.
TIE valuable residence Of Phillip Cor
man near the Leonard house, iii Tolona
| ILL.,, took fire from some unknown cause
ard was burned, the walls alone being
s~~<1. ThS furIIituro won got out in
damaged condition. No insurance.
Miss JuLA MEAD, of Paxton. ILL.,, at-
tempted to kindle fire by the use Of kero-
sene. The burning fluid was thrown from
the stove into her face, and she was Sc
verely burned. With great presence Of
4 nlnU size III nSIOTS she was
dangerously injured.
WHILE attempting TO stop a runaway
team Fred Iears, n farmer, residing just
outside the city of Manitowoc, Wis, was
struck on the head hy the tongue of the
sleigh and instantly killed He leaves a
wife and several children in poor eircum-
stances.
The steamer United States, from Boston,
4
doned The entire crew and two passen-
save all the cargo possible The vessel
has fourteen feet of water in.her hold. and
il i impossible to reduce it.
one of the stones in Johnsons Touring
mill, in Monroe. Ark, county, burst, in
stantly killing two men named Burrows
and Jackson. and fatally wounding several
others, among them Mr.. Johnson, owner
OF the mill. The building was also badly
damaged
THE terribly mangled and lifeless body
OF man was found in the tunnel at ST
Louis 1t evidently had been run over
by two or three trains, as the remains we're
scattered along the track for some distance.
From papers found on his body the man 5
name is supposed to be Eugene p Ellis. =
carpenter, whose family reside in Emporia
Kan.
TIE Union grain drill establishment of
S. B. Hart & Co.. of Peoria, H., WIS de-
stroyed by FIRE. The loss is estimated at
about $25 600; with partial insurance in
the following companies: Phoenix, of
Hartford. g eco; National, Hartford, g..
600; Fire Association, s, ESQ, Lancashire,
$1,000; Home, of New York, $1,000;
Commercial Union, s., 600: North British,
$1,000.
FOREST fires have made themselves seen