Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-08-26
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

FLAMES inflicted damage Of severa
thousand dollars on the packing house q
King \ Co, at st. Joseph, Mo.
Two southern students At Poughkeepsie
y. 4, were drowned while try ing to row
across the bow Of a steamer.
NEAR ST. Johns, \. B., an express trair
collIded with a train loaded with rails
One man was killed and several others in
iured.
TuE burning of it's machine-shops caus
ell the suspension of the iron-works a
Reading, Pa, throwing 800 men out o
employment
The planning mill of j. S. Loomis. OF
the corner of Baltic aud Nevins streets
Brooklyn, valued at $4,000 was swep
away by fire
THIRTY buildings in the village d
Alleyton, Mich, were DESTROYED hy fire
causing loss of 100000. Twenty familie.
were left homeless
\ FREIGHT train ~ the Memphis and
Charleston road ran over three negroes
asleep On the track, killing two Of the
number and severely wounding the other
TIE British mar-of-war Druid struck
heavily on ledge Of rock projecting into
Fortune hay, Newfoundland, tearing of i
fhltloh bi HcT main keel.
a MOUNTAIN about twenty miles east ol
Mount Idaho is sending forth columns OF
tire and smoke 10 q height of several hun
dred feet, and the shock is distinctly felt
for - miles
WHILE group of twenty white road
lahoreIs were standing beside house in
liartsville. :. c., bolt of lightning
killed four and dangerously wounded ten
of them.
NICHOLAS ERIAu. a canvasman with a
show, fell from a train four miles west of
Gcneseo, I'LL. The head and arms were
severed from the body. His home il
Philadelphia.
4. HpREn X Sons saw mill. Oconto.
Wis, has been burned. Nearly one hun
dred men are thrown out Of employment
The mill will probably not be rebuilt. The
loss il placed Al $70,O00.
4 lO-year old son Of Mrs. Hess. who 70
sides in Pccatonica. Ill, while al work
with reaper on the farm of Mr.. High
hargcr, south Of that town, fell % the
reaper and both his legs were completely
severed Just above the ankle. Ii Is ssid
the lad cannot survive.
As Thomas ILL., Crandall. A stock dealer
living fifty miles south of Denver. Col.
was walking on top of the cars in which
his cattle were being shipped to Chicago,
over the hansas CITY, st. Joseph and
Council Bluffs railroad. he fell and was
crushed TO death, the cars passing over his
body. lie was one of the most prominent
stockholders in Colorado.
Ar Oms ha, Neh., i Young woman named
Carrie BerthelSon attempted To light a
fire with the aid OF Kerosene. The flames
suddenly tlared up, and, catching with the
can which she held in her hand. caused
Il To explode, burning the woman 50
badly that she cannot recover The house
caught fire and burned To the ground.
A TRAIN ON the Grand Trunk railway
ran of the track near Prescott, Ont.
John \. Howarth, The engineer. was
found dead, with his arm around the
whistle rope. William TAYLOR. the fire
man, received dislocation Of the shonl-
der. arthur King and William Macken-
zic. the express messengers, were injured
internally. ;. T.. Hartshorn. OF Holton.
Mich. was hurt in the back. The ears
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
residence, were also burned. The total
loss is Sli 500; insurance, 5000. Some
fifty papers were supplied with patent in
sides bv the Newspaper Union, and the
tre viii cause serious inconvenience.
Fifteen paper sides were ready for ship
ment.