Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-01-12

ACCIDENTS AND OTHER CASUALTIES.
William Spear of Algona, Iowa, was killed by
the falling Of tree.
A MIR. Crawford, railroad employe at Du-
luth, was killed by the cars. He belonged al
Cleveland Ohio
On Saturday and Sunday last property to the
amount of 100000 was burned in New Or
leans, supposed by incendiaries
The Commercial house, corner of Sumner
and Depot streets, at North Adams, Mass, was
destroyed by fire, loss $4,000; insurance,
Sis, 900.
The bodies of the two men killed by the de-
bris of the burning building at Kingston, n: Y,
were found, burned almost to a crisp. Their
names are Stephen Joy and Jacob Schoomaker:
By the burning of Trosten & Galleen's tan
merry at Milwaukee, the loss on stock was $18,-
900; on building, $4,000 The stock was
worth $50, 600. The insurance covered the
loss.
John Hittson, one of the wealthiest and best
known cattle men of the West, was killed, re-
Gently, at East Bijou, Colorado, near Otter Tail,
by being thrown from his carriage by run
away team.
The store and warehouse of Wells, Stone &
Co., wholesale grocers and provision dealers at
Saginaw City, Mich, were burned last Saturday.
The loss is total and estimated at $66, OOO In
surance on stock $50, 900, and on the building,
PzO,OUO.
A young man named Andrew Elimbke died at
cannon with which he was celebrating the in
coming year on Friday night One fragment
knocked out his eye and another penetrated his
right chest and lung.
A telegram from Indianola, Iowa, says the
wife of Rev. F. s. Berry, late president of
Simpson college, fell on the sidewalk, striking
on her back, her head projecting over the
causing instant death. Two little children are
thus within year orphans.
At Lockport, N. Y, the Hodge opera house
and the Gargling Oil building, adjoining, were
totally destroyed by fire. Loss fully 81 SO, 900.
The opera house building was owned by John
Hodge and the oil building by the Gargling Oil
Se 1 6an noas he oqs
$3.50, 600 on the opera house and 10000 on
the Gargling Oil building.
One of the most frightful accidents that ever
occurred in Nebraska happened on the Nebras-
ka division of the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapo-
lis & Omaha railway Tuesday, six men in all
being drawn under the wheels of swiftly NOV
ing passenger train by draught. Charles
| Meters, Thomas Broughman, APP. Swanson,
G. A Herman, Oney c. Anderson and John
Erickson.
By confagration in New York tenement
house, ten persons persisted. The fire started
at the bottom of the stairs that furnished the
only exit for the tenants in the story build
ing excepting the fire escape attached to the
building outside, and in less than five minutes
swept through the stairway to the roof, cutting
off the escape of score ofpersons. The flames
soon found vent, also, through two lower stories,
and thus barred egress by the fire escape. The
tenants, panic stricken, made rush for the
roof, but the scuttle was firmly hooked and
would not yield The ascending flames drove
| the people back within their rooms The
widest confusion prevailed Men and women
| threw their children from the windows and
jumped after them. The list of the dead are
! Ellen Sheridan, age forty three; Kate Sheridan
fourteen; Maggie Sheridan, five; Martin sheri-
dan, three; John Walsh, thirteen; Thomas Cas-
siday, six; Charles Cassiday, eight; A girl nam
ed Eagan, aged two; Mrs. Sheridan, age ur
! known.