Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-12-29
Accidents.

| A FIRE at Red bank. n. j., DESTROYED
Aliens block and Freuch's hotel, causing
loss of 100000.
A FIRE at Lorain, o.. destroyed the ma.
chine shops of the Tuscarawas Valley
road, causing loss of 100000.
| WILLIAM KIDD, prominent ieweler OF
| Cleveland, having been rem dered sleepless
through liquor, killed himself with lauds-
| mum.
The steamer Granger, with a cargo OF
cotton, rosin, and turpentine, was burned
| in the ha.bor of Charleston, the loss being
| $4,000.
The Northern Pacific round house at
| Bismarck, and five engines, were swept
! awav by tiames the estimated loss being
| $55, 600.
Mr.. DRAPER, resident of Hammond.
Ind, died in the dental chair of Sovereign
! Eros, In Chicago, while under the in flu-
ence of chloroform.
FIRE swept away the building Nos. 6l9
and 621 Broadway, Albany, occupied by
the boot and shoe firms of Herrick & Free
man and Shoemaker q Co., causing loss
of 100000. A fireman named William
Gray was seriously injured.
! By a collision Of Northwestern freight
trains at the Wisconsin ard Illinois state
| line, damage of 50 600 was inflicted. and
trains in both directions were delayed for
several hours.
! On wharf in Boston, Herdic coach
containing a gentleman aud two ladies
was dragged into fifteen feet of water BY
runaway horse, but the passengers were
rescued by police boat.
81
| sey Central road, between Long Branch
| and Freehold trains. Fireman John S.
Connoyer sprang from his engine and was
killed. Some passengers were cut by fly
| ing splinters.
A DAUGHTER of Rev. w. A. LLOYD, of
| Ravenswood, H., whose mind had become
affected by recent fall down flight of
stairs, attempted to kill herself with re-
volver, but her life was saved by the bull
let striking rib.
JOHN A. INGRAM, a miner residing at
Mount Union, Pa, placed a small guam
! tity of dynamite on the stove to melt the
| ice. Almost instantly there was an explo
sion like an earthquake. Four children
were blown to atoms, and the father and
mother were fatally injured.
The steamer Bath City, which sailed
| from Bristol to New York, was wrecked
| off the coast of Newfoundland. The cap
tain and crew took to the small boats, one
of which was capsized with the loss of four
occupants. After three days in the storm.
in which the captain and FIVE men died,
seventeen survivors were picked up by a
sailing VESSEL and taken to Liverpool.
TRAVERSE, COLGATE q Co.'S were burn
ed out on Saturday morning. W. T.
Moore 4 Co., dealers in linen and dress
goods, lose $4,000; A. Hall & Co., UNI
hrella manufacturers sustain loss OF
$4,000. The loss of John Stewart. dealer
in linen, white goods. silk. etc, is $4,000.
The building is damaged $4,000.
WHILE the railroad bridge on the North
branch of Chicago river, near Fullerton
avenue, was open to accommodate the
steamer Michael Brand, an engine and
pay-car of the Northwestern road ran up
at fair rate of speed, The locomotive
and tender went into the river; the pay
car was kept on the dock by striking the
bridge timbers. The conductor was crushed
TO death in the water, and engineer Will
cox lost his left leg. Fireman Leavitt
swan ashore. The imperative rule is that
all trains shall stop at bridges. 1t is said
that mass of thick smoke from a neigh
boring lime kiln obscures this bridge from
view.