River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-23
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.


Cairo, ILL.,, was damaged $500 by fire.
FIVE men were scalded by an explosion
on the wrecking steamer Baker, near Nor
folk, Va.
Ice cream poisoned twelve persons at
Atlanta, Ga, but It is believed that all
will recover.
THE heat at New Orleans is the most
intense for ten years, and six fatal cases of
sunstroke are reported.
ALAD at Canton, o., named Edward
Shumaker, is dying from lockjaw, caused
by wound from toy pistol.
JAS. WHITE, Chicago laborer, tried to
commit suicide with sharp screw-6river.
Cause: Whisky.
Two men named Flanagan and McDer-
mott were drowned by the upsetting of a
boat, near Kemble, Pa.
TAYLoR's paper mills, on the Don river.
near Toronto, were destroyed by fire, the
loss being 80 600.
THE mills of the Camp & Randall Man
ufacturIng company, at Warren, o,
were destroyed by fire, the loss being
$4,000.
TWELVE men were more or less injured
bv the explosion of boiler in an iron
d.
Der can not possibly recover.
Mrs. J. NJ. McCARTY, young widow
of Detroit, who was to he taken to the in
sane asylum, escaped from her guards and
drowned herself in the river.
The roof of the old court house at La
fayette, Ind, caved in while workmen
were tearing it down. Three laborers
were taken out in dying condition.
ANDREW D. ROBERTSON, nephew of ex-
secretary Robertson, was instantly killed
by lightning at Hunnewell, Kan. The
blow has proven almost fatal to his young
wife.
THE chair factory of A. P. Johnson, on
the corner of Green and Phillips streets,
Chicago, was destroyed by fire The loss
is 100000, and the insurance $4,000. Six
mea were more or less injured.
AT the abestos mines in the township of
Thedford, Que, thirty-six houses belong
ing to miners, two saw-milis, and con-
siderable quantity of lumber have been
destroyed by fire.
In consequences of the great fire in Que
bee, the ST. Jean Baptist Society decided
to forego their usual annual procession.
The splendid church named for their pa
iron saint is to be rebuilt at once.
By the premature explosion of blast
in the Hudson mine at Plymouth, Pa,
Michael Connolly VAS killed. Patrick Burke
was seriously injured, and John Hawkins
had leg broken.
AT Elysville, on the main stem of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, freight
train collided with an accommodation
train. Thomas Zipp, engineer of the
freight, jumped from the engine and
broke his neck.
A TORNADO passed over Colfax, Iowa,
injuring five persons and destroying sew
eral buildings. Much damage was also
done in the vicinity Of Milvane,
Kan. At King City, Mo-. six persons
were killed and loss of 100000 incur
red.
TWELVE new cases of small pox were
reported in Chicago, and there was one
death. The health department is work
ing energeticaiIy TO abate the disease, but
owing to the filthy condition of the city,
has not been as successful as might other
wise be expected.
LUDINGToN, Mich, hourishing town
on Lake Michigan, at the terminus of the
Flint and Marquette Railroad, was al
most entirely destroyed by fire. Most of
the burned buildings were of wood. The
loss IS estimated at S~UU,OUO. Inc 1nSuf-
ance is comparatively small.
BROOKLYN. N. Y, had big blaze at
the Excelsior grain warehouses on the
Atlantic Docks. A four-story building,
No. so, stored with grain, was destroyed,
as well as large elevator on Atlantic
Basin. The loss in grain, buildings, and
machinery is estimated at $88,000, which
is ali insured.
Ar Brooklyn, N. y, fire at Perrepont
& Co.'s stores, consumed Nos. and 5.
One workman was burned to death and
another fatally injured by jumping from
the burning building. The contents OF
the warehouses, oils, molases, wool, plum
bago. ETC., was very valuable. The loss,
partly insured. is about $1,000
ANDREW D. Robson, a nephew of the
ex-s, cretary of the navy, was killed at
Hunnewell. Kan, by stroke of lightning.
His clothing was stripped from his BODY,
his watch-chain melted, and his horse
killed at his side A man named Elem
felat was struck lifeless while standing IN
der tree near Fort Atkinson, Wis, and
Miss Hutchinson and Miss Cox were sim
ilarly dispatched at Hamilton, Tex.