Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-07-21
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THIRTEEN business places at Hastings.
Neb., were burned, causing loss of $780,
900.
A PASSENGER coach on a New Jersey
Southern train jumped the track at a
bridge and went into the water. Andrew
Robbins, the conductor, was fatally in
jured, and three others were badly hurt.
HUNDREDS of windows were broken by
a hail-storm at Brockville, Ont, and trees
and fences were toppled over.
THERE were twenty-three deaths from
yellow fever and fifteen from smallpox
in Havana, last week.
MARY RIHA, aged about 81 years, fell
dead while dancing in Car lton, Wis.
Heart disease is supposed to have been
the cause.
A FIRE in Ryan & Cumminsky's tobacco
factory at st. Louis destroyed the building
and contents, which were valued at $20,-
600.
A SERIOUS confagration broke out a
Bradford, Pa. Ten business buildings and
the Riddell House were in flames, and the
loss will certainly reach 800, 900.
ONE of the shops in the penitentiary at
Columbus, o., was damaged 81 900 by fire.
and lies in a dangerous condition.
DANIEL RoYsE, clerk of the supreme
court of Indiana, who served during the
war in the 40th regiment, was stricken by
the heat, and died in half an hour.
THE shops of the Dodge Manufacturing
company at Mishawaka, Ind, valued at
$4,000, were struck by lightning and
burned.
AN accident on the International road
twenty-six miles west of Galveston, caused
by the splitting of a wheel, injured twenty
four persons.
A CYCLONE swept over the vicinity of
Fairfield, Mimi, killing four persons and
wrecking all the houses and bridges in its
path.
WILLIAM BEAL, a drunken citizen of
indianapolis, shot himself severely while
illustrating the manner in which Guiteau
fired at Garfield
THE saw-mill of the Sherman Lumber
Company, at Potsdam, n. Y, with two
million feet of lumber, and eighteen
houses, were destroyed by fire, causing a
loss of 100000.
A FIRE in the works of the Excelsior
Manufacturing Company, of st. Louis, on
which sixteen engines were kept busy, de-
stroyed the Lewis street building and the
molding-room on Florida street.
A wATER-sPoUT at Marshaltown. Iowa.
caused the overflow of Linn creek, float
ing off about forty houses and DESTROYING
the Ketchum wagon-works and Stod-
dard's mills. The damage is placed at
100000.
ANDovER bridge, crossing the Merrimac
river at Lawrence, Mass, which cost S3O.-
OOO was swept away by fire The struc-
ture was originally built in 1893, the char
ter bearing the bold signature of John
Hancock.
The suicide of Mrs. Sadie Stewart in
the Niagara river. at Buffalo, was fol-
lowed by that of DR.. E. II. Howie, of
Forestville, n. j., whose name had been
linked with hers in scandalous intrigue
By some it is thought they went hand in
hand to death.
The pecuniary loss by the cyclone at
New Ulm, Mimi, is placed at $250,000.
The rebuilding of the city will commence
at once. Property is being protected by
the Governors guards, and excursion
trains took thousands tc the scene on Sun
day.
JUST outside of St. Paul, freight train
of forty-three cars on the Omaha road
broke apart, the rear section starting back
down high grade, and striking another
train az the depot at the rate of sixty
miles per hour George Trider, veteran
engineer, was killed, and loss of $4,000
inflicted. The track was rooted up for
fifteen rods.