River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-08-04
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THIRTEEN business places at Hastings
Neb., were burned, causing loss of $780,
600.
NEAR the pavilion in Lincoln Park,
Chicago, L. Lex blew out his brains with
a revolver.
EIGHTEEN buildings in Cattarau gus n.
Y, were swept away by fire. causing loss
of $4,000.
A VIOLENT squall eapsized several plea
boats in Chicago harbor, and the loss
of two lives is reported.
A LOSS of 10000 was incurred at Hall
fax, Pa, by the burning of Potter's ten
merry and five stables.
TwENTY-sIx buildings were destroyed
by fire at Colfax, Washington TERRITORY,
involving a loss of 100000.
A FREIGHT train of six cars was thrown
from the Grand Trunk track at West
Paris, Me, causing loss of $4,000.
A DAMAGE of 1925, 900 was inflicted by
fire and water on the clothing house of d.
III. Bingham & Co., at Springfield, Mass
Two buildings of the Paquet cotton
mills at Philadelphia. owned by William
Wood & Son, and valued at 100000, have
been burned.
WILLIAM g. De TURK, of Reading, Pa,
was instantly killed by being thrown from
a carriaAe, and his wife and sister serious
ly injured.
A TooL-CAR on the Texas Pacific road
jumped the track near the sand-hills. Oh
sixty men on board, three were killed and
ten wounded.
Mrs. FREDERIcA GAsTEL, wife of Henry
Gastel, while walking on the railroad
ha oIro
stantly killed by the cars.
THE stealn-barge, t. ]. Burroughs, took
fire when fifteen miles north of Chicago,
and burned to the waters edge. The crew
leaped into the lake and were rescued by
tugs.
FLAMES burst forth in a photograph
gallery in Oneonta, n. Y, caused by the
spontaneous combustion of chemicals,
aud were only stayed when damage OF
1927 900 had been inflicted.
The central and eastern portions OF
New York State and the New England
States have Just been having some terrific
and destructive lightning and wind
storms.
THE babitual drunkenness of an only
son drove Thomas J Clark, an old and hon
ored citizen of Geneva, ILL.,. to kill him
self with poison.
THE deaths are announced by drowning
off Chicago, of John Beidler, son of the
well-known lumberman. and L. j. Claw.
son, ir., member of the board of trade.
The cotton warehouses of A. ?. Wright
& Co.. at Townsville, Ga, with !, 400
bales of cotton and the books of the city
treasurer. were destroyed by fire.
The church furniture works of Haynes
Spencer q Co., at Richmond, Ind, Cary
& Roulette's planning mill, and Hugo's en-
CINE governor works were burned to the
ground. the loss being $4,000.
EMIL NELSON, of Chicago, while driving
a wagon over the carpenter street crossing
of the Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railroad, was run down and killed by a
passenger train.
PETER SUTTON. while looking at the
wolves in Lincoln Park Chicago, put his
hand inside the bars, W zen ii was seized
and terribly lacerated by ose Of the ami
mails The surgeon amputated a finger,
but further bad results are feared.
AT Cleveland, Ohio, Mr., II. NJ. Loeb
airy, and Miss Jessie Edwards, engaged to
be married, went for a boat ride on the
lake. Two days after the body of the
lady was found floating in the water, indi-
eating that both were drowned.
A FARMER named Wilson, living on the
line of the Kingston and Pembroke rail
road, in Canada, while passing through
the woods was torn to pieces by a bear
and nearly devoured before his fate was
learned.
FIRE swept away the mills of the Penn
sylvania Paper company at Lock Haven,
the loss being 100000. The Harrison
wire works in St. Louis were damaged
SIS .000. The loss at the Cleveland nut
and bolt factory was $25, goo. The bust.
ness portion of Fort Gratiot, Mich, was
burned