The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-01-13
WEEKLY CASUALTY RECORD.


a $4,000 fire occurred on Madison
street, Chicago, Jan. 5.
The final deposit has been posted in
London in the Hanlan-L -Laycock rowing match.
Twenty -one deaths from diphtheria
occurred in New York within twenty -four
hours.
The headquarters of the militia
at Philipopolis have been burned. Five scntin-
els perished.
The bark John SittlesOn, from Ham,
burg for Philadelphia, sunk in a collision. Six
OF the crew are missing.
-Four men were killed in New y ork,
Jan. 6, by the explosion Of can of sllellac
varnish in fcrmcnting tub in Il brewery.
The British steamer Brazilian, from
Boston, was wrecked when entering the
Mersey yesterday. No persons drowned.
a mother and daughter, at Fort
Scott, Kan., were fatally burned, Jan. 6, by
their clothes catching fire from a fire place.
Nine deaths are already reported
from the boiler explosion at the Allcnstown,
Pa, rolling mills, and three moro are expected
to die
4 dispatch from Watertown, D. r.,
has just been received there. Snow blockad
caused the delay.
A freight train and All engine came
in collision on the Delaware & Susquehanna
railroad, Jan. 8. Five men arc severely in
jured; two, it is thought, mortally.
A boiler in the pudding mill of the
Allentown, Pa, rolling mill exploded Jan. 6,
instantly killing one man, fatally wounding
five, and seriously injuring five more.
San Francisco dispatch. Jan. 10: On
December 18th, the Japanese coasting steamer
with sixty passengers and crew oftwenty-two
coundcrcd in the inland sea and sixty-four lives
were lost.
4. three masted schooner, sugar
laden, came ashore on Brigantlnc Bar ut At
lantic, N. j., Jan. Z, during dense fog. All
hands are down with the chills and fever and
the captain is dead.
Il fire in Lockport, n. Y, Jan. 5,
destroyed the Hodge Opera House, and the
Gargling Oil building adjoining. Loss, $780,
600; insurance, $4,000. Several frcmen and
citizens were injured by falling walls.
The brewery of Ober Bros, ALE
ghany City, having capacity of 12,05O bar
rels of beer annually, was totally destroyed by
fire about o'clock on the morning of Jan. 8.
Loss, ~, 600, on which is an insurance of
$4,000.
\ dispatch from Wilmington, n. c.,
Jan. 5, saws; The fast mail train on the w. &
w. railroad, bound north, ran of the track
near Magnolia last evening. Several persons
were hurt, but none killed. The accident was
caused bv the breaking of wheel.
Des Moines, Ia., dispatch, Jan. 8:
A special from Crcston says: A passenger
train coming north this morning on the Hans
as City road, struck broken rail near Bed
ford. Four coaches were deraied and the
train was badly wrecked. No passengers
hurt.
A tenement house in New York
city was burned on the morning of Jan. 4, the
fire being caused by gasoline explosion,
caused by careless plumber. The single
egress was stopped by the flames, producing a
horrible panic among the tenants. Men and
women threw their children from the windows,
jumping after them themselves, setting their
clothing on fire from the flames. When the
firemen had mastered the fire, the dead bodies
of ten persons were found, who had pcrishcd
from suffocation and burning.
Jan. 4, a shocking accident occurred
to-day on the line of the Sioux City Il Omaha
division Of the Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha
railroad, by which six men were killed out,
right and the seventh lost a leg. The men
| were engaged in cut north Of Bancroft shoy
ling snow. The working train, anticipat
ing the coming of the south-bound passenger
had sidctracked, and the men, eleven in all
| had stepped from the track to allow the pas
| sengcr to pass. Some trouble in getting
through had been experienced the day before
and the engineer approaching the cut, which il
long ono and on a curve, had put on steam
and rushed in. The train consisted of loco
motive and tender, the box cars and one pas
sengcr car. The train with the exception o
the latter car passed the men in safety, but tn
steps Of the passenger coach caught them ant
moved them down like grass under th
wheels. Only four escaped without, eeriou
injury.