Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-07-28
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

j. ID. DEAN, a son of banker at Mime
apolis. killed himself with laudanum.
A HAIL-sToRM inflicted great damage on
property in the vicinity of Brockton,
Mass.
THIRTEEN business places at Hastings.
Neb., were burned, causing loss of $780,
900.
FLAMES swept away the Irving house. at
Long Branch, many guests losing all their
effects.
A VIOLENT squail capsised several plea
sure-boats in Chicago harbor, and the loss
of two lives is reported.
TwENTY-sIx buildings were DESTROYED
by fire at Colfax, Washington territory,
involving loss of $4,000.
A DAMAGE of $4,000 was inflicted by
fire and water on the clothing house of D.
ii. Bingham q Co., at Springfield, Mass.
THE propeller Winnipeg caught fire and
burned to the waters edge in the harbor
of Duluth. The passengers escaped, but
four employees are missing.
THE fouring-mill of Badger 8 Son, at
East Amboy. ILL.,, valued at $4,000, was
fred by lightning and totally consumed.
CLAUDE SLYTER. editor of a weekly pa
per at Greentown, Ind, while standing at
a desk, had every vestige of clothing torn
from his body by lightning, and was so
paralyzed that he could not move mus
Gle. He has completely recovered from
the stroke.
AT a stone-quarry at Slatington, Pa,
two men were crushed to Jelly by the
fall of a mass of rock weighing hundreds
of tons.
HENRY NICKHANMER, an employe of
the st. Louis shOt-tower, was precipitated
100 feet by the breaking of the elevator
rope.
Two buildings of the Paquet cotton
| mills at Philadelphia. owned by William
| Wood & Son, and valued at $1,000 have
| been burned.
A FIRE at East Saginaw, Mich, last
| evening, burned Pearson's saw-mill, salt
block, and other property, the whole val
ued at 100000,
MRS. kEoUGH and her young con, of
Bloomington, H., we've horribly mangled
| by switch-engine. Her husband is the
engineer at the union mills.
Col. r. L. Mort, of Columbus, Ga, 81
! years of age, one of the wealthiest men in
that state, was killed by train in the
! Union depot at Atlanta.
In Dixcn Bros wire works, at Hamil-
ton, Ont, an explosion lifted the roof,
which fell upon and injured two men.
| Flames then consumed the establishment
A TooL-CAR on the Texas Pacific road
jumped the track near the sand-hiIls. Of
sixty men on board, three were killed and
! ten wounded.
THE habituaI drunkenness of an only
son drove Thomas Clark, an old and hon
ored citizen of Geneva, ILL.,, to kill him
self with poison.
The cotton warehouses of A. P. Wright
q Co.. at Townsville, Ga, with l, 400
| bales of cotton and the books of the city
treasurer. were destroyed by fire.
FIRE swept away the mills of the Penn
| the loss being 100000. The Harrison
wire works in St. Louis were damaged
! $l5 600 The loss at the Cleveland nut
and bolt factory was $25, 900. The busi-
ness portion of Fort Gratiot, Mich, was
! burned.
! FLAMES swept away nine buildings at
Red Bank, n, j., valued at $75 600; the
| oilworks of Bush & Denslow, in South
Brooklyn, worth $4,000; Rings lard re-
fnery. in St. Louis, the loss being $50 900;
block of buildings in East Oakland, Cal,
valued at $4,000, and the Hackett block
at Ionia, Mich.
AT Chatham Four Corners n. Y, re-
tired officer Of the army, Col. Henry w,
Jones, attempted to shoot himself and to
cut his throat with fragments of looking
glass For some time he has had spells of
| lunacy, and he will now be sent to an
asylum.