Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-04-14
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

The Phoenix block, at Amherst, n. Ii.
valued at $50, 900, was wiped out by ire.
A LOSS of $25, 900 was incurred by the
burning of the entrance to the Charles
Evans cemetery at Reading, Pa.
Mrs. MARY NELSON, a blind music
teacher of New Rochelle, n. Y, and'her
daughter aged Is, were fatally suffocated
by gas from a coal stove.
LIZZIE GRIFFITHs, domestic of Youngs.
town, Ohio, tried to drown herself in a
cistern because her lover was faithless
The water was too shallow.
Mrs. MAGDALENA Mills, residing on
| Flfty-fourth street, New York, became de-
spondent and finally insane about three
weeks ago, and has deliberately starved
herself to death.
| Two freight trains collided between
Lltchheld and Bunker Hill, on the l.. and
| st. l.. railroad, near st. Louis, and an un-
known man was killed and number OF
cars demolished.
THE valuable residence of Phillip Cor
man, near the Leonard house, in Tolona,
! ILL.,, took fire from some unknown cause
and was burned, the walls alone being
saved The furniture was got out in a
| damaged condition. No insurance.
MISS JULIA MEAD, of Paxton, ILL.,, at
tempted to kindle fire by the use Of kero-
sene. The burning fluid was thrown from
the stove into her face, and she was Sc
verely burned. With great presence of
mind she extinguished it before she was
dangerously injured.
WHILE attempting to stop runaway
team Fred Lears, farmer, residing just
outside the city of Manitowoc, Wis, was
struck on the head by the tongue of the
sleigh and instantly killed. He leaves a
wife and several children in poor circum-
stances.
/ THE steamer United States, from Boston,
ashore near Cape Roman, has been aban-
doned. The entire crew and two passen-
gers were saved. Efforts are making to
save all the cargo possible. The vessel
! has fourteen feet of water in..h her hold, and
! it is impossible TO reduce it.
| ONE of the stones in Johnson's Touring
mill, in Monroe, Ark, county, burst, in
stantly killing two men named Burrows
and Jackson. and fatally wounding several
others, among them Mr.. johnson, owner
Of the mill The building was also badly
! damaged.
TIE Union grain drill establishment OF
S. b. Hart & Co., of Peoria, Ill, was de-
about $1,000; with partial insurance in
the following companies: Phenix, of
Hartford, $4,000; National, Hartford, $2,-
900; Fire Association, $3, $50, Lancashire
81 900; Home, of New York, $4,000;
Commercial Union, $4,000; North British,
$4,000.
FOREST fires have made themselves seen
and felt the past week, burning as if they
meant to make their mark on the year of
1881. Wilkesbarre, Pa, was one of the
greatest sufferers at the weeks beginning.
In Massachusetts they have occurred in
or near Gloucester, Rockport, Fall River,
| Wrentham, Attleborough, Hyde Park and
Marshfeld; and in other New England
states at various points.
A WHOLESALE drowning is reported from
/ Charleston, s. c., row-boat containing 8
negroes and an assorted cargo of farm and
family supplies left BENEFITS wharf, on the
Ashley river, for Johns Island. The
food-tide was running at its height, the
wind blowing stiff gale, and the water
was very rough. The boat was caught by
a heavy wind when it had got half way
across the river, and the entire company
and cargo were swept overheard Seven
of the nine were drowned