Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-09-08
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

! Mrs. NoURsE, an old settler of Moline.
| H., was killed by windmill f. alling up
on her.
FOREST fires are raging at South Beach,
Mich, and Huron City is in danger from
the flames.
THE town of SierraviIIe, Cal, was wiped
out of existence by fire, the loss being
PLACED - @9oo,ooo.
A LARGE area of woodland near Mead
vile, Pa, has been on fire for several days
and can only be checked by rain.
The Centenary Methodist church at
Terre Haute, Ind, was damaged by fire 10
the amount of $500.
AT midnight the furniture faetory of
Banning & Wells, at Mount Vernon, o.,
was damaged $4,000 by fire.
THE fall of wall in Hanover street,
| Baltimore, killed three colOred laboreTs,
and seriously injured two others.
| The coroner of Savannah has held in
quests on the bodies Of forty-six persons
drowned in the recent hurricane.
ROBERT LYNN, of Branch, Mich,
thrust a lighted pipe into his pocket, from
which his clothes ignited and burned near
! " off,
THE carriage factory of Gait & Blais-
dell at Rock Island Ill, valued at $4,000,
was struck by lightning and consumed by
| flames.
A FREIGHT train ran through burning
bridge at Shiloh, Mich, killing a brake
man named Reeley, and wrecking twenty
cars.
A FIRE at Kankakee, Ill, burned the
grocery of W. H. Koon and the millinery
store of the Kline Sisters, causing loss of
$4,000.
WHILE planting mines in the harbor Of
Newport, Lieutenants b. l.. Edes and
LYMAN 6. SpauIding were instantly killed
by an accidental explosion.
In attempting to run the rapids of Du-
platte in small boat, Horace Montgom-
cry and Kate Bartholomew, of Wadding-
ton, n. Y, were drowned.
ELI SLATER, a Wisconsin youth who
went to Saratoga with Charles l.. Colby
and family, of Milwaukee, was drowned
in Saratoga lake, or committed suicide.
A FIRE in Librty street, Pittsburg
burned Horns leaf tobacco warehouse and
two other buildings, valued at S2O0OO
! Five hremen were seriously injured by the
breaking of ladder.
The use of sulphur water in the boiler
Of Henry Moody's sawmilI at Campbells-
vile, KY, caused an explosion which
killed the engineer, Henry Gaines, and
m italy injured Jack Fletcher and Sam
Cook.
THE velocity of the wind at Savannah
Ga, during the recent tornado, was eighty
miles an hour. Fifty dwellings were more
or less injured, large portion of the city
| overflow ed. and many lives were lost alone
the rice plantations.
A FIRE in the four-story brick structure
: Nos. 1O3 10 1O7 South Canal street, Chica
, go. occupied by several manufacturing
firms. caused a loss of about 81 900. Cap
tain Franzen, of engine No. 1S broke hi;
leg by falling through a trap door.
AN accident occurred on the Grand Trunl
Railroad at Grand River bridge, Ont
caused by freight running into passen-
, ger train. The locomotive and few car
of the freight train were demolished, anC
OILY slight injuries was done 10 the pass
enger train, and no passengers were hurt
: a BENzINE vat in the rendering estab
Iishment of Jones 4 Chambers, From
street, New York, exploded burylnS sever
l al workmen in the ruins, two OF whom art
! missing. Engineer L0omis was blown
, two hundred feet, without injury.
! A FIRE at Omaha destroyed row o
= frame buildings on the corner of Thlr
q teenth and Dodge streets, causing loss
$ $1,000. Mrs. Allen was arrested for irln!
o the block, to revenge herself on her land
y lord. Late in the afternoon the wind fan
:. ned the embers into another blaze, an
e $4,000 more of property was burned.
: WHEN the east-bound express on tn
Central Pacific road reached Coalfax
d Cal, the other morning, two engines an
n one car were thrown from the track, III
rails having been removed by highway
u men. A fireman and the express messer
g ger, who sprang to the ground, were OF
4 dered to keep quiet, but just at that me
u ment the robbers became alarmed and rod
s off in a wagon, leaving large invoice c
'. masks, powder, and tools.