Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-09-02
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

NEARLY all the business portion d
Danger field, Tex, was burned, causing 4
loss of $2S,000
J. :. FAIwEII, of Chicago, was drown.
ed by the capsizing of q small boat Sun.
day near Sun Franssco.
A Loss of $50 600 was incurred at Bridge.
port, Pa, by the burning of the saN-mill
ot Davis, McMurtrie 4 TO.
InEsaw- mill Of liiIyard Brothers, neal
81. John, n r.. was DESTROYED bv fire
cansing los of $4,000
rHE Touring mill of William smith. al
Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, valued al
.i2,Whl, was wiped out hy fire.
\ FIRE at RAYMOND, ILL.,, on the Wabash
road, consumed twenty v-one buildings witt
all their contents. The loss is believed Il
be 100000
THE extensive tlouring mill of Charlie,
Rapp, At Tcrre Haute. Ind, with its stocl
nf grain, WAS reduced 10 ashes. The los,
reaches $500
FOREST fires are raging in Arkansas
where no rain has fallen for ten weeks
and in MANY sections trees are shediins
their foliage ~ if struck by frost.
A son and two daughters of Alansor
Coc. ot Gloversville, \. " are believed
ta nave been drowned in Canada lake
from the upsettlng of !, boat.
Two men were sitting in an empty
freight car AT Providence. r. wher
some other cars We're run down agains
the one IN which they were sitting will
snch force as 70 Kill them both.
FHR Gaze stove works. located near In,
foot of Harrison street. St Louis, wet,
burned. The owners were Charles Gaze
the Horton brothers. and Robert Knight
The loss is 100000, ard the insuranc,
S50,Oo0
NINE wholesale houses and their con
tents, valued at $2a0, 600, were swept ava,
Nv fire Al Evansville. Ind One fireman
was killed and another fatally injured Il,
falling walls Tie insurance aggregate,
$4,000.
Ara soldiers re-union held in Hcnder
son county, Ill, near Monmouth, H., s
Young man named Bailey, had both his
hands shot of 10y the premature discharge
oi cannon. His face was horribly black.
ened With powder.
FLAMES which appeared in the stable OF
Schuzs candy factory al Wheeling. West
Va. swept away that building and de.
stroysd the Paxton block The opera
house was with great difficulty saved. The
loss il estimated At $6O.OO0.
RoRKRr e. ScARBoRou6H, an un.uccess-
ful attorney of Chicago, killed himself by
taking three ounces of laudanum His
father is one of the richest men in Ciucin-
natl. and was formerly president of the
gas COMPANY. The sricide graduated at
Yale, and was grandson OF President
WoolSey.
THg tug a. Is. Ward exploded her boiler
in the Chicago river, near Clark street
bridge. Captain Frank 5 Butler received
very severe injuries: William Wilson, the
engineer. and William Mcdonald, the
linesman. we're killed, a.d Michael Nc
Donald. the fireman. was seriously Scald-
ed The boiler was flung under the abut-
ment of the bridge.
WILLIAM CoLE and wife, living near
Gsrretsburg, Mo-, found their house in
flames in the early morning. They made
great efforts to quench the FIRE and 10
save goods until they happened to think
that their children were in danger. Mrs.
Cole ran up stairs through the flames and
carried two of the little ones out. but in
her ,fiorts To reach the babe she was shut
off.
SIX miles west of Decatur, Iii large barn,
used Jointly by VIM. J. Cameron and his
brother Orville, was DESTROYED BY FIRE, to-
gether with one thousand bushels of oats,
twelve tons of hay, four hundred bushels
of wheat, six head Of horses, and lot OF
harness and farming machinery. The FIRE
started in the hay-mow, but from what
cause no one appears 10 know. The los
is estimated at fully 5000