River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-02
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

| valued as $ZU,UOO. was destroyed by IRE.
THE postoffice at Skibbereen, Ireland,
was swept away by flames.
FIRE destroyed the American house, at
Glencoe, Mimi, entailing loss of 1920.
Tue pottery works of Croft & Co., at
Beaver Falls, Pa, valued at 81 900, have
been destroyed by fire.
By the falling of large factory chin
ney in New York city. Two men we're kill
ed and several seriously injured.
THE explosion of a condemned boiler in
the machine-shops of Risk & Co. at Mem
phis, killed two men and wounded three
others.
THE town of Harrison, Ark, was almost
totally destroyed by fire few nights since.
The fire was the work of an incendiary.
Loss, $25, 600.
FIRE on Iowa street, Dubuque, destroy
ed Walker & Co.'S barrel factory and Carr
Ryder & Co s sash and door factory. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
4 TRAIN on the Boston and Albany road
struck a light engine near Client, by
which Robert Bert, engineer of the pas
senger train, and Charles n. Deweese, his
fireman, were killed.
TIE explosion Of boiler in the iron
mill of Brown, Bonnell 4 Co., at Youngs-
town, O.. inflicted fatal injuries on David
jenkins and Walter Tender, and scalded
three others.
A LIGHTED cigar thrown from car
window near Oakdale, Cal, ignited fire
which spread over wheat-fields five miles
square. Several hundred acres more also
burned near MERGED.
THE only liquor saloon at Lompoc, Cal,
was on Saturday night blown to atoms by
large bomb, as was its predecessor some
time ago. The place was settled by tenn
perance colony.
THE extensive warehouses of Gilman q
REYNOLDS, cOopers, Terre Haute, Ind, con-
tanning large stock of liquor barrels,
were consumed by fire. Loss, 1000; in
surance, $4,000.
A CRAZY negress, named Jane Decker,
was locked up in the city prison at Lam
caster, o. She fred the contents of her
cell, giving the city buildings narrow
escape and terrifying her fellow-prisoners,
A TERRIBLE disaster has occurred TO II.
NJ. sloop-of-war Doterel, in TIE Straits of
Magellan. An explosion of the salt water
condenser was followed by that of the mag
azine, which wrecked and sunk the vessel.
One hundred and torty-three lives were
lost.
THE timbers of the Golden Terra mine
at Deadwood caved in, burying the entire
night force The work of relief COM
menced at once, and several of those i'm
prisoned had been taken out at the latest
advices.
r. S. RICHARDS, of st. Louis, treasurer
Of the Missouri zinc-works, committed sui
eide by shooting himself in the mouth.
1t has developed that for weeks he had
been watched by detectives employed by a
woman with whom he carried on an
amour, and who bore him children.
AT point near Horizon, Wis, the en-
gineer of st. Paul train discovered in
the nick of time q pile of lumber and
stones on the track. Two lads were seen
running across the fields, and Conductor
Castle and his train men caught them and
had them locked up at Horizon.
S. r. HALLoN, Patrick O'Hara, and j..
| w. St. John. were terribly burned at an
oil we'll south of Bradford, Pa. The well
made an unexpected flow of oil and gas.
which took fire at the boiler, and envel-
oped the derrick and men in flames in an
instant. O'Haras injuries will prove
| fatal.
HEAVY fires are raging in the pine woods
in Clare county, Mich, along the Harri-
son Branch Railroad. The woods are all
on fire in some townships in Roscommon
county. Heavy fires are reported also in
Crawford and Otsego counties. There has
been no rain lately, and the woods are as
dry as finder.
A TERRIBLE calamity occurred near Lon
don, Ont, by the capsizing of the steamer
Victoria The loss of life will probably
be one hundred and seventy FIVE, as one
hundred and fifty corpses have been taken
from the water. Among the lost is James
Robertson. manager of the Bank of Brit
ish North America.
WASHINGTON BENSON, wealthy farmer
OF Porter, Mich. met his death in an en-
counter with vicious stallion near South
Beud. Ind The animal first u.hed him
with It's fore-feet, then grabbed his face in
its teeth and bit off his right ch eek. Until
beaten off with clubs. the brute continued
TO crush in the old mans ribs and eat his
face.