Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-07-14
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THE malleable iron works, located three
miles above Detroit, Mich, were damaged
$4,000 by fire.
WILD train on the East st. Louis road
plunged off an embankment, killing two
persons and iniuring seven.
FIRES are devastating the forests of
Quebec, Lower Canada. In some locali-
ties crops have been destroyed.
A LOSS of 81 800 was incurred by the
burning of the Nautilus boat club house,
at Burlington, Iowa, from the explosion
of fre-crackers.
MARY RIHA, aged about p years, fell
dead while dancing in Carlton. Wis.
Heart disease is supposed to have been
the cause.
JOHN SHEA. assistant yardmaster of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road,
was killed by an engine in the last-named
city.
THE lumber-yard of John Martin, of
Minneapolis, which was burned re-
Gently, was valued at $21 1000, and insured
for $4,000.
AT St. Mary's Female Academy, near
Leavenworth, the clothing of two Sisters
of Charity took fire, an: they were burned
to crisp before they were discovered.
THE outgoing coach overturned on Ar
gentine Pass, ten miles from Georgetown,
Col, instantly killing stroling musi-
clan, whose name is not learned.
THE seven-year-old son of DR.. Thomas
Allen. of Seferson county, Ark, was kill
ed by lightning. The family were gath
cred round the tea-table when the house
was struck. They were stunned but not
seriously injured.
A MAN cleaning windows at the Palmer
House, Chicago, fell to the ground dis
tance of 100 feet and sustained injuries
which terminated in death in two hours
THE explosion of the boiler of a porta-
BILE thrashing-machine on farm in Talbot
county. Maryland, killed three persons
and seriously injured several others. The
accident was caused by a reinforcement of
cold water.
WHILE on the way to small fire, Au-
gust DrOge, member of Pelican Hook
and Ladder Company, No. 4, of New Or
leans, fell from the truck, one of the hind
wheels of which passed over his body, in
hieting in juries from which he died in a
few hours.
A planing-mill at Spring Lake, Mich,
owned by the Cutler & Savidge Lumber
Company was destroyed by fire; also two
small dwellings owned by the company,
and large quantity of planed lumber.
VIM. RHODES, while playing around a
moving machine on his fathers farm, at
! Sturges, Mich, was caught by the knives
and both legs cut off. The doctors say
his injuries will prove fatal.
c.. LUEcK's large Touring mill, stu
ated three and one-half miles east of
! Wrightstown, Wis, was totally DESTROYED
/ L ! L. - Il AL l.
! the fire was in progress the roof was blown
up with new machinery. Loss not at
present known.
| IN Cincinnati, flames broke out in Mar
quia's carriage factory and spec diIy ex-
/ tended to and destroyed the Union furni-
ture works, Closternan's chair factory and
| Maeder's furniture shop. Charles Peat
perished in the flames. and FIVE persons
were injured. The Joss will reach $500, 900.
| JUST outside of st. Paul, freight train
of forty-three cars on the Omaha road
broke apart, the rear section starting back
down high grade, and striking another
! train a. the depot at the rate of sixty
miles per hour. George Trider, a veteran
engineer, was killed, and a loss of $4,000
| inflicted. The track was rooted up for
/ fifteen rods.
AT noon on the 4th a party of twenty
| three persons assembled on the summit of
| Uncompahgre peak, Il, ,5O8 feet above the
| level Of the sea, to erect pole and hoist
the nation emblem. AS the work was
progressing Col. Irving and ]. F. Single
ton were violently shocked by a stroIe OF
lightning. and soon afterward the pole was
rent into splinters, Mr.. w. Fl. Hasbottle
having his right arm burned. After this
warning the party retreated to the lower