Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-31

lage, near Montreal Canada, on the 9th and
destroyed q large number of houses. Loss
$4,000.
Tie city of Plano, Texas, was swept away by
fire on the 9th. Fifty-seven buildings were de-
stroyed in two hours. Loss 100000.
II. Muller's brewery, at Philadelphia, burned
on the 25th inst. Loss, $50, 000; insured.
Several firemen were seriously injured by fall
ing cOrnlce.
Hateley's packing house at the Union stock
yards, Chicago. was destroyed by fire ON the
night of the 26th inst, with large stock OF
meats. The loss is estimated at 81, 100000
Insured.
Halyard Bros saw-mill, near st. John. N.
B., burned on the 25th inst. Loss, $4,000;
partially insured.
The saw-mill of Davis, McMurtie & Co.. at
Bridgeport, Pa, took fire on the Oath and burn
ed with a quantity of manufactured lumber.
Loss, 10000.
At Harrisburg, Texas, on the Oath inst, fire
destroyed the shops of the Galveston, Harris
burg and San Antonio railroad. Three locomo-
tives one passenger car and all the tools were
ruined. Loss, 5000, 900.
Fred. Voltz's bakery burned at Chicago on
the oath. barn with eight horses was also
burned. Loss about $4,000. A falling wall
badly injured two pipemen, and during the ex
element hose-cart ran over Capt James LIE
Fevre, of engine IL, injuring his foot SO that
amputation may be resorted to.
Helm q Cheeseman's tobacco warehouse at
Aberdeen, o., with a stock of lumber, shingles
and coal adjoining, burned on the 24th. Loss,
$4,000.
Nine large wholesale houses, with contents,
were consumed by fire at Evansville, Ind on
the oath. One fireman was killed and another
badly hurt by falling walls. The property de-
stroyed was insured for $4,000.
The principal block in the business portion
of Arkansas City, Ark, was swept away by fire
on the Oath. Loss over $4,000.
Fire at Barrytown, N. Y, on the 23d, caused
q loss of $4,000; insurance considerable. The
property destroyed is mainly ice and coal.
| The entire business portion of Raymond, ILL.,,
was swept away by fire on the 23d inst. Loss,
$65, 1000; insurance, $4,000.
Warner & Merritt's fruit warehouse on Della
ware Avenue, Philadelphia, burned on the 23d
inst. Loss, $225,000; partially insured.
Minor Mishaps.
| At Cincinnati on the afternoon of 28th Abel
Warner was killed and several others severely
injured by jumping from the fourth story win
dow of burning building. The place was a
cheap lodging house and was crowded with peo-
| pie. The landlord jumped from the fourth
story window and escaped.
While workmen were putting up apparatus
for an electric light at New York, on the 9th,
the lamp weighing over 600 pounds, fell from a
height Of 100 feet, striking the platform and
killing three men. Two others we're seriously
| hurt.
Two brothers, named Cofferen, living in
Saniac county, Mich, fell from a steamer in
ST. Clair River, Wednesday night, and drowned.
They were both drunk at the time.
Russ King. a young man of Mt. Vernon, Iowa,
! fell from o freight train on the night of the
oath, and was killed.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Temple, living near Fulton,
ILL.,, were killed by lightning on the night of the
oath inst. while in bed. A little child sleeping
| hot nm,
Mrs. John Leonard and Miss Lavina Chase,
of Dummerston, VT, were thrown from car
riage and killed on the 25th inst.
Eddie G. Farnsworth, of Detroit, Mich, was
killed by the accidental discharge of gun on
the oath, near Masonville, Mich. He was rid
when in some way the weapon discharged,
sending charge of buckshot through his
bowels
A Pole named John Gracofiski. employed in
Webber's wagon factory, at Chicago, was caught
in the betting on the morning of the 23d inst,
and whirled around shaft at the rate of 100
revolutions per minute. He was horribly
crushed, and when the machine was stopped
dropped stark naked into pool of gore.
H. Tratoff, farmer Of Itasca, H., was run
over and killed by train on the 18th. He at
tempted 70 cross the track and was struck by
| the locomotive.
Henry Barnum and 81 man named Fitzgerald,
lost their lives in a burning building at Phlla-
delphia on the 23d inst.
Two men were sitting in an empty freight Cal
at Providence, r. L, on the 23d inst, when
some other cars were run down against the one
in which they were sitting with such force as 10
kill them both. Their names were VIM. O'Day
and Lawrence Slattery.
Two brothers, Otto and Raymond Strodel,
were drowned while bathing in the river at
Burlington. Iowa, on the Dist.
While attempting to board train at Racine
station, Wis, on the Esd inst, John Morton
was run over and fatally crushed by the cars.
James S. FarweI, of Chicago, was drowned
at San Francisco, CAL, on the 21st inst, by the
upsetting of a small yacht in which he and a
number Of companions were sailing on the bay.
William Mexanda, conductor on the Mus
kingum Valley road, residing at Lancaster, o.,
was the fourth member of one family killed on
that line within three years.
William Cole and wife, living near CARROTS
burg Mo-, found their house in flames on the
morning of the Dist. They made great efforts
to quench the fire and to 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 efforts to reach the babe she was shut