River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-01
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

NEARLY all the business portion of
Dangerfeld, Tex, was burned, causing a
loss of $2S,000.
J. S. FARwELL, of Chicago, was drown
ed by the capsizing of small boat Sum
day near San Francisco.
A LOSS of $50, 900 was incurred at Bridge
port, Pa, by the burning of the saw-mill
of Davis, McMurtrie 4 Co.
8 THE saw mill of Hilyard Brothers, near
St. John, N. B., was destroyed by fire,
causing loss of $4,000.
TIE fouring-mill of William Smith, at
Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, valued at
$4,000, was wiped out by fire.
A FIRE at Raymond, H., on the Wabash
road, consumed twenty buildings with
all their contents. The loss is believed to
be $4,000.
THE extensive Touring mill of Charles
Rapp, at Terre Haute, Ind, with its stock
of grain, was reduced to ashes. The loss
reaches $1,000.
FOREST fires are raging in Arkansas,
where no rain has fallen for ten weeks,
and in many sections trees are shedding
their foliage as if struck by frost.
A son and two daughters of Alanson
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to have been drowned in Canada lake,
from the upsetting Of boat.
Two men were sitting in an empty
freight car at Providence, X. l., when
some other cars were run down against
the one in which they were sitting with
such force az to kill them both.
THE Gaze stove works, located near the
foot of Harrison street, St. Louis, were
burned The owners were Charles Gaze,
the Horton brothers, and Robert Knight.
The loss is 800, 900, ard the insurance
$4,000.
NINE wholesale houses and their con-
tents, valued at $2500O0, were swept away
by fire at Evansville. Ind. One fireman
was killed and another fatally injured by
falling walls. The insurance aggregates
$l25,000.
AT soldiers reunion held in Hender-
son county, ILL.,, near Monmouth, ILL.,, a
Young man named Bailey, had both his
hands shot of by the premature discharge
of a cannon. His face was horribly black
ened with powder.
FLAMES which appeared in the stable of
Schulz's candy factory at Wheeling, West
Va, swept away that building and de-
stroyed the Paxton block. The opera
house was with great difficulty saved. The
loss is estimated at 100000.
RoRERr G. SCARBoRoUGH, an unsuccess-
full attorney Of Chicago, killed himself by
taking three ounces of laudanum. His
father is one of the richest men in Clncin-
natl, and was formerly president of the
gas company. The suicide graduated at
Yale, and was grandson of President
Woolsey.
THE tug A. B. 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, were killed, a'sd 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
Garretsburg, Mo, found their house in
flames in the early morning. 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
off
SIX miles west of Decatur, Iii q 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-mo but from what
cause no one appears to know. The loss
is estimated at fully $4,000