The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-07-28
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

apolis. killed himself with laudanum.
A HAIL-sToRM inflicted great damage on
property in the vicinity of Brockton,
Mass.
THIRTEEN business places at Hastings.
Neb., were burned, causing loss of $780,
600.
! FLAMES swept away the Irving house. at
Long Branch, many guests losing all their
effects.
A VIOLENT squall capsized several plea
sure-boats in Chicago harbor, and the loss
OF two lives is reported.
TwENTY-sIx buildings were destroyed
by fire al Colfax, Washington territory,
involving loss of $120, 900.
"a DAMAGE of $25,OOO was inflicted by
fire and water on the clothing house of D.
II. Bingham & Co., at Springfield, Mass.
The propeller Winnipeg caught fire and
burned to the waters edge in the harbor
Of Duluth. The passengers escaped, but
four employees are Kissing.
The houring-mill of Badger 4 Son, at
East Amboy. ILL.,, valued at $4,000, was
fired by lightning and totally consumed.
CLAUDE SLYrKR. editor O., weekly pa
per at Greentown, Ind, while standing at
a desk, had every vestige of clothing torn
from his body by lightning, and was 40
paralyzed that he could not move mus
Gle. He has completely recovered from
| the stroke.
AT stone-quarry at Slatington, Pa,
two men we're crushed to jelly by the
fall of mass of rock weighing hundreds
of tons.
! HENRY NIcKHAMMER. an elnploye of
the st. Louis shot-tower, was precipitated
l6O feet by the breaking of the elevator
rope.
Two buildings of the Paquet cotton
mills at Philadelphia. owned by William
Wood d Son, and valued at 800 600, have
been burned.
A FIRE at East Saginaw, Mich, last
evening" burned Pearson's saw-mill, a salt
block, and other property, the whole val.
ued at 100000,
Mrs. KEoUGH and her young son, of
Bloomington, ILL.,, we've horribly mangled
by switch-engine. Her husband is the
engineer at the union mills.
Col. R. L. Mort, of Columbus, Ga, 81
years of age, one of the wealthiest men in
that state, was killed by train in the
Union depot at Atlanta.
In Dixcn Bros wire works. at Hamil-
ton, Ont, an explosion lifted the roof,
which fell upon and injured two men.
Flames then consumed the establishment.
A TooL-CAR on the Texas Pacific road
jumped the track near the sand-hills. OF
sixty men on board, three were killed and
ten wounded.
The habitual drunkenness of an only
son drove Thomas j CLARK, an old and hon
ored citizen of Geneva, ILL.,, to kill him
self with poison.
The cotton warehouses of A. P. Wright
& Co.. at Thomasville, Ga, with l,4OO
bales of cotton and the books of the city
treasurer. were destroyed by FIRE.
FIRE swept away the mills of the Penn
sylvania Paper company al Lock Haven,
the loss being 100000. The Harrison
wire works in St. Louis were damaged
1000. The loss at the Cleveland nut
and bolt factory was $4,000. The busi-
ness portion of Fort Gratiot, Mich, was
burned a8
FLAMES swept away nine buildings at
Red Bank. N, j., valued at S75 600; the
oilworks of Bush & Denslow, in South
Brooklyn, worth $4,000; Rings lard re-
fnery. in St. Louis, the loss being $50, ,000;
q block of buildings in East Oakland, CAL,
valued at $4,000, and the Hackett block
at lonia, Mich.
AT Chatham Four Corners N. Y, re-
tired officer Of the army, Col. Henry w,
Jones, attempted to shoot himself and to
cut his throat with fragments Of looking.
glass. For some time he has had spells Of
lunacy, and he will now be sent to an
asylum.