River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-06
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

HOLLANDS tobacco factory, at Danville,
Va, valued at $63, 600, was burned to the
ground, September goth.
A BOILER explosion in a saw mill at
Trackwood, Tex, killed John l.. Huff, one
of the owners, and two workmen.
THE car-shops and clearinghouse of the
| South Park road at Denver were swept
away by fire, causing loss of $28, 900.
JOHN SLOCKEY, one of the assistant
chiefs of the st. Louis fire department,
received broken leg at blaze in Shulz'
picture-frame factory.
THE ship Halesburg, of New York.
| loaded with railroad iron, was wrecked off
the coast of California, and the captain
and ten men were drowned.
The Stony creek woolen-mills, located
about five miles from Reading, Pa, valued
al 100000, were struck by lightning and
| destroyed Sept 30,
A FERRYBoAT from the Isle of Hope to
Skidway Island, off the Georgian coast,
sprung leak about 200 yards from the
shore. The boat sunk in few inmates.
OF the eighteen persons on board twelve
persisted.
THE losses by the fire at Ottawa, Ill,
Saturday evening. aggregate $7S, $50, on
which there is insurance to the amount OF
500, $50 Engine No. 10. made the run
from Chicago, eighty-four miles, in nine
| ty-hve minutes
| TIE Northwestern depot at Irvington,
Iowa, was struck by lightning, prostrat-
! ing eighteen men. The first one TO re-
| cover consciousness, thinking his compan-
ions beyond recovery, dragged their bodies
out into the rain, when all but one were
restored tn activity.
THE village of Camden, H., was devas-
| tated by a cyclone on Saturday afternoon
| Mrs. DR.. Watts was instantly killed. Only
two houses escaped injury. Two churches
were completely demolished. The loss in
| the village is estimated at 40,0O0 and
the damage to farming property adjoining
at $150,000.
THE sleeping-car st. Clair, running over
| the Canada Southern road, was flung of
| the transfer boat, Monday night, into the
water in the slip at Crosse Isle. A pas
senger coach following was nearly thrown
| from the steamer, Six passengers went
down with the sleeper, but all escaped
unhurt.
THE Maxwell bandits have made their
appearance in Calhoun county, Illinois,
! Al attempt to capture them. Sept Is, re-
suited in the killing of Sheriff John
| Lammie, and the wounding of John H.
Churchman and Frank McNeff. The
| deputy sheriff of Pike county, G. M. Rob
erts, pursued the desperadOes, but was
kept back by steady firing.
AN excursion train on the Great West
ern railway of Canada collided with a
freight train near Aylmer. Five persons
were killed outright and large number
wounded The first four coaches were
telescoped, covering the track for fifty
yards with debris. One of the passengers
was in the accident at the Desiardins
canal, twenty years ago, and was also on
board the steamer Victoria when she
! foundered last summer at London.
A CARLOAD of dynamite exploded in
tbs yards of the Rock Island road, at
Council Bluffs, Sept %. After the car
took fire, ample warning was given the
employees, who fed for their lives. Thirty
| freight-cars were broken to pieces, and
windows for a half-mile blown out. The
scene of the explosion is now 20 feet deep
and 100 feet in diameter. The freight
house, round-house, al d repair-shops have
| disappeared, and the loss to the railroad
company will be over 100000