Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-17
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THE losses by the recent flood in the re-
gion of Quincy, ILL.,, are estimated at
$3,0OO,OOO.
FLAMES swept away the opera house at
Joplin, Mo-, in which were several stores,
the loss aggregating $4,000.
AN incendiary fire destroyed the round
house of the Pennsylvania road at Prince
ton, N. j., causing loss of $4,000.
of powder in the Quincy mine on Lake
Superior, killed two men and boy.
FRANK KEENAN,, section boss on the
Jackson and Saginaw Division of the
Michigan Central, was run over and
killed at Zilwaukee, Mich.
A COLLISION of Erie freight trains on
the mountain near Port Jeryis, n. Y,
caused the death of Conductor George
Dorr and Engineers Jerome Grover and
Mark Coxson.
AT the Vulcan steel-works, St. Louis,
the fall of an elevator crushed James
McGrail to jelly, fractured Pat Daley s
skull, and broke three ribs for James Mar
rion. An hour previously Hugh Hogan
was roasted with molten metal.
SPARKS from passing tug fired the
lumber in the yard of sisson & Lilly, at
Spring Lake, Mich, and burned their of
fee and barn. Kelley, Rathborne & Co.,
of Chicago, lost 10000, 900 feet of lumber,
on which they have insurance to the
amount of $1O3000.
In New York, two old three-story tene-
ments, on the corner of Grand street and
South Fifth avenue, suddenly collapsed.
The fremen hurried to the scene and took
out the dead and MANNED. 1t is believed
that twelve lives were lost. Pour chill
dren escaped with slight injuries.
JAMES FEE, conductor on a freight train
of the Milwaukee & St. Paul Co., was
killed at Sheldon, Iowa. He tried to
step from the depot platform to the steps
of the cahoose, and fell under the car
wheels. He was cut all to pieces. Fee
was about q years of age.
A FIvE-sToRY building on Sycamore
street, Cincinnati, occupied by Dows &
Pohlkamp and Meyer < MerkeI, manu-
featuring firms, was swept away by fire,
causing loss of $4,000. The structure
was formerly known as the Big Missouri
tenement-house, and was condemned as
unsafe.
VIM. SCHELDERTAN. a highly respecta-
bic young man living with his parents
near 1uScola, LII, VINO nau peen duck
hunting, placed his gun, loaded with No.
T shot, against a fence, to uzhitch his
mule and moUnt. The animal pulled a
rail of, causing the gun to be discharged,
the load lodging in the small of the man 5
back. He died in few hours.
FRANK BowERMAN, freight brakeman
on the Green Bay, Winona and St. Paul
railroad, was instantly killed at Manawa,
Wis. He was coupling cars, and, in pass
ing over cattle gaard, fell, and being
unable to extricate himself, several cars
passed over his head, mangling it to an
unrecognizable mass. The unfortunate
man was unmarried and his parents reside
at Seymour, Wis.
TIMOTHY SHIRLEY, of Kenosha, Wis.
while out duck-shooting. laid his gun
down on the ground to .frolic with his dog
and when he ATTEMPTED to pick it up again
1t was discharged, the charge taking effect
in his right foot, completely shattering
the great toe. After receiving the wound
Shirley walked a mile to the house of
Charles Rohlting. upon whose farm he
had been working, from where he was
taken to town, and DR.. A. Farr, dressed
the wound.