The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-07-21
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THIRTEEN business places at Hastings.
Neb., were burned, causing loss of $780,
900.
A PASSENGER coach on New Jersey
Southern train jumped the track at a
Robbins, the conductor, was fatally in
jured, and three others were badly hurt
HUNDREDS of windows were broken by
hail-storm at Brockville, Ont, and trees
and fences were toppled over.
THERE were twenty.three deaths from
yellow fever and fifteen from smallpox
in Havana, last week.
MARY RIHA, aged about q years, fell
dead while dancing in Carlton. Wis.
Heart disease is supposed to have been
the cause.
A FIRE in Ryan & Cumminsky's tobacco
factory at St. Louis destroyed the building
and contents, which were valued ST $780,
900.
A SERIOUS confagration broke out a
Bradford, Pa. Ten business buildings and
the Riddell House were in flames, and the
loss will certainly reach 500, 900.
ONE of the shops in the penitentiary at
Columbus, O., was damaged $1,000 by fire.
One of the guards was Frustrated by heat,
and lies in a dangerous condition.
DANIEL RoYsE, clerk of the supreme
court of Indiana, who served during the
war in the 40th regiment, was stricken by
the heat, and died in half an hour.
The shops Of the Dodge Manufacturing
company at Mishawaka, Ind, valued at
$4,000, were struck by lightning and
burned
AN accident on the International road
twenty-six miles west of Galveston, caused
by the splitting of wheel, injured twenty
four persons.
A CYCLONE swept over the vicinity of
Fairfield, Mimi, killing four persons and
wrecking all the houses and bridges in its
path.
WILLIAM BEAL, drunken citizen of
indianapolis, shot himself severely while
illustrating the manner in which Guiteau
fred at Garfield.
The saw-mill of the Sherman Lumber
Company, at Potsdam, N. Y, with two
million feet of lumber, and eighteen
houses. were destroyed by fire, causing a
loss of 100000.
A FIRE in the works Of the Excelsior
Manufacturing Company, of St. Louis, on
which sixteen engines were kept busy, de-
stroyed the Lewis street building and the
molding-room on Florida street.
A wATER-sPour at Marshaltown, Iowa,
caused the overflow of Linn creek, float
ing off about forty houses and destroying
the Ketchum wagon-works and Stod-
dard's mills. The damage is placed at
5000, 900.
ANDovER bridge, crossing the Merrimac
river at Lawrence, Mass, which cost $780,
600, was swept away by fire. The struc-
ture was originally built in 1893, the char
ter bearing the bold signature of John
Hancock.
The suicide of Mrs. Sadie Stewart in
the Niagara river. at Buffalo, was fol-
lowed by that of DIR. E. H. Howie, of
Forestville, n. j., whose name had been
linked with hers in scandalous intrigue.
By some it is thought they went hand in
hand to death.
THE pecuniary loss bv the cyclone at
New Ulm, Mimi, is placed at $3.50, 900.
The rebuilding of the city will commence
at once. Property is being protected by
the Governors guards, and excursion
trains took thousands to the scene on Sun
day.
JUST outside of St. Paul, freight train
of forty-three cars on the Omaha road
broke apart, the rear section starting back
down high grade, and striking another
train at the depot at the rate Of sixty
miles per hour. George Trider. veteran
engineer, was killed, and loss Of $4,000
inflicted. The track was rooted up for
fifteen rods.