Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-08-25
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

NEAR ST. Johns, N. B., an express train
collided with train loaded with rails,
One man was killed and several others in
iured.
TIE burning of its machine-shops caus-
ed the suspension of the iron-works at
Reading, Pa, throwing 900 men out of
employment
The planing-miIl Of j. S. Loomis, on
the corner of Baltic and Nevins streets,
Brooklyn, valued at $4,000, was swept
away by fire.
THIRTY-FIvE buildings in the village of
AIleyton, Mich, were destroyed by fire,
causing loss of 100000 Twenty families
were left homeless.
A MOUNTAIN about twenty miles east of
Mount Idaho is sending forth columns of
fire and smoke to a height of several hun
dred feet, and the shock is distinctly felt
for IS miles.
NICHOLAS ERIAH, a canyasman with a
show, fell from train four miles west of
Geneseo, Ill. The head and arms were
severed from the body. His home Is
Philadelphia.
A. ELDRED 4 Sons saw mill. OcontO.
Wis, has been burned. Nearly one hun
dred men are thrown out OF employment.
The mill will probably not be rebuilt. The
loss is placed at $4,000.
A 10-year old son of Mrs. Hess, who re-
sides in Pecatonica, H., while at work
with a reaper on the farm of Mr.. High
barger, south Of that town, fell of the
reaper and both his legs were completely
severed Just above the ankle. 1t is said
the lad cannot survive.
IHE Gaze stove works, located near the
loot OF Harrison street St LOuiS. WEI g
burned. The owners were Charles Gaze,
the Horton brothers, and Robert knight.
The loss is 100000, ard the insurance
$4,000.
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.
RORERT q. SCARBOROUGH, an unsuccess-
full attorney of Chicago, killed himself by
taking three ounces OF laudanum. His
father is one of the richest men in Cincin-
natl, and was formerly president of the
gas company. The suicide graduated at
Yale, and was q 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, aid Michael Me
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 queneh 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
4 her Efforts to reach the babe she was shut
/ off,
As Thomas H. Crandall, a stock-dealer.
living fifty miles south of Denver, Col.
was walking on top of the cars in which
his cattle were being shipped to Chicago
over the Kansas City, St. Joseph and
Council Bluffs railroad, he fell and was
crushed to death, the cars passing over his
body. He was one of the most prominent
stockholders in Colorado
AT Omaha, Neb., young woman named
Carrie Berthelson attempted to light a
fire with the aid of kerosene. The flames
suddenly flared up, and, catching with the
can which she held in her hand. caused