River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-03-31
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

Hickman and Topmeyer are the names
Of the Two fremen lost by the steamer
John Means explosion. The local board
Of inspectors will investigate the disaster.
Michael Fitzpatrick, aged sixteen years,
was instantly killed at 0hlens saw fact
DRY, Columbus, O., by being caught in a
belt running from the shafting to grind
stone. The body was terribly mutilated.
THE brigatine Isabel, one Of the finest
ships engaged in the trade between Bra
I'll and New Foundland, was wrecked
among the reefs al Gull Island and all on
board lost.
JAMES ADAMS, superintendent Of the
Silver Lick mine. Eureka, New. and
member of the Nevada legislature, died
in the city prison hospital from a pistol
shot wound received from Adolph Schan-
der, mailing clerk of the Bulletin. The
parties quarreled in saloon about BUSH
ness affairs.
T. NJ SINCLAIR, managing partner Of
the pork-packing establishment of i. NJ.
Sinclair < Co, Cedar Rapids. Iowa.
fell through hatchway in the
main building down upon the Tagging
Of the floor below, a distance of thirteen
feet, producing conclusion of the brain,
from which he died in few hours.
THE old Dawes tannery at Logansport.
Ind, burned to the ground, proving to-
tai loss The owner. Mr. s. johnson, only
recently purchased the building, and was
running the tannery on quite an extensive
scale. He had no insurance on either the
stock or building and as both are com
p.etelv destroyed his loss is about S25, 900.
The origin of the blaze is attributed to an
incendiary.
A SALOON fracas took place at St. Peter,
Midn. and Marshal McQuat went in to
quiet the row He was obliged to arrest
one of the gang when the rest undertook
to release their comrade. They assailed
the marshal with clubs and threatened his
life, when he commenced firing upon the
leaders, shooting one Ed Dillon in the
abdomen and O'Connor in the back, the
ball entering his lung The marshal is
fully justified in his action.
WHILE a stock train was being loaded
on side track at the stock yards at Par
sons, kas., an incoming stock train from
Sedalia ran at high speed on the same
side track and collided with the standing
train. Both locomotives and about twenty
cars were demolished. and Henry Hof-
land, engineer, and William r Nawler,
brakeman, on the incoming train, were
instantly killed.
A PORTABLE boiler at Tyler & Howard 5
saw mill, on the Kentucky river, two
miles below Frankfort, exploded, killing
or wounding all of nine in the mill ex-
cept one John Harrod was blown forty
feet and instantly killed. His brother,
Lawrence Harrod, died in an hour, and
Frank Graham died in three hours. VIM.
Arnold's jaw bone was broken. joseph
Rpddinu Wm Wheeler IOuis Harold
and Lud Tyler were badly scalded.
The holocaust at the opera house at
Nice, France, was caused by gas ex-
plosion ST the back of the stage, which set
ire to the scenery. The flames spread
with alarming rapidity, and soon envel-
oped the gas meter Tie supply of gas
being cut off, the body of the house was
soon plunged in darkness The crowd
pressed madly toward the limited means
Of exit. The audience was large, and in
the panic hundreds were thrown down
and trodden under foot One hundred and
fifty bodies have been extricated from the
ruins.