Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| the destruction OF considerable property
George Scully, the captain, was blown over
the housetops in Water street. The dead
! bodies of Bernard Mccain and Patrick
| Flanagan, firemen, and man named Ma
| loney have been recovered. Immediately
after the explosion flames broke out in all
directions. Pier No. 8, occupied as a pas
senger and freight station Of the Philadel-
phia & Atlantic City Railway, took fire and
was destroyed. The tug Ella, lying at the
wharf below, sunk after being well burned.
Windows were shattered in all directions,
and the entire front of ferry house was
| blown out.
| THERE was heavy snowfall in Wis
| consin and Northern Michigan ON the odd.
In some places it is foot deep. Lumber
men are actively at work taking advantage
of this windfall.
OHIO furnished two costly confagra-
| tions, March 9th. Incendiarism in the large
grocery house of w. p. Southworth, Cleve-
| land, caused losses estimated at more than
S200,0'0. A defective flue caused the de-
struction of the entire business portion Of
Macarthur, Vinton County, valued at $780,
600.
GEN. GRANT and his wife have been
entertained at dinners given by Secretary
| Frelinghuysen, President Arthur, George
Bancroft, Gen. Edward Beale, and Bancroft
! Davis.
| AN attempt was made to wreck
passenger train on the Wabash, st. Louis &
Pacific Railway, near Huntington, Ind, the
other night. The obstruction. which was a
heavy log of wood fastened to the track by
stakes driven in the ground, was seen in
time by the engineer, and the train was
| brought to standstill just before striking
| it. Two men were seen running across an
adjacent field and were fired upon, but
without effect. This is the second attempt
| that has been made to wreck that train at
that point within two weeks. One of the
officials of the Wabash Road has received
an anonymous communication stating that
a gang of train wreckers were determined
to throw train from the track for the pur-
pose of plumber.
EXECUTIONS on the 24th: E. F.
Small, Pittsburg; Jonathan Meyer, Middle
burg; Frank and Henry Rumberger, Har-
risburg; j. A. Nerling, Clearfeld, Pa. VIM.
Heilwagon. Rock Island, ILL.,; John McCar-
thy, Angelica, n. Y.
JOHN SULLIVAN, a spinner employed
in wool mill at Dedham, Mass, went home
slightly under the influence of liquor, March
%, and after few words with his wife
seized a razor and cut her throat, severing
the jugular vein and carotid artery. The
woman, despite the fatal wound, rushed in
to the street, followed by her husband, still
brandishing the razor and inflicting at every
step CHASTITY cuts with the weapon about her
head and shoulders. She got away from
him and ran to the house of a neighbor, but
while endeavoring to obtain entrance was
overtaken by her husband, who renewed
his attack. The woman th>n started off
again, the husband following, clutching
her hair and slashing at her with the razor.
The terrible chase was re- enacted, until the
woman reached her own doorway, where
she fell dead. Sullivan was arrested.
VIM. F. PARKER, of the firm of T.
Parker & Son, jewelers., of Wikesbarre. Pa,
died, March 25, from the effects of an over
dose of choral. 1t is thought that Parker
took the dose to end his life, as it is cur
rently reported that young and beautiful
lady to whom he had been paying his adj
dresses had recently turned him off as a
sutton for her hand.
Col. A. V. FRYsER, who during the
war of the rebellion was in command of a
New York regiment, was found dead in bed
at Milwaukee, Wis, the other morning.
Poverty is supposed to have driven him to
suicide.
A CONFEDERATION at Richmond, Va,
on the Goth, swept away property valued at
100000. The Richmond & Petersburg
Railroad bridge; tobacco factories owned by
Rutherford & Co., Patterson & Co., Will
liams & Co., j. A. Hutchinson, C. R. & Id.
Barksdale, Aborn & Edwards; the Vulcan
Iron Works, twenty tenements, grist mill
owned by T. p. Smith, the Virginia Mining
Company's kaoline works, and some freight
cars were all destroyed in an incredibly short
time. Charles Belts, aged 10, was killed by
falling wall, and two men were buried in
the ruins of Patterson's factory.
AN explosion at the Vulcan Powder
Works, near Oakland, CAL, March 9th, re-
suited in the death of five white men and six |
Cinnamon, and probably the fatal burning
of four other white men. At 10 a. m. fire |
was seen to issue from the FORMULATING |
house, and almost instantly dull explosion
followed, spreading wreck and desolation
on all sides. The scene was a mass of burn |
ing ruins, in the midst of which were several |
bodies literally roasted to a crisp. In one
place, where the side of the building had |
been strongly braced with iron bars, these
bars were curled up and formed a huge |
gridiron, on which lay the bodies of three
men, twisted into the most horrible shape. |
In front of the boiler lay the CHASTITY corpse of |
the engineer, blackened and partially burned, |
lying upon its face, with the heels touching |
the back of his head. Near the corpse were
three more bodies. Every vestige of flesh |
had been burned off the bones, and near by, |
deep in the burning embers, lay the |
charred bodies of two Cinnamon. To the /
right was the naked body of white man, so
fearfully burned as to be recognizable.
Near this was another body, evidently blown
from distance, with the legs burned off to
the knees, the bones protruding from the flesh.
and eyes starting from the sockets. Four
men were dragged from the ruins still lv-
ing, but the doctors think there is no chance
of their recovery. The white men killed |
were: H. c. Lamb, J. Stewart, L. W. |
Starr, Thomas Mills. The injured are: w.