Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-10-03
CASUALTIES.

THE Sternberg elevator at Buffalo, n. Y;
was destroyed by fire on the 26th, together
with large quantity of grain. Loss $155, 600.
JAMES CoNLoN lost al arm in thresbing
machine near Janesville, Wis. on the 26th.
S. G. MouNTY, of Grafton. Va, who has lost
considerable recently through burglaries, saw
moving shadow in his yard on the night of
the 25th and fired. Investigation showed he
had killed his own son, young man Of 20
The Fairbanks Canning Company, Chicago,
H., was damaged by fire on the 26th. Loss
$25,O00.
HEUsr1s Il Co.'s collar shop, New York city,
was damaged by fire on the Goth. A gas
explosion also resulted and several firemen
seriously injured.
A REFRIGERATOR being constructed in the
hold of the steamer Aphalonia, at Boston,
Mass . took fire on the 26th, while the work
men were coating it with shellac. Geo. Pierce,
carpenter, was suffocated. and District En-
gineer Dunbar fatally injured.
NEWS from Nassau, Bahamas, says storm
swept the harbor and island on the 9Th. Up
wards of 100 vessels we're wrecked and about
seventy lives lost.
rHREsH1Na machine exploded on the 26th
near Asakis, Minn., killing three men and dan
gerously wounding four others.
On the 25th, James A. Butler, farmer near
Centralia, ILL.,. was kicked to 6eath by colt.
TIE body of a man was taken from the river
at Milwaukee, Wis, on the 25th. No clue to
his identity.
The storm of the Gath was disastrous on
Lakes Erie and Ontario. At Buffalo, N. Y,
the wind blew at the rate of so miles an hour;
an unfinished roundhouse was destroyed,
large panes of glass in several stores broken
and church windows demolished.
The schooner Typo, owned by A. J. and l..
Bleyer, Of Milwaukee, went ashore on Amherst
Island, on the 25th. The crew were saved.
She is valued at $4,000.
JAMES T. KAY, of Philadelphia, was crushed
to death in a Chicago, ILL.,, elevator, on the
oath.
On the 23d Edward Bardsley received a
broken back and neck near Virginia, ILL.,, in q
collision in an attempt to pass another wagon
on the road.
THE rolling mill at Fair Haven, Conn,
burned on the 25th. Loss $40,0 900.
An incendiary fire destroyed the Ashville
O., Jail on the 25th. One prisoner was burned
to death.
A WEALTHY farmer of Vincennes, Ind,
named Geo. W. Alexander, was gored to deatl
by a Jersey bull on the 24th.
FIRE at Lampasas, Tex, on the 23d, de-
stroyed block of buildings. Loss 100000.
AN entire square of buildings at Marengo
ILL.,, were destroyed by fro on tie 29d. Los;
| $4,000.
A HA11sroRM swept over the valley of the
Ohio Oh the Oath, from Carrollton to the vicin
lty of Lawrenceburg, Ind., running standing
| crops.
FIRE on the Oath destroyed the stlllhouse o1
the Eastern Distillery Company, at Blissville
N. Y. Two men, Henry Snedeker, stillman
| ana Robert Cock, we're fatally injured. Losi
| 100000.
EIGHTEEN buildings at Ruby Hill, Mo-.
burned on the oath. Loss 5000
FIRE on the 23d destroyed Schultz's tan
| nery at Manitowoc. Loss $4,000.
The trunk mandatory of s. Levy, q
Memphis, Tenn, burned on the 29d. Los
| $15, 600.
TwENTY-oNE buildings at Brownwood, Tex.
| were destroyed by fire on the 23d. Mrs. Mar,
Hall. aged IS, dropped dead from excitement
The passenger steamer Gem City, plying be
| tween st. Louis and st. Paul, burned on tn
! 23d at st. Louis, Mo. Loss $3.50, 1000.
FIRE at Peotone, ILL.,, on the 23d, de
| stroyod the town hall, Collins grain elevate
and Neukopf's hotel. Loss $35, 900.
A PASSENGER train ran into preceding pas
senger which had orders to run slow on th
! Ohio aud Mississippi Road, near Seymour
| ILL.,, on the oath. Two persons were kille,
| and q number wounded.
An explosion of fireworks at Pittsburg, Pa.
| on the Esd, resulted in the death of one bo
| and the cremation of three valuable horses.
PAT MCPECK was run over and killed by
railway train at Oshkosh, Wis, on the z9d.
The steamer ). Fletcher sunk near Shreve
port. La, on the 23d. No lives were lost
| The boat is valued at $3.50, 900.
On the 23d George Cole was suffocated in
burning barn at Evansville, I'll.
| FIVE men were killed by boiler explosion
at Red River Bridge. La, Oh the 23d.
| A CIRCUS tumbler named Geo. W. Ryan, dice
on the 20th at Efhngham, ILL.,, from the effect
of injuries received 10 turning double somer
sault.
A JEwE1ER named Joseph Baker, Of Roc
Island, ILL.,, was killed on the 21st. His hors
went over an embankment washed out by heav
rains.
FIRE in lumber yard at New York city o.
the 21st, caused damage of $4,000.
The railway shops at Hannibal, NO., wer
damaged by fire on the 21st to the extent o
$6O, 900. ~ i <s..-.. 4.
ON the Goth, at Pittsburg, Pa, battery o
boilers in the Sligo Iron Mills burst. At th
time Of the explosion twenty men we're at work
wounded and eight seriously hurt.
ar Camp Point, ILL.,, on the Goth, o. B. War
and Chas. Johnston were accidentally poisdne'
BY drinking from bottle supposed to contai
bitters. sSST