Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-09-26
CASUALTIES.

GEN. MCDOWELL was thrown from his car
seriously injured. On the 10th he was in a
ing.
The Fairlawn breaker at Scranton, Pa, burn
ed on the 10Th. Loss $4,000
CONSTRUCTION train on the West Shore
Railroad struck a hapd car near Syracuse, N.
Y, on the 10th. Fifteen platform cars filed
with workmen were piled up in a mass. Two
killed and fifteen seriously wounded.
The wood and coal yard of J. Gill at Pbila-
delphia, Pa. was damagrd by fire on the 18th
to the extent of 100000.
The Enterprise Carriage Company of Cincin-
natl, lost 100000 by fire on the 10Th.
The business house No. 537 and 539 Broad
way, N. Y, was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
Loss 950O,0O0.
The planning mill of Campbell & Brecken-
Loss 100000.
The silk and cotton mill of r. & H. Adams,
Patterson, N. j., burned on the 18th. Loss
s45,00O.
On the 18th Miss Orrie Lewis. while riding
to school near Little Rock. Ark, was thrown
from her horse and killed.
Ave AAOh NoAAh6 oA AS" OOAANAA0 0o
August Belmont's farm, near Hunters Point,
breaking of scaffold on the 18th. Two were
killed and the others seriously injured.
The steambarge Oakland, lumDer-laden,
foundered eight miles off Conneaut, O., on the
18th. Capt. s. l.. Stevens, r. G. Hanna and
two others are supposed to be lost. Seven of
the crew landed safely.
On the 17th two freights attempted to pass
on the same track near Ashland, O., with the
usual result. lot of fine blooded cattle, en-
route from Scotland to Kansas, were killed.
AN unknown man, about 40 years Of age,
was run over and killed near Ashland, Wis, on
the 18th by a wild freight.
Ar Barry, ILL.,, on the 18th, while circus was
giving performance, q violent wind and rain
storm suddenly arose and blew down the
center-pole, killing an employe Of the circus
and wounding a number Of persons.
The packing-house of F. s. Andrews at New
Haven, Conn.,, burned on the 10th. Loss $685.
900.
Four stores at Bryan, Tex, were destroyed
by fire on the 18th. Loss about $4,000.
The body Of Frank Deveraux was found near
Cheboygan, Mich, on the 18th. Every indica-
tion pointed to terrific struggle with bear,
which was lying dead close by.
A FARMER near Sioux Falls, Dak., named
Hermann Dreier, was struck by lightning or
the 18th, and instantly killed.
THREE men we're killed by fall of 800 feet
in the Gagnor niue, near Butte, Mon., on the
18th.
S. s. Nc CONNETr. O prominent pork packer
of st. Joseph, NO., becoming crazed over los
ing speculations, suicided by hanging himself
to a tree on the 18th.
AT Jackson, Pa !, George Irving and bis two
sons died suddenly on the 18th, with indications
| of being poisoned. No clue to the villiane.
| The Merchants Union Barbed Iron work,
at Des Moines, a., burned on the 18th. Los'
| $40, ,0O0,
FIRE on the 14tl at Jacksonville, Fla, de
stroyed $50, 900 worth of property.
A BOTTLE was picked up at sea OH the 14tl
near Halifax, N. s., containing a piece of pape
! on which was written: "Ihis ls twenty-five
days at sea in this dory. We are from the shi,
Catharine Jane, from London for Boston, ant
she foundered in the gale March 10th. Al
| hands went down but Elmer Jennison and /
No sail in sight and food all gone" Signed b!
John Belle. IL. : ..5,.,.-
THE Novelty felt hat works and the Novelt!
straw hat factory at Brooklyn, N Y, burnet
| on the 18th. Loss 3125.O00 .....
On the 18th at Milwaukee, Wis, Mrs. vii
helmina Heiden was killed by being throw
from her buggy on the curbstone. A lunawa,
horse caused the accident. ~
On the 18th news was received at the war de
partment of the arrival Of the United State
relief ship, Yantic, at st. Johns, N. II. I
brings tidings Of the crushing Of tho steame
Proteus by ice. The crew were rescued an'
are on board the Yantic. Itfailed to reach tn
Greeley party. aud brings no tidings Of th
Greeley expedition to establish stations nortl
| Of the 81st parallel a5s