The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-10-06
CASUALTIES.

| IHE boiler of the propeller Colorado exploded
at Buffalo, N. Y. on the 29th. David Ellis.
| porter, James Farrell deckhand, and Il. Allen,
stoker, were killed, and eight injured, some
| fatally.
By the burning of a house at Stelbyville.
| Ind. on the 29th, two girls were burned to
| death.
ALBERT Taft was suffocated by gas at Bur
llngton, Va, on the 29th.
An explosion at the California Powder
Works, near San Francisco, demolished the
buildings and killed forty Chinese workmen
The planning mill of the Conway Manufactur-
ing Company at Milwaukee, Wis, burned on
the 10th. Loss $780, 600.
On the morning of the 28th at Albany. \.
y. the steamer j. S. Robinson exploded her
boiler. Capt. G. S. Warner and VIM. Clearv
were Killed, and Engineer Fred Tinsar seri-
eusly wounded. Several vessels living around
the Robinson were damaged
NEAR the village of CARR, O.. on the 9th.
a strawstack piled three years ago, was re-
moved, and underneath was found the BODY
OF a man. No clue to his identity or how he
got there.
DORIS lnter-Ocean circus was ditched by a
railway accident near Bonneville Mo, on the
28th. The band wagon and chariot were de-
molIshed two horses killed and two emnIopee
G. S. TITUS, of Brodhead, fell from the roof
OF the cotton factory at GAINESVILLE, Wis. ON
the 28th, and received fatal injuries.
On the Minneapolis and ST. Louis Road. ON
the 28th near Shakopee, Minn., railroad col
llsion caused the death of three men and the
serious injury of several others.
THOMAS BEAR of Jefferson County. Pa. in
telling tree on the 25th, was caught bv the
falling trunk and fatally injured
JOHN LEHMAN, an old veteran, was fatally in
iured by a c., NJ. & st. P. Railway train. near
Milwaukee, Wis, on the 26th.
On the 26tn Chicago and Northwestern
tram ran down handcar near Janesville. Wis.
and Killed section hand named Christor her
Burke -o-
An incendiary fire on the Goth destroyed the
Porter residence at Houston, Tex. Loss
$4,000.
FIRE at Fairfield, Me-. burned out several
stores. Loss S25, 900.
AT Leavenworth. Kas., on the 25tb. bv tbe
falling OF ledge of rock, Peter Lavelle was
kllled and James Fletcher seriously injured.
IHE Sternberg elevator at Buffalo, N. Y.
was destroyed by fire on the 26th. together
with large quantity of grain. Loss S155, COO.
JAMES CoNLoN lost an arm in a threshing
machine near Janesville, Wis. on the 26th.
S. G. MoUSTY of Grafton, Va, who has lost
considerable recently through burglaries. saw
moving shadow in his yard on the night of
the 10Th and fired. Investigation showed he
had Killed his Own son, young man of 20
IHE Fairbanks Canning Company, Chicago.
~, was damaged by fire on the Goth. Loss
S25,000.
HEUsTIs Co.'S collar shop, New York CITY,
was damaged by fire on the 26th. gas
explosion also resulted and several fren1en
seriously injured.
\ REFRIGERATOR being constructed in the
hold of the steamer Aphaionia. at Boston.
Mass took fire on the 26tb. while the work
men were coating it with sheilac. Geo. Pierce.
carpenter, was suffocated. and District En-
Slneer Dunbar fatally injured
NEWS from Nassau, Bahamas. saws a storm
swept the harbor and island on the sth. Up
WARDS OF 100 vessels we're wrecked and abont
seventy lives lost.
THREsHIsG machine exploded on the 26th
near Asakis, Minn., killing three men and dam
gerousiy woundlng four Others
On the 25th, James A. Butler, a farmer pesr
Centralia, ILL.,. was kicked to death bv a colt.
THE body of man was taken from the river
at Milwaukee, Wis, on the 25th No clue to
his identity. ~ ~
HE storm of the 24th was disastrous on
Lakes Erie and Ontario. At Buffalo. NY.
the wind blew at the rate of so miles an bour.
an unfinished roundhouse was DESTROYED
large panes of glass in several stores broken
and church windows demolished.
IHE schooner Typo, owned by A. J. and L.
Bieyei, OF Milwaukee, went ashore on Amherst
Island, on the 25tb. The crew we're eeva5
She Is valued at $4,000
JAMES l. KAY of Philadelphia, was crushed
to death IN Chicago, ILL.,, elevator. on the
| 24th. '--0
An lncendlary fire destroyed the AshviIIe,
o., jail on the 18th. One prisoner was burned
to death.