Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-27
CASUALTIES.

JAMES RYAN was drowned at De Pere, Wis.
on the 2'!th. He WAS chasing. pig and his
boat capsiZed.
MoRToN's BLOCK in San Francisco. burned
ON the Goth. Loss $l5O,OOO.
len buildings in Fresno, Gala, were de-
slroyed by fire on the 2Olh. Loss $4,000.
A FIRE at Churcbilps lumber yard, at
Alpena, Mich, op the Goth, destroyed $3.50, 600
The floods damaged property in the neigh
Dorhood OF Alta, H.. on the goth, to the
IHE whaling schooner Elle n Rzbah arrived
At Provlncttowp, Mass. on the goth, and re-
ported the loss of Mate Durham and six of the
crew wh'lo pursuing whale. The harpoon
lt'e tou'cd aud dragged the mates boat under
water.
Two boys about IA years Of age, bathing in
tie river at Milwaukee, Wis.,, on the 20th;, were
drowned.
F. L STEWART, an aronaut, was killed at
Fayette, No.. on the 18th: His balloon. a hot
air, burned at height of 2,000 feet, and BAL
loon and balloonist dropped like shot into
Bonno Femme Creek.
LIGHTNING struck barn at Princeton, No.,
on the 18th, killing three men and injurine a
fourth.
Two men were killed and one seriously in.
jured by the fall of platform in an iron mine
at Mlneville, N. Y, on the 10th.
FETtR NEv1N, a sailor. was killed, and an
other eailor named Monson, was dangerously
injured at Chicago, on the 10Th, by the parting
OF tow-line.
Mrs. MARTIN SUMMERS, at vincennes, Ind,
on the 18th, was killed by being thrown on a
bHrtp0 wiro fonoo hxo q
OroE County, Nebraska, suffered damage
of over 100000 by the flooding of the low.
lands on the 18th. The Nemaha, Weeping Water
| and Peru bottoms are vast sea of water. Five
men were drowned in attempting to cross the
| swollen streams.
AT Bakers Ford, Kansas, Thos Atkins and
family, with six others were swamped in the
strong current in Turkey Creek; and seven OF
| the party drowned on the 18th.
VIM. O'DoNNEEh was drowned at Manistee,
Mich, on the 18th; while bathing.
sE11aMAS's Touring mill at Upper sandusky,
Ohio, bulned on the 18th. Loss $15,OOO.
FIRE destroyed the greater portion of Grant
Station, Oregon, on the 10th. Loss $125. 1000.
Two brothers, John and Martin feuter,
were asphyxia by fire damp, while engaged
| in repairing we'll near Milwaukee on the
| 18th.
JOHNNY FLYNN. a 6year-old was crushed by
the grip-csrs in Chic sgo, on tho 18th. g
The malt-house of Somermeyer & Co., at
Eau Claire, Wis.,, burned on the 18th Loss
| $25.
TEN business houses and three residences
burned on the 18th at Huntington, Tenn,
| Loss $40, GOO.
HENRY SHEPHERD, aged -, employed at the
Minneapolis Harvester Works, Minneapolis,
Nlinn., came too close to the shafti,lg, and was
whirlcd around, breaking hislegs and crushing
his skull.
AcYc1oNE took in steubenville, O., on the
18th: with the usual results. The damage foots
up about $15, 600.
HEAVY rain storms in Kansas and Missouri
lave swelled the rivers and creeks bank full,
and at somepoiuts damage is being done by
the floods. At st. Louis on the 18th the Mis-
soliri River had q depth of 81 feet 10 inches,
being ~ inches abovo ths danger line. Some
low land is flooded, but no heavy damage re.
ported.
JOHN DoHERTY, aged Is. was accidentally
slot on the 18th by an elder brother, near
Glenwood, Ind. Esf.
A HEAVY rainstorm passed over Kansas and
Missouri on the 18th, causing washcuts on the
railroads. 8 I
Ar Muncie. Pa, on the 18th, the depot and q
| mile Of track was destroyed by a windstorm.
| boy 13 years old was killed BY flying timber.
FIVE STORY building in Boston, Mass, in
which we're Gray's opera house and numbe,
| Of manufacturing c0ncerna, burned on the
18th. Loss S9O,!00. ~ 3 -.
On tho 18th the village of Beebetown, Ia.,
was blown away by . tornado. No lives lost.
The captain aud mate Of the yacht Hebe
were drowned at Troy, N. Y, on tho 18th, By
| tho capsizing Of the yacht. S~'-' =
GEORGE BENNET was killed at Champaign
ILL.,, on tue 18th. He was crushed by IN engine
IN the round house. ~ : 't:.1' '.E. " =
| AfLa Fontaine, Ind, on the 18th, Charles
Banpister was seized with an epileptic fit on th,
| depot platform, fell on the track and was cu
in two by . passing train. Sx@eE
JAMES DRAW, and his fon Rudolph, were sui
fucated by foul air in = well they were repair
ing, near Shreveport. La, GU the 18th.
CHARLIE SCHIRTNER, . brakeman, WAS rul
over while coupling cars aud cut in two at Nc
Gregor, Ia, on the 18th. ,,,z j.. s..-- +.
The Touring mill Of Casper Smith. at Osh
kosh, Wis, burned on the 18th. Loss cas-,
! coo. ESE ~. S*s
A LARGE portion Of the business part o
Sterling, Ont, burned on tho 18th. Loss @125,
/ 600.
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