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

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On the Cd, at Chicago, ILL.,, twelve workmen
engaged in = sever trench, were buried by the
caviug of the sides. Patrick O'Donald was
killed and the others escaped serious injury.
The drug store of Howard Il Chandler at
Atlanta, Ga, burned on the I'd. Loss $5O, 900.
A BUILDING occupied by three jewelry firms
at Attleboro, Mass, burned on the Sd. Loss
100000.
At Cleveland, O., on the Sd, VIM. Rahnke,
at work on q scaffold seventy feet high, sIppe
and fell to tho ground. sus tanning fatal injuries
On the 81 Gus Weyant was drowned in
French Crees, which he was trying to ford at
Franklin, Pa.
The loss by the burning of the exposition at
Pittsburg is 81 ,OOO, 900. Many relics cannot be
replaced. The directors have decided not to
rebuild the structure.
LEAvENwoRTH, Kas., was visited by severe
wind and rain storm on the 1st. One grocery
house lost roof and the water ruined the
stock, valued at $4,000.
The drug store Of Howard 4 Chandler, At.
lanta, Ga, burned on the I'd. Loss $4,000.
The exposition building at Pittsburg, Pa,
was destroyed by fire on the I'd. The fire
started in Power Hall, and is supposed to have
originated from lighted cigar stump thrown
carelessly on the floor, and not noticed by the
watchmen, Of whom fifteen were on duty.
When first discovered, at 3:15 A. NJ, the build.
ing was in flames and in less than half an hour
the main building, machinery hall and floral
hall were in ashes. A portion of the Pittsburg
and Western Railroad over the Allegheny was
destroyed, as also six houses opposite tie ex-
position. Loss about $1,000, 900.
A CYCLONE struck Lexington, KY, on the
30th' and demolished an engine and pump
house, and Fouscher's tobacco warehouse.
Windows, roofs and shade trees suffered par
tial or complete destruction. No loss of life,
JOSEPH T1PpETs. Of Brigham City, Utah,
while hunting on the 1st, accidentally received
the contents Of his weapon in his breast.
Two passenger trains on the West Shore
Road, collided on the 1st, near Utica, N. Y
Two men killed and about twenty injured.
AN exploding saw mill boiler killed j. H.
Woody, at Salida, CAL, ON the 1st.
The boiler Of the propeller Colorado exploded
at Buffalo, N. Y. on the 29th. David Ellis
porter, James Farrell, deckhand, and h. Allen
| stoker. were killed, and eight injured, some
fatally.
By the burning of = house at Shelbyville
Ind, on the 29th, two girls were burned II
death.
ALBERT TAFT was suffocated by gas at Bur
lington, Va, on the 29th.
AN explosion at the California Powder
Works, near San Francisco, demolished tn
buildings and killed forty Chinese workmen.
The planning mill of the Conway Manafactur
ing Company at Milwaukee, Wis.,, burned OF
the 29th. Loss $1,000
On the morning of the 28th at Albany, n
| Y, the steamer J. s. Robinson exploded hel
boiler. Capt. G. s. Warner and VIM. Clear,
| were killed, aud Engineer Fred Tinslar sefi
ously wounded. Several vessels lying arount
the Robinson were damaged.
NEAR the village of CARR, O., on the 9th
strawstack piled three years ago. was re
moved, and underneath was found the bod,
| Of man. No clue to his identity or how h
| got there.
DORIS 1nter-Ocean circus was ditched by
railway accident near Bonneville, No.. on tn
28th. The band wagon and chariot were de
! mo]ished, two horses killed and two employee
seriously injured. Damage placed At e15, 600
G. 8. T1Tus, of Brodhead, fell from the roo
Of the cotton factory At GAINESVILLE, Wis.,, o.
the 28th, and received fatal injuries.
ON the Minneapolis and st. Louis Road, o,
the 2sth. near shakopee, Minn., railroad col
lisioA caused the death Of three men and the
serious injury of several others.
THOMAS BEAR. Of Jefferson County, Pa, il
telling tree on the 25th, WAS caught by th'
falling trunk and fatally injured.
JOHN LEHMAN, an old veteran, was fatally in
jured by ; C., NJ. Il st. P. Railway train, 1eal
Milwaukee, Wis.,, on the 26th.
On the 26th Chicago and North-West ter1
train ran down handcar near Janesville. Vie,
and killed . section hand named Christorhel
Burke.
An incendiary fire on the 2eth destroyed th'
Porter residence at Houston, Tex. 1os'
1000.