The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-03-17
CASUALTIES.

THE first loss Of human life by the flood in
the region of Helena, Ark., occurred by the
upsetting OF a house. twelve miles south of the
city, in which there were six adults and four
children. The latter were drowned. and the
former were rescued by party Of hunters, who
took them off the roof, after they had clung to
il three days.
ALABoRER In a quarry at Dead Mans Hol-
low, McKeesport, Pa. handled can of frozen
dynamite in a careless manner, an explosion
followed, resulting in the death of Daniel Hen
| ninger and the fatal injury Of two others.
FIRE at Bellows Falls, Vt, on the 9th inst,
| destroyed the building occupied by the Yer
mont Machine Company and Osgood & Barker,
machinists. Loss on the buii ding, owned by
the Bellows Falls Canal Company. SIS, ,Go1: no
insurance Osgood & Barker lost $50, 600. in
sured for $3.50 The Vermont Farm Ma
chine Company lost S45, coo; insured for $685.
COO
A BUILDING at Danville, Va, tenanted by
eight firms, burned on the 9th inst. Loss
$4,000.
Ex-SHER1FF PETER A. VOORHEES,, and
brother Abraham, were killed at New Bruins
WICK n. J., on the 9th inst, while crossing the
track of the Central Railroad IN a wagon Two
others were seriously hurt.
Ar 2:30 on the morning of the Sth inst,
debris of the Litterer drug store fire at Nash
vile was commenced. The remains of young
man about 30 years old was found, aud identI-
fed as Thomas Womack, a molder. few
hours later the bodies of William Miller, a
boileImaker, and John Firth, former police
man, were taken from the ruins. The three
men were crushed to death by falling wall of
the drug store, while in the act of preserving
property IN an adjoining building.
ABOUT O'Clock on the morning of the 7th
inst, fire broke out in 'the Cambridge a
fashionable apartment house at AZ East
Sixty-eighth Street, New York, and before If
could be gotten under control Mrs. Abram
Wakeman, 56 years of age, and her daughter
Rose, u years old, were burned to a crisp
Other occupants of the building were rescued
by firemen or made their escape by fire ladders
on the building.
A PREMATURE explosion in the Evendale coal
mine at Canton. o., on the 7th inst. fatally in
Jured just Terrell.
LIrTERER & Co. s drug store at Nashville
burned on the 7th inst. Loss $500, 900; insur-
ance 1925, 600.
A LARGE tannery at Feltsmills, n. Y, burned
on the7th inst. Loss $50, 600; insured.
FIVE of the buildings of the St. Augustine
, Normal School for colored students at Raleigh,
\. c., burned on the 9th inst. The loss is
about $50, 900; insurance $4,000
A SURVEY of the damage by the flood at Law
renceburg, Ind, shows that over forty houses
we're swept away, and 40 badly wrecked The
total damage is estimated at S433, 000
Mr.. AND Mrs. FREDERICK C. SuNBERRY. a
young couple of Manchester, n. H, went out
| sleighriding. taking with them their infant
daughter. 1t was intensely cold The child
was muftied to the eyes in soft robes and wrap
pings. When the ride was over and home was
reached the baby was dead IN Its mothers arms,
LUCINDA BALcoM, aged SO years, was roasted
| TO death on the 9th inst, at Wlmot Village.
| near Cleveland. She was IN the habit of srook-
| ing, and after breakfast, while ENJOYING her
| pipe sparks fell on her clothes. setting them
abaze n an instant, and resulting in her death
after enduring horrible agony
EVANS artificial leather manufactorv at
Salen, n. H., was partially burned on the 5th
inst. Loss $40, 600; partially insured