Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-08
CASUALTIES.

JAMES E. BAILEY, afoundry employe, dropped
dead from heart disease on the sidewalk in Chi
cago, Oh the LIST.
FREDERICK HALL, q diver, while at the bot
tom of Lake Erie, near Ontario, on the 3lst,
examining suction pipe, had the misfortune
to lose part oi his diving apparatus, and was
drowned.
A BLOCK of buildings burned at McGregor,
Ia. On the LIST. The losses aggregate Ss6.000.
DExrER's hat factory at Danbury, Conn.,,
burned on the LIST. Loss 100000.
On the 1st two freight trains collided at
Pownal, Vt. Six train hands were killed.
The wreck caught fire, and before it could be
extinguished several Of the killed were horribly
burned. The accident was caused by the
neglect of the telegraph operator to flag the
trains; the operator ls . young man II years OF
age, and had been on duty 16 hours.
The steamer Butte burned above Ft. Peck,
Dak., on the 30th. The passengers were
saved. Loss on vessel $20, 900.
The oil-cloth factory of John Walters, at
Albany, N. Y, burned on the s1st. Loss $75,-
600.
: FIRE at TulaIe, Cal on the 3ist destroyed
property valued at $120, 900.
The British bark Newark arrived at San
francisco on the s1st, and reported passing
vessel bottom up.
= TIE barn Of Horatio Perry, at Danvers
Plains, Mass, filed with livestock, was de-
stroved by fire together with its contents, on
the 8lst.
TIE hide mill Of J. d. l. J. C. King, at
Johnstown, N Y, burned on the s1st. Loss
$5O,G00.
FRED STARR, q brakeman on the N. Il N. r.
r., was killed by jumping from q train At La
Crosse, Wiz, on the 3lst.
TIE Oscoda Salt and Lumber Company's
mill at Oscoda, Mich, burned on the 31st.
Loss $50, 900.
TIE commission and butter packing house of
E. s. Todd. Des Moines, H., burned on the
91st. Loss e21,000.
On the 31st Ed. Scott, Mrs. B. N. Berry and
daughter Cora,o Mattoon, H., were. driving
into the country, aud in making sudden turn
to avoid collision with freight train the
wagon was upset. The girls neck was broken
and Mrs. Berry fatally injured.
WILLIE HINES, IA years old, was drowned at
Janesvlle on the 31st.
TIE Allegheny River was converted into
roaring torrent on the 29th by heavy rains,
and carried away RATS and damaged wharf
property in Pittsburg to the amount Of $780,
900. One man was drowned in the food.
r AT the Loomis coal mine, near Carlinville,
H.. on the 28th. Henry Staats and George
KeiseI we're killed by portion of the roof Of .
tunnel caving in.
AT Arcolo, Ind, on the 28th, James Ander-
son took his fathers gun ard blew into the
muzzle 10 see il it was loaded. Accidental
death was the verdict Of the c0roEGt's jury.
Mrs. D. KELLY wac lun tvr eEd killed st
Waukeeha, Wis, Oh the 30th by q Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul train.
A SwEDE named George Nelson choked to
death in Chicago. on the 29tb, in an attempt to
swallow a piece Of beefsteak. -
AN air. chamber 1t the Grace Furnace near
Youngstown, O., OK xoloded on the 28th, wreck
ing the engine house snd seriously injuring
three w0rkmen. z~#%
! BARNEY F1Tza1RAID, deck-hand on the
scow Seventy-six. fell overheard and drowned
at Fond du Lac, Wis, on the 28th.
WV. WEDDING was run over BY the cars and
killed at Eden, Wis, on the 27th.
An excursion train on the Rome, Watertown
nd Ogdensburg Railroad was wrecked on the
Sth near Carleton, N. Y. A heavy storm pre-
vailed at the time, and the accident Vas caused
by an empty car on : siding being blown down
and lying partly on the main track. Twenty
persons were killed and shout 30 wounded.
JOHN THoxAs, Of Scranton, Pa, was killed
by the cars on the 26th. His mother vas 70
affected by the shock that babe she vas
nursing died In her arms with convulsions. !.
THE body Of Capt. Webb was found floating
in the river short distance below Lewiston,
N. Y, on the 28th. a ragged cut wss die-
covered on the top Of the had. about three
inches In length, which olsened suibciently TO
expose the skull. Il had the appearance Of