Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-21
Work of the Flames.

at Demmler Station, Pa. we're totally destroyed
by fire on the 18th. Loss 100000.
The Excelsior Furniture Company''s building
at Rockford, ILL.,, was reduced to ashes on the
18th. Loss $4,000.
The business portion of Knights Landing,
foulo County, CAL, was swept away by fire on
the 18th. The loss aggregates $4,000.
The Providence Worsted Companys mill at
Providence, r. l., was damaged to the extent
of $500 on the 10th.
The Central House, Burlington, Va, to-
gether with millinery and Gro crockery store;
The county court house at Bayfield,. Wis,
was destroyed by fire on the 18th. Most of
the records were saved.
The Weber Block at Buffalo was damaged
by fire to the extent of $25,Oo0 on the 14th.
Callender's seven-story billiard table manu-
factory at Stanford, Conn.,, was swept away by
fire on the 14th. Loss estimated at $235, 900.
A fire ut Milston. Scotland, destroyed Croft
heads twisting g-mills, valued at E50,000 and
employing five hundred persons.
A 6ve-story building on the corner of Canal
and Mulberry Streets, New York, was partially
destroyed by fire on the 18th. The loss on
building and stocks of the various occupants
factu1er Of fringes had q narrow escape from
death and was rescued with great difficulty by
splicing ladders.
Johns handle factory at Dalton, Ca, burned
on the 18th. Loss $4,000.
Minor Mishaps.
. Wm. Patterson, a well-known citizen of
Louisville, KY, accidentally dropped pistol
from his pocket on the 18th. The weapon
discharged the ball taking effect in Mr.. Patter-
sons breast. At last accounts his condition
was critical.
At Louisville, KY, on the 18th, Dudley
Jones and Frank Brown. both colored, en-
frio 11xy 10
ner pistol on the person of Brown was dis
charged, killing Jones instantly,
lamp exploded a; the residence of Michael
Mcdonald, Brockett, Texas, on the 18th. The
fiery fluid was scattered over bed where
two children were sleeping, burning them ia.
tally.
Three miners we're killed by black damp in
18th.
Max Mallauer, Cola Gerser and L. Gellogasi
became exhausted while travelling on the ice on
Thunder Bay, north shore of Lake Superior,
and froZe to death.
A locomotive ran into sleigh at Walling-
ford. G C)nn., on the 18th, killing Willie Meyer
and Willie Howe Alice Franks was seriously in
jured.
George Berry, well-known citizen of Otta
wa, Illinois, fell through hole in the footwalk
of the Illinois River bridge, on the 18th, and
struggled for two minutes in the current, in
full view of hundreds of spectators, before he
lost his lie. H%
William McClelland, Canadian, while ex:
hibiting fire escape at the corner of Halsted
and Madison Streets, Chicago, on the 18th,
was fatally injured by the giving way of a
knob to which his rope was attached.
Four persons we're killed by fire damp ex.
plosion in a mine near Dartmund, Germany, on
the 10th.
At a fire in the village of Radford, Eng, on
the 18th, five persons burned to death.
The buck board from Holbrook for Fort
Apache was lost in Silver Greek on the 18th.
Two soldiers and both horses were drowned
! and the mail and express swept away.
Seven large stones in the grinding depart
'ment Of the Mingo Iron Works, Wheeling, W.
! Va, exploded in rapid succession, owing to
accelerated speed caused by the breaking OF the
governor belt on the engine. Captain James
Prentlss was killed by a fragment of one of the
stones, and VIM. Hell was injured.
A dispatch from Northern Pacific Front,
Montana, dated the 18th, says John Curtin,
William Taylor and John Gilman were proba-
| bly, fatally injured by an explosion in mine.
A farmhouse situated in the Town of Porter,
Rock County, and occupied by Mrs. Kennedy
and children, burned on the morning of the
| 18th. The mother and two children, who
slept on the ground floor, escaped, but two OF
| the children, who roomed up stairs, perished
in the flames. The mother and surviving
children froze their feet badly.
Conductor zimmerman, of the Wabash Rail
road, was instantly killed at Cruger: ILL.,, or
the 18th by being crushed between the cars.
Will j Nichols, son Of Prof. w. E Nichols,
and member OF the sophomore class of the
Michigan University accidentally shot himself
dead at Ann Arbor on the 18th.
,-t MurderOus Deeds.