Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-28

~o Ao AAcAes uoeper tnan the great hood
OF 1881. The Island House, Union depot and
eonaa eeaaalngs IL IN the neighborhood were deeply
noooed. Several bridges were carried off. A
gorge broke on the 18th, releasing the water
ana lowering the river to a point near it's
Two heavy freight trains collided in Frank.
lin Tunnel, near Bellaire, O., on the 18th inst,
Engineer Rutherford was killed, Fireman
Hines was scaldcd to death and John Graham,
brakeman, was very badly injured.
WILLIE MEYER, Willie Howe and Alice
Franks were killed, and Alice Mattram seri-
ously! injured, at WalIingford, Conn.,, by a
sleigh being struck by q locomotive.
Four small children of Michael Mcdonald, of
Brockett, Texas, were burned in their beds by
the explosion of lamp that had been left
burning by their mother for the return of her
four daughters from ball.
The Excelsior Furniture Co.'s Works, Rock
ford, ILL.,, were destroyed by fire on the 18th
inst. Loss $40,00Os insurance 11,OOO
The U. 8. Iron and Fire Plate Works, DENIM
Ter Station, Pa, were totally destroyed by fire
on the 18th inst. The loss will reach 300. 900:
insurance $50, 600. Three hundred men we're
thrown out of employment.
i. The Providence OR. I.) Worsted Company's
Mill was damaged to the extent of $4,000 by
tire on the 10th inst, insured for $4,000.
The governor belt slipped in the Mingo Iron
Works, near Wheeling, W. Va, on the 10th
inst, causing high rate Of speed. in the grind
ing department. Several large stones exploded
with terrific force, doing great damage. Capt.
James Pentiss was killed and VIM. He'll in
3jured.
AN express train on the Cleveland and Co !.
lumbus road was deralle6 on the 10th inst, one
mile north of Gallon. The locomotive re-
NAMED on the track, but the baggage and ex-
press cars, the smoker, two coaches and par-
lor car were dltched. H. G. Guthrie, of the
instantly killed. R. Cudel, a draughtsman of
Cleveland, died soon after reaching Gallon.
D. l. Foust, of Shelby, O., was fatally injured
and large number of others badly hurt.
WHEEL on the front car Of the Foxburg
express on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad
broke when the train was nearing Htna Sta
ton, Pa, on the 18th inst, causing the smoker
and locomotive to jump the track. The latter
was turned over and Engineer J. G.. Cooper
and fireman Edward Brady, of Pittsburg, bnr-
ied.under the debris, and before they cor'd be
extrlcated d, were fatally scalded by escaping
steam. Ihe passengers were considerably
shaken up and bruised, but none were serious
iy injured.
A PASSENGER train on the Grand Trunk Line
struck broken rail one mile east of Flint,
Mich, on the 18th inst. detaching three
coaches. One Pullman, the engine, mail and
baggage-car passed the break safely. The
engineer, with commendable bravery and
presence OF mind, stopped the engine i'm
medlately, got two pals OF water and stopped
the fire that had broken out in one coach, thus
avertins holocaust. Mrs. Huldah Leaman,
aged "a, was killed instantly. A large number
Df 10 ipi17rcS
AT o'clock on the morning of the 18th inst,
people in the vicinity of No. so Wilstach Street,
Cincinnati, on the border of the inundated dis.
irlct in the western part Of the city, were
startled By loud explosion, which broke the
glass in the windows of three-story BRICK
building occupied by four families, numbering
seventeen persons, who were found in the ruins.
all the inmates we're buried in the debris. An
aa,m was sounded and firemen began the
work Of rescue. BY O'Clock A. M. all the oc-
cupants were taken out. Officer Macke and
Ter were dead. John, Henry and Robert
Brown, and Rockmann, neighbor, who were
IN the house at the time, were badly injured
and can hardly recover. Jacob J. Brown and
wife were rescued, after several hours labor,
severely though not fatally hurt. His daughter
was taken out comparatively unhurt. MIR. Mil
ler was badly injured. The explosion was
caused by the fire damp or sewer gas in the
cellar. The Brown boys and Rockmann, who
were building raft had gone tc the cellar
with lighted candle, to secure soma lumber.
The sewer gas was lgnited by the candle and
the explosion followed.
TIE Pacific express collided with an east
bound express on the Great Western Division
of the Grand Trunk Railway, near Dundas
Ont, on the 18th inst Engineer Mason and
two passengers were killed, and seven passen.
gers injured.