Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-07
CASUALTIES.
KILLED BY THE CARS.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. |

KILLED BY THE CARS.
Especial Telegram to the Globe
DENVER, Col, June 6.-This city has
been thrown into mourning by the death
| of W. G. Fisher, of this city, who left home
forLeadville, Saturday, on business trip,
expecting to return Tuesday morning. He
was en- route for Denver Monday night,
and while sitting on the platform of
sleeping car, accidentally fell from the
train near Texas creek and was killed. Mr..
Fisher was one of the most enterprising
and best known business men in Colorado.
He was native of Cambridge, Washing
ton county, New York, and came to Den
yer from Iowa City, Iowa, in 1869. His
death is universally deplored.
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
BosToN, June GA gravel train on the
New York & N. E. railway jumped the
track at the Quincy street bridge, Dor
chester district, and four cars went down
the bank. One brakeman was killed and
another train hand was seriously injured.
MAGAZINE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
| HUTCHINSON, Kas., June 6.-The Hazard
Powder company's magazine, containing
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morning at $3.50 by lightning, and the con-
sequent explosion broke nearly every glass
front in the city, wrenched several build
ings from their foundations and knocked
! down plastering, lamps and clocks a mile
away. One dwelling three hundred yards
away was completely riddled by flying
| bricks.
BURSTING OF WHEAT ELEVATOR.
| MILWAUKEE, June 6.-The addition to
the Northwestern marine elevator, owned
by Marrigold Bros. & Kershaw, burst at 4
o'clock this afternoon, under pressure of
| 10000 bushels of No. 9 wheat. The walls
fell owing to the settling of the founda-
| tions, and about 1000 bushels slid into the
river. Seven tramps were seen doing in
the shadow a few minutes before the
crash and it is believed that they are bur-
led under the ruins. The work of clearing
the grain is going forward rapidly, in the
hope of reaching the men if there, before
| life is extinct. The loss on the building
| is $4,000. The loss on the grain cannot
be estimated at present. The steam barge,
q. J. Kershaw, was telegraphed for at
Chicago, and will load $4,000 bushels to-
night.
ADVANCING THUNDER STORM.
| ALBANY, n. Y, June Ga storm this
morning caused damage estimated at $780,
600. Houses were undermined. cellars
flooded, streets torn up. etc. The light
ming struck several places among them
large derrick on the new capitol and flag
staff on the Delavan house was shivered.
No persons injured. Weed. Parsons & Co..
printers, suffer damage of $4,000 by the
flooding of a cellar. Their presses are
damaged and large amount of paper
ruined.
FATAL TRAIN WRECK.
SEYMOUR, Ind, June 6.-Train number
two, which leaves this city at p. m. for
Louisville was badly wrecked at Farm
ington, three miles south of Seymour by
trestle, damaged by water giving away.
David Hutchinson engineer, Millar Hules
fireman, Geo. Ammons baggage master
and porter of new Pullman sleeper,
name unknown, were killed. No passen-
gers were reported killed. The engine,
baggage. Pullman and chair cars were
complete wreck and surrounded by water
ROUGH STORM At ST. JOHNS.
ST. JOINS, Que, June 6.-The fiercest
rain and hail and wind storm for years
visited this section this evening. In a
short time a torrent flooded the streets.
doing much damage. The streets were in
several places blocked with trees. Piles
of lumber were blown from the wharves
into the river. Other lumber yards suf-
fered severely, the lumber being blown
hundreds of feet and smashed to atoms.
number of houses were unroofed and
| other damage done.
OIL TANK STRUCK AND FIRED.
WILLIAMsPORT, Pa, June GA large
tank of the Tidewater Pipe Line COM
pany at Muncy, containing 5000 barrels,
was struck by lightning to day and the oil
fired. Two Or three buildings in Muncy
were also struck.
LIGHTNING IN MASSACHUSETTS.
WORCESTER, Mass, June 6-During a
heavy thunder storm tonight Holy Cross
| college was struck by lightning and fired
in two places. One fire was put out
promptly, but the other was on top OF a
tower 40 feet high and burned over two
hodrs. Mrs. Sullivan Dodmun's house in
New England village was struck and badly
damaged. a barn in Sterling was struck
and there was a serious fire in Sutton, but
no particulars, owing to no telegraphic
communication.
THE LIGHTNING AT NEW YORK.
New YORK, June G. Lightning shat
tered a number of flag stats in this city
tonight, and the Brooklyn residence of
VIM. Price at Brooklyn was burned down.
Tank No. % at the National storage COM
pany's oil works, at Craven Point, Jersey
City, was also struck. The tank is fifty
feet in diameter and thirty feet high. 1t
contained only about $500 barrels of OIL
The lightning passed around the tanks
and the rivets holding the roof we're en-
tirely torn out. A side tank
was cracked for distance of
seven feet where the lightning
struck and found connections to the
ground. The oil was not fired although
the roof was raised into the air and the
wooden braces in the interior were fred
by an explosion of gas. The roof fell
back almost in the original position and
thus acted as an extinguisher. The oil
was considerably lower than the burning
woodwork and was pumped out from the
bottom. The woodwork was completely
| destroyed. The tank was one of the seven