The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-10-13
CASUALTIES.

DURING a thunder storm at Minneapolis
Mimi, on the 9th, lightning struck the sash
and blind factory of Frager & Shepherd, set
ting 1t on fire. The destruction was complete
Loss S63, 600.
THE business portion of Passumpsic, Vt,
burned on the 18th. Loss 100000.
FIRE destroyed the dry goods house of B.
Lowenstein & Bros, at Memphis, Tenn, on the
7th. Loss Sl90,0O0.
An elevator, Sinker, Davis & Co., machinery
supplies, Henry Loebe, groceries, several other
buildings and large quantity of cotton, were
destroyed by fire on the 7th at Galveston, Tex.
Loss about $500, 900.
A BELL BOY in the Brunswick Hotel, Indian
apolis, named Frank Patterson, fell over a bal
ustrade to the basement, distance of sixty
feet, and was killed.
A GROCER of Connelsville, Pa, laid poison
for rats, they carried it into a sack of flour,
and the flour came near killing family Of five
persons.
On the morning of the 5th North Pennsyl-
vania Railroad train ran into street car at a
crossing owing to the driver not being able to
collect fares and look out for trains at the same
time. Six have died. and ten were seriously
injured.
THE village of Sandy Lake, near Pittsburg,
Pa, lost the greater part of its business por-
ton by fire on the 5th. Loss $50, 900.
AT Minneapolis Mimi, on the 5th, John
French was caught in the betting of flour
mill and whrled to death.
Oh the 5th the disappearance of fve-year-
old child named Nellie Ferguson, was solved
by finding her body in unused well, into
which she no doubt lad accidentally fallen.
THE sash and blind factory OF o. d. Peck &
Co., Oshkosh, Wis, burned Oh the 4th. Loss
100000.
AT q small fire after firemans parade in
Troy n. Y, on the 4th. fireman named F.
W. Lawrence, was killed by a falling ladder.
A PAPER mill belonging to ]. A. Decker, of
Lee, Mass, burned on the 4th. Loss S35, 900.
THE Neal Block at Oswego, N. Y, was dam
aged by fire to the extent of $4,000 on the
4th.
4 SUMMER hotel at Owenett Springs, N. Y,
burned ON the 4th. Loss 525, 900.
Oh the Sd Christ Bejuhn, farmer near Me-
nominee, Wis, mistook his brother William for
bear that had been prowling around, and gave
him an ounce ball. William is dead.
By the fall of a roof in a mine at Scranton,
Pa, on the 4th, r. Clapfer and A. Curl9y were
killed.
AT Providence, r. l., while exercising with a
Skinner truck, the ladders being thrown out to
height Of ninety feet the ladders caved with
two tremen near the Top. A. Mcdonald was
killed and the other but slightly hurt.
On the I'd, at Chicago, H., twelve workmen
engaged in a sewer trench, were buried by the
caving of the sides. Patrick O'Donald was
killed and the others escaped serious injury.
THE drug store of Howard Il Chandler at
Atlanta, Ga, burned on the ID. Loss $50, 900.
A BUILDING occupied by three jewelry firms
at Attleboro, Mass, burned on the Sd. Loss
$40. 900.
AT Cleveland, o., on the Sd, VIM. Rahnke
at work on a scaffold seventy feet high, slipped
and fell to the ground, sus tanning fatal injuries
On the 81 Gus Weyant was drowned IL
French Greek, which he was trying to ford al
Franklin, Pa.
THE loss by the burning of the exposition al
PittsbJrg is 81, 900, 900. Many relics cannot be
replsced The directors have decided not tc
rebuild the structure.
LEAvENwoRTH. Kas., was visited by severe
wind and rain storm on the 1st. One grocery
house lost roof and the water ruined the
stock, valued at $4,000.
THE drug store of Howard & Chandler. At
| lanta, Ga, burned on the I'd. Loss $40, 600.