Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-22
CASUALTIES.

MICHAEL BARNES fell overheard from the
yacht Aileen, on the 11th, being towed from
Chicago to Toronto, and was drowned.
ROBERT EcHLE1N, brakeman, was caught
between the bumpers at Fond du Lac, on the
18th and fatally injured.
TIE car works of the United States Rolling
Stock Company, at Chicago, ILL.,, burned on
the 18th. Loss $500, 900.
BUSH l. Sons planning mills at Lexington,
Ky., were destroyed by an incendiary fire on
the 18th. Several adjoining cottages were also
destroyed. Aggregate loss S35, 200.
A FREIGHT train on the Iron Mountain Rail-
road was wrecked on the 18th at Cadet. Mo.
The engineer and fireman were killed and sew
eral others seriously injured.
A DESTRUCTIVE storm visited Pine Bluff,
Ark, on the 18th, unroofng houses, etc. Cora
Lee, colored, was killed by flying debris.
A WAGON run over q ifive-year-old named
Fred Dressler, at Chicago, on the 18th, and
broke his neck. The driver, Albert Schultz,
was arrested.
The new addition to Passavsnt Hospital, at
Milwaukee, which had just been rooted, was
destroyed by fire early on the morning Of the
18th. Loss $4,000.
LEGENDARY fires in the vicinity Of Shelby
vile, Ind, during the past few weeks, de-
stroyed barns and other property in the aggre'
gate of $4,000.
THE propeller Potomac struck rock neal
Ahnspee, Wis.,, on the 18th. She was loaded
with 81, 600 bushels Of rye. The boat is valued
at $50,000, and the cargo, which will be total
LOSE, is valued at $26, 900.
EDDIE CARP was killed by base ball while
watching game at Minneapolis on the 18th.
A MAN named Pat C.ancy pe1ished in o
burning livery stable at Carlyle, ILL.,, on the
18th.
TIE Hotel Devan, on the Pennsylvania
Railway, eight miles from Philadelphia,
burned on the 10Th. No lives were lost.
SEVENTEEN men were injured by the fall o1
staging in the tunnel Of the Bozeman NINE
at BOzcman, Montana, on the 18th.
JOHN BoLAND walked into the river at Greer
Bay, Wis.,, when the draw was open. on the
18th, and was drowned.
The wrecking Of q coal train on the Lehigl
Valley Railroad near Wilkesbarre, Pa, caused
the death of one man and serious injury of two
others on the 10th.
OWEN DoRR1s, John Kirwis and James
Cannon were run over and killed on the rail
road at Demler, Pa, on the 10th.
L. P. TAYLOR, Jr., of Omaha, Neb., died or
the 10th, from the result of bite from 9
spider.
Mrs. JAMEs WILKINS, Of Sioux Falls, Oak.
fell down stairs on the 10th and broke hel
neck.
THE Kemban House, Atlanta, Ca, burnet
on the 18th. Tho fire was discovered at
A. NJ. j; tho guests were awakened and escaped
In an hour the hotel was in ruins. Total los
about 81, 100000.
The town of Vineyard Haven, Mass, wa
almost wiped out Dy fire on the 11th. Los
e20O, ZOO.
The Peoples Iceworks, Tombstone, Arizona
| burned on the 11th. Loss $32, 900.
The tannery Of P. & P. Costello, 1T Camden
n. Y, was destroyed by fire on the 11th. Los
SEVERAL valuable track horses, one wortl
$18, ,000, were burned to death at Lexington
Ky., on the 9th.
WM. W. CoBuRN was killed by fallin,
chimney while present at fire in Gardner
Mass, on the 10th.
FRANK ROBERTS was fatally and three other
seriously injured at Boston on the 10th, by tn
giving way Of staging Oh the fourth story OF
| building.
F1nE at Muskegou, Mich, on the 10th. de
stroyed property valued at $50, 600.
| A BARREL factory and four dwellings, bune
at Detroit, Mich, on the 10th. Loss s80, ,O0(
FRANK LEmAoH, of Milwaukee, drowned i
Edar Lake, Wis.,, on the 4th.
OK the 8th John Fisher and Miss Winifre
Butler. while sailing near Boston, Mass, wer
hurled overheard by the swinging Of the boor
and drowned. ..s 10y.
WILEY RANDo1PH. Of Flint, was run over IN
killed near Brighton. Mich, on the 8th.
FRANK WEDNER, Of Dubuque, Ia, injure
BY Z toy pistol on July 4th, died from lock-ja'
on the 9th inst. 'z
FnE at Vicksbmg, Miss, destroyed pFopeFt
valued q e15o, 600 op the etl,