The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-08
CASU4LTIEA.

OK the 3ist, Eddie Butler was run over and
killed by switch-engine at Chicago, IL.
A BRAKEMAN named McCabe was fatally
crushed between the bumpers Of two freight
cars at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the 31st
NUNNEMAcHERs Touring mill, at Milwaukee
Wis, was damaged by fire on the 1st. to the
extent of $40, 900.
FIIE at New Haven, CT, on the "a. de-
stroyed four-story building occupied by
several manufacturing firms. Loss 800, 000
A FREIGHT was ditched by an open switch at
Crescent City, Ia. on the 1st, and Conductor
Mum, and Engineer Mabin instantly killed.
AL Colchester, Vt. on the 1st, the New
York Express colided with another passenger.
Twelve persons were seriously injured.
THE old Ashbrook courthouse, ST. Louis.
Mo-, burned on the 1st, with several small
buildings adjoining. Loss S15,0 900.
BOY named John Dooley was drowned
while bathing in the lake at Chicago, H.. ON
the 3lst.
The boiler of a portable sawmill exploded on
the 3Oth, near Georgetown. O.. killing two men
and fatally woundiug a third
AT Maltoon, ILL.,. Miss Jennie Parish, aged
II, engaged in removing the dishes from the
dinner table, dropped down dead
ONE of the mills of the A. Eldred Lumber
Company at Fort Howard, Wis, burned on
the 31st planning mill, 6,00O,O feet of
lumber and several adjoining buildings were
also destroyed. Loss $780, coo.
AN 18foot tiywheel at the Collier White
Lead Works, st. Louis, Mo-, burst on the
31st, wreeking the machinery and killing Louis
Scnoff.
CHAs. FURGUsoS examined revolver on the
31st at Bucyros, O., and received bullet
through his heart.
THE Marielien chemical Works at Black
Rock, Conn.,. were destroyed by fire on the
3lst. Loss S65.000.
AT Hyde Park, Vt, en- the 31st, Z. W. SUM-
ner accidentally shot Ligbert Rogers through
the heart.
On the 31st eleven imported horses we're
smothered in burning barn at Bloomington,
Ill. Loss $4,000.
CHARLES CAsKEY, son of prominent
Windsor, H., farmer, fatally shot himself on
the 3Oth while examining revolver.
JOHN BENGToN was killed on the 3Oth at
Chicago, H., by being run over on the rail-
| road.
HENRY MESz, a slate roofer fell from a
roof in Chicago, ILL.,, on the 30th, and was ia
| tally injured. The building is fiftv feet il
| height.
An incendiary fire at Petersburg, Ind. on
the 29th, destroyed block Of buildings. Loss
| -6U,UuU.
HARVEY 9. BOYD was gored to death by a
COW at Fort Fetterman, ". T.. on The 30th.
Two small children of colored man named
| Wood. in Topeka, Kan. attempted to light a
fire with kerosene and were burned to death.
THE grain elevator of Myers & Lewis at
| Lewis. Ia. with Il, 900 bushels of grain. was
| destroyed by fire on the Both.
BY the fall of a staging on the 30th at
Burden Dock, n. Y, Patrick Coughter was
! killed and five others seriously injured
LILLE LARSON was killed at Minneapolis.
Mimi, on the 30th, by the explosion of driver
! IN the laundry room of the Hotel LAFAYETTE
OK the 30th near Scranton, Pa, the con-
duotor of an excursion train put boy, with
ont ticket off the train while it was going at
! the rate of thirty miles an hour He fell
under the cars and was killed.
Two daughters of Lewis D. Vsil, Of Pbila-
delphia, were drowned while b7thing at Ocean
| Grove, n. j., on the 30th.
THE chair factory at LowviIle n y burned
| on the 30th. Loss $50, 0U0.
An ice-house at Spring Lake, Ind. was de-
| stroyed by fire on the 30tb. Less $4,000.
WATsoN's paper mill at Fairview. Penn.
| burned on the 30tb. Loss $50. 900.
On the 30th Fritz Brady, EMPLOYED IN a
| stoneyard at Milwaukee, Wis, vas fatally
mangled by the fan of two-ton stone. which
slipped from the derrick hooks.
A RABID dog bit twelve horses and james
| Woigert in Chicago, H., on the 2sth, before be
was killed.
| THOMAS SHEHAN was crushed to death be.
tween freight car and grain shute at Chica.
4 go, H., on the 28th,