The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-03-31
CASUALTIES.

AT kiDgstown. Ind, boiler exploded and
Con Cleary, the engineer, and Frank Brosius
killed.
The oatmeal mill of Carter & Stewart, at
Center City. Iowa, burned on the 25th inst.
Loss S35, 600; insurance about one-half.
The Williams sewing machine factory at
Montreal, burned on the night of the oath inst.
The Vost factory with its new machinery, was
also destroyed. Loss between S200,000 and
$500, 600. The property was well insured.
FIRE at Duluth, on the 24th inst, destroyed
thirteen buildings and contents. Loss SAL
500: insurance S35, 900.
THE new Catholic Church at East Hampton,
Mass. burned on the oath inst. Loss $50, ,0G0;
partly insured.
EARLY on the E21 inst, the Fontalne cotton
warehouse at Columbus, Ga, burned Thirty
four hundred bales of cotton. 40 rolls of bag
gage, 800 bundles of ties, 20 barrels of syrup,
IA bales of domestics, besides other property
ON storage were destroyed. The Columbus
Bagglng Factory bad on storage S11 900 wort h
of baggIng. The total loss is estimated at $780,
COO. Insurance on building and contents S145.-
600.
THE Eureka Cotton Mill at Mount Airy, n.
c., burned on the 22d inst. The loss is esti-
mated at Sc 200; insurance $4,000. One hun
dred people were thrown out of employment
AN explosion of gas occurred on the 22d
| inst, at the Packer ColEery, No. 2, of the Le-
| high Valley Coal Company, at Lost Greek, Pa,
by which Martin Toohey, John Murray, William
McAudrew, James Litchman. William Iltch-
man, and Polander, whose name is unknown
were severely and perhaps fatally burned.
The two LltchmanS, father and son, are seri-
ousIy injured.
FRAME barn owned by Edward Meatyard
| buried at Shipman, H., on the night of the
21st inst, causing the death of 1876 head of
cattle aud the destruction of property valued
| at 512, ,00U.
PRAIRIE fire on the sheep farm of c. n.
| Crocker, fifteen miles from Arkansas City, KS,
on the 18th INST, destroyed about 400 sheep.
| The house owned by Mrs. Hannah Rudolph,
at Newport, r. l., burned on the 21st Inst, and
! Mary Barry, a domestic, perished in the
flames. Loss LOCO; insured for $1,000.
The rope sustaining a swinging scaffold. on
which three men were engaged IN painting the
side of large elevator at Peoria, Ill.,, broke on
| the 22dinst. Jacob WatUenschwaler was killed
and Joseph Vail fatally hurt r. C. Schupp
the third man, caught rope and escaped In.
| jury.
| The vegetable hair factory of James Lowery
! q Co.. B ooklyn, was damaged by fire on the
| 21st inst, to the extent of S25, 000
I HE polishing shed of Ketcham, Rotchild &
| Co.'s factory, on West Madison Street. Chi
cago, was destroyed by fire on the 21st inst
| The Dime Museum was crowded but no panic
! occurred. Loss $50, 900.
On the night of the 18th inst. the oyster
pungies Jasper and Industry collded on Ches
| aIeake Bay. The Jasper sank and tha night
| was so dark that no assistance could be given
| In the morning the captain and two men were
| fonnd lashed In the rigging; one was frozen Il
death Four others not lashed were drowned
AN old couple named Metal were suffocateC
by coal gas at Manlens, III. Three young mel
sleeping in room above, were resusctateC
with difficulty.
A FIRE occurred on the 18th inst, in the
building Nos. 381 to 387 Washington Street
Boston. 1t originated in the basement of 381
occupied. by d. p. n Ilsley & Co., matters
whose loss on stock and fixtures will react
| 900; insurance $50, 900. Richards & Gertz
shirts lost $500: insured George H. Richard
sen, Jr., jeweler, had a stock valued at $50
600, mostly locked in safes. His loss canno
be estimated. Loss on building $40, 600: in
| suTed.
FIRE at Sheridan. Montcalm County, Mich.
destroyed an entire block, including Davis
Hotel, Stebbins' iewelry store and Pitchers
saloon Loss S3t 900; insured for S10 900.
FIVE cars of freight train on the Canadian
Pacific Railway, left the rails on the Roug,
bridge. near Calumet Station, Ontario, and fel
| sixty five feet to the river below, breaking tn,
ice and going to the bottom. The train hands
escaped. Loss $4,000,