Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-03-14
CASUALTIES.

ABOUT O'Clock on the morning of the 7th
inst, fire broke out in "the Cambridge" q
fashionable apartment house at 48 East
Sixty-eighth Street, New York, and before it
could be gotten under control Mrs. Abram
Wakeman. S. years OF age, and her daughter
Rose, 81 years old, we're burned to crisp.
Other occupants Of the building were rescued
by tiremen or made their escape by fire ladders
on the building.
PREMATURE explosion in the Evendale coal
mine at Canton. o., on the 7th inst, fatally in-
jured Just n Terrell.
L1rTERER & Co.. drug store at Nashville,
burned on the 7th inst. Loss $500, 900; insur-
ance S125, 1000.
LARGE tannery at Feltsmills, N. Y, burned
on the7th inst. Loss $50, 600: insured.
FIVE of the buildings of the st. Augustine
Normal School for colored students at Raleigh,
N. c., burned on the 9Th inst. The loss is
about 900; insurance $1,000.
A SURVEY of the damage by the food at Law
renceburg, Ind, shows that over forty houses
were swept away, and ITO badly wrecked. The
total damage is estimated at $433,OOO
Mr.. AND MRS. FREDERICK G.. SuNBERRY, q
young couple of Manchester, N. H., went out
sieighriding, taking with them their infant
daughter. It was intensely cold. The child
pings. When the ride was over and home was
reached the baby was dead in its mothers arms.
LUCINDA BALLOON, aged SO years, was roasted
to death on the 9Th inst, at Wllmot Village,
near Cleveland. She was in the habit of smok-
pipe, sparks fell on her clothes, setting them
ablaze in an instant, and resulting in her death
after enduring horrible agony.
A SON and daughter Of Azariah Williams, Of
La France, o., aged 4 and years, respectively,
went into hay NOV with matches. The boy
set the NOW on fire and the girl was burned to
death. The boy escaped, but died of his in
juries.
An old farmer, A. J. Wing, living near
somerville, O., was frightened to death on the
night Of the 9Th inst. Wing was in mortal fear
Of negro who had threatened to shoot him.
On the night named he was pursuaded by two
boys to 60 with them to neighbor's to fix q
clock. By pre-arrangement, another boy, con-
cealed in dark lane, fred q pistol when the
party approached, whereupon one Of the boys
with Wing uttered shrek and fell to the
ground. The old man ran to the nearest
neighbors, obtained admittance, and dropped
dead on the floor. The inquest to-day revealed
fatty degeneration of the heart. The young
men were bitterly censured.
~EvANs' artificial leather mandatory at
Salem, n H., was partially burned on the 9Th
inst. Loss $40, 900; partially insured.
The Diamond and Bluff Mills at Red Wing,
stroyed by fire on the 4th inst. Total loss
600.
w. H. PRATT, president of the Bank OF
Mobile, Ala, and vice president of the Mobile
md Roi1r loI
4th inst, at Birmingham, while endeavoring to
pass between the cars of a freight train.
The latest news from the overaowed country
along the Lower Mississippi River is that what
are known as the "Sunk Lands in the St.
Francis region, are entirely submerged, and
nearly as far down as the Helena there are but
the upper stories of their houses or are floItine
around on RATS and boats. Most Of them have
however, deserted the country and gone tc
higher land, back from the river.
YHE steamer Yazoo was snagged and sunk 2t
miles from New Orleans on the Sd inst. Fifteen
persons foated four miles on the wreck of the
cabin and were picked up by the steamer st.
John. Twelve lives we re lost, including Mrs
Lewis, Of Chicago.
The Vulcan Forge Works, Pittsburg, were
partially destroyed by fire on the 4th inst
Loss $S5, 900. fully covered by insurance.
r. c. WILLARD, superintendent Of the con
struction Of the New York and Pennsylvania Tel
egraph and Telephone Company and Franl
Smith, general superintendent, both of Elmira
were probably fatally injured by q train al
Bath, N. Y, on the I'd inst. A driver of ar
omnibus was fatally injured.
EAsrPoRr, Me-, had leaky gas main ant
workmen attempted to fix it on the I'd inst
The ground being frozen, fire was built Il
thaw it out. An explosion resulted, tearing M
the street its entire width, for distance o.
twenty feet. The large wooden cover of q res
ervoir in the middle Of the street was blow1
sixty feet into the air and carried over severa
buildings when it finally crashed through tn,
roof Of shed over 100 feet away. All th.
glass and ashes were torn from the south sid
Of the custom house and the custom hous,
steps and sidewalk were blown away. The gil
ded bali on the pole Of the custom house.
of. Windows were broken in the postonic,
and other places. Large pieces Of frozen eartl
weighing twenty tons we're lifted Z feet in tn.
mir. Two boys and man were Knocked down
but beyond few bruises escaped injury.
Two men, McInelly and Brown, with thei,
wives, attempted to drive across the New
Brunswick Railroad At Oantonbury, N. B., o,
the 1st inst, in front Of IN advancing train
The train struck the pung, killing both ladie
almost instantly and seriously injuring Nc
Inelly.
Ar Youngstown, o., on the night Of the 28tl
ult., supposed incendiary fire damaged Alon
20 Williams planning mill, and the adjacen
lumber yard Of George Dingleby on one sid
and NJ. Clemens rag and paper warehouse OF
the other. The total loss is estimated At $50,
600; insurance $4,000.
TIE engine in q. A. Hatton's box factory .
Westdeld, Ind, exploded on the lit inst, kill
ing Mr. Hatton and his engineer, Henry Hilton
also severely wounding Arthur Reynolds ani
James Hilton, and damaging the building.
A D1sPATcH from Shawneetown, m.
dated the 1st inst, reported the dtu
alton there - terrible. There are be
ween five and Eix hundred houses in the town
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