The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-15
CASUALTIES.

On the 9th at Houston, Tex, blacksmith
named Sickness was struck by lightning and
killed.
GREENS -four mill at Milford, Wis. was de-
,troved by tire on the Sch with about 10. 200
bushels OF wheat.
The body Of an unknown hunter was found
the woods near Wooster, O., on the 7th.
The dead mans faithful dog was on guard.
4. WOMAN named Seickert was burned to
death at Sheboygan. Wis, on the 9Th, while
trying to kill flies by burning straw.
The schooner Laura Belle went ashore of
Shot Point, Mich, on the eth and went to
pieces. The captain and crew after terrible
suffering reached Marquette on the 9th Vim.
Ho veil, one or the crew, was killed bv fi7lng
boom.
A BOILER explodedfn a canning factory at
Austin, Mimi, on the sth. killing Fred Knox.
engineer, and demOlishIng the building.
On the morning of the 6th A. P. Paine. pro-
prietor of 4 sawmill at Mauston, Wis, was
found in the mill wound around shaft and
rushed to death.
Mas. JULIE P. SMITH, weIl-known novelist
vas killed IN a runaway accident at Hartford.
'0nn., on the 7th.
Or the 7th at Akron, o.. W. Ward was IA
.IiIy mangled by railway train. and Wm.
.Fetmore was killed by a skid in a sawmil fall
on him
AT Newcastle, O., on the It'll. Martha E.
johnson, aged q, was burned to DEATH Her
clothing caught fire from stove around which
she was working.
BosToS aduces dated the 7th say hat city
is surrounded by Gordon of flames. Not a
town within fifty miles that has not suffered.
Five thousand acres OF meadow in Canton and
Norwood, Mass, are burned over with loss
Of 100000. 4 fire started two weeks ago
near West R0xbUrv has burned over 4. coo acres
and is sill burning.
TIE car stables of the Philadelphia. Pa,
City Passenger Railway Company, burned on
the 7th. Loss $50, coo. The fire caused a
panic IL the alm>hOuse, near by, and a female
patient Jumped from window and was killed.
The outbuldiDgs Of a Long Branch hotel
Jurned early ou the morning Of the 9Th. Que
musician named Adolph Friedrich, was burned
to crisp. Loss $50, 600.
AT Marshall, Tex, on the 7th, ire destroyed.
Berniss' sawmiil. 100000 feet of lumber. and
the rail way bridge.
The house of John Everts, at Riyerton. H..
was destroyed by fire ~ the 9Th. and The
mother and two children Of Mrs EYerts we're
burned to death.
JAMES Dill. OF MorgantoYh and a man
named Connor, Of Cincinnati, were killed IN a
railway wreck a. Waldrous Station Ind. on
the 9Th.
By an explosion of gas at q mine near
Scranton, Pa, on the 9Th. Daniel Laverrnire
and d. c. Blackwood were fatally injured.
CARRIE WALDMEYER and Amelia Weaver, OF
Philadelphia, were drowned at New Bruns-
WICK, \. j., on the 9th.
A STEAM THREsHER exploded near Lancaster.
Pa, on the 9Th, killing two men.
FIRE at Minden, Ia, on the 9Th. destroyed
property 10 the value Of $4,000.
WILLIAM WoELFERsHEIM, tug fireman, was
drowned at Chicago on the 80.
AN unknown man aged about 55 years. was
run over and killed by an engine at the Chicago
stock yards on the 4tb.
JAY GoULD's yacht Atalanta collided with the
tug Gen. Hawley at New York on the 5th. The
tug was cut in two and sank Immediately. No
lives were lost.
WRECKED catamaram vas sighted near
Whitehsh Point, Mich, on the 4th. It Is sup
posed her crew drowned
FIRE at Murray. Mich. on the 5th, DESTROYED
the Opera House and several adjoining build
EDgs- Loss about 500, 600.
WM- BELL, 4 carpenter, was suffocated II a
IRE at a planning mil in st. Louis on the 5th.
THE Wabash division Of the Chicago stock
yaIus we're oauaBeo by ure on tue oth 10 the
extent Of $4,000. Ffty-ive cattle and four
ponies were burned 70 death
The railway bridge across the Mississippi
River at Minneapolis. was destroyed by fire on
the 4th. Loss $50 900.
MAGGIE L. HAvELIy, Ehzebeth Simmons and
Annie Shuev, were drowned while bathing at
Rochester, y l.. on the 4th.
An elevator boy IN the Grand Pacific Hotel.
Chicago, lost control Of the elevator on the ii.
and advised the two occupants 10 jump cut at
the next landing. One Of them Christian
jacobson, painter, was crushed 10 death
Twelve imported horses Peusbed IN 4 burn
IN stable near Macomb. H., on the 3D. Loss
S20.0o0.