Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-02-08
DjsastrOt,s EloOds.

DssastrOus Floods.
Mild weather and heavy rains have sweled
the streams Throughout Ohio, Indiana and
Pennsylvania to OVERLOOKING and immense
damage has been iu1lcted. Bradford. Pa,
vas visited by tie food on the nig ht Of the
Sd, which inundated about 500 houses The
lower part OF the city was submerged in some
cases to the depth of ten feet. Five bridges
were swept away. and several houses along
the bank If the creek were badly damaged or
totally destroyed. Eighty-five families on the
HAT between Bradford and Tsrport, living III
one-storv houses, had TO fee for their lives
when the Ice-gorge broke. leaving all their
effects. and many Of the houses were swept
away. The damage between PIt;sburg and
Ol City will amount to several hundred thou
sand dollar. Kitaning is partly inundated.
The damage at Akron aggregates sj0,0J0, Of
which the OhIo Canal Company probably
loses $4,000, the Valley Railroad Company
$4,000. the Akron Sewer Pipe Company
5000, and private houses $1,000. The water
entered the kiln at Al xanter's Fire brick
Works. generating steam that exploded cauS-
ing considerable lose. Adyiccs from Cleveland
reported the food a. decreasing on the night
Of the 81. II is estimated that that q. 900, 900
feet Of lumber and lu,UOO,0UU 10 l5.00U,U01
shingles were washed away from the luGiber
yards. The Valley Railroad is several feet un-
der water for several miles. and Its bridge near
Weghlock was swept away. About fifty horses
at stable at the lumber wards rtOOd all nj Lht
IN water up To their breasts and were rescued
with difficulty, having to SWIM several hundred
feet to reach D place Of safety. Two mih- uf
the Cleveland Paper Company, containing
about forty tons OF manufactured paper are ia
water nearly TO the top Of the ilIst story. The
ircshe. is the most destructive ever known and
the water higher than -iuce the great flood nt
1879. Some think II Is cher even than then.
The damage can scarcely be less than Il. .uJU.-
l..l -
o., suspension bridge was swept away aud
two other bridges are expected 10 go. fsml-
lies living near the river were rescued IN boats.
Much meadow land il inundated and houses
and thousands Of trees are sfoaf. cha .r fac
tory was partly submerged and the machinery
much damaged. At Columbus, o.. the loss is
enormous. Sells BROS. show headquarters sre
Hooded and part of the animals are iost.
Minor ni>hap>.
Harry y. POulini, lgmLer inspector for
Detroit nfm, Was run over by the CARS al that
place on the I'd inst. aad fatally mangled.
Georgia RaT. infant daughter OF ?. V.
Raff, Of East Nashville. Tenn. fatally shot
herself on the morning Of the LIST inst, with
toy pistol which she found in Dureau draw
er. Another child was eudesvoring TO take
the pistol from her, and in the struggle for
possession the weapon discharged, and the
bullet entered the child's brain, killing her
instantly. she was only IL months old.
On the LIST inst. Wheel Mil No. 4, Of the
American Powder Company works al Alton,
Mass, exploded with q terrible crash, shsk-
ing dwelling houses for many miles around
and demolshIng the wooden frame building
in which the mill was located. AZ well as
damaging other buildings of the company.
No workmen were killed OF injured. The loss
l. considerable.
A dory containing two men broke admit
sfn.s 10 IL tla
25th and was not picked up until Monday. the
25th. One Of the men named Thomas Walsh
was dead and the other, Albert Blackmore,
badly frozen.
The farm house Of A. D. Stage, nesr Dss-
sci, Mimi, burned ou the night Of the night
Of the 3Oth ult. -Four children perlshed IN
the flames. Stage. with his wife and baby.
barely escaped and were nearly frozen TO death
before they reached a neighbors.
An explosion n the tire works establishment
Of Senor Meyrs, II Amecameca, Mexico, on the
S0th, fatally burned Meyra and four members
Of his FANNY. Several others were badly III
jured.
yesterday at Wes.pOrt, No., ITS contents were
discharged, blowing out the brains Of Mrs.
Hopkins, who was sitting near her husband.
Mrs. kilian, Of Milwaukee, gave her hus-
band, Peter, dose Of oxalc acid, mistaking
it for epson salts, causing the mans death in
a short time. Before he died he told her to
destroy the acid, to avoid another such mis-
take.
AT Adrian. Mich, on the S0th ult., as several
employees Of the Peninsula Iron Works were
carrying ladle Of molten IRON from one build
ing to another, the handle broke and the seeth-
ing mass dropped on the wet snow. causing an
explosion. Albert Smith and Jacob Ray were
fatally injured and several others slightly hurt.
BY an explosion al the Bessemer Steel
Works, Troy, n. Y, on the 3Oth ult.. Matthe W
Gardner was fatally injured. John Cannon
and Joseph Martin received severe injuries.
Aman named Gere, aged 70. perished at he
obstruction Of a residence in Petoskey, Mich,
on the 30th ult.
wheel-jointer weighing a ton burst in
Riley's hoop and heading factory, Greencastle,
Ind, on the 30th. John Elliott was killed and
four others severely injured.
Mrs. John Brooks was killed by q runaway
accident on Washington Boulevard, Chicago,
Oh the 10th. A lady friend who was with her
WAS slightly injured.
Five negroes were drowned by the capsizing
OF boat on the Ogeechee River, Ga, on the
18th.
Mrs.. Ricketts,, deaf and dumb widew. was
run over in the G. B. and Q. yards at st.
Joseph. No., Oh the 18th, and SO horribly mutt
lated that portions OF her body were picked up
for distance Of seventy feet along the track.
Record Of Tragedies.
Fl. T. Plumb, q travelling salesman for New
York house, disappeared mysteriously from q
hotel at Cheyenne, W. I. His overcoat and
dresscost stained with blood, have been found
in q canyon. His body Is undoubtedly under
the snow.
The body Of Hebrew notion peddler named
Marks, was found at Port Chester, N. Y, on
the I'd inst horribly mangled with an axe.
The contents Of his pack were found scattered
.hout On tho spow -Thaodora Ho6roan a M
torious character is under arrest, charged with
the crime.
John Kenny, . bill-poster, who killed John
Lennon, q car-driver in Brooklyn, was SEN
fenced TO imprisonment for life ON the I'D inst.
In some manner he secured o revolver and
killed himself in his cell at the Jail during the
night following the sentence.
Young Cobb, who shot and mortaily wound
cd Sheriff sherman, Of Winfield, Kansas. some
days ago while the latter was attempting to
arrest him. and who afterwards shot and
hillsd Q copstAble IN Jsaersop County, vss