The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-01-27

CoRBETT LEAYs wholesale grocery house
at Portland, Me-, was destroyed by fire on the
18th inst. Loss 517O,OO insurance SI40, 600
Adjoining stores were badly damaged bv
water.
Az engine On the Mansfield Tap Railroad. a
branch of the New Orleans Pacific exploded al
the depot at Mansfield, La, on the 18th inst.
Engineer Shaekleford. Tom Ways, fireman.
Jerry Hardy. brakeman tthe two last named
coloredl were killed. Mrs. Ingles and a tele-
graph operator named Hanson were mortaIly
hurf. The body OF Tom Ways yras blown fifty
yards, passing through plank fence.
DANIEL CoATrs was instantly killed Gnd John
Shea fatally injured by an explosion of giant
powder at Grizzly Gulch near Deadwood. on
the 18Th inst,
FIRE on the 18th inst, destroyed rwo-tLlrds
OF the business portion Of Cisco. Texas. Total
loss S65, Goo; partially insured.
The editorial and composing rooms Of the
Atchison. Ks, Champion, were gutted by fire
on the 18Th inst The files Of the paper for
rWeHty-tSo years were destroyed.
The steamer Josephine, which left Seattle,
w. T., on the 18th inst, for Skagit River, hev-
ing on board, full freight and twenty passengers.
blew up in PORT Susan Bay fifty miles north
OF Seattle The CrOWu-sueet went straight up
Though the forward cabin and pilot house.
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/ INTO the air, causing his instant death. Capt.
Bailey was on deck aud WAS lost. Neither he
nor PUIseT Turner were seen after the eXplO-
sion. The steward and his helper, David
| Sparks, We're instantly killed while waiting on
| Tic table. Kayauaugh, the fireman was not
| seen afterward and was un doubtedlv killed
| I. f. Cannon, commercial trav eler represent
ing Bates, Reed q Cooley. of New York. was
| billed. Sam B0bbett, Stranger. was also
killed. s number Of those on board were bad
/ iy injured. The boat broke in two pieces. one
sinking and the other floating. Indians and
| Ioggels Gear 10y rescued the survivors,
Az entire square Of the business portion o
Mt Arthur, O.. was DESTROYED by fire on the
10th inst. Loss $50, 600; insurance So. 600
AN Ohio and Mississippi train was thrown
p ON the track by a broken rail on the night of
the 18th inst, Clas. Hoffman, of o Maryland
passenger, was killed. \ large Of number
passengers were injured.
BROKEN rail threw @ train down au en-
baukmeut twenty foe- high near Clinton, Ia.
| on the night on the 10Th inst. 4 brakeman
Y. l., Clark was Killed ana the conductor and
nineteen passengers injured.
a TRATN ou.aa Troy aI| Boston railroad fell
through q bridge at r,lorsburg Junction. New
York. ou the night If tl- 18th inst, piIing sight
cars into the Hg1scc River. No lives we're
lost.
TIRE IN The assortment room of Sauford's
cotton mill az Albany. \. Y, caused a loss OF
so, geo; Insurance $3.50
TIE Scranton, pa, Record Office aud other
properties were destroyed bv fire on the 18th
inst. Loss S55.1JH.
rHE Twedlls Hlu B,oss, Albany, y. Y. IN
Guiding the Opera House, Albany County Bank.
eight or ten retail stores ana a number of
| offices, was totally destroyed by ire on the
18th inst The total IS estimated at 53Ua-
Uu0; insurance about z2aJ.001.
TAYoR.s Safe Works, Toronto, burned on
the 10th inst. Loss $50. 600.
4 DOZEN business blocks at Lawrence. Ks.
| were consumed by fire on the 10th inst. Loss
$40, 600; insurance S29 090.
THE fine residence of Samuel C. Lewis. at
Tauytown, New York. having frontage Of 100
feet. together with all the furniture and PIC
lures therein. bnTrea oa the t5th inst. Toss
over SIUo, 600.
THE eutire works Of the Chicago Smelling
and refining Company, were destroyed by IRE
ou the 18th inst. Loss about SSg, 800; insurance
$4,000.
THE nail mill, hlueiug house snd nail and
pattern warehouses at South Chicago, were
totally destroyed by an iuCendiary fire on the
18th INST Loss S250,O0U: fully insured.