Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-12-05
CASUALTIES.

AN explosion, followed by fire, destroyed
the wholesale drug house Of Meyer Bros,
Kansas City, Mo-, on the 28th. Loss S200. 900.
A TRAIN on the Boston, Barre and Gar diner
Railroad went down twenty foot embauk-
ment near Worcester, Mass, on the 28th.
Fifteen passengers were injured, but none
killed.
On the 28th at Iron Mountain, Mich, Geo.
s%tH s@d tsd dPaRsTtGp bst detective accidentally "hot
On the oath at Washington. Pa, Mary
Skees, aged II, while crossing railroad tres
tie, was caught by train and killed.
THE business portion of st. Paris, O., burned
on the 2Sth. Loss $3.50, 1000.
The cotton warehouse of A. G. Carey, Bal
timore, Nd, burned on the 28th. Loss $685.
600.
By railway collision near Ashland, O., on
the 2sth, Conductor Pierce was killed and sew.
eral others injured.
The St. Lawrence Hotel, Cape Vincent, N.
Y, burned on the 28th. Loss $75,000
A CYCLONE passed near GAINESVILLE, Wis, on
the 25th. Several farm houses and outbuild-
ings were destroyed, aud other damage to
property resulted. Mary Martin was killed by
falling debris.
The village Of Albany, Wis, was almost
wiped out by fire on the 9th. Edward Dodge
was killed by falling wall. The losses aggre-
gate 100000.
On the 25th John Dent and his son we're
hunting near Marsh6e!d, Wis. The sons gun
discharged accidentally and Mr.. Dent received
the charge in his knee. from the effects Of
which he died en- the 9th.
FIRE at Minneapolis, Minn., on the 9th de-
stroyed the Lyman-Eliel Drug Company's store.
Loss $65, 900.
ON the 9th fire destroyed the business por-
on of Waverly, Tenn. LUss S65.000.
DURING heavy storm on the night of the
25th. one of the chimneys on the state univer-
sity, Madison, Wis.,, toppled over and went
| crashing through the building into the cellar.
School was suspended next day for repairs.
A HUNTING party-Fred Jeuke], his two sons
and Richard Hartig-of Dubuque, a., were
! drowned by the upsetting of their boat.
FIFE on :ne Goth destroyed the southern uli-
nois normal university, Carbondale, Ill. Loss
$275, 1000.
BY the falling of lumber pile in New York,
on the Oath NJ. Cunningham vas killed, F. Rol-
los fatally, and three others slightly wounded.
| The hoisting works Of the Sumner Mining
! Company, Calient, Gala, burned on the 25th.
Loss $75, 900.
/ AAC S4doo A1ClOJy VI L. GSAuo q w. 1lttS'
burg, Pa.. Was damaged by fire on the 25th to
the extent of $4,000.
DISASTROUS forest fires ragged on the 23d in
the neighborhood of Huntingdon, Pa.
On the 22d P. Dreesbach was knocked down,
run over and killed by street car in Chicago.
! A cuRR1ER named Dennis Daugharty was run
] over and killed at Fond du Lac, Wis.,, on the
:, 23d, while trying to steal ride.
| The house Of T. W. Huston, farmer near
| Unionville, No., burned on the 22d, and Mrs.
Huston and two children persisted in the
flames.
A CYCLONE on the 22d destroyed part OF
ColIinsviIle, Tex. A Mrs. Conway was killed.
| CYCLONE visited Arkansas On the 2lst, de-
stroying Medford, killing three persons ana in.
juriug Iual,y others.
A PORTION Of the New Albany. Ind, wooden
and cotton mills, burned on the 22d. Loss
| $100, 0,09O.
! On the 22d Patrick Dodd aud wife, of Utica;
| N. Y, were asphyxiated 1t New York city ho.
tel. They blew out the gas.
| An open switch caused collision on the 21st,
between = passenger and freight, on the Ala
bama Southern, near Chattanooga, Tenn. -Four
persons killed.