Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-04
CASUALTIES,

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business places burned. Loss $4,000.
The bodies of Thomas Hickey and William
Mccarthy. two of the crew of the Wells b urt
that wcut down in tho May storm. were picke d
up on the beach, near Chicago, H., on the
9th.
JOSEPH Vo1GHr, while bathing near Chlca
60, ILL.,, OH tho 9th, was drowned.
THE steamer Rothesay, plying on the st.
Lawrence. sunk near Thousand Island Park,
OH the 9th. The crew aud passengers were
rescued.
On the 2Gth Northern Pacific gravel train,
with over 100 Cinnamon on board, coj]ided at
Heron'a Siding, Montana, with /, wood train.
The engineer Of the gravel train and Is Chi
namen were killed.
GEORGE SHEFFIELD, while crossing the c.,
B. and Q. Road at Chicago, on the 26tb, was
run over and killed.
NICHOLAS DRoUN came Ill contact with fly
wheel in spoke factory at Englewood, Ill.,, on
the 25th and was killed.
On the Gath the levee broke at Chester, Ran
dolph County, Illinois, and flooded $4,000
acres of grain in st. Marys Bottoms. Nearly
all the bottom land between Prices Landing
and Cairo is flooded.
The. Meridian Lumber Company's lumber
the 2Gth. Loss $50,O0O.
The Robinsten brewery at Ottawa, ILL.,,
burned on the 26tb. Loss $4,000.
The building Of the Turkey Red Company at
Bellefonte, N. j., burned on the 25th. Loss
| 100000.
The Planters Cotton Seed OH Works at AL
giers, La, we're struck by lightning on the 25th
| and destroyed. Loss $500,000.
The warehouse of the Bohn Manufacturing
Company of st. Paul, Mimi, was destroyed by
| fire on the 25th. Loss $27,O00
JOHN STRIKER, tho we'll known New YORK mil
lonaire was drowned at Saratoga, on the 25th,
| while bathing.
The levee at Madison, No., broke on the
23d, and the low laeds were flooded The
| country between Mitchell and Venice, No., is
| under water. The total destruction by the
flood at this point is over $100, 900.
FRANK WEST and two horses were killed by
lightning at Arrow Rock, NO., on the 23d.
| ADAM GREENFIELD was crushed between the
cars at Vincennes, Ind, on the 23d.
| PATRICK DIXON, driver Of a harvesting ma
chine, at Vincennes, Ind, Oh the 23d, was
thrown in front of the knives by runaway
The steamer Spartan ran ashore on Carri
bou Island, ON tho 23d.
| MARTIN MART1NsoN,' 10 years old, drowned
while bathing at Chicago, on the 23d.
| An explosion at blast furnace No S, Soutl
Chicago, three men we're killed and scvera
more injured. Thirty-fivc tons of molten iro1
were thrown in every direction.
THE laundry of Mrs. G. NJ Hopkins, at Troy
N. Y, burned OIL the 22d. Loss $50, 900
A panic ensued among the operatives, but al
| were rescued.
Two men had their skulls fractured aud two
others were severely injured by the fall of {
scanold III Minneapolis, Minn., on the 22d.
The Kalamazoo Light Guards wero practic
ing target-shooting on the 2lst. Ono of then
missed the target and hit farmer naulet
Hope, instantly killing him.
PETER Warts planning mill at Kuightstown
Ind, burned on the 22d. Loss $4,000.
A BRAKEMAN named Willard was killed nea
Manchester, Ia., on the Dist. His foot caugh
in frog and the train backing down upon hin
he was cut in two.
On the 22d Charles B. Walker, of Minno
apolis, Minn., fell between the cars of q NOV
ing freight train and was killed.
The boiler of Grants wooden mills at Boone
vile, Mo-, exploded on the 22d. The buildin,
and machinery were wrecked and several mel
! injured. Loss S5O,UtO.
PENN's MANOR, Pa. reports a cyclone on tn
10th, damaging property to the extent of $25,
600.
A TORNADO struck the southern portion o
Chiillcothe County, Mo-. on the 21st, wreckin|
thirty farm houses. Two men were killed an
twenty injured. :. "
THREE warehouses attached to John Glib
son Il Sons distillery at Gibeonton, Pa, burne'
on the 21st, aud 10000 barrels of whisky de
stroyed. Loss $5vO,0O0. Fifteen person
were injured by an explosion in one Of til
warehouses. z-:.-..
C1AwsoNs wagon depot and other building
atsalt Lake, Utah, were destroyed by fire o.
the 21st. Loss 800, 600. During the fire q
explosion of powder wounded twelve person
and damaged buildings to the amount o
92O, 900. s'e + .=-=
SOLOMON LEvI's tailoring establishment, a
Cincinnati, was destroyed by fire on the 21st
Loss $50, 200. 90 5@~@ .----se-