Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-06
CASUALTIES.

On tie 3Oth jam occurred on the footway
of the Brooklyn bridge; at the steps on the
New York side. The pedestrians became
packed in a huge mass and becoming excited
several were forced down the steps where they
were trampled to death: There were IL killed
and 35 wounded; some fatally.
The yacht Skylark caps:zed IN Boston har-
Dor on the 29th and six of her crew drowned.
The boiler in the Royal Gem FIGURING Mill,
at Stanton, ILL.,, exploded on the 3oth. Damage
$4,000.
FOURTEEN men engaged in the seal fisheries
were dividing two kegs Of gunpowder near
Point Esquimaux. Canada. One of the mum.
Der was smoking, spark dropped in the pow
der, the house was wrecked, but the men were
only slightly injured.
HENRY MosLEY, On inmate of the Soldiers
Home, Milwaukee, was killed by railway
train on the 30th.
FIRE at Lynchburg, Va, on the 3Oth, de
stroyed property valued at $500, 900.
MINNEAPOLIS, on the 28th and 29th had ten
incendi1ry fires, destroying property valued a,
$4,000.
The cotton warehouse ct Geo. Hastrich, was
damaged by fire to the amount of $6O, 900 on
the 29th.
TIE Model Flourlng Mills, at New Phila,
de'phia, O., burned on the 29th. Loss $15,.
00U.
The dwelling of K. r. Farris. Bowling Green,
Va, burned on the 29th. A son and daughter
OF Mr.. Farris perished in the flames.
The furnace at Mance)ona, Mich, burned on
the 29th. Loss $4,000.
LEVI HURST stood in the middle of the Lake
Shore track at Cleveland. O., drinking from q
bottle when train struck and killed him.
The carpet store and warehouse Of John
Corbett, at Charlestown, s. c., burned on the
28th. Loss $27,500.
The planning mill Of Johnson, Douley l. Co.,
at indianapolis, burned on the 2Sth. Loss
$4,000.
AN explosion of gas in the capitol, Montgom.
cry, Alabama, severely burned j. NJ Riggs,
the librarian, and set the building on fire. The
flames were extinguished without much loss.
The market building and largo section Of
the business portion of the village Of Uxbridge,
Ont. burned on tie 26th. Loss $50,00O
THE Tabor Milling Company's stamp mill,
at Leadville, COL, burned on the 26th. Loss
$60,00C.
On the 26th, tho boiler in the Harris Mill,
near Nation, ILL.,, exploded, killing James
Johnson. AMI wounding two other employees,
Low water was the cause.
On the 26th, W. Shannon, colored, three
boys, and pair of horses, drowned in the
river at Martins Ferry, o.
At Holton, Kas., on the 26th, Miss Maxel
of Riverton, Ia, J. w, Beard and two of biz
children were carried over the dam in the
river. The young lady and the two children
were drowned.
. The bOiler Of the stern-wheel steamer pilot
exploded near Lakeville, CaI., on the 25th
Thirty passengers were aboard at the time
Eight persons were killed, 7 wounded and II
missing are supposed to have been drowned.
RICHARD HAYS and two colored men were
killed in q railroad smash. up on the Beave,
Creek Railroad, Kentucky, on the 25th.
A PASSENGER train on the Central Railway
New Mexico, ran into washout occasioned by
heavy rains on the 25th. The engineer wal
killed.
AT Bismark, Dakota, on the 24tb, the boile,
Of the Bly, Cranberry brickyard exploded,
killing two men and injuring two more.
FIRE destroyed the planning mill of J. H.
Pearson & Co., Chicago, on the Oath. Loss
$35,00O.
w. II. Carter's woolen factory, Bedford
Mass, burned on the Gath. Loss 100000,