The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-08-25
CASUALTIES.

NEAR Garden City, n. J., on the 18th, dur
ing heavy thunder storm, lightning killed 40
sheep and injured 20.
A DESTRUCTIVE wind and rain storm visited
Racine, Wis, about 9 P. N. on the 18th. A
large lumber pile was scattered and portions
OF buildings on the lake shore were blown into
the lake.
SCHOONER, name unknown. OF about 300
ton burthen, sank about five miles off At
lantic City, n. j., on the 18th. All on board
perished.
FRANK DILL, brakeman. was killed on the
18th by striking low bridge near Milwaukee
Wis,
FIRE at Wellington, H., on the 18th, de-
stroyed the mills of J. C. Fisher & Co. and
NJ. d. Keanly, and the carriage shop of John
Atkinson. Aggregate loss $50, 900.
VIM JEsoP's mill at Princeton, Ind, burned
on the 18th. Loss $780, ,000
MOSES JAMES fell upon a saw in mill in
Newberry County, S. c., recently and mad the
top of his head cut off.
TWENTY SEVEN hogs and two cows, which
sought shelter under a tree at Blue Springs
Tenn, were killed by lightning on the 18th.
ANDREW C. WARREN fell from q haystack
foundation, distance of three feet on ais
farm at Stanford, N. Y. on theI5th. and broke
his neck.
SIX YEAR-oLD boy named Dunham, who
was confined to his home at North Weymouth.
Mass, with fractured arm, PLAYED with
matches on the 18th and was fatally burned
MRS. JOSEPH HELMICE, while picking black
berries on the 18th was bitten in the finger by
fiat-head copperhead snake, and il is feared
she will die.
AT Mt Sterling, Ky., on the 18th railroad
collision exploded 400 kegs Of giant powder in
freight car. The depot aud one engine were
wrecked Engineer Schuler was blown to
pieces, Yardmaster Randall killed and Con-
ductor McAl1chael seriously injured.
FIRE at Olean, n. Y, on the 18th, destroyed
business property valued at $40 900.
A TORNADO swept through Chattanooga,
Tenn., on the 18th, with the usual result. One
man was killed.
TIM HAYES was run over and killed on the
Chicago and Northwestern Road, near James
vile, on the 18th.
JESSE LAWN and wife, while driving on the
18th, we're thrown from a carriage at Staine.
Vt. Both were fatally injured.
FIRE st Rushyille. H., destroyed property
valued ct $4,000, on the 18th.
Mrs. R. AsHUERsr BOWIE, died OF the 18th.
at Providence. r. l., from blood poisoning.
the result OF running silver of wood into her
foot while bowling.
AT Braceville, H., on the 18th, q car con-
tanning five men dropped to the bottom of a
niue shaft, distance OF 120 feet, seriously
woundlng three and fatally injuring two Of
them.
FIRE at Abba, Ia. on the 10th. DESTROYED
five buildings. Loss e25,000.
The Crescent Flour Mills, Augusta. Ga.
burned on the 18th. Loss $50, 900.
CONSTRUCTION train was run into and
smashed at Iron Mountain. Mich, op the 18th.
Pat Nee Of Janesville, yardmaster, and Patter-
son, fireman, were killed.
Oh the 10th, at Henrietta, Tex, john Nc
GDrray, while placing revolver under his pil
low accidentally shot and killed his wife.
MICHAEL BARNES fell overheard from the
yacht Alleen. on the I1th, being towed from
Chicago to Toronto, and was drowned.
ROBERT ECHLEIS, a brakeman, was caught
between the bumpers at Fond du Lac. ON the
18th and fatally injured.
The car works of the United States Rolling
Stock Company, at Chicago, H., burned on
the 18th. Loss $500, 600.
BUSH SoN's planning mills at Lexington
KY, were destroyed by an incendiary fire on
the 18th. Several adjoining cottages were also
destroyed. Aggregate loss S35, 900.
A FREIGHT train on the Iron Mountain Rail-
road was wrecked on the 18th at Cadet, Mo.
The engineer and fireman were killed and sev-
eral others seriously injured
A DESTRUCTIVE storm visited Pine Bluff.
Ark, on the 18th. unroo6ng houses, etc Cora
Lee, colored, was killed by flying debris.
WAGON run over a lfive-year-old named
Fred Dressler, st Chicago. on the 18th and
broke his neck. The driver, Albert Sc5nItz
was arrested.