Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-04-11

the street and houses is probably $4,000. The
bodies of two children were found III the deb
rs. They were playing in the street at the
time OF the explosion.
Two boys, Clayton Colwei and ChaE Gard
ncr, were drowned while boating in Maple
River, at Iona, Mich, on the 4th inst.
JENNIE POTTER, Edna Murphy and Lulu
Hewitt, children, were drowned while playing
on the ice near volatile, N. Y.
FIRE at Cadist, Trigg County, Ky., on the
I'd inst, destroyed seven business houses and
large livery stable. Loss S2O,0O0; no insur-
ance.
ANEaRo negro cabin at Shelbyville. Tenn,
burned on the 4th inst, and two children of
Harden Hughes, colored, aged respectively
and years, we're burned to death. Their
mother had locked them in.
The central portion of the village Of Led
yard, opposite Kaukauna, Wis.,, burned on the
Sd inst. Loss between 900 and $4,000.
The Villas House was one Of the buildings de-
stroyed.
FLOODS in Bear Lake Valley washed out six
bridges of the Oregon Short Line Railway.
SIX brick and two frame buildings burned
early at Williamsport, Pa. The loss is estimat-
ed at from $75, 900 to $85.000.
FIRE at Eland Junction, Wis. on the Cd
INST, destroyed lumber to the value OF $685.
600. The material was owned by Badger g.
Gould, and was insured for 5000
The boiler in one of Grifin's Mills, at Moss
Point, Miss. exploded on the Sd inst. Nine
men were killed and ten wounded.
GAS explosion in the cellar of the Palace
badly. It is feared the wounds of Engineer
Ross, of the fire department, and Capt. White,
OF the patrol, will result fatally.
Two large leather-board mills and outbuild-
ings at Leominster, Mass, owned and man.
aged by Col. J. A. Harwood, burned on the
1st inst. Loss $100,O00; insurance $71,OOO.
seventy-dve hands were thrown out of en-
ployment.
JOHN LEONARD and John Murphy, both of
Salem, o., stepped off train on the I'd inst,
at Alliance Junction upon parallel track, and
were struck by another train and killed.
The Glastonbury, Conn.,, manufacturing
company's mill was damaged $3.50, ,OCO by fire on
the I'd inst.
Tue officers of the government steamer Lily,
distributing relief to the sufferers by the late
floods on the Ohio River, say that 81 1000, 900
will not cover the loss sustained by The over
flows, between Louisville and Cairo. A hun
dred farmers have from 10 to Is inches of fine
sand deposited on their entiro area, and fences
and out-buildlngs, besides grain and other
crops have been swept away.
In collision on the Vandalia Railroad VIM
Stewart, a fireman, was killed, and VIM. Bran
| nan, the engineer, fatally injured.
LILLE YoUNG, a young lady of 16, accident
ally poisoned herself by taking carbolic acid in:
| stead Of brandy to relieve feeling Of sickness.
The Grown distillery, at Pekin, ILL.,, burned
on the 3lst ult. Loss $4,000; insurance
| $21, ,0O0.
TOW of thirty-seven barges loaded with
coal broke from it's moorings at Pittsbnrg and
started off down the river, sinking steamers
| and other barges and destroying altogether
| about $50, 900 worth of property.
The boilers of the tow-boat Polar Star ex-
| ploded opposite Belmont, Mo. Six men were
| killed.
TEES & Co., undertakers, Sharp & McKin-
! leau, printer, and J. Flanagan, livery stable,
! were burned out at Montreal on the 31st ut.
| Loss from 1000 to 100000,
The Diamond Mine at Braidwood, ILL.,, was
the scene of excitement, on the LIST inst, as the
! fact that the bodies discovered were to be
| brought out drew large crowd, and when
about 3 o'clock the news was brought up that
| the party who had gone down after the bodies
had been imprisoned in the roadway while put
| ting the bodies in the cofins the excitement on
| top was intense. A party was at once sent in
search for them. When the second party Lad
nearly reached the point where the bodies were
discovered, they found q large pile of stones
had caved in and blocked up the narrow pas.
sageway. Tie stones were dug out and the
miners liberated from their dusky prison. One
| of the men was so prostrated that he had to be
carried home. The rescued party, when they
reached the top, said they woald never 60 in
again. Other searchers who have been work.
ing there, say they will not go down again, and
it is thought no further search will be made, az
no man can be found willing to enter the mine
The six bodies were taken out and placed in the
| morgue, when crowd passed through ano
viewed them. They are identified only by neal
relatives by the clothes they wore.
SEVEN more bodies were discovered on The
3Oth, in the extreme part of the northwes
entry of the Braldwood mine. They we're found
on the timbers, where the unfortunates prob
ably crowded, thinking they could escape the
terrible flood. They are in high state of de-
composition, and it is thought that the only
way they can be handled is to shovel them uI
| in bags. It will be: several days before they
can be taken out on account of the entrance be-
ing so small it will be impossible to get then
through. The searchers, whose duty it is t
clear the roadway. are making slow progress
; having only gone about 200 yards. No bodies
have yet been found underneath the stone.
FIRE at Gatesville, Texas, destroyed build
ings and stock valued at $38,000; insurance
$4,000.
1HoMsoN's chemical works. Baltimore, wal
destroyed by fire on the 29th. The damage is
estimated at $50, 900; fully insured.