The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-07-07
CASUALTIES.

TIE cold Arcade" the Dexter Yarn Com
pany's mill and several other buildings burned
al Pagtucket, r. L., on tue 1st Loss S115,
000
READ & CLAssoN's shoe factory at South Alb
iugton, Mass, burned on the 1st Loss $175.-
,jC.
AN outgoing express train OF the Wabash
Road, collided with a street car in Chicago on
Il . 1T. or thirteen persons in the car only
one escaped uninjured, and several are seri-
oI-'y jared. The lamps III the cal exploded
aud set ire to the debris. A misunderstand-
III, OF the signal by the street car driver was
the cause.
UN tne ist y coal train with passenger
coach attached broke in two gong up steep
II de ! 2 Bradford, Pa. The severed section
immt dia'oly STATED down grsde, and, while
OH 90 miles an hour, cOiided with the
engine o. IN approaching coal tram, Seven
weic killed.
A FAMILY of five, father, mother and three
ch idrCu, we're drown d at Madison. Ind, by
the upsattins of skff-
THE steamer Bright Light, plying on tho
Missouri River, collided with the bridge at
Bonneville, Ia, on the 30th ana sunk. Pas
sengers and crew were rescued.
A LtFAYErrE, Ipd man named Blerloin, on
his way to Germany, died suddenly on a train
near st. Thomas, Ont, On the 29tb.
MICHAEL SULLIVAN, an old Chicago fireman,
WAS severely injured at a fire on the 24th, from
the effects of which he died on the 29th.
PERCY JEFFERs, a 10-year-od daughter of
j. s. Jeffers, jumped into bin of wheat at
her fathers elevator, at Shelbyyillc, Ind, on
the 29Lb, and suffocated.
NEAR Malta Bend. Mo-, on the 29th, Mr.
Attic Brown was accidentally killed while pick
ing up shotgun.
THE captain of vessel arriving at Hough-
ton, Mich. on the 28th, reports the death by
starvation of the keeper of Passage Island
light house. The occupants of the island
we've the keeper, his wife and two children.
Provisions ran short aud the keeper took sick
The son started for neighboring island
several weeks ago to procure food and doe
tor, but had not returned.
DURING a fire in the warehouse of J. II. Ash
down, on the Goth, number of kegs of powder
exploded, lnjuring twenty persons, some Of
them fatally.
AT Milan, Tenn, on the 2sth, Mrs. Pope was
stung on the nose by bee, from the effects OF
which she died IN few minutes.
THE boiler III the sawmill of Ives & Hale, at
Whittesey, Wis, exploded on the 28th The
mil was destroyed. and Donaid Garrisb, engi-
neer, John Stouer and John Spencer, colored,
were killed.
AT Wilmin gton, Delaware. on the 2Sth, the
digester in the fertilizing works of WaItop.
Whann & Co., exploded, injuring two men,
one fatally.
One of the docks at C.. II. Hackley & Co. =
mill, at Muskeeon, Wis, on which was piled
500. coo feet of lumber gave way ON the 28th.
Twenty men were at wolk on the dock at the
time; three are missing, and supposed to have
been drowned.
On the 28th freight train on the North
Western Road went through bridge between
Sparta aud Norwalk. The fireman was caught
in the wreck and scalded TO death.
TWENTY THREE collieries at Ashland, Penn.
were forced to suspend operations on the 2Stb
owing to heavy floods.
STORMS damaged property in The vicinity of
Bangor, Penn, on the 18th, to the extent of
100000.
Doc RusE drove his team into gravel pit
ard broke his neck, near Joliet, H., on the
2eth.
AT Nashville. Tenu., on the 9th, several
business places burned. Loss S32, 900.
The bodies of Thomas Hickey and William
Mccarthy, two of the crew of the Wells urt
that went down in the May storm. were picked
9th. R ~ " ~
JOSEPH VoIGHr. while bathing near Chca
| 90. H.. on the 9th. was drowned.
| The steamer RotbeSay, plying on the st
| Lawrence. sunk near Thousand Island Park
! on the 9th The crew and passengers wert
| rescued.
| On the 26th a Northern Pacific gravel train
with over 100 Cinnamon on board. collided a
/ Heron's Siding, Montana, with a wood train
| 1he engineer of the gravel train and IS Chi
| namen were killed.
| GEoRGE SHEFFIELD, while crossing the C.
3 and Q. Road at Chicago, on the 26th, wa
run over ard killed.
NICHOLAS DRoUN came ID contact with q fly
wheel in a spo5e factory at Englewood. H.. o.
TIE 25th aud was killed.
OS The 2ith the levee broke at Chester. Ran
So'ph County, Illinois, and flooded 2d,o0
acres Of grain in St. Marys Bottoms Nesrl
all lie bottom land between Prices Landin
| ana Cairo IS flooded.