Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-12
FOUR CHILDREN DROWNED BY THE UPsErr1Nc
OF HOUSE.

FOUR CHILDREN DROWNED BY THE UPsETTING
OF A HOUSE.
ST. LOUIS, No., March ia dispatch
from Helena says the first loss of human
life by the food in that region occurred
by the upsetting of house twelve miles
south, in which were six adults and four
children. The latter were drowned and the
former rescued by party of hunters, who
took them off the roof after they had chung
to it for three days. The st. Francis swamp
contains hundreds of horses, mules and
cattle standing up to their threats in water,
their owners being unable to rescue them.
Many carcasses are floating about.
legislative committee are examining
into the condition of the people in the
eVsrtiowed district, and will report in favor
of giving state aid to actual sufferers
BURNING OF A DEADwooD sHANrY AND LIVES
LOST.
DRADwooD, D. T., March 11.-Wood &
SootFs lodging she'll at Brownsville wood
camp, was burned last night. Jas. Chal-
msrs, Thos. Finless, r. g. Wright, Lewis
Hanson, Peter Hanson, A. Tenrsctiffs,
Harvey Wood, ". II. Andrews, Charles
Hammontree, Fred T. Peters and Sam'l
Hays were burned to death and four others
whose names are not learned, seriously in
jured.
The building was enc st0ry with loft,
where the men slept, and which was acces-
sible by ladder. It was usually occup led
by thirty dodgers, bat last night only fif-
teen were in the house. There was but one
window IN the loft, and bat only four badly
burned were saved by jumping. The fire
| is supposed to have originated from kind
lings left near the stove ON which fire fell.
Peters slept on the ground hoer within five
feet of the door, but the flames spread 20
rapidly he could not escape. The bodies
OF eleven victims were eharrsd beyond
| recognition.
FIGURING MILL BURNED.
ROBINSON, ILL.,, March ia fire early
this morning destroyed Collins & Kinks
Touring mills; ten thousand bushels
grain and three cars loaded with wheat
standing on the track beside the mill were
also consumed. The loss is $4,000; in
sured for $4,000.
TkhHlBLE SUFFERING, SICKNESS AND NOR
TALLY IN OHIO RIVER TOWNS.
1NDIANAPoLIs, March 1.-THE commit
tee IN charge OF supplies for the sufferers
on the Ohio river, south of Evansville, re-
turned Saturday. They report great suf-
fering and sickness in all the river towns.
At Newfoundland, Ind, village OF 1000
inhabitants, thirty were destitute, fifteen
sick and two dead, from pneumonia.
At Uniontown, KY, with q population of
$500, nearly everybody has suffered, and
there were fifty deaths.
In ShaUOaotovyr I'll SO0 nao1Ia
destitute. depending on the public for pro-
visions and medicine, 125 are sick, and
twenty-four have died of pneumonia, ca
tarrahl fever and dyssntery. The latter
| disease has almost reached an epidemic.
About 125 houses have been swept away or
damaged. At least 500 persons are liable
| to disease.
At Caseyville, Ill, where no returns had
been furnished, there were forty-fve cases
| of sickness, the most of typhoid fever, and
one death. One hundred houses had been
under water and half of them ruined
Rose Claire, Ill, had been entirely Gov
cred by water. Tho committee found q
family OF ten persons, the father and moth
i or sick, living in the engine room of an old
sawmill.
New Liberty, Ill, had been entirely sub
| merged, and sickness to an alarming sx-
| tent prevailed.
This Information is obtained from rsp-
| Unable physicians and members of the
board Of trade relief committee which this
city sent to distribute supplies.
Gov. Porter and the committee of the
board of trade are now on an inspection
toEr from Lawrenceburg to Csifo en- the
Ohio river, with boat load of provisions
FIRE AND LOSS OF LIPE.
QUEBEC, March ia special says: At
New Richmond, Bonavsnture county, John
AcQuarter's house was burned, with his
wife and child. Pierre Parent, aged
sighty-thrse years, died soon after leaving
the burning house.