The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-04-14

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twelve miles from Winona; Mimi, burned on
| me 6th INST. Loss between $45, 000 aud $780,
/ 600; insurance $4,000.
| On the 7th inst, near Clinton, Jones County,
fifteen miles from Macon, Ga, 9-year-old son
of Buck Jordan. while playing with an old gun,
| accidentally killed Mrs Wheeler, an old lady,
and wounded her daughter, Mrs. Allen and
| the latter's baby.
| ORR & Co.'S Mount Vernon paper-mill, Troy,
n. y, burned on the 7th inst. Loss $40, 600:
insurance $4,000
IHE agricultural implement house of Geo.
W. Rouse d Son, Peoria, ILL.,, burned on the
tth INST. Loss $1,000; insurance $27. 500.
FIRE at Sioux City, IA, on the 7th inst,
gutted Peavy q Stephens furniture store. Loss
on stock Sl5, ,OU0; insurance $4,000. Loss on
building $4,000; insured.
AT the Cincinnati Cooperage Works, on the
9TH INST, an emery wheel burst instantly kill
| ing George Latt and William Huber, and
slightly lnjuring William Carder.
BOILER exploded in the factory of George
bishop at Newbern, N. c., on the 9th inst.
killing the engineer, Abraham Brown, and the
fireman, Frank Emmett. The house of Isaiah
Wood, 100 yards distant, was DESTROYED and
Mrs. Wood fatally injured. Two employees of
the factory were hurt by fTlug b .Icks. Half
the factory was demolished and all the houses
III the vicinity were more or less damaged.
OK the 9th inst. freight train on the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe Road, near La Junta,
Col, broke the couplings of the tender, strlk-
Ing the bulkhead of the locomotive with great
force, causing the steam to escape. Joseph
Homer, the fireman, jumped from the engine
and was instantly killed. Elmer Dickson. q
brakeman, died in short time from scalds
Joseph Wellard, the engineer, was also scalded,
but VIII probably recover.
A SEVERE wind, rain and hailstoIm was CEN
tral III Southern Arkansas on the Sd inst. do
ing considerable damage to buildings and blow
ing down many trees. Along the line of the
Hot Springs and Malvern Railroad a cyclone
developed, and the force of the wind lifted a
passenger coach from the track and sent it
down an embankment. Several persons were
bruised, but none seriously. Two buildings
we've blown down at Alexander Station
on the Iron Mountain Railroad, north of Nal
vern, Ind. The effects of the storm are visi-
be as far as Benton. The tornado was espe-
claly disastrous at Mabellvalle. ten miles south
OF Little Rock, on the Iron Mountain r abroad
dozen residences and as many stables were
blown down. The railroad in the neighborhood
is so covered with fallen timber as to be impas-
bic to travel No lives were lost.
An accident occurred on the Canadian Pa
c6c Railroad between Emerson and Winnipeg
"a bbc JUL lIlSl., W WHICH Engineer hODIlSOn
was killed. An express train from the south
ran into freight at Niverville when the latter
was trying to get on to a siding. The fireman
CT the express jumped, but the engineer stood
at his post and was killed. One of the passen-
gers was severely injured and several others
slight huft.
JOHN A. WILSON, wife, and two daughters
were burned TO death in their house three
miles from Hartwick, Otsego County, n. Y,
early on the 5th inst.
\ DESTRUCTIVE fire on the night of the 4tb
inst. resulted in tEc almost total loss of the
business portion of Kentland, Ind. Twenty
Trims were burned out. Loss 100000, half
of which covered by insurance
THE stables of Jesse Holbert, near Goshen
n. Y, were burned with forty-four valuable
cows and horses.
A BOY threw a lighted match into the man
hole of sewer at Baltimore, on the 4th INST.
when an explosion followed, The damage to
the street and houses is probably $40, 600 The
bodies of two children were found IN the deb
17S. They were playing III the street at the
time of the explosion.
Two boys, Clayton Colwell and Chas Gard
ner, were drowned while boating in Maple
River, at Iona, Mich, on the 4th inst
JENNIE POTTER, Edna Murphy and Luiu
Hewitt, children, were drowned while plaving
Oh tle ice near NOlaIle, n. l.
a FIRE at Cadist Trigg County, KY, on the
I'd INST, destroyed seven business houses and
large livery stable. Loss $50. 900; no insur-
ance.
NEGRO negro cabin at Shelbyville. Tenn.
burned on the 4th inst, and two children of
Harden Hughes, colored, aged respectively s
and years, were 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 $4,000 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 burnsd
cary at Wiliamsport, Pa. The loss is estimat
ed at from S75, 200 to SSj.O0O.
FIRE at Eland Junction, Wis. on the ID
INST, destroyed lumber to the value of s35.
900. The material was owned by Badger &
Gould, and was insured for $4,000
The boiler in one of Griffin's Mills. at Moss
Point, Miss. exploded On the Sd inst, Nine
men were killed and ten wounded.
A GAS explosion in the cellar Of the Palace
Hotel, San Francisco, injured number of men
badly. 1t 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 tbe
1st inst. Loss 100000; insurance S71 .00O
Seven'y-tiye hands were thrown out of en-
ployment.
JOHN LEONARD and John Murphy, both of
Salem, o., stepped off a 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 $50, 900 by fire on
the I'd inst.
Tue officers of the government steamer Lilv.
distributing relief to the sufferers by the late
foods on the Ohio River, say that 81 ,OOO, 600
will not cover the loss sustained bv The over
flows, between Louisville and Cairo. hun
dred farmers have from 10 to Is inches of fine
sand deposited on their entire area, and fences
and ut-buildlngs, besides grain and Other
crops have been sWent AWAY