The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-07-05
CASUALTIES,

| JOHN GILBERT, brakeman. was killed by the
cars at Hokah, Minn., on the 2Sth.
| A half keg of powder standing uncovered in
blacksmith shop at Seymour. Ia, on the 28th,
was exploded by spark, burning Joseph Hen
nemap, the smith, apd James Sherwood, by
! stander in frlghtful manner.
EDWARD MORRISON, aged 70, and John Dunn
and Edward Dawes badly injured by the falling
| of scaffold at st. Louis on the 2Sth.
BosrwIcK's s button factory, at Milford, Conn,
| burned on the 2Sth. Loss $4,000.
| A BOY named John Dunlap, was behesded by
| q railway train, at Brighton Station, o., on the
| 2Sth.
| FAIRBANKS Il DUENwIa's distlllery at Terra
Haute, Ind, on the 29th. Loss 100000.
| FIRE at the corner Of Missouri Avenue and
Third Street, st. Louis, On the 10Th, caused a
| loss of $50, 900.
BOILER exploded in a stove factory at W =
nut Ridge, Ark, on the 27th killing J. d.
| Flock, the proprietor, and the engineer, name
| unknown.
MICHAEL kEATING, an employe Of the Chica-
| go & North western road, lost both legs by be-
ing run over at Bark River, Mich, on the 9th.
| He cannot live.
| FRANK BROWN and Edward Fillmann, of
Monticello, o., fell from freight train while it
| was passing over railway bridge at Denmark
| o., on the 27th and struck the earth below,
| distance of seventy feet. The former was in
stantly killed and the latter fatally injured.
The schooner A. Babcock sank off Barnegat.
| N. J., on the 9th. and Capt. Babcock. four sea-
| men and the mates wife were drowned.
| SEVEN laborers were drowned by the upset
| ting of boats in a storm at Carson's Inlet. N.
j., on the 9th.
| BOY named Herbert White was disem-
| boweled by buzz-saw at Horton, Mich, on
| the 9th.
sArL-BoAT containing party of five cap
| sized off Pictou, Nova Scotia. on the 26th,
| drowning Mr.. Taylor and Miss Henderson.
Gas tank exploded in a coal mine at Monon-
| gahela City, Pa, on the 26th, killing one man
| and badly burning another.
FIRE, on the 26th, destroyed the building of
| Cracken & Brewster, furniture dealers, New
| Orleans, causing loss of $500, 900.
The boiler in Smiths Planning Mill at Wan.
| sau, Wis, exploded, on the 25th, fatally injur-
| ing George Brown, engineer and foreman,
| August Stretch, fireman, and John Ru1 Mary
| Crocker, living IN house near by, was instant
| ly killed by flying missile and several others
| seriously hurt.
| KILLED by lightning on the 25th At Muir
| rayville, Pa, boy named Wolf; at Salem o.,
Minnie Westphor: at Waynesburg, Pa, Josie
! Keener and VIM. RAIDER were seriously injured.
| ALEX MURRAY, a farmer residing near Alba
| ny. Green County. Wis, was fatally bitten by
| mad horse on the 25th.
THREE frame buildings were burned at Gle
| burne, Tex, on the 25th. Five stores were in
volved. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
| The house of a farmer named Geo. Brooks,
near Neilsville. Wis, was struck by lightning on
the 25th. One of Brooks daughters, aged IA years,
| was killed and her body burned with the house
| Another daughter was partially paralyzed by
| the electricity, but managed TO escape.
AT Coal Bluff, Ia, on the 25th, eleven per-
| sons were poisoned by eating ice cream. Two
| died.
CLOUD burst over Henry Lintern's farm,
near Cerro Gordo, H., on the oath, washing out
| 100 acres of corn.
| EIGHT men and one boy were buried by the
caving in of an unfinished railway tunnel near
Steubenville, o., on the oath. Four were fatal
| ly injured.
PASSENGER train on the shamokin Railroad
| collided with freight engine, near Sunbury,
Pa, on the oath. VIM. Malick, train dig
| patcher, Schultz, fireman, and tramp were
| killed
WILLIE TRADER was drowned in the Illinois
River while bathing on the oath. His father
| was on the shore, but lost hispresence of mind.
while within ten feet OF him.
THEo. STANLEY, aged II. and VIM. Benning-
| ton, aged rs. were drowned pear Plainyille.
| Ind, on the 24th, while bathing
Two daughters of James Fiske we're drowned
| in creek near Topeka, Kss., on the oath, by
| the oyerturnlng OF wagon.
DR. A W. SALLsDE Reedsburg, Wis died
on tine 24th from the effects Of poison
ALBERT K. KIMBALL. of Waukesha Wis
aged Is years, was run over and fatally injured
at Eagle on the 23d.
EDWARD REDDICK, aged years, WAS drowned
at La Sale, ILL.,, on the 23d, while bathing.
Mrs. Robert Freeman. aged rs years, fell dead
ON hearing of the accident
MELTON Bios shirt factory at Montreal.
burned on the 23d. Loss 10000 A man
| named Belmore was killed.
BURNS, TREAT & Co.'S Touring mill at Le-
mars. Ia, was destroyed by fire on the night of
the 2lst. Loss above insurance. $50, 900.
On the 23d premature blast in Brady's tun-
mel, on the Hempfeld extension Of the Balti
more Ono Railroad. fatally injured Roger
Kane and badly injured another man.
JoHG STUMP. Is years OF age, OF Point Pleas
| ant, W. Va, blew into the muzzIe of a gun. ON
the sd. while holding the trigger back with
bis foot- Stump WAS blown into eternity.
CaATFIELD WooD, papsr dealers at Cincin-
| natl suffered loss Of $4,000 through fire on