Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-04
ACCIDENTS g.

The damage by forest fires in the dis
trict of Machias, Me, is 100000.
WILLIAM Cox, ut Danville, Ky, shot
at two mcn Tuesday night who were
trying to break into the house, and kill
ed his mother.
THE bridge spanning the Delaware ut
Calhoun street, Trenton, burned Thurs
day, causing loss Of 100000.
FIRE in the third story of Sheffield
paper mill at Saugerties, N. Y, Satur
day morning, caused damage of $40,
600
a HURRICANE, blowing at the rate of
sixty miles an hour, did considerable
damage at Omaha, Wednesday, Lowell
ing trees, fences, and outbuildings, and
blowing the COrnices from some struc-
lures.
) 4 STORM at Council Bluffs, Wednesday,
completely d molished the exhibition
building at the race track, blew down
shade trees all over the city, and unroof-
ed some structures. Doris circus tent
was leveled, the canvass being badly
rent, and the wardrobes and parapher-
MALTA drenched with water.
As the steamer Pavonia, from Boston,
was entering her dock Wednesday her
cylinder burst. The engineer was killed,
and many Others were injured. The
Pavouia's passengers wc"e landed .efore
the accident.
..HE derrick on the tower of Gtace
Church, New York, fell Tuesday, fatally
injuring two men, one of whom was
suspended 165 feet above the pavement
for long time before being rescued.
Heavy stones crashed through the roof
of the structure, causing $4,000 dam
age.
Four laborers were killed whilst en-
gagged in digging sand in pit south of
Omaha, by the caving in of a bank.
One of them, Thomas Dougherty, be-
longing to Apple River, 10 Daviess
county, Ill.
KINGMAN & Co.'S large warehouse.
filled with agricultural implements, at
East st. Louis was destroyed by fire
Sunday. Loss, $50, zoo; insurance S20,
600.
On Saturday evening the 6:20, pas
scnger train from the north on the Rock
Island branch of the Chicago, Burling-
ton \ Quincy, at a crossing i'll the north
ern part of Monmouth struck a wagon
driven by Robert buchanan, killing him
instantly.
! THE main builling of the Fairbanks
/ & Duenweg distillery at Terre Haute,
Ind, burned Sunday afternoon, COM
| pletely destroying the machinery and
burni&g 5000 gallons of liquor in the
still and tanks. The loss is estimated at
between 100000 and S125, 200 and the
insurance SOS, ,000 in fifty-two COM
panies
| ALEXANDER MURRAY, farmer resid-
| ing near Albany, Green couaty, was bit
/ ten by a mad horse on the hand and will
probably die. Murray's dog, a large
! hound, went mad recently and bit one
/ of splendid span of horses. This
! horse bit his mate and the latter bit
Murray. The dog and the Lorses have
/ been killed.
/ THE damage by "Wednesday nights
! storm in Maryland is now placed at
/ $500, 900. the heaviest disasters occur
( ripg in Carroll. Cecil, Frederick. and
Washington Counties. The Mccullough
Iron Company'S rolling mills at Row
laudville alone were damaged 100000,
Christie 4 Logau's canning establish
ment, in Cecil County, with its machin-
cry, was swept away, together with 50,-
600 cans of goods.
\ WAUsAU, WIS, dispatch of the Goth
says the boiler in j. c. Smiths planning
mill exploded with terrible force. scat
tering the boiler house and machinery
and portions of the mill in every direc-
ton. There were in the mill at the time
eleven men and a laborer locking for
work. The engineer and foreman of the
null, Geo. Brown, late of Chippewa
Falls, vas in the engine-room and was
horribly mangled about the face and
head. He lived but > few minutes.
August Stretch, fireman. was terribly
mangled and thrown about fifty feet,
Every hone in his body was broken.
John Rux, a laborer looking for work in
the mill was so badly injured that he
will lose both legs Flying missiles kill
ed Mary Crocker, who was standing on
the porch in the rear of the house, one
hundred feet away. Ske was mangled
| terribly, dying in few moments there.
after. A portion of boiler weighing
about a ton crashed against house
three hundred feet away, demolishine
, it, but injuring no one. Tha planning
mill office, near the mill, was complete
ly gutted, the front and rear walls beine
blown out The shock was awful, jar
ring the whole city.