The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-25
A sAw-MILL boiler exploded at Carmi,

ILL.,, on the llth, Killing three men.
A FIRE that started in Miss Gibbons
millinery store at Grand Rapids, Mich,
on the 18th, was not subdued until it
had caused $4,000 damage; insurance
$4,000.
The middle span of bridge on the
Cincinnati Eastern Narrow Gauge road
at, Batavia. o., fell on the 18th, while o
passenger train was passing over it,
The engine and two coaches went down.
Out of a passenger list of forty-tive,
four we're killed and six seriously hurt
FRENCHs wooden factory. at Fosters
Station, near Ann Arbor, Mich, burned
on the 17th. Loss $4,000.
THE entire town of Barnesville, GA,
was leveled by fire on the 18th. Over
500 bales of cotton were burned. The
losses will aggregate 100000.
Mrs. VIM. GRACE and an unknown
man were killed by lightning at Joliet,
ILL.,. on the 10th.
FIRE at Binghamton, n Y, on the
10Th destroyed the paper mills of Gary,
Nash & Ogden, and the -four mills of
George Q Woon q Co. Loss $4,000
A FIRE at Montello, Wis, on the
night of the 18th destroyed the bank
building, the finest structure in the
place, and number of business houses.
Loss estimated at S25,000
MISS LIZZIE WALLACE was cut to
pieces by train at Harrisburg, Pa, on
the 10Th. Harvey Foster, a checkman,
who attempted to save her had both
legs terribly mangled.
THIRTEEN business buildings and a
large number of shanties occupied by
colored people, at Chrisfeld, Nd, were
destroyed by fire ON the 10th. The
loss is heavy, but the figures are not
given.
THE wife and 3-year old child of Carl
Schroeder were burned to death in
prairie fire twenty miles north of James
town, d. t., on the 14th.
WHILE party of men were engaged
in drilling out an unexploded charge of
dynamite giant powder, near Blough's
cut, on the Pennsylvania road, on the
18th, the charge exploded. One man
was killed and three seriously hurt.
FIRE on the 18th, in row of build
ings at Norfolk, Va, occupied by whole
sale grocers and commission merchants,
caused damage to the extent of $45, 900.
A TRAIN ran down a market wagon at
Elkton, Md, On the 18th, killing Will
lam Prior and two children named
Katie Dushine and Robert Jones.
A LARGE portion of Lawrenceburg,
KY, was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
Loss $4,000, partly insured.
AN accidental fire at Wilmington, n.
c., on the 18th, burned Wilson's saw
mill. Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
The steamer De France, loaded with
cotton, burned to the waters edge at
Newbern, N. c., on the 18th. Loss
$4,000.
A CUNNING accident at Auburn, n. Y,
on the 18th, resulted fatally to John
Keogan, aged As.
Two men, named Hamilton and
Posey, were sufocated in a well at
Athens, Tenn, on the 18th.
G. A. JACKSON & Co. IS tobacco factory
the largest in Petersburg, Va, was con-
sumed by fire on the 18th. Loss $140,-
600; insurance 100000.
A COKE train on the Pittsburg, Vir-
ginia & Charleston Railroad was de-
rallied by striking a steer near Monon-
gahala City on the 18th. One man was
killed and two badly hurt.
A TENEMENT house occupied by six
families was partially destroyed by fire
ut Racine on the morning of the 18th.
Edward and Albert Gross were badly
burned, the latter, it is thought, fatally
Loss $500; insured.
WHILE carelessly handling shotgun
in Micklinburg County, Va, on the
18th, Thomas Jones blew out the brains
OF his brother Henry.
AT Cincinnati hospital on the 18th,
VIM. L. Thomas, an attendant, pulled
truck containing a patient named Chris.
Thurdhorst into an elevator shaft Both
were killed.
JOSEPH CARMEN, an engineer, wes
killed and fireman whose name is not
given was fatally injured on the 18th.
by the collision of two trains on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, at Camden, N.
j. Several passengers were hurt.