Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-17
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FIRE IN the third story Of Shelf eld'
paper mill at Sauge1ties, n. Y, Satur
day morning, caused damage of $40,
600.
HAILsToR1Is west of Mitchell. D. r.,
Saturday morning destroyed wheat in
some localities.
FORTY houses occupied b., laborers
burned at Lachine: Canada, Saturday,
involving a loss of $500 The honic-
less people are shelf aed in tents.
A PASSENGER train was wrecked Sat
urday between Jackson and Raymond,
Miss, by running over a cow. The mail
agent and several travellers were serious
ly wounded.
FIRE damaged the Hamilton rut Der
factory at Trenton, N. Y, $4,000.
Five firemen were caught by the falling
roof, and two seriously hurt.
KINGMAN & Co.'S large warehouse,
filed with agricultural Implements at
East St. Louis WAS destroyed by fire
Sunday Loss, $4,000; insurance $780,
600.
THE premature discharge of cannon,
at Centralia, Mo-, Friday killed two
men.
THE destruction by fire Of the Newark
Ohio Machine Company's works Satur-
day morning entailed a loss of about
100000, with 5000, 00Oinsuranse.
FRED P. CHAMBERLAIN, the young
Chicago lawyer who shot himself ac-
cidently at Liberty. Neb., Wednesday,
died Saturday morning. The remains
will be brought to FreepOrt, ILL.,, where
his parents reside for burial.
RICH HILL and Walnut, Mo, were
visited early Friday morning by a tor
nado. The Presbyterian and Methodist
Episcopal Churches, were wrecked and
other structures unroOfed. Several per-
sons were slightly injured.
A WINDsTORM swept over Macon,
Sangamon, and Christian Counties Sat
urday, which destroyed much property
aud severely injured number of PEG
pie.
The grand stand on the race track at
Butte NJ. T., collapsed under a crowd of
500 persons Friday. A boy was KILLED,
the Mayor was seriously hurt, and two
persons fatally wounded. Others had
legs and arms fractured.
ONE-FOURTH of the horse-tails at the
fair grounds in Columbu Ohio, were
burned. Lily j., the trotting mare, with
record of 2:254, and valued at $1,000,
was burned. She was owned by G. L.
Stewart, of Chillicnth. The loss on the
stables is not over 50, 900.
The fire in the Toledo co. lumber
yards, burned over twelve acres, des-
trOying property belonging to the Mich.
al -PnOyIanH KoIIu Prot
& Nelson, and Holland & Co. Aid was
asked of Adrian. Monroe, Detroit, Nor
walk ard Fremont. Engines from those
cities were soon on the ground and sue
ceeded in extlnguishing the flames. The
total loss is about 100000 and the in
surance is $780,
SOUTHWEST of Decatur Ill Saturday
night a cyclone ravaged the district,
thirty houses and barns being leveled,
horses killed, and orchards and crops
ruined. Near Body, the Cumberland
Presbyterian church ind parsonage
were wrecked, entajling loss of $685.
600. Two children were fatally hurt,
and some persons were rendered home
less.
A BANGOR, Me-, special says almost
all of the northeast Maine is in flames.
A dispatch from Patten says the air is
full of cinders and ashes. The sun is
obscured and the horizon limited by
day, and night is made grand and ter
rible by the distant rear of the great
seas of flames. One great fire has for
three weeks been sweeping the country
between the ST. John and Alegash
rivers. Another big blaze between
Greenville and the West branch of the
Penobscot, has been burning for ten
days. Last Sunday a third fire started
on the Wassattaquoik, aud is sweeping
the timber land north between town
ships 4 and s. The damage can hardly
be reckoned. The fires are fed by the
great tracts of timber blown down bv
the terrible gales last fall Hundreds
of millions of feet of valuable timber
then Frustrated have dried out in the
sun and are now at the mercy of the
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