Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-10-02
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

A GREAT conAagration has occurred
in the city Of Zeitoun, Syria. Four hum
bred houses We're destroyed.
NEAR White Cloud, Mich, Saturday
morning MeLane's saw-mill, twenty
/ houses occupied by employees, and mil
4 lion feet Of lumber were destroyed by
fire
A HURRICANE in the Quebec section
blew down chimneys and trees, and did
other damage.
THE steamer Dacotah sunk in the
| Missouri River near Providence Thurs
day morning, She is valued at $24, 0o0,
and insured for $4,000.
A CONFEDERATION has laid waste the
greater portion of the village of Bronson.
Mich, on the line of the Michigan South
err and Lake Shore railroad. Loss
about $4,000.
LUMBER, buildings and other proper
ty, aggregating $240, 600 in value. were
destroyed by a contlagration at Nepon-
set, near Boston, to-day.
A BOILER explosion in Writer'S brew
cry at Elizabeth, n. j., Tuesday even
ing fired the building, which, with its
contents and an adjoining grocery, was
destroyed, the loss reaching $25, 900.
Two men are said to have been killed.
NEAR Brattleboro, Vt, Tuesday car
Of mixed train left the track drag
ging four other care, including a pas
senger coach, down steep embank
ment. Two or three persons were fatally
and number eighty injured.
FIRE at Eau Claire, Wis, Tuesday
evening, caused an explosion in an out
building Of . drug store, in which ex-
plosives We're housed, one man being
killed, another fatally hurt, and three
burned about the face and hands
Two freight trains on the Hannibal
road collided near New Cambria, Mo.
The trains were wrecked and three naen,
including the engineer of the west
bound train, were killed, and the con-
ductor Of the west-b0und and one other
were fatally injured. The names are
not yet learned. 1t is reported the
west-bOund taain was running contrary
to orders.
A WESTWARD bound passenger train
on the Canadian Grand Trunk railway
was wrecked last night by being pre-
cipitated down an embankment of
twenty feet, near Pickering. Ontario.
Two sleeping cars were destroyed by
fire. Several persons We're injured, but
none killed.
THE Golden Eagle Clothing House at
St. Louis, was burned Saturday morn
Ing, resulting in a loss of S150,000 with
500 600 insurance. w. ID. Rodgers 81
CO.. carriage factory at Philadelphia,
was damaged $4,000. The Merchants
Wooden Mill ut Dedham, Mass. was de
stroyed, the loss reaching $50, 600 Fire
in carriage works, grist mill, and lum
Der yard at Mcdonald, Pa, did damage
estinaated at $25, 600.
A PIrTsBURG, Pa, dispatch Of the
2jth, says a disastrous fire broke out on
the south side about 1880 tonight, and
at midnight it was still raging Abel
Smith Il Co. S extensive glass works
covering an area of two acres, together
with Robinson, Rea a. Co.'S machine
shop and five frame dwellings already
We're consumed, and as the buildings in
The vicinity are mostly built of Gombus-
tiDle material, il is feared the flames
will get beyond tho control Of the fire
department, Fortunately the wind is
not very high. The loss so far is estl-
mated az $500, 600
lHE property OF tne a. 4 0ledfhS
Lumber company at Neponset, Mass,
was nearly all destroyed by fire The
property burned includes three-fourths
of IL stock of 100000 feet Of finished
hard pine and cypress lumber, on
which there will be loss of $l5O,00O;
four buildings, valued at $40, 600; sew
eral wharves, valued at 100000, max
ing the total $240.0O0. There is some
insurance.