The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-04-12

werp for New York, was sunk about twenty miles
from Halifax, On the 4th. She had ninety
passengers, mostly steerage, and crew of
thirty nine. Only the captain and eight others
ON board were saved.
BRoDERIcK Il BAsooM's wire rope factory, in
ST. Louis, No., burned on the 4th. Loss S15,-
900; insured
A BOILER explosion in W. II. Healy's -four
ing mil, at Biairsyill>, Pa, on the 4th, wrecked
the building aud seriously Djured Peter Stump,
fireman, and Capt. Healy. the proprietor.
EDWARD HOUSE, of North East, N. T., while
| shooting at mark on the 4th, shot his wife
The iron railroad ferry steamers Michigan
| Central and Great Western collided at Detroit,
| on the evening of the. I'd. Both were badly
damaged, and will be laid mp week for re-
pairs.
REPORTS of a disastrous tornado on the I'd,
come f1om Chattanooga, Tenn, and Hunts
vile. Ala. The death list is quite large
A. TALoNER, of Chicago, Frank Bosailton,
James Ginberry, aud two others were killed by
| blasting accident at Port Arthur, on the
| Canadian Pacific Railroad, on the I'd inst.
ANOTHER victim OF the Cincinnati riot died
on the 3D. swelling the death list to forty nine
The wounded nurlDer 1873.
The steamer Rebecca Everingham burnej to
the waters edge forty miles below Columbus,
Ga, on the Sd. Nne of the passengers and
crew were lost and many of those who escaped
we're badly burnst.
A SERIOUS railroad accident occurred near
Beeville, H., on the Sd. John Comstock was
killed and twenty-siX wounded.
OAKvILIE, Ind, was torn up by tornado,
on the evening of the 1st inst. Five persons
were killed and about fifty wounded.
The Michigan saw works. at East Saginaw,
vpr tpt al by fire. tha
100000; insurance 800, distributed
among twenty-four companies.
WILLIAM BARNETT, aged so, of Coitsville
Township. Mahoning County, was struck by
lighuting and instantly killed on the morning
OF the I'd.
PITTsBURG. was struck by severe wind
storm on the morning of the ID. Considerable
damage was done and number of persons H.
ured.
A PASSENGER train was wrecked near Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. on the LIST, and fireman
lied.
THE Otterville flour mills near Jerseyville,
H., burned on the morning of the 3D. Loss
S15, 600; insurance 5000.
THOMAS McGRAIH, second steward of the
steambarge G. 81. Starke, was lost overheard on
Lake Michigan, on the ID.
The initial death by lightning occurred on
the Isl. Inomas Milton, farmer near Lin
coin, Neb., wasinstantly killed and..a companion
named Cassody was Sc verely, if not fatally in
jured.
EIGHT business buildings and one residence,
were destroyed by fire at Perryville, Ind. on
the night Of the 31st ult.
FIRE on the morning of the 1st DESTROYED
several buildings at Calais, Ne. Loss S12, 000.
PHILIP CLARK, member of the Signal Ser
vice Corps was drowned recently while swim
ming in river in Arizona.
YOUNG lady named Mccoy was killed near
Looking Glass Creek, Oregon, on the 3ist nit.
by bullet from revolver payfully aimed az
her by younger sister.
THE Gloucester fishing schooZe4, Minnesota.
with five men, was lost durirs the late gale
AN engine jumped the track near Rupert, Vt.
on the 31st. killing the engineer and severely
iurlng two others.
JOSEPH LUCKESnACH received fatal injuries
at the university gymnasium in Easton, Pa,
on the l5t, dying Ill great agony.
GEO. E. HUBBARD's hardware establishment
at Grand Haven, Mich, WAC DESTROYED by fire
on the 30th. Loss on building and stock sa5.-
coo, insurance about half