The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-06-07
CASUALTIES,

A. MAwCURATH was killed near Junction City,
Wis, on the 31st. by kick from horse.
A CLOUD burst at Visalia, Cal. with such vio-
lence, on the 1st inst, as to sweep away house
with Its SIX inmates.
THE Northwestern Paper Company mills at
Rockton, ILL.,, burned on the 1st. They were
established in 1850. Loss, $4,000
PADUcAH, Ky, suffered loss of $50, 900 from
fire on the 1st.
WILLIAM Cook, William Debus and Eddie
Loven, were drowned at New Orleans, on the
1st inst, while sailing on the lake.
JOHNNY NIFZERowsKI 7-year-old boy, was
instantly killed by lightning at Milwaukee, on
| the 1st, while playing on the sidewalk
JOHN A. KERN, brakeman on the Chicago &
Northwestern Railroad, was killed by the cars
| at Manitowoc, Wis, on the LIST.
FIRE at Portland, Ore., on the 30th, swept
away over half a block of wooden buildings
Loss over $4,000.
The gangway of tunnel coliery caved in at
Ashland, Pa, on the 3Oth, aud buried Geo.
Story, miner. Fifty others escaped.
FIFTY-THREE cars were derailed and two en-
gines smashed by freight collision on the
New York Central road between Rochester and
Niagara Falls on the Goth. Only one train
| hand was hurt. Loss, 100000
The Chicago & Northwestern Railway shops
at Chicago, were partially des stroyed by fire on
the 30th.
| jHred by the fall of a warehouse at Baltimore
on the 30th.
KRUPP's tunnel, on the South Pennsylvania
Railroad, near Ligonier, Pa, was the scene Of
a terrible accident on the goth, by which nine
men, principally Italians, were instantly killed
and eleven others seriously injured.
AT Roxana, Del, on the 29th. a 5-year-old
boy named McCabe, fatally shot hi, baby
| brother, aged months, in the forehead.
AT Spring Lake, Mich, on the night of the
2Sth inst, the dry kins in Cutler & Savidge's
lumber yard burned with 200. 900 feet of lum-
| ber Loss, S25,000; insurance, $4,000.
THE Hazard Powder Works near Denver, Col,
were destroyed by fire on the 29th. Loss,
800, 900.
JOHN MEIER, while drunk on the 29th, fell
from his wagon at Theresa, Wis, and was
fatally injured.
THE wooden mill at Alma, Mich. burned OIL
the night of the 28th inst. Loss, 81, 900; in
sured for $4,000.
The business part Vi The town of Sharpsburg,
KY, burned on the Goth. Loss, $50, 900; liz
suralce, S25, 900.
WILLIAM soovILLE, Chicago soap manu-
facturer fell into vat of boiling grease on the
10Th inst, and was roasted alive.
CLARA and Lulu Snyder, daughters of q
| wealthy farmer living near Dayton, O., we're
struck by lightning on the 29th, the former
| being instantly killed.
AT Milwaukee, on the 28th, runaway ice
| team wrecked Frank Sillers buggy and fatally
| injured his wife. Mr.. Siller escaped unhurt
GEORGE PRENTIss, son Of VIM. A. Prentiss
| of Milwaukee, was run over by an engine and in
stantly killed at Minneapolis, on the 28th inst
NJ INN - L.
Soldiers Home, Milwaukee, was killed by the
| cars near the home, on the 28th.
| FERGUsoN's Hotel, four stores aLd one resi-
| dence burned at Northern Pacific Junction,
Mimi, on the morning Of the 28tb. Loss $780,
900; insured for S13, 600.
TUE steamer Pilot Boy, Egan's wharf, Gold
| smiths warehouse and a quantity of cotton,
burned at Charleston, s. c., on the 9th. Loss
| 800, 900.
A BODY found in the water at Hastings on
| he-Hudson, N. Y. was identified, on the 9th.
| as that Of Miss Arabella Hazard, the missing
| Cincinnati woman.
J. S. TRAcY's shingle mill at Oshkosh was
swept away by fire on the 9th. Loss $4,000,
| insured.
| The Briefly cotton mills at Milford. Mass.
burned on the 9th. Loss $50, 900.
| A BLEACHER exploded in Wilson's straw
| poafu ilili at NaeoiioIu, N. l., Oh tne IftH
inst. wrecking the building and killing five
| men.
THE NAVAL Rubber Factory, Reading, Mass.
| burned on the 26th. Loss 5000, 900.
JOHN HURST. Is year-old boy, was fatally
bitten and mutiated by a vicious dog near New
RichIand, o.. on the 26th inst. The boy was
bitten to the bone in forty different places and
the flesh torn from his body and face.
FIRE at Binghampton, N. Y. on the 26th
caused loss of $4,000.
WHILE boating on the 26th inst, Abner Da
wilson, Minnie Partridge and Mary Morton were
drowned at Gait, Ont, and Chas. Twitchell
Chauncev Caswell and Morris Caswell at Gro
| gan, N. Y.