Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-04-11

Clark's paper mill at Marseiles, La Sale
county, III, caught fire and was burned
down. Loss, $780, 1t is said to be
fully insured.
THE large brick store-room of the
Wabash Railroad Machine Shops, at
Moberly, Mo-. burned. There was q
largo amount of general supplies, in
cluding five carloads of sheet iron in
the building, all of which were con
sumed. Loss $4,000.
THE fire in ST. Georges fat, New
York city. completely destroyed the
building and contents. Loss, $150, 600
There were several narrow escapes.
Three fremen and an engineer were
badly burned.
OAKvILLE, Delaware Co., Ind, vii
lage of 200 inhabitants, was destroyed
by a cyclone on Tuesday evening with
| the exception of two small houses. Five
persons wero killed and many were in
| iured, several fatally.
TEN trackmen returning home the
other night on the Lebanon Valley rail
road, near Wernersville, fastened their
two hand trucks to fast passenger
train. On passing switch the trucks
were thrown from the track and the ten
men flew in all directions. Seven were
badly hurt.
FRIDAY a Northwestern locomotive
killed at J. /. Cases Racine stock farm,
Kentucky bred four-year- old colt, val
ued at 81 900, owned Ey Mr.. Case, and a
brood mare, half-siste of Maud S.
.alued at $4,000, owned by Mr.. Remy, a
Chicago lawyer.
or pnhncon rl,o,
burned to the waters edge in the Chat
tahoochee river at Fitzgeralds Landing,
Ga, early Thursday morning. Thirteen
persons lost their lives, and of the pas
sengers who escaped in their night
Clothes many were severely burned.
The boat, vaiued at 1874, 900, is a total
lsss; 307 bales of cotton and other freight
were consumed.
FRANK KERLIN, aged IA, son Of Mich
ael Kerlin, of Springfield, was killed at
Bushnell, ILL.,, by freight train on the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad.
Kerlin and two other boys had run away
from their parents at Springfield. In
stepping from a freight train Kerlin
fell between the cars and was crushed.
THE storms of the day and evening of
the Cd inst, were disastrous throughout
a wide extent of country in Indiana,
Ohio and Pennsylvania. The little vii
lage of Oakville, Ind, of 200 inhabi-
tants, was entirely swept away except
two houses. Seven persons were killed
and many injured. The loss of proper
ty was great; the country was stripped
of fences, bridges and almost everything
that the fury CT the wind could destroy.
Reynoldsburg in Ohio, was the next
town in the path of the cyclone, and it
was also completely ruined, many per-
sons were injured, three fatally. Green
yillo, Jaynesville, Troy and Cassville
were also badly damaged and loss of
life and property marks the path of the
cyclone as far east as Pitsburg, Penn
sylvania.
A TEXAS Pacific train was wrecked
near Clyde, Texas Saturday morning,
the baggage car and Uhree coaches tumb-
ling down an embankment. Twenty
five of the passengers were more or less
hurt, but no one was killed. Among the
injured are Reese III. Evans, Paddy's
Run, o., left knee hurt; A. W. Nc.
Hemau. Paris, o., foet hurt; Clark Law
renee, Chetopa, Kan. bruised hip; J.
NJ. Fisher, Ohio, wounded in the fore
head; G. II. Smith, Kane county, ILL.,,
scalp wound; c. F. Barclay, Paris, Tex,
back and arm hurt; John Altman,
Washington, Mo-, left arm fractured;
q. A. White, Coahoma county, Miss,
back hurt; C. II. Bols, Bollinger
county, Mo-, fractured collar-bone and
scalp wound; III. Straus, Forth Worth,
Tex, fractured Collar-bOne and scalp
wound.