Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-06
CASUALTIES.

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on the 3Oth. Loss $125,OOO. Five hundred
hands were employed in the works.
AT Rome, N. Y, on the 30th, while a build
out the front wall, killing Joseph Alexander
and injuring several others.
On the 29th at New York Mrs. Michael and
her granddaughter were fatally burned in an
apartment house fire.
AT jennings Ford, Ark, on the 29th, while
party Of girls were sliding on the ice on
White River, the ice broke and two girls named
Shadox we're drowned.
On the S0th railway accidents occurred: At
Northampton, Mass. three passenger cars down
an embankment, several passengers injured;
at Aurora, Ill.,, VIM. Gibney, run over and
killed; at Toledo, O., buggy was demolished
by railway train, and Miss Mcintyre killed;
at Dixon, No., q locomotive jumped the track,
and Engineer G. NJ. Faber and Fireman F. A.
Robinson killed; at Leadville, COL, VIM. Man
ley, construction boss and three men, using
hand car. colllded with Car of iron, Manley
being killed and the others seriously injured.
By the falling of an engine house at o COL
liery near Pottsvile. Pa, on the SOth. J.
Rausch was killed and several others injured.
The leather board mill of W. NJ. Sprague, at
Middle Falls, N. Y, burned on the 29th. Loss
$4,000
AT Rockford, ILL.,, Charley Saline poured a
quantity of carbolic acid down the throat of
his little sister causing her death.
On the 28th Chas Reschka, in q playful quar-
rel, threw q bucketful Of naphtha on q man
named Heintz, at the gas works, Detroit, Mich,
The naphtha caught fire and Heintz was fatally
burned.
J. NJ. R1FoRD, Of Moriah, VT, with his wife
and two daughters, started for Warren, Vt,
three weeks ago, and had not been heard of on
the 29th. 1t is supposed they either drowned
| in Lake Champlain or perished in the noun
| tains.
On the 28th the six-year old daughter of
Melvin North, of Elkhorn, Wis.,, accidentally
| set fire to her clothes by the upsetting of .
lantern, and was burned to death.
FIRE at Hope, Ark. on the 2Sth, destroyed
$6o, 900 worth OF business property.
The body Of Tim Ward, blacksmith, was
found near Pitsville, Wis.,, on the 2Sth. Ward
had wandered from the highway and froze to
! death.
On the 2sth James Mcbride, an engineer, at
the East River Bridge, New York, was caught
| in dy-wheel and killed.
AT Bloomington, Ill.,, on the 26th, while
coasting, bob sled collided with q double
| team. One coaster was killed and several &C.
| verely injured,
AT Waynesboro, Pa, bob-sled on the 26th
got the best Of the belmsman. jumped the
track and attempted to 60 through brick
house. Thirteen coasters injured, one fatally.
On the Oath Brigham Young Academy, at
Provo, Utah, burned. Four hundred Mormon
| students were in the building, all of whom e.
| csped. Loss $4,000.
An extensive cave-in occurred on the 26th at
Pleasant Valley, Pa. More than forty acres of
| ground sank two feet, and large number OF
buildings were rendered untenantable.
AT Aberdeen, OAK, on the 26th John Kneb
levesky, = Polander, was fatally injured while
removing goods from bis burning dwelling.
AT New Orleans, La, John Murray, aged II,
after rescuing his little brother from their
burning dwelling returned for some valuables
! and was burned to death.
| GIANT powder at Blrasboro, Pa, exploded
on the 9th. killing James Kenney and injurine
| others.
On the 27th the Touring mill of Baldwin 4
| Alarm at Waupaca, Wis.,, burned on the 26th.
Loss $4,000.
FIRES on the 26th: The guano factory OF L.
Seldner l. Son, near Baltimore, Nd, loss $50,
600; three business buildings at Decatur, Tex.
loss $90, 1000; the building No. 90 White Street.
New York, loss $75, 1000: business property a
Xenia, O.. loss $75, 900; Pers everanoe Wood
Works, Philadelphia, Pa, loss $4,000: siz
buildings on the levee at Cairo, ILL.,, loss $40,-
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OK the 25th st. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral,
Fond du Lac, Wis, was destroyed by fire.
Loss $20, 900.
A sTAvE works near Minneapolis, Minn.,
burned on the 25th. Loss $18, 900. z
! THREE business houses 1t Catesville, Texas
were destroyed by fire on the 26th. Loss $780,.
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In the Colorado Coal Company's mine at
| Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Col, on the
Gath, dre-damp explosion occurred, com
pletely blocking the entrance to the mine
Sixty.Beven miners were at work 1t the time
eleven Of whom were just entering. These were
thrown back to the entrance by the force OF tht
explosion. Il is believed the others we're killed
DISPATCH from Gloucester, Mass, Of tht
oath, says three schooners Of the Gloucester
fishing feet, with crews of forty-six men, ar
given up as lost.