Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-19

6WepG away Iu0 6G2uOU OF WOO0oGOC8s COLss VI
the South Park Pailroad. Seventeen persons
were overwhelmed, only three Of whom were
saved.
FRED snhIsTER's wool store at Worcester.
Mass, burned on the morning Of the 18th.
Loss $4,000.
SALINE County, NO., and adjoining territory
in Mississippi suffered from terrible cyclone
on the 12th. Many persons were killed and
the pecuniary loss is heavy.
The business portion Of Allegan, Mich, wa
entirely destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss
600, 900.
FIRE At Grand Rapids, Miob, on the 18th
caused loss of e100, 900. >% -.
The body of Gail Fehring, Polk, Washing
ton County, Wis.,. farmer, was found in = vel
on his farm on the 18th. ,...-.. i
APRA1R1E fire.near Kinsley, Kas., on the It'll
destroyed . number Of dwellings, and othel
property. Mrs. Geo. W. Matheny was burned
to death.
FIRE at Menasha, Wis.,, on the night Of the
10th, destroyed A. H. McCabe's grocery and
J. G. Bosch's jewelry store. Loss e10, 600.
CHAs. DEWEY, = switchman at Baraboo, Wis,
was run over and killed by Z Chicago l. North.
Western freight train on the 11th inst.
AnRE in East st. Louis on the 11th destroyed
$4,000 worth Of property, including several
elevators filed with grain and 100 cars.
The wife Of DR.. B. B. Matthews. Of Bound
Brook, N. J., was almost instantly killed by q
bullet from rife which was accidentally dis
charged while in the hands of her eldest son,
on the 10th.
Ar Vandalia, NO., and Pittsburg, Kas., nine
stores valued at $4,000 and eight buildings
worth $4,000 were swept away on the 10th.
GEORGE CRAa1N, one of tho founders of the
Oneida IN. w. Community, was found dead
IN his bed on the morning Of the 10th.
A SLIDE Of earth and rock in Pyle Canon,
Union County, Oregon, on the 9th buried fve
railroad graders.
Ten prospectors who left Spokane Falls,
Dak., for Rathdrum, to locate trail, are miss
ing, and it is supposed died from starvation
and exposure.
MISS EMMA MoGEoRaE, while replenishing 4
fire at her home near Madison, Ind, on the
10th, was so badly burned by the igniting of
her clothing that she soon died.
AT Upper Pottsgrove, Pa, oa the 10th, Mrs.
Woodward Kirklo6, crazed with malariM fever,
left her bed, deliberately set. her clothing on
fire and was slowly burned to death.
CHARLES KosTEN was sunocated by coal gas
at Elgin, H., on the 10th, and his wife and
two children are in = precarious condition.
The body Of Henry Kausen, "a inmate Of
the soldies' Home, was found on the- road near
Milwaukee on the 9Th. His death is at.
tributed to exposure. =
c. E. 81. TEsTRM, IN Omaha newspaper man,
was asphyxiated by gas at . Chicago hotel on
the 9Th. Il
AN Utah 'snow-slide on the 9Th, swept ava,
the works Of the Emma mine near Salt Lake
City and killed twelve persons.
Four men were killed by boiler explosion
at Bryant's Pond, Me-, on the morning Of tht
7th.
AT Florence, Arizona, on tho 7th, cloud.
burst caused slo, 600 damage. The water ran
four feet deep in the streets.
The Mackley block burned at Memphis, Mo.
on the 7th. Loss $4,000. =.'
The Arizona h New Mexican Railway bridge
at Clifton, Arizona, was carried away by heavy
rains on the 7th, causing loss of 320, 900.
An accident on the Chicago, Milwaukee & 81
Paul Road at Astor, Ia; on the 7th caused TIL
death of an engineer and fireman.
JOHN TREES JR., was killed and William
Moreland and Micheal Cronin fatally injured
by the explosion OF = boiler IN dyeing estab
Iishment at lawrence, Mass, on the 5th.
ANDREW MoRELAND, jury com missioner, wa,
instantly killed by tall on sidewalk at Pitts
burg on the morning of the 9Th.
Twomen were overcome by gas at Reading
furnace on the morning Of the 9Th. One Of
them is dead and the other cannot live.
ABo1hER in q saw mill near Jackson. Mich.
exploded with terrible force on the 5th., kill
ing two mea and badly injuring third.
BARLOW & Co.'S. oilcloth works at Philadel
phia, were damaged to the extent Of e50, 0,OO(
by fire on the 9Th inst.
FRANK MAmucHNER, railroad brakeman
was run over aud fatally injured ut Neenal
on the night Of the 9Th.
JOSEPH MAYorHE, an Indian on the Baf
River reservation was frozen to death at Ash
land, Wis., on the 9th while intoxicated.
ATERRiBLE accident occurred in the Prieta
mines, Sonora, Mex, on the 9Th, resulting in
the death Of twenty miners.
A FARMER named Slsk and his son were
killed by railroad snow plow at sibley. Ia., on
the 5th.