The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-03-22

VIM. o'Brien and John McCinnity. were killed
by snow-slide on the 18th
WOODWARD & Foxos's Wholesale drug store
IN Kansas City, Mo-, burned on the morning OF
the 18th. Loss S1I5. .Oo0
JOHN RossToSE and John Marshall were
crushed TO death by the caving OF trench at
Dayton, o., on the 14th.
OLIVER DYER, Yale student who was rough
ly handled by his classmates in sparriug exer-
cse died on the 14th from the effects Of in juries
received.
LEsNER Sous gristmill, at Charlton, " Y.
was wrecked by the explosion of boiler on
the l4th. The proprietors were killed and two
farmers wounded
THR wife and three children of r. c. otwell,
Cleburne County, Ala, died from eating Chi
csgo beef on the 14th. Otwell was Ill and did
not partake. The remainder Of the family died
III Few hours after the meal. The meat is to
be analyZed.
TERRIBLE explosion occurred in the coal
mines Of the Southwest Virginia Improvement
Company at Pocahontas. TazewelI County, Va.
at o'clock on the morning of the 18th One
hundred and fifty miners, mostly foreigners.
met their death
LAWRENCE ROONEY, whose family reside at
Blackberry, Kane County, H.. was frozen to
death on the prairie near Blunt, Oak, on the
18th.
MAsoN's livery stable, at Pembina, Mimi,
was destroyed by fire on the 10th. Eighteen
horses were burned TO death. The loss is
placed at s14, 900.
WILLIAM MCCALL Was killed and two others
injured IN furnace explosion at the Thomp-
son steel works, Braddock, Pa, on the 18th.
sSow-sLIDE, on the evening of the 10th,
swept away the station OF Woodstock, Col, on
the South Park Pailroad. Seventeen persons
were overwhelmec. only three Of whom were
saved.
FRED sIMEsTER's wool store at Worcester,
Mass. burned ON the morning Of the 18th.
Loss $40. 900.
SALINE County, Mo-, and adjoining territory
in Mississippi suffered from a terrible cyclone
on the 18th. Many persons were killed and
the pecuplary loss is heavy.
THE business portion of Allegan, Mich, was
entirely destroyed by FIRE on the 18th. Loss
s400, 900.
FIRE at Grand Rapids. Mich, On the 18th,
caused a loss of 100000
THE body of Carl Fehring, Polk, Washing
ton County. Wis. farmer, Was found IN q wen
on his farm on the 18th.
PRAIRIE tiI Iesr Kinslev Kas. on the I1th
DESTROYED number of dwellings, and other
property. Mrs. Geo. W. Matheny was burned
to death.
THE wife of DR.. B. B. Matthews. of Bound
Brook. n. j., was almost instantly killed by
bullet from a rifle which was accidentally dis
charged while ID the hands of her eldest son
on the 10th.
AT Vandalia, Nc, and Pittsburg, Kas, nine
stores valued at $4,000 aud eight buildings
worth $4,000 were swept away on the 10th.
Ten prospectors who left Spokane Falls,
Oak, for RathdrUn, to locate trail, are miss
ing. and it is supposed died from starvation
and exposure.
GEORGE CRAGIS, one of the founders of the
Oneida On y Community. was found dead
IN his bed on the morning of the 10th.
SLIDE Of earth and rock in Pyle Canon.
Union County, Oregon. on the 9th buried five
railroad graders.
CHARLES kosTES was sufocated by coal gas
ST Elgin, H., on the 10th. and his wife and
two children are IN precarious condition.
MISS EMMA MCGEoRGE, while replenishing a
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, on the 10th, Mrs
Woodward kirkloff. crazed with malarial fever,
left her bed, deliberately set her clothing on
ire and was slowly burned to death.