The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-18
CASUALTIES.

WALTON mill and number OF busl-
ness houses at Fairbury, Ill, were de-
stroyed by fire on the l1th. Loss 1922, 900.
FIRE on the l1rh. destroyed Chin
berIine's extensive slaughtel.ng stab
lishments at Allegheny City, Pa. Loss
$4,000.
The bonded warehouse of j. G..
Roach x Co, at Uniontown, Kentucky,
containing over two thousand barrels of
whisky, was burned on the 18th. The
loss is $4,000
WILLIE ALDRIcH, a Pittsburg lad,
while engaged in oiling the machinery
of the Republic ironworks on the 18th,
fell between the cog-wheels and was lit
orally ground up.
ONE man was killed and several in
jured, and forty loaded coke cars wreck
{ / by collision at Hunters Station, Pa,
on the 18th.
Two men, with their wives, were
drowned at Halifax, n. S., on the 18th,
by the upsetting of boat.
WHILE out hunting, near Florence,
Wis, on the night of the 10th, Charles
Bertrand was mistaken for deer by a
companion named Galbraith and shot
dead.
The Third Presbyterian Church, on
Ashland Avenue, Chicago, one of the
finest structures in the city, was de
stroyed by fire on the morning of the
10th. Loss $125,000; insured.
THROUGH the carelessness of work
man in Warmers furnace, Hicks County,
Tenn, on the 9th, in not giving proper
warming before tapping the furnace,
three workmen were horribly burned
by molten iron. All three died in
terrible agony.
FRANK RICE, fireman on a ferry
steamer at Muskegon, Mich, fell from
the fan tail on the 9th, and was fatally
mangled by the wheel.
THE flour mill of L. Blanden & Co.,
at Fort Dodge, Ia, with large quantity
of flour and wheat, burned on the 9th.
Loss $4,000.
A LOSS of $4,000 was incurred by
an incendiary fire in the dry goods store
owned by Senator Mccarthy, at SYRIA
cuse, n. Y, on the 9th.
Four men were killed and two
wounded by the explosion of powder
mill at Cumminsville, Ont, on the 9th.
SURE OLEMAN and Peter Severson,
two whisky picked Norwegian farmers,
were struck by train while driving
across track near Madison on the Sth.
Severson was slightly hurt, one of the
horses killed and the other severely in
iured. Oleman escaped injury.
a sHANTY resting on piles about one
mile from the beach, at the new water
| works tunnel, near Chicago, was washed
away ty the waves on the night of the
| 7th. Fifteen workmen were in the
structure at the time. One of them
reached the shore on plank and four
others were rescued from the pier by
the hfe-saving crew to-day. Ten were
drowned.
AN express train struck a carriage at
! Graylock Crossing near North Adams,
/ Mass, on the Sth, killing George and
Alice Hull, of Stamford, Vt.
WILLIAM VETTER, of Forest, Fond du
Lac County, died on the 7th from d
kick from horse.
A SERIOUS food is reported in the
vicinity of Ontonagon, Mich, oD the
Sth, the river of that name having riser
twenty-five feet; much. damage to prop
erty was done, and a large number of
logs were carried out into the lake.
HARRISBURG, Pa, suffered consider
ably from ten-minute storm on the
Sth. Houses were unroofed, and trees
and fences leveled.
THE barn and sheep-she of T. J.
Wilson, near Corsicana, Tex, burned
on the morning of the Sth. One
| hundred tons OF hay, 600 sheep and a
large quantity of wool were destroyed.
a FIRE which started in the planning
mill of Z. Zafard, Richmond, KY, on
the 5th, destroying property to the value
'rof $125,000.
! The toy mandatory of Peter G
| Thomson, Cincinnati. burned on the
sth. involving loss of 100000
ST. PATRICK's Church, Eau Claire
Wis, caught fire on the Sth, and in less
than an hour was in ruins. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
FIRE at Bethlehem, Pa, destroyed
the Grand Opera House on the 7th
Loss 5000.
A ROW of buildings one block long
burned at Abilene, Tex, on the 7th
causing a loss of $4,000.
The Newton Paper Company's mil
at Holyoke, Mass, burned on the 9th
Loss S150,000; Insurance $4,000.
4 2-YEAR old child, named Rick, fel
into a kettle of boiling water, at Ii
Crosse on the 9th, and was scalded t.
death.
A FIRE at Wallula Junction. Ore, ol
the morning of the 9Th, destroyed sever
buildings. The losses aggregate abou
S150,000. A bartender named Pfeffe
was burned to death.
| BAY SHORE, L. l., had an incendiar