The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-06-21

THE boiler at Butler, Pa, oil well exploded,
on the 14th inst. killing the engineer and fatal
ly tnjuring his son.
FIRE at st. Paul, on the 14th. destroyed
eight frame houses and number of sheds.
Loss S20, 900.
EDWIN WIpF. aged Is, was fatally injured by
the bursting of an edger IN his fathers mill at
lola, Waupaca County, Wis, on the 18th.
MAN named Van Onsdale was burned to
death. and two Others probably fatally injured,
by the spilling OF molten metal in foundry
at Newport, KY, on the 18th inst.
AN explosion at Loomis' Mill near Little
Rock, Ark, on the 18th, destroyed most of the
structure and killed Anderson Carpenter the
engineer, and Elias Lee, and badly wounded
two others.
ONE of the mills OF the Miami Powder Com
pany, near Xenia, o., exploded on the 18TH
Albert Selbach, an employe, was fatally in
jured.
THE publishing house of J. s. Ogilvie & Co.,
burned at New York on the 18th. Loss S60,-
600.
AT fire in Boston, on the 18th, twenty-five
| or thirty firemen were injured by explosions.
Loss $400, 900.
GARDNER CALDWELL was drowned on the
11th while trying to run through the rapids at
Spokane Falls, Dakota.
TWENTY of the principal buile lgs of Grant
Park, ILL.,, were destroyed by fire on the night
of the 18th inst.
OK the 11th inst, Isaac Jenkins, farmer
near McCoy's Mills, w. Va, mistook his only
son for wildcat prowling in some bushes and
shot him dead.
AN expressman named Fred. Osdel aged so
years. and young man whose name is un-
known, were burned to death in a barn at Chi
cago, on the morning of the 11th.
TIE dry goods house of J. nj. Spradd & Co.,
| at Galena, H., damaged $40, GOO by fire on
| the morning of the 18th inst.
On the 9Th inst, while eleven men with
| thirteen pack horses with supplies for the
| Occur d'Alene mines, were being ferried across
| Thompsons Creek, Montana, the ferry cable
parted and all were swept over the falls, short
distance below.
CYCLONE in Marshall County, W. Va, on
| the 18th, killed boy and frightened man III
| to committing suicide.
LINCOLN ToURrELoTTE, of La Crosse, Wis,
was killed on the 18th inst, by a cave-in in his
mine in Idaho.
PINDER Il WINCHEsTER's tannery, Peabody
| Mass, was swept away by fire, on the 10th.
| Loss about S125 600.
The Giant Powder Compapy's magazine near
DtuNeI. COl., COuldiuiDB lu.tUu pcuuuS u To-
mite powder, blew up on the 10th inst. Much
| damage was doue in the vicinity of the works.
| but no lives were lost.
| TWENTY miners houses were moved from
| their foundations by the csve-in of nine at
| Poke Hollow, Pa, ON the 10th inst. Loss
| heavy.
Two miners were killed and five others hoIr-
| bly, nangled by an explosion in a mine vt In-
| man, Tenn. on the 10th inst.
| THE Union Depot at st. Paul was t,taly
destroyed by fire, on the 10th. Loss S20O0O0
| FRANK DIvELY and wife were killed by llsht-
| ming, at Harrisburg, Pa, on the 10th.
| A PARTY Of Italians was run down by a rail-
way train near Leetsdale, Pa. on the 9th. Two
were instantly killed and third fatally injured.
STORM in Dur rwidde County, Va, on tie
| Sth, wrecked Baptist Church. A woman vas
killed by lightning
PENNAFIELD's tannery and bark yards at
| Dubois, Pa, were destroyed by fire ON the8th
| inst. Loss Sl5,0G0; no insurance.
A LITTLE boy and girl named Groseck, While
| playing in garnet at Milwaukee on the 9th,
accidentally locked themselves in a trunk.
When found by their parents the boy was dead,
| but the gnPs Iife saved.
LIGHTNING at Louisville, on the 9th, struck
| four men and mortaliy wounded two Of them.
| Conrad Deller, carpenter near st. NssianZ,
| Manitowoc County, Wis, was killed byhght
| ming on the Sh.