Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-10
COUNTY MINI, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER TO-

lightning. Mrs. Carrier and both
horses were killed, and the wagon made
into kinding wood.
LARS HANSEN was killed by lightning
while plowing in field near Lemond
Minn., on the 4th inst.
FIRE at Rockville, Mass, on the .4th
inst, destroyed Enoch Waite's felt mill
and William Haynes wire mill. Loss
$4,000.
William AYERS was fatally and two
others seriously injured by the pre-
mature explosion of blast of giant
powder at Sharon, Pa, on the Sd inst.
sON the afternoon Of the Sd inst. q
train on the Madison division of the
North Western road struck wagon
containing James Fisher and P. Hum.
bert. The farmer was instantly killed
and the latter fatally hurt. The acoi.
dent occurred near Milwaukee.
"A FIRE at Dubuque, Ia, on the Sd
inst. destroyed over 100000 feet Of
lumber, the property of Moore and Robe.
son and the Dubuque Lumber Com.
pany and valued at nearly 81 100000.
The almost completed freight house
of the Santa Fe Railroad at West Kan
sas City, Mo-, was destroyed by fire on
the 3D. inst. Loss $4,000.
An old man named Caspar Borrhard
of Bangor, Wis, was killed by train
on the North Western road on the
morning Of the Sd inst. 81
The shoe factory of Rice & Hutch.
ms at Marlboro, Mass, burned on the
I'd inst. Loss $4,000.
FIRE at Eufala, Ala, on the LIST inst.
destroyed property to the value of $780,
600. ,@45
THE Hotel Newport, at Asbury Park
N. j., burned on the LIST inst. Some o1
the guests had to abandon their trunks
Loss, $4,000.
CHARLES WooLF, aged 19, and Frank
Keer, aged 10, were drowned at
Chippewa Falls on the LIST inst. Kee1
fell in and Woolf attempted to rescue
him. Both we're carried over the dam.
THE ship Kangaroo. from Baltimore
for Liverpool, burned to the waters
edge and sank in the English Channel
on the 3Oth ult. The captain and eight
Of the crew are reported missing.
The Marshall Carwheel and Foundry
Works, together with seven residences
hotel and one store, at Marshall. Tex
burned on the 30th. The total loss is
estimated at $12O.OOO,
An incendiary fire at Muscatah, Kas.,
on the evening of the 3Oth ult. destroy.
ed an entire block of buildings, entail.
ing loss of about $4,000.
The Touring mills of Kehlor Brothers.
at Waterloo, ILL.,, burned on the 31st
Loss is estimated at $150,O00. -
EVANSVILLE, Ind, experienced tor.
nado on the 28th. The damage is esti.
mated in the neighborhood of a quartz,
Of q million.
The Little Rock (Ark.) Cotton Cir
Factory burned on the 31st. Loss
PETER RIDER, aged 76 years, waf
fatally gored by bull at Spencer, Ia.
on the 31st ult.
Two men were killed by the collapse
of q scafold in the new Board of Trade
building at Chicago on the Goth.
The Jansen, Rosa & Gushing build
ings at Fonda, N. Y, were ruined by
fire on the 29th. Loss $4,000.
A FREIGHT train was ditched by al
open switch at Harvell, ILL.,, on the Goth
Henry Warnecke, the engineer, and
Thomas Devlin, both of Decatur, were
killed.
Ten people, all connected with the
Anglo-American circus, were burned tc
death in sleeping car near Greeley
COL, on the night of the 28th.
The transfer steamer Belmont, with
a passenger train containing sixty peo'
pie on board, was sunk in the river nea,
Henderson, KY, on the morning of the
Goth. Fourteen persons are known tc
be lost.
The Bowery, New York, had a $685..
600 blaze on the 29th.