Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-22

large NUMBER OF Slant1e6 occupied Dy
colored people, at Chrisield, Nd, were
destroyed by fire on the 18th. The
loss is heavy, but the figures are not
given.
FIRE at Binghamton, N. Y, on the
10Th destroyed the paper mills of Gary,
Nash & Ogden, and the -four mills of
George @ Woon & Go. Loss $4,000.
The wife and 3.year old child of Carl
Schroeder were burned to death in
prairie fire twenty miles north of James
town, D. T., on the 14th. .
WHILE party of men were engaged
in drilling out an unexploded charge of
dynamite giant powder, near Blough's
cut, on the Pennsylvania road, on the
10Th, the charge exploded. One man
was killed and three seriously hurt.
FIRE on the 18th, in row of build
ings at Norfolk, Va. occupied by whole
sale grocers and commission merchants,
caused damage to the extent of $445, 900.
y ATRA1N ran down a market wagon at
Elkton, Nd, on the 18th, killing Will
lam Prior and two children named
Ka'ie Dushine and Robert Jones.
A LARGE portion of Lawrenceburg,
Ky.. was destroyed by fire on the 10Th.
Loss $4,000, partly insured.
AN accidental fire at Wilmington, N.
O., on the 18th, burned Wilson's saw.
mill. Loss $38 600; insurance $4,000.
The steamer De France, loaded with
cotton, burned to the waters edge at
Newbern, N. G., on the 10Th. Loss
$4,000.
A CUNNING accident at Auburn, N. Y,
on the 18th, resulted fatally to John
Keogan, aged 45.
Two men, named Hamilton and
'Posey, were sufocated in we'll at
Athens, Tenn, on the 18th.
@. A. JACKSON &, Co.'s tobacco factory
the largest in Petersburg, Va, was con-
sumed by fire on the 14th. Loss $14O,-
600; insurance 100000.
A COKE train on the Pittsburg, Vir-
ginia & Charleston Railroad was de-
rallied by striking steer near Monon-
gahala City on the 18th. One man was
killed and two badly hurt
A TENEMENT house occupied by six
families was partially destroyed by fire
ut Racine on the morning of the 18th.
Edward and Albert Gross were badly
burned, the latter, it is thought, fatally.
Loss $3,50O; insured.
WHILE carelessly handling shotgun
in Micklinburg County, Va., on the
18th, Thomas Jones blew out the brains
OF his brother Henry.
AT Cincinnati hospital on the 18th,
VIM. T. Thomas, an attendant, pulled a
truck containing patient named Chris.
Thurdhorst into an elevator shaft. Both
were killed.
JOSEPH CARMEN, an engineer, wss
killed and fireman whose name is not
given was fatally injured on the 18th,
by tho collision of two trains on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, at Camden, N.
J. Several passengers were hurt.
WALToN's mill and number of bust
ness houses at Fairbury, ILL.,, were de-
stroyed by fire on the 1th. Loss $122, 900.
FIRE on the 18th, destroyed Chin
ber]ines extensive slaughtering estab-
lishments at Allegheny City, Pa. Loss
$4,000.
The bonded warehouse of j. G..
Roach & Co., at Unionto wn, Kentucky,
containing over two thousand barrels of
whisky, was burned on the 18th. The
loss is $4,000
WILLIE ALDR1oH, Pittsburg lad
while engaged in oiling the machinery
of the Republic iron-works 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
ed by collision at Hunters Station, Pa,
on the 18th.
Two men, with their wives, were
drowned at Halifax, N. S., on the 10Th,
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 Galbra1th 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 $125,00O; insured.
THROUGH the carelessness of work.
man in Warmers furnace, Hicks County,
Tenn, on the 9th, in not giving proper
warning before tapping the furnace,
three workmen were horribly burned
by molten iron. All three died in
terrible agony.