Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-09
CASUALTIES.

IA oObUhbAN passenger Oh the 0reAC western
division of the Grand Trunk, was run into by
| a freight on the I'd, near Toronto, Canada.
The passenger was filed with employees
| % OF bolt works. Twenty-two men we're
/ killed and number seriously injured. The
conductor of the freight was running without
orders and was arrested.
Two tugs-L. N. Burton and j. T. Case
were towing two barges down the Ohio on tbs
I'd. The ice and swift current carried them
against
sank at once; the Case drifted on the island
and lodged. -Four of the Burton crew were
drowned.
The Huron Mining Company's dam 800 feet
above Portage Lake, Mich, burst on the 1st.
| and G. E. Raymond, his son Charles, Mrs.
| James Raymond, her son Howard and SER
want girl were swept away by the flood and
drowned.
| FREIGHT elevator in Smiths Brewery, New
York, fell from the third story to the ground
floor. Six men were on the elevator, all were
| seriously injured. .-.'. ...."
FIRE at Louisville, Ky., on the I'd, destroyed
| Deans furniture factory. Loss $35, 900.
The railroad hotel and depot, Bowie, Texas,
burned on the I'd. Loss $50.
The postoffice and several adjoining build
ings Jacksonville, Ore., burned on the I'd.
Loss 100000.
At Knottsville, KY, on the 3Oth, sallie
Loughery was accidentally killed by the dis
charge of a revolver which fell out of the
pocket of her lover.
By the accidental discharge of gun in the
hands of a friend J. Htzer was killed while out
hunting near Clarksville, KY, on the 31st.
FIVE men were buried by the caving in of a
| tunnel near Maiden. Mass, on the 3lst. One
of them was killed.
The business part OF Middleburg, Vt., was
destroyed by an incendiary fire on the S1st.
| Loss 900.
The steamer Carrier sunk in the Ohio River
| near Greensboro, KY, on the 31st. Two pas
| sengers and deckhand were drowned.
The npholstering shop and several coaches
| OF the NJ. K. d T. r. R., at Sedalis, NO., were
destroyed by fire on the 31st. Loss $10O, 900.
The court house at Brookhavep, Miss,
burned on the 31st. All the records were de.
| stroyed except some books and papers OF the
circuit court. ~
ANNIE KELLY was burned to death in her
rooms in New York City on the 31st.
In coastipg accident on q ten-mile hill at
Morrowville, Pa, Mary Hyde was killed and
several others seriously injured.
TWENTY-FIVE buildings burned st Howard
| City, Micb., on the 1st. Loss $751; : =.
The wire-fence factory of Lambrecht l.
Bishop, Joliet, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire on the
29th. Loss $225, 700.
On the Goth Rye Beach Hotel, williams
Bridge, N. Y. burned. Loss $25,0OO. t--.-.
SEVERAL business houses at OxforG, Ala,,
were destroyed by fire on the 29th. Loss $685.
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A FIRE at Sommerbaum, s. c., on the 29th,
destroyed the cabin Of q colored woman and
her four children were burned to death.
NEaRo's cabin at Live Oak, Fla, burned
on the 29th, and his six children perished in
| the flames. b. @ -
The wife and child of G. E. Styles, of Atchi-
son. Kas.. met their death on the 29th by the
burning of their home. ~
FIRE on the 30th destroyed the building Nos.
119 AMI 121 Monroe Street. Chicago. III. Gang
ing a loss of about 5000, 900. s5F..5 s<
JAMESTOWN, OAK, lost property by fire on
the 30th to the value of $74,0O0. The North
western Hotel was one OF ths buildings burned.
The Eagle Woolen Mil, at West Chelmsford d,
Mass, burned on the 27th. Loss 100000.
AT Jersey City, on the 9th, James McCann
and Jennie Smith inbibed too much Of the
ardent, took ride in q peddler's wagon, and
| the next morning were found dead under the
wagon box.
FIRE at Eau Claire, Wis, on the 28th, de-
stroyed $s5.oOo worth of property.
ON the 2lth Gen. Grant fell on IN icy side
walk in front of his house, New York city, and
injured his thigh bone in such manner as to
paralyze his left leg.
TIE oil store Of Ward 4 Co., New York city,
was damaged by fire on the 9th. Loss $50, :
/ 600. {. z.-.: Is -.
THREE men digging coal near Girardvilie,
Pa, were buried by falling earth, on the 9th.
One Of them was killed.
a sAw-MLL at Jackson, La, burned on tn
9th. Loss $4,000. ss
AN old man named Vim. Dutton perished in
burning saloon at Marinette, Wis. on The
26th. as
The meat market, Hammond, Ind, was de,
stroyed BY fire on the 27th. Loss e45, 600.
THREE little daughters Of John Kllgore mys
teriously disappeared from his home near Mis-
souri Valley, IL, on the Oath. The woods wer,
searched without success, and it is feared they
have perished. 5.s.
q "a MATCH factory ct Utica. N. Y, burned o1
the 26th. Loss 916, ,00O.
Al Elizabeth, N. j., on the 26th, freieh
train was wrecked; the engineer was killed.