Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-07-02
CASUALTIES,

A SAIL BOAT contairinga party Of five cap
sized of Pictou, Nova Scotia. on the 2dth,
drowning Mr.. Taylor and Miss Henderson.
A GAS tank exploded in coal mine at Monon-
gahel1 City, Ps., on the 26th, killing one man
and badly burning another.
FIRE, on the 26th, destroyed the building Of
Cracken d Brewster, furniture dealers, New
Orleans, causing loss Of 4SOO, 900.
TIE boilerin Smiths Planning MI at Wan.
sau, Wis, exploded, on the 25th, fatally injur-
ing George Brown, engineer and foreman,
August Stretch, fireman. and John Rux. Mary
Cr0cker, living in house near by, was instant.
y killed by flying missile and several others
seriously hurt.
KILLED by lightning on the 25th: At MUIR
rayvills, Pa, boy named Wolf; at Salem, O.,
Minr!e Westpbor; at Waynesburg, Pa, Josie
Keener aud VIM. RAIDER we're seriously injured.
ALEX. MURRAY, farmer residing near Alba
ny. Green County. Wis, was fatally bitten by =
mad horse on the 25th. 49,
THREE frame buildings were burned at Gle
burne, Tex. on the 25th Five stores were in
volved. Loss, &19, 900; insurance, 319, 900.
TIE house Of farmer named Geo. Brooks,
near Neillsville, Wis.,, was struck by lightning on
the 25th. One of Brook daughters, aged IA years.
Another daughter was partially paralyzed by
the electricity, but managed to escape.
Ar Coal Bluff, H., on the 25th, eleven per-
sons were poisoned by eating ice cream. Two
A CLOUD burst over Henry Lintern's farm,
near Cerro Gordo, ILL.,, on the oath, Washing out
100 acres of corn.
EIGHT men and one boy were buried by the
caving in Of an unfinished railway tunnel near
steubenville, o., on the oath. Four were fatal
" injured.
A PAsskNaER train on the Shamokin Railroad
collided with freight engine, near sunbury,
Pa, on the Ath. VIM. Malick, train dis
patcher, Schultz, a fireman, and tramp were
killed. ~. - -, =,
River while bathing on the Oath. His father
was on the shore, but lost hispresence of mind,
while within ten feet of him.
THEo. STANLEY, aged II, and Vim. Benning-
ton, aged 25. were drowned near Plainville,
Ind, on the Oath, while bathing.
Two daughters of James Fiske were drowned
in creek near Topeka, Kas., on the Oath, by
the oyerturning of wagon.
Dr.. A. W. SALLADE, Reedsburg, Wis died
on the 4tl, from the effects of poison.
ALBERT K. KrMBALL, of Wankesha, Wis.,,
aged IL years, was run over and fatally injured
at Eagle on the 23d. 80, ID.
EDWARD REDD1oK, aged 9 years, was drowned
at La Sale, ILL.,, on the 23d, while bathing.
Mra. Robert freeman, aged 76 years, fell dead
on hearing of the accident. 49,.
MELTON Bros shirt factory at Montreal,
burned on the Esd. Loss $4,000. A man
named Belmore was killed. s-,a :
BuRNs, TREAT & Co.'s Touring mill at Le-
mars. 1a.;w1s destroyedh by fire on the night OF
the 21st. LOIS above insnrancd5 400s0o6. =
On the 2sd premature blast in Brady's tun-
mel, on the Hempfeld extension of the Balti-
more d Ohio Railroad, fatally injured Roger
Kaue and badly injured another man.
JoHo STUMP, Is years Of age, OF Point Pleas
ant, W. Va, blew into tho muzzle of a gun, on
the 23d, while holding the trigger back with
his foot. Stump was blown into eternity.
CHATT1E1D l. WooD, paper dealers at Cincin-
natl, suffered a loss Of 100000 through fire on
the 22d. z@.
CoRcoRAx's HOTEL and nine other buildings
were swept away by fire at Fifield, Wis.,, on the
23d.
The missionary ship ''Morning Star went to
the bottom in Pacific waters on the 21st. The
crew and passengers were saved.
AcLoUD-BURsr A near Corbiu's. Mont, on the
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much property.
| A BRAKEMAN and fireman were killed and
two men injured by railway collision on the
Grand Trunk near Toronto, on the 22d.
FIRE in the paper warehouse of Chatfeld 4
Woods, Cincinnati, on the 22d inst, did dam.
age to the extent Of $40, 1000.
F1RBs on the 21st: Large block at Beaver
Falls, Pa, loss $2o,eoo; Queens Hotel, Port
Arthur, Man., VIM. Mcpherson burned t
death, loss $50, 600; the principal part of Bene
zette, Pa, loss $4,000.
The North Shore Lumber Companys saw
mill at Perry Harbor, Ont, burned on the Goth
Loss 100000.
A LARGE Touring mill at Mt. Leonard, Mo.
burned on the 20th inst. Loss $26, 900, nsur.
ance e17, 900.
By collision on the Canadian Pacific roat
near Ottawa, on the 20th, three persons wer'
killed and large number seriously hurt.
A ATANMY of emigrants who were given clea,
bill Of health at Baltimore, have started tn,
smallpox in Shelby County, Ia. Two of tn
emigrants died on the goth, and seven of th,
neighbors are down with the disease.
THE boiler in Fields 4 Co.'s brick yard, al
Albany, Ga, exploded on the 2oth INST, killing
four negroes.