The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-06
CASUALTIES.

The SLIP Kangaroo, from Baltimore
for Liverpool, burned to the waters
edge and sank in the English Channel
on the 30th 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 ut $l20,000.
An incendiary fire at Muscatah, Kas.,
on the evening of the 30th 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 $150,000.
THE Little Rock (Ark.) Cotton Gin
Factory burned on the 3lst. Loss,
$4,000.
PETER RIDER, aged 76 years, was
fatally gored by buii at Spencer, Ia,
on the 3lst ult.
Two men were killed by the collapse
of a scatfold in the new Board of Trade
building at Chicago on the 29th.
The Jansen, Rosa & Gushing build
ings at Fonda, n. Y, were ruined by
fire on the 29th. Loss $4,000.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, experienced tor
nado on the 2Sth. The damage is esti-
mated in the neighborhood of quarter
of million.
A FREIGHT train was ditched by an
open switch Mt Harvell, ILL.,, on the 29ih.
Henry Waruccke, the engineer, and
Thomas Devlin, both of Decatur, were
killed.
Ten people, all connected with the
AngloAmerican circus, were burned to
death IN sleeping car near Greeley,
Col, on the night of the 2Sth.
The transfer steamer Belmont, with
a passenger train containing sixty peo-
pie on board, was sunk in the river near
Henderson, KY, on the morning of the
18th. Fourteen persons are known to
be lost. =
FIRE at Portland, Ore, on the Doth,
destroyed the Strowbridge block. Loss
$75, 900.
THE Bowery, New York, had S25,-
600 blaze on the 29th.
A LARGE part of the business portion
of the village of Adams, N. Y, burned
on the 2Sth. Loss, 100000.
A CYCLONE passed over Winnipeg,
Manitoba, on the 2Sth, doing great
damage. Many buildings were wrecked,
and the roofs of others torn off, Some
damage is also reported in Northern
Dakota
CHARLES KNUTsON was killed and two
men seriously injured by an elevator
accident in the foundry of E. z. Allis
q Co, Milwaukee, on the 2Sth.
THIRTY-Two colored people in the
vicinity of Eufala, Ala, are suffering
from hydrophobia in more or less ag-
gravated form, caused by eating the
infected carcass of a hog given them for
soap grease.
THREE women, Bridget and Annie
Hayes, and Mary McCabe, of New York,
were drowned on the 9th near CatskiI
N. Y, while boating.
Two children of Judge Davidson, of
Cleveland, were drowned at Denison,
o., on the 9th, while boating.
AN explosion on the 9th at Uhricks-
vile, O., caused blaze which DESTROYED
property to the value of $4,000.
A FIRE at New Iberia, La, which
burned several houses, on the 9th,
caused loss of $500
THREE young students ct The Moody
school, at Greenfield, Mass, were
drowned on the Goth. while bathing.
JOHN HOPKINS, aged IL years, had
his head severed from his body by
descending carriage in a coal shaft at
Scranton, Pa, on the 26th.
The wholesale dry goods house of C.
L. Luce & Co, Toledo, o., suffered by
fire to the extent of $4,000 on the
night of the 26th.
FIRE at Scranton, Pa, on the Goth,
destroyed the mill and lumber yard of
Joseph Ainsley. Loss $4,000.
HERMAN BEYER, a farmer, was gored
to death by vicious bull at Calumet,
Wis, on the 25th.
AT Rock Island, ILL.,, on the 25th, a
widow named Frantz took tincture of
aconite by mistake for another drug
and became a corpse in half an hour.
THE steamboat Shields and wharf
boat Maria Louisa burned at Shreve-
port, La, on the 25th. Loss $4,000.
TERRIBLE storm on the coast of
Newfoundland, on the 9th, caused the
wreck of fifteen fishing smacks in
Oyster Cove, two schooners in White
Bay and fishing smack with four men
and two lady passengers off Cape
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