River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-02-28
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Renord nf Casualties


Trichinm appear TO an alarming extent around
| La Sale III.
| The damage by the storm at Paducah, KY,
on the 18th was $4,000
Mrs Hully, a prominent lady OF Switzerland
/ county, Ind, was drowned in the flood
The Southern cyclone killed no less than five
hundred persons, and destroyed 100000
/ of property
saw mill boiler exploded al West Carlisle,
1 Pa, killing two men named Ridenbaugh and
| Buekmaster and severely wounding several
1 others.
/ A fire at Charlottetown, Prince Edwards Is
I land, destroying all the business places on the
south side of Green's square, the postoftice and
| custom house. The loss is placed at $3.50 900;
| insurance 100000.
San Francisco Special: rain storm caused
great damage to the Southern Pacific railroad
/ The greatest damage is between Los Angeles
i and Mojaye, where for distance of thirty
/ miles through Soledad canon the tracks are
nearly all washed away.
| An oil tank that was leaky rolled from car
/ in Bellefountaine, Ohio, and boy lighted the
/ oil on the ground The FIRE ran To the tank,
4 which exploded scattering the burning oil over
! six children. One Of them viii die and the 9TH
| ers are seriously burned
There is no doubt that fully 800 people were
| killed in Georgia by the storm and fully three
times that number wounded, many seriously.
/ The destruction to property will reach 81, 900,
| 600, and in every respect the cyclone is the
most disastrous that has visited Georgia IN
/ twenty five years.
! The heavy iron roof of the retort house OF
/ Charleston, s. G., Gas works fell in killing
! John McGann and iniuring Cornelius McCiow-
/ an and Edward Clarkin, firemen, who were en-
! gagged in the building at the time of the acct
dent The damage to property is $4,000.
i There will be no interruption IN the lighting OF
/ the city.
4 Reuben Hart and wife (colored) residing
| three miles in the country from Crockett, Tex,
/ went to church and left six children at home
asleep. At ten o'clock the house was discov-
| cred TO be on fire, and il burned SO quickly
! that il was impossible to save it or the chill
I dren, every one of them was burned to death.
/ The eldest was boy thirteen years old
A wire bridge spanning the Kiskaninet river
at Apollo, Pa, parted Immediately over the
/ pier in the middle of the river. and went down
with a crash. William Henderson and Harry
/ 1eneins were crossing the river with load OF
sheet iron, and were thrown into the river.
/ Henderson escaped with cold bath, but Yen
kins and the two horses were drowned
Thomas Default and Bernard Houle, two Of
I the Oldest and most respected citizens of North
ern Dakota, were found about five miles west
4 of Pembina Tuesday afternoon frozen nearly Ia
death. When found they were unconscious
/ and Default died the 10Th There is no
/ hopes of Houle's recovery. Default had wife
/ and four children. Houle is unmarried.
West-bound passengers at Los Angeles had
! to take steamer at San Pedro for San Francis
Co The Southern Pacific has stopped selling
/ through tickets via Los Angeles or Needles.
/ The officials of the road estimate the DANA
4 ges at 81, 600 600 Reports from the southern
I part of the state indicate considerable damage
I by foods-bridges and houses washed away.
/ In Los Angeles city about fifty houses were
( carried away, but thus far no lives are report
4 ed lost
/ Among the buildings destroyed by the flood
at Metropolis IL, was the old National hotel,
+ fifty years old, made famous by Charles Dick
/ ems in his Martin ChuzzIewit The new Nc
/ Cawley house has given away ON the river front,
and is expected to collapse at any moment
4 Mrs. Green's hotel on the river front has been
I swept away. The Metropolis Stave factory il
4 gone The Metropolis foundry has yielded to
4 the waves. The pillow factory and many other
! business industries in the flooded districts have
4 been swept away Many private houses have
/ collapsed, and the streets, where they enter the
water, are filed with the debris of destroyed
! buildings.