Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-30

OK the 21st passenger train struck brok.
en- rail near st. Louis, No., and q sleeper and
two coaches were wrecked. Fifty passengers
were slightly injured and one child killed.
A PORTION Of the engine house at Pitts.
burg, Pa, colliery burned on the 21st and the
engineer perished in the fire.
FIRE at Clio, Mich. on the 21st DESTROYED
business property valued at $4,000.
FIRE at st. Paul on the 2lst damaged the
wholesale grocery of Hull lPaar to the ex,
tent of $4,000.
A SCHOOL building at Elgin, ILL.,, burned on
the evening of the 21st. Loss $4,000.
BUSINESS property at Memphis. Tenn, to
the value Of $4,000 was destroyed by fire on
the 21st.
The American Exchange Hotel, at Antioch,
Gala, burned on the 11st. John Griffin and
Thomas Hines perished in the flames.
Two men were drowned on the 10Th, while
attempting to CROSS the river at Cairo. ILL.,, in q
The boie er in the sawmill OF Brink l. Elkins
at Haw-ville, No., exploded on the 18Th, fatal.
" scalding one man and seriously iniuring -four
others.
BY the explosion .of dynamite nill nea1
Allentown, Pa, on the 18th, three men we're
blown to atoms.
The business portion of Leipsic, O., sus-
tanned damage Of 1856. 900 by fire on the 10th.
COTTON valued at $59, 600 burned at Minden.
La., on the 10Th.
A BOILER in the Corrugating Company's fac
tory, Cincinnati. o., exploded on the 18th,
wreckipg tho building, and causing loss of
$1O3,00
FIRES on the 18th: Opera House, Washing
ington. Kas., loss $40, 600; Newark IN. J.) Steel
Works, damaged $4,000; Neil's paper board
mill, Lockpo1t, N. Y, loss $50 600; postoffice
and other buildings, Junction City, Ky. loss
$S5. 600.
TIE candle factory of E. Schneider & Co.,
Chicago, ILL.,, burned on the 20th. Ldes 1885,
600.
THIRTEEN stores at Minola, Tex, burned on
the Goth. Loss 41,000.
The builer Of a kitchen range in the house
of Frank T. Sherwood, Hunters Point, L. l..
exploded on the 18th. His son Charles, years
OLD, was killed, another is fatally injured, and
Mrs. Sherwood will lose her eyesight.
The building, No. 121 West Twenty-eighth
Street. New York, was crushed on the 18th by
falling wall Of burned adjoining buildings.
Loss $3.50, 1000.
The boiler of the shoe manufs ctory ard
tannery Of E. T. and E. Wallace, Rochester,
~ LIZ eApoOeO Oh inc 1otD, Wfecklng pOr-
ton of the building and killing four men.
On the 18th gas explosion wrecked and set
on fire three story building occupied by s.
Orr, halter, and others, Boston Mass. It is sup.
posed six or seven persons were buried in the
ruins.
FIRE in the business portion of Eau Claire,
Wis.,, on the 18th. caused a loss of $47,00
THE Grand Monteguma Hotel, at Las Vegas,
N. M. burned on the 18th. The guests, num-
ber'ng 100, were rescued. Loss $3OO.OO0.
AT Scranton, Pa, on the 18th, nine mills of
the Consumers Powder Company, exploded
successfully. One man-C. n. Emerv-is
known to have been killed.
AN employe Of the Hebron FIGURING Mills,
at Whitewater, Wis, named Rogers. got
caught in belt on the 18th, and was instantly
killed
FIRE at Fayette, Mo-, on the 17th, DESTROYED
'everal stores. Loss ~, 900. - "a
A FAMILY of five persons died at ST. Louis,
No: within . week, supposedly from poisoned
On the 18th FIRE in building at Exchange
Court. New York City. destroyed $4,000 OF
West Shore bonds, and q number of other
shares owned by T. NJ. Lockwood Il Co. Other
occupants lost heavily, and the total loss is
over $3.50, 900.
LARGE part of the business portion OF
Conastata, N: Y, was destroyed by fire on the
17tb. Loss $4,000.
TIE body of middle-aged man frozen stiff,
was taken out of a car loaded with wheat at
Buffalo, N. Y, on the 17tb. In his pockets
was letter addressed to Frank Roddy, signed
by JOSIE Roddy, Columbus, O.