Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-08
ACCIDENTS,

ELEVEN miners have perished in a
snow slide in Homestake Mountain
Colorado.
DIpHTHERIA of malignant type is
epidemic III Greenwood township, ear
Hillsboro, Ill.
BY the tenement house fire in First
avenue, New York, early Sunday morn
ing, eight perrons lost their lives, AID
fourteen were more or less injured.
WAINwRIGuT's brewery in Pltt.burg,
Pa, caved III with heavy crash at 8
o'clock Sunday morning. The struc-
ture, four stories, is an entire wreck,
together with 10000 barrels of beer
stored in the building. The loss is
estimated at 800 600.
A TORNADO at Pleasant Hill, Mo,
Wednesday night wrecked houses, blew
lhlrtheen freight cars off this track,
badly wounding three men who eccu-
pied the caboose, and killing number
of hogs with which some of the cars
were loaded. A child was killed at
Holden, aud property in the vicinity
suffered severely.
Ii. C.. 0'Donald, clerk employed by
the Illinois Central ROAD in Clinton,
ILL.,, died from the effect of chloroform
He had been suffering intensely from
rheumatism OF the heart, and Tuesday
night before retlriag, he thoroughly
saturated n handkerchief with chloro-
form, and, placing it over his face,
went TO sleep and never awakened.
THE most disastrous flood known
there iii fifty years is reported in the
Canadian province of New Brunswick.
THE village of Randolph. N. Y, has
lost sixteen buildings by fire. At Ash
Fork Sgatjoa. in Arizona Territory,
zine buildings w~re consumed Sstur-
day, and conhagration has wiped
out number of business houses and
many other buildings i'll Slfathroy,
Canada.
A FIRE on Sunday destroyed all the
business portion of Grani Junct ion,
Michigan. Tie principal losses are: z.
II. Warner, hotel and contents. Loss,
So geo: insurance 81 $50 w. A. Feazell,
store and general stock. Loss, 81, 900;
insurS nee light. w. Ii. Smith, house
hold goods. Less, 81, 600; no insurance.
Rogers Brothers, store and general stock
and the post Office. Loss, 81 500; insu.
rance. $500. w. NJ. Young, restaurant
and barn. Loss $1,000; insurance. $500.
ANfAheh0us tduiliohal lSssSS aAkACSAtS
$4,000 The frs originated from de-
fecttve hue.
AT 2 O'clock Sunday merning, fire
was dlscosa ard in Ms. Helborn's mil
linery-shop in Cabery, a thifty village
Of 500 population. located on the hke
hetv cen kankakee and Ford counties
% miles from Kankakee. The flames
spread rapidly, there being no fire de-
partment in the village, until soon the
entire business portion, consisting of
frame buildings, occupied as stores on
the first floor and residences on the
second, including twenty-four business
houses and fourteen residences, were
burned TO the around. Sens OF the
stock and household goods were saved.
or the companies carrying insurance
the heaviest loser was the Phenlx OF
Brooklyn. The other heavy losers were
New York companies.
On Sunday morning the city OF
| Stevens Point, Wis, experienced most
destructive confiagration in the
lumber district. The fire broke
out in Herren & Wadleigh's luna
ber-yard. Nearly all their best
lumber was piled on the north side
OF the Wisconsin Central and east OF
the Green Bay, st. Paul and Winons
railroad tracks, covering about two
blocks, in the center of which the fire
started. Tke one steamer and one hand
engine, which comprises ali the appar
4 atus in the city, were insufficient Il
cope with the fire, and the entire squar,