The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-09-07

Herb Ripley, IN employee ofthe Shell Lake
Anmlcr company. in trying to get of q
moving frright train at Shell Lake, Wis,
seel ana was run over by the train, crushing
Ooth Kegs. He was taken to tho Cumberland
hospital where !le died, not rallying enough
from MS Injury for nmputntiOn. This is nm.
other of the muny deaths caused by strong
drink. y
The firm house ofW. q. Croskle, four miles
east Of Spiritswood, Dak, was burned. The
furniture and building are un entire loss and
uninsured. Croskel was in the harvest field
driving a harvester mt the time of the fire. lis
wife being In the garden, und u twO-ycar-oltl
girl was burned to death. The fire il sup
posed to have l1cn occasiuned in some mai,-
ncr by the child.
Ayoung man by tho name of Den Alberton
was accidentally killed near Rice Lnkc, Wis,
IN very singular manner. He was mt work
IN one of the Knapp, Stout & Co. compnny's i
haysng camIs, aud while carrying q sllnrp
scythe he fell, and in faling brought the
scythe beneath limsclf in such q manner as
70 cut deep gash across his abdomen, his
bowels falling to the ground as lie stood up
on his tl.ct. He lived but short time after
the accident.
ba' forest fires arG burning near Na,lca,l,
Seventy-fivc miles south of Islpeming, Mich,
on tho Chicago & Northwestern railway.
Telegraph poles nre burned and damage to
standing timber will he heavy. AT pre,nnt
Threatened by tho forest fires bnt u strong
wind would cause them to spread rapidly.
"Bush" fires nrc alsO M,n,rtci Turin and
other places are threatened Unless it rains
soon tho fires will spread, us the timber ia
very dry.
Charles Stranlcrg, nm rmploye of the Mcr.
way Jones saw mill at West Superior Wis.,,
was iatniiy injured. S'ranberg's duties were
n OJs,n IL, -.
gagged board caught on top of the snw,
split and was hurled against him, striking
MIN in the left groin, entering about pix in
clles. He was also struck in the breast by a
large silver, which entered six inches. He was
taken to Jenson's boarling house and DR..
nothing except render the unfortunate man
temporary relief Strnnherg died few hours
utter the accident.
lump exploded in the Western Union telc-
graph office ut Livingston, Montana. Tho
office was in the Northern Pacific r,,iron,l
depot; u twostnry frame builsling in which
,was also the train ,iipiacl,cr's, division sup
er1ntrndrnt's an'l ticket Offices Of tho North
ern iiu'hc company. In two hours the
building wna kvel,.i to the ground by fire
startH! by the burning oil whicl, was thrown
over the office. A few trunks belonging to
rark tourists were naved but nothing else.
The loss is about 10000, ns it was one ni
the ilnest smaii stations Oh the road. itis
reported that the company intend to rebuild.
an'l that the new depot willlm alnrEer and
inner building than tile other. to nccO mn,u-
date the hclvy travel to the National Park,
this being the transferring point.
The forest fires in Michigan arc very bad
Twenty houses were burned ut Natlean. Bal
teau aud MumfOrl. Stors. co;,l kilns and
freight cars were burned but the rliroa.I
bridges were saved by cnginca. TcInyrapl
poles and wires arc burned down, People
from the burning Villages are removing TO
Power and Stephenson. One f,nlily Of seven
PERSONS are missing from Mumfi,r,l. They
are supposed TO he burned. Farmers work
ang in tho clearing lost t!icir buildings, crops
and everything hut their lives Smoke
covers rcrvs'iing. md it in impossible to
estimate losses. The firs nie burning ON
both sides of the Eiilway track for Il hun
.lred miles, with occasionul breaks. Several
hundred people are lrousclpss. There in little
prospect Of rain, Which alone can check tho
flames.
Archibald C. Paddock; q leading and re.
epectetl citizen Of l.i,igtield Conn, and n New
York dentist, accidentally shot n,ld killed his
eighteen cn-ycar-old som Hurry, and then, in I.
ut OF temporary insanity, killed himself 1t
had been the habit for fitlier AMI son to
pr'icticc shooting at q target in u lot at the
rear Of their home. The hoy had been hack
Of the target. and, suddenly nn, unex Icctcdly
stepping forward towards his father, received
the contents Of a. shot gun mined Mt the ar.
get. and w:.s instantly killed The father,
9verwlirlncd will, grief, rushed to his soIl and
kn''t Mt his s''le on III" grass md then with
the same weapon with whirh he had killed his
son ended his life. His domestic affairs were
harmonious, aud liz i,lolizcl the son fie acci.
IDENTIFY killed.