New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-09-19
The Record of Casualties.

a dispatch from East Tawas, Mich, says
heavy forest fires north and east of that
point are doing great damage.
A telegram from Port Huron Mich, states
that the schooner Cheney Ames has founder
ed in Lake Huron and that all haslds went to
the bottom with her.
Rev. Father T. T. Richardson of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. fell from window of his room
on the fourth floor of the Lorimer house
and was SO badly injured that he died.
The total loss by the fire in San
francisco is placed by the latest estimates
at 100000, with an insurance of $200,O00.
Some 1000 men are thrown out of employ
ment One man was burned to death.
destructive fire destroyed the entire bust
ness portion of Harper, Iowa, except one store
and On implement house. The loss is yari-
ously estimated at from $4,000 to S25.
OOO The insurance does not exceed SIS, 900
Parties just arrived from the upper Tenton
country in Montana report disastrous
prairie fires in that section. Ranges have
been burned off for an area ofsixt y five miles
and the fire has assumed such dimensions as
to battle all attempts to keep it under con-
troll.
sTAdvices from Orizaba Mexico state that
rivers and creeks have overfowed their banks
Houses have been torn down and several
lives lost. Streams from the City of Mexico
to Vera Cruz are rising. In the state of Hid
algo, rivers are overlooking and causing
great damage Railroad traffic has been
suspended.
The elegant summer residence of John
Johnston, the well known banker, and all
the farm buildings and crops at Bracken
Brae, his country seat, a few miles southwest
OF Milwaukee, were burned. Loss, 100000;
insurance, $5, 900. The fire was started by
some children playing with matches. A high
wind rendered the attemptto check the flames
fu tile.
Hank Farris, well-kn own character at
Greenwood, KY, who runs saloon at that
place, shot and instantly killed Thomas
Young. Young went to Farris' saloon to
get friend to go with him to Beaver Creek
Ferris was drunk when Young came in, and
accused him of taking his customer away
from his house He would not allow Young
to explain, but shot him down without
proVocation.
The chemical works of the Marshfield Man
ufacturing company, owned by J. 81. Matthes,
burned atMarshfield, Wis. The fire originated
IN lot OF chemicals stored in one corner Of
the building, from what source is unknown.
The retort building and coal house was
saved. About two hundred and fifty cords
of wood was burned The loss will reach
O,O00 with a total insurance upon the
whole plant of 81, 500.
At Elliot's circus in Faribault one of the
performers, named Barton, met with a seri-
GUS accident by having his hand cut on glass.
Miss Elliot, who was playing on glass bottles,
hit the bottle hard enough to break it, and
the attendants failed to clear the platform of
the broken glass. Barton struck the broken
bottle with his hand in his performance, and
was SO seriously injured that he will be I'M
able to do his work for number of weeks,
if he does not lose his hand.
A rear end collision occurred on the North.
ern Iowa division of the Chicago & North
western railway at Auburn, Neb. One special
trelg ht ran into another which had been de-
'layed by an accident. The rear engine went
through three cars and into the middle of the
depot completely wreckingit. Engineer Kel-
lar was slowly roasted to death under the
fire box. Fireman George Trusty had both
legs cut off and died at midnight A brake
man, name unknown, was fatally injured
A young man named John Cummings com
mitted suicide at Sank Centre, MINI. he
had hired out to work for S. Beidle man and
was found in Beidleman's barn hanging from
one of the rafters, dead No motive can be
assigned other than insanity. He has been
subject to temporary periods of derange-
ment, and it is thought that he committed
the act during one Of these. Several years
ago he was sent to st, Peter insane asylum
and was afterward sent home as cured, and
has since shown none of the symptoms of
his malady.