The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-06
CASUALTEES.


145A0W,0jD bushels; potato crop $4,000 900.
against 1GS000,000 in 1886.
CASUALTIES.
Jan. 4-Near Republic o., twenty persons
Killed and many injured by collision on the
baltimore Ohio railroad $50. At Elmira, N. Y,
Tour men fatally injured by collision in railway
yards One person burned o death and thir-
Teen injured by wrctkiag of express train at
West Springfield, Mass H. Miss Kate Niehol-
soa, of Maysville, KY. burned te death Her
clothing took ire While lsaeGling to say her
prayers ut night AT PeWaukee, Wis, sleigh
Ioad OF lce-cutters struck by train and three
klliec ana nine injured. AT Elwood, Ind, two
men Killed by explosion of a boiler.
jan 5s~Three boys fatally injured while coast
ing 1n& Ri kutland, W.T.. Three men killed by
poltef explosion at ShealdeyYille, Pa,
Jan, e-German ship Elizabeth wrecked near
Cape Henry, Va, and o. lives lost -. Two men
frozen to death near Billings M. t.
Jan. 17-At Troy, n. Y, persons were over
come by odorcss gas and their eerpses were
found seated in chairs.
jan &--At masquerade ball at Freeport
Kan, paper hcad-dress of Cora Boulder caught
are from lamp. ana she burned to death.
Feb. 5-Accdent on Vermont Central ut
Woodstock vt. Forty-siX persons killed and
many injured.
Mar. 1-5teamer w. Fl. Gardner burned near
Gainesville, Ala, Is lives lost.
Mar. 6-tour persons killed and many injured
IN panic mt an elevated railway station in New
York.
Mar 0-Seven men Killed by boiler explo-
sion in 3Michtgan saw-mIlJs.
Mar; l4-Forty people killed and many in
railroad near Boston.
Mar, 23--TWeve persons burned to death by
explosion in boardng-hOuse of Colby Iron
Mining Company, at I3essemer, Mich.
o Mar 3O-Whailng steamer Eagle and crew of
200 reported lost.
Apr, 1.-Two Vassar graduates killed by ex-
pl0son While sightseeing in colliery near Fctts-
vile, Pa,
Apr; %8--slx men drowned IN gale at Tusket
Island, N H.
Apr. Delight persons drowned in collision
capSlZing OF boat
May 4-Twclye men killed by explosion in
Coosa tunnel Georgia.
May 6-Elcven colored people drowned at
New Orleans while Witnessing an immersion.
May Farmer while blowing near Michigan
City Ind, exploded % dynamite bomb, which
blow off arm and broke both legs.
May lS-Woman and 2 children at Coal
Nalley "a, burned to death from using petro-
ieuin to l>indle fire.
May lS-Four tons Of dynamite exploded at
spirit Lake Mimi, killing 2 men and tearing
mole forty feet deep in ground.
May 2i~SiX persons struck by lightning
WINE returning from prayer-meeting at Dexter,
May e9-Two men at indianapolis, 8 at Utica
ana Mt Montreal drowned by capsized pleas
urc-boats.
June Give boys drowned at Maquol1eta Ia,
ana ut Lemont ILL.,, while bathing.
June 9-Cloud.burst at NantiCol1c, Pa, caused
damage 100000.
June li-Propeuor Champlaiu turned near
CharleVoiN, Mich; - people drowned.
June 2l~-Fttccn men imprisoned III burning
mime ut Virginia City, New.
June 2S-SlX men killed by caving-in of rail
road embantmout ut Portsmouth, O.
July 0-'Nearly so people poisoned in New
York by ice-CrCam.
July l9-Fiyo men drowned at Boston by boat
caps2ing.
60 July lS-Ewe mon killed by lightning near
scranton, Pa,
July e0-Four persons shot, two fatally, by
1hIlah performers in circus at Clinton la.
july H-EXpress ran into gang of Italian
Iahorers near Alondale N. j., killing twelve
or hileen ana manglingm many.
July GO-Floods in Savannah valley, Ga,
caused u loss OF 81 100000
Aug l0-About 100 people killed and 300
wounded in wreck on Toledo, Peoria & West
eln railroad near Chatsworth, ILL.,
Aug iS-ln Pittsburgh - persons poisoned by
eatlaT confectionery.
Aug. fat Charlotte, Mich. Mrs. John
IifunEer, while picking cranbcrries, fell on a
knife and was killed,
Aug l9-SeVen men injured by explosion Of
cannon ut soldiers reunion, Enteld, Ill.
Aug 8l--Mau, vito and children drowned by
W&tor,apout near Cleburnc, Tex,
Sept 13-FoGr men killed and 81 injured by
ueraIed Train near Aspen, Col.
sept, 2}-Furious wind and ran-storm, along
ho Grande, in Texas, caused losses of 81 100000
Oct / - Propeller California wrecked near
Mac ,inaw, Mich, 10 lives lost
GOT Near Nashua, ~ H., musllrat dug hole
IN bank OF canal causing flood that stopped
mills and threw 5000 men out of work.
Oct lS-At Rock Creek, Mo, woman killed
ana several people Injured by collision of trains.
Nct, l5--At Memphis, Tenn Judge Elicit fell
dead from heart-disease Just after making
SEeech welcoming the Presidential party.
Oct 25-Fiftecn vessels wrecked and Z lives
lost by storm on Lake Erie.
Oct 29-Propcller Vernon lost near Manito-
Woe WIS. with about so Ives.
NOV lat Lam0ra, La, z persons died and
many others made ill from poisoning at supper
az private party.
Nov 16--SjX men blown to pieces by explo-
sion in dynamite works. Ishpening, Mich.
Nov l9-Babo and two young children left in
hous" near Monon, Ind, alone all night Babe
frozen to Gcath and others frost-bittGn.
Nov. 24-Alrs Myers and two children, Hen
derson Co., Ky, burned to death in forest fires
NOV 2i-Three men killed and five injured in
railroad collision near Pittsburgh . Engineer
ana fireman killed IN smashup at Anna O.
NOV S6-Vhree children drowned at Morrison
lll.,',A Mr. Hornicle and his five children
burned to death at Wausau, WIS.,. Five per-
sons killed and many others injured in build
ing blown down at NinCola, Tex.
NOV SS-IWo miners crushed to death by
lalllrg rock near Wllkcsbarre, Pa. Three
men L led by falling tree near Jerusalem, Va.
.';.TNN young men named Garrison killed in
mine shaft near Webb City, Mo. -. Many per
sons injured two fatally, by explosion of range
DO Ter IN Kirby House, Milwaukee.
Dec 1.-Two young men suffocated by coal
gas at Stroubvule. D. n.
Dec. &C, J. West burned to death In his
IN,
KILLED by collapse OF water tower at Thomas
VILE, Ca. Five persons drowned in cabin car
red away by water near kenton, Ky.
Dec, 1.-Two men killed at flour mill fire in
Dec, S-Two men killed in mine explosion
near AShyille, Ind.
Dee, l0-A Mrs Harris and her six children
burned to death in dwelling near Washington,
D. T., Five men fatally injured by falling car
in mine ut Lucerne, Pa
Dec, 11-Three men killed in railroad collision
NgF
Dee. 14-Charles Whaen, wife and daughter
drowned in Missouri river, near Bismarck, DIT
Dec. l5-Three young mea killed by falling
tree near Toledo, o.
Dec. 16-Mrs. IIather Topeka, Kan, burned
10 death by clothes catching fire while filling
u lamp ,., Five persons killed by boiler eXplo-
SION IN electric light works of West Chester, Pa
Dec. 1.-TWO men burned TO death in Cincn-
natl foundry ... Three men killed by explosion
in coal mine at Fleming, Kan.
Dec 19-t've men killed by explosion in saw
mill ut Tilton, Ca. Man blown into fragments
in mine at Ishpeming, Mich, While lighting
his pipe and holding two sticks of dynamite in
his hand, -Four persons killed on railway
near Lexington, Ky,
Dec. ao-pwo men killed by falling wall of
build ng at Joliet, III
Dec. 21-Four men killed by gas explosion in
mine at Plymouth, Pa. Explosions used by
ESCAPED naphtha in sewers in Rochester N "
killed four men and set fire to three mills
which were destroyed IS. Eleven men lost in
burning steamer of Pigeon Point on the Pacific
coast. = ~
Dec. 22-Two men killed at Glenmary, Tenn
lnquarrel between white and c3lored workmen.
Dec. g2-Estimated that % persons per-
lshed IN Kansas from hunger and cold during
recent blizzard. :. James Lundy, wife and
children Lima, o., fatally injured by natural
gas explosion. Mother and daughter burned
TO death in their home at Vicksburg, Miss.
Dec. 23-Forty persons injured by derailment
OF train near Leaf River H.. Three little
children fatally injured by lamp explosion at
Brooktield. Pa. One man killed and mary
persons injured IL railroad wreck near Fiield,
Wis