Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-27
DEATHS HARVEST.
a Long List Of Dl,astsre In Various Parts
Of the World.

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ALong List Of Disasters In Various Parts
OF the World.
4 RUNAWAY TRAIN.
READING. Pa, Aug. 9a-A Car con-
tanning eighteen passengers on the
Mount Penn gravity road ran away
Friday morning and rushed down the
mountain, distance OF Ave miles as
the road runs, ut the rate Of eighty
miles an hour. When the car reached
the station at the foot OF the plane
1t jumped the track and rolled down
q flfty-fOot embankment, where it
landed upside down, with the passen-
gers imprisoned inside. The greatest
excitement prevailed and soon
large crowd gathered. Doctors and
the ambulance was sent for and the
dead and injured removed. Four
were taken out dead. They are
Charles Rettow, Edgar M. Levin and
Misses Rosa PfeitIer ana Harriet Shink-
Ter. Mrs. Hiram Shinkler and Mrs. W.
A. II. Schmel will die. Among tho
other injured are Sallie Bye and Mary
Guthrie, of Wilmington, both badly
hurt, and Willie Schmel, this city, both
legs broken.
SIMILAR ACCIDENTS OUT WEST.
EMlaRANT GAP. Cal, Aug. pa
freight train became derailed from it's
engine at Summit Friday morning and
ran rapidly down the heavy
grade at Cascade. Another freight
train was pulling on to the sid
ing when the runaway cars struck
It, In the wreck which resulted
Conductor Kingsley, of the runaway
train. and Conductor Connolly and two
brakemen OF the other train were
killed and Two other brakamen badly
hurt. The station building WAS thrown
down precipitous hill anu the snow
sheds demolished for a considerable dis
lance.
DENVER, COL, Aug. o.. Three men
were killed and three seriously injured
by tho running wild OF tLone train Of
seven cars in the vicinit, OF Lyons, COL,
Friday morning. The train was on
down grade when the en-
gineer found he had Lost con-
troll of the engine, VIII .reupon the
whole train started on wild run
down the mountain side. Tho train
rushed on until the dump v as reached,
when all the cars won't over and piled
up in q promiscuous mass of ruins The
killed are: f. Norton, engineer; Fer
guson and w. Gurker, car repairers
Three others were seriously Injured
OVER A HUNDRED DEAD.
LONDON. Aug. ga dispatch from
Geneva reports q fearful cyclone in the
canton of Wand, in which 1870 persons
were killed and nearly Loon injured.
The storm was furious. and moved a
swath of destruction thu ougn the
center of the canton. Several hamlets
were devastated and one is reported
to have been completely wiped
out. not single building re naming to
mark the scene of ruin. Tn. usands of
people have been rendered homeless,
and every thing in the Path of the
storm was swept out Of existence. For
ests were torn up. vineyard, destroyed
and houses leveled. Of tho injured
many are fatally hurt, and the death
Fist will he greatly increased. Particu-
lars are meager, and the people are
dazed by the horror that has befallen
them.
PARIS STRUCK BY A CYt LONE
PARIS, Aug. 23.-A cyclone of great
violence struck St. Cloud In the suburbs
of Paris. 1t WIS of brief duration. but
its path was marked with grrat destruc-
ton. Twenty houses were utterly demol-
ished, the occupants being buried in
the ruins. Seven dead bodies have al
ready been recovered, and the list will
certainly be increased, as several per-
sons are still missing. One family named
David is known to be buried in the
wreck of their house.
CIRCUS TRAIN wREcKED.
KALAMAZOO, Mich, Aug. 2S.-The
first section of the Barnum & Bailey
circus trains was wrecked at Shelby
vile, on the Grand Rapids & Indiana
road by coupling breaking and several
cars flying the track. Three Non We're
badly hurt. Two have since died
TORN TO FRAGMENTS.
LONDON, Aug. Am explosion oc-
CURED in one of tho outhouses Of the
Government powdrr-mill at Waltham.
Two men we're blown mo fragments
and several others we're injured
NINE BURNED TO DEArA
VIENNA, Aug. 2S.-The town OF Szaay,
near Oldenburg, Hungary, was do
stroyed by fire Friday: Nine Lives w'ere
lost
FATAL COLLISION AT SEA.
ST.. NAzAlRE, France, Aug. 23.-The
French steamer Amerique on Friday ran
down and sunk the English steamer Red
Brook off this port Three persons,wera
drowned.
CRANBERRlES WILL BE- HIGH.
The Field This Year VIII BE Far Short Of
an Average Crop.
BERLIN, Wis, Aug. as.-The last few
days have been full of anxiety to cram
berry-growers in this section. The
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