The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-27
WEST AND SOUTH.

al OAAO DuSh~ASoAAOC tuuuCl near
Leadville, COL, an explosion killed five
men and seriously injured several
others.
FORTY buildings at Usage, Kan, were
destroyed by cyclone. Anderson
Wagner and his wife were killed and
twenty other persons were injured.
The Florida legislature reelected
Samuel Pascoe United States senator.
, FLAMES destroyed the structure of
the Clifton Wire Cloth company's
works at Clifton, Mass, the loss being
$3.50, 900.
The death of Gen. B. l.. T. Beale,
who was in congress from 1s47 to 1S49
and from 1877 to 1879, occurred at his
home in Westmoreland county. Va.
Orr Cape Flattery the sloop Elida,
silk laden, foundered in a heavy gale
and four lives were lost.
NEAR Fayetteville, Ark, a cyclone
swept path 300 yards wide, uprooting
trees and destroying many houses, leav-
ing several families homeless and desti-
tute.
The total rice crop for the season of
1892 and 1898, carefully estimated, is
reported to be 255,ooO,0o0 pounds of
clean or edible rice.
AT Centralia, w. Va, on the line of
the West Virginia & Pittsburgh rail-
road, five men were killed by the fall
ing OF jack used to hoist an engine.
DAN ER1CKsoN's house at Bradford,
Mimi, was burned with all the house
hold effects and the man, his wife and
two children xvero cromofo1
A MOB took Flanagan Thornton, the
negro murderer of Constable Pate, from
Jail at Morrillton, Ark, and hanged
him.
In Jasper and Clarke counties in Mis-
sissippi cyclone did great damage to
property and killed over dozen ne
groes
Snow fell to the depth of 10 inches in
Minnesota and North Dakota
LAKE MICHIGAN was dashed into fren-
~ for over forty-eight hours by tenn
pest and several vessels were driven
ashore near Chicago, others were
wrecked and several lives were lost.
The crib at the new waterworks in
Milwaukee was washed away during a
terrific storm and fourteen men lost
their lives.
In Nebraska terrific hurricane
swept away windmills, barns and hay
stacks and several persons were more
or less injured.
A DESPERATE attempt was made by
miners to iberate the convicts from the
stockade at Tracy City, Tenn, and dur
ing the battle two men were killed and
. dozen others were wounded.
LATER advices from the cyclone in
Jasper, Clarke and Jones counties in
Mississippi state that over 200 homes
were ruined~and nearly fifty persons
were killed. A negro named Henry
German and his wife and nine children
were imprisoned under the ruins of his
cabin, and fire originating from
stove slowly roasted the unfortunate
wretches. .,
A MOB of 500 citizens at Salina. Kan.
lynched Dan Adams, young negro,
for having assaulted Agent Stout of
the Union Pacific freight Office with q
razor. -
A VIOLENT blizzard ragged all over ILL.,
nols, Michigan, Indiana. Wisconsin and
Iowa, accompanied by hail, sleet and
snow, stopping all travel and wreckin9
many barns and several houses.
The town of Warner, in the Occur
d'Alene mining district of Washington.
was destroyed by fire. Loss, $500, 600.
A TORNADO struck Midland City, Ala,
and destroyed dozen residences, four
stores and two warehouses.
In the Ohio oil fields q storm
wrecked over 100 wells, the Standard
Oil company alone losing over $500, 900.
AN express car was burned near
Albuquerque. N. M, and SIS, 900 in gold
in one of the safes was melted.
In the superior court eleven white
caps, some Of them the most prominent
men in Cazrollton, Ga, were sentenced
g twelve months y the chain eana.