The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-20 00:00:00

EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO.

The New York papers, delivered on Saturday, bring the
following news from Havana, dated the 6th inst. :
" A violent earthquake has visited the State of Oaxaca.
Its effects were especially disastrous in Oaxaca, the capital of
the State. 103 persons were killed and 53 wounded. A
third of the city was rendered uninhabitable. The earth-
quake extended to the mines, where 11 men were killed
and many wounded. Buildings in all parts of the State
were destroyed, and reports of additional deaths are

corning in.

SHOCKING RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
A terrible accident has occurred on the branch line
of the Great. Northern Railway from Spalding to
Bourne. A farm labourer, named John Horse-
pool, and a lad named James Caistor, wore cross-
ing the line in a oart just as a train was due. The
horse became restive whilst Horsepool was unlocking the
gate, and in endeavouring to get it clear of the line the
train came up, and the man, lad, and horsewere caught by
and dragged under the engine. The man was killed
instantly, as was also the horse, and the poor lad died
about three hours afterwards. The jury have acquitted
the driver of the engine of blame.

ALARMING FIRE AT OLD FORD.
At a few minutes before one o'clock yesterday great
alarm was caused in the immediate vicinity of Prince
Albert-yard, Russian-lane, Old Ford, owing to the out-
break of a fire in the large range of stabling belonging to
Mr. W. C. Day. The discovery was fortunately made in
sufficient time to enable the police and others to get the
whole of the valuable horses out of the premises. The
firemen and the London Salvage corpswere quick in their
attendance, when they found the stabling and provender
stores were in one immense sheet of flame. Plenty of
water was at once procured, and all present went to
work in an admirable manner, but the flames could not
be conquered until the stabling, more than 50 feet long,
and the lofts were destroyed, and the roof burned off.
The origin of the fire is at present unknown. Mr. Day
was insured in the Union Fire-office. Five other fires
took place yesterday, but the damage done at each was
inconsiderable, although the flTemen had great difficulty
in subduing one at the Patent Bottle Envelope Works, in
Golden-lane, St. Luke's.

THE BABY-FARMING CASE AT BRIXTON.
The case against the two women, Walters and Ellis,
who were charged at Lambeth Police-court, on Tues-
day, with neglecting children entrusted to them to
nurse, has assumed a somewhat serious aspect. The
police have ascertained that they ' have been
corresponding with many ladies on the subject
of adopting children, using different names in each
instance. In the letters it was stated that the pa-
rents need not even see or hear of the children again, and
that a person would be sent to take the children away by
night. The nine infants who were taken from the house,
4, Frederick-terrace, Gordon-grove, Brixton, to the Lam-
beth Workhouse, are, with the exception of two, progress-
ing favourably. Their ages vary from one to eighteen
months. The prisoners have refused to give the names
of the parents of the children, one of them stating that
she would rather suffer death than do so. The police,
however, are in possession of important information,
which will probably lead to some very extraordinary dis-
closures.