The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-30 00:00:00

ANOTHER KEROSENE CALAMITY.

During the performances at the Gaiety Theatre, Mil-
waukie, a kerosene lamp exploded, setting fire to the
building. The flames spread to the audience-room, and
before those in the building had time to escape, the
premises were enveloped in fire. A number of persons
were saved by jumping from the second-storey windows.
Several lives were lost, and fifteen or twenty persons were
badly burned. It is thought that the bodies of others are
still in the rubbish.

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RAILWAY NEWS.—It is estimated that by the end
of the year 1869 there will be laid in the United States, in
round numbers, 110,000 tons of steel rails, equal to

1,100 miles of steel road; and of this amount about
36,000 tons (equal to 360 miles) will be laid during the pre-
sent season. Thesa rails are in use on more than fifty
different roads, and are partly of American, principally of
English, and to a small extent of Prussian manufacture.—
The earnings of the Western Pacific Railroad for October
were $105,000 in coin, and the Central Pacific, $622,000,
coin. The coal found in the Monte Diablo range has been
tested in the locomotives of the Western Pacific Road, and
found to work well. The special Pullman hotel train to
San Francisco now leaves Omaha every Thursday morn-
ing, and San Franciso, on returning, every Wednesday
morning, and by its aid passengers go through now
with great ease and comfort, in six days between San
Francisco and New York. Leaving San Francisco
Wednesday morning they arrive at New York early the
following Tuesday morning, or Boston on Tuesday noon.
Going west, in order to make the connection, passengers
must leave Boston on Monday afternoon or New York and
Springfield on Monday evening. Sacramento Union does
not concur in the estimate which places the first year's earn-
ings of the Union Pacific Railroad at $8,000,000. " The
road," it says, " will be blocked by snow during parts of
January, February, March, and April. The Secretary of
the Central Railroad (from San Francisco to Promon-
tory Point) reports the gross earnings of that road,
for the six months ending September 30th, at $3,300,000
in gold, or $4,400,000 in currency. This half of the year
includes April, which, the Union remarks, "is probably
the month that offers greatest obstructions to trans-
portations over the Sierra Nevada. The first half of
May might also be included as not much more profit-
able than April. Land slides and snow slides are
frequent during these ail weeks. In March, February,
and January, there are unusually heavy snows, and last
winter was no exception to the rule." Making the neces-
sary deductions for interruptions on the two roads during
these four and a half months, the Union thinks the an-
nual gross earnings of the Central Pacific Railroad will
be 85,940,000 in gold, or $7,920,000 in currency, and
those of the Union Pacific Railroad $5,000,000 in gold,
or $6,660,000 in currency, making the total gross re-
ceipts of the entire lino for the year ending June Ist,
1870, $14,580,000 in currency.
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