The Nevada journal., 1853-06-17
Per Wells, Fargo & Co.
ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC.
ONE WEEK LATER.

from New York to May 18th.
Wells, Fargo & Co., were the first to
supply US with intelligence by this arrl-
val. The news is interesting, and is
much mixed with melancholy details Of
railroad and other accidents. by which
many lives were sacrificed.
The most terrible accident occurred
May 9th at Norwalk, Conn. The train
of the New Haven road ran into the riv-
er off the drawbridge, submerging in
fifteen feet depth of water the locomo-
tive and tender, b" ggage car, smoking
car, two of the passenger cars, and
portion of third. The draw was open
to admit the passage of the steamer Pa
cifc, which had just gone through The
speed of the train at the time of the
catastrophe was about 80 miles an hour
The width of the draw is sixty feet, and
such was the rate Of speed and force
that impelled the train that the engine
nearly leapea the draw, striking with
tremendous violence against the wall on
the opposite side. Nearly oil the pas
sengers in the submerged cars were
drowned and none escaped without Sc
we're and probably fatal injuries. Three
or four persons while in the cars under
the water forced their way out by break
ing through the cars, and rose to the
surface and swan to land. 2lo passen-
gers were on board the cars; of these A
were killed 146 saved, and slightly in
iured 26 were seriously injured and
two are yet unaccounted for.
On the night of May 9th, about quar-
ter past o'clock, the Patterson Emil
grant train, going west, and the Erie
Express train, coming east, came into
collision near mile from Bergen Hill.
Both locomotives were completely smash
ed. Two men were fatally injured, and
others badly wounded. The tender Of
the Express train was driven back into
the baggage car, completely destroying
the car, and large amount of baggage
belonging to the passengers. The En-
gineer, on perceiving that collision
could not be avoided, jumped of the
train, and escaped injury.
SALE OF CANAL LANDS IN ILLINOIS
The sale of Canal lands in Illinois com.
menced on the 10th May Prairie land
bringing from 81 to So per acre, and
timbered $8 to SIG; being an avera ge
of 70 per cent. above the appraisement.
TORNADO IN VIRGINIA.-A great tor
nado has passed over the lower part of
Princess Anne county, Virginia. A
number of houses were swept off, and
everything Frustrated. Four lives were
lost, and many persons woanded
SOUTHERN ITEMs.-Rio Grande cores
pondence represents everything as unu-
sually quiet and peaceful in that quar-
ter Carayajal was still under arrest
at Fort Brown.
The bill authorizing the Baltimore
Railroad Company to extend their road
to tide water on the Patapscc has finally
pessed the Legislature.
Lieut.. Trotter, of the Cd Regiment U.
S. Artillery, died on board the steamer
Palmetto May 10th.
TRIUMPH OF TIE BLooMERs.-The N.
". Express says; The 'bloomers' IN oul
citv, even among our fashionables, have
carried the victory at last; but this Is
by beginning from the crown OF the
head, and net from the sole OF the loot
The frocks trail as much as ever-nc
pretty foot, even, can be seen-and the
only sweeping the crossings" have, IL
many parts of the city, is with silks
mousselines and carefully worked petit
coats; but from the head dOwnwards,
3loomer carries the day. There IS
nice little iaunty bonnet. which shows
all the head, and is about as useful as u
hat, as q covering, no more; but then
comes waistcoat, a jacket, short tail
ed froce coat. The woman is almost a
man down to the waist but from the
waist down, she is just as much wO-
man as ever. As proof, see the bellies
of Broadway, Fifth avenue, and it's SUBJ
urbs up town.
AUDAc1oUs OUTRAGE IN NEW YORK
| The New York Sun of the l1th May
mentions two cases as having occurred
the night before, in which two peacea-
BILE citizens in different parts of the city,
were knocked down with clubs, robbed
and then stabbed, by party of ruffians
1t can hardly seem possible, it adds, that
such outrages as these could be perpe-
trated in the open streets Of our city,
and the perpetrators escape detection,
vet such is the fact; and scarcely a
night passes but that some unfortunate
man, unless armed to the teeth,is knock
ed down and robbed of any valuable he
may have about him.
The Boston clipper Sovereign of the
Seas has made the run from Honolulu
to New York in 80 days.
In ENGLAND, Kossuth has addressed
two letters to Lord Dudley Stuart, in his
direct, eloquent style, protesting against
the employment of spies to dog his foot
steps, and denying having any military
stores in England. These letters were
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