Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-11-22
FROM SACRAMENTO.

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SACRAMENTO, November o. Pullman's
hotel express train arrived from the East on
time, Yesterday. Twenty-six passengers.
John Il. Bardon, alias Texas, charged
with burning on July 22d, 200 cords wood
and 90, 900 shakes, belonging to the Central
Poetic Railroad Company, piled near Manas-
sas Gap Bridge, and with attempting to burn
the bridge itself, has been arrested by officer
Burke and sent to jail at Washoc City TO
await the action Of the Grand Jury.
On Saturday afternoon an insane man
named w. Duffy, mounted an engine which
was standing under steam, in the Central IA
cifo Round House, and ran her down TO
Front street and off the track before lie was
detected.
Another railroad accident occurred on the
Doth, between Ellis and Banta's Station, on
the Western Pacific Railroad, sixteen miles
west. OF Stockton. The construction trains
were on the road following each other. Tho
middle one was backing and encountered a
train approaching at good speed. Five cars
of one tram were badly smashed and thrown
into q ditch. Some cars of the other train
! were also damaged. A brakeman named
Thomas Newman jumped from a platform
and sustained serious injury about the thighs.
Tho collision occurred in the midst Of =
thick fog.
The schooner Arab arrived from San Fran
| cisco Yesterday loaded with iron work to be
used in the construction OF the California
Pacific Railroad Bridge. Workmen arc
busily engaged driving piles for the last pier.
The southwestern horizon was grandly
illuminated last evening by the blaze Of i'm
mensc tule fires which were burning in Yolo
| County. An alarm OF fire was sounded
throughout the city, caused BY the bright re-
Election from the same.
The petition OF D. ". Strong, for writ Of
quo warfanto against the Central Pacific
| Railroad Company, was denied by Attorney
| General Hamilton, after full argument. The
denial is based on gtounds Of public policy.
The wreck Of the locomotives and cars
that suffered by the collision near Simpsons
Station, last Sunday, was brought to the city
last night by special train Of about n dozen
cars. The two Western Pacific cars that
| telescoped, and the two OF the Alameda train
that performed the same feat, came through
on their own trucks. The remainder OF The
train was made up principally OF the west
ern Pacific express and baggage cars, neither
OF which are hurt mucl, beyond having one
end knocked in, and platform cars loaded
with the boilers OF the locomotives and scraps
Of iron Of all shapes and sizes, scarcely a
piece Of which retained the shape it bore pre-
vious to the collision.
BY the Central Pacific passenger train.
| Sunday morning, there arrived from the east
the balance of the Pioneer excursion party,
numbering-their families i~ncluded-about
sixty.
The California Pacific Railroad Company
have reduced the price VI tirst-c!ass tickets
to San Francisco via their railroad, 10 80,
second class, 81.
SMARrsvILLE, November 81. To-day,
about noon, three men, Herman Smith OF
| Smartsrillc and Klausc and Leszynsky Of
San Francisco, while experimenting with
Hcffcngcr powder, in the 0bcyes tunnel,
were blown up. The two former were killed;
the latter was alive at six o'clock, but in a
! dangerous condition.