The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-01
NEW YORK STATE.
The Troubles at Sing Sing.
Tho Freshet on the Hudson.
NEW YORK, March 81.

NEW YORK, March 81.
In the Union Pacific Railroad litiga-
tion before the Supreme Court yester-
daV, Judge Barnard directed the re-
ceiyer to break open the companys
safe. This he attempted to do, as
sisted by some laborers and others, but
Mr. Barlow, a member of the COM
pany warned the whole party off as
trepassers, and they went. The case
was then adjourned until tomorrow.
Virgil A. Krepps, the young man
who attempted to kill Miss Cassie King,
in a Brooklyn store, in February, was
sentenced in the Brooklyn Court OF
Sessions, yesterday, to eight years and
seven months Imprisonment in Sing
Sing.
The annual book trade sale com.
menced yesterday. The catalogue is
arranged to occupy four days. Several
western traders were present, and made
liberal purchases.
a Matanzas letter states that body
of Cuban patriots near there, have
raised the American flag, and that a
large expedition with arms, ammuni-
ton, etc., has safely landed at Cochinse.
PoUGHKERPsIE, March 81.
The body of Montague Dean, the con-
yict who died from the effects OF the
showering at the hands OF the keeper,
Buckingham, at Sing Sing prison. has
been disinterred by Coroner McEntee
for the purpose OF holding an inquest
on tho remains.
A car load OF corvicts passed here to-
night, from Sing Sing, en- route to Clln-
ton prison.
Fifty laborers passed through here
this evening. on their way to Cudden-
backVille, Orange county, where, last
night, another serious break occurred
in the Delaware & Hudson canal, htty
feet in depth and two hundred feet In
length.
The damage to the Dutchess & Co.
lumbia railroad from the storm Is more
extensive than at first reported.
The Jury in the case OF Montague
Dean. the convict said to have been
showered to death, have rendered
verdict stating that Dean died from ill
ness, and that the officers at the prison
have violated no rule or practice.
\ portion of the foundation OF the
heavy tressel bridge has given way,
and there have been extensive land
slides.
Reports from up the river tonight
state that the ice between the CATS
kill and the Hudson is still stationary,
but its departure is soon expected. Ihe
tide is coming in fast and tears are en-
tertained that there will be extraord1-
nary high water, and that much dam
age will ensue. All the piers between
the Hudson aud Albany are sub
merged.
The treshet on the river continued
last night.
Ten freight cars and a train of thirty
from Albany, ran off the track near
Castleton, the locomotive and three
cars upSetting in the river. No person
was hurt. Only one track OF the Hud-
son Railroad is now being used, and
the track In many places Is under
water. Three trains on the New York
Central road are also due from the
west, detained somewhere by the floods.
Tho Hudson river is very much
swollen at all points.
BUFFALO, March 81,
The river and creeks in every direc-
ton are swollen. The mails are detain-
ed and much damage Is reported at
Tonaward creek. A boat containing
five men was stoved in and two of the
men Albert Marriott and Alfred Dupont
were drowned Marriott leaves wife
and two children in Chicago.
At last accounts Weston was forty
minutes ahead of Payne, having walk
ed tifty-eight miles, both expect to
make the one hundred miles inside of
twenty-four hours.
ALBANY, March 81.
Eigth TO ten feet OF water on the piers
and docks and the river is blocked with
ice below, but the freshet has slightly
subsided. No trains have arrived from
the west since yesterday afternoon and
none has been sent forward. The track
between Fort Plain and st. Johnville is
submerged and n portion washed away,
but the water is slowly falling. All
trains are running this afternoon.