The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1872-12-26
The Third Time the Great
Snowman has been
Burned Out.
Great Fire in Centre Street
Loss 100000.
Railroad from st. Louis to
Texas.
Look out for Alabama IL
legal Bonds.
Other Items, Etc.

CORY, Pa, Dec. a, midnight. This
afternoon, at 3:l5 o'clock, as the mail train
on the Buffalo, CORY 4 Pittsburgh Rail
road, leaving Cory at LOO P NJ, neared
Prospect, and when within about eighty
rods of the station, the train was thrown
off the track at a trestle work. the passen-
ger and baggage car and tender falling q
distance of twenty-six feet while the en-
gine passed over unhurt The accident
was caused by a broken rail
Twenty-Five persons were killed and
eighteen wounded The names of killed
as far as ascertained are John Douglas.
Edwin Bell, Sherman, \. Y; Col. Ma
loney, of Brocton Mark Haight, of Broc-
ton, \. Y; Frank Taylor, Cory. Pa;
Eliza Seeley, of Ripley, \. Y; johnson,
Of Westfeld, y Y. The wounded are
Maggie Curtin, Titusville; Mrs. J. NJ. Cur
tin, Iitusville; George Miller, Fredonia !:
j. j. Burtis Dunkirk, \. y; W. H. Lee,
Cory, Pa; Jacob Burton, Irving. \. Y:
W H. Fisknor, Buffalo Lizzie Briggs.
Angola, n. Y; John Y. Hilton, Roches
ter, \. Y; t. p Sanders, CORY j. A.
Dunham, Pleasantville, Pa; E. e. Bacon.
Brocton.
THE LATEST. cars fell bottom up
ward, the weight of the trucks crushing
them IN. There was no way of escape for
the imprisoned passengers. The cars i'm
Immediately took fire. but there was no
water to extinguish the flames and only
two axes could be procured to chop the
cars to pieces. In this situation some
twenty-five persons were roasted alive
filling the air for nearly an hour with their
dying shrieks for aid 1t is believed sew
eral OF those rescued will die of their in
juries
CINCINNATl, Dec. GA Times Jeffer-
sonvllle, Ind, special says the south bound
freight train on the Jeffersonville. Madi-
son and indianapolis road jumped the
track al fienryVllle al 5 A. NJ. plunging Is
cars and the locomotive over a steep en-
bankment, making a total wreck Of the
tram. John Belch, engineer, Geo. Golfer,
fireman, and Henry koons, brakeman
were instantly killed.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec y. The passen-
ger through train from Washington. due
here at 40 P. NJ, reports an accident near
Stanton station, the other side of Balti-
more. Several were injured, one or two
fatally.
KALAMAZOO, Mich, Dec. PA broken
rail let off a train on the Air Line Division
Of the Michigan Central Railroad this
morning. and quite number of accidents
have occurred on the main line and
branches, but nothing serious
JANEsvILLE, Wis, Dec 24.-The acci-
dent last night on the Chicago 4 North
western Railroad near Harvard, injured
the engineer, Stephen Hoteling, and a
brakeman, named Ben Hit. Neither was
seriously injured Six coaches went eff
the track, and were considerably broken
up.
URBANA, O., Dec 24.-Frank Ashland.
engineer on freight train, was killed
about 81 miles west of this place to-day.
In coupling his engine TO the train his
head was caught in some manner, crushing
his skull, and causing instant death
New YORK, Dec. 24.-Barnum Mu-
scum and Menagerie, on Fourteenth street
opposite the Academy of Music, was
burned this morning The fire was first
discovered about o clock, and in half an
hour the entire building though construct
ed OF iron, was in ruins The flames
quickly spread to the buildings on either
side. Grace Chapel, on the easterly side
was burned TO the ground, and the Law
renee mansion, on the westerly side. was
seriously damaged. The fire ran through
the block to Thirteenth street, destroying
the carriage factory of Miner & Stevens
and that Of F. Crate. The loss will amount
TO 5000 Another account says the
loss viii reach 81 1000, 900.
The only animals saved from the menag-
erie are the camel and elephant. The
cause of the fire is unknown.
Wies, police officer, at T. Is this morn
ing. while on his patrol, noticed fire burn
llg through the rou1 of the CiICus, hIIIiIu-
dlately over where the giraffes were kept,
and immediately after the animals and
birds began screeching and bowling in a
terrible manner. Alarms were soon
sounded, but the flames spread with such
rapR1ity that almost before the fremen
could get water on, Barnum' S circus was a
thing of the past The fremen report
that the roars of the animals were fright
tul during the short time that they lasted,
Two elephants and camel were the
only animals saved. When these were
led out by their keepers, they were given
large space by the crowd witnessing
the fire, although the animals were verv
dOcile considering the excitement on all
sides. The front building was two stories
high and composed nearly altogether of
corrugated iron and wood The structure
burned, however, as though it was a tin
der-box The firemen and others were
unable to stand within hundred feet of
the burning building, the heat was so in
tense. The windows of the Academy of
Music were cracked and broken with the
heat, the doors were blistered, and the bill
boards in front of the Academy were
burned on that side toward the circus.
Nothing could be done to save any of the
animals.
Barnum losses are variously estimated
at from $500, 900 to $300,000. Insurance
on the building and contents is in the
neighborhood Of $4,000.
New YORK, Dec. 24.-The entire block
on the east side of Center street, between
Leonard and Worth strees, was burned
this morning. The flames broke out in
the basement of building Nos. 81, So and
90 on Center street, and speedily commu-
aated to the MINER floors uhanea thav