Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1872-12-12
EASTERN DISPATCHES.
SPECIAL tothe GOLD HILL NEWS
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE E.
serIeu. Railrsad Accident.

Serious Railroad Accident.
CuMBERLASp, Md, Dec. IA
freight train OH the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad broke through the
bridge over South Branch last even
ing. The fireman was killed and the
engineer, conductor and brakeman all
injured.
FinaaciaI InvcstiEation.
New York, Dec. 1s.-Washlngton
dispatches state that the Credit Mo.
biler investigation will be held with
closed doors.
The New Lean
1t Is said the representatives Of the
Syndicate OF German bankers are rea.
DIV to take the whole of the four, four
aud a half and five per cent. funded
loan for n commission of216 per cent,
leaving the Treasury free Of all ex-
pense.
Tho Postal Telegraph Bali.
President Orion of the Western
Union Telegraph Company is to be
heard before the Appropriation Com
mittee on Monday in reference to the
Postal Telegraph bill.
Tie Finh Avenue Hotel Holocaust
-Aasiher vietIm brutal, mar
dersus Criminality OF tho Hotel
Proprietors.
New YoRK, Dec. l2.-Mary Ann
logan, a victim Of the Fifth Avenue
Hotel fire. died in great agony ut
Belleyire Hospital yesterdy. The fire
originated, according to evidence be-
fore the Fire Marshal, In the servants
room on the third floor. One OF The
proprietors says, however. the origin
of the fire Is unknown. Another pro-
prietor says he ordered the alarm to
be given after the discovery Of the fire.
Both are of the opinion that the poor
girls met their death from s%uffocation.
The loss to the building Is only $lO,-
OUO; furniture damaged $4,000. An
eye witness says there Is no doubt that
II the alarm had been sounded on the
discovery Of the fire. the girls would
have been rescued. The general I'M
preston Is, that the hotel proprietors
dcslrous to save the furniture and car
pets, wanted to put the fire out with
out the aid Of the firemen. A member
of one Of the fire companies says at
first he was refused admlttance to the
hotel with the excuse that they didn't
wish a panic among the guests. He
finally insisted on entering. The Fire
Marshal says that nothing like sufi-
cient precaution had been taken to
guard against loss Of life in the event
of fire Mt the hotel, and that he finds
no efforts we're made BY the people to
rescue the girls. He thinks the author
tiles of the house were so concerned
about the baggage Of the guests that
human lives were forgotten. An en-
ployee says he Intellectually endeaV-
orcd to tear of the screws Of the win
dews where the girls were confined.
Over 10000 people visited the morgue
yesterday. The sight there was Of the
ghastliest character. The press Of the
city call for n thorough investigation.
Tho Herald. In Its leading editorial,
designates the Fifth Avenue holocaust
as a criminal murder, and In a lengthy
article strongly condems tho authori-
ties of the hotel for their conduct.
A Rich Fugitive.
CHICAGO, December l2.-Dlspatches
received in this city yesterday state
that winslow, the fugitive President
Of the suspended Scandinavian Bank,
Of this city, Is in China, where 1t Is
stated he went a month ago. taking
with him some twenty thousand dol
lars.
Wife Murderer Sentenced 70 Death.
At Peoria, ILL.,, Henry McNulta,
who murdered his wife at Chillcothe,
Ill.,, recently, was found guilty Of muir
der in the first degree and sentenced
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