Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-06-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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\ dispatch from l'ittsbury says that fearful
collision occurred on Saturday on the Pitts
burg, Washington and Bait: moreerailroal, near
ConcllSvie The freight and Sail trains ran
together at full speed on short curve. The
entire freight train vas wrecked Henry Sax
ton, conductor of the latter, and Robert Lock
hart, were killed, and Mail Agent Blackburn
luortally wounded Eight passengers were Sc
riously injured, and it is expected that NUM-.
Der Of these will die. Nine others sustained
injuries of a less severe character. The frcig ht
train was running at a high rate of speed in
order to reach the switch at Conncllsvile be-
fore the approach OF the mail train
A train of cars was thrown from the track
near Bellevue Station, Canada, at an early hour
on Saturday morning. and the slaughter which
resulted is described as being terrible 1t Is
supposed that the deaths will reach forty. An
axle Of the engine broke, causing two cars filled
with second class passengers to telescope and
mount the engine, and here it was that the
great loss of life occurred. The locomotive,
being damaged by the terrible shock, permitted
the steam to escape in large quantities, which,
ascending to the shatterted cars, converted them
into seething cauldron and literally scalded
the imprisoned passengers to death.
Tn Philadelphia, on Saturday evening, Geo.
Wclch shot his mother, Elizabeth Welch, at
their residence in Leithgow street. The decd
was done at the supper table. The ball enter
ed his mothers head back Of the left ear, in
flicting wound which will prove fatal. WEIGH
is thought to be Of unsound mind, he having
charged his mother on several occasions with
attempting to poison him. Mrs. Welch is a
respectable and well-to do fish dealer. Her son
is in custody.
A fire broke out at . clock yesterday in
Chicago The fire patrol, body Of men en-
ploycd by the underwriters, were the first to
arrive, and just as several of them entered the
burning building the gas meter exploded
David Donnelly and j. Patterson were burned
but not fatally injured. The building was to-
tally destroyed Loss on building and stock
$4,000.
San francisco was shaken Friday evening by
the tremendous explosion of 800 pounds of
nitro glycerine in the California powder works,
a frame building near Lasuna Honda, four
miles distant from the city hall. Six buildings
were wrecked, and hole II feet deep and l25
feet in circumference was made in the ground
by the explosion. No person was injured.
The coal lands on the west sid of Wolf
creek mountain, in Monroe county, W. Va,
have been leased to Mcssrs. Dickinson 4 Wood
for a term of five years. There is au album
dance of good coal on the lands and the mines
will soon be opened.
Christiana Thorpe, aged twenty-five, while
on the train from Druid Hill Park, in Balti-
more, yesterday, had her clothing ignited by
a spark from the dummy engine and was burn
ed almost to crisp.
The sentence to death Of Marguerite Dix
blanc, the French servant girl who was con-
vlctcd Of numbering her mistress in London,
has been COMMITTED to penal servitude for lie.
FAIRFAX COUNTY. - From the Fairfax
News. IA commission on Frluay examined
Stephen ID. Farr OF Dranesvillc, who has been
III jail here for the last month, to ascertain il
he was a lunatic. After listening to Farr's
statements in regard to his arrest NC, the ply
scians gave it as their opinion that be is Il sane
man.
Mr. James Cockcrile, who was injured with
knife by Washington Farr last fall, is grow
ing worse every day, and there are now no
hopes of his recovery.
A horse stolen from Mr.. W. p. Speer,a short
time ago, has been recovered by that gentleman,
near Laytonsvic Montgomery county Md.
Mrs. Simms residing near Springtel sta
ton was bitten by cat suffering with what was
supposed to be the hydrophoba, one day last
week. She visited the maidstone, at Aide,
with what success We have not learned,