Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-12-31
Fire, Slaughter and Destruotion--
Great Number Of Accidents on
Christmas,

choly and startling az array Of acci.
dents reported simultaneously all
over the land as on Christmas day 1
last week.
Al WilIiamsport. Pa, in church
orammed with children and their
friends TO hold Christmas festivities,
the ends Of TIE floor timbers clipped |
out Of place and plunged three hun
dred people into The cellar. The ker
qsenc set the building and people on
fire, but the flames were put out and
many lives saved. Loss, fourteen
killed and forty more wounded, some
Of whom will die.
At Prospect Station, Pa, on the
Buffalo and Pittsburg road, train
on a down grade broke g tender
wheel On trostIe bridge, was thrown
Of 80 fee, to tho ground. In two
cara, the stoves at both ends were
smashed and sot the cars on fire, as
they lay bottom side up. Thus Al per-
sons we're Imprisoned, and subjected
to horrible tortures. A few people az
rived to aid them but could not put
out the fire with snow. They drag
god cut some Of those at the middle
Of the cars with ropes, but they only
had two axes, and the iron bolts of
the cars prevented their cutting any
large aperturea. Thirty ofthe pas
sengers were killed, burnt 70 death,
or fatally hurt. Of tho dead only
four were recognizable.
A place eighteen miles north OF
indianapolis. car few from the
track, and twenty persons were in
iured three Of them probably fatally.
At place in Kansas on the Tope-
ka and Santa Fe road, passenger
train was stuck in snow drift and
run into By a freight train. Two
cars were telescoped, two men killed
aud several wouaded.
AZ Cincinnati a man slipped while
stepping upon a moving train, and
was run over These are part Of
the accidents of Christmas day. 90
the 26th, at Little Cottonwood near
Central City, Utah, a terrible avail.
anche of snow swept down across
the stage road, coo feet wide and Il
deep. II swept away eight or ten
teams and teamsters only two Of the
latter icing found alive. The rest
may not 30 found before spring
though 100 mon were shovelling
snow to find their bodies
AT Philadelphia on The Goth &C.
rie5 OF accidents took place from tn
enormous weight Of new snow rest.
on the roofs. In some cases, people
wero crushed By the falling in Of tbt
roofs, and one building was set on
fire.
On tho same day train running
south from louisville, KY, wos
tarown cfr by broken rail, fen fif-
teen feet and was wrecked. The
fir, which sprang up were put out,
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nj inst ahovo Noea ph'e, ma when II
broke loose 10 the night Of the Goth
it swept away tho dry dock then ten
barges Of coal which sunk, then
steamer after steamer at the levee
till all we're sweep away and lodged
AZ various places below in the ice
or sunk ID The depths OF the river
The gas works were left without coal
for day ahead, and the dealers rails.
G The price to 50 90 per barrel caus.
ing great distress to the poor The
loss from the co-gorge is called two
millions.
On tho day before Christmas, in
New York, BarnUm's museum, circus,
and menagerie Of animals was burn
ed, and only a giraffe and two Gle
plants were saved. This is the third
time Barnum has met with similar
calamity, sud inoendiarism is sus-
pected.