Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-28

/ ed, and the entire train took fire, but
was extinguished. There was a large
number of passengers aboard, most of
whom were in sleeping berths. Several
persons were seriously injured, but none
are reported killed. The wounded were
removed to Bowling Green.
! A Times Louisville special says fifteen
persons were injured by the accident on
/ the Nashville road this mOrning-three
seriously.
COLD SPRING, NEW YORK, December
27.-The Chicago express, which left
New York at eight o'clock this morn
ing, is now five hours behind time and
nothing can be heard from it.
MILWAUKEE, December y. = Peter
Hetsell, killed, and Robert Fricke and
/ Frank Zimmer, badly injured, by the
caving in of an embankment on the
FOn Du Lac railroad at West Bend last
Tuesday.
LONDON, December 27.--Thirty per-
sons were lost in the steamship Ger
many. Twelve Of them were passen-
| gers-one an American. During the
missionary meeting at Stafford last night
the floor of the building gave way, pre-
/ cipitating one hundred persons a cOnsid-
erable distance. Many of them were
/ injured-sOme fatally.
CINCINNATI, December 27.-The
/ Board of Trade to-day resolved to en-
pIoy an agent to remain at Louisville,
and to look after the interest of its MEM
bers in the speedy shipment of freight
| from that point south.
A Gazette special from Dayton says
that Henry Swinehart was arrested
there to-day for murder in the first de-
gree, in consequence of the death of
Bernard Wagner, whom he is alleged to
have struck in his Swineharts) saloon,
Christmas night, with a clRb.
John Clark was arrested at Fort
Wayne, Indiana, to-day, and returned
to Heightstown, New Jersey, to answer
the charge of forgery, committed there
two years ago. Clark had Just returned
from a fight to England. A Gazette
special says he cOniesses his guilt
Thermometer sixteen degrees above
zero. Weather clear.
BOSTON, December 27.-The ship Pc
ruuian, lost off Cape Cod with all hands,
was owned by VIM. T. Weld q Co., of
this city. The vessel and cargo was in
sured for four hundred thousand dollars,
mostly in Boston companies.
with the freight sheds on the Long
wharf to-day is estimated at one hum
dTed thousand dollars.
Forster, who was brought from Mon
treal for forgery, was committed for trial
to-day in default of thirty thousand dol
lars bail.
Edward o. Bates, well-known BOs-
ton merchant, died in the railway sta
ton at Swampscott, last night, Of heart
disease.
There is no truth in the report that the
st. James Hotel was On fire to-day.
LOUISVILLE, December 27.- The acci-
dent oE the Louisville and Nashville
railroad was not so fatal as first report
ed. The passenger train which left here
about midnight last night struck a bro
ken rail near Glasgow Junction, seven
ty-five miles from the city, about four
O'clock in the morning. The engine
passed over safely, but the rest of the
train-cOnsisting of a baggage-car, two
/ sleeping-cars and a passenger-car, after
running a short distance on the ties,
plunged down an embankment fifteen
| feet high, all the cars turning over and
being considerably injured. The bag
gage, mail and express matter took fire
almost Immediately, but the fire was
/ prevented from spreading by the eXer-
tons of the train-hands and passengers.
/ The express mess niger, named King,
was rescued by being pulled from under
/ the burning baggage. All the passengers
| got out except Peter Fox, of this city,
who was caught in the wreck, and had
/ to be cut out. One Of his legs was so
| badly crushed that it had to be ampu-
| tated, and it is reported that he will die.
None of the other passengers, numbering
about thirty, were dangerously injured,
though most of them received severe
| bruises.
BOSTON, December y. - The bark
| kadosb, of Boston, from Manila, for
| this port, went ashore last night at
Point Allerton, between the bars. The
boats in getting ashore were capsized,
and the Captain and six men drowned.
Eight of the crew saved.
The ship Peruvian, from Singapore for
Boston, struck the bar at Cape Cod dur
ing the storm last night, and went to
pieces. Crew all drowned.
WRAIINGTON, N. c., December o.
Two private residences, three stores and
other smaller buildings, were burned
last night. Loss, forty thousand dollars.
PHILADELPHIA, December 27.-The
Fairkill rolling mill was burned this
morning. Machinery ruined. Loss,
thirty thousand dollars.
ST. LOUIS, December 27.-The insur-
ance on the loss by the fire last night is
as follows: Liggett & Dausman, build
ing, st. Louis Mutual, $4,000, Jefferson
Mutual and Mound City, $1,000 each
total, $4,000; stock, North British, S10,- :
| COO; North American, $500; Phoenix,
$1,000; Royal, 5000; Commercial Union,
5000; Franklin, Pennsylvania, S2500;
Citizens, New York, S2560O; total, $780,
600: machinery, Home, New York,
$500; American Central, $1,000; Home
Mutual, st. Louis, Mound City, st.
Louis, $1,000; total, $50, ,0OO The dam
age to the adjoining buildings on the
north, occupied jointly by Liggett &
Dausman, and j. c. Tiemeyer was
$1,000. Insurance same as the corner
building. Insurance on Tiemeyers
stock: Sun, of Cleveland, $500; Girard,
$1,000; Citizens, st. Louis, $1,000; Royal,
$4,000; North st. Louis, $1,000; AItna,
$500; Washington Mutual, $1,000; St.
Louis Mutual, 5000; Commercial
Union, 5000; American, Pennsylvania,
$1,000; German, 5000; Manhattan,
$500; Freedman's, New York, $1,000;