Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-01-03

who jumped clear on the cars as Iney were
falling. The woodwork of the passenger
car, thickly coated as it was with varnish,
burned freely, and before anything could be
done by the force at hand to prevent it, the
flames enveloped both ends of the car, and
crept rapidly toward the center. Penned
within at this time, with no possible chance
to extricate themselves, were forty
three adult passengers, the conductor and
one child. OF those seated in the ends of
the car, none escaped, but, help arriving,
about twenty-five dead and living were taken
out of the center of it, and the flames were
extinguished, or, more correctly speaking,
went out for lack of anything further to
feed upon. The roll foots up as follows:
Saved, all more or less injured, l9; dead, ~;
missing, s. The dead, with four exceptions,
were burned so as to be unacceptable
from the features, and there are but three
that could possibly be identified from the
shreds of clothing adhering to the roasted
flesh. Five were headless and without
limbs, and the remaining ones had the flesh
all burned off the extrmities. The eight
missing are supposed to have been COM
pletely consumed, and there are pieces of
skulls, watches, and the like, sufficient to
partially justify such belief" The cause
of the accident is supposed to have been
broken fange on the tender.
The entire block on the west side of Cen
tire street, between Leonard and North, New
York City, was burned on the evening of
the Oath. Among the establishments de-
stroyed was that of the New York Newspa-
per Union. Seven persons perished in the
flames, and five others were more or less in
iured. Tho total loss by this fire was esti-
mated at $250,000.
Satanta and Big Tree, the Kiowa Chiefs
who had been confined in Jail in st. Louis
for three months, left on the 23d for the
Texas Penitentiary at Huntsville, in charge
of United States Deputy Marshals Newcomb
and Morgan.
A servant girl in employ at W. F. Flagg's
residence, Bloomington, ILL.,, in trying the
virtue of kerosene as a fire kinder, was so
badly burned that her recovery was doubt
full. The stove was demolished, scattering
the girl, oil, can, ETC., promiscuously around
the room. In Sprinffeld, ILL.,, on the same
day, Miss Belle Wallace, eighteen years old,
was fatally burned while trying to light
uT6 ny pOuIluS Goal O1l Ou ~. AhO S"u "a
ploded and set her clothes on fire.
Intense cold weather continued through
out the West and South on the morning of
the 24th A woman and her three children,
living in a log hut on German Prairie,
near Springfield, ILL.,, were found in bed
frozen to death on the morning of the 24th.
VIM. Nj. Harrison, Reform candidate for
Associate Justice in Arkansas, fileda bill of
complaint on the oath, asking for an injunc-
tion to prevent NJ. l.. Stevenson and E. j.
Earl the Republican candidates, whose
election had been announced by the State
Department., from exercising the duties of
office; and also asking for a restraining
order to prevent Acting Governor Hadley
and Secretary of State Johnson from
altering or changing the original re-
rurns, and asking for mandamus to COM
pei them to produce in Court the original
returns, statements, etc, in reference to the
election. The bill charges the Governor,
Secretary of State, Registrars, County
Clerks and Judges of Election with confed-
Grating together and fraudulently depriving
thousands of citizens of the right to vote; of
changing and altering the returns, and pre-
venting the returns from being made from
four counties, by which the complainant
AYERS he was deprived of the benefit of 10000
votes.
The President on the Oath signed the bill
to reduce the expenses and offices of the
Internal Revenue Bureau, which passed
Congress few days before, and the work
of putting the new law into practical opera
ton would be commenced Immediately.
The Grand Jury of the Court of Oyer and
Terminer have found an indictment against
Victoria Woodruff, Tennie G.. Clafiin and
James N. Blood for libel against Luther
Challis.
Susan B. Anthony and the other females, to
the number of fourteen, who voted at the
late election at Rochester, n. Y, have been
bound over for trial before the United States
District Court in the sum of $500 EACH The
election inspectors who received the votes
have also been held for trial.
While about three hundred men, women
and children were in attendance in the upper
audience room of the Baptist Church in the
Seventh Ward of Williamsport, Pa, on the
evening of the 25th, participating in the
Christmas celebration, the floor gave way,
and nearly the entire assemblage was precip-
itated to the cellar below. Fourteen were
killed and forty or fifty wounded, many of
them seriously, ,some of whom would probably
die. To add to the horrors of the situation,
the oil lamps ignited and threatened to de-
stroy all in a general confiagration, but,
providentially, the flames could be reached
and were speedily extinguished.
The fires in New York City on the 23d and
Oath destroyed property to the value of
about 81, SOC, 600.
In the Stokes trial, on the Goth, a former
employe of the Erie Railway testified that
some time before the murder, Stokes had de-
clared to him that he would shoot Fisk.
When this testimony was given, Stokes lost
control of himself and cried aloud that it
was all false.
It was estimated, on the Goth, that the
total number of lives lost by the railroad ac-
cident at Prospect Station was thirty. One
of the rescued, who was in the car for
twenty-five minutes after the accident, says
several were killed outright, and others
writhed about until killed by suffocation.
Some were conscious till burned to death.
The Union soldiers of st. Louis held
meeting in that city few days ago, and
adopted memorial to the Senate OF the
United States, praying that body to pass the
Homestead act adopted by the House on the
18th of December.
The Chicago express on the Indianapolis,
Peru & Chicago Railroad was thrown off the
track by broken rail on the 25th, eighteen
miles from Indianapolis, and twenty persons
were injured, of whom at least three would
die.
Bya snow slide near Central City, Utah, a
few! days ago, eight or ten teams and team
sters we're carried 800 feet across Cotton
-.Aa C.oalz Some of the teamsters were