The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-01

the interests Of producers and consumers; also,
TO consider what can be donc to reduce the
cost OF transportation byfail and water between
the West and the seaboasd. The Scnate Com.
mittee q Transportation Routes propose to be
present b person or by delegates. l
A special telegram Of the 2oth gives the fol.
lowing particulars of the recent railroad acct.
dent on the stonington 4 Providence Railroad:
The train left Stouington about thirty.fve
m1utes late, and was running at the rate Of
lot miles , per hour; As It approached the
aware OF the existence Of the watery gulf be-
lore them, but saw the danger too late to pre-
vent the disaster, or even save their own lives
BY leaping from the engine. The locomotive
Jumped the gap, about thirty feet wide, and
landed on the other side in sand bank, plung-
ing into it with such force as to wreck her
completely. Some idea of her speed may be
ascertained from the fact that q piece of rail
Was broken up and shot through the boiler 60
that 1t remained like shaft exposed at both
ends. The engineer, VIM. Guild, when discov.
cred, was between the driving-wh and en-.
left to identify him. The fireman, George
Edridge, was crushed to jelly. There were
about eighty passengers, and the scene can
better be imagined than described. As over.
turned stoves and lamps set fire to the wood
work, cries for assistance rent the air from tho
smoking caldron, frantic husbands calling
Tor wives, wives for husbands, sons and daugh-
tiers. Some escaped through the car windows,
Others were pulled out Of the water below,
while many more were writing beneath the
ruins. One man with his body partly out of
the window could extricate himself no further
and, and was calling wildly, 'Oh, save me, I am
were not needed, and death put an end to his
sufferings. When Mr.. Allen met his death he
was standing ON the front platform of q car.
and as the train struck, his foot was caught in
graphing iron, and in this condition he was
burned to DEATH"
The West.
A Washington dispatch Of the 14th saws
General jefferson C. Davis, then in Indiana,
had been directed to Immediately assume the
command made vacant by the death of Gen.
Candy.
H. G. Gam, editor of the Warren Un.)
Sentinel, while preparing for hunting excur-
sion few days ago, handled his gun very
carclessly, not knowing that it was loaded,
when it accidentally went OF, shooting his
wife, inilicting serious, and perhaps fatal,
wounds.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican says Sem
ator Morrill,, of Vermont, has sent check for
his back pay to the State Treasurer, stating
that he wishes the amount applied to the re-
duction of the State debt.
The Illinois State Senate, on the 18th, BY a
unanimous vote adopted Joint resolution
consuming the Indian peace policy pursued by
the Administration, and requesting the Gov
eminent to take speedy measures to metc out
adequate punishment to the Modocs.
Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, denies that
there is any political significance to be attached
to his recent trip to Washington.
Colonel John Wood, Republican, has been
elected Mayor Of Cairo, Illinois.
Another severe snow-storm has occurred in
Nebraska. An Omaha telegram of the 10th
says snow drifts from ten to twenty-five feet
deep covered the railroad track at Grand Island
and vicinity. Trains were unable to proceed.
Advices from the Modoc country on the 10th
were to the effect that Commissioner Meacham
would recover. Genera Gillem was doing his
best to prevent the escape of the Modocs, and
declared that not one of the murderers of Gen.
eral Candy would be left alive, if he could
prevent it.
Jacob Rich, Chairman of the Iowa Republic
can State Central Committee, has issued o call
for the State Convention, to be held at Des
Moines on Wednesday, June IS, for the pur-
pose of clecting candidates for Governor,
Lieutenant Governor, Judge of the Supreme
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On the evening following the murder of
General Candy and Peace Commissioner
Thomas, the Modocs attacked Colonel Mason's
pickets, one and one-half miles east of the
Modoc camp. The pickets were quickly re-
inforced and drove the savages back. One
Modoc was killed, and ten horses were cap
tured. The funeral ceremonies, on the 18th,
over General Candy and Commissioner Thomas
in the camp were very impressive.
Chicago papers of the 18th announce that
the various through lines between Chicago and
New York had agreed upona reduction in the
freight tariff, as follows: First-class, 81;
second-class, 90 cents; third-class, Is cents;
fourth class, GO cents; special class, As cents.
This is reduction of 25 cents on the first-cass,
20 cents on the second.class, 10 cents on the
third-class, and cents ON each of the other
classes. A further reduction was anticipated
on the full opening of navigation.
The miners and iron-puddlcrs at Knights
vile, Ind, struck few weeks ago. The en-
ployers subsequently hired several negroes to
take the place of the strikers. conflict re-
Gently took place between the strikers and the
colored laborers, in which firearms and other
deadly implements were freely used, and sew
eral wounds were inflicted on both sides.
Some Of the wives and daughters of the
strikers were engaged in the mob. The
troops ut Indianapolis were called out to quell
the disturbance, and several arrests have been
made.
Arizona dates to April state that Major
Randall, Twenty-third Infantry, had attacked
the tents Of the Apaches ON the East Fork of
the Verde, killed forty-one warriors, and cap
tured a number of women and children.
Propositions for the surrender OF large num-
bers of the worst Apaches in Arizona had been
made to General Crook.
Later accounts from the Modoc country
state that after General Candy was shot he was
stabbed in the neck by Captain Jack, and
stripped of all his clothing.
A dispatch from Omaha on the 18th says the
recent snow-storm lasted for three days with
unparalleled severity, its force being mostly
confined to the limits of Plum Creek on the
west, and Columbia on the east. Persons did
not dare to leave their houses during Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday. But one case Of
loss Of human life had so far been reported,
but it was probable that the loss of stock had
been great. - Sc -
The remains of General Candy and DR..
Thomas reached Yreka on the 18th. They lay
in state all day on the 18th, and were visited
by nearly the whole population.
The Grand Jury Of Woodfosd County, ILL.,
nois, has failed to find an indictment against
Mrs. Workman, at Eureka, for the killing Of
Mrs. Hedges. The vote stood three for and
nineteen against bill.