Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-01-04

The L. 8. war steamer California has
sailed from San Francisco for Honolulu
10 protect American citizens Ia case OF any
trouble arising on the question of accession
10 the throne Of the Sandwich lslands.
Friday morning week the Thermometer al
Montreal marked zero Burlington, VT,
2 below zero DaPcuport, Iowa, below
Toronto, below Kingston, Canada, 9
below Omaha, below ,Keokuk, / be-
low, and St. Paul, II below.
The freight sheds on the south side Of
Long Wharf, Boston, adjoining The Phlla-
delphia steamship pier, were burned FRI
day week, with 100000 worth of merchan-
disc. Part of the goods had been recently
landed from coasting steamers. The
steamers Roman, of the Philadelphia, aud
Seminole. Of the Savannah line, were
saved by being towcd ont in the stream.
There was another large fire in New
York Friday week, which destroyed
Maillard's confectionery establishment and
two buildings in the rear, fronting ou
Mercer strcot. The total loss Is c.tmatcd
al 100000. The upper stories Of the rear
buildings were occupied hy twenty poor
families, who lost all their household
goods. A girl was injured by jumping
from window
Early Friday morning week \ passenger
train on the Nashville EullGoad, which
left Louisville the previous night, wac
thrown from the track near Glasgow Junc
tion by a broken rail The locomotive and
cars werc thrown down an emhankment
a distance Of fifteen feet, The baggage
car was destroyed by fire, and the passen'
ger cars also caught FIRE, but the flames
we're extinguished. A large number oi
passengers were on the train, most Of them
in sleeping berths. About thirty personi
were injured, but none seriously, excepl
Peter Fox, who had leg amputated'
A dispatch from Yreka, California, sayl
that a party of soldiers going from Caml
Bidweil 10 a camp on Lost River wer'
attacked by hfty Modoc Indians. Two o
the soldiers were killed and four wounded
Five mules were also killed. The deaf
soldiers wYre sealpsd. None Of The lndian
are Known to have been Killed. The Mo
docs have been joined by struggling Indian
aud by some of the Pitt River tribes
Two hundred aud eighty soldiers are II
the field, but details for escort aud guari
duty leave only Is lighting men and l
soldiers to guard $500 Indians at the For
Klamath reservation. One of the hoslil
Indian strongholds is to be stormod will
mortars aud bombshells." The Oregon
volunteers will soon be mustered IN, an
the citizens of Yreka have sent Il commits
sioner to ask Governor Booth for a com
pany of volunteers 10 20 to the seat @
hostilities, which is partly in Oregon an,
partly 10 California.
The bodies OF the poor girls and the bo
who perished by the Centre street, fire 4
New York, are still beneath the ruins
The owner Of the building, who resides d
Yonkers, is said TO have made no reply /
the kilograms sent him on the sutiecl, au
the ruins are covered with snow and icf
untouched by shovel or pick" The pole
it is stated, have no authority ''to touch
; stone or a stick" of the buried premise
without the owners consent, ard "aI
afraid to employ laborcis for the purpos'
lest Comptroller Green may refuse TO pa
the bill" Meantime tue relatives Of th
dead eagerly demand search and otft
assistance Yesterday afternoon coront
Herman officially requested superintendeI
Kelso TO have the debris eXcavated, sayin
cred tape" ough not to interfere with lh
humane duty. Several girls employed i
the burned factory visited the ruins yeste
day, and, we are told, "cried bitterly ov'
the grave of their fcllow-workors.'
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