The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-15

pOsed their bodies had been burned. All the
settlers at Butte and Bogus Creeks had left.
President Grant visited his old home at Ga
lena on the LIST, where he met with cordial
reception. All the public buildings and many
private residences we're Illuminated.
The Illinois Legislature has adjourned over
to January 6.
Recent advices from Cloud County, Kansas,
mention another fearful storm, by which
number of lives were lost and much property
destroyed. The roof of the house of Mr..
Snyder was bscwn off, and himself, wife, five
children and farm laborer were buried in the
snow and frozen to death. A few miles away
from Snyder's house, another family, named
Ulricher, shared similar fate, all having been
frozen to death.
At Dixon, Illinois, on the 18th Sunday, about
three hundred persons-imer, women and chill
drcn-were congregated on the iron bridge
over Rock River, to witness religious bap-
tism, when the structure gave way, precipita-
ting the larger number of those on the bridge
into the stream below. About eighty lives
were lost, either by injuries caused by the fall
or by drowning. Several bodies were recover
ed at once, many fioated down stream, and
Others were supposed to be buried under the
ruins of the bridge. Great excitement was
caused by this fearful accident, which has sad
dened the entire community, rendering almost
every house in the city house of mourning.
Several miraculous escapes are reported. The
bridge was OF iron, of the Truesdcll pat
tern, and had five spans, elevated about twenty
feet above the water, which ut that point is
from fifteen to twenty feet deep. Only two
spans-the end ones-fell at the time Of the
accident
An excursion train on the New Albany and
Chicago Railway, willie running backward be-
tween Mount Carmel and Princeton, on the
Sd, ran upon number of cows which threw
the cars from the track, overturning them
down an embankment some eight feet in
height. Over thirty persons were injured,
some OF them, it was thought, seriously.
President Grant reached Chicago on the
morning Of the 4th, from Gaiena:
Official returns of the killed and wo,,nded in
the Mo'loc massacre of the 26th t;lt show that
twenty-one privates and officers were wound
ed, sixteen killed, and six were missing. A
New York Herald correspondent attributes the
great loss of life in the fight of the 26th to the
desertion of Company G, Twelfth nf antry
and some few of the artillery who, when rider
ed by Captain Thomas to fall back and hold a
bluff In the rear OF the troors to cover the re-
treat, continued to fall back until they
reached camp. The Modocs, in the meantime,
secured the position they were to hold 1t is
said only twenty-three Modocs were engaged,
and that only two were killed and two badly
wounded.
In the official cali, issued from Chicago, for
thc National Agricultural Congress to be held
at indianapolis on the 2Sth of May, President
Reynolds says:
Ey the Constitution of this body each State and
every State organization fostering agricultural pur-
suits. The United States Department Of Agricul-
ture. Agricultural Schools and Colleges with an en-
dOwment Of not less than $9ONO0 and Agricultural
and Horticultural Societies OF not less than ffty
members contributing to the support Of this Con-
gress. are entitled to one representative each.
In urging the appointment and attendance of |
delegates as thus provided for very little needs to
be sand. The purpose Of the organization is to
afford an opportunity, annually, for an interchange
OF views and opinions upon all subjects affecting
the interests of agriculture and its kindred indus
tries. and to promote concert Of action among
lat!ng to them and of national importance.
The advantages to be derived from such a me-
dunn, even in ordinary times and under ordinary |
circumstances are quite apparent. and now that !
the public mind is thoroughly aroused to the neccs-
sty of considering with the greatest deliberation
many questions touching the Industrial interests OF
this country, there is good reason to expect full