Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-01-03


ore reported in different sections. Four ex-
plosions of kitchen ranges occurred In Gin |
cinnati on the 2lst, one in Chicago and one |
In Cleveland-sll caused by the freezing Of |
the water in the pipes.
Portland, Oregon, had $3.50, 900 fire or |
the 23d.
Recent Washington dispatches contradict |
the statement that Postmssters were to be |
held accountable for the loss of registered |
letters. Postmaster-Genera Creswell Is now |
reported as saying that no such ruling was
ever made by him, and that In no case will
the Post Office or its officials be responsible
for such losses.
Barnum's Museum and Menagere, In New
York City, was burned on the morning Of
the oath. The large collection Of curiosities
and ell the animals lover one hundred, ex-
cept two elephants and one camel, were
burned to death. The building was similar
| to Talmage's church, destroyed few days
before. 1t was a vast framework of pine
covered with corrugated sheet-iron. The
flames enveloped its interior In surprising
ly short time. The dying agonies of the
motley congregation of animals are
vividly described by the spectators.
The cages containing the four giraffes
were opened, but the terrified creatures
seemed paralyzed, and would not bulge.
Some of the keepers wept on finding that
they had to abandon their charges. The
immense elephant that played the hand.
organ also refused to leave, but got on his
knees and perished rubbing his head against
the earth and roaring ia anguish. The fierce
banging of the lions and tigers against their
cages could be heard above all the din. The
Academy of Music, directly opposite, was
saved by the favorable direction of the wind.
Among the animals destroyed were eight
camels and dromedaries, one leopard, one
yak, one Gland, one llama, two sea lions,
boa-constrictors, apes, gorillas, ostriches,
etc. The loss by this fire was variously es'
timated at from $500, 900 to 81 200, 900.
On the afternoon of the 25th, a mail train
on the Buffalo, Cory & Pittsburgh Railroad,
when within about eighty rods of the sta
tion at Prospect, was thrown off the track
at trestle work, and one passenger coach
and baggage car fell off the bridge, dis
tance of twenty feet, turning over and strik-
ing the ground bot ON side up. A dispatch
of the 25th gives the following particulars:
"When the cars struck, the trucks crashed
through the bottoms of them, and as the
stoves of the passenger cars were directly
under the trucks they were crushed to pieces,
and Immediately the woodwork of the cars
took fire. OF forty-six people known to have
been in the cars, but one escaped unaided,
namely, the brakeman on the passenger coach,
who jumped clear OFF the cars as they 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, 10; dead, 10;
missing, 8. The dead, with four exceptions,
! were burned so as to be unrecognizable
, from the features, and there are but three
, that could possibly be identified from the
shreds OF clothing sdhering to the roasted
flesh Five were headless and without
, limbs, and the remaining ones had the flesh
, all burned off the eKtrmities. The eight
q 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 q
broken flange on the tender.
: The entire block on the west side of Cen
. tire street, between Leonard and North, New
49, . -
the oath Among the establishments de
: stroyed was that of the New York Newspa
a per Union. Seven persons perished in the
e flames, and five others were more or less in
= jured. Tho total loss by this fire was esti
% mated at $3.50 900.
= Satanta and Big Tree, the Kiowa Chief
who had been confined in Jail in st. Loui
for three months, left on the 23d for th
d Texas Penitentiary at Huntsville, in charg
u of United States Deputy Marshals Newcoml
II and Morgan.
u A servant girl in employ at W. F. Flagg'
:, residence, Bloomington, H., in trying tn
= virtue of kerosene as a fire kinder, was 81
: badly burned that her recovery was doubt
= full. The stove was demolished, scattering
y the girl oil, can, ETC., promiscuously aroun
~ the room. In Sprinfaeld, ILL.,, on the sam
day, Miss Belle Wallace, eighteen years old
. was fatally burned while trying to light
~ fire by pouring coal oil on it. The can ex
: ploded and set her clothes on fire.
.. Intense cold weather continued through
=. ont the West and South on the morning o
n. the oath. A woman and her three children
living in log hut on German Prairie
IN near Springfield, ILL.,, were found in be-
. frozen to death on the morning of the oath
n Cedar Rapids Qowa) dispatch of tn
~ esd says: "Several towns west of Boon
m are reported suffering from want of Goa
AZ and have to burn furniture to keep fror
freezing. This is especially the case
r Carroll, Iowa"
,t p large amount of business property wa
In burned at Helena, Ark, on the 23d. Los
about $67, 900.
o. VIM. NJ. Harrison, a Reform candidate fc
in Associate Justice in Arkansas, fileda a bill {
,d complaint on the oath, asking for an injun,
n tion to prevent NJ. L. Stevenson and E. ,
Ia Earl, the Republican candidates, who's
election had been announced by the Stat
r. Department, from exercising the duties {
"A office; and also asking for a restrainin
Of order to prevent Acting Governor Hadle
ba and Secretary of State Johnson fro
a altering or changing the original r
Of rurns, and asking for a mandamus to con
pei them to produce in Court the origin
o. returns, statements, ETC., IN reference to II
Al. election. The bill charges the Governo
he Secretary of State, Registrars, Coun
"a Clerks aud Judges of Election with confe
~. Grating together and fraudulently deprivir
a. thousands of citizens of the right to vote;
changing and altering the returns, and pr
a. venting the returns from being made fro
he four counties, by which the complaina
~. AYERS he was deprived of the benefit of 100
no votes.
of The President on the Gath signed the bi
nd to reduce the expenses and offices of h
II. Internal Revenue Bureau, which pass
Congress few days before, and the wo
he OF putting the new law into practical OpeT