Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-04-05
EASTERN DISPATCHES,
BY OVERLAND TELEGRAPH.
ESPECIAL To THE SENTINEL
NEW YORK.
NEW York, April 4.

NEW 1oRk. April 4.
The examination as to the sanity of
George Francis Train was commenced
to-day before Chief Justice DAILY and
a sheritfs jury, but adjourned until
Tuesday tn aw nit the arriv u of one OF
Trains relatives, an important witness
from Omaha.
-Four prisoners in Jail in Brooklyn,
awaiting trial on charges of forgery
and check raising, We're detected yes
terday III an attempt to escape. a
Keeper heard the sound OF hamnIering
In the cell occupied 10y the prisoners,
and on investigation it was found that
they h I'd loosened the stones of the
prison walls by means of cl,isels, a
jack sc ew and hammer. A conteder-
ate was subsequently seen outside
with r pes and hooks, but he got OF.
Nixon. sentenced to be hanged on
the 10th of May, has compile civ
broken down. The prison officers
say, from present indications, if he
does not die of fright he will have t.
be carried to the gallows. On reach
ing the cell after sentence yesterday,
he cried bitterly and subsequently he
was found utterly unconscious. His
wife was refused permission to see
him.
Richard Schel," and a number of
Wall street brokers propose legal
proceedings, it is said. against the gold
clique, for fifty millions Of dollars
damages alleged to have been sus-
tanned 10y the city and county of New
York by the conspiracy with which
the clique was charged. ~Investiga-
ton will also he made into the viola
ton of the usury laws bv officers of
National hnnES0nI nfhnrS
MISSOURI.
ST.. LOUIS, April /.
lille the passenger tram on tn e
st. Louis and Southeastern railroad
was standing at the French Village.
seven miles from East St. Louis at
4:40 this afternoon, a construction
train run into the rear coach killing
Nrs. Jno. 3. Lusk and j. III. Watts,
and terribly scalding the young
daughter of Mr.. Watts, and more or
less injuring five or six Of the passen-
gers.
1t appears that the railroad acct
dent which occurred at French Viii
lage this afternoon, was OccaSiOned
through the careleSsness Of the CON
ductOr of the construction train. The
passenger train was Just about to take
Wv ~ i"S q pass,
when the construction train which
had been passed by the passenger
train a few minutes before, and its
conductor must have KnOwn of its
proximity, came laundering around
the curve at a high speed, and
plunged into the rear passenger
coach. The conductor of the passen-
ger train saw the construction train
coming, and cried to the passengers
to jump for their lives. Many did SO,
but before all could escape, the en-
CINE of the dirt train entered the pas
senger coach, and being smashed
by the coli ion the passenger
ear VS. Immediately filled with
steam, and a number of the
passengers " less scalded.
Mrs. John b. Lusk, or Luke. of Nor
gan County, Mo. while in the act of
jumping from the train, was caught
between the cars and crushed to
death. Her husband. with an infant
in his arm, succeeded in reaching the
platform unhurt. A gentleman sup
posed to be JAS. H.. Watts, of Chester,
H., a member of the Illinois Le.isla-
ture, was caught between the platform
of the rear car and the engine of the
dirt train, and literally tori to pieces.
The young daughter of NcGritfin of
McLeanSllorO, received a jet of steam
full in the face, and was horribly
Scalded ,bout he head, upper part of
the body and her eyes put out. 1t is
thought tina she cannO survive. Mrs.
Stebbins, of Milwaukee, was severely
cut and bruised about the head.
Michael Tanning fled as soon as he
saw the result of his careleSSness.