Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-05-01

up and shot through the boiler so that 1t re-
| NAMED like shaft exposed at both ends. The
tween the driving wheel and engine, there being
i but Just enough Of his body left to Identify
| him. The tireman, George Hdridge
was crushed to.a jelly. There were about
| eighty passengers, and b the . scene can
lbetter be ina gined than described. As
| overturned stoves and lamps set fire to the
| woodwork, cries for assistance rent the ar
from the smoking caldron, frantic husbands
I calling for wives, wives for husbands, sons and
daughters 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 fur-
| ther and was calling wildly, "Oh, save me, l
| am burned to dealh.'. His screams and means
were not needed, and death put an END TO his
sufferngs. When Mr. Allen met his death he
was standing on the front platform OF car,
| and as the train struck his foot was caught IN
| a graphing iron and in this condition he was
| burned to death"
| Lincoln (Neb) dispatch of the 21st says
reports of the recent storm west of there show
| that it was one of the most severe ever known.
| There had been great loss of life and property.
Many persons were frozen to death in their
| houses Men persisted near Grafton, Harvard
and Hastings, on the B. Il NJ Railway, while
| Trying 10 Iecu lilGH StOch lLe Niiti uiA ooI'u
| and blew down houses, and hundreds of cattle
and horses smothered by the snow filling up
| the barns Houses were rendered unhabltable
| in several cases. and families persisted while
| trying to reach their neighbors.
A terrible fire occurred recently in Republic
County, Kansas, by which many houses, sta
| bles, horses, cattle etc, were destroyed The
house of a Mr. Crane, near Belevlle, was
| burned, and his family, consisting OF his wife
and four children, took shelter IN the residence
| of a Mr. Bennett On the following night the
storm took the roof off Mr.. Benefits house,
stone building, and blew in the gable end,
causing it to fall into the cellar, where the III
mates had taken refuge, and Mrs. Bennett, was
severely injured. In the morning, Mr.. Bennett
went to procure assistance. When he returned,
he found that the floor had fallen IN, and his
wife and children, together with Mrs. Crane
and two of her children, were crushed to death.
A call is issued for National Convention of
producers and consumers Of the United States,
to be held in New York city on the 9th of May,
to promote, by cooperation, the interests OF
producers and consumers; also, to consider
what can be done to reduce the cost OF trans
portation bv rail and water between the West
and the seaboard The Senate Committee on
Transportation routes propose to be present in
person or by delegates
OF the United States bonds which were the
fruits of the Bidwell- Mcdonnell forgeries III
London, S220, $50 have been recovered i'll New
York This leaves the gang only $4,000 of
their plumber for fighting their way through
| the courts.
A recent Washington dispatch says that,
| owing to the Modoc massacre and the excite
ment consequent thereupon, the release OF
| Satanta and Big Tree is not now advised. The
| President and the Secretary OF the Interior
| have control Of the matter.
| General Schoield tclegraphed to Washington
| on the 2lst that he had every confidence in his
| troops, and was doing everything possible to
| make successful the movement against the
| Modocs, who, he believed, were still in the
| lava beds.
| On the 21st, the first vessel OF the season
| passed through the Welland Canal, from Lake
| Erie into, Lake Ontario.
The gas stokers employed by the Cincinnati
| Gas Light and Coke Company have struck for
an advance of wages from $3.50 to $500 per
| day. '.-
The larger portion of the town of Chico,
Cal, has been destroyed by fire. r......
| An engineer officer recently arrived in Wash
ington with plans Of a Southern coast canal, to
connect the Rio Grandc with the Atlantic, near
Savannah, Ga They have been submitted to
the Government, and will be laid before the
convention of Southern Governors, who meet
| at Atlanta in May to discuss the subject of IN
| ter-continental transportation.
Up to the 22d, 54,4S9 immigrants had az
rived at New York since january /, against
49, 1S:' during the same time last year.
A woman named Craig tried to kindle fire
with kerosene oil at West Liberty, Iowa, on the
2lst, and was buried the next day. Her h,,s-
band had his hands badly burned while trying
to smother the fire.
Mrs. Anne HcnnesSey, wife of George Hen
Messy, a respectable shoemaker III New York
City, few evenings ago, during an insane fit
choked her two children one three years old
and the other five months, ard then roasted the
| bodies on the stove. ID
News from the Modoc seat Of war up to the
23d states the loss of the Modocs III the recent
fight at seventeen killed and many wounded.
Captain Jack and his band were still i'll their
laya-bed stronghold and General Gilem was
trying to cut off their escape and supplies.
| The treasury department dt washington
| has received information of considerable viO-
lencc being committed along the Texas border
| bv Mexican desperadoes. Recently an Ameri-
can ranchero, living near Fort Quitman, was
brutally murdered by the MeNicans, his body
thrown into the Rio Grande, and his animals,
| horses and mules, driven into Mexico by his
murderers Immediate pursuit was started by
a party of citizens, and the Mexicans were
| overtaken fight ensued, in which the pur-
suing party was defeated and returned to
Qutman without having accomplished the re-
coyery of the animals or the arrest of the muir
derers. 1t is also stated that in Arizona and
New Mexico, Cochise, nominally at peace with
the United States continues to practice his
favorite pastime, and occasionally roasts a
white man, merely a matter of amusement.
Doe Colburn, messenger for Captain Oar
ling, arrived i'll Kansas City on the ed, and re-
ported the finding of thirteen dead bodies of
white men, all in one place. The bodies were
found on Medicine Lodge Creek.
fee at Washington has recently issued regula-
tons under the act providing for the sale Of
United States lands containing coal, approved
March 3 last, as follows:
ANY individual of u years of age and citizen
! of the United States. who has declared his in
divisions any area not exceeding 100 acres Any
association may enter not TO exceed $40 acres.