Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-07-23
EASTERN DISPATCHES,
BY OVERLAND TELEGRAPH.
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Dies MONIES, July %.

DES MONIES, July %.
From the Superintendent of the
railroad, on the train, we gather the
particulars OF the c. r. l. and u. p.
K. r. disaster last night. The train
left Council Bluffs at 5 o'clock, with
fou coaches and two sleeperS. The
rear sleeper was filled with a com.
pany Of a%ristocratic Chinese, on their
WY to New England colleges. There
were also two baggage and express
cars, in which was the through Cali
fOrnia mail ard express matter, con-
sisting of 81, 900 in the express safe.
and three tons of bullion. When
about 65 miles west of this city, about
$50 o'clock, at a sharp curve i'm the
road, and at an isolated spot with no
houses within several miles in any
direction, the train moving at about
% miles an hour, the engineer, John
Rafferty,, suddenly saw a rail move
from its place about sixty feet ahead.
engine and applied the air-brakes. and
while in the act of doing it bullets
came pelting into the engine like hail.
The engine ran into the bank and
turned over, throwing out the en-
gineer and fireman, the toImer
falling on the latter. dead 1t
is supposed he vas killed by the
conclusion, as no bullet wounds were
found OF his body. The fireman es-
capped unhurt. The train being very
heavy, ran about 100 feet and STOPPED.
The two baggage cars were badly
smashed. AS soon as the train stopped
six large, strong men, masked in full
ku kluN style, appeared at the ex-
press car IN which were the conduc-
tor, VIM. Smith, Superintendent
Royce, the Express Messenger, John
Burgess, and three other persons, and
commenced firing rapidly into the
car and yelling get out of there,
damn We get out of there" Bullets
passed through the clothes of the con-
ductor; one graZed the skull of the
b-aggage-Inan and one passed along
the side of the head of the express
messenger. The inmates jumped ont,
when they We're ordered to the rear
under cover of a half dozen navy re-
volrers. Two OF the robbers marched
up and down ont of sight, saving
damn We. we will shoot ye.' The
robbers then took about 50, 600 from
the express safe, nj open the mail
bags. but took no letters, and mount.
ed each Il horse and rode off. The au-
thorities are in full pursuit. and ev-
erything will be doue to bring the
perpetrators to justice.
NEW YORK.
New YORK. July %.
Isaac Logan was stabbed and killed
with q pitchfOrk today by Michael
Kearen, at Linden, Union county, n.
j. Logan was in the field loading a
wagon with hay, when Kearen, who
had been on a spree, came up and
took the pitchfork from him and
stabbed him three times in the lower
part of the body, intiicting wounds
from which he died this morning.
PENNSYLVANIA.
PHILADELPHIA, July o.
John c. Cloud started hence this
evening TO row to New Orleans. for a
wager of 5000, the conditions being
that he will not sleep on the shore Til
he reaches the latter place. The boat
will be carried over the mountains
and put into the Ohio river. 1t weighs
60 pounds.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
CONCORD, July 20.
Ex-Governor Colby. Of New Hamp-
shire, died in this city last evening,
aged 80 years.