Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1874-06-26
APPALLING DISASTER.
LOSS OF MANY LIVES.

SYRACUSE, JuEe 23.--An appalling catastro-
Pie occurred here tonight. A strawberry fes-
tival was being held at the parlors of the Cen
trail Baptist Church. when, without any pre-
montion, the floor gave way, precipitatng
the room full into the story below. The par
Tor was on the second floor, and the room un-
dcrneath also full. A fire alarm was immed-
ately gwen and the fremen hurried to the
scene. Soon ten thousand people were there,
and tremendous excitement prevailed.
II is impossible to give the particulars at
this hour. Five dead bodies have been taken
out, and the work has hardly commenced. -
Probably as many as n hundred persons are
more or less injured, many very seriously
The following are among the dead bodies
recovered; DR.. E. o. Wainwright, Mrs.
Wainwright, Miss Minnie Thomas, a child
named Ostrander, three little girls named Lee
mard, Horton and Winnie Collins, Miss .Theo-
dore Holmes.
Rev Geo. 7. Bowling. pastor of the church
is dangerously injured, also bis wife, who is
not expected to live. Rev. II. j Eddy is Sc
riously wounded. Two hundred persons are
injured, some dangerously.
THE CoLoRADo BUc-EFFEcTs OF PARIS GREEN.
The Colorado bug, which has been steadily
travelling southwark, has at last reached
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ing great havoc among the potato vines. The
entire crop has been destroyed in Maine, but
by the application of Paris green its ravages
are being checked in this section of the coun-
try. AS to the fatal effect Of Paris green ON
all varieties Of insects, no one who has ever
tried it will have the slightest doubt. II makes
short work of the reaches, and all other house
hold pests. Chrome green has been palmed
off by some dealers for the genuine article, and
whilst the demand is so great, care should be
taken to obtain it only from the most reliable
and responsible houses.
A correspondent of the Wilmington, Della
ware, Commercial, thus gives his experience
with the use of Paris green
Yesterday went out TO Plumgrove Farm,
Mill Creek Hundred, and found millions OF
this bug eating the leaves of the potato.
had plenty of Paris green with me, and we
mixed it with plaster, one pound of the poison
to one bushel of plaster, aud busted the vines
with it. Then ] watched the intruders with a
strong magnifying glass. They curled up and
seemed completely overcome.
They are very easily dislodged by picking
! the vine, and if you will take the trouble TO
| grind tnem IN tne aust with your f0Ot mink
| 1t will be just as destructive as poison. But
this must be attended to every day for some
time, for they are in all stages of development
| saw clusters of the little yellow eggs on the
underside of the leaves, and thousands of the
Larvae Just batched out and creeping up to
feed, and others half grown in soft, Shiny
state, eating the leaves like ravenoas silk
worms while here and there were the perfect
beetles ready to fly. They have three broods
in year. The female lays 700 eggs in one
confinement.
J. G. Robinson, of West Chester, has been
experimenting with the bug, and thus relates
his experience to the News!
His crop was literally besieged with the in
sect and on Saturday morning last he procur-
ed some ar-slacked marble lime, which he
spread upon portion of the crop and upon
investigating the result in the evening he was
surprised as well as gratifed at finding the
limesprinkled portion of the patch entirely
free from the bug, while on the other portions
they had increased fve-fold in numbers.
He has since made further experiment with
The lime, and the result is very fatterng. Mr.
R. says that the marble lime is preferable be-
cause of the absence of magnesia, which is
detrinent tai n vpoetation