Connecticut western news., 1876-04-14
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Items of Interest from Homo and Abroo

? Livery oSy brings fresh intelligence regart ing the disastrous storm which swept ov, New England. Several dams which had bee :, weakened by the immense pressure of wat. . have since given way, whereby mills and oths 1 buildings have been torn from their found, 2 tlons. The losses will aggregate two or thre = millions. %. .Advices received from India rt 3 port that the steamship Jowad, from Sheh has been wrecked on the Arabian sea Sh = had on board about five hundred pilgrim. r chiefly Persians, bound to Bushire. Thre men, who are supposed to be the only surv : vors, reached Hodeids. Gen. Schenck tes tined that the charges against him are false that he bought the Emma Mine stock in goo faith, and lost $50, 900 on it.. The boiler o
 H. Sauerbiers Sons tool factory, at Newark
 N. J., exploded from some unknown cause
 throwing the three story brick building and ex tensions into ruins, and instantly killing tw
 men and seriously wounding fourteen others
 .... A locomotive boiler exploded near Glss
 gow Scotland, killing five persons and severe
 ly injuring nine others. The goyernmen
 troops in Mexico were successful in two unim
 portant battles with the revolutionists.
 While the Scotch and Irish will each send
 
 delphia, it is doubtless if the English will b,
 represented ...... Evidence in the trial of Pa,
 Inspector spaulding, at San Francisco, show
 that over $1,0O0,00O were procured on fals,
 vouchers.
 French capitalists have already subscribed
 half the sum necessary to experiment. on the
 feasibility of the tunnel between France an6
 England. Gov. Ames, of Mississippi, has
 resigned rather than stand the articles of i'm.
 pea 'hment. As no leutenant-governor was appointed in the place of the official removed by impeachment some weeks ago, the euber. material duties devolye upon the president of the Senate co. The third violent storm of March caused considerable damage through out the country for two hundred miles about New York city by the ferceness of the wind. Many buildings were blown down and others unroofed and badly damaged. In Brooklyn a small house in an exposed position was crushed at midnight like an eggshell, burying beneath It father, mother and two children. The mother and one child were instantly crushed to death but the others were rescued in an exhausted condition. A man and little girl named Annie Curtis, were blown from & canal
 
 girl was drowned. She belonged in western New York. The European papers, com menting on the czar's contemplated retire ment, say he is seriously ill The revolu- tionists in Mexico hold all the important points in Hidslgo excepting Pachuca and Tulancineo. Foreigners in the country generally favor the revolution. Republican State conventions were held in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Vermont. The first declared for Gov. Hartranft for Presi- dent, Ohio for Gov. Hayes, and Vermont left the delegation free. The platforms all de- ciared for reform, the punishment of offenders, non-seotarisn schools, and for economical gov ernment, and the Ohio and Vermont platforms for specie payments
 Massachusetts has once more been afflicted With broken dam, which approaches the famous Mill river disaster, although, fortu. nately, the loss of life was spared by ample warning. The water in the reservoir at I,eioes- ter. which supplied the town of Worcester forced Its way through the dam and spread desolation and destruction through A course Of nine miles before 1t spent it's fury. Since the recent heavy rains the dam has been sus- peoted of being weak, and constant watch has been kept upon it and the people of the valley warned to have everything in readiness for immediate flight. Wednesday water was ob- served trickling through the center of the dam, and bags of hay and timbers were thrown in behind to endeavor to fill up the cracks, while at the same time all sluice ways were opened to relieve the pressure. Thurs day afternoon 8 stream the size of pipe stem forced it's way through, and instant ly the dam was doomed, for the volume or water enlarged to mans arm, then grew to the diameter of pail, and immediately the structure crumbled and the 700, 900, GOO gallons or water rushed roaringly forth on it's mission or destruction in volume 20 feet high. The immense granite gatehouse was torn from it's foundations as if it were leaf and hurried down the flood. The water rushed madly through the towns of Kittlebrook, Cherry Valley, Janesville, Leesville, Stoneville and New Worcester, leaving it's devastating marks everywhere it touched. At Kittlebrook the waters struck into pond, and carrying before them milldam, demolished large brick mill Gathering fresh force from this accession, the flood tore down another dam and picking mn Q wooden factory in it's pathway, carried it along ln it's mad career, only to dash it against and ruin four-story brick structure further down. barn was here snatched up and torn to pieces as if it were of paper. Onward the flood swept. carrying away shanties and trees into James, vile, where still another dam was broken down. Further on bridge was taken off, while just beyond the dam at Stonevile being forced, the seething food rushed through a narrow valley with such roar that it was dis tlncty heard mile of. The waters boiling | forth from this confinement struck the | Boston ani Albany railway in solid mass 30 feet in height, and tore it's way through gap | 500 feet long and 20 feet deep, twisting the | costly steel rails into fantastic shapes, and carrying off the ties. A body of water 10 feet Tn height rushed down the steep grade of the track for mile, leaving only chaotic mass of curled iron and broken woodwork to mark it's course the entire distance. At Leesville the Satinel mill and dam were completely demolished, while at South Worcester the Wicks factory was de- stroyed, after which the water ran off on tbe meadows sweeping away a few shanties but It's fury was expended, and it gradually The lower portion of Worcester was flooded, but no great damage done. While the Hood traversed the first mile in three it occupied three hours to cover the nine miles of it's ruinous sweep to Worcester, numerous bridges were destroyed and railway is entirely cut otf for the time being, 50 no definite idea of the immense losses can be made. Worcester being without water, would be sacrificed if fire should break put.
 John A. Appleton, president of the Haver- 1lll (Mass ) national savings bank, was robbed 'n the cars of 8 sachel containing notes, drafts. 'tc., amounting to $19,OOO. =. The Turks were repulsed by the insurgents under Pet lovics, near Sjubinie and lost tbraa brrdo.