The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-09-07

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last been recovered. but Mr.. and Mrs. Ross,
while admitting that the Ohio lad bore strong
resemblance OF their child, were positive that
he was not Charley.
Alvin Adams, founder of the Adams Express
Company died the other day at his home in
watertown, Mass.
A fire in New York last week destroyed ]. p.
Hale's piano factory and about eighty other
buildings mostly factories and tenement
houses. The flames spread 30 rapidly that the
occupants barely escaped with their lives.
Two or three persons are missing and it is
feared they persisted. Loss estimated at
$3.50, ZOO.
New York city has had a genuine case of yell
low fever
The most disastrous railway accident that
has happened in the West since the Aahtabula
calamity occurred ON the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific railroad on the morning Of Aug. 20.
passenger train bound west, and consisting
of Barnum's show car, one express, three
coaches and sleeper, was passing over what is
knows as Little Four-Mile creek, nine miles
way, precipitating the entire train into the
stream, which was greatly swollen at
the time by heavy rains that had
fallen during the night. The train was
running at the ordinary speed. The bridge
rested on a stone arch twelve feet in the clear,
supported in turn by walls five feet thick. The
bridge is approached from the east round
curve. and down grade. 1t is thought the rails
were standing alone as the train approached,
and the engineer, who had slackened his speed
till he came in sight of the bridge, supposing
that all was right, dashed upon it. The chan
mel of the stream was forty or fifty feet wide,
and the banks about twenty feet high. The
locomotive in its wild dash, landed at the foot
OF the western side, and half buried itself in
the earth. Barnums car was next to the en-
CINE. 1t dropped into the channel; the bag
gage and mail car followed, passed directly
over it, MASKING it to pieces, and went to the
bottom, bar of iron running clear through
it. The men in that car escaped alive.
Even the lamps were not put out The first
passenger car pitched headlopg into the chan
mel, where the water was at least fifteen feet
deep. The next car was plunged under this,
| telescoping with it, and the next teescoped
half through both of the two preceding it.
The sleeping Car did not go into the wreck,
simply because there was not enough room for
it. It's occupants were Jared, but none of
them seriously hurt. The most of the killed
were in the car in front Of the sleeper. The
scene at the time of the accident is described as
having been terrific. Ram was falling in tor
rents, accompanied by wind lightning and vio
lent thunder. The crash put out the lights, and
the scene Of terror ensuing may well be mag
ined. The men who were not injured and
could get out went to work at once to
rescue the living and the wounded. They
had to go mile to farmhouse TO get
axes to chop them out, but they worked hero
ically, and, by daylight, had the most of the
wounded rescued. There were many pitiful
scenes and tender incidents. One mother was
killed sitting between two children who escaped
unhIrt. One little girl, who had lain in the
water for four hours with heavy man lying
dead beneath her body, was discovered to be
breathing, and was rescued and restored, and
now shows no signs of injury. Twenty dead
bodies were taken out Of the wreck. and it il
thought the death-roll will be still further In
creased, as many of the wounded numbering
upward OF fifty, are injured to such an extent
that they can hardly recover
A Salt Lake dispatch announces the death of
Brigham Young, the Mormon saint, after an
illness Of six days. His disease was cholera
morbus. Young was born at Wilmington, W.,
on the LIST of June, 1901, and was therefore
little over 76 years old.
An examination of the assets of the broken
State Savings Institution, of Chicago, shows
the assets of the concern to be worthless to
degree far beyond the first rough estimates.
1t is not likely that more than 5000, 000 or in
the neighborhood Of 20 per cent. of the habili-
ties to depositors will be realized from all
sources. Spencer the President, and nearly
all the other officers of the bank have disap-
peared, and their whereabouts at last accounts
was unknown.
Gen. Miles telegraphs the War Department
at Washington that Sitting Bull has recrossed
the Canadian border, and is again on American
soil
Ex-Gov. Shannon, of Kansas, is dead.
The citizens of Osawatomie, Kan. have
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Brown.
1t is announced from Salt Lake that the
question Of a successor to Brigham Young will
be held in allegiance for some time, and that
the church will be governed by the Twelve
Apostles during the interval
The following has been received at army
headquarters in Chicago: Howard, pursuing
Nez Perces, has crossed to east bank of yell
lowstone, at head of Yellowstone canon, and 10
following trail towards east fork of Yellowstone.
Lieut.. Dam, with one company and 100 Crows,
at Borowell's bridge, below canon Sturges has
moved down from Crow agency to trail on
Clark's fork. Hart is moving by way of Fort
@. f. Smith, and will go up Sinking Water trail
toward Yellowstone park. Merritt, moving out
from Brown, will go up Jones trail on Wind
river. Indians last reported to be on east fork,
half way between canon and Clark's fork mine. "
A building on Lo2gworth street, Cincinnati,
fell, the other day, with tremendous crash,
burying number of people in the ruins. One
woman was killed, three men fatally injured,
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