The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-09-06
Company, died the other day at his home in
Watertown, Mass.

Company, died the ether day at his home in
Watertown, Mass.
The Chicago papers announce the failure OF
the State Savings Bank, for many years regard
ed as the solidest financial institution in the
Northwest. It's deposits amounted to about
$3,0OO,O0O, representing some $4,000 deposit
tors, the bulk of whom are poor people. The
collapse was precipitated by a run on the in
stitution, caused by the recent
failure of number of st. Louis
savings banks, though it is said
the concern has been miserably managed, was
rotten to the CORE and that it's failure was only
a question of time under any circumstances.
The officers of the bank estimate that, under
prudent management of the assets, depositors
will be paid so or 80 per cent, which is hardly
probable.
The triennial conclave of Masonic Comman-
deries at Cleveland, last week. was the occasion
of one Of the most imposing parades eyer Wit
messed in this country. There were 5000
swords In the procession, vhjot. was witnessed
by over $4,000 people,
Ben DeBar, the veteran actor and manager,
died in st. Louis last week, aged IS years. MIR.
DeBar WIS the oldest American manager at the
tine Of his decease. He has for many years
hello leading position among the solid man
ayers of the day, being to st. Louis what Nc
Wicker is to Chicago-a veteran manager and 8
good actor.
The most disastrous railway accident that
has happened in the West aimee the kshtabula
calamity occurred ON the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific railroad ON the morning of Aug. 20.
A passenger train bound west, and consisting
of Barnun's show car, one express, three
coaches and 8 sleeper was passing over what is
knows as Little Four-Mile creek, nine miles
east of Des MONIES, Iowa, when the bridges gave
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 uponit. 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. Barnum's car was next to the en-
l:gine. It dropped into the channel; the bag
over it, MASKING it to pieces, and went to the
bottom, oar Of iron running clear through
it. The naen in that car escaped alive.
Even the lamps were not put ont. The first
passenger car pitched heahlong into the chan
mel, where the water was at least fifteen feet
deep. Tine next car was plunged under this,
telescoping with it, and the next telescoped
half through both of the two preceding it,.
The sleeping car did not go into the wreck,
sinv,ly because there was not enough room for
it. Its occupants were Jared, but meme of
thern seriously hurt. The most of the killed
were in the car in front of the sleeper. The
soape at the time of the accdent is described as
rents, accompanied by wind, lightning and vio-
lent thunder. The crash put out the lights, and
the scene of terror ensuing may well ibe imag-
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 q mile to farmhouse to get
axes tosehop them out, but they worked hero
I h~,J 1S~l~1 L,ol IL 3 I.
wounded rescued. There were many pitful
scenes and tender incidents. One mother was
killed sitting between two children who escaped
unhurt. 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 CT injury. Twenty dead
bodies were taken out of the wreck, and it is
thought the death-rol 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, VI,
on the LIST of June, 1901, and was therefore a
little over rs years old.
An exanainatonrof the assets of the broken
State Savings Institution, of Chicago, shows
the assets Of the concern to be worthless to a
degree far beyond the frst rough estimates.
1t is not likely that more than 100000, or in
the neighborhood of % per cent of the iahili-
ties to depositors, will be realized from all
Eaources. Spencer, the President, and nearly
fal the other officers of the bank have disap-