The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-01-07
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CnICAGo, Dec. 50,

of SHOW fell with heavy frost.
....... CoLuMnGA, Dec. 30.
McssrS. Saylcr, Abbott and Lawrence,
the sub Congressional Committee. COM
p!c:cd their worl; here yesterday. Their
report, from the returns a8 submitted,
gives the State TO Hayes and Wheeler
by about seven hundred majority. but
show Hampton, and the entire Dc:no-
cratic State ticket elected by II much
lnrger majority. This Committee leaves
for Charleston, tonight to join the sub.
committee there, and will probably
leave for Washington Monday.
. New YoEg, Dee. 80.
The Tines special from Columbia
says: Notwithstanding the fact that Tic
House Congressional Committee unai:i-
mously resolved lust night that tho
Hayes Electors had received II ma jUri:y
i'll South Carolina, the Supreme Court
seems determined TO haze II hand in
the business. Goblin, counsel for the
Hayes Electors, went into Court this
morning nnd gave ii TO understand Lo
did not intend. 10 recognize the juris-
iliction OF tho Court nny further. Cor
bin informed the Court that ho cpnsid.
cred the cnse rs already transferred,
and that this C0ur. had no further con-
troll over il; thHt he should now pro-
cced to ask IL cCFE0TGri from tho United
Stntcs Circuit Court, in ordv: 10 carry
tho record into that Court. judge
Willard therefore said: " Well, that il
IN end OF tho case Whether this
meanu that the Court will giYc judge
mrnt by default in favor of the Demo.
cratic electors, or will regard the cusc
ms transferred, can only be cuIjrcturcd.
Tho hdbtGs corpus case. which brings up
the collateral question Of who Is: Cover
nor, wns argued to-day, before Judge
Carpenter in the Circuit Court. The
case promises to be an exhaustive one,
nnd the decision will have u very i'm
rortHnt inhuchco upon political matters
here.
CLENELAND, Ohio Dec. 80.
An accident is reported at Ashtabuil,
on the Lake Shoiu Iiuiironh, Icy which
seven cuaches and nll tho baggage nud
express cars were burned, and about
One, ont Of every five persona. kil!cd, at
~ O'Clock this evening. The scene Of
the accident is II fcw rods cas-, of the
Depot Iron Bridge, which SPANS Ash.
tubulN creek, GcyriIiy-ti,e feet above
the water. On both sides are high
banks. Snow has been falling almost
constantly for the past fuIty-r:@h, houIs.
and now II driving storm IL rigging. MAX
ing il very difliculty to got news from
the wrecked nnI hurni:,g tain.
LATER.--A special train with phJ ii.
Clans. nurses. and everything for tl!c
comfort Of the wounded ut tho wreck,
left tho Union depot ut 1880 o'clock
Tho weather is still growing colder at
Ashtabula, and four bodies 80 fur have
been taken from tho debris. The night
thcre il quite clcaI, and now that tho
snow llns almost stopped fallinr, makes
il almost like day. 1t il estimated that
tlI re- were ono hundred and seventy
five pnSscnGcra Dn Tho Inflated train,
and Rt least onC.ihiTd Of these were
burned tO death or frozen. The train
was drawn by two engines, one OF whici!
rcnniIcd OIL tho bridge, but everything
else went down. Tho engineer nnl
ircmnn on the engine that went down
were hndly, hu: not seriously. injured.
Tho work Of removing tho dead Mill
goes OH very slowly.
CLEvELASD, Ohio, 2:3U \. N.
IIuilrond men at tho wreck give the
opinion that not less than II hundred
persons prrishcd. No namcs uf the
killed nrc yet nsccrtniucd. Some Of tho
wounded are reluctant TO givo names.
Ilcportcrs from this city say the scene
bnilcs dcHcril ton.
CLIvrtAHp, Dee. 30.
Tho following is tho latest q. the
wreck nt AshtnhuIa: The hocgNid dawn,
which drove tho durhucas out Gf this
valley and slIndow Of death, seldom saw
~ ghaslicr sight thHn was revealed with
WV '''''hb W. ih'i '' '''ilNl
Rido Ot the rnyinr fruwnCd tho darl: md
bnro arches from which the iTCaChcruuB
tinIbcrs had fallen, while nt their hnsc,
lilo grcnt heaps Of rnims covered tho
hundred women and children who had
no suddenly been called to their dcnth.
The chnrrcd bodies lay OH thick ice. or
bcddcd la tho shallow water Of tho
stream. FircH shoulder in grcni heaps.
where many Of tho hnplcss victims had
bnnh nll consumed, whilo men went
"hont III wild excitement, seeking some
itacc 0i n lost one, wounded or dead.
The list of snvcd and wounded having
already been sent. tic cad task remains
of discovering who inny 10 among il,c
dead. The latter tnsk viii DO most dif.
hcnlt Of nil, until the continued nl,.
Hohco hero and there Of II friend, will
"''"~ OF but ono explanations; that hc
WIN HhohR those who took this fntnl
leap. All witnesses. 30 far, nrrcc ns 70
tho mnin facts Of the accident. Sud.
denly, without warming, ihc train