The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-06-07
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SERIOUS DIsAsTER-FALL OF BRIDGE-ONE
HUNDRED PERSONS PRECIPITATED INTO THE
RIVER AyOE-TwENTT KILLED AND MANY IN
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Lospos, June ,e.-The Bath and West OF
England Societies centenary was celebrated
ut Bath to-day. The Wiedcombe suspen-
sion bridge fell, and about one hundred per-
SONS were precipitated about thirty feet into
the river Avon. Eight dead bodies were re-
covered. It is feared others persisted.
Many were injured. Another account rep
resents the disaster much more serious.
LArER-THE ACCIDENT MUCH MORE SERIOUS
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LONDON, June GA letter from Bath says
twenty bodies have been recovered. Sere-
raj are still missing. Nearly two hundred
people were on the bridge when it fell. ,;
PULITZER: PARTICULARS.
BATH, June g. Tile bridge was wooden,
Of light construction, narrow, about thirty
feet long, and between thirty and forty
feet above the river Avon, resting upon
posts morticed into stone-Work at either
end, and without a centre-suprort. The
bridge snapped in the centre, The two ends
were wrenched clear from the Sides and
the whole mass! with the people, were
plunged in the middle Of the stream, which
was about seven feet deep. Boats from the
shore were Immediately put at work rescu-
ing the living and searching for the dead.
TIE LATEST. sax. .. ~.
GBATII, June 6.-About twelve persons
were killed and tifty-one 1niured-some
fatally. -,
STRIKE OF GOLFERS.
LONDON, June 6.-Tbe West Lancashire
GOLFERS, numbering several thousand, have
struck. $751;. .'-'-
LONDON, june G.-The Car. accompanied
by Prince Gortschakoff, Baron Jomiori, and
Privy Counsellor Hamburger, of Foreign
Affairs, arrived at Ploiesti tonight, and not
last night as previously reported. The Car
met with an enthusiastic reception.
'.'. France. Z
THE sUEZ CANAL SHAREHOLDERS n COUNCIL.
PARIS, June GA meeting OF the Suez
canal shareholders was held to-day. Vi. De
Lesseps announced that seventy votes were
secured to the English Government.
.., RUSSIAN FRIGATEs.
sBREsT, June 6.-Three Russian irigates
have arrived in this harbor. 70.
Italy.
MOUNT vEsUTICS IN AN UNUSUAL STATE OF
AGITATION.
NAPLES, June 6.-ProfeSsor Palmieri
states that Mount Vesuvius is in an unusual
state OF agitation, showing at night fire at
the mouth Of the new crater recently opened,
above which cone is formed
Rome.
HOSORS CONFERRED UPON PRESIDENT MAC
MAHoN-RECEPTIoN OF THE POLISH Pill
GRIMS BY THE POPE.
ROME, June G.-Thc Pope has conferred
the Grand Cross OF the Order Of Plus the
Ninth on President Macllahon and Count
Larisch. The latter is special envoy whom
the Emperor of Austria sent to the Vatican
to congratul ate the Holy Father on his iubi-
lee. ".s ..,.-,.
The Pope, in receiving the Polish pill
grims, including Cardinal Ledochowski, al
luded to the difficulties OF their pilgrimage
in consequence Of the persecution to which
they were subjected. He advised them to
overcome the persecution BY their PRAYERS,
which sooner or later would be like Goals Of
fire on the heads OF their prosecutors.
The Eastern Conflict. -
THE KuEDIvE SAYS THAT IF THE PORTE RE-
FUSES TO LET THE RUSSIAN NAVY HAVE THE
RIGHT TO PASS TTROCGH THE SUEZ CANAL IT
MUST SEND MEN-oF-wAR TO DEFEND 1T.
CONsTANTINoPLE, June G.-The khedive
has intimated to the Porte that, in view of
Earl Derbys dispatch to Lord Lyons, Brit
ish ambassador at Paris, which was laid on
the table in the. House OF Commons yester-
day, il the Porte determines to refuse
the Russian navy the right to pass through
the Suez canal. it must send men-of-war to
defend its entrances. So
CONFIRMATION OF THE NEWS OF THE DEFEAT
OF THE M0STENEGRINS.
LONDON, June 6.-An official report re-
celyed at Coustantinople to-day from the
Governor OF Herzegovina confirms the re-
ported defeat Of Montenegrins and Herze-
govinians on the 4th instant in the defles
of kristacs. with heavy loss, by Suleiman
Pasha.
[Note.-The Evening Standards Pesth
special is confrmatory OF the Turkish ac-
count OF this tight.l s+.T
THE LATE BATTLE.
. VIENNA, June G.-The Political Cores
pondence, usually well-intormed, publishes
q special from Cattaro stating that Ala Saib.
defeated at A1aliat, lost seven hundred men.
A Ragusa telegram supports this view.
Ali Saib, on the other hand, telegraphed
to Constantinople most circumstantial ac-
count of his success, according to which be
has occupied the heights commanding Da-
nilograd. 80" ........
-. PERPLEXISG CONTRADICTIONS. . r.
LONDON, June G.-Perplexing contradic-
tions relative to Ali Saib's operations on the
frontier of Montenegro continue to, be re-
ceiyed.
SURPRISED AND CUT TO PIECES.
A special dispatch from Constantinople
to the Journal Des Debates asserts that 1000
Abchasians have been surprised and. cut to
to pieces by the Russians. 49,