The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-10-13

on the AFTERNOON OF the Z3ln, having Deen
less than fifty hours on its passage. 1t came
by the Hudson River railway, in continuous
train of thirty-fve cars.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
MUCH destruction was caused in the east
by furious storm, which visited that region
on the 5th The steamer Massachusetts was
stranded in Long Island Sound, and will
prove total loss. Crew saved. At Lewes,
Del, 100 sail, mostly wood-laden and golfers,
lay in the harbor. Ten vessels, mostly
schooners, foundered at their moorings. At
daylight the unfortunate crews were discov-
cred clinging to the rigging of the sunken
vessels, and were rescued at great peril by
small boats. The Italian barque Farenz
went ashore on Cape Henlepen, and the
brig Matilda was totally lost.
The storm of the 9Th inflicted damage to
the amount of 100000 in the city of Brook
lyn. Houses were blown down, cellars
Hooded and sewers overflowed. The Coch-
rane building was flooded, and 100000
worth of merchandise damaged.
TRAIN ran into the river near French
young man named w. J. McEIroy, lady
named Huber and gentleman from Phila-
delphia are missing. Conductor Reading
and the engineer are also missing and it is
feared all are lost.
AN excursion train on the Reading rail.
road, ran into break caused by the wash
from French Creek, near Ph9nixville, Pa,
| on the 9Th inst TwaI ye nerSouS were killed
and fifty or more wounded.
wASHOUT near Coatesville, Pa. caused
an engine to upset on the 9TH inst, killing
Amos Peacock and scalding the fireman Sc
verely.
A MISPLACED switch at Merose station
Pa, wrecked a train, killing Patrick Riley
engineer and Michael Merrick, fireman
Jones, brakeman, was badly injured.
j. j. LAUGHLIN, aged about 20, of Bloom
field, Ill, was found dead on wood pile OF
the leyee at Memphis, Tenn, on the 4tf
inst, with a bunch of cotton saturated with
chlorofornn at his mouth. 1t is believed he
was addicted to the use of chloroform anC
morphine and that his death was accidental
In an alteration about the ownership OF
a claim at Central City, W. T., on the 4tl
inst, John S. Bryant, miner, shot and
killed A. w. Adams, a newspaper CORE
spondent. Bryant received pistol wound
/ from Adams which it is thought will prove
fatal.
THE steamer Comfort exploded her boiler
near Wheeling, WA. on the I'd inst, killing
five persons and wounding 10 others, three
fatally.
TIE car house and stables of the Dry
Dock Railway company, New York, burned
on the 3dinst About 80 ears were destroy
ed, but tits thought the horses were all saved
Loss over half a million.
A BOILER in a saw mill at Columbus, O.
exploded on the Sd inst, instantly killing
Theo. Youngmen, Peter Miller, Geo. Eber
sale and Henry Shielded. Solomon Miller
was seriously injured.
CHRISTIAN RAIN and Joseph Hemner
both of Milwaukee, and liquor pedders
were struck by lightning and instantly killed
at Oakwood, Wis, on the Sd inst.
VIM. c. GILMAN, insurance scrip broker
New York city, hes been detected in raising
insurance company's certificates, in which
manner he has stolen $247 $50 The forgeries
extend over period of years, and mum
Der of New York banks are victimized
Gilman has vamosed.
THos. KIRK was instantly killed and
Edwin Price MORALLY wounded by the fall
of scaffolding at Wheeling, Va, on the I'd
! inst.
JNO. H. HoUSMAN, young man of some
local political prominence at st. Louis, and
well known in business circles, shot himself
through the heart at his residence on the
night of the LIST inst. No causeis known for
! the act
VIM. REYNOLDS and Ezekiel Archy, be.
came involved in a quarrel at Cincinnati
on the I'd inst, which resulted in Archy
stabbing Reynolds, infiictng a mortal wound
Archy was arrested.
On Sunday, September 30th, atRichmond
KY, Cassius NJ Clay, formerly United States
Minister to Russia, shot and killed Perry
! White. 1t is understood that White attack.
ed Clay, because of his mothers dismissal
from Clay's farmhouse. The coroner's iury
decided that the killing was done in self de-
| tense.
ARMOUR & Co.'s pork packing house al
Chicago, was damaged to the extent of about
$4,000 by fire OIL the 1st inst
FATAL afirays at Brooklyn on the Doth
ult.: John Devlin, aged Il, fatally stabbed
John Betz during quarrel, near their home
in Brooklyn. Rocco Pelito and Luigi
Percelo quarreled about debt of Sl5, and
Pelito killed Percelo with stiletto.