Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-02-07
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people of the United States for assistance.
All their houses provisions and crops hay-
ing been destroyed by the recent storms.
A FIRE III Boston J.nuary 81 dtslroypda
furniture manufactory, the total loss of
which is estimated at Sl5O.000.
In the recent storrp on the eastern coast
considerable damage was e!bne to- vesspk.
Two or three schoonerS Went down and
their entire crews were supposed to be LOST.
The Metropolis was, grounded at low tide.
which kept her from coming closer ashore.
She is Il total loss. Out OF HO Passengers
on board 100 were drowned.
TIE Samoan treaty has been appreNel By
the Cabinet.
ASSOCIATES JUSTICE CLIFFORD dined at
the White House, and the Democrats are
said to be- astonisled al it.
ONE Jack Braslan and % man named Bioiy
had duel ut Bodie. California. recently.
They stood in the street eight feet apart
anil fired six shots at each other Then
Blair went and got another pistol with
which he shot Braslan, who died III about
fifteen minutes after.
THE storm which began in Boston Feb
r,lary lst is sai1 to have been the sevelest
since 1867. 1t caused an almost entire sus-
pension of business.
The Bismarck Tribune has the news from
the Tongue river post by Il private dispatch
that Gen. Mishsak preparing tn move against
Sitting Bufl about the 10Th of this month.
His force consists of eight companies of
cawalry and six or eight Of il,t,n fly with
ALI attaillable Crow Indians.
File most terrible storau know i'm years
has been raging along the coast OF New
Jersey. The brig Eta NJ. Tucker was
washed ashore on the Doth ult. and is a
total loss. Her cargo of coffee. saith to be
worth $500 900, is in the undertow.. The,
railroad bridge over the stream knomn as
the Great Pond is badly damaged. and last
while the passenger train on the Central
road from New Ionk Was proceeding with
great care, men with lanterns going aheaa-
the engine tMnedI oMer into the. stneam, and
JOIN Butcman, Bla9ienaM was thrown un-
der the engine and drowned. Tie engineer
and fireman escaRell by SWIMMING. At
Coney Island there. has been great destmlc-
tdDn of property andi eight lives. lost. The.
scene of the greatest calamity waSat Man-
.hatten beach, on The east side of the.iannd,
where the storm struck With the greatest
violence, fairly sweeping everything before
it. About half a mile east from the big
hotel were two shanties, where two men
named Wynne and Brennan lived with their
families. Shortly after 10 O'Clock the men
who were employed as watahmen by Il G.
hotel company, left their homes for the pur-
pose of reporting, the alarming state OF
affairs to the head. Waterman, and during
their absence the shanties in which they let
their families were swept away, and the III
fortunate occupants, numbering three
women and five children, persisted. Ihelc
We're three tidal waves, which followed III
quick succession, anal not d Wstige OF the
shanties was lett. phe bodies OF the untoF-
tunate. were carried out b. sea, but were
afterwards found. The tide rose nearly five
feet higher than at any previously recorded
flood. There has been wreck and ruin alb
along the beach,. The; Manhattan Beach
Hotel property suffered most. The beauf1-
full japanese structure has been sweep
away, .andqthe east end of the hotel dam,
aged. The damages to this property IS DE-
tween $4,000. and $4,000. All the othei
structures along the whole line OF the Deaci
not firmly secureda were wrecked. Inc
total loss to- property is estimated at RON