Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-02
WATERY GRAVES.
THE POMER4NII,S DISASTER ri
PEATED ON THE MISSISSIPPI.
Lower River Steamers Collide In the Midst
of Storm--One Sinks in Fifteen Minutes.
Carrying Dow. Passengers and lie or 1 5
COMMUNICATIONS Casualties and the
Days Criminal Record.
MISSISSIPPI RIVER CASUALTY,


New ORLEANS, Dec. l.-Arrived, the
Charles Morgan, from Cincinnati. Her of
ficers report thst at 4 o'clock this morning
collision occurred at Bringera Point, oppo-
site Donaldsonville, between the Morgan and
the Cotton Valley, of the Red River Trans
portation line. The Cotton Valley sunk
and twenty lives were lost. Boat and cargo
total loss. The Cotton Valley left here yes
terday for Red river with a full assorted
cargo and number of passengers.
When tbs collision occurred the wind was
blowing gale and rain falling in torrents
The Morgan was coming down, the Valley
going up, the boats rounding point. The
officers OF each seeing the danger of COLI
sion stopped the machinery, but the force of
the wind and the Roadway of the Morgan
was 30 great that her guards struck the Valley
with great force, causing the latter to sink in
fifteen minutes. The Valley was valued at
$4,000; insured $4,000 in New Orleans
Offices. Cargo valued at $4,000; insurance
unknown.
Sol. Meyer, Daniel Gehr, Henry Levy,
merchants of Alexandria, Va, and Miss San
ford, age l6, of Zowden county, Va, were
the only passengers lost. The officers think
twelve or fifteen roustabouts, mostly colored,
went down with the boat and were drowned.
AGGRAVATED 1NFANr1c1DE.
ST. LOUIS, Dec What seemed to be an
aggravated case of infanticide was partially
developed here yesterday. A young unmar-
ried woman named Mary Muendler is ac-
cused of bearing twins last summer which,
it is charged, she made way with. The girl
was arrested Friday night and. yesterday
Coroner Auler conducted a secret examina-
ton of several persons who had been con-
nected with the girl in one way or the other,
which resulted to-day in holding Dr. Mueller,
who attended the woman during her sick
ness, and Il. P. Brakeman, prominent
brewer of the city, at whose establishment
Miss Muendler was serving as domestic at
the time of her illness, will probably be ar
rested III connection with the affair. The
girl here is now under arrest, and while the
evidence shows many suspicious crcum-
stancet against her, it is not definite, and the
whole thing may be a conspiracy against her
so far as infanticide is concerned; but there
is no doubt of her having the babies, and of
their mysterious disappearance.
THROW UP YOUR HANDS.
Fonr MCKINNEY, w. r., Dec. Ira
bing's rancho at Trabing City, on Crazy
Woman's creek, forty-eight miles north of
this point, was entered by masked men the
29th nit. They gave the command ssIhrow
up your hands, which was obeyed, and
went through the pockets of the employees
and took what they wanted from the store.
CHECKLEY, TIE FoRGER.
| MILWAUKEE, Dec John Checkley, late
~ e1tradited to Canada on a charge of for
| gerry and who escaped from the officers by
jumping from the train near Toronto, re-
turned here late Friday night. Last night
he was discovered by the police near the out
skirts of the city. The latter attempted his
arrest, firing two shots at him, but owing to
the darkness he escaped.