The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-05-10
EAST EleN STATES.

ST. LOUIS, May S.-A large number
of laborers on the extension of the Chi
cago & Alton railroad, between Mexico
and Marshall, Mo-, are OH q strike.
Several hundred of them are said to be
congregated at Glasgow, where one of
them was killed last Monday.
MEMPHIS, May Sat three o'clock
this morning storm passed over
this city. partially unroofing number
of business houses and the Peabody
hotel. and blowing down Meacham's
cotton shed. The damage by wind and
water will probably reach $4,000.
PORTLAND, (Maine). May ct is
rumored that the Evans Rifle Company
of Mechanics Falls, is filling . large
order for the Russians on the steamship
Cimbria.
MINNEAPOLIS, May 1.-TWO more
bodies have been taken from the debris
of the Washburn mill. An inquest
will be held tomorrow and thorough
investigation is expected.
NEW YORK, May 9-Chas Morgan,
sole owner Of the Morgan line of steam
ships. died yesterday. He was the
founder of the Morgan Iron Works.
1t is said the California trade attracted
his attention among the first and con-
tributed largely to bis fortune.
CHICAGO, May 9-Bastian s. Taylor,
spirit mediums, who have been doing
some remarkable things here in that
line, were exposed tonight by q re-
porter, who caught ghost during q
seance, and held it tight until its
strings Embossed his hold. and its manly
voice swore in round oaths at him for
exposing the trick.
CHICAGO. May 9.-The Inter- Oceans
Washington special says: A letter has
just been received by Representative
Schulicher from prominent citizen Of
Corpus Christi. Texas, which contains
the following reliable statement re-
garding recent terrible and outrageous
murders committed in Webb, Duval
and surrounding counties by Mexicans
in the garb of Indians: have lived in
the counties of San Pstricio. Live Oak
and Nuecss for thirty years. and have
been through the troubles of the from
tier. have never seen such wholesale
slaughter. They took little boys from
seven to twelve years old. and two men
on horseback would hold them up by
their hands while Q third would take
out their entrails. The men they
would shoot and then take out their
entrails. This was seen by women
aud men who were hid in the brush,
and We found the bodies as it was told
TO us, aud in the manner stated. The
killed amounted to about twenty five
men aud children. from seven to seventy
four years old. This raid was made TO
get horses for the Mexican army. am
told 10y good authority that all raiders
receive is the money they can get with
other valuables. and one dollar a head
for all the horses they bring safe over
the Rio Grandc. think they must
have crossed over the Rio Grande with
about five or SIX hundred head of sad :
die horses There were about forty
FIVE raiders altogether about twenty
six in the party that did the killing,
about ten in the party that was below
San Diego, and eight or ten in the one
that crossed Eagle Pass. When l say
five or six hundred head Of horses, l
mean the number that was taken by
the rarity that did the killing. The
party that crossed the Rio Grande be-
low Rio Grande City had about one
! hundred and fifty head Of horses. ! DO