The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-09-12
Foreign

A dispatch from Pesth says Miskolez, a
town in Hungary, was destroyed by an
appalling thunder storm IN September 1.
One hundred houses wet destroyed, and
over one hundred persons were killed. A
reat number of persons, and especially
women and children, were injured. The
calamity causes the greatest distress in the
vicinity. The su~fferings Of the afflicted al
the sudden loss of their relatives were heart
rending.
Later accounts from Miskolez, Hungary,
state over one hundred corpses have already
been recovered, and two hundred persons
are still missing. At Erlan, about sixty
i've miles from Pesth, the river Eyer broke
through the walls of the town, and whole
rows of houses were demolished, and many
persons drowned.
An excursion train on the London,
Chatham & Dover Railway, from Ramsgate
Broadstairs and Margate, crowded with
passengers, near Sittingbourne Junction,
came in collision with some freight cars
while the latter were switching off the
main line. The train was running at ex-
press speed, and was completely wrecked.
Eight persons were killed and thirty Sc
verely injured.
The Sultan sent a dispatch to tine Gar
requesting him to give orders to check the
outrages upon Mussulmans in Roumelia.
The Gar replied, expressing sorrow at the
anarchy prevailing, but declaring it his
belief the reports were exaggerated, as the
Russian generals had strict orders to pre-
vent and punish such acts.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg says the
police there fear that the Nihilists are in
c~reasing throughout Russia. The Nihilists
are emboldened, and have stabbed four
imperial agents in Odessa, among whom
was the police agent who denounced
Kodaslki. The report that the assssins of
Mezentzow nave been arrested turns out to
be false.
The excursion steamer Princess Alice, re.
turning from Gravesend on the evening of
September 8, with about eight hundred
passengers, was run down off Banking
about eight o'clock by a screw steamer.
The Princess Alice was struck admidships
and sank almost Immediately. The number
of persons drowned is variously estimated
at from five hundred to five hundred and
fifty. The higher estimate is the latest,
and is given by the London Steamboat
Company, owners of the Princess Alice.
The steamer which sunk the Princess Alice
is supposed to be the Bywell Castle, a screw
collier, bound north in ballast. The steward
Of the Princess Alice states that after the
collision the other steamer proceeded with
out attempting to render aid. He
estimates that seven hundred persons
were on board the Princess Alice.
She sank bow frs, in FIVE minutes after she
was struck. Some small boats and another
excursion steamer rendered what assis-
lance was possible. The drowned include
an extraordinary proportion of women and
children. Several survivors speak of hav-
ing lost as many as three, five and six
c. i dren.
The Corners jury has returned a verdict
of manslaughter against two switchmen for
the railway disaster at ~Sittingbourne, Eng,
and the men have been committed for trial.
The insurrection in the parts of Bosnia
aud Herzegovina occupied by the Austrians
is in the last extremity. 1t is stated the
insurgents at Trebinje are already between
the Austrian and Turkish fires.
A dispatch from Sydney, New South
Wa es, says the rising of the natives in New
Caledonia is not quelled. The insurgents
stubbornly maintain their positions in the
mountains.
Later estimates of the number of persons
drowned by the collision on the Thames are
higher than those previously given. 1t is
now stated between six hundred and sever
hundred were lost, a majority of the est
mates favoring the latter number. A diver
says he felt corpses packed four and five
deep in the cabin OF the Princess Alice.