Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-17
LoSANGELES WEEKLY HEnALI
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Psssrng~ss Going sou,h.
MoJAvE, June 15.-Gao Kinds, E
Lewis, J l. Large, J P Moran, Joe
Goch, X H Alien, Geo Steward,
Richard Gray.
MoJAvE, June 18.-J II McFar-
rem, b Dreyfus. J Slausburner. w
8 Young, w James, Col P Prime
Pinney, Jr.
A brace Of Murderer.
NEW YORK, June l4.-The fund
now In the hands Of Rev. DR.. Rice
to pay the expenses OF the new trial
for Jennie r. smith and Covert D.
Bennett amounts to over 81, 600.
Last evening f Ice came to the city
to give Emma Abbott letter Of
thanks written by Mrs. Smith. The
two prisoners ere well, aud yester-
day both expressed hopes OF being
acquitted " second trial were
granted. They dread the tones of
The Courthouse belt, aud when it
rings Bennett throws himself on
his bed and places his fingers in his
ears, ana Mrs. Smith cries.
sentenced to Death.
INDIANAPoLIs, Ind, June IA
The second trial Of Louis Guetig
for the murder of Mary McGlenn
terminated this afternoon, the jury
having returned q verdict of guilty,
and that he suffer death. They
were out only ten minutes.
BOSWELL, Ind, June IA This
afternoon about $50 persons were
taking shelter in a lumber shed
from q severe thunder storm, when
a thunderbo!t struck the shed, kill
ing Instantly two med, Mike Way
man aud Louis Shermes, fatally
injuring George James aud James
Lane, while Lorenzo Stoves, DIR. j.
w. Green, Samuel Gay ami au-
other, name not learned, were Sc
vereiy injured. Tie crowd was
called together for a shooting tourn-
ament ut that place.
A Triple Tragedy.
DETROIT, June 14-Manley Ste.
vens, of Hunters Creek, went home
from the sawmill at an early hour
this morning, and finding John
House there, and suspeciiug him of
intimacy with his wife, shot him
three times. He shot his wife
through the head and then shot
himself and expired Immediately.
A, Open Draw.
CHICAGO, June 14th.-At the
1890 tonight, as hose cart No. ii
was about to cross State street
bridge from the north side, running
to q fire, II was discovered, too late
to stop, that the draw was open,
and the cart took sudden plunge
into the river, distance of
about eighteen feet. The driver
escaped after striking the mud on
the bottom of the river, but John
Coyie, q man who had just gone on,
was drowned. The horses were
also drowned, and the cart some
what damaged. Two otner men,
who were riding on the machine,
Jumped on the brink of the bridge
and escaped without injury.
Drowned By . wassrspout.
DEADwooD, d. T., June l4.-At
Buffalo Gap, on Thursday night,
by the sudden rise and overflow OF
Beaver Creek, caused by water
spout, eleven persons were drown
Ell, Their names were Mrs. Moore,
Mrs. Rhodes, Oliver Rhodes, Frank
Reed, Clyde Rhodes, Cliff Rhodes,
Maude Rhodes. The latter three
were children. They were all emu
grants OH their way to the Hill q
from Mills county. Besides the
Rhodes family there were four mel
going from the Hills to the rail-
road, names unknown, who were
drowned. Two were team owners,
one q passenger and one u night
herder. Five minutes from the
first alarm the whole country was
flooded, and the water subsidized al
most az suddenly as it rose.
DEADwooD, June AT. II. Gray
has just arrived with the tidings
that on Thursday night last, al
Buffalo Gap, eighty miles on the
Sidney stage route, eleven persons
were drowned by the sudden rise
and overflow of Beaver Creek,
Gray left the Gap at 8 O'Clock or
Friday morning, at which time but
two bodies had been recovered
those of Oliver Moore and Frank
Reed, from Mills county, Iowa, who
were immigrants to the Hills. The
following are the names Of the
others, with their former residence
es, so far as can be learned: Mr.,
Rhodes, Mrs. Moore, Of Clyde Cliff
and Maude Rhodes, two brothers
and sister. or the Rhodes fam
lily, consisting of five members, thu
husband and father alone was left
The mother aud wife and thrps
children went down to eternity IL
the angry floods. The names o
The other four victims who were
going out from the Hills Il
The railroad, Mr.. Gray failed t
get. Two were team owners, one ;
passenger and one night herder
The great rise took place early IL
the evening, and seemed to conn
on instantAneously. To use Mr.
Gray's own words: ''When we frs
heard the rumbling Of the waite
the Beaver did not seem to be par
ticuiarly hight could be waller
1t any point, and then We looked