Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-11-15

the time mentioned. The Captain was Hugh
Mclaughlin of Montreal; the Purser, Johnny
Graham, a son of Graham of st. Catherine
the principal owner of the vessel. Besides
these there was n crew of 10 men and a num-
Der of passengers, all French Canadians
probably IL or II, all told.
A dreadful disaster occurred at Kansas
City, Mo-, on the 7th, by which six per.
sons lost their lives and some eight or nine
others were injured. Shortly after moor
on the day named the buildings
Nos. 202, 204 and 206 Main Street
occupied by J. +. Corle & Co., as a
cracker and candy manufactory, fell with q
terrible crash, caused by the giving away OF
a center wall, which had just been weak
ened by the cutting through of door. To
add to the horror, fire broke out in the de-
bris and spread with great rapidity. Many
of those who fell with the walls escaped,
but quite number were buried in the ru
ins. Some jumped from the windows, most
of whom were caught by the crowd below
and escaped unhurt, although few were
cut and bruised, some seriously. Others of
| the employees escaped from the rear, but
several who did not had to force their way
through the fire to the front. The names
of those who lost their lives are: Emma
Kemper, Annie Becker, Louise Hummell,
Charles Schullize, Andy Mcconnell, and
George Kemper. At the time of the accident
there were 107 persons Mt work i'm the build
| ing, most of them boys and girls.
Some important evidence in the case OF
Rev. Mr.. Hayden, on trial for the murder of
Mary Stannard, in Connecticut, has been dis
covered by the scientists of Yale Medical Col
lege. On the cheek Of the murdered girl,
now preserved in the College, can be seen II
indentations, which correspond exactly with
the IL nails i'm the heel of Rev. Mr.. Hayden's
left brogan, which he wore on the day of
Mary's murder. 1t is claimed by the prose-
cution that Hayden put his heel on the girls
face when he cut her throat.
Election day at Leonardtown, Nd, wound
up with a small riot, i'm which an attempt
was made to pull down the Republican flag
staff. Mr.. A. A. Lawrence, who had lust
been elected County Commissioner on the
Republican ticket, was shot through the
breast, probably fatally, by some person un-
known. He was very popular gentleman,
highly esteemed by both parties, and the af-
fair is deeply regretted.
Another frightful railroad accident oc-
CURED on the night of the Sth. As heavily
laden stock train on the st. Louis, Kansas City
and Northern Railroad was crossing the great
bridge across the Missouri River at st.
Charles, Mo-, at about $3.50 p. M, the west
span of the bridge suddenly went down,
carrying with it IL ears of cattle and hogs,
together with the caboose, containing seven
men. The locomotive and tender, together
with one car, passed safely over and were
saved by the parting Of the coupling as the
rear cars went tumbling down into the river,
distance of about so feet. Jo-
siah Wearen and William HYDE,
both stockmen from Malvern, Iowa, were
taken out of the wreck, dead. Charles r.
win and George Barnhardt, brakemen, were
alive when rescued but died soon afterward
John Summers and Frederick Davis were
injured but not severely. The seventh man, J.
III. Strahan, stockman, saved his life by
leaping from the door Of the caboose Just in
time to effect lodging upon a pier
The crash caused by the fall
ing bridge soon brought hundreds of the
citizens of st. Charles to the scene of the
disaster, and by means of boats the injured
were rescued and the bodies of the dead re-
covered from the wreck. The bridge was
erected in 1871, and was considered entirely
safe. The bridge proper consisted of three
spans and was nearly 1000 feet in length;
together with its approaches it was 6 6,535 feet
in length. The spans were iron and so ele-
waited that steamboats, passed underneath at
all stages of water.
The steamship Champion, from New York
for Charleston, was run into by the British
iron ship Lady Octavia, about 40 miles
northeast of Cape May, at daybreak on the
morning of the 7th, and sank within
five mi
sons on board the Champion, pas
sengers and crew, of whom 32 were
lost and but % saved. The survivors were
by passing bark. OF the 16 passengers on
board the Champion, II were drowned, in
cluding all the women, five in number. The
Captain was among the saved. The cause
of the disaster is unknown, as the Captain
of each vessel charges the responsibility up
on the other.
The steamer Falcon, from Baltimore for
Charleston, with a full cargo and seven pas
sengers, came into collision off Barren Island,
on the Sth, with the schooner S. c. Tryon
loaded with ice from the Kennebec River, for
Baltimore. The steamer was so badly in
jured that she sank within 20 minutes. Her
passengers and crew were rescued by the
Tryon.
The whaling schooner Petrol, Capt. George
Fisher, of Newburyport, Mass, was dis
masted and copsized in the North Atlantic
during gale on the Goth of October. She
had on board 2l persons, ID of whom, in
cluding the Captain, were drowned. The six
survivors clung TO the wreck for five days,
when they were picked up by the Austrian
bark Rebus and brought to New York, ar
irving there on the Sth. Their situation
when rescued is described as being pitiable
in the extreme. They had some food, though
but little water and scarcely any clothing.
Gov. Phelps of Missouri, on the Sth, tee-
graphed Adjutant- General Mitchell, whom
he sent to Clarke County to investigate the
lynching of Bill Young, that the law must be
executed at all hazards; that the local au-
thorities should be sustained; and that if the
people of Clarke County engage i'm insurrec-
tion, he could assure them that he (the Gov
ernor) would suppress it.
Peter Little, Mrs. James Brown, his sister,
and a 2-year-old son Of the former were
drowned on the 9th by the sinking of a boat
in the Merrimac River at Lowell, Mass.
The whaling schooner Florence, formerly
engaged i'm Arctic explorations, was lost re-
Gently in Cumberland Straits, to the east of
Hudson's Bay, by being driven ashore dur
ing a gale. Her crew We're all saved, but
suffered great hardship on barren shore
before being picked up by passing vessel.
f. w. Perry was hanged by some persons
unknown at CleOra, Colo, on the night of the
9th. Perry had been found guilty by "A
Coroner's jury of killing a man named
Bailey for the purpose of rob.
berry. During the night the pris-
oner's guard mysteriously disappeared, and
on the following morning the murderer's
dead body was found hanging TO tree.
Pinned to the dead mans back was Il paper
stating that many crimes had been committed
in Chaffee County, the perpetrators of which