The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-31

road is estimated az $0UsUUU. several houses
along the creek were washed away One of them
contained two children, who were drowned
Several railroad bridges were washed away.
Along the Pittsburgh, New Castle and Lake
Erie railroad marrow gauge-in Butler county,
the damage was immense. Breakneck creek
was swollen to thesize of a large river, sweep
ing away 800 feet Of the road, houses, fences,
trees and live stock. The wheat harvest had
Just been finished, and the shocks which had
been left standing in the field were carried
away by the torrent and deposited, many of
them, in the branches Of trees twelve and ff
teen feet from the ground. Two streets in
Petrolia, also in Butler county, were flooded to
the depth of several feet The Oil Exchange
and Postofice were badly damaged. On Bear
creek, in the suburbs of the town, twenty-five
houses were washed away, nearly all of them
containing families, who were saved with great
difficulty. The scene at this point was very ex-
| citing. Hundreds of people were compelled to
make to the highlands, distance of several
| hundred yards. Mothers with infants in their
arms, men with clothing or articles of fur
niture on their backs, children of both sexes
and nearly all ages, all struggling through the
raging torrent to reach place of safety, pre-
scented scene seldom witnessed. Strange to
say, of this struggling mass of humanity, only
two small children were drowned. The total
loss by the flood is now estimated at $50O,0
| West.
! One of the most deplorable and tragic
cases of self-slaughter that has occurred in
many days is recorded by the Chicago papers
Elizabeth, Hannah and Mona Trowbridge, three
maiden sisters, aged respectively 43 40 and 80
years. lived alone in an elegant man
sion in Hyde Park, suburb of Chicago.
Through much brooding over exaggerated or
imaginary wrongs and misfortunes, they be-
came so respondent in spirits that the three
spinsters resolved to end their troubles in
death. The two eldest hanged themselves,
Mona assisting in the execution of the job.
The latter, however, failed to carry out
the final act of the terrible tragedy,
which involved the taking OF her own life In
stead of this, she set up pitiful moaning and
crying, which attracted the attention of some
neighbors, who, upon entering the premises,
discovered the two sisters hanging to ropes at
tached to large ten-penny nails that had been
driven into the walls for the purpose.
The Indian news from the West is of
a rather lively nature. A Fort Keogh dispatch
says an engagement took place near the mouth
of Beaver creek, between two companies of
| ox1,,o T,,,1; "a
Miles command and 800 hostile Sioux. The
troops lost four Indian scouts killed and two
soldiers wounded. When Gen. Miles main
column, which was twelve miles behind,
came up, the Indians were pursued
a distance of fifteen miles, but made their es-
cape to Sitting Bulls camp. Joseph Lam
bert, a woodman, and family, living six miles
above Wolf Point Agency, on the Missouri, was
attacked by Sioux Indians. Lambert, wife and
four children were killed and scalped. Two
other children were seriously wounded, and
cannot recover, and one little girl carried into
Seventh Infantry, had brush with the
Indians above Muscleshell, and killed one In
diam
Chicago elevators contain 3,580,375
bushels of wheat, 2,529952 bushels Of corn,
PA, $50 bushels of oats, 4S,sO4 bushels of rye,
and S0,SOS bushels of barley, making grand
total of 6,2S4,799 bushels, against 1856, 1862
bushels at this period in 1878.
In the case of the suicide of the
two Trowbridge sisters, at Chicago, the Coro-
| how ~ 10 4bo
that the two women were insane when they
planned and executed the double taking off,
and that the surviving sister, being also of I'M
sound mind, is not accountable for her knowl-
edge of and participation in the suicidal prepar-
ations.
It is reported that Sitting Bull, at
the head of 5000 warriors, had left Canada,
i and moved over to the American side of the
line. Old soldiers and frontiersmen are of the
opinion that he means mischief, and predict
lively times out West this summer
The blind horse Sleepy Tom, in a
pacing race at Chicago last week, glided around
the mile track in the remarkable time of 2:12A,
thus proving himself the fastest PAGER in the
world. ....
One of the most appalling disasters
that have ever happened on the Milwaukee
branch of the Northwestern railway occurred
at Warren's Crossing, near Waukegan. ILL, on
the Goth of July, resulting in the death of five
men and the serious injury of several others.
AS gravel train, composed of ten fiat cars,
which had been engaged in dtching, was back
ing into the station to make way for the regular
$40 express, the fiat car in front of the train
| struck COW at the crossing, partially throw
ing the car from the track, and telescoping
the balance of the train, with the exception of
one car and the engine, which remained upon
the track. Nineteen men were employed
upon the train, nearly all of whom were seated
| or standing upon the car which struck the
obstruction. The men were thrown from the
cars, and many of them buried beneath the
debris of the wreck. One by one the bodies of
| the dead men were removed, amid the pitiful
cries of the friends who had assembled at the
scene of the accident As they were taken from