Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-10-08
Morning kilograms.
Passengers s3oing south.

Passengers taoinx south.
MoJAvE, Oct. 7.-F McCarty, ]
g Partridge, Mrs L ] Chapman,
Gen Z B Fisk, Maj NJ A Baldwin,
Il Lord, ] s Carr, + B Weeks, Mrs
Ed TraslS, Miss A Z George, M Hob
son, Mr. Fitzgerald, G II O'Brien,
Mrs Otis Child, Mrs G Child, G e
Huber. J Meyerstein, Mrs Silver
and two children, Mrs Hatson and
child, Mrs Anderson, w Dryden, J
w Dryden and wife, s w Dryden,
wife and two children, j Dryden,
Miss Dryden, G A Vincent, f M
Rowe.
rHssenscrs by the OrIzabs.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 6.-The
following named passengers sailed
for Los Angeles to-day by the
steamer Orizaba: II M Huston, A
Boschke, K Maxwell, b Mossman,
o Stevens, e w Brinkman, J Col
vile, F Tormey, Rev p Veder.
A Ba.ioon Dashed &" Pieces ana
the AerOnnuts kAtiled.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 6.-About
quarter to four yesterday after
noon Professor Colgrove, aeronaut,
and Charles III. Williams, mana
ger of amusements at Woodward's
Garden, made balloon ascension
from the Gardens. All day the
wind was blowing u gale, and
friends Of both parties urged them
to give up the trip as extra hazard
Gus. Neither, however, would be
influenced, and there were many
who witnessed the preparations for
departure with the strongest fore
holdings of evil. Mr.. Williams was
very heavy man, weighing over
two hundred, and the balloon was
of capacity to carry but two bags
of ballast besides the occupants of
the basket. At quarter to
four Colgrove cut the rope and
the balloon mounted heavily
about $50 feet, when a strong
gust of wind caught it
and sent it whirlIng downward I'M
til it struck the telegraph wire on
Howard street. Several OF the
cords supporting the basket were
cut, wires broken and the balloon
liberated, which was next dashed
against the chimney of house
near by. With the rebound IL
jumped over Fulsom street, where
the basket gave way and both oc-
cupants fell headlong to the ground
from a height of about fifty feet.
At almost the same moment the
bs"oon burst and collapsed with
noise like thunder clap and fell
in a vacant lot between Fulsom
and Harrison streets. The crowd
from the neighborhood and Gar
dens at once rushed to the scene
of the accident. Mr.. Williams
was lying on the curb stone; he had
fallen on his head and was instant
ly killed. Colgrove was lying in
the middle of the street, but in
sensible. Restoratives were prompt
ly applied, but he survived only
three-quarters of an hour, his in
juries being m ostly internal. The
disaster has created deep impress
sion in the city. Williams was
O very popular man and highly es-
teemed in the community, and
Colgrove was also much liked. He
has made a number of ascensions
In the State, and although COM
petent aeronaut has been consider
ed rather daring and reckless. Both
were men of family. Williams
leaves wife and children. Col
groves wife and three children are
in the East.
San Francisco Items.
FRANCISCO, Oct. 6.-Yester-
day morning II. Wallace, lately
employed as canvasser for the
Broadstreet Co., at No. 230 Califor-
MIA street, committed suicide in his
rooms at the Philadelphia House,
42l Bush street, by shooting him
self in the head. Deceased had left
the Broadstreet Company some
weeks ago, and last week was me-
gotiatipg for canvassing trip for
Code, Elkfelt & Co. He was not
financially embarrassed, and his
suicide is probably due to mental
alteration.
Capt. Hine, master of the scow
Express, was drowned in the bay
Yesterday about noon. He was
Knocked overheard by the main
boom while going about.
The score at 9P. M. stood: Bosom
ham, 2O5; Wilcox, 339; Thompson,
3O2; Uddin, 293; Chenswith. 1859;
Murdoch, $50; McGinn, 3Ol; Mat
teson, 332; Stewart. 800; Harmon,
26b; Duplisses, APO, Carmichael,
400; Santos, 1858; Scott, $50; Reid,
3l3; Bowman, 357; McLennon, 2S9;
Ferguson, I'll; Green, 1872; Berger,
22l; Mcintyre. 426; Curtis, 3O7i
Dewey, 29l; Evans, 299.
1t has been understood that sew
eral of the Workingmen's candi
dates for city officers would proba
bIy meet and recount, but since the
completion of the official canvass
friends of the defeated candidates
say that the probability is lessened
Freud for County Clerk and Staley
for Superintendent of Streets, fee
somewhat sore over their defeat
but realize that recount would b.
an extensive job, with no assurance
: of changing the result, and will
most likely abandon the idea. .
4 Blowing strong from the soutl
all the morning; during the fore