Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-11-13

gang VINO robbed a railroad train at Glen
dale, Mo-, short time since, was shot and
killed by former companion named Shep
herd, about seven miles from Joplin, Mo.
aud not far from Short Creek. Kansas, on
the Cd inst.
At Green Valley, Knox county, Ohio, or
on the night of the I'd inst, Stephen Zook
proprietor of the mills at that point, was
attacked Oh bridge by two men armed with
knives. Zook deitnded himself successfully
with a common pocket knife, killing one o.
his assailants.
A drunken police officer shot aud killed
John Donnell, a blacksmith, at San Francis
co, CAL, ON the I'd inst. Donnell was also
under the influence of liquor at the time.
Perils of the Sea.
The ship Lady Octavia, in ballast fol
New Cork, came in collision with thu
steamer Champion, from New York fo1
Charlestown, striking the steamer amid
ships and sinking her in Eve minutes
Seventy five persons are reported saved and
thirty .fvo lost. The collision occurred 2s
miles 6 the Capes Hen'open, Delaware, on
the morning of the 9TH. The ship is badly
damaged and was towe ed to Phila elphia. The
steamer was laden with q cargo valued al
abont 100000.
The Austrian bark Rebus, arriving al
New York on the 18th inst, brings news OF
the loss OF the schooner Petrol and fifteen
of her passengers and crew, including the
captain. She also brings six survivors, all
that are left CT 21 persons. The Petrol,
after being roughly handled in the late ter
rible gales which prevailed on the Atlantic
was caps;zed on the 10th ult., in q squall and
fifteen persons were lost, Including Capt.
F,sher From the 10th of October until the
81 of November six survivors cluDg to the
wreck exposed to the cold and storm,
without covering, and kept continually wet
by the seas that swept over them. They
had some food, but little water to drink,
and when relief came were almost frantic
with 10y. The Petrol was small schooner
of only 81 tons. Her master, George Fisher,
was her owner IS well. She was built in
1910, in Newburyport, Mass.
The weli-known whaling stip Florence,
at Que time employed by Howgate in arolar
expedition, in charge OF Capt. Tyson, was
totally wrecked in Cumberland Straits, to
the east of Hudson Bay. All on board
saved The Florence was owned by Z. A.
Williams or New Bedford. On one trip to
the South Shetland Islands she made in
1872 100000 by bringing fur seal skins.
Her captain received $4,000 as his share.
She was less than one hundred tons bur.
hen.
ThesteamerF Falcon csme in collision on the
Ssh with the schooner $ &. Tyron, ice laden,
off Barren Island, on he Atlantic coast. The
he fore reaching it. All on board were
rescued. The Fs'con ard cargo was valued
in the neighborhood OF $6J, 900.
Death un the Rail.
A CHOOSE and one car Of the south bound
freight train on the Virginia Midland rail-
road went down an embaakmeut on the
nixhtei the 7;h inst. Conductor "l"e'n.A:
ously Injured.
Fred NJ. Bradley, brakeman on the Van
1alia coal train, while attempting to de'ach
IN engine from tie Er.in which was being
run on a side track al Venice, ILL.,, on the
9TH, slipped and fl end three cara passed
over him, cutting one leg of entirely ana
terribly man glirg he other. He died in d
few minutes.
The three rear GAYS tf the special New
York express troiY. which left P9ugbkeepsle
at Z :o5 on the ;ysning CT the 9TH, going
south. Jumped the trst when between New
Hamburg and Low Point One OF them
was thrown into the river. A number OF
passegers were in ured, but none seriously.
A freight train OF the Pennsylvania road
broke in two eerly on the morning CT the
7th while coming down the mountain about
eight miles west CT Altoona, Pa. The de-
tached portion of the train gained grea
speed, running down hill at the rate OF
mile a minute, until at Kittaning Point it
overlook and ran into the first part, "a cars,
completely wrecking them and scattering
the freight in all directions. James A. Nc
Dowell, brakeman, was instantly killed.
J. G.. Cook, another brakeman, was serious
" Injured and ia not expected to recover.
During heavy fog on the morning OF the
9th d freight train on the Pennsylvania
railroad ran into aaother freigat train neal
the Pennsylvania Rolling mill ct Lancaster
Pa and two oil cars were wrecked. Iht
s2aping oil caught FIRE and shorty after
wards one Of the oil tanks exploded with
terrific force, severely shaking all the build
ings in the vicinity. The fire engines wer'
- 1aap,iNe n tn IN
height of thirty feet and for some hours tn
track was blocked for miles, east aud ives
with trains waiting for the fire to burn itse!
out.
The engine of freight train ran of al
open switch on the Louisville, Baltimor
and Ohio railroad at Newark, o., on IN
7th, and ran into two houses, tearing ther
down, but iojuring no enc except Enginee
Dennis, who had his leg broken.
John Schwartz, conductor of constru'
ton train at Milwaukee, Wis.,, fell undt
the wheels and received fatal injuries, o
the 9th instent. He was to have been ms
ried On the 7tb, and few hours before h
death the ceremony was performed.
Mrs. James Fisher, Of Etna Green, Ind
while walking on the railroad track ne,
her residence, on the 9th inst, was struc
by an engine and instantly killed.
At Freehold, N. j., on the 9TH inst, Sau
ud Hendrickson and wife, while drivi1
across the railway track were struck by q
engine and both fatally injured.
The manager of Madris, British Ind
railway, telegraphs that an accident occu
red to q passenger train near Arconum {
the 31st Of October, in consequence of Il
sinking of an embankment after ra
storm. Nineteen persons, including thr'
Europeans, were killed and 45 wounded.
| passenger train on the New York al
Greenwood Lake railroad, composed of Of
engine and one coach ran into the river
Hackensack on the 4th inst, owing
the drawbridge being open. The
were about twenty persons in II
coach, mostly business men living at A
lington, Mountclair and Greenwood Lal
on the way to New York. The engine
named Dexter was The only person kille
but several were badly bruised and injur
internally. The passenger coach floated I
the water, and the passengers were TAX
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