Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-20
GENERAL NEWS.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD.
UNION
ADDITIONAL STORM REPORTS.
Probable Loss of Steamer with sixty or
Seventy Passengers.
CONTINUATION OF THE RAILROAD WAR
Four Persons Drowned In Maine by the
Upsatting Of Boat.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF FOREIGN NEWS
Gladstone Now Said to be Unpopular with
the Powers.
ETC.. ..................Efc.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Etc.
DOMESTIC.


DOMESTIC.
The Great Storm.
PoUGHKEEpsIE IN. ", October 19th.-No
western passengers passed here since morn.
ing. Reports from along the New York
Central show that the passenger trains are
blocked west of Rochester by snow and ice,
ST. PAUL (Minn.l, October 19th.-The
snow is mainly confined to the southern part
of the State, along the Southern Minnesota
road and from Sioux City east to st. James.
On these lines the cuts are full of snow, and
drifts several feet deep are on the track. No
trains have moved since Friday night on the
Hastings and Dakota Railroad, and travel is
prevented by snow east of Stewart On the
northern lines there is some detention to the
moving of trains, arising mainly from the
disabling of telegraph lines by wind. There
is some snow, however, on the st. Paul, Min
| neapolis and Manitoba Railroad, in the
wooded country west of Red river.
CHICAGO, October 19th.-The Inter Oceans
Muskegons special says: Not vestige is
left of the schooner Granada, which went to
pieces off shore here. Only two survivors
have been rescued-Wm. Biessell, mate, and
Argus Tinklator, the Captains brother. The
latter reports that the vessel left Chicago
with smart breeze on Friday evening, but
the steering apparatus sooR became worth
less, and the schooner was at the mercy of
the waves, the storm hourly increasing in
violence. Saturday noon the steward and
sailor died of exposure. and he himself PRAYED
for death. Sunday noon the land was sighted,
and they began to make raft. One sailor
was caught between parts of the rocking
vessel and nearly crushed, but was wrapped
in canvass and put on the raft. The waves
washed him overheard The Captain lost
his hold by the breaking of the raft and was
drowned when near shore. Tinklator held
on for while and then swan ashore. ALI
the rest of the crew-number not stated
were drowned before their eyes.
CHICAGO, October 19th.-The fate of the
Alpena is still doubtful, although pieces of
her wreck have been picked up along the
shore. The owners are quite confident that
the vessel will be found to have reached port.
An Associated Press agent has been sent by
team to Stony Break from Montague, to learn
all the particulars about the wreckage of the
Alpena which came ashore there. The vessel
was 175 feet long, So feet beam and IL feet in
hold, valued at $4,000 She was insured
this year for the first time for $40. 600. She is
Is years old. Her Captain was n. w. Ma
pier, of st. Joseph. The mate was -;
second mate, J. 81. Kelly; first engineer, =
Robinson second engineer, r. Patton stew
ard, John Bowen clerk, A. S. Hayes. She
also had four cabin boys, two wheelmen, two
cooks, two fremen, one porter and eight deck
hands-total, % in her crew. The company
keeps no duplicate list of passengers, but es-
Inmates that they numbered sixty to seventy.
CHICAGO, October 19th.-The steam barge
Trader, which plies between Chicago and
Muskegon, and does lumber business, and
which, according to advices and reports of
the officers of schooners who have seen her
wreckage, has been lost and gone to pieces
on the east shore of Lake Michigan, was cap
tanned by Frank Brown and manned by a
crew of ten. All hands have probably per-
ished.
MONTAGUE (NIich.), October 19th.-Sec-
tions of the Trader and of the Alpena have
been washed ashore at Stony creek, near here
including the Alpena's wheel, piano, ropes
and lumber.
HOLLAND (AIich.), October 19th.-A man
just in from Venture, eight miles north, says
that during last night bucket, two life-pre.
servers and cabin door-all marked "Al-
pena"-came ashore there. together with a
lot of camp-stools, part of forward deck,
the inside portions showing fine granting
work, one piano with the upper lid gone,
Vischer, of New York, maker; also an oval
stairway and a bucket were found ON the
beach mile north of the harbor. The bucket
is marked "Steamer Alpena." Nothing else
was marked. Men are watching the shore
for other portions.
GRAND HAVEN (Mich.), October 10TH
be learned, were: w. S. Benham and wife,
M. Cross, Mrs. B. +. Curtis and Captain HI.
v. Squire, of Grand Haven Mrs. Bradley
and two daughters, of Santa Fe, New Mex
leo; Mrs. B. Cole, of Illinois sister OF f.
HI. Holbrook. of Muskegon, agent of the
Goodrich Line II. L. Locke, agent of Hill
Brothers, New York Rev. Farrell Hart and
wife, White Pigeon, Michigan; Mr.. Ridger,
agent Of glass works, Syracuse, New York :
John j. Bowen, ex-steward of the Alpena
John Osborne, wife and three children, Chi
cago; Maggie Mack, ex-stewardess of the
Alpena; n. P. McGiloray, st. Joseph,
Michigan man with three children, name
unknown c. Kuster, Fred. Spaieth, G. Halt
niger. Grand Rapids; L. Landreth, Muske-
gon. The following are supposed to have
been on the Alpena: l.. d. Peyton, New
York; Harry L. st. Clair, Chicago w. c.
Petit, Chicago Jew by the name of Bob
Sinsky. scrap iron buyer, of Chicago.
SIOUX CITY (Ia.), October 19th.-A storm
of sleet set in here Friday, and became a
severe snow-storm on Saturday, continuing
in modified form through Sunday and yes
terday. All the railroads leading to this city
except the Sioux City and Pacific have been
blockaded, but the Central is open to-day,
and the other roads are fast getting out of
the drifts. The weather has not been cold,
but large losses in stock are reported. Nearly
every farm suffered. One man in this county
is reported to have lost 800 head of sheep.
Losses of cattle from one head to five head
in Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa are reported.
The "oldest inhabitant" does not remember
storm of Esuch severity so early in the sea-
son.
HOLLAND (AIich.), October 19th.-Pieces
of the wreck of the Alpena are coming
ashore. A piano has been identified. The
body of Mrs. Bradley of Santa Fe was the
first to come ashore. She had been spending
the summer at Grand Haven with two chill
dren. Watchers are patrolling the shore,
waiting for further developments.
The Colorado DimcuIty.
WASHINGTON, October 19th.-Commis-
sioner Meacbam, in a letter of October 9th
from Los Pinos, says it is believed by him
that the compromise with the Indians was
made in good faith by Agent Berry. 1t was
no put-up job, as some teamsters claim. The
Indians would not agree that the murderer
should go to the military camp. but said they
would allow him to go to Gunnison, if his
trial and conviction would follow. The
escort was chosen by the prisoner himself,
and it was believed that the danger was over.
WASHINGTON, October 19th.-The follow.
ing dispatch has been received at the Ioterior
Department
DENVER, October 10, 1880.
Hon. C. Sehurz, Secretary of the Interior: AS
there is no telegraphic communication to Gunnison
City, am unable to get accurate and reliable re.
| ports from there. have no adyices of two com.
| panies of State militia having started for the
reservation, and disbeieve the rumor The inforrna-
ton which reached is that the Sheriff arrested
| Berry over a week ago at the Agency; that Berry
| persuaded the Sheriff 10 accompany him to the
cantonment about four miles distant, where he
escaped from the Sheriff. Two dispatches were re-
csivsd here to-day concerning hm-one stating that
he is secreted by Indians the other that he is pro-
| tected by the commander of the post l respect
fully request you to require the commander of the
| post to deliver him to the Sheriff of Gunnson
county at Gunnison City This will avoid the ne
cessty OF the Sheriff taking State force
with him to make the arrest. Although his
efforts to escape have strengthened the convict N
to his guilt, have apprehensons as to hisper-
sonal safety when once in the custody of the Sheriff
| at Gunnison. Captain Cline has been in jail for
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