Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-12
DOMESTIC NEWS.

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The Pittsburg Catastrophe Further
Deaths.
PITTsBuRG, October 1th.-The official in.
yestigation is proceeding regarding the cause
of Saturday nights frightful accident.
Twenty seven deaths have now occurred, and
two moro are expected hourly.
More Railroad Accidents.
New YORK, October 1lth.-This morning
| q train going down town on the Second
| Avenue Elevated Railroad, during fog ran
! into the rear of train ahead, and Edward
Cooper, the engineer of the rear train, was
killed. The engine and three cars were
badly broken.
SECOND DIsPATcH.l
! CHICAGO, October 11th.-The Inter Oceans
| New York special says: A fatal accident &C.
CURED on the Second Avenue Elevated Rail-
road to-day, in thick fog. One train hay-
ing run into preceding train. the engineer
stopped to examine the damage to his
engine, when third train ran into
the train that had stopped, with great
force, before its engineer could do anything
to prevent it. The shock was so gress that
he was thrown from his seat and fell between
the tracks to the street, a distance of thirty
feet. The water from the boiler also poured
over him, causing his death.
| ELGIN (Ill.l October 11th-A gravel train
|
ley, on the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
Railroad, to-day, ditching ten cars and kill |
ing several men. Reports vary as to the
number killed. The wounded and killed num-
| Der at least IA. John Ryan, a section man,
was killed outright. Doctors from this city
are attending the wounded.
WesiwardDoundP Passengers.
OMAHA, October 11th. = The following
through passengers were on to-day's train,
leaving at 1915 P. NJ, to arrive in Sacra
| mento October 18th: S. McAninch, Carrollton
Ill; L. Edwards, Mexico; E. Cope and
wife, Philadelphia John Geldard, England
L. q. Armstrong and wife, Hamilton, Mo;
L. p Jouett, U. S. N. Mrs James Wood
worth, Annie P. Campbell, San Francisco
Hon. Arthur Mills, Mrs. Mills. Barton
Mills, Dudley Mills, London, England
Louis f. Stuart, st. Stephens, n. B.; Ida
Keyes, Woodstock, N. B.; r. Parker, Orc
vile R. A. Parker, Detroit.
Sixty-one through emigrants left on Satur-
day nights emigrant train, to arrive in Sacra-
mento October 18th, and 4S last night, to ar
rive October 18th.
Fast Mail from Australia to England.
CHICAGO, October 1lth-The Inter Oceans
| New York special says: The Tribune give
| editorially to morrow an interesting story of
a fast mail from Australia to Englsnd.
Wednesday last Postmaster James Learned
that the Pacific Mail steamer City Of Sydney,
| which left Sydney September 9th, had
reached San Francisco October 5th--two days
ahead of time. She was just two hours too
late to catch the mail train Of that day, and
q delay of "a hours was inevitable. The
schedule time from San Francisco
was two hours too late to catch
the first departing British steamer.
office ia this city, and represented the facts
to Sydney Dillon. and asked if q special train
could not be put on to catch the regular mail
train of the day before. S. a. H. Clarke,
General Manager of the Union Pacific at
Omaha, and a. n. Towne. General Superin-
tendent of the Central Pacific at San Fran
cisco, were present. "Where is the train
i with the mail at this time p Dillon asked Of
! Towne. On the Humboldt Division some
4 where. was the reply. Can special train
catch the other train q he asked. Clarke re-
piled in the affirmative, but added, eve
shall have to run the special a
Thousand miles, and it will cost $1,000"
don't care what it costs" replied Dillon,
/" do it." The telegraph was put in requisi-
Rtion, and it was done. The regular mail train
! was overtaken at Omaha, and the Australian
Amail-car was attached. Last night at 9:1S it
WAS landed in this city, and to-day it goes by
| The Arizona to England. If the vessel makes
schedule time, the "trip from Sydney will
have been made in the shortest time on
| record-about forty days.
Very Low Water.
PORT JERvIs On. ", October 11th.-
| Never within the recollection of the :" oldest
inhabitant were rivers and small lakes and
ponds throughout this part of New ork solow
as at present. The Delaware river above
Lackawaxen, Pa, is nearly dry in places. and
pedestrians can easily cross without wetting
their feet. Fish are dying by the thousand.
The Lackawaxen river, which empties into
the Delaware at Lackawaxen Station, is
almost dry.
A Pr0nOun ced Case OF Yellow Fever.
| New YORK, October 1Ith-John johnson,
employed on the steamer Musiel, from Bar
BADGES, has been sent from Long Island Col
lege Hospital to quarantine, suffering from
pronounced case of yellow fever. The vessel
is lying in North river.
| An Aged Man Killed.
MILLEDGEvILLE lind J. October 18th. -
| Charles Allen on Saturday night killed
man go years old named William Toney.
Allen is the husband of Toney's second wife's
daughter. No cause is given.
Requisiti0n Signed.
WASHINGTON, October 11th.-The requisi-
ton for the payment of the Utes was signed
to-day.
| An Official Embezzier.
New BRUNSWICK IN. j., October 11th.-
Postmaster Joseph +. Fisher, Treasurer of
the Union Loan Association has embezzled
S23, 600 of the stockholders funds. He
claims to be able to pay back the amount.
United states supreme Court.
WASHINGTON, October 11th.-The United
States Supreme Court convened to day. All
the Justices were present except Clifford and
Field. The former has much improved. The
call of the docket begins tomorrow. The
| Kentucky lottery case was dismissed, for rea-
sons heretofore stated.
Eaitimorc's Anniversary.
| BALTIMORE, October 11th.-The celebra
| ton of the foundation of this city, 100 years
ago. began to-day, and the streets present
brilliant spectacle. Vast multitudes of peo-
pie, banners, testoons, flowers and verdure
and general happiness among the citizens
being the chief features
Killed In Tunnel.
HUNTINGTON (Pa.). October 11th.-John
Carson and his son, together with another
tempted to walk through Spruce Creek Tun-
mel yesterday but were run over by the
Pacific express, going East, and all instantly
killed.
The Tunnel Disaster-MOre Bodies Re.
| covered.
| New York, October 11th.-The body of
| Alfred Anderson, the foreman who was caught
IN the alr-c0ck az the tlule OF IHe OTedk III
| Hudson river tunnel, was recovered this
morning. Three other bodies are in sight,
and will be taken out tomorrow. The tunnel
company will pay each widow of the dead
$500 as a final settlement and indemnifca-
ton for the accident. The mothers of the
married will receive $780, The company
assumes all funeral expenses. The bills of
some of the undertakes are over 500, which
the company regard as an exorbiLant charge.
seizure Of Distillery.
| NASHVILLE (Tenn.), October 11th.-J. II.
Hardee's distiliery in Robertson county, con-
| tanning over 700 barrels of whisky, has been
seized for violation of the revenue laws. The
whisky is properly valued at $40, 600.
Plea for a Fair Trial.
| WASHINGTON, October 1lth = Secretary
SchuIz has received a letter from Spotted
Tail, Chief of the Brule Sioux, asking that
the six young men Of that tribe sent to Omaha
be accorded fair trial for alleged offenses
committed by them, according to the laws
enacted for white men. and promising to send
money raised by the tribe to pay for lawyers
to defend them.
FOREIGN.
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