Morris tribune., 1880-08-19
The Casualty Racard.


There was q $4,000 fire in Whitehall,
n. Y, Aug. 10.
The body of a drowned man was found
in Cannon River, three miles above Red Wing,
Mimi, Aug. s. '~ ~
A Madrid telegram of Aug. Z, says vio-
lent storms in upper Oregon, and inundations'
have interrupted all traffic with France .
The Universalist church at Marbiehead
Mass, was burned by incendiaries on the
morning of Aug. II. Loss $25, 900, insurance
$4,OOO.
A brakeman on a gravel train Aug. s,
fell under the car wheels at Watertown, Wis.
and had foot crushed, making amputation
necessary.
Rains have fallen in all parts of North
Carolina during the past ten days, streams
have been swollen, fences and bridges swept
away and crops injured. --,
Advices from Vienna of Aug. 6, state
that the floods in silesia have subsidized. The
damage to public and private property is i'm
mense. Great distress prevails. --v--'-r---rT-s-'
An accident occurred, Aug. 18th, on
the Midland railroad between Leeds and Lam
caster, England where a passenger train left
the rails and persons were killed ana 20 in
iured.
AtBelthurst, New Brunswick Aug.
10, the Catholic church was reported to be il
flames. The convent was in, the greatest
possible dar ger, as well as the priests house
Loss heavy, insurance light The Marquis of
Lorne arrived at noon, but could not be re-
ceived as intended owing to the fire. -
4 London telegram of. August f1th
states that dispatch frem Alden says up.
wards of 1000 passengers and crew were
drowned by the laundering of the steamer
Jeddah, the 6th inst; on Cape Guardarfne.The
vessel was bound from Singapore to Jeddah.
The Jeddah belonged to the Singapore Steam
ship company. She was built at Dulbarton,
Scotland, and was an iron screw steamer. An.
other dispatch from Alden says the steamer
Jeddah, which her mastc: abandoned, did not
founder as reported. She arrived there all safe
at o'clock last night, August 10. She had
been picked up and towed into port gbyv the
steamer Antenar. 81 "a . {
A dispatch from Pine City, Mimi, OF
Aug. IL, states that at about l:45 a. m. of that
day an accident occurred on the Minneapolis
& st. Louis railroad to afreight train which
left Duluth the previous evening. The train
was running at its usual speed, probably about
twelve miles an hour, when an axle Of the
forward freight car broke, throwing that car
and six or seven others off the the track and
piling them up badly wrecked The follow.
ing cars and the sleepers were somewhat in.
iured by the shock but remained on the track.
None Of the passengers or train men were Sc.
riously hurt, but when search was made
through the wreck, three boys were found
dead, and another alive, in an overturned
crushed car OF wheat. The dead boys had
been buried and smothered by the wheat
The dead boys we're Peter Martin, John Irwin
and Geo. Adams, the youngest eleven yeart
old and the Oldest sixteen. The living boy
wos Ed. Conlcy. Alrthese boys were from
Minneapolis, and were stealing ride. 81,
of the cars were badly wrecked. -.
August uth two excursion trans OF
theWest Jersey railroad 1t Mays Iandfna
were telescoped, the locomotive Of the real
train running into the rear car, and explodin,
its cylinder head, filled tile wrecked car witt
steam and scalding water. Eight were kille
aud between 1orty and fifty injured an
fatally, being terribly scalded. AS there wa
nearly 1900 people from Pbiladel
phia ON the excursion, the exeitcmen
among those looking for friends at the whal
RS the Wounded we're brought over from Can
den, was intense. - s6me>of thek kg01hen la
gone to the seaside in light summer costumeI
which proved slight protectionl against th
steam jets, and the only difficulty was to Sc
where these people are not burned. Som
were. carried from. the cars a mas
of -four and cotton under which th
human form - was 1aeearcely distir
guishable, and hut for low moans, they seem
cd.dead At swb o'clock this morning e
ambulances were fun, and as The number
stretchers proved inadeangte several epf fth
victims rem ainedin the 'eArsS 0fsthc bsFSof
ON the rear platform OF the first ptcar; som
jumped to the ground, and then rushed PAN
stricken into the cars The locomotive cam
bounding On and crashed into the rear EN-
stu standing upon the bridge, and with sue
force that the engine fsirly plowed arrow cha
way into the car and lifted the roof OF the cal
over the smoke stack. The shock broke OF