The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-04-28
TELEGRAPnIC ITEMS.

Monday night, causing loss of life and
fearful destruction of property. 1t was
war of storms. Besides the incessant
lightning, balls Of fire We're seen whirl-
ing across the clouds, varying in size
from chestnut to that of man hand.
Right in the center of that part Of town
around the railroad station the storms
met and the work of destruction COM
menced, and in brief time the place
was ruined. The loss of life was fear
full Through the beating rain and pit
iless winds citizens rushed to the scene
to aid the sufferers, and all through the
night squads of men combined and
went to work to, remove the debris and
gather up the wounded, dying and dead
that were scattered everywhere. The
awful scene beggars all human attempts
at description. Tuesday the citizens
closed their places Of business and de-
voted themselves to caring for the dead
and wounded Eighteen persons were
killed outright, and forty more or less
wounded, some perhaps fatally. At
ter the storm some of the ruins caught
fire, but it was checked before spread
ing to any extent. A about 10 o'clock
a perfect water-spout visited the scene
to render it more horrible. Men and
women were found decapitated, others
with limbs torn from their bod
les and otherwise mutilated-some a
quarter of mile from their homes.
Stock was all killed. A bolt of dry
goods from one of the stores was found
eight miles from the town, in a tree
top.
Judge Pierson, Of Harrisburg, sem
fenced Kemble, Petroff, Salter, Craw-
ford and Rumberger each to pay 81 900
fine and to one year at hard labor in
the Pententiary. The prisoners had
been convicted of offering brides to
members of the Legislature to induce
them to vote 81, ZOO, 900 of the public
money to pay for 81, 900, 900 damage to
the railroad companies in the Pitts
burgh riots of 1877. W. H. Kemble is
an ex-State Treasurer of Pennsylvania
was second in power as a politician to
Don Cameron only.
Daggett yesterday presented several
monster memorials against the Public
Land Commission bill. One of them,
from Eureka. bears 1900 signatures,
and another, from Tuscarora has 600.
Representative Daggett has obtained
the promise of the Coinage Committee
to delay action on the proposition for
the removal of the Carson Mint until a
reply shall have been received by Dag
gett to his letter to Secretary Sherman,
which letter was designed to elicit the
precise reason why the government cam
not purchase the requisite amount of
bullion at Carson.
A dispatch from Deadwood, Dakota
Territory, says a band of white stock
thieves killed John Defebach and run
off $50 head of horses from nyan Ka-
ra mountain, 81 miles west of here, en-
Tuesday last Deffebach was one of
the heaviest stock men in the West.
He leaves wife and five children.
The same band, disguised as Indians,
have committed numerous depredations
in this vicinity during the past two
months. A party from here has. gore
in pursuit.
The Sherman delegates to the Ohio
State Convention are in large MAORI
ty, and have about decided to instruct
the delegation to support Sherman as
long as there is any reasonable chance
of his nomination in Chicago. Owing
to the number of Blaine delegates it is
not deemed wise to adopt the unit rule.
The Blaine delegates promise to make a
lively fight.
AN unusual feature of the present
heavy immigration from Europe is the
steady movement west and southwest
by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Extraordinary inducements are being
offered to immigrants in that direction.
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