The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-04-22

Very rich gold mines have been dis
covered recently in the Nacoochee
valley, Georgia. Two men are SAID to
have gathered up nine hundred dollars
worth of gold in single day. A soIia
nugget was found that weighed 44o
pennyweights.
While Mr.. D. B. Hall and wife, OF
Savannah, we're out riding last week,
the horse kicked back over the dash
board of the buggy and struck their
little daughter, who was sitting IN the
foot Of the buggy, in the head, break
ing her skull, aud killing her almost
instantly.
At five minutes past l o'clock on the
18th inst, there was experienced the
heaviest shock of an earthquake felt In
San Francisco for years. The motion
was vertical. No damage is recorded,
although the buildings rocked so that
the motion was plainly visible. Nevada
| Block apparently s"ayeu " io0' oo'
the perpendicular.
A frichtful accident occurred at the
Pennsylvania Steel Works, three miles
from Harrisburg, on the morning OF the
| 18th inst. While the men were at work
in the mill where steel is made, the
ratchet that controls the movements OF
large vessel that contains molten
metal, broke and turned the retort up,
side down: the contents we're poured
into the pit underneath, in and around
which about eight men we're working.
Two were so badly injured that their
lives are despaired of, and three or four
others were badly burned.
The steel works at Steelton, Pa, were
the scene of frightful accident last
week. While the men were at work in
the mill where steel is made, the ratchet
that controls the movements Of the
large vessel that contains the molten
metal broke and turned the retort up
side down. The contents were poured
into the pit underneath, in and around
which about eight men were working.
Geo. Tost and A. Westbrooke we're so
badly burned that their lives are de-
SPARED of. Monroe Miller, Simon Mar,
tin, George Horning and one or two
others were also badly, but not fatally,
burned.
A dispatch from Bombay says that
while an officer and party from the
18th regiment of British troops were
out beyond Quetta, in Afghanistan, they
were overtoken and killed by the Af-
ghans. The British call this massacre,
but when they captured Cabul and de.
liberately hung 96 Of the Afghans they
called it legitimate warfare. Up to the
present time the British forces in AT.
ghanistau have displayed far more
brutality and savagey in their acts than
the Afehans have. A like spirit was
displayed by the British forces when
they were fighting the poor niggers in
Africa.
A terrific hurricane passed through
Southwestern Missouri on the 9th inst,
spreading devastation on every side.
Nearly the whole town of Marshfeld has
been leveled to the ground, and the
debris took fire in several places, rem
deriug the condition of things still more
terrible Up to the latest accounts, Is
dead bodies had been found, and over
two hundred wounded have been taken
from the ruins of the wrecked houses.
The storm extended over ITO miles,
spreading devastation over the whole
distance. Accounts Of the killed and
wounded are continually coming in, but
all the wires are down, and it may be
several days before the whole extent OF
the damages will be known. Several
other towns in the track of the storm
Jared almost as badly as Marshfeld. =