The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1881-07-02

1efflO1O 0o1IEOo4 A00e000ts
CRY OF Mexico, June aS.---A horrible |
catastrophe occurred or the Monelos Rail
road on Tuesday night at II O'Clock. Al
provisional wooden bridge fell down while a
train drawn BY two engines was passing
over It and the cars and engines tuM,bled
down the precipice. The fires Of the en-.
gines caused a general conAagration ot ioo
barrels Of brandy, The dead numbered
'o7 soldiers snd seventeen officers, not in
Guiding railroad officers, or w,n,en and
children. o. the soldiers forty were snosc
Of less wounded. Only about sixty were
saved. The Secretary of Public Works
and military phy sicians departed TN Satur-
day for the scene OF the disaster.
For moment after the plunge .of til.
cars from, the bridge all was darkness.
Suddenly 100 barrel. Of brandy loaded ON
two vans caught fire, and the burning fluid
inundated the mas: Of passengers strug-
Cling in the ruins. Onl. few were nv,
disabled or hol'eles>ly wedged in the tim
bers. The dead and diving were wrart in
sheet Of fame and slowly burned before
| the ewes If the survivors. who were u,,..l,i>
to save u I'm.
Arctic Explorations.
WAsHiNGroS, Jrne .S.-Cap:a;n. Hoop.
or, 0f the revenue steamer Corwin, under
date Of OunaIaska, MAY soth, writes Secre-
tary Window that he arrived there in
TWENTY-FIVE and half days from San Fran
cisco. The past winter in Ounalaska has
been ur '',,al,y warm, but in the latter part
heavy northwest gales and snow storms
prevailed. The natives Of some Of the Is
lands suffered greatly from typhoid. .rheu-
monia, which became epidcmic. Captain
Hooper adds: II hope to finish coaling and
leave here Tor the Seal Islands BY the sad
instant. Alter leaving the Seal Islands We
will proceed north along the Siberian coast,
touching at st. Lawrence Island, Pluver
Bay, st. Lawrence Bay, East Cape and
Cape Scrzc; also Kings Island, Diomedes
and Cape P,imce Of Wales. 1lpossible to
procure dogs, Iprorose to send small
sledge party, fitted for two months, to ,rav-
81 from Cape Serze along the Siberian
coast 10 make inquiries with reference 10
the arctic exploring steamer Jeannettc and
the missing whalers Mount Wallston and
Viyi!ant. The vessel in the meantime will
cruise in the vicinity of the straits, and Gu.
dcavor to prevent illicit traffic witt! the ma
tives. We will touch at St. Michael's as
soon asthe Ice leaves Norton Sound. All on
board are in good health and spirits and
deeply Interested in the work bcfcr1
them"
New System Of Slavery.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29.--C. Chlau
sen, Swedc who recently arrived here
from Honolulu, ,vpor,s that several hundred
Scandinavians who went to the Sandwich
Islands under labor contract made by
Captain L'Orangc, are held there in wha
is practically state Of slavery, disposed o
;. by lot among the planters, suffering from
climatic influences and held rigidly to tn
terms Of their contract OH pain Of pena
servituels, though the other parties to tn
CONT act have failed to carry out at least it
spirit. Ills story creates sensation in thi
city and several communications have bccl
sent to Norway and Sweden warning th
y people against Hawaiian emigration
agents.
y Tunnel Scheme.
=, LoSpoS, June Alt was announce
:. the other day that experimental boring ft
-, the tunnel between Dover and Calais ha
turned out very successful, but experts s;'
the scheme is visionary one and emi''e'
engineers laugh at what they consider
!? wild freak of immigration on the part Of S
- William Edward Hatkin. They want
'e know how the debris Is 70 he remove
;. and ventilation secured for the w"k,ne
). . 1t would be absolutely impossible to wo'
. trains enough through such tunnel
!" make it pay unless there was an enormo'
=. passenger traffic.
,. The New Haven Roat Race.
III New I.oSnoS, June 2S.-ro-day's rae
in vas fine aud exciting for two miles AT
is then the llarvards had it securely. 1t, vi
u. however, very quietly watched. II
e. llarvar,ls lost some time in steering, h
made up In fine rowing, 20 that at tv
miles they were at evens. The first mi
~ was made In exactly five min",s', the $.
It's ond in 1o:4o, the third in sixteen and Il
y. fourth in ,1;Is, The Coluns!,ia>' to.al tn
IL. was .I:sS
Az Prisoners Murdered.
le. ORA<. June c9-Spies report that H.
il. mana, the rebel chief, has murdered I
.r. zouaves and chassears whom he captur
and spared only thirty three Of the Spa
iary,s .yhom he took prisoners recently &c
lie S4i>'a.