The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28


gardfng So worth of postage stamps for /
the use of members of the house and |
senate was taken mp aud passed with the /
to include the officers OF
both house and senate, and also the SEC |
rotary of state.
a resolution was also adopted advis- |
ing the committees on mines and mln- |
ing to examine into the hole in the |
ground at Leavenwcrth and report to !
the senate what II thinks of the coal pros |
poets IN that vicinity.
The house resolution relating 10 print |
ing the temperance bills was tabled. The
house appropriation bill WAS taken up
and amended SO as TO include the chap
lain of senate and house. 1t was then re-
ferred back to the house for its concur
rance.
Capers Of the Blizzard
NEW YORK, Jan. 22-The effect of the
storm on the telegraph wires was pic
turesque as well AS disastrous The ice
began to form on them between this city
and Philadelphia about 4 4. m. The first
report of poles falling came TO the West
ern Union office from Harrisburg, Pa.
Soon after noon yesterday communica-
ton closed in all directions. A tele-
graphic message could not be sent after
that hour in any direction from the city,
on any line of telegraph, and anxious
merchants and brokers at the telegraph
offices were willing to pay almost any
sum to get messages of, but il was of no
avail. Persons with messages of sick
ness and death eagerly enquIred as to the
the probable time when they could send
or receive message, and turned sadly
away when the reply was given that it
might be one day or it might be three
before communication with distant
points could be re-established. Trains
out of the city carried many passengers
with messages to be sent from the first
point reached where the telegraph
lines were working. The suspen-
sion was so compete and sud-
den that the extent Of the storm and the
damage to the wires outside the city
could not be learned. In this city, how
ever, the damage was greater than ever
before known. In 1878 there was
great storm of snow and sleet which
Frustrated the wires and nearly cut off
the city from outside communication.
| There was not one-halt rs many wires
in the city at that time as at present, and
| the suspension was not complete as it is
now, hence the loss at this time is much
greater. In fact, it is the first time that
| this city>>has absolutely been cut off
| from communication with the resi- of the
country since the telegraph lines were
established
This morning there is not single
/ city line in operation. The Western
! Union main office is not in communi-
cation, it is said, with sub offices TWO
| blocks away. All messages for distant
| points are sent from New York by cour-
Ter to Williamsburg, New York, or
| Elizabeth, New Jersey, and thence tele-
graphed to distance. The full extent
of the losses to the companies cannot be
| estimated with any accuracy. The loss
| in daily receipts will amount TO very
large sum. The damage TO wires in this
city and vicinity is estimated at $780,
Cremated in Car.
| ELMIRA, n. Y, Jan. 23.-The Elmira
train, No. 10, from Buffalo, left Elmira
last night at II O'Clock for New York
! The train consisted of one postal car, one
| express car, two baggage cars and nine
| passenger coaches, most of them Pull
man sleepers. When five miles west of
Oswego, near Tioga Center, one of the
drive wheels aXles of the locomotive
broke close up to the wheel, and the en-
tire train. going at the rate of thirty-five
miles per hour, was thrown from the
| track. The accident occurred where
there was no embankment. The en-
gIneer applied the air brukes as soon as
he felt the shock. The cars were stop
ped very quickly, but the forward ones
| were turned over two or three times,
some going on one side of the track and
some ON the other. The engineer and
fireman escaped unhurt. The postal car
contained four clerks. This car almost
instantly took fire, and burned like gun
powder. The oil lamps used probably
exploded and added fuel to the
Fire from the stove. Every man
4 -, 81. 60 H.
remains of one, who weighed over 200,
were gathered up and put in small
box. In the express car was a messen-
igor, Henry G. Brewer, of Elmira Efforts
were made to relieve him, and hole
was cut in side door of the car, so that
he got his head out, but his legs were
fastened by the piled up mass of express
matter. The train men tried to pull him
out, but the flames drove them away
They say his hair and whiskers burned
off. Then he put his hands up to his
eyes and fell back into the flames Five
men in all were burned; no passengers
we're injured. The men in the postal
car must have persisted very quickly as
not a sound came from the wreck except
the cracking flames. The names of the
dead are Joseph Reidenger, mail agent
and Henry F. Brown. express agent, Of
Elmira; mail agent Seibott, of Mount
Hope, Ingram, of Binghampton, and
mail weigher Fox,ef. New York. The
remains Wsre taken "a 0swsge where an
inquest Was held. -.
Should Stretch Hemp
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day. night. The = - train 8
down froG - Z usual Or
board 4 q s |,en of the Tex
. as r1l1 aeE lyle, bIzs Il Ehodth~ there wa
! a. IT. 'ky ins his pass: Conddctoi
Sf1,5..s one Of the kfndest and
best ever carried s punch
81 slLai scalawAg, who
Il maE4Ez row with an
t.lnofe4s singer Ia conse
! Quenea this outrageous conduct
he was ese<ted from the car about a mile
and half the other side oEthe junction
He drew his pistol and psent off up the
track, swearing ftugeahce against the
railroad eOmpan A few minutes after
wards he aas discovered by Mr. Ponds
!. children while tearing up cattle guard
I, They began running and screaming tC
give the alarm, when the soulless repro
/, bate drew his gun and shot one of them
: asboy of ten years, through the hip. The
other children soon informed the neigh
bors, but the villain had fled. 4 large
posse are now in pursuit, and vow
speedy vengeance.
Strange, If Authentic.
BRISTOL. Va, Jan. 20.-Mr. James NJ
CULLEN arrived here to-day FROM Nick
. elsville, and makes a statement, corrob
; GRATED by the mayor and other prOmi
nent citizens of that place, IN which he
afhrms that yesterday, about midday, d
strange cloud was seen hoYering over 8
half acre field on the farm of DR. Abram
Saylor. in the lower end of Russell A
few minutes after a red shower began tc
! fall, and covered the ground and clothe.
of those who stood beneath with red
substance, which could not be told from
blood Mr. Quillen's shirt front and hal
were covered with what appeared to be
blood stains. The shower lasted about
minute, and the red mass came down
in a slow and fine drizzle The cloud
then rolled off gradually. The singular
, part of the occurrence is that save in this
one place the sky was clear. The phe
, nomenon causes intense excitement
among the colored and ignorant white
people, many affirming the approach Of
the end of the world.
Charlie Ross Again.
: PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 22.-William
Wesiervelt, who was sentenced to sever
years imprisonment on. October 9, 1875
!; on the charge of conspiracy TO kidnaI
and imprison Charlie Ross, and extort
ransom from his family, was released to
day. having received fifteen month.
Communication for good behavior. Yves
tervelt was the brother-in-law of William
: Washer, who, with Joseph Douglass
: was killed at Bay Ridge, Long Island
while attempting TO rob the house Of
Judge Van Brunt. Before Douglass
died he confessed that they were the alb
ductors of Charlie Ross, WesterYel
was induced to come to this city and tel
what he knew about the case, and wa
was arrested and imprisoned. He stated
that he does not think the child is dead
He intends to follow up clue that ha: