Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-30
DOE ESTEC.
Frishtfur CasuaIty-TwO Naval Officers
Blown 10 Atoms.
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torpedo THIS Afternoon a6 The torpedo sIaCloD,
Newport, R. ]. Both bodies were blown al
most to atoms.
SECOND DIsPATCH.I
NEWPORT Or. L J, August 80 sh.-This after
noon Lieutenant l.. B. Edes, of Washington,
and Lyman G. SpauldiDg, of Portsmouth,
n. H., were planning mines for the harbor
defense, il connection with the annual ex-
periments which take place before the Ex-
aiming Board. The 'buooys of the circuit
close,s were accidentally struck, the torpedos
exploded, and Edes and Spaulding were
blown into atomp. Their remains we're sent
at least thirty feet into the air. The report
Of the explosion was heard in town.
Hurricane on the South Carolina Coast
Forty Lives Lost.
PORT ROYAL, August 29th.-The hurricane
announced by the Signal Service Department
passed here Saturday At Beaufort the
damage was considerable. Forty lives were
lost, all colored, at Port Royal ferry.
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CHARLESTON, August 29th.-Vessels arriv-
ing report gale extremely violent off port.
The lieht-ship on Rattlesnake shoals broke
from her moorings during the gale Saturday,
and is anchored in six fathoms of water south
east Of Fort Sumter, three miles nearer
Charleston than the former position. The
sea buoy off Charleston has been drifted to
Folly Island. The outer bar buoy is fast,
and the middle buoy has been dragged out Of
position about one quarter of mile to the
eastward.
THIRD DIsPATCH.l
CHARLESTON, August 29th.-It seems that
On account of the storm the ferryman could
not convey the passengers across the river.
The passengers gathered in the ferry house,
waiting an abatement OF the storm, when the
house was carried away by the high tides.
Seven bodies have been recovered to-day.
The number actually drowned is uncertain,
but it is ruuored will valy from twenty to
forty. One washer and one dredge Of the
CoCsaw Mining Company, in Coosaw river,
su- K. No lives were lost. Considerable
damage was done to the wharyes and light
a.s Of the company.
Hurricane al Savannah.
AUGUSTA (Ga), August % IA terrific
hurricane visited Savannah Saturday night.
Early in the evening the Signal Service Office
was unroofed and the instruments destroyed.
A portion of the roof of the Morning Ne5rs
Office was blown off and the building flooded.
The City Exchange was badly damaged. A
number of firms on the bay lost heavily by
damage to goods. About fifty private dwell
ings were more or less injured. The shed s
on the new wharf of the Baltimore steam
ship line was blown entirely down. Several
dlur and rice mills were uuroofed aud the
contents flooded. A large portion of the
city was under water for several hours. The
Central Railroad wharves were badly dam
aged The public parks were shorn of their
finest trees and otherwise injured. The de-
struction of shade trees has been very great
The Georgia Infrmary was wrecked and
the patients barely escaped. A number
were bruised by falling brick and plas-
ter. The German brig Maria Louisa, Cap
tain Minkstearn, was badly smashed. Her
rudder, bowspris and jibboom We're broken.
Her sides were also injured. The pilot boat
Maid of the Mist came in collision with a
schooner and sunk. Several other tug boats
were injured. The steamer City of Bridges
had a hole punched in her side. A house
was swept down the river, and the three &C.
cupants-Mrs. Stokes aud her two children
were drowned. Mr. Stokes barely escaped.
Plant. was drowned. The loss Of life among
the colored people occupying little huts on the
rice plantations and along the river is very
great o. Tyb, Island, the house Of Henry
Solomon was blown down and the ruins
caught fire. Three persons persisted. The
family OF David Boxers (col9redl comprising
seven persons, were all drowned. \ colored
woman and four children were washed
away in their house and drowned.
Ali the people or Shad Island
were drowned. Several other per-
sons are known to have persisted. At
Fort Pulaski the officers quarters were
flooded. The telegraph lines TO Savannah are
all down. Il IS appTehendsd, notwithstand
ing the warnings of the approaching storm,
that some vessels along the coast have suf-
IS lna
during the week The Storm has been very
severe, and particularly dangerous TO vessels
from the fac. that the wind shifted frequently
and blew with equal severity from northeast,
northwest and west. At Beaufort the water
house wharf was washed away. Two sleeps
were washed under the bluff. The streets
are filed with water
Boiler EXpIos.On-Esand-car Accident.
CAMPBELLsvILLE (Ky) August 29sd.-
The boiler Of Henry Aoody's sawmih has ex-
ploied, killing Henry Gaines, engineer. 1t
also Inortally wounded Jack. Fletcher and
Colonel Cook, aud seriously injured several
others. The cause was the sulphur-water in
use.
\ boss sec.i,n-h hard, with some colored Ia
borers, was approaching this town on 2 hand
car at s rapid pace, when the hands OF a man
named Hughes slipped from the crank. He
fell heailong il frons OF the Car, and as a
companion undertook to catch him, both fell
together, aud are supposed TO be MORALLY
hurt. Hughes head was deeply eashed and
his body iacerate9 the wheels passed over
the breast Of the other man, bruisieg hiia
dreadfully. and il Is supposed tina. he is
Inortally hurt.
loss of d River Steamboat.
New York, August 29.b.-It IA reported
81 . h. - ~ Of
NV York and Hartford line, has sunk in
the Connecticut river, near Goodspeed 5
Landing.
INV York, August 29lh.-There was no
dan age by the grounding Of the steamboat
State Of New York.
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New YoRK, August 29th.-The baggage
master, Sidney Sellew, was drowned The
loss is SAC, 900.
Mud Gold Mines in Georgia.
CHICAGO, August 29th.-The Journal thus
alludes to its Chattanooga special Startling
accounts come North Of the discovery of gold
in paying quantities in Georgia. The beds
Of the Chestatee and Chattahoochee rivers,
we are told, are so rich in gold that the very
sands on the shore yield the precious metal
Gold lies in the greatest quantities in the
mud beds Of the streams. whence it is forced
to the decks of mining boats by air pressure
easily aud rapidly, it IL said, and no doubt
correctly. Large quantities OK mud can be
mined in day A dredRing boat is in pro-
cess of construction. which is confidently ex-
prcted to take SO 600 worth of bullion from
the beds of the rivers in day. When this
boat gets to work the public will hesr more
about the Georgia fnd-wbether OF not it is
a veri.able mud gold mine.
spotted Tails Murderer.
OMAHA. August 29th.-Crow Dog, the
m1rce rer of Spotted Tail. is now on his way
from Fort Niobrara to Deadwood for trial
for the murder. He is in charge of Deputy
United States Marshal Frank Moulton, OF
Dakota, who brought his prisoner to Yank-
ton, thence to Fremont, where he took the
Union Pacific train to Sydney yesterday,
where he takes the stage for Deadwood.
Grow Dog believes he dit. right in slaviDg
Spotted Tail, who had ignored him in the Sc
lection of delegates 10 go on the recent trip to
Washington, and he expresses no alarm at
the result Of the trial, but thinks he will be
set free.
The Wisconsin Indian Trouble.
CLINToNvuLE WIS.,, August 29th.-The
excitement about Indians is not abated The
+" DreRmers are still keeping up their dance.
The latest from Keshaua Is that the peace
able Meniones have been driven away, and
Agent Stephens, with one daughter, is a
prisoner 10 the Agency, the only other white
person there. his body guard, having gone to
the camp.of the Dreaulers. Troops have been
ordered, and are expected on every train.
Old ShabedecS, Pegtawatamie Chief who
was with General Winfield Scott in the wal