Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-06-29
Prof. Klein the Ciscoverer Of the
Present Planet.
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CRY OF MExIco, June 2S.-A horrible
accident took place on the Moreles Rail
road on Thursday night at II o'clock. A
provisional bridge fell down while a train
drawn by two engines was passing over it.
and the cars and engines tumbled down
the precipiee. The fire in the engines
caused a general confagration, to which
100 barrels Of brandy added their heat.
The dead numbered 1877 soldiers and II
officers-not including the railroad officers
or the wives and children of the soldiers.
Forty persons were more or less injured.
Only about co were saved. The Secretary
Of Public Works, and the military physi-
clans departed on Saturday for the scene
of the disaster. Another account says
that the list Of II officers and 1877 privates
does not include the railroad officials and
employees, or the women and children Of
the soldiers. Only GO persons in all are
sayed-of these 40 are more or less injured.
For a moment after the plunge Of the cars
from the bridge all was darkness. Sud-
denly 100 barrels Of brandy, which was
loaded on the cars, tool fire, and the burn
ing find inundated the mass of passengers
struggling in the ruins. Only q few who
were not disabled or ~helplessly wedged
in the timbers escaped. The dead and
dying were wrapped in a sheet Of flame.
and were slowly burned before the eyes
of the survivors, who were unable to save
them.
Engagement Between whites and
Piute Indians.
LAKE CRY (Col.), June 2S.-The follow
ing dispatch, dated Contentment, on the
Uncompaghre, Col, says: A courier just
arrived from Sierra La Sal Mountains, in
Utah, reports an engagement between the
May party Of ranchmen and q band Of Pr
ute Indians, who had in their possession
200 head Of horses which they had stolen
from the settlers. One Of the May party,
named Eskridge, killed four Indians with
a As -calibre revolver. The whites lost four
men killed. Reinforcements from Rico,
Colorado, are on the way to join May.
Everything Is quiet at this point. General
Mckenzie, with six companies Of cavalry,
is encamped near this place, and seven
companies of infantry have been ordered
to this point from Fort Garland.
hnc 6ScW OrS UfNvG ASOOOcEDs
New YoRK, June 27.-The Star says:
We publish this morning another portion
of the remarkable story Of the search for
the Stewart grave robbers. It covers the
tracing of Mike Kelly to the west; the ne
gotiatiuns conducted by the thieves through
Gen. Patrick Ii. Jones with the represent
atives of Judge Hilton. embracing numer-
oas interviews, which it appeared that sew.
eral prominent persons were connected with;
the efforts TO" its recovery, and the travels
of the body from New Jersey to an en-
balmers, thence to Montreal, In care of the
woman in black, and o year afterward to q
secret place Of deposit near Mount Vernon,
Westchester county.
Chances of an Election.
ALBANY, June 27.-There is a general
impression that an election will take place
this week. Combinations are more talked
Of than heretofore by the returning legis-
lators. Ths Democrats are making the
most Of the point that there was no legal
ballot on Saturday, and that an election by
this Legislature will therefore be vitiated.
1t Is believed that some Of the Conkling-
ties are in league with the Republicans.
They say that If the Democrats attend the
joint convention it Is proof that they con-
slider that an election would be valid. The
recent Pennsylvania election Ia also cited as
refuting this theory.
A Ravisher Captured.
JEFFERSON CRY, June 28.-Mrs. Caro-
lima Bohmann, the wife Of q German
farmer, living seven miles west Of here,
was ~overtaken on the road some distance
from her house, yesterday afternoon, by
John Harker, a section hand Of the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad, and was brutally
rayished by him. He retained his victim
two hours, when she escaped from him
and returned home. Her husband imme-
started out and captured Harker, while at
work with his gang. They bound him
hand and foot and brought him to Jeffsr-
son City, where he now lies in jail.
The speakership of the House.
WASHINGTON, June 28.-Congressman
Kieffer is here looking after his prospects
for the Speakership Of the House. He is
backed by Ohio influence and the favor Of
the Administration. 1t is stated, however,
that the, President will not even intimatea
preference. Kasson, Hiscock, Robinson OF
New York, Barrows, Hubbell, Reed, and
Others are also named for the Speakership.
ALI have more or less support. 6talwart-
ism will not figure. Cox. Randall and
Blackburn are the Democratic aspirants.
New Comet Discoveries.
WAsHfSGToN, June 27.-French papers
have a dispatch from the Emperor Of Bra
zil. dated May 20. announcing the discov-.
cry Of q comet, which date was two days
before DIR. Gould's alleged discovery. This
message has not heretofore been published.
George Ssmms telegraphs that he discov-
cred it while camping in Mexico on the Goth
ultimo.
A Fight with Horne Thieves.
New YonK, June pa special from
Texas says a number OF the Lallallier
County horse thieves were overtaken at
Fordillo yesterday by citizens, and a fierce
fight ensued. The thieves, being worsted.
retreated, leaving one killed and one seri-
ously wounded.
Mining Share Transactions.
New YoRK, June 2S.-The Posts fnan-
cial article says: Transactions at the Min
ing Exchange during last week amounted
to 1853, 369 shares. The speculations are
confined to low-priced stocks, or
or worthless mines.
A Saloon BrawI.
RICHMOND, June 2s.-Drunken whites
blacks quarreled in a saloon last
night. Bill Hackney, anegro, was fatally |
hurt by being beaten on the head and
15 feet to the ground. Several
others we're hurt seriously.
Two Paramours Shot.
PHrLADELPHIA. June 2S.-Geo. Hillyer