Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-04-27

Snow and ice still linger in the Adiron-
ducks. Blue Mountain and Racquette
lakes are covered with ice between two
aud three feet thick, and it will not disap-
pear much before June.
A train on the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul railroad was Thursday moving
across the trestle work over Meredosia
river, one mile south of Albany, ILL.,, when
the trestle gave way and the train was
suddenly precipitated into the river. Eight
persons were drowned. The train con-
sisted of engine, tender, baggage Car, pas
senger and sleeping cars. All went down
except the sleeper, which hung over the
end of the bridge at an angle of forty five
degrees, the upper end high in the air.
Two cars hoated off down stream. The
passenger coach lodged against an island
four rods away. The baggage car stuck
in the middle of the stream about the same
distance. The engineer and fireman went
down in the cab. and nothing has been
seen since of the locomotive or the men.
The baggageman, brakeman, messenger
and the conductor all escaped unnjured
except the latter. Eleven passengers were
in the forward car Of these, two men
jumped ashore as the floating car passed
AN abutment of the wagon bridge. An
other man leaped but fell back and was
drowned woman and one child and "a
boy were taken off the roof of the car
after it had lodged at the island, and the
other six passengers were drowned, to
gether with the engineer and fireman
There were only three passengers in the
sleeper, and they, together with the coloreC
porter climbed out of the rear end and es
capped uniniured.
Two TERRIBLE EXPLOSIONS. A powder
magazine situated in West Stafford, abou
, three miles from Bridgeport. Conn, con
tanning about 1000 kegs of powder, ex
ploded Thursday, causing panic in th
vicinity, but no loss of life. The damag
to buildings about the city is estimated a
about $4,000.
> On Thursday morning, two terrible ant
q almost simultaneous explosions occurred
from ntro-glycerine in the nitre vaults o
the Dittmar powder works of Bingham
ton, N. Y. About five minutes afterwar,
a 10000 pounds of sporting powder in
stoI ehouse about 100 feet from the nitr
t vaults ignited, and caused another terrfi
= explosion. The shock was distinctly fe
f forty miles away. The main magazine
which was under ground, and contain
. about twelve tons of powder, was uninjur
ed. No one was seriously hurt. The ma
= in charge of the nitre vaults discovered
d fire caused by improper mixture of acids
warned the others and fed before the eX
plosions occurred.
n The friends of TEN perance find a goo
IS sermon in the report of the Massachusett
g bureau of statistics of labor--a burea
J. whose statistics are more thorough an
q careful than those of any similar d
/. partment in the country. Some of til
IF figures are very extraordinary. Thus
d Appeals that in Suffolk county Tin whic
A. Boston is situated) there we're in 1879 on
- drinking saloon TO every 175 of popul;
u ton; there were 8087 convictions f
ri ntoxication, or one for every forty. eigl
s. of populations and eighty.four per cen
= of all crimes in the country were du
i directly or indirectly, to the use of intox
" eating drinks. In Hamden county thel
n was one conviction to every 80 of populs
e ton; in Bristol one to 95; and so the Ii
h ascends in decreasing ratio, ending wit
., one to 1886 and only one drinking saloo
y to every 3l,9I5 of population. In IL
B. whole state there were in 1879 1871
IS arrests and II $40 convictions for intoxic
ton.