Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-22
WRECKED AND BURNED.

WRECKED AND BURNED.
CHICAGO, Jan. 21.-Three pasSengel
cars of the express train on the Chicago
Rock Island s. Pacific railroad, which
left Council Bluffs yesterday morning fol
Chicago, were thrown from the track by
a broken rail near Pond Creek, Illinois
early this morning. One of the cars took
fire from the lamps; two of the passengers
were fatally injured and four others were
so seriously hurt that they were obliged
to remain at the hotel at Tiskilwa, under
the doctors care. Mrs. Kirby, of Neva-
da, Ohio, was so badly burned that she
died few hours after the accident occur
red. The conductor of the train was bad
ly burned about the hands and face in ibis
efforts to extinguish the flames in which
she was enveloped. Matt Phelps, of
Grinnell, Iowa, received such internal in
iuries that it is thought he cannot recov-
er. The following are the names of pas
sengers who were left at Tiskilwa and
whose exact condition is not known:
Mrs. VIM. Hatton, of Patterson, Iowa;
Mrs j. D. Orr, of Winterset, Iowa; By
ron Phelps, Decatur, ILL.,; J. W. Huggett,
Chicago, and Belgian, whose name is
not known. The officers of the Rock
Island road, from whom the above infor-
nation is obtained, state that the acci-
dent was unavoidable, as the track was
as perfect as money and care could
make it.
WIFE MURDERER EXECUTED.
DANv1LLE, ILL.,, Jan. 81. - Frederick
Kester, for the murder of his wife in
1879, was hanged in the Jail yard to-day
at O'Clock. He died without struggle.
His crime was bloody and unprovoked.
He had been married but year and had
constantly maltreated his wife, 30 that
her father threatened to take her from
him. Kester on the night of the murder
shot his wife with gun, and falling to
kill her had beaten her brains out with
an axe, then dragged her body to some
tall weeds near the house, and taking his
swiftest horse fed the place He was
tracked to Iowa and brought back for
trial
FOUGHT TO THE DEATH
BoDIE, Cal, Jan. 21.-At l O'Clock this
afternoon, Dave Bannon and Ed. Ryan,
the former a rough, and the latter a
gambler, got into scuffle began in fun,
in which Ryan tore Bannon's coat. Ban
non commenced beating Ryan with his
six shooter, when Ryan pulled his gun
and commenced shooting. They had
their arms around each others neck and
continued shooting each other until Ban
non was dead and Ryan mortally wounded.
SOLDIERS KILLED.
Sr. LOUIS, Jan. 21-A soldier of Com
pany F, Sixteenth infantry, was shot and
killed in cold blood at San Angelo, Texas
near Fort Conchec, night before last by
man named Watson, who after the mur-
der, was furnished by fleet horse by
friends and escaped.
WEST VIRGINIA CASE.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 21.-Two brothers
named Lafferty, living about nine miles
from Parkersburg, West Virginia, got
into fight last night, when the elder
stabbed and instantly killed the younger.
JUMPED TO HIS DEATH.
CHICAGO, Jan. 21-Alonzo Bend, engi-
neer on the Wabash express train, when
approaching Ceril, Indiana, last night,
saw freight train taking the siding and
collision jumped off, and was
thrown under the cars and cut to pieces
His fireman remained on the engine and
escaped injury.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
CHICAGO, Jan. .21.-At Genoa, Living
ston county, Mich, VIM. Van Blair,
farmer living near there, yesterday shot
his wife and then killed himself The
cause was drink and family troubles.
FOUND GUILTY.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 21.-John Woodwork,
on trial at Washington, Indiana, for the muir:
der of Cooper Broth, was to-day found guilty
of murder in the first degree, and the penalty
of death adjudged against him by the jury.
BUILDINGS LEvELED.
AsBURY PARK, N. Y, Jan. 21.-The man.
moth hotel in course of erection was demol-
ished by gale this afternoon, he wind blow
ing eighty miles an hour. A partially COM
pleted cottage was blown to pieces. The
storm has done immense damage all along the
jersey coast.