The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-06-29


city for considerable distance. II whlre
ROCKS AKD fdNENsE TnErs
! along its course, but u spent its fury bo'oi
II caught the train.
ARRaT.D.
Sr. PAUL, MINI, June @,--The condut
tor Of the work train on the Manitoba raj
: road, which was wrecked Saturday, ba
been arrested and charge Of manslaughte
has been preferred against him. 10
asserted that his engine was running back
ward at rate OF
FORTY MILES AN HOUR,
against the protest of his engineer ant
fireman; The. coroner''s jury Is investi
eating the affair and the conductor, who's,
name is James Goran, is out on bail.
DOWN AN EMBANKMENT.
ST. PAUL, MINI, June 25.-On the Man
itoba railroad line near Atwater the mine
work train, consisting of an engine, oaboose
and twenty-five ordinary flats, while run
ming eighteen miles per hour, without any
possible cause, the engine and tender, ca
boose and five flat cars jumped the track on
an embankment twelve feet high, tumbled
in q ten-foot hole ofwater. The engineer and
six Swedish and Norwegian laborers were
killed and the fireman and Others wore in
jured. More are supposed to be under the
water among the ruins.
AEoTHER CYCLoEE.
ST. PAUL, MINI, June pa special
from Spencer, Iowa, received late last night
says. a cyclone passed through this vicin-
ity. 1t struck the town. unroofng build
ings, tearing up sidewalks,
BLOWING DOWN RESIDENCES,
barns and business blocks. In the south
ern part Of Clay county ii blew down twen-
ty houses, killed five people and injured
about twenty-five.
AT OTHER POINTS.
SIOUX CITY, Ia, June GA report was
received at Sanborn station on the st. Paul
6 Milwaukee road, twenty miles north
east OF Hospers, Iowa, that Pringhar, Iowa,
was wrecked by the storm, and
SIX PEOPLE INJURED.
Pringhar is eight miles south of Sanborn,
and is the county seat of O'Brien county.
1t has about 800 inhabitants. Surgeons
from Sanborn have gone to Pringhar
SHOT HIS WIFE.
SAN FRANCISCO June pa Chico dis
patch says: About 8 O'Clock last night
Smith, saloon keeper, shot his wife dead
in his saloon, and attempted to escape. He
was soon captured and taken to Jail, when
it was discovered he had taken poison.
Medical aid was called In the meantime
CROWD ASSEMBLED
and If the effect of the poison is counter
acted the murderer will probably be lynch
ed before morning. The tragedy grew out
of family and financial difficulties.
New LONDON, June 24:-Edmund Ben
iamin, coxswain of the Columbia college
crew, was drowned here yesterday.
DEs MONIES, IA, June PA dispatch
Just received by the Register from Fort
Dodge reports the
TOWN OF EMM1TsBURG
the county seat of Palo Alto county, as
being blown to pieces this morning by
tornado, and that over one hundred people
were killed The Illinois Central and Chi
cago & Northwestern trains were blown
from the track The Milwaukee g. st. Louis
railway was
WRECKED
in wash-out north of Forest City,
and it is reported that four other trains in
thai vicinity were blown to pieces. Tele-
graph wires are all down north of here, and
it is impossible to get more news at present.
A RENCoNTRE.
LAREDO, June 2i.-There was a desperate
encounter yesterday between the murder
ers of Deputy-SheTif Johnson and few
rangers at station on the International &
Great Northern railroad called Cibolo.
Brown was killed and two more wounded
one dangerously.
EXPLODED.
CHARLOTTE, N. c., June 2l.-The boiler
at st. Catharine mine, located, on the Air
Line railway in the western suburbs of the
CITY, exploded at O'Clock to-day with ter
rible force. Joe ROurke (white) and Adam
Maxwell and f. Wheeler, (coloredl engin-
eer, were terribly injured, probably fatally.
STILL BURNING.
LAWRENCE, Mass, June 2l,-The Pacific
mills store-house is still burning, but the
flames are confined to the single build
ing. Some put the loss at $780,
900, while on the other hand
the Boston underwriters assert that the
loss will not exceed 100000. Insurance,
100000, principally in the Manu-
facturers' Mutual company, OF Boston,
Fall River, Worcester and Philadelphia,