Huntsville gazette., 1882-04-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

passenger train on the Wabash, st. Louis &
Pacific Railway, near Huntington, Ind, the
other night. The obstruction, which was a
heavy log of wood fastened to the track by
stakes driven in the ground, was seen in
time by the engineer, and the train was
brought to stand-stili Just before striking
it. Two men were seen running across an
adjacent field and were fired upon, but
without effect. This is the second attempt
that has been made to wreck that train at
that point within two weeks. One of the
officials of the Wabash Road has received
an anonymous communication stating that
gang Of train wreckers were determined
to throw atrain from the track for the pur-
pose OF plumber.
EXECUTIONS on the oath: E. f.
Small, Pittsburg; Jonathan Meyer, Middle
burg; Frank and Henry Rumberger, Har-
risburg; J. A. Nerling, Clearfeld, Pa. VIM.
Heilwagon. Rock Island, ILL.,; John McCar-
thy, Angelica, N. Y.
JOHN SULLIVAN, a spinner employed
in a wool mill at Dedham, Mass, went home
slightly under the influence of liquor, March
25, and after q few words with his wife
seized razor and cut her throat, severing
the jugular vein and carotid artery. The
woman, despite the fatal wound. rushed in
to the rect, followed by her husband, still
brandishing the razor and inflicting at every
step ghastly cuts with the weapon about her
head and shoulders. She got away from
him and ran to the house Of a neighbor, but
while endeavoring to obtain entrance was
overtaken by her husband, who renewed
his attack. The woman then started off
again, the husband following, clutching
her hair and slashing at her with the razor.
The terrible chase was re-enacted, until the
woman reached her own doorway, where
she fell dead. Sullivan was arrested.
VIM. F. PARKER, of the firm of T.
| Parker & Son, jewelers., of Wilkesbarre, Pa,
died, March 25, from the effects of an over
| dose of chloral. 1t is thought that Parker
| took the dose to end his life, as it is cur
rently reported that young and beautiful
lady to whom he had been paying his ad-
dresses had recently turned him off as a
suitor for her hand.
Col. A. V. FRYsER, who during the
| war of the rebellion was In command of
New York regiment, was found dead in bed
at Milwaukee, Wis.,, the other morning.
Poverty is supposed to have driven him to
suicide.
A CONFEDERATION at Richmond, Va,
on the 26th, swept away property valued at
$500, 900. The Richmond & Petersburg
Railroad bridge; tobacco factories owned by
Rutherford & Co., Patterson & Co., Will
liams & Co., J. A. Hutchinson, C. r. & I'D.
Ror 1o1o Ahorn e VIC orIc tba U,rJo
Iron Works, twenty tenements, a grist mill
owned by T. P. Smith, the Virginia Mining
Company's kaolne works, and some freight
cars were all destroyed in an incredibly short
time. Charles Belts, aged 15, was killed by
falling wall, and two men were buried in
the ruins Of Patterson's factory.
AN explosion at the Vulcan Powder
Works, near Oakland, CAL, March 9th, re-
suited in the death Of five white men and six
Cinnamon, and probably the fatal burning
Of four other white men. At 10 a. m. fire
was seen to issue from the granulating
house, and almost instantly a dull explosion
followed, spreading wreck and desolation
on all sides. The scene was a mass of burn
ing ruins, in the midst of which were several
bodies literally roasted to a crisp. In one
place, where the side Of the building had
been strongly braced with iron bars, these
bars were curled up and formed huge
gridiron, on which lay the bodies of three
men, twisted into the most horrible shape.
In front Of the boiler lay the CHASTITY corpse of
the engineer, ,blackened and partially burned,
lying upon its face, with the heels touching
the back of his head. Near the corpse were
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had been burned off the bones, and near by,
deep in the burning embers, lay the
charred bodies of two Cinnamon. To the
right was the naked body of white man, so
fearfully burned as to be irrecognizable.
Near this was another body, evidently blown
from distance, with the legs burned off to
the knees, the bones protruding from the flesh,
and eyes starting from the sockets. Four
men were dragged from the ruins still liv-
ing, but the doctors think there is no chance
of their recovery. The white men killed
we're: H. C. Lamb, J. Stewart, L. w.
Starr, Thomas Mills. The injured are: w.
H. Ferris, W. E. Dales, Gottlieb Koch,
Louis Schaffer.
JOHN LAND, one of the Blue Cut train
robbers on trial in the Criminal Court at
Independence, NO., has made a statement
to the effect that two weeks prior to the
robbery Creed Chapman and John Bugler
came to him and told him Of plan Jesse
James and Jim Cummings had on hand to
rob the train at Blue Cut and invited him to
participate. He refused for several days to
have anything to do with them, but they
finally came to him in company with Jesse
James, and being afraid to longer resist, he
consented to join the gang. Jesse told him
that he had authentic information that on
the night OF September the Kansas City
banks would receive large sum Of money
by express from Chicago and ST. Louis, and
accordingly that train was selected. On the
evening Of the robbery the party-consist-
ing Of, besides Jesse James, Dick Little
and the old gang. John Bugler, Greed
Chapman, John Mott and Henry Bugler-
met in wild spot near Glendale Station
and perfected the plans for stopping the
train. John Mott was at that time agent at
Glendale Station, and he furnished lantern
and red flag to signal the train. Land took
the lantern and stopped the train, and while
Jessee James and Dick Little robbed the