Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-18
THE MORNINGS NEWS.
FIRE. rEmPEsr AND CATASTROPHE.


Frightful Calamity m South America
Bloody Am.y In 0eorgia-Tornado
1t Allegheny Clty-rho Trail
Of Disaster.
w. B. Allen s. Co. s foundry at Og-
densburg, N. Y, was destroyed by fire
yesterday. Loss, $1,000.
The livery stable of Carter s. Pember, at
Chicago, was burned on Sunday. Fifty
nine horses and a COW were lost.
One of the buildings of the Coralline
works at Schenectady, N. Y, was burned
last night. Loss, $4,000.
Frightful Catan5rophe In lsuenos Ayres.
Details of a reported catastrophe in
Buenos Ayres at the funeral ObsequieS in
honor of General Garibaldi are furnished:
A curtain in one of the lodges caught fire.
The edifice was crowded at the time, and,
in consequence of the aggl0merstio1 of
people on the staircase in their anxiety to
escape, wall fell down, burying many of
them. Twenty bodies were subsequently
dug out of the ruins, and ten who were
seriously wounded. All were well-kn6wn
people.
Bloody Array in Georgia
A fatal riot occurred at the tunnel on tho
Rome extension of the Cincinnati and
Georgia railroad, between reckless white
men on one side aud negro railroad hands
on the other. A bar-rOOm had been estab-
lished at the mouth of the tunnel, and
whisky had got up bad state of affairs.
Several fights had occurred, and John
Hicks, white man, backed by several
others, attempted TO disarm a crowd of
negroes. He was acting without authority.
Tom Laws, q negro, refused to give up hiS
pistol and was shot by the Hicks party SO
that he will die. The negroes then fired
uopn Hicks, riddling him with bullets and
killing him instantly. Several others were
wounded. About thirty arrests have been
made.
Tornado ~ Allegheny City.
Monday afternoon tornado came out
of gorge on the Ohio river at the mouth
of the Saw Mill run, just below the city.
The towbOat Alex. Foster, the only ctaft
on the track Of tho wind, was almost
lifted bodily out of the water and immed-
lately keeled over, sinking IN fifteen feet
OF water. Ths crew cl;snbered on flat
in tow aud were rescued uninjured. The
cyclone swept across the river, increasing
in force and dimensions, aud struck the
lower portion of Allegheny City. Every
shade tree Of any sizs-sOme eighteen
inches in diameter-On all tho streets in
the Fifth and Sixth wards was snapped off
close to tho grounds. Grape arbors were
carried off and several vehicles were over
turned, but SO far as eau be ascertained
no one was seriously injured. The gale
spent it's force in a very brief space of
time. A few trees were levelled in the
hill wards, but in the old city scarcely a
breath of wind was observed, and very
few knew that an Iowa zephyr" had
struck the sister city.
Maugled by u Shifting Engine.
An unknown man was run over by a
Reading railroad shifting engine at Fiji
teenth street and Pennsylvania avenue,
Philadelphia, late on Monday night. The
body was frightfully mangled, both arms
and one Leg being separated from the
trunk, while the wheels passed over the
mans breast, laying bare the internal
organs. He was apparently about 80
years old, of dark complexion and with
short black whiskers running along the
sides Of his face and under his chin. Ho
was roughly dressed aud carried small
dinner basket. 1t is believed that he was
returning from work and stepped on the
track to avoid a train from the opposite
direction. Nothing was found upon his
person which gave any clue to his identity
and up to midnight the body, which bad
been taken to the Ninth district station
house, Twenty third and Brown streets,