Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-24

msiority of stocks made the highest prices of
the day The advance over tue closing prices
Of yesterday range from s 10 4, the latter on
Denver.
STRIKE Of Eemaie Operatives.
ToLzDo tol August 2Si-About 200
female operatives employed By Black y Hoit-
man struck yesferdaT for an advance fer
making sundTy garments. a portion CT the
request was grantsd, hpt the remainder re-
fused, whareupon the girls retired Ia body
and initiated quite number ef new mean
bers. The work viii os sens elsewhere to be
done. the hrm clsining that they eaanot
afford tha sntire advance asked. 1t is fssTed
the strike viii become general aa5 sxtead to
female operatives IN other branches OF the
business.
VICTORY FOR THE GIRLS.
ToLFno, August 231 Che two hundred
girls who are employed By Black & Hoffman,
Of this city, who struck for an advance on
s5e mslling Of sundry srtieles OF clothing,
were given the advance requested. and re-
turned in body to work.
AHoiher Misplaced switch.
AiFADgnLE %. }. August % A psasen-
ger train "a the New York, Pennsylvania
and Ohio Railway wse wrecked this morning
hstvsen Sslgrcarcs and Randolph, n. z, BY
been received. The company claims that no.
body was killed Trains were delayed from
ona 70 threa hours.
SECOND DIsPATCH.I
PIITsBuRG, August 23i.-A 5ispatch from
/ Bradford Pa, says The brokers' express.
consisting # an express aud baggage car, one
sm 9kae and two coaches, loaded with pas en-.
| sers. ran through switch So Rel House, a
4 n sf. , =.
ME and 0hio Railroad e few miles gess of
Salamanca, this morning. Tha accident YVES
cauagd through gross caTelessnsss, the switch
! being Left vide opsn. The train, sec riding
| to the statement Of IT. Grant, OF Bradford,
| q passenger, wss running at She Este Of GO
niles az bour TIE engineer saw TOO la5e
| ihat the switch was open, but stuck to lis
post. Over thStios for nearly two rods tie
locomotive pounded, and in Its Wild
! career jumped, as = wsle. long
ard d3ep cat.ia-guard, How tie
engine cleared the guard Is . mystery Had
! il gene through the guard th5 loss Of life
would have bsen great, hus as ii turned out,
pyovi1enlally, no lives Was3 lost. T. wss Ger
tsioiy, as the details shoW, a most miraculous
escape IRON one OF the most aSful railroad
wrecks that has occurred in this cpunHy. The
tender, jlst before leaving The culvert broke
1ud turued 6 somerssUi. IN mid-air, crashing
with terrible force iuso the express car, which
was almost entirely demolished. The mes.
senre-. George johnson, IS saUed with ssliphf
lnJlry. The baggage car was iatked cut Of
It's course, and tbs wheels went one way aud
the car another, landing right side rp on
tho turnpike, one hundred feet non
the track. The trucks were forced
ooa lF0m under il by tie
force # tba ccECuss.ou, splitting the "a, har.
way down the center The passengers
Jumped wildly through tho Windows, carry
ing saah aud ali, Ols lady pushed Der child
though an open window and made ar at.
I .cmpa 60 follow. The car was landed in the
roadway, right side up. The trucks from two
coaches, also, were jsiked cut. and the cars
/ tipped over. In tless coaches the passengers
also jumped through the windows. Every,
body vas shaken up, snd geveral ladies
/ tainted One passenger gave premature
! birth to child Superintendent Duabar, Of
( the New York, Pennsyivs1ia & Ohio Rail
road, WHO Wss on the trsir, said it was one
Of the worst-lookinE wrecks he ever saw.
| Under ordinary circumstances the list Of dead
aud wounded would have been frighifnl.