The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-02-09

crash came. Thousands OF spllnters,
bits of iron, glass and debris flew in
the air, and the luckless passengers
were buried under the wreck. Then
the fire burst out and the smoke from
the painted wood swept over it all. A
fierce wind was blowing along the
mountain side, and the weather was
bitterly cold. Those within the first
car struggled vainly. Only one man
was dug out alive from under the heap
of ruins of the first car. There were
sixteen lives lost.
California had another accident that
day besides the railroad horror The
Atlantic Giant Powder Works. near
Oakland, was the scene OF five almost
simultaneous explosions. Nearly forty
men were preparing twenty-five tons.of
powder for shipment to Portland,
Oregon, when the explosion occurred
The men were blown to atoms The
shock of the explosion was felt seven
miles away, where the people ran from
their houses, thinking it was an earth
quake. Houses for distance OF half
a mile from the scene OF the explosion
were shattered, and many men pain
fully wounded.
On the same day the ship Vorwarts
was sunk off Libau, and eight persons
were drowned
The day following witnessed the
death of another famous man in France,
Gustave Dore.
The same day three coal trains, con-
sisting of three engines and slxty-nine
cars. became unmanageable on the
Georges Creek and Cumberland Rail
road, near Cumberland, Md. All were
coupled together, and when they got
in motion their momentum was 80 great
that it was impossible to stop them.
They went down the steep grade with
frightful rapidity, until one of the en-
gines jumped the track, and the lest OF
the train went crashing down an en-
bankment. An engineer, fireman,
and three brakemen were killed, and
several others mortally injured.
} The sinking of a considerable portion
of the city of Wilkes Barre on the oath
J day of the month not only caused
panic in that town but seriously fright
) ened thousands of people who live in
the mining districts. Nearly one hun
dred acres of the ground on which the
CITY stands caved in and hundreds of
houses were unsettled and many rem
| dered unsafe. The structures must be
rebuilt, as they are 80 badly racked that
it will be impossible to repair them.
Huge assures in the earth extend across
large tracts of land The disaster was
e caused by the removal of the natural
props in the Delaware and Hudson
t Coal Companys mine underneath the
r city. The scenes at the time were ex-
e traordinary. There was loud roar,
e then rumbling sound, and the earth
e shook violently and the houses rocked.
d Then came crash, and the people
e rushed into the streets as their houses
n began to fall about their ears. The
2, ignorance of the scared inhabitants con-
o cerning the nature of the impending
e disaster added to their alarm. The
d miners living in the quarter of the city
d that was shaken rushed about the
streets not knowing what to do, and
e women sprang from their beds and fled
]. out of doors. Nobody stopped TO dress,
l, and they almost froze in the piercing
h. wind but were afraid to return to their
d. tottering houses for more clothing.
le So they waited in the streets for sun
n, rise. The people of Wilkes Barre are
le yet living in daily alarm. The whole
IT city is undermined, and another disas
IN ter is feared Relays of watchers have
been organized, and system of alarms
RS arranged. The people are moving
as away as fast as possible from the dis
il trict that has caved in.
d. On the 26th the steamer Agnes Jacl
m was wrecked near Swansea She wen
he ashore on a reef, and was just out o
st, range of rockets, and utterly out o
ea reach of boats. The people on shor
he saw twelve of the crew clinging to tn
at mast of the ship. One by one the
ire were swept away. At last the captai
ok stripped off his clothes, plunged int
ent the waves, and swan for the shore. II
a too was drowned.
en Fierce and disastrous storms an
he floods began in Great Britain Cd tn
,ol- 25th and continue as the month e1
her pires. High winds and heavy rair
the have blown down buildings and hoode
I'm. all the low.lying lands The storl
md has ragged for several days, and sno
ers has fallen heavily. The towers of tt
the new Law Court buildings have rocke
of so that pedestrians We're warned ava
the from the vicinity, and the gale hi
wn- done great damage to buildings
'ew Driffield, Preston, and Fleetwoo
'ats The mails were delayed, and the 81
we'd wall at Bridlington was seriously dar
ass aged, Rivers overfowed their bsnl
red and much of the low country in Ii
tish land was inundated. People ha
she been obliged to flee from their hons
ills and great distress prevails Terri
ribe gales swept over the Severn vail
bria during the night of the 29th, and t
the sea has been 50 high that tidings
gled disasters to steamers are looked
and hourly
.mer On the 3Oth of the month gr,
the snow slides swept down the mounts
that sides of Colorado, and hurled min
the and their buildings to destructi
One slide started at the top of Ru
Icifc Peak, near Irwin, and rushed W
,ord- terrific velocity down toward the vail
iury, 1t travelled mile and half, carr
,ctor away all the shaft houses and mach
The cry belonging to four mines, and t
San led eight men. In three other pla
Tehi- in Colorado slides occurred that {
.e, to which resulted in disaster
,hipa death
the On the last day of the month CT
ward the news of the Italian steamer Al
mile MIA off the coast of Tripoli, in WI
, and twenty persons perished.
sleep
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