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4 oALIFoHNiA CALAMITY.
A ErightfuI Accident on the South
ern Pacific Railroad and Loss OF
Life.

D
4 FrightfuI Accident on the South
ern Pacific Railroad and Loss OF
Life.
On Friday night, 10Th inst, a train of Gals
on the Southe n Pacific which left San Fran
cisco in the morning stopped near Tehic-
hipa station, to cut out an extra engine
taken at Summer to assist in pulling up the
Tehichipa grade. While making the change
by some means yet unknown. the train got
away and started back down the grade OF
100 feet to the mile Tue
train consisted of two engines
express, mail and baggage ears.
two sIeepers, one coach and smoker. 1t
went down the grade at frightful speed Tor
about four miles, when the hindmost sleeper
Jumped the track and went over an embank-
men. about $50 feet high carrying with It the
other sleeper, mail, baggage and express
cars, which were piled in a shattered heap,
which took fire and was consumed The
coach and smoker kept on the down grade
and were stopped without leaving the track
about two miles further on. All on board
were uninjured The scene following the
wreck was terrible, and number oil persons
were tammed amid the runs of the tain
aad roasted TO death before the eyes of those
HELPLESS to save them. Twelve to fifteen
persons were killed or burned to death.
Many are missing, supposed to have been
buried in the wreck.
Sc rch for dead soon showed that twenty
one persons had persisted. Eleven We're te-
yond all recognition, only headless bodies
ana charred limbs. being found. Or the
body Of Mrs. D3wney only the head and
bust remained, being reco- nized by the jew
elry. All the bodies and fragments were
gathered up and coffined. The wounded
were removed to the baggage car, and on the
arriv Of the relief train from Los Angeles
wee sent to Tat city. The dead
colored Porter Wright, was crushed,
EXPRESS Messenger Cha les Pier
son ha his head shaft red; five were burnt
but recognizable, viz: Miss Mamie e. Squires,
Mrs. II. II. Oliver, Mrs. Downey, Mr.
Wethered and Mrs James Cashell Two
men unknown, but supposed to be dis
charged soldiers, were found dead, but not
burned. One body of a large man, badly
charred is supposed to be the body OF Col.
Larrabee, congressman from Wisconsin.
Gov Downey says Latrabee was on the
train, and he is missing since the accident.
Toe remaining eleven are still unidentified.
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New Hampshire, Vermont and Mass

New Hampshire, Vermont and Mass
achusetts, have Forestry Commissions,
which are actively engaged in efforts to
cure the evils which have followed the
destruction ofthe woods. Measures look
ing to the restoration of the forests are
quite as imperativeiy needed as are
those which lave in view the proven
ton of further wantonness. The states
named would be called we.l-wooded by
depjLcns Of western prairies, and the
comparative Indifference prevailing at
the Northwest on this subject is a source
of constant amazement to every traveller.
In some European countries, no man,
I,ing or coynmoner, can cut down tree,
even on his own estate, without permis-
sion-which is never granted except
with the condition that saplingshall be
planted somewhere at the expense of
the destroyer.
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The prospect for reduction of letter
postage is said TO he improving. Let
the representatives hear from their con-
stituents on this matter. There is roth
ing like 3 deluge Of personal letters to
stir then, up to their duty.
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AN OCEAN DISASTER.
The Steamer Cimbria Lost in the Ger
man Ocean with Probably 300


man Ocean with Probably 300
Lives.
The British steamer Sultan, which ar
rived at Hamburg, Saturdav night, colli1ed
in the German Ocean, off Barkum, in a
dense fog, with the German
steamer Cimbria which sailed from HAM
burg the 18th inst. for Havre and New York
The Cimbria sunk fifteen minutes after the
collision. Tie Cimbria was vessel OF g.,
OPS tons, 1926 feet long, and built at Green
cock in 1867. The officers of the CimbrIa
are Commodore Hansen, Chief Officer Z,
Karlowa, Second Officer f. Spruth, Third
Officer A. HeydOrn, Fourth Officer
A. Voss, Chief Engineer y.
engineer, ]. Edelmann, Fourth Engineer, c.
ser, l. Burwith Chief Steward, j. Brockmul-
Ter. The Cinbria had on board from 400
to 500 passengers, and it is known that q
very large number are lost probably 300. A
survivor makes the following statement:
but fog ,hen set in which continued and in
creased in intensity The engines of the
Cimbria were kept at full speed until i:30,
and then at half speed until 2, after
which they were kept at slow
speed. About 2:10 tals whistle of another
steamer was heard and the engines of the
Cimbria were stopped instantly. The Sui
tan green light was, owing to the fog, not
observed until she was only $50 feet oil
from the Cimbria. The latter struck aft
the bulkhead on the port side, and she
reeed over to the starboard and speedily
sank
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The st. Louis Republican SAYS the
Young state Of Nevada is on the decline.
The state consisted principally of the
Comstock lode, and the bottom has
dropped out Of that The men who
made their millions from this famous
mine have mostly left the state. There
remain only guleh mining and an ex-
persive state government. The govern
or's salary was 5000; the lieutenant
governors $500; with 81 800 additional
as state librarian; the three judges of the
supreme court received 5000 each, and
the other state officers and the members
ofthe legislature were provided for with
similar muniicence The agricultural
resources of the state are small, and the
business of the principal towns has be-
gun to shrink. Even the capital, Nir-
sinia City. has seen its best days There
Is talk of calling a constitutional conven-
ton to reduce official salaries to q more
modest level, and it is even suggested
that il may be necessary to allow the
state government to lapse and let Neva
da become u territory, or else divide it
up among California, Utah, and Arizona.
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General Longstreet, ex~confederate has
written a letter to General Grant taking
strong ground in defense Of Fitz John
porfar
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The statistical crank is still at work.
He had lively time in calculating every
hing omitted OF Jumped in the national
census, and quite little sport in cipher
ing out the in6nitessemal things of 1882.
But in ali this he did not neglect his reg
ular business, and now has, returned to
it with new zest He says: Did You
ever think how many male and female
ancestors were required 10 bring YOU in
10 the world? First, il was necessary
that Won should have father and moth
er-that makes two human beings. Each
of them must also have had father and
mother-that makes foay human beings.
Each of those four must have had a
father and mother-that makes eight
human beings. So on we must 90 back
for fifty-six generations, which would
bring MS only 70 the time ofJesus Christ.
The calculation thus resulting shows that
IS9. 255, or ass, 534, 976 births must have
taken place to bring you intothis world
You, who read these Ines" BY this
token what an enormous number fmen
must have emerged +. ON the glacial epoch
under tie name Of Adam.
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Mr.. Dana, of the new York Sun, is
said by correspondent of the Atlanta
Constitution to be worth s., 900 ,eo9 out
side Of his newspaper stock.
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Sntnrdn,t. .In,nnrn 20.

SENATE.-The senate fin | disposed of
the postoflice appropriation BILL making
only two changes in the amounts appropri-
ated by the house
There were S25, 600 added for steamboat
service, and SIS 900 for postofiice clerk hire
throughout she country--a total increase of
500 900 in which the concurrence Of the
hou e will be asked.
The 2.cent letter postage clause was adopt
cd, to go into effect July /, next. This is
six months earlier than provided in the
house bill.
The two houses win no doubt come to-
gether upon the time when the reduction
shall go into effect, SO that the country is
practically assured of cheap letter postage
at no distant day.
In the course Of the debate, Messrs. Ed
munds and sherman came out squarely in
favor of postal telegraph system uuder
the control of the government
The tariff bill was considered until adj
jouInment.
The following nominations were sent to
the senate:
Calvin G. Shaw, postmaster at Vermillion,
Oak.
Thomas Dawson, of Colorado, United
States consul at Barranquilla; George ID.
Perkins. OF Iowa, United States marshal for
the northern district of Iowa; NJ. ID. Con-
nell, of Iowa, United States attorney of the
northern district of Iowa; John r. Hoyt,
associate justice of Washington Territory;
Samuel McCook, postmaster of Keokuk,
Iowa.
HousE-Nearly the entire day was devoted
to the naval appropriation bill, and several
members criticised the weak and defence
less condition of til navy.
NJ. Knott made an extremely humorous
speech, ridicuing naval officers, whom he
declared posses sed of too much rank and
dignity to be of any use. He said:
Ii some indiscreet secretary of the navy
should order chief engineer a pay direct.
or. or medical inspector Tor duty on
ship, the vessel would nlvitably sink.
There was not craftaAoat that could sus-
tain 5 much official ii nifty. He gave no
tice of amendments he would offer looking
toward the duties of the marine corps olfic.
ers being performed by line officers, toward
the gradual adjustment of the pay corps,
and reduction ofthe engineers corps. He
opposed various propositions of the BILL
sESATE-Mr. Plnnb from the public lands
comm tee reported bill to prevent ihe IN
lawful occupation Of pubic lands. The tariff
bill was debated and the question Of tho pre-
servation OF our fores's was quite thoroughly
eanvassed An Amendment was adopted put
ting sawed lumber. lath, shingles ana other ar
fcIes on the free list
HousE-A JOINT resolution passed appro-
priating $500, 600 for continuing the work Of
the ceusus bureau The naval APPROPRIATION
bill then came mp, but the house adjourned
before completing the first paragraph.
An English journal remarks that
America has sent across the Atlantic
s'many actors and actresses such as we
rfevar SAW before nOF-Wish tn soc
again.
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DOINGS OF CONGRESS
.MonInn. .Innnnru IL.

SENATE.-A number of petitions were pre-
scented on various subjects.
The bill for the relief Of Ben. Halliday
and the tariff bin were considered all day
without final action.
HoUsE--Jeseph Wheeler took the oath
as representative Of the Eighth Alabama
district.
Bills were introduced to convene the
Forty-eighth congress the first Mond,y
in March, 1888, and to allow newspapers t,
be sent through the mail free to subscribers.
Several members from committees moved to
suspend the rules, passing some bills, and
making Others Special orders for future
days, with varying degrees of success,
The house wound up the day's Work with
wrangle over o war Issue which was in
trodueed BY Mr.. Wise of Virginia He
wanted the officers of Richmond bank Civ.
en- permission to go before the court oil
claims to establish theft 4ignt to certain
money, 500 oge Il gold, seized by the, United
stese5 when the Southern confederacy col
lapsed. de endeayorcd to show that the
money was notss for the use of the rebel
forces, but q report OF the subject uado in
1867 to congress etieetaally disposed Of this
assertion.
The wind-up Of the case was intrusted to
Mr.. Reed of Maine, who said that be thought
the people of thecountrv we're tired of hay-
ing war issues FesEed, and speaking for his
side OF TIE house he knew that they were.
reopen this case, it was proposed, with
out applying TO it the test of LOYALTY would
open the door for horde of claimants from
the south.
The congressional report had established
the fact that the money in question had
been loaned to the confederate government
to pay off Lees forces. and ii properly be-
longed to the United States as spoils of war
The house took the same view of the
To G4
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Thc FaiI..res LAST Meek.

BrlIstraet's Journal furnishes the fol-
lowing There were 81 failures in the
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Meeting of the Next Congress.

i Washington Special SAYS: The pro-
posal 20 provide 70 the meeting of the
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Cornell vetoed 4Ol bills during his term
as governor Of New York, and his action
was invariably upheld.
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9ires falls gourual.

FALLS, WISCONSIN
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SENATE.-After a long discussion, the
amendment to the postofilce appropriation
bill appropriating $tS5 900 for fast mail SER
vice on trunk lines, was agreed to. The
tariff bill was discussed until adjournment.
HoUsE-The day was devoted to uninter-
estiug routine work and the consideration
of the the naval appropriation bill.
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An English journal remarks that
America has sent across the Atlantic
s'many actors and actresses such as we
never saw before, nor-wish to see
again
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
A COSTLY BLAZE.

A Fierce ~Confagration RACES Among the
Shipping in the Brooklyn Harbor-Four
Large Vessels and Other Property De-
stroyed, Entailing a Loss of $5OO,Ooo-
Several Lives Lost, and Twelve Firemen
Buried Beneath q Mass of Debris and
Badly Injured.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, July 70.
A disastrous fire broke out Thursday
morning at 1890 o'clock among jute bales,
which were being handled Oh the pier at
Harbeck's stores, E. b. Bartlett being the
lessees of the pier. The fire was started by
sparks from the hosting machine, and
spread with enormous rapidlty, involving
the Lawrence Dunlap, the Perseverance and
the Colonel Adams, three vessels from Cal
cutta, laden with jute, hemp and saltpeter,
and a jute-laden lighter-all were hugging
the pier and unloading at the time.
When the fremen reached the dock
the supports of the roof gave way.
burying over a dozen firemen and deck
hands beneath the ruins. A rescuing party
was quickly formed and the men dragged
out from the blazing rafters. None were
dead, but all were more or less burned and
bruised. Firemen Mcnamara, Mcdonald
and McDougall, of hook and ladder truck
No. 5, were injured seriously. A commo-
ton just then occurred in the crowd
and the chief of the battalion gave
orders to clear the dock, as the ship
Lawrence Delap, which was now on fire
above and below, contained 4 1900 pounds of
saltpeter. A rush was made by the crowd
to the further end of the dock. While this
was going on a hosting derrick from which
the supports had been burned fell over on
the wharf with a crash, knocking two dock
men overheard. Custom-House Inspector
Harradin, in attempting to escape from the
ship Colonel Adams, was severely burned
about the face and hands.
The ships Perseverance and Colonel
Adams had by this time been lowed into the
stream. The efforts of the firemen were
mainly directed to eXtinguish the flames OH
board the Lawrence Delap, on which it was
momentarily feared an explosion would take
place.
The district officer at Harbeck's dock
stated that the Captain of the Lawrence
Delap, with his wife and three children, are
reported drowned, and one sailor killed out
right by falling timbers.
Three men were seen to throw a trunk Of
Captain Groves, of the ship Laurence De-
lap, overheard, containing So, 900 and four
thousand dollars worth Of jewelry belong
ing to his wife. 1t was picked up by river
thieves, who rifled it. The wife and child
OF Captain Grove We're saved. Twelve fire.
men were badly injured by the falling in of
the burning roof Of the pier, but only one is
thought to be fatally hurt.
The ship Delap burned to the waters
edge. She was valued with her cargo at
$150,OOO The ship Colonel Adam burned
at the pier. The bark Perseverance 1oated
into the stream, and burned to the waters
edge. The total loss is now estimated at
$1,000, 900.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
A Hoax.
CHICAGO, july 20,

CHICAGO, July ~.
A great deal of excitement was caused in
this city yesterday morning over a report
that early in the morning General u. S.
Grant had died suddenly. Following the
first report came a dispatch from New York
announcing a confirmation of the rumor to
operators on the Stock Exchange in that
city, and the excitement increased. These
rumors became current about the same time
that the telegraph operators quit work, and
for a time it was impossible to, obtain any
definite news. At N p. m, however, Col
onel Clowry succeeded in getting a dispatch
through from New York announcing that
General Grant was not dead, but was at
Long Branch enjoying good health.
Later reports say that the manner in
which the rumor that ex-President Grant
was dead gained circulation was that in or
dering the telegraph operators at Indianap-
oils to strike, a cipher dispatch was used,
the cipher being: General Grant dropped
dead" This in some way reached the peo-
pie on the streets, and eager to grasp at
anything which had the appearance OF being
sensational it was Immediately te%legraphed
over the country.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
Yellow Fever Devastating Vera Cruz.

WASHINGTON, July 20.
Surgeon-General Hamilton has received a
telegram from Vera Cruz to the effect that
yellow fever is prevailing with unusual
severity at that place. There were 80
deaths in May, 261 in June, and IA SO far
in July. The number of new cases is said
to be diminishing, principally for want Of
material on which to feed. Seven per cent
OF the American sailors at that port have
died from that disease.
The steamship Buteshire has arrived at
the New Orleans quarantine with six cases
OF yellow fever Oh board. Seven other
sailors had been afflicted and had died. No
case of the dread scourge has yet appeared
in the United States, and it is believed that
the precautions taken will prevent its in
proSS
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The Massachusetts, Prohibition State
Convention will he held September 10.
GOVERNOR SHERMAN, Republican candi
date for Governor of Iowa, and L. G.
Kline, Democratic candidate, have ar.
ranged for a series of joint debates, to
take place during August and September.
HE New Jersey Democratic State Con-
vention has been called to meet at Trenton,
September 10.
The Captain of an English bark from
Manila discharged a Chinese carpenter at
Boston on the 18th, who desired to become
a resident of the United States, for which
the skipper was held in $1,000 for violating
the immigration law of 1882.
GEORGE BARNARD, City Marshal of Viii.
mington, o., was shot and killed by burg
lars a few nights ago.
JOHN l.. HECHMER, Of Grafton, w. Va,
for five years Supreme Treasurer of the
Catholic Knights of America, was on the
18th discovered to be a defaulter in the
sun of $4,000.
ARCHIBALD MCALL1STER, formerly q
member of Congress from Pittsburgh,
dropped dead of apoplexy, at Altoona, a
few days ago.
The remains of Tom Thumb were in
TERED at Bridgeport, Conn, on the 10th,
with Masonic ceremonies. Fully ten
thousand people witnessed the ceremonies.
FRIENDS of General Sheridan in Chicago
formally notified him on the 10Th of their
purchase for him of a handsome residence
in Washington, D. c.
A STATEMENT to the effect that General
Grant had dropped dead in the East on
the 18th, while disbelieved in commercial
circles, caused widespread excitement
until authoritatively denied. The rumor
grew out OF the wording of a dispatch
touching the t~elegraphers' strike.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
LATER NEWS

The middle belt of Minnesota from
Mankota east to the Mississippi River was
swept by a tornado on the Dist. Six per.
sons were killed in Minnesota and nearly
one hundred injured, and the damage to
crops was estimated at $500, 900. The vii.
lagos of Elgin and Globe were entirely de.
stroyed. In Dakota great destruction OF
property was reported. Nine persons
were killed near Huron and over fifty
others were wounded.
DURING a picnic of the New York Hi.
herman Rifeman on the 22d, at Linden
Grove, a free fight took place, two men
were killed and about forty other persons
were badly injured.
The Surgeon-General of the Marine Hos
pital Service at Washington was informed
on the 22d that cholera existed at Cam.
peache and Oaxaca, Mexico.
The ravages of the cholera in Egypt arc
spreading to an alarming degree. At Cairo
on the 21st there We're three hundred and
elghty-one deaths, thirty three at Mansoura,
nlnety-three at Shirbin, and over one hun.
dred and fifty deaths in other Egyptian
towns. All efforts to confine the plague
lad SO far proved unavailing.
A X in Allentown, Pennsylvania,
ROBBED his roommate a few evenings ago,
but in attempting to leave the city was
run over by a train and crushed in a hor.
rible manner.
The Monroe "Seaside Library' building.
in New York, was almost totally destroyed
by fire on the 22d. The loss was estimated
ut $500, 1000.
JAMES M PDTrCT Ace11<o T,.x.. -
the Supreme Court of Liberia, is dead. He
was a native of Kentucky, and went to
Liberia in 1885.
JESSE KENNEDY, an influential farmer,
has been nominated by the Republicans
Tor Congress from the Ninth Iowa Dis
trict.
DR.. %. q. ScRUGGs, of Glasscock County.
"a, was shot dead a few days ago by
Adraln Underwood, in perpetuation of 4
family feud.
QUARANTINE has been established in
anada on all vessels from Mediterranean
ports.
DURING a storm on the 22d in New York
City twelve inmates of Bellevue Hospital,
who were seated on a balcony, were pros
t,'ated by lightning. Their injuries were
not considered fatal.
1HE deaths from yellow fever in Havana
during the seven days ended on the 22d
were thirty-nine.
-FOUR AND FIFTY employees of
the Birmingham (Ala.) Rolling Mills
struck on the 21st against a reduction of
their wages.
WHILE bathing in the Sangamon River
on the 22d two lads nance Parker and
stoppler, sons of well-known citizens of
Springfield, ILL.,, were drowned.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
A Bank Robbed by Sneak. Thieves.

CoLDwATER, Mich, July 20.
While George Starr, the cashier of the
National bank, was counting a package of
bills handed him by one of two sneak
thieves Wednesday afternoon, the other
slipped into the safe and stole a valuable
package of jewelry belonging to II. c.
Lewis, the President of the bank. The
men ran three blocks, jumped into a car
rage in waiting, and drove off at break
neck speed. They were pursued by two
officers and Overtaken a mile from town.
but presented four revolvers at the police
men and made their escape.