The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-08-04


the collision was running at the rate OF
forty miles an hour. The wind Was
blowing gale and had blown freight
car off to one side and partly on the
main track, when the excursion train
came laundering along and the collision
came, throwing one engine on its end
and the other into ditch. The baggage
car and two sleepers were completely
demolished. The cars were piled mp
on top of each other until it was one vast
heap of ruins. At the time q heavy
thunder shower was passing over and
the night was dark. The cries and shrieks
of the dying and wounded were terrible.
The crash was heard three miles away.
The country is but thinly settled, and it
was sometime before assistance could be
obtained. Coroner Cothrane was sent
for, and he and others went to work re-
covering the bodies and are still ct work.
DR.. Milligan, of the New York board
of health staff, committed suicide in that
city July Odd.
Martin J. Crawford, associate justice
of the supreme court of Georgia, died at
Columbus July 22d.
The Ont1rio government has granted
$4,000 for the relief of sufferers by the
London foods.
A young child of John de Boesche of
Racine, Wisconsin, has slept two days
and cannot be aroused.
A dispatch from Montgomery, Ala,
says the cotton worm is reported very
generally in that section.
The severe storms in the north of
| Italy have greatly damaged crops
| There was some loss of life.
At New York the lock. out of cigar
makers still continues, and neither side
shows any signs of yielding.
| Part Of the city of Fon du Lac, Wis.
| was recently flooded with waters caused
| by the breaking of q dam near the
place.
At Bridgeport, Conn.,, the funeral Of
| Tom Thumb took place with Masonic
ceremonies. Fully 10, 900 people viewed
| the remains.
AtSchruggsville, Ga, July 22d, Adrian
Underwood was killed by DR.. F.
Schruggs. A family quarrel was the
cause Of it.
At Memphis, Tenn, July Doth Robert
Wilson, who shot and killed Frank b.
Bussell in September, 1882, was hanged
in the county Jail.
At st. Petersburg, recently, by an ex-
plosion of a powder mill, the mixing
room was destroyed. Nine persons were
killed and two severely wounded.
Near New Haven, KY, July 22d. a
train on the Louisville & Nashville road
fell through bridge, seriously injuring
the engineer, fireman and brakeman.
n IL
William q. Vanderbilt has had confer
ence with Parker, with view to OBJ
tanning controlling interest in the Le-
high Valley railroad property.
The department of state has tele-
graphed the United States consul at
Vera Cruz to advise all vessels bound to
southern ports of the United States to
stop at Ship island for inspection.
Recent heavy rains in Wisconsin
caused number of washouts on the
different railroads. On one of the roads
; two trains were thrown from the track
and several persons severely injured.
, At Ephrata, Pa, July 21st, fire broke
? out in factory and soon threatened the
; destruction of the town. Water was
scarce and there was only one old-fash
loueu HaAlei SuS1ue. 4uo AOSS Was OF0l
$500, 600.
No change in the telegraphers' strike
! both parties are sanguine of success
Few dispatches have been received al
Portland for the past eight days and the
large Offices all over the east are run by
a small and incompetent force.
The Toronto Globe publishes crop re-
r ports for Ontario and Quebec. The,
] show that the country suffered no NOR,
, from rains this season than in forme
: seasons from other causes. Taking 10'
9 as the basis of average per centage, th'
n average crop is as follows: Fall whea
rs, spring wheat 80, barley go, oats 80
h peas 80, rye %, hay 122. potatoes sc
= coyn "a. roots. SO, apples 64, other fruit
. At Baltimore recently Edward Spen
:, Ger, one of the most brilliant newspape
J men of Maryland, died after an Hines
o of ten days, of nervous prostration, age
# about fifty years. Mr.. Spencer was fo
# several years an assistant editor of tn
1t Baltimore Sun, and also contributed
d the New York Sun and New York Worl
l. as well as to the Washington Capital. q
y was fluent and graceful writer, and q,
3 thor of the famous play, exit, the Al
Y. kansaw Traveller"
d At Rochester, Mimi, July 2Otl
II Charles Fisher, patient in the hospits
- for the insane, suicided by jumping int
~ ~ the furnace at the boiler room. The fir
man did not recognize him as patien
% and before he could stop him the dee
- was committed. After getting inside
III the furnace he stood with his back
the red hot wall until insensible, whe
1t he fell forward into the glowing coal
y, The body was charred when taken fro
g. the furnace.
iss A Minneapolis dispatch of July
~ says: A terrific cyclone struck souther
"a Minnesota yesterday, mainly along ii
u line of the Chicago and sorthwestel
railroad. The town OF Elgin. in Oln
.. stead county, was totally destroye,
is every building being blown down or n
&c 40 rooted within one minute after the stor
IL struck the place. Mrs. Thayer W.
IS killed and several others wounded.
T. Owatonna great damage was done, g
a pecially at the fair grounds, where q
r. the buildings were wrecked. Sever
~ persons were injured. One mile west
20 that place passenger train was litss
ae from the track, turned clear over ar
J, twenty-five or thirty persons lnjure
n A. Fl. Williams, of Rochester. Minr
as was injured in the back and chest;
ne Rogers internally; L. Dodleman had /
skull crushed. These are the only on
% feared to be fatally injured. At Kass
he the cyclone struck one mile west of {