Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-25
LATE INTELLIGENCE.
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LATE lNTELLlGENCE
RECENT NEWS FROM MORNING PAPERS
Grimes and Oalamlties Concssssy Condensed
-Aississippi Dykes Crnmbled ~
Crashing Waters 1t Sc. Louis.
The Mississippi river. near St. Louis,
continued rising on Sunday, but more
slowly than before. In tho lumber dis
trict in the northern section of the city,
large gangs of men are at work on levees
and dykes, to strengthen them, and so far
none of the yards have been flooded.
There are 10000, 900 feet of lumber in
these yards, much of which would be lost
in the event of an overflow. In East st.
Louis, the business section is still pro-
tected by the Bowman dyke, but outside
of that the water which broke through the
Madison dyke on Saturday is doing great
damage. Early Sunday the water from
the Madison dyke reached point above
Venice and made terrible crevasse in the
Chicago & Alton embankment. About 600
feet of the track disappeared in an instant,
and the gap has been widening ever since.
Parallel with this embankment run the
Indianapolis s. St. Louis s. Wabash tracks
and these also went down, cutting OH
OlEOCL ICbll COu1uuulCdIIOu WAGA SAO A>oAoAs
It is reported that five persons were
county, Mo-, by the recent tornado. About
twelve persons were badly injured. Fol
lowing q terrific thunder storm, q tornado
struck tract of country neaf Omaha,
Neb., on Saturday morning. causing a
loss of property estimated at $40, 900. The
people along the path of tho tornado,
seeing its approach, saved their lives by
taking refuge in their cellars; "where a
number of families saw their houses
turned about over their heads"
A telegram from Hamilton, Bermuda,
reports that two seamen of the German
ship Ella, from New York for Bremen,
abandoned at sea, have bsen picked up by
an American vessel and landed at Anjier.
They were in the captains boat, which
was run down by tho rescuing vessel, and
they are the only survivors of the boats
crew.
The British passenger vessels Hurunui
and Waitara, belonging to the New Zeal
| and shipping company, came into collision
off Portland on Friday night, and the Wal
tara sunk in two minutes. Twenty five
persons were drowned. The Hurunui
! Immediately launched her boats, which
rescued sixteen persons struggling In the
waves. Among these was LAZY, a saloon
passenger, to whom sailor, who was
saved, had given up his life belt. Two
| other saloon passengers were also saved.
All the second class aud steerage pas.
sengers were lost. The captain of the
Waitara was dragged aboard the Hurunui
with the aid of ropes. The two vessels
left London together on Friday. The
Hurunui struck tho Waitara end just
in front of the saloon, on the starboard
side. The survivors state taat no crash
was heard, but that the side Of the Wal,
tara gave way like cardboard. They say
that more of tho passengers might have
been saved had bark and steamer,
which wera soon near by, needed the
Waitara's signals of distress. Tho Waitara
was an iron ship of S33 tons. She was
iron ship.
Various Disasters.
Private advices from Vera Cruz. re
ceived in Galveston, say the yellow fever
is making fearful ravages among the
European and American residents of the
former city. There were ten deaths in the
hospital on Friday, making 900 during
the last two months.-Frederick Steinle, a
railroad employe, was killed an Saturday
morning in Reading by falling from a coal
train as it was starting. The boiler of au
oil we'll on the Clapp farm, near Bradford,
burst on Saturday evening, demolishing
the "rig" and killing tho engneer.-C.
L. Haywood, superintendent of the gov
ernment quarantine at the Union stock
yards, at Watortown, Massachusetts,,
was killed by an engine at 1 rail
road crossing near that placs on Saturday
The grain elevator of Bassett. Bunting
s. Co., at McGregor, Iowa. was burned on
Saturday morning. Loss, $75, ,000.-The
Grand Trunk railway station, at Rich
mond, Quebec, was burned on Saturday.
Loss, $50, 0O0.-Andrew McHale, aged 13,
fell from the carriage to tho bottom of the
Enterprise colliery at Wilkesbarre on Sat.
urday night, distance of several hundred
feet, and was mangled in a shock
ing manner.-In Pottsvil,e, J. Brennan, .
seven year old son of a widow, foil from
tho third story widow OF Ferguson's hall
during the progress of festival, and was
so badly hurt that he died.-While party
of friends were visiting Mrs. Hemingway,
at Minersville, tho piazza On which they
were seated broke down and tho whole
party was precipitated to the pavement,
some twenty feet below. In the party was
John Reed, ageg five years. Several of the
adults fell on him in their descent, and he
was fatally injured.
| Crime and Criminals.
At Milwaukee,, before daylight on Sat
urday morning, the schooner Lucerno, tho
barge Goshawk and Voght, were boarded
at their docks by twenty men, supposed
to be union sailors, who pulled the non
union men from their berths by the hair
of their head and threatened to kill them
if they did not leave town within two
hours. The crew of tho Lucerne and two
of the Goshawk's men deserted. Armed
police were afterwards sent on board tho
vessels to protect them.
Ono hundred and fifty revolutionists
attacked Chiantla, Mexico and carried off
two officials. A body of cavalry pursued
them, and the revolutionists, being pressed
assassinated their prisoners. They were
finally overtaken by tho troops and cut to
pieces, thirty of them being killed
John H. Campson committed suicide in
Charleston, South Carolina, on Saturday
evening, by shooting himself in the head.
He was 43 years of age. He had boon dis,
missed from the position of master of the
| Charlestown almshouse for cruelty beating
| child.
DR.. w. T. Crutchfeld, ~ years of age,
was fatally stabbed by L. F. Mason, in an
affray in Richmond, Virginia, yesterday,
afternoon. Mason is about 40 years Of
age. The trouble grew out of an old feud.