The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-06-23
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
Bx TELEoRArH TO DATE

Farnell Will yi61e America IN the
autumn.
The damage by the Long Island tor
nado was S50, 900.
At Chattanooga q. G. Jordan died
June 14th, aged lot years.
VIM. Jones was hanged at Lakeport.
CAL, on Saturday, June 10th.
Sir Charles Tupper's appointment as
high commissioner in Engisnd for Canada
is gazetted.
It is stated that party of natives in
Borneo killed the staff of the British
North Borneo company.
Dorsey, one of the prisoners acquitted
in the star route trial, intends suing the
New York Times for libel.
9th Stein was indicted June 10Th by
the grand jury at Kansas City for the
murder of Geo. Fredricks.
A large portion of the business part of
the town of Sterling, Ont, was burned
June 18th. Loss, 1925 900.
1t is understood that a general plan
for reduction of internal revenue dis
tricts has been determined upon.
At Cheyenne, June 10Th, cloud
burst upon the place, flooding the streets
and destroying property to the amount
| of $35 900.
At Bernomrood, Wis.,, the sawmill of
York & Co. was blown to atoms recently
by boiler explosion. George Hazen
was killed.
| Business failures for the last seven
days ending June 18th, were 1856, as
against 173 last year. New England "a,
middle states %, western So, southern
4 1&1Ar V-1pfy 4
and Canada 10.
J. n. l.. Tuck of San Francisco, after
labor of twenty years, has perfected
and cigar shaped, which it is claimed
| will carry three men and remain under
water an indefinite period of time. The
person operating the torpedo is clad in
divers armor. He steps into compart-
ment and opens trap and walks about
in the usual manner. It is also claimed
that the boat will pass under ship
without its presence being suspected. A
boat will be built in q short time and ex-
hibitions of its powers will be given in
the bay.
A London dispatch of June 10Th says:
A terrible calamity, involving the death
of 1876 children, occurred in Sunderland,
county Durham, this evening. From
details received it appears that an enter
tainment was given in Victoria Hall by
coniurer attended almost altogether by
children, several thousand being in at
tendance. The accident occurred at the
end of the performance, the body of the
hall being entirely cleared of occupants,
when some 1900 of the little ones came
rushing down stairs from the gallery.
At the top of the first flight of stairs was
door which opened only twenty inches,
and thus but one child at time could
get through. At this point, while the
mass of children were pushing forward,
one of them fell and was unable to rise,
owing to the others crowding. The re-
suit was great number was pushed
down, trampled on and suffocated. The
, scene was terrible No effort could stop
the mad rush of the affrighted children.
They came on pell NELL, though strange
ly without much shouting, and soon 1856
were knocked down and suffocated to
death by the others trampling on them
The greater number of the bodies, which
were badly mangled from trampling, laid
seven or eight deep. Many of the vic
TINS had the clothing torn from their
bodies, aud this, together with the bleed
ing bodies of the unfortunates, shows
, the terrible nature of the struggle. The
, ages OF the 1856 children known to have
been killed ranged from to Ia years.
The excitement in town when the news
spread was intense. A great crowd
1 rushed to the scene, until 20. 900 were
surrounding the hall. The work of get
ting out the bodies begun Immediately.
They were laid out in the hall, ard the
parents of those killed were admitted to
ol.i
] scenes transpired while the identification
] was in progress, mothers of the dead
children constantly uttering piercing
shrieks. Many tainted on the discover
ing of the bodies of their little ones
Those who went to the rescue of the sui
ferers found the work of removing the
:, heap of bruised, crushed and suffocateC
bodies was no easy task. Two hundred
children were rescued from the pile who
:, were uniniured, and many others were
= found in an unconscious condition, bu
of these number were restored
to their homes. Those who haG
perished, together with Dumbe
whose friends thought were fatally in
> iured, were laid out in the main hall
% when the local doctors in attendanc.
used every effort to restore those il
whom spark of life could be detected
One eyewitness stated that he saw lyinj
}, on the hag-stones, short distance from
es the bottom of the stairs, the dead bodie
: of seven children. Many Of those wht
came to assist in removing the dead
and dress the living, were utterly over
come at the distressing sight OF SO many
dead and dying children. The stair cas-
from the gallery was winding one, an,
the audience and the effects In the hal
I at the time of the disaster, were una
ware, for some time, of the terrible trag
edy being enacted at the door. The
were not informed until Graham, th
ID hall keeper, who was strolling near th
scene of the calamity, was attracted b
groans, and gave the alarm. Mr. Fay
who gave the entertainment, was bus
n. packing mp his apparatus, to depari
= when man rushed up to him and il
formed MIN of the disaster, and imme
e diately fell down speechless in I'll
le Some of the families whose homes wer
~ thus suddenly darkened lost three chill
dren. One man and wife pushed thei
n way to the hall IN which lay the bodie
as of the victims. and without betrayin
is; any emotion, commenced to sea
n; the face of the dead. Recognizin
n the face of one of his children, th
es father, pointing. exclaimed: ''That
rt, one Passing on again. he recognize
yd another, and then the third. Staggerin
q. in fit of agony, he clied. "My Coo
kZ:l all of nv family are uonein and owe