Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-07-12
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A Bradford. Pa; special ; Of July /,
aurning coal train with pas
euger car attached on the Rochester g. Pitts
urg Rord broke In two while going up n
ieep grade near Rasselas, u few miles south OF
X nzua viaduct. The severed section, con-
citing Of seven loaded coal cars and passed.
er coach, immediately started down the steep
rtdc and while going at the frightful spced OF
ghty miles an hour collided with an engine
i an approaching coal train. The passeng,r
car was well filed, and the destruction of life
,nd limb was appalling, seven being instantly
lilled and others fatally Durt. IL is not known
where the blame for the accident belongs, but
urvivors are very unanimous in the belle
bat It WAS the result OF gross carelessness.
Chicago union printers, whose threat
20 strike for Increased compensation cyecited
great interest among the craft through ut the
country, bsve decided to defer positive action
until next October.
Kansas state prison has been select
ell as the one 10 which Paymaster WATSON will
pend the next Is months.
At Wilkesbarre, Pa, the Conyngham
AID Baltimore mines are now flooded. The
water is over 200 feet dep IN the former. The
| embankment supporting the main track OF the
| Delaware and Hodson coal road has caved IN
| aud the track has fallen down and another
ouse is in imminent danger. The inflow OF
| water IL checked. 1t will take six weeks ~
| Jump the water from the mines.
The PENNSYLVANIA senate has passed
resolutions requesting congress to make the
| trade dollar legal tender.
About $3.50, 900 in taxes have already
| been paid into the treasury OF OHIO since the
| Scott law was declared constitutional.
Manufacturing corporations at Sun
cook, N. II imported good d. al Of help from
Sweden, and because the immigrants refused
| 70 allow their passage money to be deducted
| fiom their wages, their employers have arrested
them. Swedish authorities demand an invest
| gation.
1t is held by the supreme court of
| Missouri that the Dawipg high license tax
passed by the last legislature il constitutional,
| and is applicable In st. LOUIS as well rs else
where In the State
A horrible fatal accident occurred on
| the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railway
at Wintsn Place crossing, just north OF Spring
Grove cemetery near Cincinnati, whereby six
persons were Instantly killed. The thunder
| bolt express coming south on the New York
| Pennsylvania and Ohio railway which was be-
| hind time running fast to make up, struck a
huckster wagon in which we're a family OF six
| persons and driver. Every one except VIII
| iam1 Bertseh, the driver, was killed. Bertsch
escaped with serious though not fatal injuries
| The wagon Was broken to splinters. The fam
| lily was that Of huckster, Henry Kracke, and
| they were going to their farm seven miles fonm
| WiDton Place. Mr. Kracke has been living on
the farm for the benefit of his health while the
family lived In the city. The names of the
killed are Henry Kracke, his wife and four
children, John aged 10, Annie Is, Maggie 10
and Lizzie7. The bodies OF the victims we're
thrown in fragments in the grass by the road.
| side where they were picked up by the light of
lanterns and taken TO Cincinnati. Mrs.
| Krackes head was severed from her body, and
all the victims Of the disaster were horribly
| mutiated The engine was, so besmeared
with blood that 1t was sprinklcd with -four to
cover the stains.
Since the Michigan Contra. withdrew
its through trains from the Great Western and
| b. gan To run them over the Canada Southern
Oh an accelerated time table, the Great Western
has been negotiating for Chicago connection.
A few DAYS ago contracts TO that end we're
made with the Baltimore Il Ohio and Wabash
Roads, and meeting was held Of representa-
mtnts were completed By which solid through
trains will be run In connection with these
roads to Detroit and Niagara Falls, and through
sleepers 10 New York and other seaboard cities
over connecting lines The arrangement
goes into effect July Is, with two trains daily,
running on the Michigan Centraps schedule
time for the present, but, It ic claimed, the in
tention is soon to shorten the time about an
hour, which IL can do easily, as the route is
considerably shorter than that OF the Michigan
Central. The officers of the road say that they
VIII have the active assistance of the Baltimore
Il Ohio and Wabash, and their Western con-
Dectious, in connection with all 81 which
through. tickets are being printed, and they
propose TO make sharp competition with the
Michigan Central.
A fire at the Dauphine County. Pa,
poor-house, destroyed every building on the
grounds except the laundry and school house.
The fire WAS first discovered in large frame
stable, situated near the main structure, an
elegant building three stories biph, with q
msnsard roof. The stable was consumed To
gether with its contents and two horses and
five mules. The heated slate on the main
structure set fire TO that building, and ~ there
was very high wind at the time, the building
was soon destroyed. The IRE IL supposed 10
have been caused by heated hay just placed In
the barn, but there IL z rumor that IL wa, acci-