Huntsville gazette., 1883-07-07
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

A DREADFUL tradgedy occurred al
rol,insville. Ala, g small town on the Ala
hama Great Southern Railway ID le"
days ago. A dispute arose between Ihe
Hall and Mullins families regarding the
dividing fence of their respective estates,
vbiob eliminated in the killing of two of
mau,ns Id one of the Mullins and the
f.+al Junding of John Mullins.
iHERE was another lynching at JET
ferson, Tex, on the 9th, the victim being
an accOmplice of the negro who was lynched
there the day before.
DURING a thunder storm at Chatham,
Eng, few days ago, four soldiers were
killed by lightning.
FIRE was discovered the other after
noon in the heading in the breast at Moni-
Tor COlliery, two miles from Mount Carmel,
"a, and several men, overcome by gas,
we're carried out of the mine. The colliery
'mployS over 800 men and boys.
ANOTHER hero in humble life has
been discovered. His name was J. Samuel
Smith, locomotive engineer, and when
MS train on the Sumnerville Railroad, in
South Carolina, jumped the track the other
day he stuck to his post and saved the
lives OF many passengers, sacrificing his
own.
lHE telegraph reported on the 28th
may twenty-three collieries in the vicinity
Vi ashland, Pa, had been flooded by the
'olih which occurred there the day before.
MRS POPE was stung on the nose by
Oee al Milan, Tenn, a few days ago, and
ueath ensued in few minutes.
lHREE men were killed by an explo-
'ion OF the boiler in a saw-mill at Whittle-
%y' WIS, a few days ago. The mill was
Almost totally destroyed.
DOCK with 100000 feet of lumber
.9li INTO the lake at Muskegon, Mich, the
O.nei afternoon, precipitating twenty men
AZ work on it into the water. Three or
,9ui oi them were not rescued and two i'm
t.n Se plieS OF lumber which threatened to
prevented search for their bodies. A
"! was crushed to death.
Al brownsville, Texas, the other
"ernoon three girls, named Inez and Ma.
aT,% nora and Juana Flores went to take
d,om lhe river above town and were
hool'1' fhis is the third of a remarka-
non.l Ian Oh accidents all alike. About two
Ragn~ ago three girls were drowned at
noYa a' nifty miles up the river. Last
Me- ~ 'aree girls were drowned near Santa
Como a' .i ,llrty miles up the river, and then
\ accident exactly like the others.
e"iNG a ilre in the warehouse of j.
Other uoWn' at Winnepeg, Manitoba, the
ezpIodos ning' number of kegs Of powder
iniurns 'earing the building to splinters,
Snssb;a '"ehVy persons more or less, and
Stores windows in a hundred principal
The ini,.'S a,oiiS' 1t was thought several of
doctoss - persons would die and all the
Of tho nni - lae city were busy taking care
seb. WI. murderers were hanged on the
colorad @ .lllam Finch and Martin Joseph,
Smith Al iu Iuallsto, an Indian, at Fort
DarieD IN lN' Tony James, also colored, at
legally 60 20 George Lake, colored, was
ssna !. eAecuted at Cambridge, Nd. on the
nsn u"y Tor felonious assanlt on : wo.
asrros s' ROGERS, the victim s. the
terson Tsn %u0 We're recently lynched at JEFF.
BuI MI Mn oied few days ago.. Y
Green pil' pillCpowELL, in jail at Bowling
anob ansT Ag county, Mo-, was taken out by
nornina ~ =. hanged at an early hour on the
made a fnu 'he lst. He was said to have
Which h confession of the crime with
host brntaI - cnarged-outrage, under the
The vanl. ~uIal circumstances, at Louisiana.
death from u The Coroner's Jury was
ADrS-nnan hanging by unknown parties.
svay sl,5 noo orlVE fire on the 1st swept
'cstt, r GV worth of property at Paw
- including the Dexter Yarn