Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-31
THE DAYS NEWS.
WHAT HAPPENS IN ALL DIRECTION

WAT HAPPENS IN ALL DIRECTIONS.
many Terrible Accidents Upon the Waters
Various Phases OF Recent Fata.i-
ties on tho Land.
A telegram from Halifax, Nova Scotia,
reports that II vessels are frozen 10 at
Wolfville, and 100 more at various points
on the bay, all having cargoes of pota.
toes, which are not expected to get out
before spring.
''The worst storm of the season - set
in yesterday at St. Paul. The snow fell
heavily aud was accompanied by a high
wind. No local passenger trains arrived
during the day, and the through trains
to and from Chicago were several hours
late.
The steamer Grace from Norfolk for
points on the Rappahannock river, was
run into and sunk by the Old Dominion
steamer Luray near Norfolk, Virginia,
Tuesday morning. r. II. Wood, of Lam
caster county, Va, was drowned, and Jas.
w. Robson, one Of the crew, was severely
injured. Mr.. Wood had been to Norfolk
to buy an "Outfit - for his wedding on
Thursday. The collision occurred in a
dense fog.
The Steamboat Carolina, of the Balti-
more Il Norfolk line, Tuesday morning
| ran into the British steamer Rversdale,
| anchored off Cedar Point in the C5esa-
| peake. There was a thick fog at the time.
| The whole port side of the Carolina back
to the wheelhOuse was stove and her decks
were crushed, the damage amounting to
| several thousand dollars, but no person
was injured.
I'eriII Of the s.Oad
Two coal trains on the Shenandoah
branch of-thc Reading railroad collded
yesterday afternoon. Both engines were
wrecked and the cars were piled up on the
track. Obstructing it for several hours.
| Locomotive No. 33 on the Lehigh
Valley railroad, burst it's boiler near
Mauch Chunk yesterday afternoon, while
drawing a coal train. John Miller, the
engineer, and Lewis Cover, Augustus
YOungblcod and X Nuss, brakemen,
were injured, but not dangerously. The
locomotive, which had seen twenty years
service, had been used for several years
between ParkertOn and East Mauch
Chunk.
A snow slide on Ruby Peak, neal Irwin,
Colorado, ON Monday night, carried to the
bottom of gulch all the shaft houses and
machinery of the Ruby Chief, Howard
Extension, Durango and Oakcs mines, and
buried eight men. One of the men was
afterwards taken out dead, and two others
were rescued, perhaps fatally injured. j.
w. Goodspeed, supe. e.intendent of the
PARADISE mining company, was buried 1OC
feet under snOw-slide, near Gothic, on
Saturday last. His body cannot be re-
covered before spring.
The Recent COEfla rations
The fire in the Bear Valley shaft, Neal
Shamokin, was found yesterday to be
burning higher in the manway, but it was
subducd by turning on water. In the
evening fire was discovered in breast No
10, adjoining the manway, but is said the
flames can be extinguished i'll a few days
John Is. Darlington, superintendent OF
the insurance adjustment company of Gin
cinnati, has returned from Milwaukee,
having completed an investigation and ad
justment Of the loss on the Newhall house
buildings and contents. He makes the
loss on building $4,000 Insurance,
$75, 900 ; on contents, loss 531 900 in :
surance, sea, 800. He says the construc
tion of the building was no more hazard
Gus than that of the most hotels, while
appliances, considered valuable to extin
gulsh fires, were moro numerous III it thar
in most hotels" and he "regards the
fatal error to have been the effort Of en-
ployees to eXtinguish the fire before
alarming the guests"
Crespo g. Co.'S saw mill, Havana, Wa.
destroyed by fire. The head carpenter
and a clerk persisted in the flames, ant
two other employees were seriously ipjur-
ed. Thirty tiremen also were blurred.
Crushed IN a Threshlns Machine
On the farm of MIR. Hart in Black hol;
Valley, Lycoming county, number o
men We're engaged i'll tbreshing grain witt
u machine, and a young man named Der
was driving the horses. By some means
he stepped Or slipped in such way as te
have his legs caught in the cogs of the
wheels. and before the machinery could bt
stopped the leg wss crushed into jelly
necessitating amputation below the knee
A Perilous Position.
DR.. Hope, who was lost in the chasn
at the Tullulah Falls, in Georgia, was res
cued yesterday. He was taken from {
narrow ledge 500 feet below the top of tn.
bluff and 100 feet above the water. CIV,
men took ropes and worked their wa,
down until they got within so feet of him
They threw hin, the rope which he fast
eped about his body and was let down 1Ct
feet to the ground below"