The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-02-23
NEWS NOTES.

Richard Wagner. the eminent Ger
man musical composer is dead.
The relief fund Of the board OF trade
Of Chicago for the food sufferers is
$4,000.
The great iron firm of John G. Ayers
& Sons, Of Chicago. has failed for So
COoOC0.
Collenderis seyen-story billiard fac
tory burned on the i4th inst. from
spontaneous combustion. Loss 1925 600.
Among the novel contributions to
the sufferers by the flood az Cincinnati.
were four gross Of stove polish from
Chicago.
The assistant postmaster Of Brooklyn,
turned from a pile of bills amounting
to $4,000 to answer an inquiry. and soon
discovered that the money had. vanish
ed.
The water pipes were frozen in all
parts of the city of Denver. 1t will
cost private parties $4,000 for repairs.
Many of the main pipes also were
frozen.
An explosion of ire-damp wrecked a
three-Story brick bui ding in which
fourteen families numberingifty seven
people were living, in Cincinnati. Two
persons were killed and four fatally in
jured.
A report was received at st. Louis
that an immense ice gorge in Missouri,
at 81 Charles, came rushing down, ac-
companied by high and swift waters
and OVERT )wed the bottoms and almost
submerged the village Bratherton. The
government works are swept away at
st. Charles. The car works are sub
merged.
A terrible disaster is reported from
the Braidwood mine, near Chicago
The ground sagged under the weight OF
water that had saturated and loosened
it. Three hundred men were in the
miae, sixty-two of whom were in the
shaft which caught the bulk of the fail.
ing debris and was instantly flooded
Every one of them were drowned on
smothered in five minutes. The min.
ers not in the unfortunate shaft escap.
ed.
Two heavy freight trains collided on
the Ohio division of the Baltimore &
Ohip railroad IN Franklin tunnel neal
Blair. Both engines kept the track, the
timbers and cars pilIng on top, embed
ding in the roof of the tunnel, letting
down loose rocks and completely wreck.
ing the tunnel. Engineer Rutherford
was buried beneath the wreck and kill.
ed, fireman Hens WAS scalded to death
Jno. Graham, brakeman, had his thigh
smashed aud will die, james Snyder
brakeman, had his back broken and
will also die.
At Cincinnati during the recent foot
The river rose to a height of siXty-sil
feet and four inches above low wateI
mark. being three feet and n incl
higher than ever known before. 1t il
estimated that five thousand person
ware rendered destitute and homeless
and that 100000 will be needed for re
lief. Up TO the 10th, the contribution
had reached $111,000. Drexel, Morgan
&Co, bankers OF New York, telegraph
ed contributions of $1,000. j. Goult
contributed $1,000. A benefit perfor
nance by Mrs. Langtry, realized SLIGO
At Lawrenceburg, Ind, two hundred
houses were overturned or WASHED
away. Three thousand people wer
driven from their homes with nothing
but the clothes they wore. The loss a
this place will reach half a million dol
lars. At New Albany, Ind, one thou
sand families in the city and tire,
hundred in the immediate vicinity ar,
dEiyen from home. seeking shelte
wherever covering can be had. BY TIN
stoppage of factories one Thousand
families are dependent on publ,
charity. Most of them lost everything
in the bottom lands. Three hundred
families are homeless at Terre Haute
At Jeffersonville, seven Thousand
people were driven from their homes
and fifty houses were afoat. At Tole
do several railroad bridges were car
ried away and the depots and ga
works flooded. At Louisville u squar,
mile of territory was under water with
in the city limits, and from five to eigh
thousand people driven from tiiel
homes with some loss of life. All tn
Point, comprising $4,000 houses, known
as Bowlville, was flooded. Half 0
Portland and all Of Shipping Port wa
under water, and much suffering wa
axnprienced.