Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-14
ACCIDENT RECORD.
WHAT HIGHT HAZE BEEN SERIOUS
COLLISION IN MIL WAUKEE.
Belle j Johnston Turns Up Safe ana Sound
at Larcon, uI.-Ferry Boat Barnea-The
Days Record Of Disasters,
A RAIL WRECK AT MINIATURES.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.

RAIL WRECK At MINIATURES.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 15.-If q railroad &C
cident May ever be considered IS for
tunate, the which occurred tn
morning shortly after Il O'Clock at the Washing
ton street crossing in this city may be regarded
SUCH At this point the track Of the Mad son |
branch Of the Chicago & Northwestern road |
crosses the track Of the Chicago, Milwaukee & |
st. Paul road The train on the former road, |
due here at HIS, arrived at the crossing |!
and stopped required by law to do, and |
after starting forward again the train on |
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul, which |
leaves the depot at II O'Clock, approached and |
whistled for brakes, but for some reason the |
brakes did not act, and before the train could be
stopped the locomotive of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul road struck the rear coach of the
Chicago Northwestern and carried it over on
its side, bringing it In contact with the switch
mans house aud tank at this point, somewhat
SCATTERING them both, tearing the hind truck
from the car, breaking some of the windows in
the the p oar aeu sgh4v Re" Of
suffered any material hurts, but the scare of the
| passengers was immense. A corps of workmen
was immediately sent to the spot and in about
| two hours the track cleared and trains run
ming as usual. so far could be ascertained
| no was censurable for the mshap, although
| trains to proceed. This, however, was snly an
| unauthenticsted rumor which an investigation
| will disprove or demonstrate. The loss in pro-
perty was insignificant.
| BELLE JOHNSON TURNS UP.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.l
PEORIA, ILL.,, Dec. 13.-Detective Matson, of
this city. returned from near Lacon this eve
ming, where he saw and conversed with Belle
johnson, the woman who had unanimously been
pronounced to be identified with the woman
found floating in the river here. Belle johnson
acknowledges, the detective says, to everything
| that had been testified as to Ter with the eingle
exception of having given birth to child.
This she denied. The acquaintanceship with
Miss LETTERS, the fact that the latter accompan-
, led her to the boat when she left, the acquaint
ance with the other witnesses, the working at
the ,S Club +,a house oas.o.o, in this city.
! out in evidence were acknowledged. The devi-
, OF of the birth of the child is contradicted by
+ the testimony of DR.. Martin, who has known
+ selle johnson since she was little girl. Mat
says the real Belle johnson is as different as
, possible in personal appearance to the dead
+ woman, who Is very dark and Belle is light com /
plexioned. The teeth are very different, and he
a really wonders why any person should have
: fancied any resemblance between them.
q The ha~ty personal examination of DIR. Stout,
the county physician, In the first place, in which
: ( he drew the conclusion that the dead woman had
: suffered from an abortion will probably prove
true. Watson has theory, which he has held
, all the time, totally different from that of the
coroner. but he refuses to diyulge.
4 FERRY BOAT BURNED,
NEW YORK, Dec. IS. The ferry boat, Gar
den City, OF the East River Ferry company
caught lire and burned at noon to-day in hel
q berth, foot of James slip. Several horses wer5
also burned, but ali the passengers and en-
ployes escaped SO far as known. The boat was
valued at q hundred thousand dollars and was
partially insured. The boat had just left It's
! slip on he way to Long Island city, and had
: got barely its own length, heading up stream,
: when the flames We're seen bursting from the
| Deck above the boilers. The engines were re-
yersed and the boat backed into the slip, but Sc
rapid was the spread OF the flames that before il
f reached the bridge the cabins were wrapped in
flames. In g. Jump for the bulk-head OF
s sn9 Si baa the he. pilot ds,,a. Neli d, Mel t
but fell out Of reach of the flames The engi
! neer, Samuel Tracey, ran through the flames and
reached the deck with his clotnlng all ablaze.
James Bell, fireman, finding escape to the
dock cut off, squeezed through the port hole and
dropped into the river. He was saved. A dozen
i passengers ana the ferry hands on beard saved
9 themselves by jumping to the ferry slip OF py
dashlng through the flames to the bridge. Two
, trucks OF HaveDger's sugar house, truck from
8 the Standard Oil company's works and horse
ana wage. GO belonging to &. New, grocer o.
r ing Island city, we're On beard. The horses
+, and trucks burned. There were other wagons
:, on board, and it is said several teams jumped
into the river. At one the fire was still burr
ing and frsmen were at work.
GIVEN Up.
# PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15.-The Echooners JIG
E seph Helton and E. Potter and the barks Pre-
ir testor and Fannie II. Loring are given up 70
;, lost with their crews.
COLLISION.
SAVANNAH, Ga, Dec 13.-Tbe down nigf
= passenger trai1 was in collision with the u
- freight near ninety-two mile post on the Gen
n trail railroad, Georgia, early this morning Bot
n of the trains were wrecked. J. T. Wilson,
II Dayisboro, Ga, was killed. A. H. and s. ]
ID stephens, of Barlow, Ga, were badly wounds
re Fanny Freeman (colored) of Milledgville, had
n leg broken, and the fireman, Mike Falvey, W;
al badly injured.
ID KILLED.
III MACK, n. Y, Dec. i2.--John Ryan, sixty, al
l'Edward Mcdonald, sixty-fve years of age, we
killed by an express train on the West Sho
railroad.
he Death of G. Ell. Cakes.
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