Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-11-14

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steamer, Franc Smith, Of the Col.rt.
wood aud Port Arthur I"n, ly't CoHul
wood n the lat pant of Ll-. week, win
100 passengers. she is overdue, aud as
nO.hllg has been heard u, her, aud as she
is old and not very stauuuh, 10 itislrcd ,4p
vent down in tho sfu-U ul SLuIlY mg4l
with all on board.
Yesterday morning West Shore tall
road construction train was thrown stum
tho track near Rochester, New York, aud
three box cars full of wrTkuen tumb,eG
down an embankmeut. Thirty men were
injured, several perhaps fataUy.-Tan
boilers II 4 sugar house - Bayou BDpuG
Louisiana, exploded on Noucay, killing
the engineer aud two other men. The
engineer had been Inau!ai only tHO
weeks. While tho lab1gors were pulling
down an old brick house IN Richmond,
Virginia, yesterday morning, part At Il
wall fell upon four men, fatally lujuIug
them.
Drowned IN UaIeon the CuesapoaKo.
The oyster schooner Willie +. Thomas,
of Deals Shore was lost 10 a gale on the
Chesapeake bay at -four O'Clock yesterday
morning off James POint, and her cap
! tain aud crew Of nine meu were drowned.
! The captain was Preston Webster, Of Bal
| tiInOre. Two OF the men lost were Aul
| Jones aud John WICkcs. The names Of
! the others are unknown. The schooner
| had Just left the James Point anohOrlug
| grounds when she was struck by tho gale
aud fOundeTed.
The schooner Seaman's Bride, Captain
| John Geise, was Cap5I2 sd in the same To-
cality, but all on board wero saved by a
passing vessel. The schooner G.. A. Kir-
win, Captain John 5. Krwln, was cap
sized, but all, numbering eleven persons,
were rescued. An unknown schooner wds
capsizCd and sunk of sandy Point, near
Annapolis Roads, aud it is not known
whether her crew escaped. Another cap.
sized aud sunk near the Seven. Foot KuOll
light house, in the mouth Of tho Patapsco,
nor is it known whether those on board
we're rescued. No report has, up to this
time, been made of the unknown vessels
except the fact of their losses.
Eight Men Drowned ana Their Yesssls Lost
The tug G. b. Stanford left New York
with the barges Ida Osprey, Dunderberg
and Hatteras, coal laden, for Providence,
Fail River and SOMERSET. When midway
between CorDtield aud Falkland Island.
the hawser between the lrst and second
barges parted aud the Ida Osprey and the
Dunderberg disappeared. Tho barges
were owned by HaddOck X Steel, OF New
York. The tug started for the scene OF
the disaster. The Ida was discovered
overturned and wreckage from tho Others
was seen. The barges are total losses
and tho crews, eight men in all, are
drowned. The names Of the victims on
the Osprey are Captain Henry Conway, OF
Virginia, and John Murphy, of jersey
City; on the Dunderberg, Captain Henry
Frosman and two Germans, OF HobOhrn
on che Ida, o. l., Smith, OF Hartford, an
other man aud one boy.
suicide by moTPhiue.
la Allentown Frederick Kari, a German
tailor, 80 years OF age, committed suield,
bp swallowing Is grains Of morphine. He
had been greatly depressed for seyeva
days, but intimated 70 no Que that he
contemplated suicide. ilo failed TO rise al
tho usual hour and the lady with whom be
boarded went up stairs aud found his door
open. She tried TO waken him, but hC
was in deep stupOr and when doctor
was summoned four grains Of morphine
were found in bottle, which had contain
cd more of the narcotic, All efforts tC