Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-10
CASUALTIES.
SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
Especial Telegram % the Globa.I


serious than first advicas indicated. OWING
to the determined efforts of the officials
to suppress the matter, news of the acct
dent did not leak out until late hour last
evening, Wales is the station whore two
trains pass each other every afternoon.
One of the trains leaves this city at about
O'Clock and reaches Madison at $40. re-
naming there about forty minutes, and
then starting on its return trip, reaching
Milwaukee shortly after 8 o'clock every
evening. The other train leaves Madison
shortly after 1 o'clock every afternoon and
is due in Milwaukee at 4:1O. It
appears that the two passenger trains
had Just passed each other when the col
lision occurred with the eastward bound
train and an engine and caboose westward
bound. The engine and caboose were
made up at the Elizabeth street station in
this city, and followed Immediately behind
the regular passenger. Both trains were
in good speed at the time and collided
with terrific force. Both engines were
badly demolished, and the caboose was
also considerably wrecked. The fireman
on the stub train, David Nichols, of Ken
osha, was instantly killed, and the body
was picked up in a terribly mangled con-
dition. The engineer on the same engine,
will die. Mart. Luther, engineer of the
passenger train, was also badly injured.
The passengers received a terrible shaking
up, but none were seriously injured.
FIRE AT DETROIT.
Special Telegram to the Globe
DETROIT, Mimi, May 9.--The Northern
Pacific roundhouse at this place caught
fire this afternoon from sparks Of a pass
ing engine. By efforts Of citizens and
railroad men the building was saved with
slight injury.
FEARFUL HURRICANE IN PENNSYLVANIA.
EATON, Pa, May 9.-Passengers state
that the hurricane in the Lehigh and
Wyoming valleys, last evening, was the
severest known in eastern Pennsylvania.
Between Penn Haven and Hazelton, trees
in the woods for distance OF 1000 feet
were moved down like grass. The wind
and rain beat so hard against the windows
of the cars that the passengers had to place
the cushion of the seats against them to.
prevent them being blown in. The en-
gineer of one train, to avoid wreck by fall
ing trees, reduced speed to coal train time.
At Gould's siding, near Whitehaven, the
engine of a passenger train was struck by
falling telegraph pole and damaged.
The same pole struck a passenger car,
making splinters of its front. About the
same time tree fell and broke the win
dows on the right side, alarming the pas
sengers, All this occurred while the train
was running at full speed A short dis.
lance below the train men had to move
two telegraph poles that lay across the
track. Near Rockport, a rock weighing
| ~, H0,,- cd - o,,1
lodged on the track. A watchman saw it
in time to stop the trains going either way.
Near Honey Creek station, four freight
cars of moving Lehigh Valley train
were overturned.
BURNED 70 DEATH.
CHARLOTTE, Mich, May 9.-Grimes &
Co.'s mill at Vermontville, 10 miles north
of here burned this morning, and two or
three men, including the proprietor, were
| burned to death.
INDIANAPOLIS, May John Beggs' dis
tillery at Shelb. vile, Ind, was partially
destroyed by fire this morning. Loss $780,
| 600 to $4,000; insurance $4,000 to $780,
| 900. The store room, pen, cribs and cattle
were all saved.
BOSTON, May 9.-The store OF I. Remick
& Co., dealers in cotton waste, ETC., was
damaged by fire $4,000.
RAILWAY SMASH UP.
PErERsBURG,M May "a mail and passen-
ger train on the Atlantic & Raleigh railroad
is wrecked. Eleven passengers were
aboard, but none were seriously injured
The car is a complete wreck and the loss ia
heavy.
FIRE AT INDIANAPOLIS.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May "a fire this
afternoon on Maryland street and Kentucky
avenue destroyed eleven small dwellings
and partially burned Roat's stove foundry.
The loss will not aggregate over $4,000,
hut leaves a number of people homeless.
BIG STORM EASTWARD.
! CHICAGO. May AT about o'clock this
evening heavy wind and rain, acompa1i-
ed by binding flashes of lightning, broke
over this city. At this hour, 1880 p. H.,
the wind has about ceased, but it is still
raining and lightning heavily. Advice5 to
the managers of the West Union telegraph
are to the effect that the storm is general
extending from 800 to 400 miles in every.
direction and much trouble is experienced
on account OF electric interference with
INC WIVES 1Atby VI tllSLA IdI0 OIodD4Ou
more or less, including seven or eight be-
tween this city and New York. At one
time there was but one wire to st. Paul,
one to Omaha, and none to Kansas City,
and a number of smaller towns in the
north west In the city, the telephone bells,
have been ringing all the evening.
ELEVATED RAILWAY COLLISION.
New YORK, May "a bad collision took
place to-day on The Third avenue elevated
railroad between an extra and regular train
at Smith Station, between Sixty ninth and
Seventeen streets. The trains came to-
gether with great force and the crash
brought the occupants of the neighboring
houses to the doors and windows. The
fireman, JAS. R. Harring, was sitting on
the right hand side of the cab. The COL
lision forced the tender of the engine into
the cab and through it almost up to the,
boiler. Harring was caught and forced
| against the boiler, one of his legs was bro
| ken, the other badly bruised, and he was Sc
riously burned and scalded about
the lower part of the body and legs. The
| water tank of the engine burst and the