The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-03
WESTERN.

Petersburg, Ind, was last week the
scene OF lynching bee. Charles Harvey,
charged with murder and incendiarism was
taken from the jail by mob and hanged TO
locust tree
John Amstulz and two daughters, of
Lima, Ohio, attempted to drive across the
Lake Erie and Western track, and were
fatally injured by an engine.
II. Il. Springer has bequeathed to
the Cincinnati Art Museum his art colec-
tions and pictures, and gives $4,000 TO the
College of Music for the erection of new
buildings.
An avalanche, dashing down the
Marshall Basin, in Southwestern Colorado,
buried the Mendoza mine shaft-house in
which were fourteen men, eight of whom
were killed instantly and two wounded. Four
others burrowed their way out from the
mountain OF snow.
An Ouray Colo dispatch reports
terrible accident, by which nearly half score
Of people lost their lives 1.-THE virginius
mine is owned by the Carolina Mining com
pany, of Boston, employs thirty-fve men, and
is situated Above the timber line Mt the foot
of the Suefiies range. Friday afternoon n
huge mass OF snow started from the
top of the range and swelled
into an avalanche as il descended,
striking the building used as n boarding
house, where eleven men were resting. 1t
swept the building completely away. crushing
and burying the men fifteen and twenty feet
under the snow, among the rocks and timber,
fortunately missing the engiue-housc. After
the noise and confusion the other miners
were posted from the shaft and start
ed in search for their comrades. Five
were taken out alive, but badly crushed
and may die. The other six were found dead"
While party was returning to Ouray, bring
ing the bodies of the dead men another snow
slide struck the sleds containing the corpses,
carrying them 1000 feet down the mountain,
whence they plunged 500 feet over "a preci-
pice, where they must remain until spring.
The party reached Ouray half dead from ex-
haustion
A terrible accident on the Louis
Vile New Albany and Chicago railroad
occurred Christmas eve, near Salem, Ind,
resulting in the death of seven persons and
the woundng of a number of others. The
place where the accident happened is the
bridge over Blue river. The stream is n mar
row one, and In the summer time is an in
significant brook. The speedy melting OF
snow and the heavy rain following had swol-
len 1t TO undue proportions. The flood had
washed away the earth from under
the shoye-supports OF the bridge, rem
dering the structure weak and shaky.
The train consisted OF a baggage cur, smok-
ing car, ladies' car, and the Pullman buffet
car Escaria. Just after the engine had got
ten safely across the bridge suddenly settled
The awful crash followed. The chasm is
about forty feet deep. The baggage car
pitched headlong into the river, while the
other cars teloscoped and were badly
smashed. Some of them, however. remained
partially on the track, although what
was left Of the cars was scarcely anything but
debris. The bridge was only about half again
rs long IA passenger coach, so that all the
cars did not go into the water. A scene of
excitement and confusion ensued and the
passengers, many of whom were bruised and
otherwise injured, began crawling out of
the coaches. Some were asleep in the
buffet car, but managed to get out
all right. Through the overturning OF
tho stoves the wreck caught fire,
and all TINT was above water burned
John A. Clark was executed at Boze-
man, VI. r., for murder. The condemned
man died protesting his innocence.
John n. Irwin, Governor of Idaho,
declines to receive his salary since July l, as
he has been unable 20 attend to his duties