The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-11-19

DAY. DISPATCHES


F~EMPsTEAD, Tex. Nov. A.-About
lao o'clock this morning the north
bound Houston e Texas Central fail'
way train was wrecked at Clear Greek
station, about two miles south of this
place, and as far as. known 10 people
were killed outright and Is wounded,
more or less dangerously. Investiga.
ton by the railway authorities re.
veals the fact that the diabolfcal
work was done by discharged EN-.
plOyees and thieves in the vicinity,
who sought to wreck u freight train
for the spofis contained. Breaking
into the section house, the vreckers
obtained the necessary tools, and by
pulling the /. likes and christening
the fish plates, Arranged the rails to
yield to a pressure, without, however,
entirely removing ftsv ne pt "
It 30 happened that the passenger
train, having the right Of way, and
being behind hand was the first to
reach the scene of disaster, and strik,
ing the lOosened rail, the engine and
tender got over safely. while the two
baggage cars, the mail and express
and two Pullman sleepers went over
a 20-foot embankment and into the
creek. aYgtEaU aaadTf ra 2
The following are the killed: E. F.
Louis, baggagemaster; L. v0ardOza,
travelling passenger agent for the n.
Y, T. NJ. railroad; Lamar Leaks,
newsboy; Green Lewis, colored porter;
Hank Thomas, Of NavasOta, wood
contractor; q German woman and her
three children. Julia Childress, of
Atlanta, Ga, six years old, at first re-
ported missing, was taken from the
The wounded are l.. r. Mcmillan,
Robert Victor, G. L. Wallace, Rev. J.
G. John, Jno. Glass, E. II. Fordtran.
Daniel McEnnis, J. c: Peoples, A. II.
jackson, o. J. Cockrell, Austin Gam
brock, w. w. Childress, Isaac Moses,
VIM. Massey, John Edwards, W.. 81.
Burton, Mrs. Edel, Galveston: The
internalinjuries Of j. G. Peoples will
probably result fatally. The express
messenger, McMillen, is also thought
dangerously wounded. Those of the
wounded unable to proceed to their
destination are comfortably quartered
here. Cardoza's body will be taken
charge of by his friends in Galveston.
Relief trains with railway officials
and surgeons sent from Houston this
morning are here and at the scene
everything possible for the
sufferers. a. -sr.
DENVER, Nov. M.-The Colorado
to the national cattle
mems convention at st. Louis left this
evening" on a special train of Pull
man sleepers, over the Burlington
road. The train is to make 40 miles
an hour including stops. and arrive in
st. Louis at 8 o'clock on sunday
morning. The whole train was hand
decorated. The delegation
numbers $780, and represents over 4
million head of stock. The Utah and
Idaho delegations arrived here last
evening. Their sleepers were at
to the Colorado cattle mems
tonight. This latter associa-
;ioq represents about 100000 head.
NEW YORK, Nov. A.-Stocks made
. further advance this afternoon, q !
arge amount of prominent shares |
)eing taken for both accounts. New |
York Central advanced to 89k;L Lake
shore to 681<; St, Paul to 76I, and
Texas Pacific to IL. About 2 o'clock
'rices ran off q to q on realizations,
'ut at the close the market was strong
nd higher.
NEW YORK, Noy. 14.-The Tribune
able gives Blaine 57,734 plurality in
he counties of the state outside of
lew York and Kings. In the latter
ounties. it says, the democrats
laimed 58,957 plurality for Cleveland.
he losses thus far in the canvass of
be above two counties are said to re-
uce C%leveland's plurality to 5S,588;
till giving Cleveland a plurality in
he state of 854.