Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-08-23
COLUMBIA NEWS.
ruvn our RuuunAn CORRESPONDENT
Disastrous treight wreck IN which i;5
Sneop ana 30 Hogs appon-
Ings Around tho Town.

snecp ana 30 Hogs retI.hed--is sppon-
Ings Around tho Town.
ono of tho most terrible wrecks tha,
has occurred In this vicinity for years,
happened ut 1900 =. M. yesterday In the
west yard ut Columbia. II was caused by
the carclcssnCss Of lligman, who
neglected to flag u following train. The
engineer Of tho latter traiu is also
blamed, as no approached the yard nj too
great speed. Engine 5Si dashed into
the rear Of train drawn by engine $50
Tho cabin OF tho lattcr was completely
demolished, whilo n coal gondola, loaded,
was turned sideways, as was also engine
jSi. The four stock cars following the
5si wero wrecked, Nos. 5000 and 3, GS2
being ground to kindling wood The
third car No sol, was piled on top OF
engine 1Si aud badly damaged. The
fourth car No. l3l12 had its front
set of trucks torn from tho body. The
six cara aud tho engine were piled so
promscuously together, that 90 square
feet of ground would hold tho entire
wreck. The numbered cars contain cd
sheep aud hogs, 10 Of the former and 30
of the latter we're killed outright, or else
~ badly manned that they were killed
shortly afterwards. The cab Of engine
jsl took drc aud was quickly extin
his danger, he and the fireman escaped
with their ives by iumpibg TO tho ground,
after reversing the engine and whistling
down brakes. The careless fireman os
capped after blowing tho alarm whistle by
jumping from his cabin. Tho loss to the
L. X X. IL enormous, three cars being
worthless. ono nearly 80, while their
engine IL in terrible plight, Tho com
pany will have to pay for tho sheep and
hogs.
Personal.
Misses Mary and Alice Siever, of Cham
hershurg, arc Waiting Mrs DR.. p. 3.
Bruph.
Judge Ryan aud family. of Po,tsvillc,
who have beon visiting Mr.. RDbt. Ryan
for tho past few weeks. returned homo
to-day, accompanied by Mrs. j, Hook and
her daughter, Miss Gussio
Mr.. Henry Roienhejser handsomely on
tertainod about seventy five or his friends
last evening in honor Of hs i2l birthday.
Tho band was present During the evening
friend Henry was presented with a mcer
schaum pipe and tobacco by his gentlemen
friends
Town Notes.
Tho Columbia and Ian 'asICr base ball
clubs play this afteruoon.
Tho Vigil club. Of Drytown, Is holding
n picnic in Shirk's grove.
S,yanteel trlrphOnD CDUnor iOlR in
Columbia werc d,sarranced by the re-
cent storm.
FA B,nuotr's rNturn from Europe WAS
sigralZpd by hiI clerks by placing tho 10
Rend "wclcomc" made Of c0layod land
kcTChicfs across the rear Ot hs s'"rH.
An unknown tramp hal hiS lH't hand
mashed YESTERDAY while stealing a ride.
Hundreds Of Columbaus yesterday a(-
arnOon visited the west yard, where the
Thrtis aud Boar, the whale boats OF the
Greeley relief expedition wctC laying on
two cars, they beiug shipped to the
Louisville exposition.
Another vardon party will DO held in
September, by the ladies' soCiablo commit
tee, Of ST Paurs L. +. church
Squire Young gave "Patsey" Whalen lC
days in iail. this morning for being drunk
aud disordCrly last night ''Patsey'
assaulted Officer DyssinGer at the same
time. and will answer the charge of assault
and battery upon his rOloaso.
Tho Shawnee boys cleared $50 At thor
picnic, held in Haisn's woods, last SItur-
dav.
Co G. will not ac1sps tho invitation OF
Gen. Geo. II Thomas Post, NJ. s. &. 4
r., OF Lancaster, unless it can b. accom-
panied by commissioned Cfiic,r.
Neither tho Y. + lutheran. Methodist
Trinity Reformed or nrthol churches viii
have services to morrow, their plsto 4
being abseus. Tho St Johns Lutheran
vii hnlh service a. 4 =. ~, Out mono IN the
morning, whilr tho Presbyterian will holo
morning ser0'no, bn' none in the evan
inc.
r a ssovo m7rI,r'' picnic IN Ncj n''
,ods to-day Is cNpoo'rd t. DO thh hIGcS
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