The bee., 1884-03-01
South and West. .

THE South has been visited by q tornado
which destroyed thousands of houses and
killed hundreds OF people in Georgia, Ala
ba1na. North and South Carolina, Louisiana
and Mississippi.
The breaking of dam on the Los Angeles
river produced the most disastrous flood ever
experienced in California. The lower part
of Los Angeles was completely inundated
and forty buildings were swept away. Hun
dreds of families were obi ge1 to abandon
their homes and seek shelter on tue
hills. The loss amounts TO SIa0090. From
Los Angeles to No ave, a distance of 100
miles, hardly mile OF the Southern Pacific
track remains in Place, and east to San
GorgOnio, eighty mics, the devastation is
equally great. The California Southern road
from Cotton to San Diego is also washed
out. Travel in all direcl ions is suspended
IL will probably be two months before COM
munication can be properly established. Re
ports received from towns in the Southern
portion of the San Joaquin valley announced
the heaviest floods ever known.
Two colored men In jail at Lebanon, KY,
for assaulting a woman, were taken out by
a furious mob and hanged.
B. F. BARNES, a prominent citizen of
Booche, Wis, killed his wife and cut his own
throat. Protracted illness in the family is
assigned as the cause.
FIVE pony-stealing Piega1 Indians had g
pitched battle in Montana with their pursu-
ers-four Crow Indians and seven white
men, -Four Piegans and two white men
were killed and two other whites wounded.
A FIRE at Jackson. Mich DESTROYED the
Union hotel block occupied by a hotel
theatre, savings bank and other business
houses One man was burned to death, and
four persons were fatally and one seriously
injured. The pecuniary loss is about $40,
600.
PART OF an express train fell through a
bridge on the Hannibal ami s.. Joseph rail
reed in Missouri. Several persons were killed
and about twenty-five in iurel.
w. B. CASH, son of Colo .el Cash, the duel
list who killed Colonel Shannon a few years
ago, entered Cheraw, 5. c, AMI after drink
ing heavily got into difficulty with Town
Marshal Richards, who was roughly handled
Cash then left.town, but returned the follow
ing afternoon and approaching Marshal
Richards drew q revolver and rapidly fired
three shots. The first ball STRUCK an inDo-
cent bystander named COwart and the second
hit Richards, both shots causing mortal
wounds Cash then mounted his horse and
rode rapidly away.
THE cabin Of Beverly Taylor, a colored
man living near Cincinnati, was burned to
the ground at night. and it was at first
thought that the owner, with his wife and a
grandchiId, had perished ia the flames.
Later, however, the bodies OF all three were
discovered in the building Of the Ohio Medi
cal college, whittier they had been carried
for dissection Allen ingalls,, a noted negro
body snatcher, was arrested, and confessed
that he and Ben johnson ha entered the
cabin and killed the three inmates, taken the
bodies to waiting wagon, driven by r. B.
Dickson, and conveyed them TO the Cincin-
natl medical institution, where they sold the
corpses. Beside the three negroes mentioned,
-N,a1 ,s1s%,
the terrible crime.
Two Denver Coli lodging houses occu-
pied bv railroad laborers were destroyed by
fire and four inmates were burned to death.
NUMEROUS colored mems evil rights
leagues are being organize in the West.
THE Rev Thomas G. Thurs:on and his
daughter. aged sixteen years, were drowned
while attempting to ford the Catawba river,
near Taylorsville, n G..