Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-12
EARTHQUAKE.
The Vale Of Cashmere, in India, is Wis
tied By Violent Shocks CT
Earthquake.
The Principal Mosque ut Sopur Thrown
Down and Two Hundred Persons
kiIled-Serious AntI-Jewish
Riots at Vienna.
nIsAsTEoES EARTHQUAKES.

LONDON. June 3.-DlSpatSlcS from Bom-
bay state that news has just reached there
of a disastrous earthquake in Cashmere, a
country of India. The s!ismie shocks be-
gan on Sunday and,llave continued at inter-
walls of ten minutes ever since. The shocks
were very severe at Serinagar, the capital of
Cashmere. Tie barracks. in which several
hundred soldiers were quaItered, was COM
plctely destroyed, collapsing 50 suddenly
that nearly half the men were imprisoned
in the debris. Fifty sre known 10 have
been killed, while fully one hundred were
more or less injured.
portion of the city has been demolished,
while very few of the remaining buildings
escaped injury, many having large rents
made in them. The people became panic
stricken shortly after the disturbances be-
gan, and fled ON the city, taking refuge
in boats and in tents III the open fields.
The total number of killed and wounded is
not vet known. nor the full extent of the
damage DONE owing to the interruption of
the working of the telegraph wires. 1t is
feared that the loss of life will be heavy.
and the latest information from there calls
for help, saying that hundreds of animals
have been killed, and that the distress
among the people is very great.
The terrified inhabitants are now camped
in the fields that surround the town. Ser
magyar is near the center OF the Vale OF
Cashmere, and the whole territory eXpe-
rienced the terrible earthquake shocks The
damage caused throughout the vale is enor-
NOUS The loss in cattle alone is very great.
The affrighted people seem to be utterly
helpless and Succor is being sent them rs
rapidly as the Indian authorities can organ
ize relief. Many of the houses, on accOm:
of the large rents i'll the walls, must be
razed to the ground. The shocks have not
vet ceased, and this faci greatly retards the
work of reScuing the people pinned down III
the debris, and it is feared that many of
these must perish before they can be reached
by the relief parties.
LATER-Additiona particulars of the
casualties caused by the earthquake last Sun
day at Serinagar, India, have been received.
Forty natives were killed and eighty ill
;ured, many of them fatally Fifty soldiers
were seriously hurt. The palace of the
British Resident was reduced to ruins. and
the principal mosque at SOpur, in the Vale
of Cashmere, twenty miles from Scrinagar,
was thrown down. The structure was
crowded with worshipers at the time and
200 of them were killed outright The
number of injured is not known, but it is
large.
SERIOUS ANTI-JEWISII RIOTS.
VIENNA, June 3.-Serious anti-Jewish
riots have again broken out. They were
renewed Tuesday with increased violence.
The melting cause at the present time is the
excitement of the people out of the election
agitation. The Carmelite Platz was filled
with bowling mob, and free fights were
sNT
raided and ruined, and their owners violent
ly assaulted. Not less than forty persons
were severely wounded. The police made
many arrests; still they were powerless to
repress the rioters, and were obliged to call
for the aid of the military. Other riots of
like violence and destructiveneSS have taken
place in the Wieden and Neuban districts
In these districts the entire police force is on
duty, patrolling the streets and preventing
the gathering of crowds.
SETTLEMENT OF TIE AFGHAN AFFAIR.
LONDON, June 3.-Further st. Petersburg
kilograms confirm the announcement that a
settlement of the question is speedily APP
preaching. The KarkaZ publishes Separ-
ate account of the Penjdeh bate, stating
that owing to Captain Yates inability to
converse with Colonel Zakrjewski French
interpreter was employed who msinter-
preted Captain Yates statement and gave
the Russians to understand that English
officers would endeaVOr to persuade the At
ghanS to yield.
The statement cabled several weeks ago
that Penjdeh had been coded to Russia by
AfghaniStan is confirmed by dispatches re-
ceivcd last night. PlacardS have been
posted in the streets of Herat officially an
nOuncing the ceSsion.
The Conservative papers are filled with VIC
lent attacks on the last batch of Afghan dis
patches. The Telegraph says: THE Blue
Book is decidedly painful reading for patri-
otic EngliShmen who cannot peruSe it with
out feelings of distress and misgiving."
The Standard says: Though the antici-
patton will tend to lessen the shock caused
by review of the dispatches, a study of the
details will give fresh vividneSs to the
abiding sense of pain. At the beginning of
| the negotiations we find the Russian states
| men vacilating while the tone of the En-
glish dpIomatiStS is that of firm determine
| ton. As theplot develops we see a complete
interchange of parts The St Petersburg
| Cabinet becomes firm and peremptory and is
captiouS and eXacting to the point of rude
ness. Meanwhile the English Cabinet drops
from command to eXpostulation and thence
| to entreaty. If we continue doing this can
we be justified by it?"
Mr. Lowell, writing to the Mayor of Wor-
ceSter in response to the address of the cor
poration of that place, says: You knew
how to touch the chord of tendereSt associa-
| ton when you claimed me as of Worcester,
because nay forefatherS We're among her
| citizens
PEsTH, June 3.-Fire destroyed 400
houses and Impoverished upward of LOCO
persons in a small village of northern Hun
! gary yesterday. A man suspected of having
started the fire was afterward seized by the
excited populace and roasted alive.
MESnED, June 3.-The parleyings con-
corning the Russo Afghan frontier are, it is
believed, approaching maturity. y meet
ing of the British and Russian officers en-
gagged III the work will probably DC arranged
| for at an early day.
MADRID, June 3.-Cholera has appeared
| I'm the prison at Valencia and i'll the garri-
| son at Albaccte-