Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-31


rapidly, when the wheel of a forward coach
proke and the car was derailed. 1t ran
INTO the coal train and was upset and the
other three cars wrecked The accident
was witnessed by mounted policeman
VINO teIephoned the facts to police head
quarters. Various hospitals dispatched
surgeons and ambulances to the scene. Up
10 the present time twenty-five wounded
persons have been removed from the wreck
Many more are yet to be extricated.
Seventy passengers were on board. 1t is
remarkable that many were not killed out
night. The rear brakeman broke open the
WINDOWS OF the rear coach and helped out
the passengers. Overturned stoves set fire
TO the wreck III several places, but it was
eXhngtushed by the efforts of the brake
men ana the rescued passengers. The
Long Branch express came along a few
minutes after the disaster, but was stopped
by the danger signal. A special train sent
out from Jersey City brought back the pas
sengers from the train.
SECOND DISPATCH
JERSEY City, January 30th-The Super
lntendent of the company reports twenty
persons wounded, but only one seriously
1t Is estimated that the wreck viii cost the
company 100000. The cause of the acci-
forward car
United States Senate.
WASHINGTON, January 30th.-Hoar asked
consent TO take up the Pacific
Railroad bill. He said it was an extremely
important bill, as il undertook to deal with
vast Government property, or Indebtedness
TO the Government, and undertook to re-
move from further discussion great MANY
complicated questions. The bill was one
that had excited a good deal of interest in
the country, and Hoar supposed he was not
saying anything that would be disputed
when he said that it had created large in
tereSt among stock brokers' The newspa-
pers were full of charges and counter
charges regarding it, and, while he would
make no charge against the press of the
country, as body, some of the statements
We're, OF course, inspired by the interests of
speculative dealers in stocks The bill.
Hoar added, had not been stimulated or
by any railroad company, but it
was the result of original investigation bv
the Judiciary Committee, which had
looked very carefully into the whole sub
ject. He did not wish to push the bill to
a vote to-day, but would ike the bill and
the accompanying report to be read when
he would make a short statement on the
subject, and then propose to let the bill
stand over till tomorrow.
The bill and the report were then read.
Then ensued a brief discussion partici-
pated in by Garland. Hoar, SeweI and
Conger, and the matter went over
The interstate commerce bill was taken
up, and Pugh made speech opposing the
Reagan bill.
After anseXecutive session the Senate adj
jouned until Monday.
House of representatives..
WASHINGTON, January 30th.-The House
went into Committee of the Whole Hatch
OF Missouri in the chair, on the private
calendar.
The Speaker laid before the House a
message from the President, asking au-
thorty to return the ship Alert TO the
English Government with suitable ac-
acknowledgements. Referred.
Also, a communication from the Secre-
tary Of State, recommending the passage Of
the joint resolution permitting military
officers to be sent as military instructors to
Corea, in compliance with a request from
the Corean Government.
At the evening session. the House passed
thirty pension bills, and adjourned until
tomorrow.
Ku-Klux Captain Hanged.
LITTLE Rock (Ark) J, January 30th.-At
Corning, Clay county, to-day, Lafayette
Melton, white man. aged %, was hanged
for numbering Franklin Hale, four years
ago 1t was proved on the trial that Mel
ton was q Captain of the Order of the South
ern brotherhood known as the Ku-hlux
Hale had been talking about them and 4
plot was formed to whip him. A masked
party found Hale in the woods at night
and whipped him to death. Melton was
convicted chiefly on the evidence of H. s.
Lawrence. one of the party, but who a year
after turned States evidence.
Wishes His Racing Trophy Admitted
Free of Duty.
New YORK, January 30th.-Pierre Loril-
lard appealed to Collector Robertson yes
terday at the Custon-house to waive the
customs duties demanded on a cup won by
Iroquois in England. The cup is made of
silver and is known as the Stockbridge
Cup. LoriIlard said his cup was trophy
of conquest over the English" -" and that. ac-
cording to the rules applied to the cup won
by keene at Ascot, the Stockbridge Cup
should be admitted free. Robertson has
referred his application 10 Secretary Nc
Culloch
Another Negro Exodus.
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sent ont ahead 70 ~nv ont the Land bovo -c,- re-
turned with favorable renorts Tbn neonIo
are leaving bv hundreds, and trains are ESQ so
crowded that hardly staniin@ roon1 cam La
fomd and many oftbe NEGROES ,,l Who gatber ,,i1
Of the denof from tha co,75+ ,1ie
are unable to Get aboard
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porter mas lhter'le"ed hosSa who SAID
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named Eve rot to die SOM. d. Jar ~ I,,T ~,,'
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