Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-04-17
GENERAL NEWS.

train coming west on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad last night ran in
TO a landslide thirty miles east of
Cennellsville, Pa. The engine and
seven cars were thrown from the
track and badly wrecked. John
Coffman, the engineer, was killed,
and the fireman, whose name could
not be learned, was seriously injur-
ed.
PANAMA, April II, via CALVES
ToN.-An explosion occurred on the
Goth ult. on board the small river
steamer Colombia at the Island of
Tumaco. Fifteen persons we're kill
ed and twenty two were seriously
injured. Thirteen persons escaped
unhurt. The steamer, which was
about to start for Barbacoas, was
completely destroyed.
WELLINGTON, N. q. April H.
The New Zealand coasting steamer
Taiaroa has been wrecked between
Wellington and Christchurch. A
heavy gale prevailed at the time,
and the sea was very rough. Three
boats were launched, but each was
speedy capsized. Twenty-nine per-
sons were drowned. Only two pas
sengers were saved.
ST. LOUIS, April 10.-Had it not
been for the urgent appeals of prom
inent Knights of Labor leaders to
the excited workingmen last night
and the arrival of troops, it is doubt
ful whether the Louisville and Nash
vile depot building in East st. Louis
would have been standing this morn
ing. The reckless shooting by the
deputy sheriffs yesterday nearly pro-
voked "A riot which, In carnage and
bloodshed, would have rivaled the
Cincinnati affair. The strikers and
their sympathizers last night were
Infatuated, and were goaded on by
ruffians, who tried to induce them
not to listen to the appeals of their
order leaders, but to seek revenge in
death and destruction. The best
element Of the men prevailed, al
though they chafed under the vic.
lence resorted to by the officers of
brief authority. Crowds of the
rougher element, including hundreds
not Knights of Labor, threatened
trouble several times during the
day, but were driven away from the
yards and separated by the militia.
At one time it was feared that the
city would be burned. One after
another of incendiary fires were
started in the nelghborhood of the
railroad yards in East st. Louis.
Fifty freight cars, scale houses and
several lumber yards were burned.
1t was learned this morning that
Andrew Jones, a Knight of Labor,
was among those shot by the dep
uty sheriff7s volleys, thus making
eight persons killed in all.
The panic and alarm which kept
both cities aroused all last night SUBJ
sided to-day in a stiffness like death.
Business was almost entirely sus
pended. All the saloons are closed
and in East st. Louis the small
stores all shut up, and the people
wore an anxious look. Everybody
seemed to fear that the worst had
not yet come, and that the silence
of the strikers, after their Infatuated
cries for revenge last night, was
Ominous. The total loss to railroad
cars by the fires last night was $32,-
600 exclusive of the merchandise in
fourteen cars on the Illinois and st.
Louis Road. More than five hun
dred cars line the tracks.
The indictments found by the
grand jury of New York we're against
twelve of the Board of Aldermen of
1884, charging them with bribery.
All we're arrested.
Secretary Manning's physicians
are hopeful that their patient will
speedily recover and return to his
duties.
By an explosion of the eentripe.
tai cream separator in the Big Foot
creamery, at ElkhorD, Wis.,, James
Patterson was killed, boy fatally
injured, and several others hurt.
At Horton ellis butter factory near
Harvard, ILL.,, another cream separ-
ator burst, killing William johnson
and wonnding three other men.