The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1886-04-22

The Secretary of the Treasury hal
ISSUED q cali for SIC, ,O00,D0O, thre,
per cent. bonds. The call vii
mature June. 1st
Gus Coleman, coiOred, a Demo,
cratic ticket holder at the las
November election in Baltimore
was tried Tuesday and convicted
tof having voted Illegally In the 18Th
Ward. Judge Duty sentenced him
to six years IN the penitentiary.
A special totle Galveston Texas
NesOs. from Texarkana, says: It has
been discovered that with the pas
three weeks the knights ofLabo,
have organized several colored as.
sembhes In the vicinity of Tex.
arkana, both in Arkansas and Texas
The movement is regarded with ap.
prehensi0n. m <. 1}1HI
News reached Greenwood Ky.. on
10th that the miners at Beaver
Greek have had a meeting, and have
fresolv ved to eaf work tosmorroW a
the prices offered By the company
in March. On March I the miners
refused to accept it, and the company
|seeaned determined not to coneede
to their demands.
The first bessemer steel converted
in the South was made at Chat
tanooga on the Goth, by the South
Tredegar Works. An experimental
cast of two gross tons proved excel.
lent steel on rolls and under all tests
applied. The material used was pig
iron from Cranberry North Carolina,
and shows that ore be excellent steel
material. The plant has a capacity
I.of eighty-fve tons per day. The
success OF this experiment has
caused much qualification among
Southern iron makers.
The tie up on the street car lines
in New York city has been partly
unlocked, and cars on all roads are
running, all but Third Avenue road
sending out their regular number Of
cars. The order to relieve the tie
up on all lines but Third Avenue
was issued early this morning by
officers OF the Empire Protective
Association on assurance being
given them that officials of other
companies were not assisting and
would not assist the Third Avenue
road. The latter road ran a number
of cars with new drives and conduc>
tors, but the inside and platforms oi
these cars were filled with police
officers.
AT six o'clock on the Goth the vii
lage of East Lee, Mass, was inunda-
ted and devastated by the breaking
away of a dam at Mud Pond reser-
veir, a mountain lake about two and
a half miles from the village. The
pond covered many acres ofswamp,
and was increased from its original
size by extensive dams built by a
club of manufacturers as a storage
place for water. East Lee village,
whose half dozen paper mills are
situated on the stream, received its
first news of the accident when the
flood came pouring down the streets,
the water being from four to six feet
deep, and bringing with it tees,
portions of houses, barns, fences,
wagons and movable property. The
people fed from the slope of the
valley along which the torrent was
pouring, and saw houses moved and
toppled about like ships on the riy-
er. The flood passed East Lee and
went down the road destroying gar.
dens, lawns, fences, and moving
smaller buildings. 1t had not the
power, however, to wreck large
houses. though the damage done
will amount to many thousands oi
dollars. AS soon as possible people
went up the line of the flood toward
the pond, and found the ruin worse
as they approached the starting
point Of the flood. Fortunately the
track of the food was in a sparsely
inhabited country, but what destruc.
ton there was for it to do in wreck
ing three or four houses along its
way was thoroughly accomplished
land much stock, besides property,
| is lost. Explorers have already
found the bodies of nine persons
and are searching for others. The
scene is one of terrible dcsolation
and the town of Lee is wild with
Iexcitement. 1t is. expected that
more bodies will be discovered.