Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-09-21
NEWS SUMMARY.
ENGINE AND OARS sMAsHED-I4
CATTLE KILLED.
sedgwtekis Special stasemcut TO be Kcpi
Dark-Tsrrible Storm Of wind
and Rain, I.

A passenger train which arrived q,
Denver, Colorado, on Sunday, from Sail
Lake, had . narrow escape from q tear
ful disaster. The train, consisting O.
13 cars, drawn By two engines, wa,
going through the Black Cany on 1t q
speed Of 20 miles per hour, when sew.
eral OF the cars ran off the track. For
tunately the .rain was stopped in time
70 prevent 1t from being hurled into the
depths below. Several cars were badly
damaged. There were about one hum
dred passengers in peril.
Special Envoy Sedgwick has returne d
from Mexico. He arrived In Washing
ton yesterday morning, and reported at
the State Department. Secretary Bay.
ard said afterwards that the completion
|of General Sedg gwick's report would re-
quire several days. He refused to dis.
close the nature Of Sedgwick's special
statement.
Alden, Q small mining town about
nine miles from Wilkesbarre, was visit.
ed BY terrible storm of wind and raiE
on Sunday night. Several houses were
swept away, q drug store, hotel and q
pubic school were wre cked, and nearly
every other buildipg In the place was
damaged. Several persons were In
jured, but none fatally.
The annual session Of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows opened
yesterday In Boston. The reports OF
the grand officers were presented. They
show total membersh ip OF 517, $40 The
figures of various Odd Fellows bene.
fcial associations show receipts for the
past year Of 81, ,060, 905; paid to families
Of deceased members, &813. 1853.
A special live stock train of twenty
cars, from Montana for Chicago, ran
of the track near Black River Falls,
Wis.,, on sunday evening, owing to the
breaking of fiange. The locomotive
and nine cars were wrecked. Twenty
cattle were killed and about as many
more injured.
Two freight trains, one of them loaded
with cattle, cOllided on the MISSOURI
Pacific railroad near Clayton, Mo-, on
Saturday night. Both engines and
several cars were smashed and fourteen
cattle were killed. The damage is esti-
mated at $4,000.
Two rifled q. 8. mail bags were yes
terday found under the platform of the
cotton press at Montgomery, Alabama.
1t 10 believed they were riffs on Satur-
day night, after being snatched from =
train from Nashville.
According to q telegram from Char les
ton "detonations and tremors" continue
at Summervllle, but they are growing
less forcible and frequent, and the peo-
pie are getting used TO them and hope
ful that they will soon cease.
A large brick building in East Atch,-
son, Kansas, formerly occupied as q
packing house, but which had been un-
occupied for several years, was struck
by lightning on Sunday and destroyed.
Loss. $50. 600.
A butcher of Farragut, Iowa, recent
ly bought car load OF beef cattle at
the Kansas City stock yards. Nine
days after unloading them at Farragut
fifteen of them died of Texas fever.
A fve-story brick building on Kenzie
street, Chicago, owned by J. Wallace
Waken and used for storage purposes,
partially collapsed yesterday.
By the capsizipg OF q row boat on
Lake Cazenovia, New York, last night,
three men-Fiske Howe, William Tut
tie and Patrick Haye-were drowned.
The Chiricabua Apaches arrived at
Fort Mar ion, Florida, yesterday after
noon, and were placed under care of
the commandant Of the fort.