Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-07-14

over twenty -oDe Feet and Sill shCWs Tor
 ty-fve feet. It is reported hundred
 miles above city but water is stationary
 There are low lands under water and
 the residents have been forced 10 the
 upper stories and in some cases to seek
 high land. The waters rose very sud | denly. There was & rise Of forty-two
 feet 10 lees than 2 hours at Greensberg
 where the damage 10 property will reach
 iuto hundreds of thousands. One life is
 reported lost, The river front here is
 lined with people this morning watch
 ing the debris float down the current
 A large number of bsrges came down
 the stream and struck the piers of the
 bridge snd it overturned. Among the
 craft which flssted by was a shsnty boat
 with light on the side. If any one
 was on board they V, re swept Co inevi-
 table destruction, At Polishtown there are 800 people who live ir shanty boats aud shese he'd tO be abandoned, The etormirg Lock above AoaOBRahela city
 vss carried away lhi5 morning and ;he
 loss from iLis will be very heavy. The
 sudden rise is believed Co have been
 cGgsed by 8 cloud burst.
 The latest estimate of the damn Es puts loss st over 3LC0O,OO0. The dam
 age n The vicinity of Grafton, W. Va,
 is pot less than S350,OO0 and st F Fair-
 mount about the same. The loss st
 ROvlisburR. W. Va, Is flejO10, end as Brownsville, Pl., about thr sumo. In
 the nsighborhcod of shis oity the loss
 will be over SiCJ.O0O. The flooded dis
 triet covers an erea of 50 mileg. All
 the mills closed down at MoKeyEport
 snd hundreds ere hOmeles and destitute.
 X wstchman named knight. was eros
 sing the railroad bridge at Saltsblrg
 last night, when the natural gas main
 under the rIver had broken and the Ian
 tern which Knight carried caused sn ex-
 plOsion and be was fatally burned and
 the bridge partly destroyed. Railroad
 traffic is almost suspended on several
 roads. The floods are now subsiding.
 NEW YORK, July I2.-Advices from
 all parts of New York, New Jersey and
 New England show that terrific ram
 and wind storm ragged all last night. The
 storm was particularly severe along the
 coast and many sailing vessels went
 ashore. No large loss of life is report
 ed, but the damage to properly is great.
 The storm was v0ry severe along the
 St Lawrence and on Lake Ontario.
 Two small passenger steamers were
 driven ashore and number of barRes
 sunk ct Sandy Book This afternoon the
 storm continues and the sea is very
 rough.
 WAsHIsGroy July l2 In the house
 this morning Ford from the committee on military affairs reported back the re- solution for the appointment of 0 spc- ar rgl s1 An ell n evasIUns of the contract lHtOE lsw. h reply to question b. Nsndever of OGl- ifoTnia, Ford stated that the resolution wGs broad enough 70 cover the evasions of law against Chinese immigration. Cox Of New York called ssttention Ito inc abnormal immigration Co this coun- try Bnd stated that aliens were arriving at the rate of eighty thousand per year, under ictidences thst should be Inquir- ed Into. Morrow of California favored the resolution. The resolution was sdoP- ted and the House went into committee of the whole on the tariff bill. By agree l msnt no vote WAS taken on She pending 1 wool schedule to-day.
 ALEXANDRIA, Va, July PA terrible | accident occurred on the Virginia E | Midland railroad early ihis morning. The through southern train ihs. left here | last night went through 6 trestle be- tween Orange Cocri house and Bar | a distance of fifteen feet, | killing five persons outright and wound ing twenty-five others. The trestle was | known to be weak and the railroad com psny Wal engaged in filling it n, The train wss moving st a speed of sir miles hnnF ha la 1a- ular orders. The engine had passed | safely over most of the trestle when the smoker, rnsil, baggage and express cars went down with Q great crash, dragging down tho engine and tender and two passenger coaches. Tbe engine went iown pilot end foremost thus c0nuC1i- ,siing no Ire tO the wreck. All lights were eI';H guished n tLe fall. Among The killed gre C. Cox ol Al,Ssnlria. E. I. Wilmington aud 2. C. BTightVeI, postal clerks. AElony the ba1Iy iuj.r arc W. D. Parrot 3 c West aUi a I. Nath6m, postal cleTKs, the Potter Field axpress 1gsut, z. Jennings, ui Lynch lurg and Capt. T. C. Taylor. pssser gers.
 WAsENCTCS, July 1l.-The c0-fcr- 'Dce rePc-i on pcstolIi,e Eprroprlstl5z lll Tas adopted except The clause con- '5rnlER steamboat su5s41i,. on which be committee has be-c unable tc agree. Al.er louz debate o sotIla Co Ins'st 'n this amendment carried, yeas zS, ,sys iG.
 The senate preceded So the cOnsid- ration of senate bi.! providing for for itcRtions and other sCs cOss. dCienses, mt adjourned without action.
 Senator DOlpb, from She committee O. oreign relations, to-day reported favor , bly a bill to prohibit the coming ol )hinese laborers into the United States eported in the house by Belmont, chRIr- nan of committee on foreign relations 8 a substitute for all bills before the I committee relating to Chinese Immisrs- ion.
 WASHINGTON, July 1l.-Holman of Indiana, Stone of Missouri, and Psyson a f Illinois, were appointed cOnterees on he land forfeiture bill. Hatch of Miss c uri, presented a report of disagreement I D agricultural appropriation bill stat ag thst the point of disagreement vas ? ne hundred thousand dollars for sor- [ hum sugar experiments. Ryan's mo- n lon concur ID senste amendment agreed V 3, yeas l2S. nays 96. This completes c le consideration of the bill. It stands q nally passed. Conference report or Il 'istrict of Columbia bill Tas agreed to ? 1d the house went into committee o. ? Ie whole for the consideration of the t' .uH bill. Pending amendment by O helps of New Jersey, fixing Item Et I 'rty per cent cd valoren daty on flax. nen thread aud manufactures of fisx as rejected after political debate The . ind section of the bill, that relsting Co ool and woOlen manufactures being aohed, Mills proposed the entire 6I nes of the section 0e read and corsii- si ed as one paragraph. amendments tc D n order Bt any plscs, also tried to sI aeh agreement as to time to be allow q for debate on the section, propos- sC 2 two days, but Reed objected to fix Ia 2 any time before the debate was zl ally started. The section was read SC i'd the house took recess. Evening VI ssion to be for the consideration of d. nsus bill. IS VICTORIA, B. O. July 1l-Adyices re- s9 ivet by steamer to-day from Hazle.ou Inf for some time past several constsbles ed ve been endesvorirg to capture sn In m s1 murderer, On l9th of Juns thev ,L