Dodge City times., 1888-05-03
FALLING FLOORS
The Second Story Jf :. Bonding
Gives Way With Four Hun.
dred People. !.
Two Killed and Ten Seriously Injured
"A Train Wrecked-Twenty Per-.
sons Injured.
High Water in Texas-Four Persons
Drowned in Washington Territory and
Three at Detroit.

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Drowned in Washington Territory and
Three at Detroit.
BELLEFoNTAINE, O., April 29.-At Rush
sylvania, Friday night, q school exhibition
was in progress in Brockerman's Hall, in
the second story Of a brick building. The
hall seated about 400 people, and was
crowded to its utmost capacity. Suddenly
the foor gave way in the center, and the
entire audience went down u distance Of
twenty feet Mrs ]. E. Alexander, wife
of the minister, and Miss Garwood,
Of Bellefontaine, were killed Those
seriously injured are: Harvey Sell
ders, both legs and one arm broken with
other injuries; James johnson, badly hurt,
was taken home insensible; Mrs. Frank
McCulloch, badly hurt; Mrs. Drum, sup
posed to be dying; Mrs. wainwright, not
expected to live; Walker Lewis, one leg
broken; Mrs. William McCulloch, badly
hurt; q little babe Of Ars. Coombs, badly
hurt; Judge Seiders' two children, Of
Ridgeway, badly hurt. Probably fifty 9TH
ers are more or less seriously injured. The
walls did not fall in. A number Of women
and children were taken cut, some unhurt,
with their clothing torn completely OF.
HEAVY RAINS IN TEXAS.
FORT WORTH, Tex, April 8O.-In North
and Northwest Texas for distance Of 200
miles from here heavy rains have fallen
and all streams are high. An excursion
train on the st. Louis, Arkansas & Texas,
with twenty people, including J. st.
Koslowsky, of St Louis, the general land
agent, aud Chief Engineer Hinckley, bare
ly missed being wrecked at Marine bridge,
the high water having carried the fouuda-
tion away from the supports. As the train
crossed, the bridge swerved to one side
throwing the wheels from the rails but the
engineer pulled over on the ties N safety
and after short delay the train went on.
A dispatch from Gainesville says: The
heaviest rain storm that ever visited North
Texas and the Chickasaw Nation cont
menced falling Saturday afternoon and
continued with unabated fury. ALI rail-
road communication was cut oil from the
east, west and north. One mile of the
track of the Santa Fe in the Chicxasaw
Nation near Dougherty station has been
entirely washed away by the Wsshita
river, while near by a land side from the
Arbuckle mountains had covered up sew
eral hundred feet Of track. From what in.
formation can be gathered from the couu-
try the crops have sustained great damage
and fences, houses and crops situated in
the bottom lands have been swept away
like magic. The Red river IS higher than
ever known and is submerRing the whole
adjacent country. No loss Of life has been
reported so far.
TRAIN WRECK.
OLEAN, N. ", April 3l-A passenger
ho Vnrr r. erl1 ;o
railway was wrecked near White House,
ten miles east Of here yesterday morning
by the spreading of the rails, and the mail
and baggage car and two passenger
coaches, containing about forty passen-
gers, rolled down twenty foot embank-
ment. No one was killed outright. but
some of the injured will die. The injured
are: Captain e. G. Thing, Of Olean. badly
bruised and injured internally; J. J. Smith,
of Bath, badly cut and spine injured, re-
covery doubtful; Mrs. o. W. Wheaton, of
Allegheny, injured internally, recovery
doubtful; Mrs. Goodsell, Of Cedars-
port, Pa, internal injuries and head
cut. may not recover; George
Stevens, OF South Wales, arm
broken; Kate Smith, Of Port Allegheny,
Pa, head and bacx injured seriously; Ella
Adams, of Duke Center, Pa, head aud
side badly cut and bruised; Mary Derrick,
Of Smithport, Pa, injured on head aud
side; Mrs. B. Jacharien, Of Emporia, Pa,
head aud limbs seriously cut; John Keefe,
Of Buffalo, shoulder broken; William Was
son, of Buffalo, badly cut about head and
arms; Con Downs, q brakeman, both legs
crushed; Mrs. O'Hara, of College Grove,
Pa, internal injuries, recovery doubtful;
Mr.. O'Hara and his child, seriously bruised
and cat; Postal Clerk Charles Keenan,, of
this city, arm broken. and Vern Covill, H.
Hutchinson, Eugene Dean and F. McGiunis,
of this city, slightly injured.
THEE MEN DROWNED.
DETROIT, Mich, April 3O.@Saturday
morning the pleasant weather attracted
many people to the river, and for the first
time this season O large number of boats
were let Soon after noon the weather
changed, blowing half gale. Thomas
Jardlne aud two companions who were
fighting their way across the river in q
skiff, report that when about half way over
small boat containing three men upset at
distance Of $50 yards from them, drifted
short distance and sank, and nothing
could be seen of the men. II Jardine and
his companions tell the truth the three men
were drowned. The former reached shore
drenched and exhausted, and at once told
the story.
FOUR PERSONS DROWNED.
PORTLAND, Ore, April 29.-Lillie Wheel
er, aged eighteen; Annie Thompson, aged
sixteen; Ellen Aldridge, aged seventeen,
and j. r. Vance, aged forty, were drowned
yesterday in the Stlllagna marsh, in Wash
ington Territory, near the town of STAN
wood, by the capsizing Of their canoe.
BOILERS EXPLODE.
LAWRENCE, Mass, April 29.-Yesterday
morning the boilers of the Russell Paper
Company, used to boil rags, exploded. Mi;
chael Melvin and Robert Evans were blown
through the walls, which were partially
demolished Melvin is badly scalded and
will probably die. Evans injuries are not
serious.
CAUGHT IN THE BELTINa.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April 29.-George
Keimer met with o terrible death at.the
Troost avenue, at s:25 o'clock yesterday
and entered the basement to oil some ma
chinery, when he was caught in the belt
ing and mangled to death.
"A Detroit special to the N. Y. Herald
rccites the following remarkable story:
Detectives claim to have information that
no less than seventeen women claim o man
named Brown ns husband. but they are as
yet unable to lay their hands on him and
confront him with the numerous Mrs.
Brown. HIS latest victim is an intelligent
German girl named Annie Winter, twenty
years old, and until just before her mar
riage was a cook at No. 4S4 Woodward
avenue. She says that she saw an adver- |
tisement in one Of the English papers
here for housekeepcr and sent An