The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-01-19

Of the Bradford railroad disaster, died
last night. She was about twenty-five
years of age and suffered terribly af-
ter being taken from the wreck. Mr..
Hart and Mr.. Wentworth are dying.
| The others are comfortable. All the
dead at the police station have been
taken away by friends.
HOTEL BURNED.
GOSHEN, Ind, Jan. 1.-THE Julian
house, the second hotel in size In the
| city, burned at midnight. The FIRE
caught IN the oil room. 1t is supposed
to have been the work of an incendiary.
Guests to the number of thirty or forty
escaped in their night clothes. The
loss, with the other property destroyed,
is estimated at 81, 1000; Insurance about
81 900.
RECORDS BURNED.
PUEBLO, Col, Jan. 12.-The Bent
county court house at Las Animas
burned yesterday, all records being
destroyed. The loss is a very serious
one, but cannot be computed in dollars
and cents.
CAUSED BY BROKEN FLANGE
BOSTON. Jan. II.-General Manager
Furber, of the Boston q Miami rail-
road, was seen to-day with regard to
yesterday. Mr.. Furber said that there
can be no doubt that it must be at
tributed to the breaking of
wheel. $, Examination showed
that quite large piece was broken from
the fiange of the leading wheel on the
right side of the fifth car, which was
the first car to leave the track. This
was the car Immediately in the rear of
the smoker, and was the car which
II w
The piece missing from the hange of
the wheel is near twenty inches in
length.
HORSES AND CARS BURNED.
MERIDIAN. Conn, Jan. 11.-At 1855
last night fire was discovered in the
barns of the horse railroad company, and
although the entire fire department
was burned out, with eighty horses and
fourteen cars. The origin of the
fire is mystery. The loss will foot
up S75, 900; insurance, S20, 900.
REPORT DENIED.
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. lit was
learned at the general Offices of the
Northern Pacific railroad at st. Paul.
this morning, that there had been no
disaster at Dickinson, Dakota, as re-
ported.
AN ACCIDENT AT BRADFORD BRIDGE.
HAvERHILL, Mass, Jan. 1l.-Den-
mis- Shannshan, who was terribly in
iured in the water tank house at the
time of the accident at Bradford yes
terday, died at the hospital this
morning. He was 80 years old and
married. The family ,7supposed to be
Mr.. and Mrs. Goodwin. ami child. who
we're enrOute from Rock dale, Mass,
to Kennebunkport on visit to Mr.. and
Mrs. Z. p. Goodwin, were wounded
and are at the hospital comfortable.
The dead has reached the number of
ten.
CosTON MILL BURNED.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. 12.-The
extensive cotton mill of Reempf Bros,
at Hancock and Huntington streets,
was completely destroyed by fire about
z O'Clock this morning. The loss on
the contents, machinery and building
will reach S75, 600, which is almost en-
tirely covered by insurance. Over 100
hands are thrown out of employment.
VILLAGE BURNING.
OGEMA, Wis, Jan. IA fire broke |
out at 1870 this morning, which |
lage. AT a. m. the fire had destroyed |
several buildings and was still raging |
at a. m.
RAILWAY PASSENGERS PERISH.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. IAN acct |
dent occurred on the Southern Pacific |
railroad near Sumner last night which |
resulted in the burning of several pas |
sengers and serious injury to many |
others. The north bound Los Angeles |
express had just passed Sumner, in |
car, full Of sleeping emigrants, |
broke loose and ran down a steep |
grade. After running for some dis |
tance, and when it had attained a |
frightful velocity, the car dashed over |
an eighty-foot embankment, and in
was mass of flames.
Several of the passengers were |
burned to death while many others |
were so severity injured that they had
to be carried to the nearest station. |
The main portion of the train had |
reached the next station twenty miles |
distant before the trainmen discovered |
the loss of the rear car.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
PITTsBURG, Jan. 13.-The New York |
vestibule express GO ng east on |
the Fort Wayne road met with a seri- |
Gus accident this morning at Roches
ter, twenty-five miles west of Pitts |
burg. The train was running at the |
rate of over thirty-five miles an hour. |
When at the point named it collided
with freight train of forty cars going |
west. The fireman of the passenger |
train was badly injured. Passengers
in the limited were knocked about in |
the most promiscuous manner, but all |
of them escaped with few bruises. The |
train was delayed several hours in ar |
irving in this city.
THE END DRAWING NEAR.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 13.-''Grand- |
ma Garfield" as President Gartield's |
mother is called by those who know |
her, is i'll at the old homestead at Men |
tor. She wants to see jimmy" as |
she terms her dead son, and although |
not very sick it is thought the end is |
drawing near, as she is very aged.
CAR WORKS BURNED.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. 13.-The car |
works at Dauphin, Pennsylvania |
owned by Scholl & Schoop. employing |
fire last night. Loss $50, 900; insurance !
about $25,000 A Methodist church |
in close proximity was also burned. !
Loss $4,000, fully insured.
PLATT BUSTED. |
ALBANY, n. Y. Jan. 13.-The jury |
in the case of the state against Thos. |
G. Plat, to GUST him from the position
of quarantine commissioner of the city |
of New York, on the ground that he is |
not a resident of that city, this |
morning returned a verdict against |
Platt.
FIRE AT YOUNGSTOWN.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Jan. ia
fire broke out in the rear of VIM. Rad |
cliffs restaurant, on North Phelps |
street, and before the flames could be |
subdued the entire block of frame |
buildings were destroyed. The losses |
aggregate ST. 900, sustained by seven |
firms.
CLOTHING STOCK BURNED.
ELDoRADo, Kan, Jan. l3.-Fire |
started in j. J. CarsOn's clothing store |
at II O'Clock last night and large part
of the stock was consumed before the |
fire was discovered and extinguished. |
The loss is about $4,000 with $4,000
insurance.
The BLlZZARO'S BLASTS.
The Worst Ever Experienced In the
Northwest
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Jan. l3.-Re-