Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-05-03
The Second Story Of q Building
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.

crowded to its utmost capacity. Suddenly
the floor gave way in the center, and the
entire audience went down q 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; little babe Of Mrs. 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 out, some unhurt,
with their clothing torn completely OF.
HEAVY RAINS IN TEXAS.
! Fort WORTH, Tex, April S0.-In North
and Northwest Texas for q 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 and Chief Engineer Hinckley, bare
~ missed being wrecked at Marine bridge,
the high water having carried the founda-
| 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 IN 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 COM
menced falling Saturday afternoon and
continued with unabated fury. All rail-
road communication was cut off from the
east, west and north. One mile of the
track Of the Santa Fe in the Chickasaw
Nation near Dougherty station has been
entirely washed away by the Washita
river, while near by land side from the
Arbuckle mountains had covered up sew
eral hundred feet of track. From what in
formation can be gathered from the coun-
| 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 submerging the whole
| adjacent country. No loss of life has been
reported so far.
TRAIN WRECK.
OLEAN, n. Y, April 3l.-A passenger
train on the New York & Pennsylvania
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 Clean 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 back 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 and 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 cut; Postal Clerk Charles Keenan,, of
ILLS City DTOhSu, huu ScTu SO'ltl- IL
Hutchinson, Eugene Dean and F, McGinnis,
of this city, slightly injured.
THEE MEN DROWNED.
DETROIT, Mich, April 30.-Saturday
morning the pleasant weather attracted
many people to the river, and for the first
time this season large number of boats
were let. Soon after noon the weather
changed, blowing half a gale. Thomas
Jardlne aud two companions who were
fighting their way across the river in
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. If 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 StIllagna 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 BETTING.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April 29.-George
Reimer met with terrible death at-the
Zenith mills, corner OF First street and
Troost avenue, at S:25 o'clock yesterday
morning. Reimer was oller of the mills,
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
recites the following remarkable story:
Detectives claim to have information that
no less than seventeen women claim O man
named Brown us 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
r;apa yvaG a c00lx Mt No Woodward