The Penn's Grove record., 1888-01-14

emlgrant cars were telescOped u
burned up. Two children were killed
and ten other persons were injured,
several dangerously. The temperature
was 20 degrees below zero, and many
of the emigrants were badly frozen
before reaching shelter.
"A freight train broke n two on a
nil near Lebonon, Indiana, on the 9Th,
and crashed into q passenger train. A
number o. cars Of both trains wer,
thrown from the track, and many pas.
sengeIs and a mail agent named Helm
we're injured. A freight train on the
Chicago, Santa Fe and California Rail
toad ran through an open switch al
Iarrollton, Missouri, on the Sth, anC
was wrecked. Charles Covert, thu
fireman, and Charles Thompson, engi-
neer, were killed.
Two batteries of boilers ia TIT
rolling mill at Brazil, Indiana, explo
led on the 9th, demolishing TIVE
smoke-stacks and tearing down the
north end of the mill. Matthew Nor
timer, a puddler, was buried under d
mass of red hot bricks and burned t,
death. 1t is feared several others wer,
buried in the debris. Six men vert
severely injured. The boiler in Petit
Il Drlpp's machine foundry in Wash.
ington, ID. g., exploded ON the 9th.
| severely injuring three machinists anC
| an apprentice boy. Lack of water III
| the boiler was the cause.
There is a flood in the S%usquehnnaa
river at WIlliamsport, the water hav-
ing risen IL feet. Tile Ice is all goin.
5ut. Above Lock Haven the river i
clear. Nearly 5000, 600 logs above
Williamsport are expected to pass out
with the ice.
News was received at Ottawa, On.
tario, OH the 9th, that Operator Law.
son and five of the Canadian Pacific
Railroad officials have been arrested al
Port Arthur for negligence which re
suited in the recent disaster near Jack
Fish, Lake Superior District.
1t Is asserted that many of tie
treditors of +. l.. Harper, the Cincin.
Iati bank wrecker, intend to petition
President Cleveland for the pardon OF
that notorious person. Their motive.
t is understood, is not pity for tht
criminal, but the hope that with his
imposed business talents he may be
induced to pay them back their losses.
Robert Voltz, an architect, who is
experimenting the erection of the
baldwin County Court House, in Mo-
Jlle, Alabama, went out in a sail boat
ON the evening of the 9th, with thret
mechanics, Miller, Lewis and Wilson,
. go to Point Clear. The boat cap.
lzed and all were drowned but Wilson
who chung to the boat all night ano
was rescued.
"A despatch from jamestown, Da-
xOta, says the snow there is 20 inches
leep on a level and the drifts are enor. !
nous. Teams plunge into the drift
~ to their necks and have to be dug |
70 It " IN shoyeis.
An express train, which left Bos.
ION for Portland on the afternoon OF
The 10Th, was wrecked while crossing
lie bridge across the Merrimac, al
| bradford, it is supposed by the break
ng of "a switch rod Two cars weTt
| ,troWn from the track and dashed int
water tank house, and the tank
louse and cars were involved i'll d
common wreck. Nine persons i'll tn,
| ;ars and the tank-house were killeC
| and about fourteen were seriously In.
ured. Two of the injured are not eX.
| .,ected to recover A number of Others
@eIe slightly injured.
"A passenger train ran off the tracb
| at Dickinson, Dakota, on the evening
/ Jf the 10Th. The fireman and engl.
| leer were buried under the locomotive,
| and could not be got out. 1t is reported
| hat many of the passengers were in
iured.
While young men were ~coastine
| with a bob sled In Dalton, Penna., OF
! lie evening of the 9th, it struck I
young sol of Squire Montgomery.
breaking one Of his legs and an arm.
/! The sled was overturned, and Warrel
rerwilliger, who was steering, had his
upper Jaw broken. While coasting OIL
hill in Joliet, Illinois, on the evening
| If the 9th, Miss Oriana Wheeler raj
INTO a crowd of boys whe were goipt
dp the hill. Her left leg was brokel
I'll two places, and one Of the boys It.
seived injuries that are likely to prov,
tatal.
-Catharine ohelian. a dressmakeI,
was killed at the Nlnety-third Stree
Station of the West Side ELEVATED
aailroad, New York, On the evening o
pUth. As soon as she got on the cal
platform, the car, as usual on tEost
roads, ''starteq with "a jerk" and she
was thrown between the platforms Vi
The second and third cars. Tie brakes
nan instantly pulled the cord ant
stopped the tiaiu, but the front wheeli
nad rolled on her, killing her Instantly.
After an hour and Q half's hard vol
With u jack, the car was lifted from
she body, and it was removed to TIT
lext station. % x
The halt-devoured remains Of /,
nan, supposed to be white, we're found
n "a field neal birmingham, Alabama
IN the Sth. There is no clue to his
IDENTITY. Martin Kissinger, ~ Year.
II age, while dellriOus from typuolu |
ever, cut his throat and then drowned
aimself in the Conococheague creek,
zeal Chambersburg, Penna., on tint
svening of the 9Th. His body was |
found on the evening Of the 10th.
Mis-. Annie E. j. Hazard, promi-
tent in church and social circles in
Providence, Rhode Island, and tht
Sife Of a broker Of that city, entered
me Town Clerks office, on the 10th,
md, proving from the records of the
Probate Court the will of her father,
Luke 7. Rice, which had been recorded
out not proDated. tore the document
,nto pieces and then departed, taking
| the fragments with her. Her father,
Hho was an eccentric person, mad lett
The bulk of his property to his son and
| out 1--we dollars TO his daughter. A
| :opy OF the will Is in existence and il
| is said the provisions Of the destroyed
will are remembered by the Court.
j. C. Talmage shot and killed the
| night operator, G. j. Tidd, at Bruins.
wick, Missouri, on the evening of the
I 9TH. Talmage was conductor of a
ireight train and the men quarrelled
| over a telegraph order. Maggie Brady.