The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-07-12

fsst wide. Tho water was tsn feet dssp.
Into It the engine made . fearful leap
while running thirty miles an hour, carry.
ing with II the tender and eight cars. Az
the engine struck bottom the rushing OF
the water into the locomotive exploded the
boiler. The Iebris wal thrown In every
direction, scattering Arebrands, which
iRnited the wood work Of the coaches.
The flames destroyed o largo amount Of
mail and express matter, besides spreading
panic among the already terror-stricken
passengofs. Il is supposed some Of the
passengers were consumed in the flames
The most reliable estimates place the num-
Der Of killed at thirty. Tho number Of
wounded will DO far in excess Of the killed.
A Chinese Deluge.
Late advicss from.Hong Kong and Yoke.
hama, statet hat one Of the most dsstrue.
tive rainstorms in the history Of hong
Kong occurred May 20 and 80. The total
rainfall for thiIty-three hours was 29AA
inches. The loss to residences, stores,
etc.. cannot be estimated, but the loss to
public property is thought 10 be about
$2o0, 600. There is scarcely q house with
n an aroa Of thirty-two square miles but
what suffered damage. Streets and roads
were swept away and in some places piled
with debris. Fifteen lives in all are
known to have been lost.
Star Route Cases Stricken on.
The docket of the criminal court Of the
District of Columbia has been cleared Of
a number of cases which have been on the
books ever since the initiation Of the cele.
brated star route cases against ex-senator
Stephen w. Dorsey, Thos. g. Brather and
others. Assistant Attorney Dome stated
in court that there were tweuty-four Of
these cases on the docket, and as the gov
eminent had failed to secure the conviction
in the main case, it would be impossibleto
get convictions in the others. He, there.
fore, asked leave to nolle prose- the cases.,
and the court. directed this to be done.
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Every business house and public build
ing in Durango, Col, with tine exception
of the postofice and Strater's hotel, were
recently burned to the ground. The fire
was extinguished after the total destruc-
ton Of eight business blocks, which in
cluded the principal business houses and
three churches. A part of the residence
portion Of the town was also DESTROYED:
loss 500, 200. insurance light. The loss
to the business portion of the city is vari-
ously estimated at from $3.50. 900 to $780,.
600, with insurance covering one-third.
At least 100 families are left destitute.
Another Cave-In at Wilkcsbarrc.
Az Conrad Shafer, q plasterer, was eat.
ing his breakfast at W~ilkesbarre, Penn,
the other day, he heard q great CHATTER ac-
companied by a ru,nblinR that shook the
house from top 10 bottom. He hastened
to the cellar and there discovered that
over half the bottom had fallen out, taking
with 1t the stone foundation and the gar.
den plot in front of his house, together
with NIL his household supplies. Upon
examination the hole was found to be
twenty-five feet deep, Mr.. Shafer and his
son at once procured q step ladder, placed
it in h cave and descended. They found
hat it was a chamber of the Henry colliery
operated by the Lehigh Valley Coal COM
pany. which had been worked out.
Further investigation showed that the coal
and slate had been mined to within ten
feet of the bot ON Of Shafer's cellar.
FOUR Persons Killed In a Wreck.
The limited express on the Boston and
Albany road ditchei just outside tho
city limits Of New Haven. -Four persons
were killed and several badly injured.
There were several hundred passengers ON
the train. and the majority Of them got a
bad shaking up and we're more or less
bruised and cut. The accident wal caused
by the spreading of the rails.
ADisastrous Isailroa I Collision.
An early morning passenger train on
the New Yark, Pennsylvania and Ohio
railroad. and a freight collided near Ken.
nedy, Penn, a few days since. Both en-.
g.nes were completely demolished, the
freight cars piled up and the smoker of the
passenger train was forced clear through
tho baggage car. Charles Eisman, OF
Meadviile. Pa, and Louis Wertz, baggage.
master, were killed, and both Aremen were
injured. The only passenger hurt suf-
fered q sprained ankle. The blame il said
to be on the engineer of the freight, who
should have waited at Kennedy for the
passenger train.
Struck by N Train.
August Moltenhauer, n farmer living
near Elmhurst, ILL.,, while driving home in
o wagon with some friends from haywood,
tiled to cross the Northwestern tracks
aheal of Il train. The wagon was struck
and demolished. Mr.. Mol enhauer and
MIR. Libeau were killed, Hulda Raditz,
aged eleven, fatally injured and two other
children seriouelv hurt. No blame A..