The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-10-25
HOMELESS MILLIONS.
CHINA,s YELLOW RIVER Is A VERT.
TABLE VAMPIRE.
It Stays Its Thousands Acknowledgements.
western Forest Fires-Other News from
All Quarters.
China,s Yellow Scourca.

Chins's Yellow Scourge.
A dispatch received at Washington from
Minister DENLY under the date of August
81 referring to the rayages of the Yellow
river in China says the damage caused by
the latest break in the banks is irreparable.
Owing to the deposits of silt, it is estima-
ted that fifty years must elapse before the
lands inundated will be useful again for
agricultural purposes. A peculiar feature
of the trouble is that deposits in the bed
of the river are SO constant in accretion
that any system of prevention of these
breaks in the banks. caused by the rise in
the bed of the river, to be effective would
cost a most enormoussum of money. 1t
seems likely that a radical system of pre-
ventlon of these breaks will never be
be adopted and floods may be expected
each year. Ho Nan, one of the most pros
porous provinces, is ruined, Anhui has
suffered terribly. and now Shantung is
submerged. The sufferings of the 10, OOo,-
GOO of people the means of government are
inadequate to provide for. Foreigners
have poured out money literally in contri-
buttons TO alleviate the distress.
Forest Fires Raging.
A Superior, Wis, special says fierce
forest fires are raging north and south of
there. Already about $1,000 worth of
farming property has been destroyed and
the fires are gaining much Roadway.
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Death on an Inclined Road.
The rope attached to q car on the in
clined road at Cincinnati broke the other
day just as the car reached the top and i,
went crashing down and ran into the pass
enger station and Office below. There
were nine passengers on board and five
were killed and three more probably fatal
ly injured. The accident occurred on the
Mt. Auburn inclined plane, which lies at
the head of Main street, and reached to a
height of about 500 feet in a space of per-
haps 2,5U0 feet. The cars, two in number,
are drawn up by two steel wire cables that
are wound upon a drum at the top of the
hill by an engine locate there. The pass
age of the ascending car was all right I'M
til it reached the top, when the engineer
found that he could not stop the engine.
AS the engine continued all its force was
expended on the cables and they snapped
like thread. Then the car began it's fright
full descent. The crash at the foot of the
plane was frightful. A cloud of dust
arose that hid the wreck from view for a
I roo,,,a~f hut 1,I>, - 1;r4a5 "a $500. r-.-l
that the truck, floor ana seats of the car
formed a shapeless wreck, mingled with
the bleeding and mangied bodies of the
nine passengers.
Money Asked for Internal improvements.
Brighten. Casey, chief Of engineers, in
his annual estimates submitted to the Sec
rotary of war, makes a number OF recon-
mendatlons for appropriations for c%ontinu-
ing the work on some of the principal I'M
provements under his charge during the
year ending June 80, 1891, among which
are the following: Fox river, Wisconsin
5000, 900; Wabash river, Indiana and ILL
nois, $llO,OO 900; Calumet river, Indiana and
Illinois, 800 900; Illinois river, $500, 900;
Mississippi river. Minneapolis to Des
Moines rapids, ST. 900, 00n;; Chicago har-
Dor, S172,000. The total amount recon-
mended BY Gen. Casey for river and har-
Dor improvement is So 1856, 800. The
total amount appropriated by the river and
harbor bill for the year ending June 80,
1890, was $22,397 ,6l7. The Missouri
river commission asks 50. 760, 900, includ-
ing: Salaries, surveys, ETC.. $3.50, 900;
general improvements. 81, 0OO, 900; special
work at Sioux City, Omaha. l~lattsmouth,
Nebraska City. Rulo, st. Joseph, Atchi-
son., ~Ieavenworth, Kansas City, Miami
and Arrow Rock, S1,375,C coo; river above
and below Sioux City, $50, 900.
Fatal Train Collision in Nebraska.
train wreck recently occurred on the
Burlington and Missouri ut Gibson, Neb.
About fifty passengers were injured. Glib
son is q meeting point. Both trains are
due at Gibson at G:35 p. m, but on this
occasion one was slightly behind. When
the accident occurred the latter had Just
crossed the spur and the engine of the
other train struck the end, hurting both
engines and two coaches from the track,
The combination coach and chair car were
both crowded with passengers, all of whom
were moro or less injured, while Peter
Reuland, proprietor of the fremont house,
died shortly after being taken to the hos
pital. The chair car, after being over
turned, caught fire and many of the pass
engers were burned in addition to their
other injuries.
on the Paris Exposition.
The Paris Temps, in a resume Of the
financial results of the worlds fair, saws
that before its close the number of people
who will have visited the great show will
reach 26,0CO, 00a, and will in all probability
exceed that figure. Referring to the pro-
posed worlds fair in America in 1892, the
Temps says it is by no means as certain as
it seemed a month ago hat the Americans
will select New York for the location of
their exposition. as Chicago is making
strenuous efforts to secure 1t. Comment
ing on the availability of Chicago, as COM
pared with New York, the Temps says:
We wonder how many of the Chicagoans
who crossed the ocean to visit the exposi-
ton in the first city in France would have
I taken she same trouble il the show hao
been held in Lyons, our second city of i'm.
%portance."
democratic Negroes Adopt Resolutions.
The negro democratic state committee O.
Tennessee has adopted resolutions setting
forth that "the republican leaders of the
north are misrepresenting the two races o.
the south by %lncendiary speeches wholly
uncalled for; that the committee states tc
the colored people of the country that the
thing that will do the colored people of the
south and north more good than anything
else is g division of the negro vote; tha'
educated negroes are doing better in the