St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-12-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK
The Train Broke i'm Three Parts


A bad accident took place on the
Denver and Rio Grande road last
week Tuesday night, four miles west
of Walsenburg, Col, in which an en-
gineer and fireman were instantly
killed, and a large amount of proper
ty was destroyed A freight trair
left Laveta made up of two engines
in front and % cars of cattle. 1C
freight cars and caboose, and an en-
CINE in the rear The train soor
broke in three parts, and then there
began race for life as the middle
section was loose from the caboose
with no brakeman on it. The en-
gines ran about three miles at the
rate of over a mile minute down q
grade 90 feet to the mile, and here
the middle section, with "a cars load
ed with cattle and lumber overlook
them. The first engine escaped, but
the second was instantly overwhelm
ed in great mass of flying wreck Rage
which buried the engineer and fire
man beneath it. killing them instant
ly Parts of timber on the flying
cars were thrown over 200 feet whe1
the collision occurred. Seven cars Of
cattle and eight cars of lumber were
piled up in the wreck and nearly al
of the cattle killed or horribly man
gled. w. H. Ferringer and D. Ed
mOndson, brakemen, were severely
injured.
A Zanzibar dispatch says that
Emin Pasha is entirely out of danger
and is making rapid progress toward
full recovery.
General Boulanger is to aetture in
the United States and will receive
500 net for each of 80 lectures
which he is to deliver in English.
Aninternational exhibition of post
age stamps is to be held next yea1
in Vienna to commemorate the
5Oth anniversary of their introduc
ton
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is entitled to
a pension from the United States
She becomes eligible under the law
pensioning Mexican veterans, which
was passed by the last Congress.
A brick building, 3Ox3O feet in di-
mansions and 20 feet high, is in course
of construction inside the walls of the
Sing Sing prison, to be used exclusive
ly as an electrical execution building
Prince Arthur, Queen Victoria s
third son, will arrive in Canada in
May from Japan. He will remain in
Canada one month, and will visit
the principal cities of the United
States.
Private letters from Europe speak
of the illness of the Prince of Wales
as alarming. He has just entered
upon his forty-linth year. 1t is
more than probable that the Queen
will outlive him.
State immigration Commissioner
Bachelor of New Hampshire has re-
ceived over 1900 letters of inquiry in
relation to abandoned farms for sale,
of which a complete official catalogue
will be issued on Jan 1.
The public accounts of the Do
minion of Canada show that the
gross debt is $2S7, 722,O62, and that
the interest paid yearly thereon is
over $1O,OOO,OOO, or more than one
quarter of the entire revenues of the
country.
John Henderson Of Brooklyn, the
noted horticulturist, died last week
Tuesday, aged II. He was a native
of England. He was noted, not on
ly for learning, but for philanthropy,
having given literally of his large for
tune to charitable objects. ,.
The will of Jefferson Davis has been
filed at Mississippi City, Miss. 1t
is dated February 20, 1886, and
leaves the Brierfield plantation and
its appurtenances to the widow; the
Elliston planta ton to Mary Ellis of
Philadelphia and the Limerick planta-
ton to Mary Dorsey of Mooreland
A Terryville, Ct, man recently at
tempted to fly kite 16 feet in length
in high wind. AS it started the
man holding it was caught by the
tail of the kite and carried about SO
feet into the top of a tree. He escap-
ed with no serious injury. The kite
is supposed to be the largest ever
flown.
The steamers Leerdam, bound
from Amsterdam to BuenOs Ayres
with 400 passengers, and Gan Guam
STA, bound from Calcutta to Ham
burg, collided with each other in the
North sea last week Wednesday and
both sank. A London dispatch says
all on board the two vessels were
saved and were taken to Cuxhaven
by the French steamer, Emma.
Edward Dalton met a horrible
death at Toledo, o., last week Tues
day. He was engaged in repairing a
skylight i'll the roof of the old union
depot, and in some manner fell upon
an electric wire on the roof. His
clothes were dampened by the driz-
zling rain which had been falling and
he was Immediately Frustrated by
the heavy current. He lay there for
half an hour before the current was
shut off. When picked up it was
found that he was dead, being terri
bly, burned.
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