St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-09-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Railroad Disasters.

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Railroad wrecks with fatal results
have been marked feature of the
past weeks events. The list began
Friday night with the most disas-
trous wreck of the series on the Read
ing railroad, II miles above Reading,
Pa. The Pottsville express, leaving
Reading a few minutes after 6 o clock,
had on board over 125 passengers.
At point where there was a curve
in the road IS or 20 feet above the
| Schuylkill river a freight and coal
train had collided, throwing some
cars on the opposite track. The ex-
press, speeding along at the rate of
80 to 40 miles an hour, struck the
obstruction and plunged over the
embankment into the river. PhySi-
clans and force of 800 men were at
| once taken to the scene of the wreck,
where the work of relief and recover
| ing the bodies was carried on by the
| light from a portable electric light
| plant. Twenty-one bodies were re-
covered, completing the death roll.
| The list of injured numbered not far
from 80. The whole train, except
| two cars, went down the embank-
ment and was piled up, a complete
wreck, in the river bed. The train
consisted of seven cars, all told.
Another accident on Friday was
on the Mexican Central railroad.
Two trains going i'll opposite direc-
tons ran into each other at RicOn-
ada, Mex, and the cars were piled
on one another and completely
wrecked. Ten persons were killed,
and several others wounded.
Sunday night there was a collision
in Chicago between a Chicago, Bur
1ington & Quincy suburban train and
an Illinois Central excursion train.
Five persons were killed and three
fatally injured.
A collision between two Baltimore
& Ohio freight trains near Councils
vile, Pa, resulted in the death of an
engineer and caused fatal injuries to
other trainmen.
Saturday morning a freight train
on the Omaha & st. Louis road,
near Council Bluffs, Ia. went through
trestle SO feet high. Three men
were killed.
Cumberland county, N. S., has been
suffering from the worst freshet it
has had for 20 years.
The United States grand jury at
Minneapolis returned 10 indictments
against alleged census padders in
that city and st. Paul, 6 for Mime
apolis and 13 for St. Paul.
Prof. Langston, the colored repub-
lican contestant from Virginia, has
been seated and a resolution has also
been adopted unseating Elliott,
democrat, as representative from the
black district of South Carolina.
Full confessions have been made by
Cain, Buett and Reed, three New York
Central strikers, of their recent con-
spiracy, in conjunction with others,
to wreck trains on that road. The
confessions include declaration that
Master Workman Lee, the head and
front of the strike, offered to get
them off to Canada in safety
The South Park commissioners of
Chicago have acceded to the request
of the national worlds fair commits
sion that Washington Park be in
cluded in the fair site, which will thus
embrace the whole South Park sys-
tenn This is a most satisfactory
settlement to the national commits
sion of the vexed question of a site
The sovereign grand lodge of Odd
Fellows was in session at Topeka,
Kan, last week. The most impor-
tant business transacted was the