The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-21

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crashed through to the ravine
below. Michael F~Iatherttv, the fire
man was killed outright. /, ADMINISTER
was probably fatally hurt. The
cars e badly wrecked. two 81 .hem
were loaded with horses and cattle,
most of which were killed.
SEATTLE, Wash, July 1l.-At a con
ference between the county officials
and Gen. Curry and Col. Hanes of the
militia last evening, it was decided to
reduce the force at the mines from five
to three companies, leavinga company
in the field. No further attempt will
be made at present to disarm the
strikers. The shipment of coal from
the several mines daily are increasing.
showing the strike to be broken.
SAN DIEGO, Cal, July 1.-THE com
mander of the Mexican man Of war
Democatra, O lying in this harbor,
received a dispatch from his govern
ment to-day, which says that a naval
engagement took place off the coast Of
Chill two days ago between the in
surgent cruiser Meagglanes and several
government vessels. The insurgent
craft gained a decisive victory, sink
ing two of the opposing vessels and
putting the others to flight.
CINCINNATI, O., July 14.-WiIliam
Leive, a workman employed at Schrei-
bers Iron Works on Eggleston avenue
met with a horrible death this morn
ing. While engaged on shifting a belt
his clothing was caught and he was
drawn on to the machinery. The
upper part of the unfortunate mans
head was cut off and the body, from
which life had fed, fell heavily to the
ground. Leive was a single man aged
45 and lived at Nc. 5 Mulberry street.
SAULT STE MARIE, Mich, July IL
The entire portion of Chippewa county,
and the Canadian territory north of it
are on fire. The settlers are being
burned out and everybody is fighting
the flames. Detour, Mills, Gates. Raber,
Wellsburg, SOammOn Cove and many
other places are in imminent danger.
At DetOur the people have their house
hold effects packed ready to take to
Lake Huron by the boat. There has
been no rain for over three months,
and the country is in a similar c0ndi-
ton to that during the dreadful fire of
1878, when hundreds Of people persisted
all through the north. The sun is
obscured, breathing is difficult and
so dense is the air with smoke that
st. Mary's river is navigated with
difficulty, resulting in the grounding of
five boats.
ASPEN, Col, July ia horrible
railroad accident occurred at Aspen
Junction, Is miles west of Aspen on
the Midland road at II o'clock Satur-
day night. a special train of a bag
gage car and n passenger coach
were returning to Aspen from Glen
wood Springs. The passenger coach
contained about 30 passengers mostly
Aspen people. The train was backing
from a water tank to switch to the
Aspen track when a road engine was
run out Of the railroad round house
and the rear end of the passenger train
hit the check valve on the side Of the
boiler, which exhausted the hot steam
into the broken end of the passenger
car, sCalding 13 passengers-five men,
seven women and one child. The car
was thrown from the track. The pas
sengers arrived at Aspen in the bag
gage car OF 100 a. m. All possible
was done to relieve the sufferings of
of the unfortunate passengers. Those
who have died at the present writing
are Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Rogers, of
Woodie, Colo. Miss Annie Phelan Of
Cordiff, Colo, aged II years; Mrs. w.
1. WILDLY, of Greenwood, Colo. Mrs.
John G. Baldwin, of Glenwood, Colo;
Frank Ellis and baby, of Aspen.
P~HIPPsBURG, Me, July 1l.-Capt.
Perry, of the barkentine Hustler, has
just arrived home from a long sea
voyage. The Hustler was launched in
Bath last November, sailed for Phila-
delphia light and thence for sea with
a cargo of iron pipe. While going
round the Horn bad weather was en-
countered and the vessel was wrecked
on a sunken rock in Nassau bay, forty
miles west of Deceit Island. The crew
left in the boat with nothing but what
they stood in, rowed to an island
ninety miles distant, on which there
was a missionary station called Ushur-
via with several English missionaries
and q station for the rnlinf Of ch;n-