Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-18

pprished in the province of Toledo and an
immense amount of damage has been done
by the swollen waters. At present it is i'm
possible to send assistance to the survivors,
as all road and railway communication
with the scene of the disaster has been cut
Off
A despatch from Athens says collision
has taken place off Cape Colon, the most
southern point of Attica, between an Ital-
ian steamship, the Taormina, and a Greek
steamship, the Thesalia The Taormina
sank few minutes after being struck. Most
of the Taormina's passengers were in their
berths at the time the vessels cOllided, and
the latest estimate is that is persons were
drowned The Thesalia was badly dam
aged, but by keeping the pumps going the
steamer succeeded in reaching Phaleron.
A terrible accident occurred at Saults-
burg, Pa, last Friday. A swinging scat
fold under a railroad bridge was crowded
with nine workmen, who were about to
stop work when the ropes broke, precipitat-
ing the entire party into the river bed 80
feet below. The river is low, and the men
fell in a confused mass on the sharp stones,
four of them being fatally injured, while
the rest were more or less bruised.
Two hundred people at Quebec were
rendered homeless by fire Sunday morn
ing which swept out of existence some 30
tenement houses and the Roman Catholic
church of Cap Blanc which is in that part
of the city under the cliff and bordering
upon the st. Lawrence, mile west of the
scene of the fatal landslide from below the
citadel in 1889. To add to the excitement
of the scene, the sufferers and number
of their neighbors and sympathzers made
a desperate attempt to lynch the alleged
incendiary, man named Octave Ouelett,
in whose house the fire originated.
Ouelet had already had fire on his prem
ses and recovered a good amount of insur-
ance. lie lately kept small grocery es-
Enlistment, which he had insured for
S2l00, and parties who rushed in when the
fire started found it saturated with coal
oil. The officers kept the crowd at bay
and Ouellet is now in jail.
A disastrous fire occurred at New Cas-
tie, Del, last Saturday, laying the Della
ware iron works i'm ruins and entailing
loss of about 100000. About 800 men
are thrown out of employment. The
works cover an area of about ten acres.
There is a serious epidemic of diphtheria
at Shelbyville, Ind. The public schools
have been closed and a general quarantine
within forty-eight hours and adults are
being attacked as well as children. The
disease is now in every portion of the city,
and physicians are alarmed at its malig-
nancy.
The Leary RATS for transporting huge
masses of logs from New Brunswick to
New York having proved success, Cal
weston, Texas, lumber dealer now has
scheme for taking similar RATS OF logs
across the Atlantic to European ports.
James IL. Barr of Williamsburg, Pa, was
painting his fathers house when re lost
his balance and fell backwards. He drop
ped upon the pointed iron top of pump,
which pierced his heart and held him inn
haled there before the eyes of his helpless
parents
The Canadian Senate railway commit
tee has adopted the report on the Bale des
Chaleurs railroad investigation declaring
proved the charges that $4,000 of the
subsidy fund granted by the government
to the province of Quebec had been re-
tanned and improperly applied to purposes