The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1891-03-05
FIRES AND ACCIDENTS.

In an accident on the Union Pacific
near Cascades. Oregon, fifteen persons were
Injured.
Five Chicago labOrers were caught in
blizzard In Montana. and four were frozen
TO death. The survivor reached the town
OF Two Medicine. The others were found
In the mountains
There are many runars and reports of
loss OF life from foods near Los Angeles.
Cal, but the only cases so far authenticated
are the drowning OF q man named Wells.
with his wife and child. Great damage was
done to orchards and ranches south of the
city, where the foods were the worst In
years. Many houses were damaged. live
stock drowned and fences and outbuildings
destroyed.
Yuma, A. T., IS totally destroyed by
the food. One hotel and the penitentiary
only are left standing.
AT Westpont, Miss, the Tombigbce
River Is on a tear from the late twenty day
rain, and the whole country for many miles
on each side Of the river is flooded Great
damage has been done to stock and crops
and many houses have been swept away.
AT San Francisco, Superintendent Fill
| more, OF the Southern Pacific. received a
dispatch from Yuma, Arizona, stating that
the town is doomed to destruction Three
quarters OF the city is flooded, and water
is also threatening the last quarter. The
operator closed by stating he could not
keep his place another half-hour. The
Southern Pacific division headquarters were
| swept away and with them the ticket and
| freight Offices The roundhouses end ma
| chine shops will probably escape Is they
| are on high ground. The 200 inha Bit ants
| OF Yuma have taken refuge in the peniten-
| tiary on high ground The bridge across
| Colorado River 500 feet long, will be de-
| stroyed. as the water was almost up to it
| and rising foot an hour.
| By a gas explosion, molten metal was
| thrown over a crowd of workmen in the
| Pottstown (Pa.) Steel Works, and fifteen
men were severely burned, two fatally.
| A gale swept over Jacksonville, Fla.
| demolishins many residences and several
public buildings. No lives lost.
| On top of the Watching Mountain, New
| jersey Primrose's hotel burned, and one
man was killed
By the burning of her house at Sedalia,
Mo, Mrs. Lizzie Dutn and her grandson
lost their lives
| A snowslde swept over the Bullion King
mine at Irwin, Col. carrying the boarding
| house and Superintendent Ropelrs dwelling
house. Mr.. Ropell, Mrs. Ed Clarke and
| child at the boarding house and b. +. SmiIy,
the engineer, are buried in the slide. with
but little hope OF their recovery alive.
| A telegram from Yuma, a. T.. gives ad-
| ditional particulars Of the food as follows:
| Over $50 houses are in ruins from the
| flood and 1,400 people are homeless. Not Il
| single business house remains standing.
| and 1t is feared that hundreds Of lives have
been lost in the ella Valley. The tele-
| graph wires are down in the valley, and as
| all bridges are down and roads impassa bic,
| no reliable reports can be had from there.
| The river above town is seven miles wide,
and below the town in places the water
| covers the country in one great lake over
fifty miles across. The railway company
| will not have the blockade raised for
west-bound trains for four dayss, and
it will be ter days or two weeks be-
fore they can get east. The town has pro-
visions sufficient for eight more days and
the Southern Pacific Hotel is feeding a
thousand people day. Reports from
| Jakuno, 15mi1es above here, are to the effect
that the food drove the people into the tree
tops, and many became exhausted from
cold and hunger and dropped into the water
| and were drowned Reports from reliable
sources put the loss OF lives in the valley
anywhere from thirty to 100. All along the
| valley for 200 miles everything is In deSofa-
ton. Costly houses and barns have been
washed away like playthings, while stock
and fences have been carried down by the
| food, leaving the country as bare as q
desert. Men who ten days ago were wealthy
are now homeless and paupers.
The schooner Robert McCarroll OF
Charleston. 8. c.. is believed to have sunk.
The crew, composed OF Eve negroes, is sup
| posed to have been lost.
Tho port Of San Felipe, Mexico. has