St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-10-19
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
ThurSdaY.

missionary to apan.-Thirty buildings
in Sioux City, Ia, burned, at loss of
half a million Street railway barns
burned at Chicago and 500 horses
suffocated or burned to death; property
loss $110,O 0O.-Death of an old lady at
Lyme, Conn, after a fast of 81 days.
Decision made to keep the Worlds
Fair open after Oct. 81, as long as is
observation-disclosures shoe factory at
Epping, N. H., burned and 200 hands
thrown out OF work.
Friday.
FEARFUL RAILROAD DIsASTER.-A terri
Bile wreck occurred on the Michigan
Central, at Jackson, Mich. An excur-
sion train from the East was standing
at the depot when another excursion
train pulled in The engineer lost control
of his air brake and could not stop his
train, and it rushed at the rate of 40
miles an hour into the train ahead,
blowing under it and throwing the cars
in all directions. Nine cars joined in the
ruins, and the engine was smashed
beyond recognition. The cars were
terribly wrecked, two of them being
thrown across the track. One car was
driven completely through another,
and Others were turned completely over
Hundreds of people were aboard the
two trains and they were wedged in
in all kinds OF shape. Some of the cars
were not badly enough wrecked to kill
any of the people on board of them and
it is miraculous, considering the shape
the cars were left in, that any at all
escaped without injury in some of the
cars. Latest accounts show that Is
persons were killed and 81 injured. One
of the most horrible sights in connection
with the accident was woman carry
ing a head by the hair around through
the crowd, mourning and weeping and
apparently raving maniac. She was
taken care of by the police, and the head
which she carried was taken to police
headquarters. This wreck is the first
one of consequence that has occurred on
the Michigan Central road in fourteen
years. 1t is singular coincidence that
both these disasters occurred in the
yards of the Central road in Jackson,
and in the same month and on the same
day of the week-Friday.
| The Brush Electric Works at Buffal o
entirely destroyed by fire: flying sparks
set fire to the Jail, part of which was
badly Quilted The Brush company
looses about $125 ,OOO.-A. b. & O.
through express from Chicago was badly
wrecked at Miler's Run, Md, by land
slide, but no lives were lost.
The Vigilant wins the third race and
the cup in the sailing contest with the
Valkyrie.-The Union Pacific road in
solvent and receivers appointed therefor
"A baIoonist and his bride dashed
against a glacier in the Alps, he being
killed and his bride seriously hurt.-A
train of cars loaded with sand went
through treste at Fairview, N. J., and
narrowly missed a passenger train on
the main line below; several laborers
were badly hurt
Saturday.
ANOTHER FIERCE STORM - Another
West Indian cyclone struck the Atlantic
coast and did considerable damage
Telegraph and telephone wires were laC
low, New York city being practically Cut
off from communication with the rest o
the world for some time.-The walls of {
new church at Washington, ID. c., wer'
blown down, and the tide on the rive
rose to an unprecedented height; Judg,
Brown of the supreme court was badl,
cut in the head by fragments of plat,
glass window that had been blown in
The gale swept the great lakes ant
wrecked many vessels, causing consid
cradle loss of life.-The entire water from
of Georgetown was flooded and much
damage done to merchandise stored il
warehouses. At Magnolia Beach almos
every house was washed away and /;
white and six colored people drowned
A number escaped watery graves by tax
ing refuge in trees.-Two Boston and Al
bany freight trains coflided at Chester
Mass, three men being injured, two G
them fatalv.-Cotton and other crop
, in one section Of Tennessee blighted b.
, frost.
In nearly all the leading churches {
f Jersey City, politics was the subject {
the evening sermons. All who desire
good government were counselled to 6
to the polls on election day.-Severs
. factories at Detroit were burned, er
failing loss OF 5000, 900 and the deaf
of one or two lives.-H. F. Vim {
Springfield, Mass, killed his two-year
. old son and then himself; he had bee
separated from his wife and wanted
possession of the child.
= Monday.
G Emma Goldman, the New York ana
: chist, sentenced to one year in the pen
t tentary.-Alice f. Broad, nurse in tt
l. Homeopathic Hospital at Boston, fe
t headlong down stairs and broke h,
e neck .-Hundreds of families in Souther
Ecuador are said to be dying from sta
c walton brought about by the failure
S the coffee and cocoa crops.-Opening
IL the international convention OF w. {.
|, U. at Chicago prairie fir
4 have prevailed in Victoria county, TIE
n as.-The contest over repeal again take
a up in the senate.
rs West Randolph has its third incendial
Of fire within month. Farm propert
j. worth several thousand dollars destro
n ed. Rewards amounting to $500