The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-03-11
FLOOD EFFECTS.
Tho Railroads in Several States in
 Bad Condition.
A FAMILY WIPED OUT BY MEASLES.
Nine Men Buried Under Snowslide in Utah Two Freight Trains Collide at Bir- mingham, Ala, and Several
 Trainmen Are Injured.

CINCINNATI, March S.-N hile the food of last Friday is over, the effects of it will be felt in northern Kentucky, southern Ohio and southern Indiana for weeks. The railroads are all run ming their trains here as usual, but most of them are by circuitous routes over other tracks. Roadbeds as we'll as bridges were washed away along the Big and Little Miami rivers. The damage to highways is also the great est ever known, including thorough fare bridges. The manufactories along the Mill Creek valley will be crippled for some time, and these include the largest concerns in the suburbs of this city. The damages here and within a radius of 100 miles of this city are now estimated in the millions.
 Reports from all over Alabama say that Saturdays tremendous rainfall was more destructive than at first sup posed. At the town of Prattsville a number of stores and dwellings were wrecked and the cotton factories heav- fly damaged. At Selma the loss from flooding factories and washing ont railroads is also quite large. In the in terior hundreds of bridges have been swept away and considerable havoc wrought to farm work and small grain crops, entailing severe loss to the farmers.
 FAMILY WIPED OUT BY MEASLES.
 ToLUCA, Ill.,, March S.-One of the saddest events in the history of this county is the death of an entire fam lily, the last member expiring yester- day. The Palmer family, consisting of four brothers, Thomas, aged 31; Will liam, 27; Edward, 21, and Silas, 16, lived on their farm just outside the city limits. William was taken sick with measles and died in less than a week. He was buried Friday, Feb ruary 27. The other three brothers were stricken down with the measles a few days later. Edward died Friday morning, Tom died Friday night, and Silas, the youngest, died before day light yesterday. The three brothers will be buried to-day. The death of the four brothers exterminated the Palmer family.
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 SALT LAKE CITY, March s-A special to tha Tribune from Park City, Utah. says: At ten o'clock yestarda. heavy -1Uwslide started from tho mountain peck west of Che Morgan mine and struck one of thr Duly mine bunk aouses.' Tho huuIlhou-e was shivered into atoms. Nine men were sleeping in thc house at 'hy time. Five were resca,I alive about an hour aiterwarj. Lesgaiua ,1rtia- c1utiuuvd their work and at 4:45 yesterday afternoon the body of Nicholas Paffis was recovered. Fifteen minutes later the body of James Heating was found. Nicholas Pufetto was also dead. Joseph Zucca is still missing and is, no doubt, dead.
 FREIGHT TRAINS IN COLLISION.
 BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March S.-On the crossing of the Mineral and Southern railroads at North Birmingham yester- day morning two heavy freight trains collided at right angles. Both loco motives were wrecked and several cars smashed. The trainmen jumped, but Engineer Ryan, of the Mineral train, was caught in the debris and fatally injured. Engineer Frank Mosby had an arm broken and was otherwise seri- ously injured, and an unknown tramp was fatally scalded.