Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-04-29
TRAIN WRECKERS.
They Remove Some Rails and Ditch
q Passenger Train.
1HIRTY.SIz HOUSES DESTROYED,
An lows Girl Hanged by Her Bonnet
strings-Desdly Fight Between Con.
victs-YOuthful Globe Tr0tters-
Seven Men kldnsp Girl.

EVERGREEN, Ala, April ga wreck
occurred at Mudge's trestle, nine miles
north Of this place, TO the southbount
passenger train on the Louisville &
Nashville railroad. Engineer Adams
his fireman and two negroes wert
fatally injured and two other negroes
believed to be tramps, were severely
hurt. According to the information
which has reached the superintendent
Of transportation, four negro tramp'
who were seen In the neighborhoot
shortly before the accident occurred
removed the rails just south Of the
trestle. The Job was neatly done ant
nothing would have saved the train
load Of passengers had 1t not been fol
the heroism OF Fireman Jones and En-
gineer Adams, who remained at theil
posts after the engine had left the
track The engine, caboose, baggage
and mail cars were completely wrecked
but none Of the passengers were In
jured.
THIRTY-sIx HOMES DESTROYED.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, April 2S.-Fire
broke out at $3.50 p. III. yesterday In
the town Of Pottersville, near Home
stead, and 80 houses were burned. The
origin Of the fire Is unknown. Pot.
tersville Is within the Carnegie yards
and consisted OF about 400 frame dwell.
ings, which were built at the time Of
the strike in 1899. The place Is the
home OF about 300 or 400 families, and
has a population Of about 1000. II
was at first supposed that one man, at
least, and a number OF small children
had been burned to death, and the
wailing OF frantic women searching in
the crowds for their little ones was
pitiable in the extreme. From last re-
ports all the missing ones had been &C.
counted for. No household effects were
saved by the residents.
HANGED ny HER BONNET STRINGS.
DIES MONIES, Ia, April 23.-The in
FAINT daughter of John +. Buckley was
accidently hanged by her bonnet
strings catching on the limb of tree.
The little girl, about five years old,
had been playing on the porch but a
few minutes before the accident Her
bonnet strings were tied twice around
her neck, presumably to keep the bon
net on more securely. She slipped
when climbing on dwarf cherry tree
and the strings caught on twig pro-
jecting not more than an inch.
DEADLY FIGHT BETWEEN c0NvIcTs.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 90. Two con-
victs in San Quentin prison, W. r.
Kelley, who was serving l4-year sem
tence, and Frank Wheeloek, who had
been in almost every prison in the
country and was regarded as one of
the hardened criminals in the peniten-
tiary, fought with jute knives yester-
day before the guards could interfere.
Kelley is dead and Wheelock dying
YOUTHFUL GLOBE TRoTTERs.
GUTHRIE, Ok, April sS.-John and
Edwin Graupner, aged, respectively,
Is and IA, last night arrived home
from trip around the world. They
left here last summer with SO between
them, going east to Boston, thence to
London, Paris, Rome and other cities,
returning by way of San Francisco
from Australia, working their way as
they went.
SEVEN MEN KIDNAP A GIRL.
MAyFlELD, KY, April 23.-Seven
men, four whites and three blacks,
kidnapped ls-year-old eolored girl
here The girl is believed to have
been murdered, The men are tough
characters and are now in Jail.