Year: 1869

sisting of the mail car, baggage car and four
passenger cars. After tearing along for two
hundred feet, the locomotive jumped over to the
southern track, where 1t was brought TO sud
den stop by some of the iron rails which had
pierced it and doubled up under the fire-box.


The tender keeled over on its side, and the
mail car breaking loose, smashed down tele-
graph pole and shot off at nearly right angle,
demolished high board fence and brought up
on its side in much damaged condition at the
rear of q citizens dwelling.


The baggage car followed in the same diree-
tiOn, but the forward trucks being broken to
pieces, it plunged head foremost into the sand,
and left the rear truck across the track.


The passenger cars were also thrown from the
rails at the first shock, and had rough passage
over the ties, but were not much damaged
owing, il was said, to being provided with some
body's patent bumpers.


Those who witnessed the collision say that if
the men having the hand-car in charge had not
become panic stricken and fled, they could have
upset the car off of the track. The accident APP
pears to have resulted from not having sent the
signal flag further around the curve, and also in
allowing the hand-car on the track at all when
the express train was over due.


\ Milestone Hurled Down HiII-side-HOrses
and Cattle Killed, and the Death of several
Children Caused.


The Louisville, Ky, Express gives the follow
ing particulars of n strange and fatal mishap
which occurred near Princeton, in that State:-


man by the name of Boot Crow was hauling
upon his wagon two immense millstones, one of





along the side of a high hill the heaviest stone
rolled from the wagon and sped down the de-
clivity with fearful velocity, crushing small
trees and shrubbery in its course. The house of
a farmer, named Darnell, was situated at the
foot of the hill. The milestone went crushing
through a fence, and into the yard of the farm
er's house, where were number of beehives.
In the yard were playing bevy of children.
The beehives were all upset, The bees, in con-
fusion, lighted upon the children, singing every
of them in triplttul manner.


The progress of the great stone was not i'm
peded in the least by its collision with the hives
and went bounding into stock pasture beyond
the house. 1t dashed through herd of calves
and horses, killing two of the former and one of
the latter almost instantly The children in the
yard had been completely covered with bees,
and each one was stung by them until their per-
sons were entirely covered with white swengs.
One of them died a short time after the terrible
occurrence, and the others are entirely speech
less and blind. They can hardly recover


The bounding milestone finally struck
against n large limestone cliff near the house,
and was broken into atoms by the conclusion.


Losses by the Great Flood in Texas.


The Galveston, Texas, Ne1cS says that Il gen
tleman well acquainted with the whole Colorado
valley, from Austin down, and who examined
the most of that valley Immediately after the
overflow in 1852 gives the following as a near
approximate estimate of the loss of cotton by
the present overflow in four of the river coun-
ties =


In Colorado county. 600 bales.
In Fayette county. ty.........................6,00
In Bastrop county. 90
In Travis county y..........................2, 1000


Total. 20 900 bales.


The above estimate is based on some know
ledge of the extent of bottom lands cultivated,
and on letters recently received showing the
elevation of the water. Very little information
has been received of the condition of the coun-
try below Columbus. The same gentleman has
received, however, a,letter from one planter sta
ting that almost one third of his crop has been
DESTROYED.