Year: 1878

From the Daily Of Tuesday.


SERIOUS ACCIDENTAL serious &C
cident occurred last evening on the
railroad track, which will cause 8
temporary suspension of business


Az the train OF empty cars. drawn by
lthe Locomotive Georgina, was about
to cross Black river, the engine was
uncoupled to run ahead, while the
train was to be switched on one side
to allow for the passage of the train
from the mines, By some accident
the engine jumped the track and
slowed around right across the rails,
while on the bridge. The train fol.
lowing struck it, throwing it into
the river. together with the main
part of the bridge and two Of the
cars. The fireman, Dave McKinly.
and brakeman, Nick Hanna, both
went down with the wreck, but
swan ashore uninjured, while Mr..
Benjamin, the engineer, escaped in.
jury by jumping off before the col
lision took place. Conductor Thorae
Immediately came to town on horse
back and reported the accident, and
Superintendent Cclman went at once
to the scene of the disaster. This
morning flat car loaded with work
men, timbers and tools for building
a new bridge was dispatched, and
we have no doubt that Mr.. Colman,
in his usual energetic manner, will
have the break repaired in an un-
usually short time, 50 as to afford
no serious detention to the feet of
coal vessels awaiting loads. The To-
connective is bat very little damaged,
but three of the cars are pretty bad
ly wrecked.


INCENDIARY FIRE.-At about 3
o'clock this morning, an attempt
was made to burn q small building
on Warrington street occupied as a
fruit and cigar stand by Chong Yen
i Co., Chinese firm. Coal oil was
sprinkled all over the side of the
building. and a bundle of rags,
soaked in the same, was placed on
the sidewalk adjoining and set fire.
The flames speedily ran up the
building. The glare of the fire
awoke Chinaman, sleeping in the
rear, and he Immediately rushed
down and succeeded in extinguish-
ing it before any damage was done.
With the breeze from the south
ward, a fire in that quarter would
easily have destroyeda large amount
of valuable property, and might
have swept through the whole of
the business portion of the town.
We hope the scoundrels who at
tempted this act may be caught and
dealt with severely.


SULTAN RIVER MINEs.-During
the present lull in business, tho at.
tention OF some of the unemployed
men in town is being attracted to
the Sultan river mines, about thirty
miles above Saohomish City, on a
branch of the Skykomish. These
mines have been worked more or
less for tho past five or six years,
principally by Cinnamon, and fair
wages have always been made after
the spring and fall rises in the river,
though not enough to attract the at
tention of white men in buster
times. A party of Is Cinnamon went
up there last week and small party
of white men will leave here this
week for the same place,


PROPERLY SAID. - The Oregon
Chuvchman has this: 1.-THE bishop
has deposed from the ministry of
the church the Rev. Geo. Burton,
late head master of the Grammar
School. Mr.. Burton has left Ore
gon and gone to California. We
have no heart to speak of the deep
disgrace which the man has brought
upon himself; nor of the sorrow his
sin has caused his brethren. We
can only hope that he may live long
enough to thoroughly repent and
make some restitution, by o noble
life, for the great evil he has done
in the past"


CoRRECTIoN.-Mr. White desires
us to correct the misaphrehension
that might arise from an erroneous
notice of the examination of the
countsrfeiter Livingstone, which ap-
peard in both our morning and
evening contemporaries. The pris-
oner was not discharged from the
J ustice Court on account of Insult
cheney of evidence, but because
there was no Territorial statute to
Justify his being held on that charge.
The case was transferred to the o..
S. Commissioner Court because i
properly belonged there.


REPREHENsIBLE.--At noon to-day
some person fred rifle in the up
per part of the city, the ball passing
between two gentlemen who were
standing in the vicinity and lodging
in the wall of building near by.
The practice of firing guns in q
thickly populated district is repre-.
hensible in the extreme. and should
'subieot the offenders.to severe pun
ishment.


SuaGEsT1oN.--We would suggest
L. 4l,o .nnortor Of our morning con.