A OYCLONE INTHE Soh
Every Building In its Path Destroyed
or Damaged,
100 MILES IN 30 MINUTES,
KILLED AND
MANY INJURED. CARS THROWN
FROM THE TRCKS,~~A DBLIZ-
ZARDINTHENORTHWEST,
FLOODS ELSEWIIERE.
SEVERAL PERSONS
CuarTtraNo0aA, Tenn, March 21.
A special to the Times reports a terrible
wind storm at Calhoun, Ga, , last night.
Calhoun is 90 miles from Chattanooga,
on the Atlantic and Western Road.
The storm demolished the Baptist and
Methodist Churches, destroyed several
houses and unroofed every house in
town. Numbers of cattle were killed,
No loss of life has as yet been reported,
but four or five persons were wounded
by falling timbers,
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn,, March 21, —
The storm was much more serious and
widespread in its destruction than at
first reported. It seems to have formed
in the vicinity of Calhoun and pursued
a northeasterly direction through
North Georgia and into and beyond
East Tennessee, bounding across to
the Chilhowee Mouutains, and was
pext beard from near Louden, Tenn,
on the East Tennessee road, S80 miles
northeast of Chattanooga, travelling
from Calhoun, Ga.. to Loudon, Tenn.,
a distance of 100 miles in about 30
minutes,
The path of the tornado from Cal-
boun to Loudon was through a section
remote from railroads and telegraph
lines, and the damage it may have
done will not be known for some days,
but must have been fearful, The
tornado in places cleared the ground
completely of grass, and a forest of
timber was mown as with a great
scythe, The cyclone had a whirling
rotary motion, leaving a scene of deso-
lation and destruction in its path.
Large trees were twisted from their
trunks and others torn up by their
roots, A heavy bureau was found a
mile from the house that centained it.
The list of seriously wounded men,
women and children in Loudon county
is very large. Andy Worley, his wife
and eight children were every one in-
jured; some of them will die. The sta-
tion at Calboun was unroofed and the
colored porter recelved ipjuries which
may prove fatal, Several houses were
carried a distance of half a mile, The
telegraph wires were prostrated and a
number of cars thrown from the track.
The loss In Callioun alone will reach
$10,000.
IN THE TRACK OF THE STORM.
ATLANTA, Ga,, March 21.—A ter-
rible e.ectric storm enveloped the State
Jast night, beginning at about 10
o'clock and lasting until after mid.
night. In Fawrburn both the colored
churches were demolished, the court
chimney torn off, shade trees uprooted
and other damage done,
Near Austell a home was blown on a
negro blacksmith. killing him. New-
ton Moss's barn was blown down and
three horses and a cow killed. Reports
of the storm in and around Gaines-
ville show that while it was not so se-
vere much damage was done, M. A.
Loden had bis bouse lifted from the
foundation and moved from where it
stood, The colored Baptist Cnurch
was completely demolished,
Mr. Cyphus, living near Gainesville,
bad bis house and all out-buildings
blown away; one of his children was
in North Georgia. It was visited by a
terrible funoel shaped cyclone which
cut a swath 75 yards wide through the
middle of the town, taking in the court
house and station. The cyclone bounded
down on the little town suddenly, and
after doing its work of destruction
lifted from the earth to strike again,
no one knows where.
Every building In its path was either
destroyed or damaged, The streets are
full of shingles and debrisof roofs. The
storm played eccentric pranks in one
instance cutting a house mn two, and
carrying away one-half, Then it tore
dowh a house around some women and
children without harming a hair of
their heads, The Baptist church was
demolished, and the colored Methodist
church was razed. The railroad station
was badly damaged, and a small house
near the station, belonging to the State
was totally destroyed, Jackson £ Lo-
gan’s lumoe: stable was badly damaged.
C. T. Graves’ business house, a frame
building, was totally destroyed, and
another wooden building, occupied as
an express office, totaily demoliahed,
and the goods were ruined by rain.
The brick store of Mr, Harrell was bad-
ly damaged. The f101t end of Hughey's
store was pulled away from the
aildiog and the roof of J, M. Neal's
grocery store is off and his goods dam-
aged, The roof of N. J. Boazes’s busi-
ness house 1s off. The parapet wall of the
Rives & Malone’s brick store was torn off
and the whole outside leans to the
street, making the building worthless,
The chimneys were blown off of Foster's
brick building, and the vacant resi.
dence of A, W. Reeves was blown to
pleces, The gon and buggy manu-
factory of M, Ellis, is completely
destroyed, Mrs. Foster's residence
was destroyed, but no one was hurt,
Mrs, Batley with five children occupied
a residence which was destroyed, and
, yet none of the family were injured,
The Southern arm of the storm passed
eastward through Telefalr county,
taking everything in its path 400 yards
wide. The Turpentine Works of
Whidden & Holland, two miles north
of Lumber City, were completely de-
molished, the still, commissary, and
every house and shanty being blown
down.
W. H. Whidden was sleéping in the
house with Holland and they rushed
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stunding on the railroad track was
blown off and torn to pleces, General
reports come in of houses blown away
and fences destroyed, A negro brake-
man on the Northeastern road was
killed by a falling tree.
DWELLINGS CARRIED AWAY
OCCUPANTS KILLED,
NAsaviLLe, Tenn,, March
Despatches to-night state that the hur-
ricane which did such great damage at
Calhoun, Ga., last night, passed over
East Tennessee, At and near Lenoirs
much damage was done and several
lives lost, The residence of J. H,
AND
was completely swept away and his
wife carried off in the wreck and
killed, The body of Mrs, Williams
was found to-day in the Tennessee
river where it had been blown. She
was in bed when the house was blown
Away.
The next residence struck by the
storm was that of George W. Hardin,
The building was totally demolished,
but the family escaped, The storm
then crossed a timbered ridge and tore
up every tree by the roots in its track.
The home of James Linginfalter was
reduced to kindling wood, In it were
John RR. Smith, who was killed, and a
little daughter of Linginfalter, who
had a leg broken.
The dwellings of William King and
John Gideon were blown down, Seven
members of the King family were
badly injured, and two of the Gideons
were 80 seriously hurt that they can-
not recover. The house of Lafayette
Prater was wrecked, ard Jackson
Prater was blown over the garden
fence, but eacaped with slight injuries,
The cyclone travelled in a northeast
erly direction, and a bureau in the
Williams house was found this after-
poon ha!f a mile from where the resi-
dence stood,
At Loudon, Teun. the house of
George Moses was completely destroyed,
and every member of his family badly
hurt, Alex. Worley's house was also
carried away, and the members of his
tamily barely escaped with their lives,
They are all seriously injured. The
bacon from Worley’s smoke-house was
blown two miles away.
KILLED AND INJURED,
SAVANNAH, Ga, March 21.—A
cycione struck Lumber City, Ga,, this
morning. B. V. Holland, of the firm
of Holland, Strickland & Co., and W,
DD. Whiddor, ¢f the flim of Whilddon
& Holland, both promipent men, were
killed. Whiddon resided
and Holland at Dubin,
SAvNNan, Ga, March
special from Lumber City,
county, to the Morning News, received
atl midnight, shows Lhe eycloue to have
been more disastrous than was first re-
ported, Desides those already named
the following were Killed:
Joseph Neible, Superintend it
Wilcox & Cleland, lumber me: ants,
snd Mr, Join Turner, an emplos» of
that lirm. The injured are CC, S,
Smith, Wm. Wilson, Henry Ryals, I.
B. Rawl, Eugene daw! and Mrs. Rawl,
Mrs. Miller and eight colured men
whose names could not be ascertained,
The loas to the lumber merchants is
about $10,000,
AT PITTSBURG.
Pirresurnre, Pa, March 21. —A ter
riflic wind storm passed over Lhis sec
tion about 7.30 o'clock this morning,
doing great damage to telegraphic ser-
vier, Poles are reporied down in all
directions and the wires are working
badly. The wind was accompanied by
a heavy rain,
50th CONGRESS.—First Session.
SENATE.
Inthe U. 8, Senate on the 21st, the bill
to provide {or the inspection of meats for
exportation and the prohibiting the Im-
portation of adulterated food or drink
was passed; also, the bill allowing
soldiers and sailors who have lost both
hands, or the use of bolb, a pension of
$100 a month. A hill, allowing a peu-
sion of $25 a month to women enrolled
as army surses during the wur, was
considered and weal over on an ob
jection by Mr, Beck. The House bill,
authorizing the President to arrange
for a coufer.nce between the United
States, Mexico, the Central and South
Awerican republic and Drazil, was re-
ported and placed on the calendar,
Adjourned.
In the United States Senate on the
224, Mr. Hale presented the confer-
euce report on the Urgent Delciency
tll, Bills were passed to prevent the
obstruction of navigable waters and
protect public works against trespass,
to provide for a commission on the al.
coholie liquor traffic, and to provide for
a conference between the United
States and other American nations,
Mr. Sawyer, from the Post-office Com-
mittee, reported a bill, which was
passed, reducing the postage on seeds,
buibs, ete. After an executive session
the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE
In the Houses on the 20th, Mr.
(O'Neill, of Missouri, introduced a mil
to coufine the sale of products of con-
viet labor to the State in which they
are manfactured. Bills were reportedito
establish a Department of Labor; to pre.
vent products of convict labor for being
used In the departments of the Gov-
ernment; to prevent the employment of
convict and alien labor om public
sepal at Columbia, Tennessee, Ad-
journed,
In the House on the 21st, Mr. Ran-
dall, of Pennsylvania,
2. — A
of
CHIEF JOSFIGE WAITS.
HE EXPIRED YESTERDAY AFTER A
SHORT ILLNESS.
Sree
WasmiNgroNn, March 23. — Chief
Justice Walte, of the United States
Supreme Court, dled at his residence
in this city at 6,10 o'clock this morn-
ing.
and his son, Mr. C. ©, Waite (Vice
President of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton Railroad) were with him
when he died.
Mrs. Waite left Washington for Cali-
fornia about a week ago, and is sup-
posed now to be in Los Angeles,
The Chief Justice will be buried in
Toledo, Ohlo,
Additional particulars of the illness
of Chief Justice Waite are obtained
from Dr. Caroline IX. Winslow, who has
been the family physician tor the last
thirteen years. The immediate cause
of his death, the doctor said, was nerv-
ous failure of the action of the heart,
and it came with such startling sudden-
ness as to be absolutely appalling, There
was not the vaguest symptoms of heart
On Saturbay night the Chief Justice at-
tended the authors’ reception, given by
Senator and Mrs, Hearst, but feeling
slightly Indisposed, he left their house
early. About half an hour afier he ar-
rived at home he was taken with a chill
and immediately retired,
At 3 o'clock In the morning Dr.
Winslow was called, and found the
Chief Justice suffering acute pain In
his back and bones, Later on in the
morning he felt somewhat betler, and
rested quite comfortably, At this time
he said to his physician, in a tone of in-
quiry, that he must attend court on
chances. He persisted that
quite well envugh to ride to the Capi-
tol aud return, and anticipated no un-
favorable results from a Little outing.
On Monday, afier his return from the
Capital, the physician called and found
him complaining of a sorepess in his
right lung. and, when asked to take a
him pain. An examination
that a part of his right lung, two or
with & slight
He was extremely restless, as
his fuce was much flushed.
He rested easier on that side,
than on the other or his back,
his iliness was Ly no means regarded
as critics], his phyeician on Tuesday
suggested that his Mr. C. CC
Walle, be telegraphed for, which
done, |He arrived yesterday aliernoon
at 2.50 o'clock |
Tue Chief Justice's
While
SON,
condition re.
morning. He was very cheerful, and
laughing v remarked to those present
that be und nol know bow 10 be sick,
but later in the day symptoms of acute
bronchitis appeared, and on Wednes-
day symploms of
thelr appearance ia his affected lung
He breatlind hard and with a slight
groan, and when asked if he was in
patn smibingly replied he was not in
pain, but he really di
to be sick.” There was
change during the day.
cheerful,
nurse and attendants, During the
night of Wednesday and on Thursday
he was quite comioriabie, no one feel-
ing auy alarm, though naturally an-
xious. He
every one belisved, and wheu at 10
o'clock last evening his physician
jefe him, he responded to her *‘good
night’ as cheerfully and in as strong a
voice as he did in health, The nurse
who remained during the night obse: -
ved no change in his condition, not even
in the expression of his face, until 6
o'clock this morning, when be Lurned
over on his back, and in 10 minutes
was dead, On Monday when be at-
tended court be was accompanied by
his daughter, who took wraps and a
bottle of hot beef extract in case he
shoul l peed them, but wi le from slight
fatigue be felt comparatively well. At
the begloning of his iliness the Chic f
Justice, feariug to needlessly alarm his
wife, who was on her way to Califor
nia wn company with an invalid sister,
cautioned those about him to keep his
condition from the newspapers. He
was not alarmed Li oself, and was un-
willing that his wi e's journey should
be curtailed or interfered with by his
slight indisposition. It is said by bis
physician that this was the only severe
illness the Cinef Justice ever had in his
life, except that of two years ago, when
he suffered some time from erysipelias
in his face and bands,
Judge Edgerton, President of the
Civil Service Commission, an old friend
of the family, has usually taken his
Sunday dinner at Chief Justice Walte’s
since the former became au resident
tiere, He was there last Sunday, but
the Chief Justice was not abie to ap-
pear at the table. Judge Edgerton,
however, saw him in his room and in
bed, He begged Judge Edgerton to
keep the fact of his 11lness a close secret,
remarking that if it got into the news
papers his wife would ses it and it would
destroy the pleasure of her visit, He
aso remarked that, unless his doctors
positively forbade it,'he would go to
the Court next day. Judge Edgerton
endeavored to dissuade him from the
venture, but the Chief Justice replied
that he was not seriously ill and that
if he should be absent from the Court
when the Telephone opinion was de-
livered, his absence would at once be
construed to mean that he was ill.
The Chief Justice leaves a widow,
two sons, Edward T. Waite, a lawyer
of Toledo; C. C. Waite, of Cincinnati,
t of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
aud Davie, Railton y and a daughter,
no material
days after the patient 1s taken
that crisis comes; the fever sub-
sides, and very often at this point
the heart, although hitherto free
perform ite functions and the patient
is dead, It gannot be foreseen and enn
not. be anticipated in the treatment,
Had his heart not failed in this crisis,
the Chief Jnstice, In all probability,
would have recovered from the at.
tack of pneumonia.
r———— .
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
A. Allison, a broker of Jersey
City, committed suicide in a hotel in
New York om the 19th by shooting
himself and swallowing laudanum., No
cause is assigned. Willian Zellers, aged
16, committed suicide by banging at his
father’s restaurant In Lancaster,
Penna., on the 19th, The cause is at-
tributed to the dislike of the boy to be.
ing kept at work,
-—Two freight trains on the Central
I’acific Railroad collided near Cisco,
California, on the 19h, Two engines
were attached to each train, and all
four engines and a number of cars were
badly wrecked. Engineer John Pickens
was killed instantly and several others
injured. Four other persons employed
on the trains are missing, and it is
feared are burled in the debris,
—John ©. Lilly, of Indianapolis,
brother of General William Lilly, of
Mauch Chunk, was killed on the morn-
ing of the 19th, by a Lehigh and Sus.
quehanna Ratlroad train at Packerton,
Penna. An explosion occurred on the
Armonia estate in Havana, Cuba, on
the 10th, which resulted in the kiting
of the engineer and several other per-
sons and the ipjury of a number more
—Charles Swelghart went to the
boarding house kept by his divorced
(
—
Upon bzing refused he fired sev-
eral shots from a revolver at the
woman, but without effect and she es-
unharmed, Sweighart then
the boarders and shot
right army and
Sweighart then commitied
the bead.
Gren Humphreys, a prominent and
wealthy citizen of Warrenton, Mis-
sourl, shot and fatally wounded Lis
17th, and
while under arrest at his home on the
colored, who
-Jeflerson Carry,
Birmingham, Alabama, and who was
under arrest, was taken from the ofli-
cers on the eveniag of the 18th and
shot by a wob of unknown men. Curry
named
Powell, but no blows were exchanged,
Shortly afterward Powell caused his
charging him with carrying
Henry Henning,
living in Kensington, 1ilivols, shot his
the 20th and theh committed
Mrs.
it is sald Hen-
had several quarrels, Cyrus
of the Vul-
pamed Johns-
ton, were robbed and killed at Nigger
They were on
way from the mine to Phoenix
with about $7000 worth of bar bullion,
~W hen the wreckage of the freight
California,
M:tin Engineer FPick-
is alive,
is feared
is fatally Injured.
of three passenger cars
on the 12th,
were found,
train
having been
one week, The
There are Lwo breaks in the dam across
the Susquehanna river a Columbia, one
100 feet wide, the other 75 feet. Both
are being widened by the great body «f
water rushing through, It is estimal-
ed that $560,000 will bw needed to re.
store the dam. The shad fishermen
at Columbia fear their occupation is
gone this season,
[Hezekiah Leeper, aged 70, a far.
mer from Morgan county, Ohio, blew
out the gas on retiring, at the Kirk
House, in Zanesville, on the evening
of the 19th, and was found dead on the
20th,
- An epidemic of measles prevails in
Buckingham county, Virginia, and
many persons have died of the disease,
In oue family nll the members father,
mother, and 14 children—are sick, and
an old couple, aged respectively 91 and
81 years are also reported prostrated,
~ A despatch from Denver, Colorado,
says snow fell to the depth of several
inches during the evening of the 18th,
and morning of the 19th, throughout
the Rocky Mountain region. A stiff
wind accompanied the storm, and pied
the snow in the railroad cuts to such
an extent that it was impossible to
move trains There was a severe snow
storm in Nebraska on the 20th, In
the western part of the State eight
inches of snow fell and the wind
reached a velocity of 60 miles an hour.
All trains were delayed. The storm
commenced with a high temperature
and rain, then
four to twelve |
y
and Gainesville, Texas, *‘and buried
flowers and fruit tree blos-
»
1n Erle, Pennsylvania, On the even-
10g of the 10th he roamed the street,
and on fhe 20th attempted to shoot one
of nis children, and afterward threat-
ened his wife, He was arrested on the
20th, Overwork and political disap-
pointment are given as the cause of his
sudden insanity,
—Oliver Woods, an American citi-
zon, arrested in the State of Denango,
Mexico, on the Oth of January, by the
military authorities, on the charge of
complicity in the crimes of banditti,
and concerning whom diplomatic rep-
resentatives have been made was re-
leased on the 26th ult.
~The friends of General Hancock,
who have been active in efforts to raise
sufficient money to purschase a house
in Washington for Mra, Hancock, have
met with success, The bouse, which
is a large three-story brown and white
stone structure at twenty-first and B
streets, Northwest, will be formally
presenied to Mrs. Hancock about the
first of April,
~- A despatch from Nogales, Arizona
Territory, says that on the 10th inst.,
Lieutenant Colonel Gouzales, with a
force under his command, had a battle
with a band of Yaqui Indians on the
Latinijo Mountains. 1wo Indians
were killed and several wounded, On
the same day, at Aguajode Los Burras,
the same officer encountered another
band of Indians and had a fight in
wkich he succeeded in routing them.
-ne of the worst snow storms of
the winter prevailed in portions of the
Northwest on the 20th. The Capitol
at Washington was struck by lightning
about 2 o'clock on the afternoon of the
21st, The flash and shock were felt in
the Senate Chamber, the House wing
and the Bupreme Court room. Every-
body was startled and shocked, and
nearly all the telegraph and telephone
and some of the electric lights were put
out, The confusion was ouly snoment-
ary, however, It is supposed that the
bolt struck the plume of the Goddess
on the dome, spread over the meta
roof in all directions and sought the
ground by the thousand chandeliers,
steam pipes and electric wires in the
building. The rain storm of the 21:
flooded the colliery of Linderman &
Skeer, and Colliery No. 3 of Coxe Bros.
& Co., at Hazleton, Pa. It will be
some time before work will be resumed,
Wind, accompanied by rain, dil con-
siderable damage In the viclpity of
“itisburg on the afternoon of the 21st,
Telegraph poles were down fn all d:-
rections, An ice gorge was formed at
Racine, Wisconsin, on the 2st, and
the walter forced its way over the docks
and submerged a Jot of property.
Familes were obliged to move out in
boats, and the roads were impassable,
The Missouri river broke at Poplar
river, Montana, on the 20th and over.
owed its banks and the whole
river bottom, which includes millions
of acres of land, is inundated for
over one hundred miles. The rain on
the evening of the 20th causc | a
heavy landslide near Ashland, Penva. .
on the Reading Railroad. The road
was covered with three feet of sarth
for a distance of over 200 yards, aod
travel was blocked while a large force
of men were removing the dirt. A
violent rainstorm prevailed on the 21st
at Williamsport, Penna., ard a flood is
expected in the Susquebazna. Heo y
Rteiner, a log-driver, was drowned iu
Lycoming oteek. A violent wind
storm raged for fifteen minutes on the
morning of the 21st a’, Wheeling, West
Virginia. Persons were blown off
their feet in the streels, and several
houses were unroofed. The first thun-
cer storm of the season in Baltimore
occurred ou the afternoon of the
21st. The telegraph wires were affected
by the story, which lasted about an
hour. Toere was heavy rain, but littie
wind, Asevere storm of rainand wind
prevailed on the 21st, in Western Mas-
sachusetts, Reports from Palmer,
Pittsfield and other points show that
meadows were overflowed, roads
washed out, and draws and bridges car-
ried away. The Boston and Albany
Railroad was submerged in several
piaces. A passenger train oo the Chi-
cago and Norlthwestern road is repor-
ted to be snowed 1n between Havana
and Claremont, In Minnesota, with
over 150 passengers on board. Provi-
sions were sent on the 2lst, from
Owatonna, there being no prospect of
getting the train out.
— Warrants were issued by the Trea-
sury Department on the 21st, for §1,-
125,000, on account of pensions, mak-
ing the total amount psd out on that
account this month $3,600,000,
— News reached Shrevport, Louisiana,
on the 20th, that the lower country,
from Thomas Johnson’s place to
Jones's Bayou, a distance of eight
miles, was all under water. Itt sup-
posed some person cut the levee.
Adam Saurs and Mrs. William
Stahl, of Fostoria, Ohio, who recently
became insane over religious matters,
are both dead. The deaths were sud-
den, and the cause assigned 18 brain
fever.
A dangerous counterfeit of the five-
dollar silver certificate is in extensive
circulation in Chicago.
Isidore Wolf, a merchant in New
York, 45 years old, committed suicide
on the 224 by culling his throat.
George O, Cowles, a member of the
firm of C, A. Rockwell & Co,
Utlea, New York, committed suicide
diff, Newcastle-on-"1 yne, Sanderiand,
Newport, Shields, Swansea, Liveipiol,
and Hartlepool. Cardiff ind New.
castle are nearly equal, and “account
for wore than half the total, Cardin
does the largest foreign and New-
castle the greatest home trade, Bundér
land running very close,
— While crossing the Missour! river a
few miles north of Bismarck, Dakota,
on the 2lst, ‘Eagle Head,” a well-
known Indian scout, and John Warren
a white hunter, ran into an air hole
and were carried beneath the lee and
drowned,
~No trains were run on the rail-
roads in the upper Michigan peninsula,
the snow causing the most complete
blockade of the winter, The storm
came on sc suddenly and so fercely
that trains were unable to reach the
next station. At various places in In-
diana, Illinois and Towa there was a
drop in the temperature on the 21st of
from 30 to 40 degrees, accompanied by
high winds and light snow, lnChicago
on the morning of the 224 thie mercury
was down to zero, The weather at
Danville, Virginia, on the 224 was ir-
tensely cold, with a high wind, There
was a light fall of snow inthe woining,
Nearly all the mills in Woonsocker,
Rhode Island, are shut down, and many
are flooded up to the second floor. The
Cranberry weadow dam, one mile
above East Blackstone, Massachuselils,
gave way during the evening of ‘
21st, causing two bad washouts on the
Woonsocket division of the New York
and New EKuogland Railroad, bess
carrying away other small dams and
three highway bridges. The damage
is estimated at $75,000.
- Frederick Westlake, whi
from the fifth story of the E.beron Flats
in New York, daring the Ore there on
the morning of the 19th died on the
224, from his injuries. He was 19
vears old. His mother Jost her life
the same fire,
— A heavy storm raged at St
New Brunswick, on the evening of U1}
21st. There have been several wash
outs on the New Brunswick railway
jumped
-—The cold wave, according to a
despatch from Canaloharie, New
York, has materially reduced the rush
of water to the Mohawk river, and
may prevéht any more immediate dam-
age, Trains ars running very frregu-
The flood is
and
The damage to t
the latter place is
Fort Hunter. he
broom factories at
very heavy. The Delaware river at
Easton centinued rising until four
o'clock on the morning of the 234,
when it had reached 21 feet, Alter
that it began to fa'l at the rate of
about a foot an hour. The principal
damage done by the flood was the
wishing away of 3J feet of wall along
the Dalaware Canal, which will delay
the opening of navigation for several
weeks, A telegram from St. John,
New Brunswick, sa s recent rains and
the mild wealher bave caused the
rivers and streams to become swollen,
and theie have been many washouts on
the New Brunswick Raliroad. On the
22d two men named Alcorn, father
and son, were swept away by a freshet
and drowned,
A despatch from Delroi’, Michi
gan, says four trunks, containing §16,-
000 worth of smuggled opium, were
stopped by the customs officers at
Windsor on the 22d, The truuks were
checked from British Columbia, and
were claimed by a Hebrew, who had
them shipped back to the Canadian in-
terior. Treasury officials are con-
vinced that the Logaus; ort, Ind.
authorities in arresting Jawes Sapp
and his accomplice on the 21st on the
charge of passing counteifeit money,
struck a trail which is likely to lead
to the arrest of the gang that within
the last month has put fully $50,000 in
counterfeit money into circulation in
Chicago. At Yorterville, near Eau
Claire, Wisconsin, on the morning of
the 234, John Bagley, agent of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail.
road was found gagged and ted with
cords to the cot in the station where he
sleeps. He said be had been bound
and gagged at midnight by three
masked men who covered him with
their revolvers. They took $150 and a
gold watch,
~Two passes ger tralots on the Pit.
tsburg and Lake Erie Railroad collided
on the moming of the 234, near
Wampum. about forty miles from Pit-
tsburg, and were wrecked, 8, P. Gray,
baggage master, was killed, and nine
others were severely injured, one of
whom, William Harkness, fireman, is
hardly expected to recover. The dis
aster is attributed to ‘‘a mistake in or
ders.”
~Mzr. T. P. Thompson, of New
Orleans, injured in the railroad disas-
ter near Waycross, Georgia, died on
the evening of the 224, This makes a
total of 22 deaths
«On the farm of Mr. Eoff, on Duck
River, Coffee county, Tennessee, s few
days ago, & strange rumbling noise
was heard. After it had submded Mr.
Eoff found, afew hundred feel from
the house for a measured distance of
48 feet, that huge chunks of rock,
weighing ten tons, had been shattered
in many instances, and in others they
were split in twain.
—Mrs, Bigzizi, who lived in Onis.
toga, California, bought a new dress
without the approval of ber husband,
id.