A RAILROAD HORROR ABOUT SEVENTY SUNDAY SCHOOL EXCURSIONISTS KILLED. OVER ONE HUNDRED INJURED, DusLiN, June 12.—The following particulars have been received in regard to the terrible accident to the excurs- fon train: The excursion party left Armagh this morning in two trains. The accident occurred at a point where the trains ascend a grade on a bank 50 feet high. The first train ascended the grade without trouble, The second section attempted the ascent, but the weight of the train proved too great for the engine. Several cars were de- tached and allowed to run back to- wards the level track, but before they reached it they came in collision with an ordinary train from Armagh, which was proceeding at a good rate of speed, The excursion cars were completely wrecked. The scene which ensued was heart- rending, Hosts of volunteers were soon on hand, and the dead and wounded were taken from the wreck and carried down the bank, Medical ald was called for, and a special train from Belfast brought to the scene 20 surgeons from that city and a number of medical men from other places besides Belfast and Armagh. The disaster is unparalleled injthe railroad history of Ireland. the third train was inadequate, While the second train was ascending the In- man: “I'm afraid we can’tdo it.”” The following train was commencing the ascent when the engineer saw the run- away cars, Shutting offthe steam and reversing the lever, the engineer and fireman jumped from the engine, shouting to the passengers to do the same, The latter, however, not hear- ing the cries, did not cbey, No one was injured on The engine was hurled 60 an embankment, ran into the engine was shattered to splinters, and fragments of dress, um- brellas, etc., were scattered hundreds of yards, A dozen corpses were found beneath the engine in a parbolled con- dition. Some of the occupants of the runaway cars tried to escape, doors were locked, The front part of the train started pack In pursuit of the runaway cars, and the passengers saw the collision at a distance of 300 yards. A man named Hughes, who visited the scene of the disaster, was so horrified at the sight that he died on the spot. His corpse was taken to Armagh in his own car. The shrieks of the children horrible, The bodles of the victims were arranged in rows as soon as re- covered, Many were mangled beyond recognition. There is scarcely a family in Armagh that bas not some one dead. The embankment on which the acel- dent occurred is 70 feet high. Many touching scenes were witnessed, The children bore their injuries with great patience, Wrecking gangs are at work clearing away the debris, A private of the Irish Fusiliers, be- fore the collision, jumped on the foot- plate of one of the cars and dropped four children to the ground. offered to assist others to escape, but bis offer was refused. In many cases whole families were killed, Crowds of people are visiting the scene of the disaster and the alr is rent with lamentations, Before starting on the fatal excur- sion the children paraded through the streets of Armagh, with flags and banners, and the townsfolk turned out almost en masse to ish them a happy holiday, The party of excursionists included ministers, teachers, the parents of some of the children and a few other adults, Dr. Lyun 1s the head of the school that train. feet down gionists belonged. He is one of the most prominent Methodists in Ireland, and his school is attended by many children of other denominations, third of the entire number of passen- gers. Many of these are certain to succumb to the eflects of their injuries, EIGHT PERSONS INJURED. COACHES OF A PASSENGER TRAIN ON THE LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD THROWN DOWN AN EMBANKMENT BY A BROKEN AXLE. WiLKESBARRE, Pa. June 10,—The West bound train on the Lehigh Val- ley Railroad, due here at 9 o'clock this morning, met with a serious accident a short distance this side of Sugar Noteh, throug the breaking of an axle on one of the forward passénger coaches. The disabled car dropped upon the track, and the several cars following crashed against it, all being precipitated down an embankment. The cars were all badly wrecked, and 16 passengers were seriously injured, though none fatally. The passengers were principally residents of the small towns below this city. The injured are: John McGroarty, of Wilkesbarre, badly cut on the head and face and body bruises, Hazleton, cut on face and shoulder dis- located, J. B. Labaugh, of Freeland, collar bone broken. Mrs. Patrick Costello, of Bear Creek, cut on head, Frederick Tighe, of Delaho, leg badly injured. John Daniels, of White Haven, slight eut on and face, Nathan Searfoos, of Wilkesbarre, cut on neck and face, Patrick Gibbons, of Wilkesbarre, hurt fumde and legs. The first report, that 10 had been injured, was incorrect, those whose pames are given being all that were injured, Superintendent Mitchell, with Train Despatcher Essen, were promptly on the scene of the disaster with a corps of physicians to give ald to those requiring it. There was no delay in the running of trains, the New Jersey Central Railroad beng utilized until the tracks were Cleured, JOHNSTOWN, V'a., vune 10, —State- ments are made on all sides by sur- vivors, who say that there 1s scarcely a single plle of wreckage in the district that does not contain human remains, Bodies are constantly being taken from the debris on Main street, from river lodgments and trom the ruins of pri- vate residences, The task of handling these has become most trying to the men at the morgues, The seven sta tions for receiving the dead in Johns- town and ilnmediate vicinity are con- There is no lull in the work from morning to night. The bodies now found are in such a state of decomposition that it requires heroism to persevere, Notwithetanding this, Dr. Beale states that he has not yet heard one complaint; that the men are working with energy and without any cessation, Burials take place at once, after preparations of the remains, Reports from the morgues, especially that in the vicinity of the Pennsyiva- nia Railroad Station, show that, in numerous instances identification is impossible, Some of the bodies taken from the drift, near the stone bridge, have the head, arms, legs, or other members, burned off, the body being 80 charred and blackened as to bar all idea of recognition. While it is esti- mated that the returns from all section in the valley will show the recovery of about 300 bodies up lo to-day. Dr. Beale states that the actual nnmber already, Distressing incidents, the resuit of disaster, continually come to Mrs. D.S. Lane was taken Her hus- Kernville. The children and property in the flood, be her husband was obliged to take lier away to an asylum, T. W. Kerlin, a citizen of Johnstown children. He was injured so rellville so {il that he is not expected to Colonel J. M. Vanderslice, who has been busily at work in the Grand Army tue applicants for relief was a woman of about 4U, who was rescued after being caged in a house Her husband and four one of Pa., June 10.—At a to-day a reso- adopled requesting that ven to the Asso- LOCK HAVEN, lution was *To the people of the United States: the recent great flood and immediate assis. 13 needed. Our streets, alleys and homes are in a frightful condition We are receiving a supply of provisions, but Lock llaven alone is not the only place to be supplied from these. Many peo- ple In the near-by small towns for nese} money and are dependent money and provisions, badly, upon us We and a distance to help clean our streets and There was not a square inch of land within the corporate limits of the city proper that was not submerged, subsided it left a strong sun of to-day creates a stench unbearable, The cou- Mayor Mason issued a proclamation Work will be furnishéd will be furnished only to Wilson M. Gearhieart, of the State Department, Court House this morning, and stated that, after personal investigation of the city and neighboring villages, he was satisfied that the generous people of the State had no conception of the great need here for money for sanitary pur The total cash contributions received gp to noon amount to $3577. Fifty thouand dollars, and perhaps more, will be required. Hon. C. A. Mayer, President Judge of the county, and several other prominent citizens, were appointed at the meeting to-day to visit Harrisburg and Philadelphia, and presemt to the Governor and Mayor Fitler a statement of the pressing wants of the city and county, WILLIAMSPORT, Pa , June 10. —Al- though thing are Jooking up in many respects, yet the distribut on of sup- plies Ly the Central Relief Committee shows that over 2000 persons are now getting assistance in the way of pro- visions, snd some have left the city, Large quantities of clothing have been given out and s'oves aud cooking utensils are still loudly called for. Lock BaveN, Pa, Jutell.—~Mayor Mason wishes it to be known that pro- visions have been coming to this city in liberal quantities and have ben dis- tributed in the city and vicinity. There is very little new to say about the mituation in Lock Haven. The work of cleaning up 18 going on, and business is being resuined by merchants generally, Over 800 families are sup- plied with provisions and clothing by the Relief Committee dally, Thus far 11 carloads of supplies have been re- ceived and distributed. Much of it was sent out to neighboring villages and small country places, A committee appointed at the citizens’ meeting pared a letier setting forth the of the city and correcting any false im- pression that may have gone abroad as to the actual condition of the city and county. WirLiamsront, Pa, June 1l.—A report was made by the committes to examine buildings, The committee stated that, fu un single square, leaving ost nl bhotdings the uniars of whitgh are able to repair them, $10,000 will be necessary to replace the buildings, The Chairman of the Relief Commit- tee reported ihat aid is being furnished to 1400 persons, representing families aggregating 7000 people, The total cash contributions received are over $30,000, A careful estimate made to-day of the direct loss In goods by the grocery, dry goods, hard- ware, clothing and a few minor lines of trade shows the total to be fully $2.000000, The loss in buildings, furmture, books, ete., will increase the total to a much larger figure, without reference to the loss on lumber. En- gines were enabled to pass over the Williamsport bridge to-night, and to- morrow the running of trains nto the city will be fully resumed. WiLLiAxsport, Pa., June 18.—The work of removing the filth coming from the stores and cellars proceeds vigorously, with a large number of men and teams, but there 1s a vast amount of it still to be done. At the meeting of Council this even- ing reports were received of vast amount of damage done to the streets by the flood. In the Seventh Ward the bank of Lycoming Creek and a large area of ground in addition were washed away, opening a new channel, and threatening to flood the upper end of the city whenever a rise in the stream occurs, Steps will at once be taken to repair this damage, but it will be a big undertaking. Calls for help are being received here from many surrounding points, A re- quest came from Muncy to-day, where provisions for the destitute are badly needed and hard to be obtained, even if money is furnished. A stock of provisions for immediate use was for- warded from here, Destitution is reported Pine Creek laliroad and other points, as well Northern Central at a number of places. It looks as if many of the sup- plies collected here would have to be divided among sufferers outside city. The Linden bridge has been in all day, and the block of trains on south side no longer exists, Through trains for the West will still go by the low grade road bly no longer, as the main line will be in shape from Tyrone west all trains, be merchants say that their losses show up larger every day, dam- aged gods proving nearer a total loss than was at first supposed, S of the large store rooms empty, and are being cleaned before being re-opened, A number of werchants have from $50,000 to §60.000 each, Joard of Health to-day number of houses torn down, which were declared unfit for human babita- tion. along the at Waterville this + » Lie Foor +05 the tie thar 3:1 HOTOUR OLY oat EE - NEWS OF THE 111 Vy | “ER. --Luke Dillon is said to be respon- sible for the statement that a promi- nent Irishman In New York will be arrested in connection with the Cronin murder. He savs be is confident the murderers of Dr. Cromin will be in custody before Lwo weeks have passed, A despatch from Cheyenne, Wy. oming Territory, says that Cale Younger, who was notorious as a bad man, was drowned on the Bth while attempting to ford a river on horse back. Ernest Willlams, the only wit. ness of the accident, has been arrested, and will be held until Yoanger's body 18 found. One of the canal banks at Holyoke, Massachusetts, gave way on collapse of the Cabot Mills, The loss 1s estimated at £100,000, — An Iron Mountain Passenger train St. Louis, on the evening of the 10th, just before reaching the Union Depot, when the engine leit the track and ran into an adjoining bullding. John Gebhard was killed and three train men were dangerously Injured, Pat. rick Curley, Reese Lioyd and Richard Williams, mipers, were killed on the 10thin Nottingham Mine, at Plymouth, Pa., by a fall of top coal and rock. Matthew Davis, another miner, who went to their assistance, was fatally injured, A boller in the Mahoning Valley Iron Works, at Youngstown, Ohio, exploded on the evening of the 10th, killing James Robinson and severely injuring two other men, -— Willan Harrison, alias “Bill Kent,” a notorious *““fire-bug’ and counterfeiter, was arrested on the 11th in Scranton, Penna, charged with manufacturing and circulating spuri- ous coins, When arrested Harrison had in his possession $600, three gold watches and a 32-calibre Smith & Wes- son revolver. The coins made by the prisoner bear the dates 1888 and 184, and are very clever imitations, ~ A despatch from Decatur, Illinois, says the high water in the Sangamon river has broken through four levees built at a cost of $4000, The levees had redeemed nearly 1000 acres of land, but they were not built high enough, The bottoms are overflowed for miles, «While crossing the Fort Wayne Railroad track, near Clinton, Ohio, on the afternoon of the 12th, Law- rence and Edward Stieb, business men of that place, and two orphans named Seifeny, whom they had adopted, were struck by an express train and all were killed, A gravel train collided with a passenger train on the Pittsburg, Cin- cinnati and St, Louls Railway, near New Cumberland, West Virginia, on the 11th, Charles Rodgers was killed and William Brown fatally wounded. Both were engineers, «Thomas Kinney was found dead In a street in Indianapolis on the morning of the 12th. When last seen he wus half intoxicated in the company of a married woman whose hus was heard to threaten Kinney. The police are unable to find either the woman or her husband, Peter Sawyer quarrelled with his wife in Sarthage, Now York, on the of the 1 and struck her in the with a bammer, She ran screaming from the house and he went Into the barn and hanged him- sell. Its not yet known whether the womun’s injuries are dangerous, — ~The village of Croton. M chigusy, is inundated by the back water [rom « jam of logs in the river. A carelessly erected scaffold atthe new Power House, in Chicago, fell on the afternoon of the 12th, and nine workmen were injured, some, It 18 feared, fatally. -A heavy thunder siorm did much damage in various portions of New England on the 10th, At Marlboro, Massachusetts, Charles Butler's house was struck by lightning, the chimney demolished and the occupants stunned, At Contoocook, New Hampshire, 27 telephone poles were shattered, At Keene the roads were badly washed, telephones burned out and the South Keene Railroad depot was struck by Hghtning, At Dover, New Hampshire, the Belkuap church steeple was set on fire, the calendering room of the Cocheco Print Works was nearly ruiped by lightning, and a bolt entered the composing room of the Datly Democrat. Frederick Pierce, a clerk in Higgin's Market, was fatally injured by light- ning. Policeman Charles Stevens was knocked down on the street, but is expected to recover, Several houses were badly shattered. A tornado at Arkansas City, Arkaneas, on the even- ing of Lhe 8th, wrecked the Metho- dist and Baptist Churches and severa dwellings, The roof of the Ar- kansas elevator was blown across the Missouri Pacific Railroad tracks, de- molishing a number of loaded freight cars, Two colored children were killed and their mother and another daughter were badly Injured. A cyclone passed through Lewis county and the south- ern part of Jefferson county, New York, on the afternoon of the Oih, At Florence Mrs, Spain was were severely Injured, Advices parts of the State of Indiana great damage from the rains week, both to the growing to properly along ney of the past situated Le waler courses, counties hundreds of acres of are submerged. Many bave fled to the highlands for safety. familie ~- Three men jumped from a frel ib $43 JUSS 1th, 48 an emply en anol and Isaac iniured. All LLAORNBIHRVILE, and ied, Joseph Rarker er, ywn, were ki i Un Kn Were sleal ing a ride from —Laicien Freeman, while insane, mother witl home, near Meride: i A | Dalton of the & f th 11th £ Of Lhe 11th. i the morning {30% On Dennis asline, A TERRIBLE MOMENT. The Story cf a Desperate Struggle With an Alligator. A Family named Lambert, liv Lake Charlie Apopka, as it is called, or Trala a very thrilling experience, 18 COIpo il of Mr. and Mi two boys ren, and a girl baby, the boys i ’ aris] s : $ 41 1 being 8 and 15 respectively, and the girl just able to waddle about, They moved there some two years ago, and pre on the south side of empled a homestead the lake. The house is built about 200 feet from the lake and vation, the land in front gradually to the water's edge. left, off some little ense saw-grass pond, Near this Mr. Lambert for his Pigs, the lake, and up to a month On a sight ele sloping dos distance, 18 an built an one closure oo he had a magnificent lot of porkers. One night he heard a Lremen- and h several weeks ago dous uproar in lus hog pen, urry- lantern, tint to see one of his fine ing out with his shotgun and # he was jus hogs disappear! mouth of a scores of balls ity and Brookiyn or. the afternoon frame bullding, in in Brooklyn, was killi two men and injuring three others, were received in Dover, on the 1 5 o'clock 11th, A of erection Re the 10th. At South Derwick bolt en. ng 63 the i ghtuing, hours, In Denver many people were so afflicted by were kept up all Reports from Vermont, show a night by vomi- Franklin county. large awmoun: of away and the -- About 15400 men were at work at made in clearing away wreck, The drirt at the stone pight. About 200 merchants who had survived the flood, many of them pen- niless, met General Hastings and were assured that they would be re-estab. delphia wholesalers haviag offered long credit. Nineteen bodies were found on the 13th, making the total to date 1000, The burning of the drift, of course, will prevent Lhe recovery of the bodies entombed therein. of life, based on opinions of well 1n- formed people, places iL at between 3000 and 4000, A collision bLeiween two freight trains near Havre-de-Grace on the Philadelphia division of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, on the 12th, re- sulted in killing Joseph McKean, brake man, and wrecking several cars, two of them loaded with provisions for the Johnstown sufferers. The train hands say the telegraph operator gave the wrong signals, —Lord A. P. Cecil, an evangelist, was drowned on the 12th in the Bay of Quinte, near Pictou, Ontario, ~The Governor of Minnesota has been advised by telegram from Mora, in that State, that the Chippewa Indians at Mille Lacs Lake '‘have massacred six whites, all inoffensive Swedes,” for **no known cause,” ~A forest fire is raging south and wast of Superior, Wisconsin. Already over half a million dollars’ worth of pine has been destroyed. The districts tributary to the Nemadjl and St. Louls rivers in Wisconsin are suffering heavily. The smoke from the burning districts is obscuring the sun and ren. ders difficult the entrance of vessels into the harbor, The fire Is burning from St. Croix to Northern Pacific Junction, «A despatch from Spriaghield, Mas. chusetts, says that work Is being with all ble rapidity on the cofferdam at Holyoke, so as to get the mills running Sin, All the mills dependent on the Holyoke Water Com pany are shut down, and the los to the manufacturers will be quite large, The actual damage done by the wash- out to the canal, the Cabot street mill and the railroad will probably be $100, 000, but the loss of production will be much more than that back ward Mrs. Lambert said aft wird that at this moment she never f¢ ig pected to save her life, As she fell alligator swpng around his tail with a terrible sounding whisk, but the fortu- pate fall of the two just placed them outside its deadly sweep, The alligator advanced as far as it could with its un- wielllly waddle, and Mrs, Lambert at- tempted to rise and escape. Her dress caught on a root, and before she could get up and free hersell the alligator made a snap at her and missed, catching hold of her dress instead, Finding that it had secured some- thing it commenced backing toward the walter, dragging along the prostrate woman, who now fully realized her peril and filled the air with her cries for help. She frantically clutched at the roots as she was dragge over them, but her dress was of stout material, and the alligator’s strength soon overcame her feeble resistence. Suddenly, with a heavy sinking of the heart, she felt that ber foot was in the water, and that if no help came she was doomed to a ter rible death. The horror gave her strength for amciuent and she made another frantic effort 4) free herself, but it wae in vain, and she felt herself drawn into the water. Suddeniy her hands, which were nervously clutching at anything and everything that seemed to promise sup- port passed over the axe-handle, With the swiltness of thought and with superhuman energy she seized the helve and scrambled up, and, how she cannot say, she managed to deal the ‘gator a heavy blow with the blade. With rae good fortune it struck his other eve and crushed into the head. The maddened and wounded reptile opened its jaws with a roar of pain and mge aid Mrs, teeth. Scrambling up she se zed her 1 EW. SIN WF SPN baby girl and fled fer}it tt night, { with ¢ ohild patting cheek trying in her bab her, -— SECRETS OF Outlines of Character and of the Future Reve a THE PALM A prominent exp $574 4 5» t hersdd ping thie ne the sul We ile most alwavs tell from the charact dissal “i itellige heart of palmistry go as far ast ie = ple Ci but true, ti interesting to th CUTious women than hearing herself. That's what brin visitors here, “They have their own opinions of the characteristics, but to have them confirmed by an expert. 1 do not that a man is a poet, a musi artist, an orator or artisan his hand presents certain features, lines or mounts, but being of a certain char- acter and in possession of certain powers his hands reveal the soul is the real man, bods simply its maternal manifesta‘ion The body exists and subsists from the spirit for its use and changes naturalls in obedience to the power and direction of the spirit. It can be changed me- chanically by outside forces, but it can be developed only by the spiritual and vital force working within it “The palm of the hand shows physic. al strength, endurance, activity, or thei opposites, It is also a health bulletin, It shows also the appetites and inclina- pations® The lower part, to the wrist, indicates animal strength and in. stincts when prominently developed, the middle of the hand the power of the brain and nerves, and the upper part the force and character of the emotions, “Large bands belong to those that work. A man with such a hand exe cutes his plans, acts out his impulses and materializes his thoughts. He is complete in the performance his work. Small hands indicate magnitude of plans, grace in execution and a de- ht in dealing with generalities, The medinm sized hand is the baud that will do the best thing. The hard hand m- dicates persistency in effort and indur- ance in physical exertion. The sinewy hand expresces rapid, skillful activity, and so on. ’’ like say an because an, an character The and te Sid Tieyt eX of -—-— It's a wise man that knows his own want
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