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Show GENERAL. The Storm. Baltimore, 2-1 Snowing fast here since yesterday p.m. Richmond, Va., 26. It snowed here all day yesterday, and nearly all last York, 6. The great snow storm still continues. The effect on business is damaging. Thousands out at their town residences are unable to reach thecity, and all therailroad train are delayed. The Erio road is reported entirely blockaded on the eastern division. divis-ion. The Mary siren car lines have stopped running. Tho snow is drifted badly but is about two feet on tho evel. At tho funeral of the late judge Slosson, t-day, at the Reform church, 21st street, the storm necessitated leaving leav-ing the body in the church till tomorrow. to-morrow. a.pumbia, S. C, 26. The heaviest storm of ilcot and snow ever known in this section commenced atone o'clock yesterday morning, and continued thirteen thir-teen hours, delaying railroad trains, etc Improvised sleighs of every description de-scription were brought into use. To-day everybody is busy clearing snow from tbe sidewalks. Philadelphia, 26. Thia aaernoon the roof of Winche's spike mills fel through, with the weight of snow. Five workmen were seriously injured; one of them had his bacfc broken. The Stoke Trial. New Tork, 26 New and startling evidence was adduced in the Stokes trial this afternoon. Andrew Parker testified that iomo sir weeks prior to the murder of h'iik ho was introduced toStokes, and in conversation the witness wit-ness spoke of having been removed by Fisk from the hotel which he was keeping keep-ing for tbe Erie company at Meadvillo, Pa. They also spoke of trials with Fisk and their progress, when Stokes said Fisk was "a damned blackmailer," and he would shoot him, and said thit Stokes carried a pistol. Stokes repealed twica that Fisk was a blackmailer. At this point Stokes became very much excited, and rose up before he could be prevented, saying, "This is all false, all false." Some additional testimony was offered, but nothing new was elicited and the evidence for tho prosecution closed. Townsend opened for the defense. de-fense. Bridged with Tec. "Watertown, N, Y., 26. The St Lawrence Law-rence is bridged between Cape Vincent ice, a distance of twelve miles; teams cross safely. T re Buffalo Water Works. Buffalo, 26. Thero is great anxiety among the citizens over the derangement derange-ment of tho water works. Patrols are formed to guard aaainst fire to-night. The cause of the trouble is not definitely ascertained. Some think the mouth of the tunnel is choked with ice. All the factories, ete,, requiring steam, and dependent de-pendent on the water works for water, have stopped, entailing loss on thousands thous-ands of oporatives. The Commercial and Courier ofHoas are obligod to haul watar from the creek to enable them to get out their papers. Hew York Intelligence, New York, 26. By a collision on tha Erie road, near Sufforen, this morning, L, 8. Uennan, a woalthy citizen of Kingston, was fatally hurt. Minister Washburn sails for France on Saturday. lie haa declined the pub he d'nnor tendered him by governor Washburno and other prominont citizens citi-zens of Massachusetts as ho has made all arrange mon Is to sail as stated. Specie shipments yesterday woro $(100,000. Tho ongagPinonts ior noxt Saturday are half a million. The liro mart hat to-duy commenced an investigation into the Centre st, fi.ro. The cvidnsea shows that the aipaus of o;capc provided for ha operatives ia the upper stories of Dun, Barlow & Co.'e, wero entirely inadequate, and it would appear tho loss of life is directly chargeable to this negliQonco; it also appeared that the building had been on fl.ro twico before in the last few weeks. Susan B. Anthony's Case. Rochester, 26 The inspectors who received tho votos of Anthony tt al were held to bail. Rochester, 26. In th,e ease of SMsan B. Anthony and fourteen other women, under examination for voting illegally, U. S. commissioner Storrs, to-day, rendered ren-dered his decision, holding each to bail in five hundred dollars to appear before the U. S. district court at tha next session, ses-sion, in Albany, in Jan, nary. The Bi)tlt Church Calamity. . Willi atnsport, Pa., 26. Tho cause of the terrible calamity at tho Newberry Baptist church, in this city, yestorday, appears to havo boen tho suringine out of Hie truss bearers and tho supporters of -the tloor, as nono of tbo timbers were broken. Thero were stout 300 men, women and children in the room, which was tho unpor audijqcp rcoiu of the phurch, the ocons'iOn being tho Sabbath school colobration at Christmas. When the crash came thore went up a heartrending heart-rending wail of mangled numanity; children wildly shrieked for their parents, par-ents, and thngronns of the wounded and dying filled the air- To add to the horror the oil lamps ignited, and bid fair to destroy de-stroy all in a genoral conllairnUion, Tbot a outside worked with a will, and used evory possible effort to rescue the living liv-ing from tbe church which was now on tire. But providentially the flames could be reached and wore spoedily ex-tinnuishod. ex-tinnuishod. Hefnre the door sank, many ma-ny of those within were able to reach tho windows and leaped to the ground, a distance of fifteen feet- At eleven p. m. tho dead bodies wero removed. re-moved. The following is a corrrect list of the killed: John Ritchie. Boyle Mehaffy, Mrs. Duncan Campbell and two children, a child of C. V. S. McGinnis, Mis Sallie Moffit, Miss Mary Fisher, Miss Lizzie Raskin, Miss Grace Seaman. Misa Til lie, a boy named Suman, a child of John Bubb, and Al tb. John Wilkinson. Somo forty or tifty I were wounded, mauy soriomly; some will probably die, Washington Advices. Washington, 23. Tho President has remitted that portion of tho sentence of paymaster H. B. Reese, charged with irregularities in his accounts, which suspended him from rank and duty for (our months. Tho Pras.deut haa .also remitted the fciniilar portion of iho sentence sen-tence of Alex. A. Semmes, U. fl. navy, convicted of cruel and inhuman conduct ns commander of the U. S. steamer, Portsmouth. The President has signed the bill reducing re-ducing the expenses and officers of the internal rere-ue bureau, and the work of putting tho new law into execution will be commenced immediately. lire. SL Louis, 2. The large tobacco warehouse of Ligt A Dausman, corner of Second and Walnut ttret;, was burned to-nifht with the adjoining tobacco to-bacco store oT J. C. Tipgmeyer. The loss of the former on building, machinery machin-ery and stock is near iUU.U U. Insurance Insur-ance a Mut S-"6.UOO. Tigmeyer's loss i ?75,0OO, nearly covered by insurance. The Vootc Cnk Horror. Erie, Pa., 26. The latest accounts from the scene of the railroad horror at Goose Creek, or Project Station, state that the total number of kw.ed ar.d fatay icjured wi.I be nearly thirty. A.i but four bodio are reoigs.zed. JA -.ft ,-f the wounded are do.r.g well. The immediate caue of the accident appears to hsve been a broken flange on ir.e tender- Tne coroners inqii-t rn tn ,-!.-. of the victim c-'-.n m"-,c-d at Mv-vii, N. Y., t-r.ay. D.- ic- , who n' in tr.'' cr,i-h"i i.kr tw-niy-Lve minutes, f-ay sr-rr! w-re b;..--i -. .t- Irieti': '"';hrs wr.thd aN-'iit iir l.i Kii.j -y purl" TfttK-n, ar.d ome rfiv.r.ed consciousness cons-ciousness tin burned to df-aia. |
