Show W v mm SHRIEKS AND GROANS OF THE A terrible scene of excitement cit ement ont february aary 27 tho st louis express passing hero eastbound east bound this evening went through a bridge just east of the station A broken tire on one 0 the engine wheels caused the rails to spread and the first passenger car a pullman car and a dining car went through the middle section of the bridge the pullman car which contained moat of the passengers was thrown clear off the bridge turning completely over and landing right side up the dining car stands on end against the pier the passenger car remained on the bridge eight or ten persons were killed and about thirty wound cd persons havo been bakon out of the cars the dicing room car contained about seven persons besides the waiters supper was just announced and in a few minutes the car would have been filled and all must have perished following is a list of the george doggert Tog gert of mitchel william of london DL swan and a W frauds of woodstock of detroit michigan mr babinea of hamilton and captain moore of bradford both of the salvation army mr peters of woodstock the injured number thirty in all who are badly shaken up some have limbs broken none of them however are believed to be fatally hurt the accident was witnessed by some of tho town people the alarm was given and in a few minutes tha street was a deceno of the wildest excitement cit ement was hurried to the bridge and the dead and wounded were taken out of the debris they were conveyed to the hotels and private residences and station houses all the doctors in the town were soon on hand and attended without delay to the mortals who groaned and cried for help the bridge that gave away is feet high st george near where the disaster occurred is on the great western branch of tho grand trunk railway ohe fooled her mother ala feb 26 mies mildred maddox a remarkable pretty blonde near brewton ala in the absence of her father last saturday night thought to frighten her mother by impersonating a tramp and demanding something to eat her disguise was so perfect that her mother believing it was a vagabond ordered him to leave he persisted and made strong demands whereupon mrs maddox picked up a double shot gun and emptied the contents into the supposed tramp when the mother found ehe had shot her daughter the shock was so greaff that she was prostrated the shot took effect in miss maddows right arm and shoulder burrt berer EL PASO feb 26 john beeves a noted character who is wanted in calahan county texas for a murder he committed there in 1884 was captured in sonora mexico last week and brought to el paso today to day an Moir tec DICKINSO dakota feb 26 john holler a german farmer near here chased his wife from home this morning and locked his five children in the house which he fired then taking a rifle he went to a neighbors and killed his wife and himself the children managed to escape from the burning house nril 20 senator hoar today to day offered an amendment to the deficiency appropriation bill to enable the president to offer a suitable reward for the detection and conviction of the persons or either of them who unlawfully carried away and destroyed tho poll books and ballot box at Phim merville arkansas february ag the president has issued the following proclamation public interests require that the senate should be convened at 12 on tho ath day of march next to receive euch communications as may be made by the executive now therefore there fere I 1 croover cleveland president of the halted states do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the senate of the united states to convene on the ath day of march at 12 noon of which all persons entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice alic february ag the conferees on the general land bill have practically reached an agreement it is upon a measure substantially like the house bill which provides for the repeal of the pre emp tion and timber culture laws A modification fi cf tha desort land law and a substitution of a general and effective law to protect actual settlers upon the public domain the georgia odore ATLANTA ga feb 26 fuller ro ports from the cyclone of last boek in banks county reveal an amount of disaster to property loss of life which would rival a western whirlwind the cyclone was extremely narrow cutting a path only yards wide but in that width it destroyed everything houses were blown down fences wiped away stock killed and over twenty s i and killed mrs william headers whose large house was utterly swept away in not expected to recover from her injuries her husband also now lies seriously hurt thomas stevens was instantly killed and his son william was blown a hundred yards and had broken he died in a few hours and father and son now 0 in one graven lira Ste Tens was blown fifty nacda and is not expected to live others in the same house bold are seriously hurt the track of the cyclone extended seventeen miles end the books and papers of the stevens family were found ten miles away in a direct line A woman with a baby in her arms was blown yards and deposited on a mass of bay blown out of a barn and with the exception of a gash on her head neither sho nor the babe was hurt the force of the wind was so great that a buggy and horse was lifted into the air and blown into an adjoining field large trees were wrenched off two feet above the surface and a cow ass found with a piece of plank krivoa into her body anch a violent storm is not remembered in that locality for tho last fifty years it lasted but twenty minutes and was accompanied compa nied by a heavy electrical display |