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BODE TO THEIR DEATHS.
Tragedy at a Masked Crossing
On Stat en Island.
Four Persons Mangled by a
Swift Train.
Crook's Crossing, near Giffords station.
Staten Island, N. Y., fulfilled its dastiny a
few days ago and hurled three souls into
eternity, while sending a fourth one to the
very gate of death.
The notorious old railroad crossing,
masked by dense woods and parsimoniously
unguarded, where more than once there has
been a hair raising escape from manslaugh
ter, missed the escape at last, and a woman.
In the bloom of life, with her year old
dauzhter and her brotaer, were mowed
down by the iron horse in a manner too
frightful for description. Following is the
list of victims:
Andrew Brandner, aged fourteen, of Eras
tina, S. I., employed as a fish and clam ped
ler by John Jones. Fatally injured intern
ally. Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards, aged twenty
seven, of Giffords, wife of Captain Jake
Edwards, of the oyster sloop Trusty, of
Great Kills. Skull crushed; died within
twenty minutes .
Blanche Edwards, infant child of the lat
ter. Skull crushed; died within one and
one-haif hours. Ju Jones, aged twenty-
four, of Erastina, fish and
brother of Mrs. Edwards,
crushed in: killed instantly.
ovster r9dler.
Top of head
The above named party was riding in
Jones's covered butcher wagon on their way
to Giffords at ten minutes past eight. They
were on the Amboy road, the chief highway
upon Staten Island, and had come from
Erastina. where Mrs. Edwards and her child
had been visiting her brother. As they
n eared the railroad track they looked out
for the locomotive, but neither saw nor heard
any sign of one. The crossing is notorious.
The highway passes over the railroad tracks
at an acute angle, and between the two, up
on the easterly side, the angle is filled in
with a deme grove f trees. The railroad
itself curves sharply just beyond the cross
ing and the only possible warning for a team
bound south is the whistle ordered by a signal
post three hundred yards up the track.
As the wagon approached the crossing,
train No. 1, with engineer Jacob Kougle in
the cab and Conductor John Sullivan in
charge, was dashing around the curve at
a forty mile pace. Engineer Kougle says
that he whistled four times. Residents in the
vicinity say that they doubt it, as some of
the engineers are very slovenly about whis
tling. The signal, if any was given, was
certainly not heard by John Jones, the dri
ver, for the old horse trotted down the track
just as the engine was upon it.
With a tremendous crash the great iron
horse struck the butcher wagon and the
sharp pilot went through it like a giant
cleaver. Showers of splinters fell off to left
and right, and with them the boy, Mrs.
Edwards and her baby; but they had been
borne 300 feet from the crossing be
fore they landed young Brandner
on his back ant the woman on her face.
Jones still lay upon the pilot when the train
was brought to a standstill, a thousand feet
down the track. The whole top of his head
was crushed in and his body was terribly
mangled. There was nothing to do but
bundle his mangled clay in his own horse
blanket and await the coming of the cor
oner. Mrs. Edwards and her baby were both un
conscious. There were marks upon the left
side of the head of each, which showed the
nature of their injuries. The woman
breathed her last on the level ballast of
the roadway. Then the suffering babe
and boy, the latter of whom had retained
conciousness long enough to give his name,
were tenderly picked up and taken to the
Baldwin House, where the former soon
ceased to suffer. The boy was taken to the
Smith Infirmary on a train, while Coroner
Martin Hughes transferred the three bodies
to his undertaking establishment at Clifton.
The railroad company made haste to ob
literate the visible signs of the disaster, but
the tracks were strewn with splinters from
the wagon for many a yard. The largest
fragments left of the wrecked vehicle
were the tires of the broken wheels.
Strange to say, although the wagon was
turned to matchwood the horse which drew
it was uninjured. One shoe was torn from
its hind feet, but the horse trotted uncon
cernedly into the big farm of Mr. Crook,
after whom the crossing is named, who
easily made him prisoner. The thills had
been cut off as if by a knife.
Mrs. Edwards, the slaughtered wife and
mother, was a handsome woman, the niece
of old Captain Tom Calm, one of the best
known residents of the Great Kills. She had
been married five years, and little Blanche
was her only child. Captain Jake was out
in his oyster sloop when his little family was
wiped out of existence.
KING- KABL DLP.
The Ruler of Wurtemberg Expires at
Stuttgart.
King Karl I. of Wurtemberg is dead. The
death of the King occurred in Stuttgart at
7 o'clock in the morning. He had been ill for
some time past, and on the day before, his
condition became so critical that extreme
unction was administered to him.
Karl Friedrich Alexander, King of Wur
temberg, was the .eldest son of the late King
Wilhelm, and was bora March 6, 1823, suc
ceeding to the throne Juno 25, 1864. His
Majesty, on July 12, 1848, married the
Grand Duchess Olga-Nicolajewna, daughter
of Nicholas I., late Czar of Russia. Karl
was a strong supporter of the scheme of
German unity.
On J une 3, 1867, a conference of the four
South German States Bavana, Wurtem
berg, Baden and Hesse-D irmstadt met in
Berlin to consider a reorganization of the
Zollverein which would include them.
His influence brought about the introduc
tion into the South German States of the
fundamental principles of the Prussian mili
tary system.
The military identity having been estab
lished throughout German Europe, it only
needed the Franco-Prussian war and common
action in 1870 to bring about the unification
of Germany with the imperial crown in the
Prussian royal family.
HE TRIED TO FORD.
But ' Uorman lxst H is Wife, Two
Children and Horse in Consequence.
While attempting to ford the Little Blue
River, near Fairbury, Neb., Albert Horman
drove his horse into the swift water, and it
was carried down stream, the wagon over
turning. Mrs. Horman and two children
were swept away and drowned. Horman
with difficulty swam ashore and succeeded in
bringing his wife out, but she died shortly
afterward. The bodies of the two iiildren
have not been recovered. .-
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
K&atern and Middle States.
A. B. Titrner & Brother, bankers at
Boston. Mass., have failed. Their liabilities
are about 500,0.
Isaac Raxdall, of Syracuse, N.Y., and
his son were killed by a train atTayette
ille. Mrs. Grover Cleveland, wife of the ex
President, gave birth to a fine healthy girl
baby at the Cleveland residence in New York
City.
Mrs. Frak Leslie, the well known pub
lisher of New York, and William C. K.
Wilde, of London, England, one of the edi
tors of the London Telegram, and a brother
of Oscar, were united in marriage in New
York City.
Jobx L. Osmoxd killed his wife and fa
tally wounded his benefactor, John C.
Burchill, at New York City, in a fit of
jealous frenzy.
Militia were held in readiness to prevent
mob violence to Ostrander and Trumphour,
the Kingston N . Y.) bank wreckers.
Hermakn Oelrichs. of New York City,
resigned from the National Democratic Com
mittee. The Rev. George Cryer, aged seventy
four, died in his carriage in Bozrah, Conn.,
while en route to read the burial service at
the burial of Mrs. Lucratia Mott. Persons
noticed the horse ambling along and stopped
it. The minister was seen sitting in the car
riage witii one hand holding the reins and
the other holding his Bible.
The Phillipsburg (Penn.) Bank have sus
pended payment. It was swept under by
the Clearfield and Houtzdale bank failures.
The court martial of Lieutenant Farrow,
of the Twenty-first Infantry, United States
Army, for negotiating alleged frauduleg
g-omissory notes, was begun in the AvxQp
uilding, New York City.
A fire did $50,000 damage to dormatories
at Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
William Cakfield confessed to having
turned the s with which wrecked the limited
train on the Pennsylvania Railroad at New
Palestine, Penn., a few weeks ago, in which
three men were killed. He attempted to
wreck the train to plunder it.
South and West.
Owing to insufficient thrashing facilities,
fifty millions of North Dakota wheat are
lying in the shocks, upon which the rain
poured for twenty -four hours.
The Hon. Harvey Watterson, father of
Henry Watterson, editor of the Courier
JoumaL died at the home of his son mi Lou
isville, Ky. He was born at Beech Grove,
the family homestead, Bedford, Tenn., No
vember 23, 1811.
The loss of the schooner Frank Perew, off
Whiteflsh Point, Lake Superior, with all on
board, is conceded. The Perew was bound
from Marquette, Mich., with coal for Cleve
land. She carried nine men and was com
manded by Captain J. Marquey, of Bay City,
Mich.
Near Walla Walla, Washington, Fritz
Zorn, a musican of the First United States
Cavalry, shot and killed his divorced wife,
mortally wounded his mother-in-law, and
shot himself in the mouth four times.
City Justice Robert Wood, of East
Grand Forks, Minn., was killed by two pro
fessional burglars whom he had arrested in
the act of robbing a liquor store and was
taking to the lock-up.
Forest fires raged for over a, week in El
Dorado County, Col., and more than forty
square miles of country were burned over.
Tne flames spread over Greenwood Creek
country and all the country to the west of
Garden Valley, destroying many dwellings,
barns, hay, fences and thousands of acres of
dry feed. Many farmers and ranchers are
rendered homeless and penniless by the fire.
The bodies of Horace Hamlin and his
daughters, Rowena, aged eleven, and Helena,
aged thirteen, were found in Corpus Christi
(Texas) Bay. It is believed the father threw
his children into the bay and then plunged
in himself. He recently met with business
reverses.
Fire destroyed the B. & O. elevator at
Locust Point, Md. Loss, $600,000.
Owing to low water in the Ohio Rivar
eighteen steamboats went aground between
Cincinnati, Ohio, and Point Pleasant, W.
Va. Great loss and inconvenience were
caused.
Twenty-five laborers of the Natural Gas
Company, at Anderson, Ind., were arrested
for trespassing. While they were at court
farmers with horses dragged the gas pipes
from the trenches and broke the pipes to
bits. At another place farmers blew out the
pipes, through which gas was flowing, with
dynamite.
Columbia Junction, Iowa, was neariy
destroyed by fire. Twenty-three business
houses were burned .
Richard von Olinda, a blacksmith, mur
dered his wife at Sacramento, Cal.,and then
killed himself. His wife had left him on
account of cruel treatment.
Wall of the burned Van Camp building
at Indianapolis, Ind., fell, fatally injuring
three firemen.
A six-year-old boy was literally de
voured by hogs at Vincennes, Ind.
Fifty thousand people witnessed the
parade in honor of tne Veiled Prophet in
St. Louis, Mo.
The steamer Chickasaw sank at Cat Island
crossing, sixteen miles below Memphis, Tenn.
She had 380 bales of cotton on board.
The dead bodies of DepHky Sheriff Bill
Castor and a bartender were Ojnd in Ghio's
saloon at Arthur City,
were shot in the back.
Teftas.
The men
Washington.
The first payments of bounty under the
law giving a bounty of two cents per pound
on sugar produced in the United States were
made at the Treasury Department, Wash
ington. They were both in favor of the
Chino Valley Sugar Company of Chino,CaL,
on two claims for the production of 340,000
pounds of beet sugar, and amounted to
$6800.
The final session of the Irish National
League Convention in Chicago, 111., adopted
a platform only moderately against Mr.
Parnell; M. V. Gannon, of Omaha, was
chosen to succeed President Fitzgerald.
Three feet of snow fell in Montana.
Melbourne, rainmaker, is in a high
feather at Good land, Kan. He contracted
to bring about a half-inch rainfall. There
was a good shower that night.
The President has appointed Lieutenant
Colonel Charles T. Alexander Chief Medical
Purveyor of the Army, to succeed Colonel
Volium, lately retired. This position is next
in importance to that of Surgeon General.
The Census Bureau from Washington is
sued a bulletin which shows that the real
estate mortgage debt in force in Illinois
Januarv 1, 1SS0, was 333,29y,2o0, of which
.ie5,2S9,222, or 43.01 per cent, of the total
was on acre tracts, and 2 19, 010, 038, or 56.93
per cent., was on village and city lots. The
debt of Cook County, containing Chicago,
was S19L518.209.
Melville as Engineer in Chief of the Navy
will not expire until next January, Secretary
Tracv has already announced that Commo
dore lelrille will succeed himself.
Mrs. Harrison, accompanied by Russell
B. Harrison and Mrs. Chenev. wife of ex
Governor Cheney, of New Hampshire, re
turned to Washington. Mrs. Harrison was
met at the station by the President and
Lieutenant Parker.
M. Roust AN, the French Minister at
Washington, who was recently recalled by
his Government, presented his letters of re
call to President Harrison.
The revenue cutter Rush has been ordered
back to Bearing Sea by the Treasury De
partment. The United States Treasury reports that
the total bonded debt of the District of Co
lumbia on September 30 was $19,133 400, be
ing a net reduction of $2,973,250 sfhceJuly
1, 1878.
N. O. Murphy, the acting Governor of
Arizona Territory, in his annual report to
the Secretary of the Interior, expresses the
opinion that the population ot the Territory
before the en d of the present fis-2J year will
reach 70.000 rople, 12,000 of whom are
Mormons. The total valuation of the tax
able property he believes will reach near
S70.000.000.
German Day was celebrated with great
enthusiasm by the citizens of Washington of
German birth and decent. The parade
passed through the White House grounds,
where it was reviewed by the President and
Secretaries Proctor and Rusk.
Professor Frank H. Bigelow, at one
time Professor of Mathematics and As
tronomy in Racine College, has been ap
pointed Professor in the United States
Weather Bureau at Washington.
Foreign.
The Russian custon officials will give
twenty-one per cent, of their salaries for tho
relief of famine sufferers.
The most uisastrious fire Halifax. Nova
Scotia has had in many years occurred on
c recent night when wharf property extend?
ing from Cronan's to Cunard's, was almost
entirely destroyed. The total loss is es
timated at 200,000 to $40,0000. The men-of-war
firemen and the military aided in fight
ing it.
Six persons perished in a fire at Puyiaur
ins, Department of Taru, in France.
There was a serious aisturbaucein Rome,
Italy, started by disrespectful acts of a party
of French pilgrims at Victor Emmanuels
tomb.
The island of Tanna has been visited by a
hurricane and devastated by a civil war.
Fierce fighting is now going on, and two
villages have been wiped out of existence.
In the midst of the fighting came the hurri
cane. The German ship J. W. Gildemer
s ten was wrecked in Dianirua Bay. The
cutter Hilda was driven ashore, and a caaoe
containing nineteen natives was lost.
Isaac Newton, Fifth Earl of Ports
mouth, expired suddenly at London, Eng
land. The cause of death was the bursung
of a blood vessel. He was born in 1825.
The British agents in Behring Sea report
that there are millions of seals on the breed
ing islands.
Boulanger was buried at Brussels, Bel
gium, amid scenes of great excitement.
The British bark Santona has been wrecked
at Matanzas. The captain an 1 fifteen of the
crew were drowned.
A fire on Mark Brown's wharf, Tooley
street, London, England, destroyed $2,500,
000 worth of property.
Advices from Massowah say that the
forces of Generals Ras Afula and Degiac
Mancascia have successfullv made a com-
j bined attack on the forces of Debeb, the
third aspirant to the Abyssinian throne. Ihe
battle was fought near Ambagarima. De
beo was killed and his army totally routed.
By the collapse of a cage at the Heydesch
bacht pit near Waldenburg, Silesia, ten
miners were killed and a nurnoer injured.
The famine in Poland is growing worse.
Workmen paraded the streets of Zawirke
and looted the bakers' shops and other places
where eatables were to be obtained. Troops
were summoned to the scene, and fired upon
the mob, killing one workman and wound
ing many others.
A fierce gale raged in the Irish Sea. and
much damage was done to shipping.
CAUSED BY A BOILER.
Seven Persons Killed and Many
Injured hy an Kxplosion.
A boiler explosion aboard the steamtug
C. W. Parker killed seven persons and
seriously injuried many others in the neigh
borhood of Archer avenue bridge on the
south branch of the river at Chicago, HI.,
about 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon. The
C. W. Parker, in company with three other
tugs was engaged in attempting to tow
the coal steanier H. S. Pickands out
of the draw of the bridge when the
explosion occurred. Three of the killed
were employes of the tug and their bodies
have not yet been recovered. The other
persons killed were standing on the banks of
the river, to which a number of spectators
had been drawn to witness the removal of
the steamer Pickands, with a cargo of coal .
The vessel had run aground in the draw and
four tugs were putting forth every effort to
move it, when one of them, the C. W. Park
er, exploded. The list of killed and wounded
is as follows:
Killed Samuel Armstrong, of Maniste?,
cook of the C. W. Parker; James B. Carter,
captain of the C. W. Parker; John C.
Moore, engineer of the C. W. Parker; Mrs.
Mary Rice, of 3013 Archer avenue; Barbara
Rice, daughter of Mrs. Mary Rice, aged
eighteen; Samuel Sawyer, laborer; unknown
man, killed by fragment of boiler, while
standing at the east end of Archer avenue
bridge.
Joseph Cullen. fireman of the
C. . Parker received fatal injuries,
Henry Bell, deck-hand, was badly scalded
and had his leg paralyzed; Charles Kirtin,
a bystander, was wounded by missiles; Frank
Wagner's arm was broken; Joseph Bom
orazk, skull fractured; George Juell, captain
of the tug Van Schaack, leg and back hurt;
Louis de Mass. deckhand on the Van
Schaack, back sprained; James Cunning
ham, cook on the Van Schaack, scalp
wounds. These were the persons most
seriously hu'i.
THE CREW LOST.
Twenty Men and the Captain's Wife
and Baby Went Down.
A dispatch was received from St. John,
New Brunswick, saying that during the re
cent stormy spell the British barkentine
Minnie G. Elkin, had been wrecked and her
crew lost. The wrecked vessel was a bark -entine
rigged ship of 429 tons burJen.
She left St. John Harbor on Auerust 19,
under command of Captain Bolt, bound for
Dundalk. The crew consisted of twenty
men, including the officers. The captain'
wife and baby were also on board. The
barken tino was built at Milford, in June,
1879, and owned by J. Lang & Co., of Mil-ford.
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