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A Day Of Disasters

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Day
5
Month
June
Year
1890
Copyright
Public Domain
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1 BIKTKEN LIVK8 LOS I'. San Fr.vncwco, May :1.- One of the most horrible railway accidunts Bver known in California oceurred at 1:40 o'cloclc l'riday aftcnioon, when a local train eonneeting at Oakland with the ferryboate from San Francisco ran through an open draw bridge over San Antonio creek at Webster creek, Oakland. The yacht Juanita had just passed through the draw when the train appeared, going in the direction of Alameda, The draw-bridgo keeper endeavored at once to close the bridge, but it was too late, and the engine and tender and the first car, which was filled with passengers, plunged into the estuary, which was here quite deep. Engineer Sam Dunn and Flrem.an O'Brien went down with the engine, but were picked up and imaiediately disappeared. The former, when ho saw that the bridge did not close, reversrd the lever, but the momentum of the engine was too great to be stopped in time. The weightof the engine and the first car broke the couplings and lef t the other two cars of the train standing on the track. The second car ran about one-third of the way across the bridge and stopped, but the jar was sufficient to break open Uip front of the car, and many of the passengers were thrown into the water. The first car, whlch had followed the engins to the bottom of the muddy estuary, soon rose, and sueh of the passengers as liad eseaped therefrom were picked up by yachts and small boats which had gathered at the scène. In a short time thirteen bodies lay on the floor and on the marble slabs of the morgue, awaiting Identification. STBUCB BI .IN EXPHE8S TKAIN'. Maimón, Ind., May SI. - Two womon and two children were killed Friday afternoon near the eastern limits of tho city, where the I'an-Handle track crosses the Jonesboro pike. The Chicago, St Louis & I'ittsburgh oxpress, westbound, running fully rifty miles an bour, collided with a buggy and killed Airs. O. J. Stone and her two children and Mrs. Poe Wimraer. Nobwich, Conn., May 81. - An express train on the New York & New England railroad struck a wagon contaminar fout woolen-mill employés at a crossing in Putnam Friday evening. Zend Eobillard, who was dnving, was instantly killed, and Frank Garteier and two sisters naraod Duprey were srobably fatally Injured. FOUB EN KIIXBD. Putnam, Conn., May 81.- Fout men were killed by the cars here yesterday. I'hey attempted to drive across the track in front of a train. ELEVEN DEATHS IX (,i:i;MAXV. Hf.ki.in, May 81. - Flve persons were nlled by lightning at Hamburg yesterday and six children were killed by the fall of a swinr ata kindergarten in the villagc of Reimsklndorf. A Sil, LUBB BTIRNBD. Shanghai, May 80.- The local steamer Paching, plying on the Woosung river, ha.s boen destroyed by fire. While t is not yet known how many persons ïave been lost, twenty-two of those who were on board the steamer are missing.

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Ann Arbor Register