Evening Gazette

              • • r-kt-——r- - — — —, „ %fomiu% JiBte fitofeft NUMBER 1482 I Weekly Established I860. J PITTSTON, PA., TUESDAY. MARCH 15. 1887. I  ( Ten Onto Per Week A TALE OF HORROR. caused several physicians from Boston to be sent out, and Abner Alden, station agent at Dedhara, had notified the physicians there, nil of whom responded immediately. The ambulances were also dispatched from the Massachusetts' General and City hospitals with a corps of surgeons, who were enabled to render valuable assistance to tha wounded. axos or other implement*, the workeni finally succeeded in pulling out the body. In enother instance the body of a woman hm pulled out of the wreck minus one arm. Further investigation resulted in the fin ing of a missing limb. He also saw ths body of a man pulled out minus both legs, and further search resulted in the discovery of the legs. It seemed as if these members had been absolutely pul ed from the body. Many scenes similar to those described above might be pictured. The wreck was horrible in the extreme, and one of the very worst in. the annals of railroading. As fast as the, victims were brought out they were lifted tenderly into conveyances and carried to the RosKndale and forest Hills stations—most of tho dead to the latter place. Those who lived in Roslindale and who were Able to' walk climbed painfully up the embankment, through mud and ice, on to the track and took up their march forborne, and this corps of bloeding and maimed men, tramping wearily into the town, was about the first positive information the people of tlhat place had of the extent of the disaster. DENMEAD'S COFFINS. on thee* weak iron fingers, end it was but'a natural oonsequenoe that wben the engine parsed this finger should break,'and one of its supporters being gone the whole bridge had to fall. For a considerable time, and especially since the Vermont catastrophe, many of the residents of West Roxbury and Bed ham have felt alarmed about the condition of the Bussey bridge, and within a month there has been talk of circulating a petition asking for an  gabion of Hie matter, but what is everybody1* work Is nobody's, and the petition was never drawn. FLOODS IN THE 80UTH, THE WILD TALK OF ON£ OF THE HUT DWELLERS. Great Damme* from High Water Feared Along the Mlululppl. | |VlCK8BCRO, March 15.—Advices from Richmond and portions of Madison parish report the outlook in that section gloomy. The Epf» plantation is partly submerged, and the water is rising in Bayou Maoon at the rate of an inch in-twenty-four hoars. The Pugh place, on Jones bayou, is about half covered with water, which is rising there at the rate of about three inches in twenty-four hours. The Cunningham place, on the Tensas river, is all submerged and the water is rising about six inches a day. Tha Oasquet place, at section five, is" also covered with water. The private levee built by the late CM. Edward Richardson and other planters, which is about six miles long and four feet high, and is intended to protect the east bank of Bayou Macon, has given away in about twenty places above Wyley's Monticello place. Although a general overflow is not anticipated, there will bo much damage done by water coming through the openings in the Arkansas front, also by that coming in at Diamond island bend and the Beid crevasse. News, was received from the Reid crevasse to-night to the effect that United States Engineer Coppi had succeeded in protecting the ends of the levee, thus arresting the further cutting away of the embankmentDetails of the Train Wreck at Bussey Bridge, . ■e Claims to Have Been Oat of Bis Bight Mind, aad to Have Mot Bnown That Bis Wife Was Dead—Bis Coffin* The news reached police headquarters within half an hour after the accident, and Deputy Superintendent Burrill, after giving orders for a laxge detail of officers from the nearest stations to report to him, started for the scene of the disaster, and reached there about 8:30 o'clock. TEKRIBLE SCENES OF WOE. Tried On. Yonnff Working Girls Dashed to Tel* New Brunswick, March 15.—It has been discovered that the fragment of a letter in which Mrs. Denmead referred to her husband's "muMerous designs" was written .about thirty years ago, when she was the wife of Mr. Ayres, and that the expression quoted referred to Mr. Ayres' action in removing her child. Regarding the supposed presence of arsenic in her stomach, It is said by people who knew her that she had been addicted to arsenic eating for -more than forty years, and it was upon tho presentation of this fact that Justice Scudder, of the supreme court, refused the request for any analysis. It is also definitely known that Thomas Henry Ayres, a son of William and Cornelia Ayres (afterward Mrs. Denmead). is living near Bunuydale, Sedgwick count* Kan. He was the child for whom Mrs. Denmead so persistently advertised more than a quarter of a century ago. Mr. Ayres is about 40 years old, and is said to be a prosperous farmer. On Saturday a telegram was sent him requesting his inwediate presence here, and he will be in before the end of the week to take charge of his mother's estate. riblo Death. Tbe faot that the entire bridge went down, and that not a scrap of iron remained attached to the abutments, forms a curious feature of the disaster. The wreck of the bridge lies under the train debris. In one of the girders a clean, new fracture through its entire breadth at the point of junction of two of its parts is shown. It is generally believed that the breaking of this girder caused the bridge to give way, after one of the cars had been derailed by a broken .truck. At the point where the paraleil irons forming the girder were bolted together there was found a fracture in the iron, part of which was rusted, and indicated an old flaw, while the other portions showed a clean fracture. Another theory is that a broken rail caused the accident, but it is doubtful if an investigation would throw any light upon the case, for the bolts, rails, irons, girders and cars are so completely Intermingled, smashed and broken that it would be difficult to tell where they belonged. No attempt was made to save any portion of tho wreck. In fact, there was nothing but the old iron worth saving. more expeditiously and thoroughly performed. The d-'ad and Injured were quickly taken out, and never was a railroad wreck where there bail been large loss of life more promptly deserted by all wljo had suffered in it. The fact that the accident occurred in the midst of a settled suburban district, and that nobody upon the train was more than five miles away from home, made it possible to transport the dead and injured, so far as it was practicable under the circumstances. When J. H. Lannon, who was first on the ground, arrived cries and groans were coming from all parts of the awful heap. Bruised and wounded people wore crawling out from nil sides. Ho found an ax and climbed upon the third car, that lay in the trench, two others being beneath it. The cries of the injured came most from this car, ho thought. Ho crawled through a window and went to work. A woman first demanded his attention, she was pinned down by the feet and two seats, and the body of a man la/ on top of her. The body and seats were soon got out of the way. Working on the wood and iron that held her down caused her to scream with fresh agony, and it was some moments before fiie was freed. NEVER WAS SO SAD A DOTY The Wonder Is That Anybody Was left Alive—SI* Cars Down Upon Kach Other in a Slmpeless Heap—Deicrlptlons of Suffering; and ltescue 'Which Make the Blood Klin Cold In the Itolilrst Boston, March 15.—Tho recont terrible disaster at the White River bridge, on the the Central Vermont railroad, was paralleled, and, with tho oxeeption of the fire feature, almost exactly duplicated at Bus3ey bridgo yesterday; on the Dedhatn branch of the Boston and Providence railroad. At While river four cars wore thrown from the track upon a bridge seventy feet nboxo a river, and went down with the bridge, resulting in the death of thirty-two people and tho injury of nearly forty more. At Bussey bridge six cars were thrown from tho track uiKin a dry bridge forty foet above tho highway, and, with tho biidgo, crashed down into the street, resulting in the death, according to latest reports, of thirty-two people, and the wounding of from forty to sixty more. At Wliito 'river the engine and two car.C 'passed safely over the bridge and their "occupants escaped as by miracle. At Bussey bridge tho engine and three (jars passod safely over and their human freight escaped with only a jar. NAMES OF THE DEAD. The Following List is Supposed to In- Following Is the latest revised list of kilted and wounded, but it probably contains inaccuracies: Killed—Assistant Conductor Myron Tilden, Miss Lizzie \Yalton, aged 19; Miss Lizzie Manderville, aged 15; Edward Norris, freight clerk; Mrs. Kennard, Mrs. Harkius; all of Dedham. Patrolman Waldo B." I«alor qpd William Strong, of Boston, internally injured, died in the accident rooms of the city hospital; Edward Durham, of Roslindale, died at the city hospital; Lizzie H. Price, of Brookline, body badly mutilated; identified by her father at the city morgue; Mrs. Harriet Cardinal and Mary Murphy, aged 22, of Roslindale; Alice Burnett, aged 20, of Central station; Mrs. Pornell, of Roslindale; George Metcalf, of Boston; Edgar M. Snow, of West Roxbury; Mi's. G. W. Watts; W. W. Smith, brakeman, of Dodham; Charles Gates (or Gay), of Roslindale, died in an ambulance enroute to the city hospital; Harry Gay, of Roxbury; Stephen T. Houghton, of West Roxbury; W. M. Snow, of West Roxbury; Miss M L Odiorne, of Dover, N. H.; H. F. Johnson, of Boston; Emma Hill, who was the sole support of an aged mother and invalid sister, identified at the city hospital morgue; Webster Drake, conductor, of Dedham; Mrs. Sarah E. E lis, of Medfield, identified at the morgue; Frank H. Howins, of West Roxbury; Mr. Adams, of Roslindale; Barrack Corinth, of West Roxbury; Miss Ida Adams, of Dedham, 10 years of age; CJiarles Swan, of Boston; George North, of Spring street station and Peter Swashan, of West Roxbury. clude Those Killed Outright. Peak Chained with Harder. Mount Holly, N. J., March 15.—The inqueet into the death of Mary Anderson, who waa found half unconscious in the woods suffering from a bullet wound in the head, it concluded. A large number of witnesses were examined and the facts as already published were set before the jury. The evividence all pointed to Mary's cousin, Barclay Peak, who was last seen in her company, and who was tho ownentf the pistol found near her. The jury decided that the girl came to ber death through a pistol shot, and that the (hot was fired by Barclay Peak. Intense excitement is felt over the case. Peak is completely unnerved. He is under arrest. The Boston dc Providence Railroad Samuel Denmead talked with a reporter in the jail. His language was clearer and more to the point than it has been heretofore. When he spoke of his wWe tears came to his eyes several times. During the interview he was compelled by his emotion to stop talking. He was deeply grieved, apparently, when be learned she had been buried and that he could net see her again. When asked how long she bad been dead he said between his sobs: AectdenU Boston, March 16.—Latest information places the number ii jured in the Boston Jt Providence railroad accident at 114, In one of the forward cars, and among the first passengers to be taken out, was a young woman whose name has"not yet been ascertained, and whose death—for she was killed outright and terribly mutilated as well—was the most shocking of any of the passengers. When ingress was obtained through the smashed cars, and when the splintered timbers had been sufficiently removed to allow of any work upon the wri#rk, about the first body reached was that of this unfortunate woman, who was pinned down in the car with her face jammed between two sills and in a BEECHER AND THE CLERGY. Baptists and Methodists Pass Besola- tlons, the Latter Under Protest. The pcene of tins awful calamity is seven miles southwest from Beacon Hill. Between the Forest Hills ami Iloalindale stations, on .the Dedhani branch, South street makes a graceful curve, and passes under the railroad, which also curves at.that point. The bridge crossed over the highway diagonally, at a height of forty feet, and was 150 feet long. The workingmen's train, consisting jot hi) engine, oight passenger coaches and a smoking car, left Dedbam for Boston. Webster Whit9 was the engineer. Conductor Webster N. Drake, of Dedham, was in charge •of the train, ami was assisted by Conductors Myron W. Tildon, of Dedham, and Mr. Stubbs. Immediately behind the locomotive was a passenger car, following next seven other ordinary day cars, most of them of the old fashioned type, two at least with cast iron stoves in the middle of the car, and the roar was brought up by tho smoking car— nino cars in all. Stops were mado at Spring street, West Roxbury, Higlands, Central and Roslindale stations, and on leaving the last station abont 800 people were 011 board, mostly workinginen and women, shop and store girls, with lunch bags In hand and chatting and laughing merrily, and a few business men. Philadelphia, March 15.—The Baptist clergymen of this city yesterday passed complimentary resolutions on the life work of the late Mr. Beeoher. "I do not know the exact time. Bhe was very low for a long time, and I became alarmed. I think it was on Feb. 14 that I went down to my executor to tell him about it He said she would get better, and I left him feeling in better spirits. On the train I began to think over the possibility of her death, and it worked on me so that 1 appeared to forget everything, she suffered so much and was so good to me." From Blockade Runner to Coal Barge. At a meeting of Methodist ministers the following resolution was offered by Rev. J. S. J. McConnell: Philadelphia, March 15.—The old Clyde line steamer J. W. Evarman, during the civil war one of the blockade runners, recently purchased by Peter Hagan, of this city, has been converted into a coal barge and sailed for New Haven in tow of the tug Protector yesterday with a full cargo. "Resolved, That the members of the M. E. church in Philadelphia and vicinity share, in common with other branches of the church of Jesus Christ, in the general sorrow occasioned by the decease of that great and eloquent minister of the Gospel, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, late and for so many years the honored pastor of the Plymouth church, Brooklyn; and we hereby beg permission to assure his family of our profound Christian sympathy with them in their bereavement" HOST SHOCKING CONDITION. That she was alive seemed doubtful. Still (be body was moved, when, to the terror of fiferescuers, it was found that the head and out arm were severed from the body, as though done by a knife. Covered with tho rubbish of the wreck, as she lay there, no possible identification of tho remains could be made, and after fruitless attempts to remove her with their bands the rescuers obtained saws and jackscrews and, after much difficult work, succeeded in extricating all that remained of the woman who but a moment before was full of life, hope and ambition. The body was first removed, then the mutilated and unrecognizable head, and finally the arm. Tenderly the remains were covered, and saon after removed to Forest Hills and later taken to the city morgue. "How long after your visit to New York was it that she diedf Opposition to the Bell Company. Montreal, March 15.—Thomas Wallace, of York," is here for the purpose of organizing an opposition to the Bell Telephone company. Local companies will be formed in the principal cities and towns of the United States and Canada. "I can't tell exactly. It was several days." "Why didn't you notify the authorities of her death I" "I couldn't believe that she was dead. I didn't want her to die, I was crazy and but of my head. It seems to me that I am not right in my mind yet I. can't believe that she is dead. It never appeared to me she was dead." LIST OF THE INJURED. Rev. 8. Barnes critlcsed the resolution as indicating the approval by the Methodist church of Mr. BeecheHs views. He stated that while Mr. Beecher had started out as an orthodox minister, he had of late years repudiated the doctrines of blood atonement Weather Indications. Many People Maimed For I.Ife, Others Yet May Die. Washington, March 15.—For New England and the Atlantic coast states, fair weather, becoming warmer. Many of the following wore probably so slightly hurt as not to need surgical aid. George Ford, arm broken; John Tripp, lirakeman, internally; all of Dedbam. H. A. Billings, Benjamin F. Fever, Albert Burdette, Mr. Drayton, Sr., of Dedham; Miss Nollio Palmer, Frank Plummer, Miss Emma F. Ames, J. H. C. Campbell, E. A Booth, West Roxbury; Frank Nichols, of Dedham; Goorge May, crushed arm; Alonzo W. Cheever, scalp wound; Beujamiu O. Fa van, shoulder injured; Winfleld W. Smith, thigh fractured; Alice Shaw, scalp wounds; James H Noon, scalp wound; E. G. Ennis, of Dedham, hand crushed; Rene Spaans, badly injured; W. Creckles, Central station; Sergeant Hanley, Charles Scott, seriously Injured; Charles May, J. W. Hodgkins, West Roxbury, slightly injured; May F. Young, Boston, arm badly cut; Arthur Cutler, Dedbam, back badly injured; RowellUardy, Dedham, slightly Injured; Frank Spear, Spring street station, head Injured; Conductor Stubbs, Dedham, slightly Injured in head; Henry P. Earnsbaw, Spring street station, head seriously injured, internal injuries; Addle Page, Dedham, slight injuries to head; C. A. Morse, West Roxbury, spine injured; Otto Mueller, Rodindale, badly injured; Miss Beecher, stepdaughter of Mueller, ankle sprained; Walter Whittemore, of* Roslindale, head badly bruised and hand crushed: Miss Alice Adams, Roslindale, badly, possibly fatally injured; Charles Weeks, Roslindale, injured about head and arms; Benjamin W. Dunham, Roslindale, slightly injured; E. W. Reed, slightly Injured; Frank Gibbons, West Roxbury, slightly injured; James Ryan, Roslindale, badly injured; Warner, Roslindale, fatally injured; Mr. Cardinal, scalp wounds, contusion of chest and hips; John Murphy, Roslinuale, very badly injured, possibly fatally; C. It Cutter. Dedham, ribs broken and face injured; Joseph A. Metcalf, two ribs broken; Heary Cardwell, scalp wounds; Edward Packard, ankle fractured, with other wounds; Mabel Adams, Roslindale, severely injured; Edward Packer, Roslindale, severely; George Waldron, slightly; C. W. Hawkins, internal injuries; Hattie Dudley, fatally; O. 8. Hammond, Dedham, fractured right arn); Charles N. Schrano, Roslindale, cut on forehead five inches long: William Jordan, brakeman, badly bruised; G. A Lord, fracture of ankle and collarbone injured; William F. Bowman, Dedham, thigh fractured; John H. Drayton, Dedham, compound fracture of right arm; Edward Chapin, Dedham, ankle injured; Swallow, Roslindale, rupture on right side; C. W. Doe, Roslindale, back injured; Canute Lutroppe, Roslindale, scalp wound; Cyrus Hayes, breast injured; Robert T. Abraham, Roslindale, internal; William Humphrey, Dedham, internal; Mr. and Mrs. Tompkins, Ro-.-lmdaJe, badly shaken up and bruised, mdy severely cut and bruised; Brown, Sharon, legs broken; Edward B. Morse, Uoslindalo, three ribs fractured and other injuries; L. B. Clifford, Roslindale, scalp wounds; four unknown men; three unknown women; Miss Jennie Barry, Dedham, right leg and elbow Injured; Leverett Witts, Dednaw, head and legs; Miss Carrie Witts, sister of Leverett, also of Dedham, injured oil forchoad; Clifford Conway, Dedhain, injured on leg and wrist; S. Pierce, jr., Dedham, slight; E. Hensel, Roslindale, slightly; Gould Hensetl, arm badly injured; Cassie Smitliers, Central, leg badly bruised; Ella Carr, Central, leg cut and bruised; Miss Lippincott, Central, leg sprained; Section Foreman E. F. Hall, ribs broken and badly bruised; P. S. Harvey, badly injured; William Hudson, Roslindale, slightly injured; R J. Strong, cut on head; M. Carlo, severely injured in abdomen; William Alanson, injuries to back; Harry Davis, Roslindale, nead injured; Johu H. Draper, Dedham, right wrist and two fingers broken; Hamilton P. Marble, Roslindale, injured in the breast. "Did you expect that the was coming back to life again I" and of the of the body. Mr. "T«a; I do not think she wanted to die and leave me. She thought the world of me, and she waa so good, too. We never quarreled during all our married life." TRADE BULLETIN. Beecher also believed in probation after death, and practically in universal salvation. He had been a great man, and had done great things as a patriot and in the emancipation of slaves, but Mr. Barnes did not consider him an orthodox minister. Now York Money and Produce Market At 7:15 o'clock the train rounded the curve and passed upon the bridge. The engine had just crossed the last abutnunt when Engineer White felt a jar, as if tho train had struck something. Glancing backward I10 saw and heard, as did the engineer of that fated Central Vermont train, tho rear cars and the bridge falling with a crash Near the stove, in each other's arms, were two other young women, both dead—evidently instantly killed—their heads crushed almost bevond recognition. They also lay wedged in between the debris of the wreck, pinned down so tightly that action was impossible, and hero again it required jaekscrews, levers and saws to extricate the remains. One woman, who suffered only, and miraculously enough, from slight injury to her feet, was removed from this impromptu coffin and carried home. Another woman lay cramped between two car seats, with life extinct. Not a mark appeared upon her body to indicate how death approached. Extended, with arms pushed forward as though to ward off the crashing timbers which fell about, but did not touch her, sh% lay there as calm, appearing as though in sleep. But the awful position *1 which tho body lay left no doubt but that in the upheaval of the overturning car the woman became wedged between the seats, and the life slowly crushed from the frail body. It wast&n awful sight. There was death visible in every form. Right at her elbow was another lest fortunate who, while killed, must have suffered terrible agony before death relieved her. "So that is as near as yon C an fix the day of her death, shortly after Feb. 14r' "Tea, that is aa near as I can remember, for I have not appeared right in my mind since. My memory is weak, and I do not appear to understand everything that is said to me. If she is dead, why dont they let me go and bury herf New York, March 11—Money closed at SM per cent, the lowest rate of the day. The highest rate was 6. Exchange closed steady; posted rates, 4.85K®4.88: actual rates. 4.84*®4.84J4 (or sixty days and 4.87?$@4.88 for demand. Governments closed firm; currency lis, 18))£ bid; 4s, coup., 128*6 bid; do.. 109M bid. Quotations. There was no disposition to prolong the discussion, and after Mr. Barnes had finished his remarks the reeolution was put to-a vote, Mr. McConnell explaining that it did not imply unqualified endorsement of all Mr. Beecher's theological views. The resolution was adopted by a vote of 20 to fit The stock market continued weak up to S o'clock, and In some cases a further fractional decline was recorded, bat In the last hour a covering by some of the shorts resulted In a slight recovery. The decline In the active list, as compared with Saturday's cloning, ranged from M tc H4 per cent. Hocking Valley continued weak throughout, and closed 4H per cent lower. "Her family has attended to that If yon did not believe she was dead, but would return to life again, why did you have thoee two coffins madef" The three cars immediately followiug the engine had safely crossed the bridge, but had been thrown from tlio track. Engineer White at once disconnected his engine, and, putting on all steam possible, ran down towards Forest Hilln station. J. H. Shannon was driving up from Forest Hills toward tho scene of the disaster when the engine came down tlie track, whistling wildly. The locomotive slowed down at tho Forest Hills crossing, and Shannon stopped his team, shotting to the engineer, "What's the matter 1" ' 'My train lias gone through Tin bridge. Telegraph to Boston," was the reply. Shannon went to the station with the message, which was quickly flashed over the wires. Then he hastened back to his team and drove tp to the wreck, being the first outsider to reach the spot. Arriving at Forest Hills, the engineer at onco rang in a fire alarm, which summoned to the scene the firfe department fif Rnelindale, with a steamerfnnd hook and ladder truck from Jamaica Finn. Having thoroughly arouseiti tho surrounding communities and telograplied the fact of tho disaster to the officials in Boston, Engineer White amounted his engine and ran her back to tho wreck, where crowds were already gathering. The first three cars, numbered 52, 18 mid 88, stood derailed as he liad loft them. The nejet car, which was so •completely nnasliod that its number could rot" txJ m:\de out, went to pieces in the most extraordinary and inexplicable way. Its roof went over; tho body of it went down the abyss, forty feet deep, and was hurled iv:th such force against the masonry of tho abutment that it was smashed into fragments. It woe iti 1 his car, which bore the brunt of the shoe* that tho greatest number of casualties took place. The next car, No. 80, also dashed against the abutment, passing partially underneath and partially through the qar in advance of it. The shock left it very badly smashed, but enough of it was there to reveal the old fashioned cast iron stone standing bolt upright, untouched and intact. Hore, as elsewhere in the train, there were traces left of the dreadful word of the collision in splashes of blood left upon the seats and sides. Still miothor car, whose number whs undistinguishablo, followed this, and directly behind this car came No. 81, auotber old fashioned one, which escaped with less damlage than any other that went through tbe a broken central truss of tbe structure nerving the purpose of pinning it in an uj* right positjo-. Than came car No. 82, which iho crash left ut.ot its sido, thoroughly amashnd, and a t the end the smoking car, whicli, by u most extraordinary wrench, wfts turuct rxuetiv bottom side up and loft lying upon its roof. In thd roadway under tho )Dridgc, than in tlv space of 150 "feet between j&Utinent and abutment, there wero in an iiuatUH piled up the debris of six cars, interwoven almost inextricably with the trusses find of tho iron bridge, and within and hiuong which tho passengers were held last, iir wrHliUig in distress, some of them cruslied almost beyond the recognition of tbe banian shape, and one or two of them bebD ■aded, INTO TIIE ABYSS BELOW THEY REDEEM THEMSELVES. "One waa for Robert and one for me." Chleago Congrecatlonallsts Think Better "I was vary sick, and Dr. Newell said I couldn't live. He said my lungs were gone, and that even if I got over the pneumonia I could not live much longer." "What do you mean by one for you!" Cbioaso, March 15.—A highly euloglstta memorial to the late Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was adopted at the meeting of Congregational ministers yesterday. It begins: "Since we separated, Henry Ward Beecher, the foremost citizen of the republic, has entered into rest For half a century the leader of the American pulpit, as a preacher he has had no peer in any of the oenturiss since Chrysostom, the golden mouthed." of Their Action. Nxw Tors, March It—FLOUR—dosed weak, but prices show no decided change; winter wheat extra, $8.1S®5.85; Minnesota extra, S3. 8®9.10; city mill extra, $4.80®4.88; Ohio extra, f 115®5. Southern flour closed steady; common to choice extra, $8.40®&H5. General Markets. "Why didnt you have Robert buried as soon as ha died!" "I was sick and could not help myself. Then my wife became sick and I went out of my head. I have not been myself since she died. I wanted her to come back. I want her to come back now." WHEAT—Options were moderately active and Irregular, closing at a decline of Spot Iota closed weak amLUQMo lower. Spot sales of No. 1 red state at 04c.; No. a do., M®9«Hc.; No. 1 red whiter, 88c.; No. Sdtk, 8#4a: ungraded red. 90®98c.; No. 2 red winter. May, 91&c.; do. July. The old man broke down completely, and it was thought best to lead him back to his celL The coroner's inquest failed to develop any new facts. Carpenter Esler, who made the coffins, testified that he suggested the idea of coffins to Denmead because he suspected their hovel contained the dead body of the wife. He was in hopes thus to discover the truth. When Denmead gave him the order on Jan. 16 be told him he wanted one for himself, and he got Esler to take his measure. After the coffins were completed he lay down in one of them and said he was satisfied with it The same tone is maintained until the following passage: "Whatever his deviations from the dootrinee commonly held by our Congregational churches, and we cannot deny that in our judgment they were very serious, those who knew him best bear testimony to an ever increasing love on his ■part for the Savior, and to an ever increasing earnestness in impressing the claims of the Savior's service upon bis bearers. With grateful memoriee of the noblest works of his noblest years we lay our wreaths on his grave and bid him rest in honor and peace." THE MAJORITY of ther passengers in the cars which plunged to death were women. All young, happy, hopeful creatures, whose tiny sachets, with carefully prepared lunches, told pathetically, as no words possibly can, the circumstances of thoir daily lives. Ben Goldsmith, a resident of West Roxbury, was one of the fortunate passengers. He was in tbe last car to land safely on the further side of the bridge, and as the car which followed his plunged backward, and down into eternity, he jumped through the rear of the car and landod upon the embankment safe, as the dj-ing cries were sent up from the commingled and indistinguishable mass below. In the first car that went down sat, sido, by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cardinal. Mrs. Cardinal's head struck the side of the car aud she was instantly killed. Her husband escaped with his life. His injuries were summed up as follows: Severe scalp wound, contusion of the chest, with bloody expectoration, contusion of the hip, besides severe bruises on almost every part of his body. He is at present doing very well, and" tho physician feels very confident. In the smoker a Mr. Roundy, aged 50, was playing cards with Ed Snow, Harry Gay and Officer Lalor. Every one of his companions were killed outright, and a few moments later Mr, Roundy found himself standing in the soft clayey mud of the Roslindale road, his clothing torn, the blood streaming from face and hoad, holding in his hand the queen of diamonds, the surviving relic, besides himself, of a game that will never be flnishod. Roundy managed to got home, where he is now lying in a critical condition. CORN—Options were only moderately active and weak, closing M®$Cc. lower. Spot lots closed weak and Ma lower. Spot sales of No. 2 mixed at SOMc.: ungraded mixed, 49 j}Mc.; No. 3 mixed, March, 48)Cc.; do. April, 49c.; da May, 49^e. OATS—Options ruled about st«ady, and closed unchanged. Spot lots closed Arm and a shade higher. Spot sales of No. 1 white state at 88}£c.; No. 9do.,!MSHc.; No.2mixed, March,84)£®34^c.; do. April, S4D*e.: do. May, S4H®84»ic. BYE—Quiet; western, 5)®07c ; state,  BARLEY—Nominal. PORK—Dull; old mess, $15X5®15.75. LARD—Closed quiet, but Arm; cash, $7.70; April, $7.87®7.B9; May, $7.75. Brooklyn, N. Y., March 15.—The proposition to erect a monument to the memory of the late Henry Ward Beecher by popular subscription is received with general favor in this city. Already several thousand dollars have been promised and the movement 'will take a shape in a few days. A meeting of citiasns is called for Friday night tcappoint a commit tee to have charge of the arrangements and subscriptions. Mrs. Beeoher went to Peekskill today to bid good-bye to "Boecobel," where she spent so many happy days with her husband. She will return on Wedneeday and start at once for Florida. Proposed Beecher Hsssmest The Ball road Strike Uqohanged. Yotoostowu, O., March if—There is no change in the status of the striking yardmen of the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohic railroad, Pennsylvania and Pittsburg and western lines. A committee of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio yardmen from Cleveland and a committee here held a conference with Superintendent O'Brien this morning with cloeed doors. The probability is that all existing differences among the New Ycfrk, Pennsylvania and Ohio employee will be adjusted and traffic resumed to-night. ' BUTTER Quiet and barely steady; state, 12® 81c.; western, 12®ale. CHEESE—Dull, but steady; slate, lltf®14c.; light skims, llM®12c. EGOS—Dull, but Arm; state 17a; western, 18)$ ®17a SUGAR—Raw Arm and prices steady: fair rereflning, 4 9-18. Refined firm; cut loaf, «X® 8 6-lbc.; crushed. 6M®S5-18c.: cubes, C%c:; powdered, tJiutMc.; wanulated, mold A, 8?Cc.; confectioners' A, tftc.; coffee A, standard, •He.; coffee off A, B white extra C, 4J4C.; extra C, 411-16®4 18-lSa; C, 4 7-18® 4 9-11)0.; yellow, 4H®4«c. Chicago's Army Post. Suspicion of Poisoning. Washihqtoh, March IS.—Gon. Sheridan goes west next week to loyte the new army poet provided for by the Hbt congress. That it will be very near Chicago is very well established. A vast pressure has been brought to bear upon Gen. Sheridan tDy Chicago people, with whom he became closely identified during his long reaidenoe there, to have the post nearer than Fort Riley.  Fall Rivkb, March 15.—Margaret Fools, wifa of William Pool*, died yesterday under drcnmataucaa of a somewhat suspicious nature. It u reported thatg«atCA i-esultef from poisoning. Nxw York, March 15.— Mme. Sarah Bernhardt opened her New York engagement at Star theatre last evening before SB immense audience. The excitement was so great that several persons fainted during the artiste's realistic acting of "Princeese Fedora." The representative people of the city were in the theatre, including prominent politicians, social ladies and literary men. Three recalls followed the first act, two were giveu at the close of the second, while the curtain went up five times for the great actress to receive the superb floral tributes that were sent to her after her wonderful acting in the third act The greatest enthusiasm followed the death scene in the last act, which was the finest acting that has been on our stage sinoe the time of Rachel. The "Divine" Sarab. ftOYJ^ Robert T. Abrahams was jammed in between the seats badly, and his leg broken. His daughter Nelllie wus badly injured in many places about tbe limbs and body, and all her front teeth were knocked out, several of them being swalloweft Washington* March 15,—IJ. can be stated on good authority that the state department has never contemplated the recall of Judge Manning, minister t* Mexico, nor has bis resignation been tendAed. The Manning Story Denied. was that of two girls with arms around one another, clinging in the embraco of death. Both had been killed by blows upon the head. One man was found sitting bolt upright in his seat, but stone dead, with blood flowing in several small strumas from cuts on the head. The womeu had an awful time in getting out Hany left their clothing, which was torn from their forms. There wore four girls dead together, as if they had occupied two seata facing each other. All of tlioso pinned down in the car a horrible fear of fire, and shrieked for assistance to escape possible cremation. A PATHETIC SIGHT Editor Palmer la Dylhg. Chicago, March 15.—Harry Palmer, well known as editor, author and correspondent, with the nom de plume of Remlap, was taken with pneumonia a few daya ago and is dyi»fr  Police man O'Nell's Assailant. Boston. March 15.—The man who ihot Officer O'Neil last Saturday morning gave his name as Wallace It is now learned that bis full name is Thomas Wallace Kane, and there is little douM that he is one of the men that broke into Cutter's ooal office, shortly before the assault on O'KeiL It is said that Kane, although baring no visible means of support, always has plenty of money, and be is supposed to hare been connected with the various safe burglaries recently perpetrated in this neighborhood. Kane is still at large. CONDENSED NEWS. *4KlHc POWDER The places of the striking coal miner? at Peoria, Ilia, are being filled by colored men. TO SUCH AS HA1D POWER TO MOVE (,htD means of extrication #ere made tho eosixi' by the completeness of the wreck, foi lite «.iles and ends of the caiu were often fcins"»4ii out, .paving more or Icfs free Hut in the two cars which struck (bn augment the scene was fearful The «rnodC-:i dt-lirU was piled up about ono of the More.: m I was on tho very point of setting tbo wrtt-A • 11 lire when llio earliest arrivals at thD' iooue and those who had already succeedtHl in t'Xtricating themselves unhurt mana&t I to drag the stove out through the broken walls of ttie car and deposit it upon the roadway. Nor.e of th» other stoves were snkuhed, for a wonder, sufficiently to ignite the wreck with their burning contents, and tho work of extricating the dead and Foiwm Governor Lounsbury has signed the bill prohibiting railroad traffic in the state of Connecticut on Sundays between the hours of 9 a. am. and 3. p. m. William Young, of Koslindale, was in the third car that fell. He says there were a great many ladies in his car, most of thom being killed. lie saw many women with their heads and necks cut and breasts badly mutilated. Ho smashed through n window, gut out and workeii an hour helping others. Ho says tho women were as brave as the men, and there was little loud crying, except by three who were pained down. An officer saw tuo The disaster is the first that has occurred for years on the Providcnco rood, The raU- IVhat Canned the Accident. Rochester, N. Y., Is looking for a big strike on the 1st of April, the union laborers and mechanics in that city now working ten hours having notified their employers that they will work only nine hours a day after that date. road commissioners hare visited the scene, and had pointed out to them the supposed cnuso of tho accident. At the lower end of the hungers which supported the bridge is a castiron box, inclosing a clutch which resvmbloi two lingers of a hand drawn up to a half circle. These clutohes were about 2% inchcs wide and inches thick. Over the iron lingers was a round steel pinion about 18 incite* long and & inches in diameter. One of these fingers was completely rotted away by rust, and the other rusted about through. Thus the whole strain was thrown The doctors think O'Neil baa about an even sbance of recovery. New Orleaaa Haoee. Absolutely Pure* New Orleans, March 15.—The track w*S in good condition. First race, six furlongs; Little Sullivan 1, M'lias 9, Whisky Jack 8; time, 1:17$$ Second-race beaten horses, five furlongs; Willie Martin 1, Kirk 3. Effle H. 3; time, 1:05. Third race, one mile; Handy Andy 1, Kensington 2, Barbara 8; time, 1.-4& There will be raeiMC to-morrow. James C. Baylea has bean appointed by the mayor of New York to be president of the health department, to succeed (Jen. Bhaler, lately dismissed trAga the office. Thto powder never vertee. A marreldf parity Itreoirth and wboteeoraeness. More econon'a then Ihe ordinary kinds, end oennot be eo'd la oonpetldon with the multitude ef low teet,ah it weight alum or pbMphtte powders. Soldo '« »Cyu Botal Bakiss Fowon Oo„ in Wall IIKAD OP A WOlfAX North Carolina proposea to enforce the tax law apon commercial travelers, notwithstanding the lata rating of theTTmtad States ■oprtoM court against soch tax. out, and by broking th»-woodwork at a car wiih heels, I tones ana anything they could lay their hands on, in the abeence of