Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1877 — DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE [ARTICLE]

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE

By the explosion of the boiler of the steamer J. H. Camden, en route from Parkersburg to Pittsburgh, tho pilot and three colored deckhands were killed, and four others of the crew wounded. A serious mine disaster is reported from Wheatland, Ta. Six men were smothered to death by the gas escaping from a locomotive engine used in hauling coal from the mine. An engine ran wagon and team crossing the railroad at Wendell, Mass., the other day, killing Ira Davis, Mrs. Jonah Davis, his mother, Mrs. Ira Wakefield, Mrs. Eugene Brown, and Miss Nellie Lacey. Tho party were returning home from berrying. By the explosion of a boiler in an iron mine near Allentown, p a ., a few days ago, three men were instantly killed, five fatally injured, and three others seriously wounded. The bodies of the killed were shockingly mangled. All leave

families. Several mules and horses were also killed by tho explosion. West. Two blocks of business houses in Del Norte, he principal town in tho San J uan mining region of Colorado, have been laid waste by fire. The loss is estimated at $200,000. A terrific tornado recently swept through the town of Pensaukee, Win., wrecking buildings, and creating the wildest havoc. Six persons were killed and quite a number wounded. The storm was in the form of a whirlwind, and was terribly effective in its death-dealing work, leaving but throe or four houses standing. Three of the highwaymen who have been amusing themselves by robbing the stages running between Deadwood and Cheyenne have at last been caught, and arc now in jail. Miss Kate Kelley, of Decatur, 111., was stung in the mouth by a bee, and so rapidly did the poison diffuse itself that she died in eight minutes. The Butchers’ and Drovers’ Bank, of St. Louis, has closed its doors. Tlie liabilities are f 750,000. The President of the bank claims that its assets are SBOO,OOO. Gen. Howard, commanding the forces operating against the Nez Perces Indians in Idaho, had a severe engagement with Chief Joseph’s band on the 11th and 12th of July. The latter were strongly posted jn a canon near the mouth of the Cottonwood, and after several hours of severe fighting Gen. Howard succeeded in dislodging them. They retreated in the direction of the Snake country. Gen. Howard reports his loss thirteen killed and twenty-four wounded, Capt. Croft and Lieut. Williams being among the slain. The Indian loss is reported as thirteen killed and a large number wounded. The forces engaged in this battle were 400 white troopH and 300 Indians. Gen. Howard says the savages fought as well as any troops ho ever saw, as did also the men under his command, not one failing in his duty. South. A specie train en route from tho mines in Chihuahua, Mexico, to San Antonio, Texas, was recently attacked by thirty-five white and Mexican highwaymen fifty-two miles from the latter place. A desperate fight between the robbers and the twenty men escorting the train ensued, and the former were driven off with tho loss of several killed and wounded. Two of the train men were killed and several wounded. There has been a smart bit of war and some bloodshed down in Carter county, Kv. A band of outlaws and horse-thieves have been lording it over the people of that'section for a long time, until one day tho law-abiding citizens got mad and concluded to put a stop to their further depredations. They got out warrants for the arrest of the ringleaders, four brothers named Underwood. Tlie latter took refuge in a cabin, barricaded themselves and bid defiance to their would-be captors. After a siege of seventeen days, during which time an almost constant fusilado was kept up between besieged and besiegers, the outlaws were starved into submission. One of tho Underwoods was killed and two others wounded during the siege. The military are now up in arms, and propose to arrest or clean out tho whole band of outlaws, numbering upward of 150. At Baton Rougo, La., a few days ago, Mrs. O’Connell and her child and Mrs. O’Connor and her two children were drowned while attempting to cross the Mississippi river in a skiff. A convention of whites and blacks of South Carolina recently met on the scene of the Ellenton riot of last fall, and the delegates shook hands, buried tlio hatchet, aud adopted resolutions of peace and harmony, dropping hostilities and prosecutions into the same grave, and pledging tliemselvos to mutual protection and brotherly love in the future.