Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1887 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. A Utica (N. Y.) telegram says that an accident happened to the President’s train, Saturday night, while returning from Clayton to Alder Creek. The train was brought to a stop before the President's party became aware that there was any accident The engineer had his hand on the whistle to blow for Stile Crossing, when tho connecting bar to the forward driver on the right-hand side of the engine broke, and the huge piece of steel revolved with terrible velocity, tearing out one side of the cab and ripping up the ties and the ground as the engine rushed along. A huge futcture was made in the boiler, and the steam escaped in volumes. The President, when informed of tho affair, said he thought there was something serious the matter when he saw the clouds of steam. Reilly, the engineer, who had saved his fireman by forcing him on top of the cab, was found lying alongside his engine dead. After instructions were given to care for the dead engineer, the President’s car was attached to the express train, which bad come up by this time, and was taken to Alder Creek. Extensive forest fires are raging in the lumber regions of Pennsylvania, in the vicinity of Brockwayville. Five persons were killed at Pittsburgh, Pa, by kindling fires with kerosene. The Metropolitan Storage Warehouse was destroyed by fire in New York, and a number of firemen were seriously injured. St Joseph's Orphan Asylum also took fire, and several hundred children narrowly escaped being burned to death.