Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1887 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A storm in Louisiana is reported to have destroyed all the sugar-cane between Morgan City and New Orleans. In the latter city houses, fences, and trees were blown down, and many of the streets wore inundated. A dispatch from Charleston, W. Va., gives the following particulars of a serious wreck to a fast express on the Chesapeake and Ohio Bailroad: Bix coaches, going west, met with an accident twelve miles below this city, in which twentysix passengers were more or less injured. None were killed outright, but several were seriously injured. The accident was caused by a defective switch, over which the engine, baggage, express ana mail cars passed safely, but the three middle coaches, all well-filled with passengers, were thrown from the track, two of ■which were turned completely over, one turning twice. It was fortunate that the-fires had gone out in the stoves, or the loss of life would ave been great No blame is attached to the employes, and the company is doing all in its

power to care for ttie injured, many of whom were able to continue their journey. An immense crowd was assembled in Montgomery, Ala, to greet the Chief Magistrate upon his arrival in that city on Thursday. The Presidential party breakfasted at the hotel with Governor and Mrs. Seay, Colonel ard Mrs Newman, Mayor Beese and daughter, ex-Govemor O’Neil, Senator Morgan, Senator Pugh, and a few others, after which they reviewed the troops from the balcony of the hotel. Mrs. Cleveland whs the surprised recipient of & unique and beautiful souvenir from the Mayor and City Council It is a solid silver jewel-case in the form of a bale of cotton, about eight inches in length and proportionate in depth and width.