Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Meager details of a terrible accident on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad are telegraphed from Chattanooga, Tenn. A construction train, loaded down with laborers, was passing through the New River tunnel, when.the roof and walls gave way, and fell with a crash upon the train. All was confusion, and the shrieks of the dying and, groans of the injured issued from the tunnel. It is known that six men were killed outright and twenty others were badly injurcd, fully half of them fatally. Eighteen men had to be dug out of the debris, and six were dead before assistance reached themln an affray at a. campmeeting in York County, South Carolina, one negro was killed, two'fatally injured, and a score seriously wounded. - ■ 7 A pocketbook containing certificates of deposit, promiss’ory notes, and other papers, the total value aggregating SIOO,000, was dug up by workmen at Fort Worth, Tex. The deposit certificates are in favor of A. ’T. Treadwell, a wealthy cattleman... .The Randleman Cotton Factory, in Randolph County, North Carolina, was partially destroyed by fire. The loss is $150,000; partially insured. Seven hundred hands are thrown out of employment. A dispatch from Lafayette County, Arkansas, announces the capture of a band of desperadoes who have been, operating for a long time in thit part of the State, robbing and murdering many people. Two 7 of the outlaws are reported killed, and it is expected that those captured will be taken from thqofficers and lynched... .The entire Chinese Collection at the New Orleans Exposition has been presented to the University of Michigan. President Angell, of the University, was Minister to China during the Hayes administration. ,