Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1896 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

’ William 11, English, of Indianfipolls. is dead. Mr. English nad been ill for two weeks, and all hope of his recovery was given up a few days ago, when his heart began to trouble ntm. From that time he sank rapidly until death ended bis existence Friday. An immense mass meeting at New York, presided over by Chauncey M. DepeW, adopted resolutions protesting against the recall of Commander and Mrs. Balllngton Booth from the command of the American Salvation Army and asking that flie order be reconsidered. The steamer St.. Paul, of the International Navigation Company's line, which went ashore on the sandbar off Brarich, was pulled off the bar at 9:20 Tuesday morning. The four tugs succeeded. with (he aid of the kedge anchors, in getting the Stl -Paul from the bar. Fifty minutes later the vessel passed the Atlantic highlands, J |KJ'nnd for New York under her own steam. Three men were killed by the fall of the Pequaback Hirer * bridge, near Bristo.i, Cohn., during the great storm Thursdaynight. The bodies of the victims were recovered. There were thirteen men on the bridge when jt went down. The men constituted a gang of engineers, mechanics and laborers who tVere strengthening the bridge, which had recently, been condemned as unsafe. They were raising a derrick, which the wind toppled, over, the fall of the derrick causing the bridge to give way. Cyclonic winds and —drenching - rain swept the entire North Atlantic coast Thursday. Huin and death were left in the wake of the storm. Frequently a velocity -of seventy-five miles an hour was - reached by the winij. Shipping suffered severely, though the warnings td sailing masters, given in ample time, kept nearly all the vessels ip port.' To the horrors of cyclone and flood that of fire was added at the village of Bound Brook N. J., which has been almost wiped out. While the stonn was at its height a gasoline stove exploded in a restaurant neara lumber yard. Water was waist high in the street; tire apparatus could not be moved. Communication was quickly cuf; off and the last .word received waS from a telephone subscriber who said he wns standing in three feet of water, and that for most of the population it was a case of burn to death, drown, or swim out. The dam at Pocahontas Lake broke and all the lower part of Morristown, N. J., was inundated. Twenty-five persons are missing. Their disappearance is creating intense excitement.