THREE DAYS'S ACCIDENTS IN AMERICA.

Press, Volume XIV, Issue 1822, 13 February 1869, Page 3

THREE DAYS'S ACCIDENTS IN AMERICA.

Here is the chapter of American disasters for the last three days:—A fire in Chicago, destroying 100,000 iols worth of property. 2. A fire in Brooklyn, New York, destroying a bonded warehouse and Custom-house store, and 1,500,000 dole worth of property. 3. A railway accident on the Chicago, Alton, and St. Louis Kailroad, smashing two trains of cars, and killing one man. 4. A second railway accident, caused by the explosion of a car laden with petroleum, on the Atlantic and Great Western road, wrecking a train and wounding two men. 5. A complete smash up of a train on the Little Miami Railway, in Ohio, by which, luckily, only one man was hurt. 6. The wreck of the barques Atlanta and Ocean on the coast of California. 7. The wreck of the schooner Hyphen on Lake Erie, and drowning of three of three of her crew. 8. The murder of a man and mortal wounding of his wife at Cleveland, Ohio, and the attempted lynching of the murderers by the excited populace, an attempt which the authorities with difficulty prevented. 9. The murder of an old lady by a burglar in Wisconsin, and the seizure of the murderers by a mob, who succeeded, in spite of the authorities, in hanging him. 10. The falling ot a wall in Boston, killing one man and injuring two. 11. The accidental homicide of a young lady in Poughkeepsie, New York, by her brother, who playfully pointed a pistol at her, when it went off and killed her. 12. The forcible capture of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, by a mob of 1000 men from a fishing fleet in the harbor, who robbed every one, and caused a reign of terror, but were finally driven off by the police and citizens. 13. Various political riots throughout the country, including a half-dozen conflicts in the streets of Philadelphia, a fight in a railway train between Baltimore and Philadelphia, by which four men were wounded, a row in Newark, New Jersey, another in Lancaster, another in Louis, and the usual amount of assassinations in the Southern States, the aggregates being six killed and twenty or more wounded by these outbreaks. 14. The forcible abduction of a man, wife, and child by Indians in Kansas. To this list of casualties should be added another split in the New York Fenian Brotherhood, in which " President" Eyan and " General" O'Neill, each with a crowd of adherents, charge each other with all sorts of cheating and villany.—"Times" Correspondent