AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7731, 10 December 1890, Page 6

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

SAN FRANCISCO, November 15. The overland Southern Pacific passenger train or Caiifornian express went down with the north end of the long trestle crossing what is known as Lake Labash, about half a mile north of the Chmwa Indian training school, five miles from Salem. The trestle must have given way as soon as the engine struck: it, '■' and the train and trestle all went down together. The engine was overturned and half buried almost in the mud. Then followed a first class coach, which was saved from going over by alighting with the front end on an old tree broken off about even with the trestles and following this were the tenner, mail, baggage and express cars, twisted * and broken entirely out of shape. The seats in the cars were all broken to splinters, and the partitions in the cars were broken into a thousand pieces. Then followed the smoker, the seats in which were nearly all broken; Next was the tourist sleeper. The engineer, John, McFadden, the fireman Finneal, and an unknown : man riding on the front platform were killed. In all about a dozen were seriously injured. Nearly every passenger on the train was injured. O'Connor, the American oarsman, in an interview at New York, said that it was next to impossible for anyone except a native to win on an Australian sculling course owing to the number of tides and eddies. He said—'• In the dr*. trace with btansbury, in which I claimed a foul, I had some chance, as the tide with mc, but when I rowed tbe race over again I knew I was not in it, as the tide was right against mc." O'Connor is training for the Kemp match, which is expected to take place at Oakland in March.

-The cablegram from Rome saying that the Pope had ordered the Bishops of the American hierarchy not to give any approval to Dillon and O'Brien's campaign in America caused considerable excitement in Irish Catholic circles in New York. A prominent member of Catholic clergy, however, said, "It is quite well known that the Holy See has on more than one occasion of late declared that it will hot interfere with the straggle of Irish leaders for self-govern-ment in Ireland. You may rest assured that the Holy See is not desirous of forming any entangling alliance by interfering with Irish politics."