AMERICA.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 1, 9 July 1874, Page 3

AMERICA.

The details of the partial destruction of three villages in Massachusetts, by the bursting of reservoirs, are of an appalling - character. , The reservoirs were in the mount ins storing <* ater . for-, mill purposes in the villages below. The water broke away the dams, and the torrent rushed down on the v.llages, sweeping away everything in its course. One hundred and eighty persons** dnwned. The da-nage to p-operty U esti mated at one million dollars. Four hundred famii 8 are homeless Adding to the confusion ani d'stre-s, as soon as tbe cat astrop tie was known, robbers and rouhs from the neighbouring towns pint d in. eager for plund r. The worn -n'-i cru ade aj-aipst the liquor traffic is being suppressed by the authoritiesForty women were arrested at Pittsburg for obstructing the road. The Mayor of New Orleans telegraphs for futhe aid tqwarla the suffe era by the great Louisiana inundation. lie says; 4S 000 ra tions . are. distributed • \daity;>' Gont-iouibns amounting to a million dollars wi 1 be/required* to prevent the- horrors bf : famine and great loss of life. ;-.•.:.-. ; The 'all of a building in Boffalb i killed eight persons. . --. „<'-, , .- ; ■.<; • v.” A, fire occajrredmTorontb,, by which 200,000; dollars*; worth of . property was destroyed:;; '■/ .-... '< //,. ; .i:'y.:^. "■ '' : r.-> : rx i. Pour rulrlaus fought their/way-out of t/fie^ Indiana State prison, with revolvers and bow c knives^ kMing/ the turnkey/. . ! ' : ■-": ;-,- ;., ;.--;;..':.- J

.American steamer Manehu wrecked by a gale in the Japan seas ; 47 persons drowned, chiefly Chinamen. 3 A man and his wife and an old woman- and 3 her son wt-re burned in. Mexico for sd*cery by j Signor Castello, alcalde of Jhcomino. were tes'ed-by compelling them to swallow holy -water. ' . . -A strike of stige drivers at "New York - caused the disappearance of the/ vehicles irom the streets. , , ' ''"'.," Over 40 leading, bnsineps premises in Inde* j pendence, Ohio were burned ; loss, 500,000d01. f A creat iceberg, near: Quebec, damaged and wrecked a large number of steamers and t other vessels. Estimated damage, 1,500,000d01. j The police cf San Juan, Porto Rco, are arresting the Freemasons on the ground that they favor separation of the colonies from : Spain. Intelligence from Japan states that the chief of the rebels and 10 leaders have been " caught and executed. ' More brutal murders have occurred at San Francisco. One hundred Catholic pilgrims left New ( York for Rome. { A Bill has been introduced into Congress empowering the purchase of 10.010 acres at Pang© Pango. Samoa, aa a naval station for the United States. ! Thousands of Mormons are joining Brigham ( Young's '-Order of Enoch," which requires every member to give all his property to the Church.