ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7068, 30 July 1901, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

(Por Press Association) Auckland. July 30. Arrived —Ventura, from San Francisco. '■■ -:. '. . - .''--■■.;■

MAIL NEWS,

TEEEIBLE HEAT WAVE,

San Francisco, July 11. All the United States east of Kocky Mountains were visited by a hot waye, which grew more and more intense from about June 24th to July 9. The suffering was pitiful and many hundreds succumbed. There were thousands of prostrations, which were not fatal, in each of the great cities. There were hundreds of deaths from cholera. The conditions in New York were particularly painful owing, to a great extent, to the crowded area." The police department issued orders for men, women and children to be permitted to sleep on the grass in the public squares. Thousands availed themselves of the privilege. At three o'clock in the morning trains and electric cars going out of the city were packed with people trying to escape from the oven which the city streets had become. More than a million people thus hurried out of the city. When the change came it was by a severe thunderstorm, which caused many fires from lightning. The thermometer fell 15 degrees in two hours. -■..-■-. -. '

TWO TEEEIBLE RAILWAY ■ ACCIDENTS.

In Kansas City, in July,-.the Chicago and Alton's Eestibuled Limited passenger train collided with a fast live stock train between Marshall and Norton, ' Missouri. Seventeen people were killed and seventeen are in the hospitals. The passenger train was travelling in three sections and the wrecked train was on the first section. When the trains collided the head of the engines were pushed either side of the track, the baggage and chair cars were piled on top of the engines. The dining car tipped over and the forward cars of the'1 train were telescoped. Some cars took fire and the wreck was a blazing mass of steam, the. scalding water which . escaped from the engines burning many t passengers frightfully and enveloping the wreck in a cloud, which made the rescue work difficult. The bellowing of cattle was intermingled with the shrieks of the injured people. Many passengers were imprisoned in cars and scalding steam poured upon them. They prayed aloud and pleaded the rescuers to hasten. They were taken out as rapidly as possible, but there was not enough help. -After spending hours in the terrible situation the injured were compelled to ride a long distance to Kansas City on a rescue train. The train wrecked was one of the finest passenger trains in the United States. . "■ ■ . June 28. Sixteen persons were killed' and about fifty injured in a train wreck at Indiana. The train consisted of eleven cars going at a high rate when it plunged through a tre3tle undermined by rains. The embankment on both sides of the little stream dropped at a sharp degree a distance of forty feet. Owing to the momentum of the train the engine appeared to fall back to the bottom. Five cars went down the bauk, one sleeper and a private oar remained on the track. It is believed the washout was caused by a cloud bursting. SHOCKING EXPLOSION. At Patersou (New Jersey) seventeen persons were killed and others injured by an explosion of fireworks in a store in the ground floor of a crowded tenement in a building. The force of the explosion wounded people half a block away. Within a minute every window of the four-storey wooden building where . it took place' was spouting fire. The occupants of flats in torture hang from window sills. Twenty persons were rescued by firemen from these perilous positions. The firemen attempted to keep the flames from consuming the . upper stories, where many persons were imprisoned, but the lower walls wete so weakened that they came crashing down and threatening the.lives of .the firemen. Several bodies were taken out, mostly being beyond recognition. EEPOET OP THE MAIL AGENT Wellington, July 30. The mail agent reports that the Sierra on the outward voyage reached Honolulu on June 25. Inhere he found the Zealandia in a disabled condition, having put back after leaving for 'Frisco. The Sierra took on her passengers and some perishable freight, but the passage was very stormy, and only arrived on July 2nd. The mails were sent off the same evening, but failed to connect the Saturday steamer frotn-New York, and had to lie there until the following.Wednesday. On arrival at 'Frisco it was decided the Sierra should take up the Zealandia's running to Honolulu and the Ventura, whose overhaul was progressing slowly --.iv=-^.owillS to the strike, was hastily prepared for-the Australian trip. She left ou Jnly 11th. Another outbreak of bubouic plague has taken place at Honolulu. One death was oiiicially recorded on July 6th, though the Board of Health declares that.no fresh cases occurred since that - date. .-■;■."■

The Ventura brings 372 bags of mails for New Zealand.