ADDITIONAL NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1234, 16 February 1878, Page 2

ADDITIONAL NEWS BY THE MAIL.

[fbom otjb Auckland coeeespondent.] London, January 21. The “ Daily Telegraph'' of the 20th prints the following under Constantinople news : The agent of the English Relief Fund has just arrived here with a train full of refugees from Adrianople. These unhappy people had been in open coal trucks three days, and many perished from cold weather last night. Fifteen were found dead in the trucks. Suffering of all descriptions was awful. Mothers are reported in their frenzy to have thrown away living babies rather than see them die in their arms. As the train moved from Adrianople numbers of people tried to climb to the outside and frame-worts of tho carriages, and many attempted to ride on the buffers. At one station, where hundreds of people had congregated without food for two days, men threatened the agent with violence if bread was not given them. Yesterday 15,000 women and children were out in the snow at Charlovi, Three trains full are hourly expected to arrive at Constantinople. It is not known where they will find shelter. The snow is 7in.'deep, and still falling. The cold is intense. All that can possibly be done is being effected by the manager of the relief fund, but many lives are being sacrificed. On January Bth, while the Chicago and North-Western box car wps being loaded with nitro-glycerino at Jackson’s mine, near Negunee, Mass., the compound exploded, instantly killing seven men, and demolishing the car.

A steamer at'Ackawa went to pieces on the rocks known as Xniolin Aglas, on the Chilian coast, on the night of the 30th November. The captain, all the officers, and many of the crew and passengers were lost. It is estimated that 101 persons were drowned, and 29 saved. The ship was on a trip from Valparaiso to Callao. She struck at 8 p.m., when the majority of the passengers were below, and so instantaneous was the breaking up of the ship that no time was given to reach the deck. The cargo lost was not of great value, and the passengers were mostly Chilians journeying between the ports. Later information says the passengers numbered 54, and the crew 70. The shock burst certain pipes connected with the boiler, and the escape of steam mixed with cinders prevented anybody getting to the deck to lower the boats, with the aid of which and life-buoys all on board might have been saved. The American treaty with Samoa contains provisions iwhich are practically equivalent to an American protectorate. The treaty also gives the United States the exclusive right to control and use the harbor of Pago as a coaling station and a naval rendezvous. A despatch from Lead City of January 18th says that a mob of 150 men, mostly roughs from outside camps, have taken possession of the town. AU the streets have been jumped, and all the roads leading to the quartz mills are in like condition. A meeting called by the trustees of the town was broken up by the mob. Electing officers, they passed their own laws. The citizens are.arming and organising to protect their property. The Californian Senate passed a new Riot Act, and the Governor signed it as passed, providing that any person who, in the presence of twenty or more persons, shall say anything with intent to incite a riot, or shall advise forcible resistance to any laws of the State, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than two years, or a fine of not more than 5000dols.

Advices from Texas say that the Indians raided in Mason County a few days ago, killed two men, and ran off with a large number of cattle and horses. The United States troops and Texas Rangers were in pursuit. A demonstration of unemployed working men of Boston, participated in by some 4000 men, inarched to the City Hall, and presented a series of resolutions to the Mayor, who replied that he had no authority to offer employment, but that the City Council would do what it could.

By an explosion in Potts’ colliery, near Ashland, four men were killed and three wounded.

Puller particulars of the Hartford accident state that the bridge is elevated ten feet above the river at the present stage of the water-mark. It is approached from the east by an embankment, from the west by a long trestlework across the meadows. The first locomotive had cleared the first span and entered upon the trestle-work, when the entire span gave way, breaking off immediately east of tke heavy stone pier in the centre of the river. As the structure gave way the first engine was hurled violently over and embedded in the ground and completely wrecked. The other engine and baggage car were whirled around and sank to the bottom of the river, lying nearly parallel with the stream. The second passenger car went down end foremost upon the first car, smashing the largest portion into kindling wood, the rear end resting on the bridge. The next car occupied a similar position, but swerved to the left, and did not rest upon the car in front. None of the remaining coaches left the track. The crash and cries of the wounded and dying speedily brought assistance, but the first comers worked at a great disadvantage, as the cars had broken through the ice, which made it difficult to approach near enough to reach the passengers, Tue scenes at the relief train were heartrending. In every car were men and women with oandaged legs or arms in slings, and some had been terribly scalded. In one coach were the bodies of three women, and in the baggage cars were two more just as they had been taken from the wreck. The Rev. Mr Thomas, of Winstead, witli both limbs fractured, and severely injured internally, crawled out of the wreck through the car to tho ice, and then to the shore. Nearly all the dead were in the first passenger car, which was almost a complete wreck, although one body was taken from the second car this evening, where it was found caught under the broken seat. Five young men from New Hartford, who are among the killed, were of a party of six who were enjoying a moonlight ride and whistling chorus. The only survivof of the Ms inside »t the titye.