ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1486, 20 November 1878, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

[SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE.] TPar City of New York via Auckland.] Dublin, October 25. The death of Cardinal Cullen was very sudden. He only complained of indisposition •on Wednesday evening, but grew worse on Thursday, when the action of his heart was found to be rapidly failing, and he died at four o'clock in the afternoon. The body ot the Cardinal has been embalmed and removed to his private chapel. To-morrow it will be placed in the Cathedral, Marlboro street, on a grand catafalque, and lie in state till Wednesday. . A report is again freely circulated to-day that Dr. Melahe, coadjutor bishop of the late Cardinal, will be his successor. The majority of the citizens to be seen in the streets to-day are wearing mourning. October 27.

The funeral of Cardinal Cullen took place to-day and was witnessed by 60,000 people, and 10,000 took part in the ceremonies ot the procession. The body was conveyed from the residence of the deceased to the Cathedral, yrhere it will remain until Tuesday. The Lord Mayor and Corporation, five Judges, Dr. Isaac Butt, and about a dozen other members of Parliament were of the party ; 100 priests and a large number of school children assisted in the procession. Boston, October 22.

A serious accident occurred this evening on the old Colony railroad to a crowded excursion train, which was returning from the Silver Lake rowing match, between Eeaghan of Boston and Davis of Portland. The tram, comprising twenty cars, ran off the track. The train was not going at a high rate ot speed, perhaps twenty miles an hour. It is stated that the freight train had just been switched off to make way for the excursion train, and as an accident had occurred at the switch there is reasonable supposition that it had not been properly locked. Both engines jumped the track and went over the embankment and were totally ■wrecked, but the engineers and firemen escaped death. At least five cars were wrecked, including one baggage and four passenger coacheß, among the latter was an English coach in which were many oarsmen and newspaper men. These cars were piled upon each oth«r, and the wonder is that the loss of lite was not greater.

October 23rd, 2 a.m. The cause of the disaster is now explained by a statement made by Charles Westgate the engineer of the leading locomotive. Ho says after leaving Woolaston station, whilst travelling at the rate of twenty miles an hour, and when about a quarter of a mile this side Woolaston, he saw about 300 yards ahead of him a freight car train running to the main track from the siding, and he instantly -whistled down breaks and reversed the engine; he and his fireman Dennison stayed on his -engine, and when it struck the cars both were thrown off, Dennison being badly scalded. A *' Herald " reporter who was on the wrecked train, says upon passing Woolaston, the passengers were made aware of something unusual by two sharp blasts of the whistle, succeeding which air-brakes were applied, but quicker than it can be related, the train was off the track and ran over the sleepers 300 or 400 feet, then came a third shock not forcible enough to throw the passengers about much, followed by strange grinding crushing noises. In a few seconds of time the whole lett hand Bide of the coaches was torn out, into which plunged the passenger coaches one after the other. Twenty-five persons were killed, and over a hundred injured. Madrid, October 2j.

As the King was driving through a street known as Caßtelmayor this evening a man in a blouse fired at him. The King was not touched, and continued on his way to the palace amid the acclamations of the crowd. The man was immediately seized by soldiers and taken to prifOD. The would-be assassin is named Juan Moncassi, aiied twenty-three, a cooper ; he is a native of Tarragona. He states that he is a member of the International Society, and that his erimo was premeditated. He arrived at Madrid on October 23rd. Moncassi was rescued with difficulty from some women who wished to lynch him. All the Foreign Ministers and diplomatists in Madrid have congratulated the King on his •escape. Judicial proceedings against Moncassi have already been commenced. New Yohk, October 28.

A Madrid telegram to the " Herald" says General Grant was a witness of tho attempted aseaesination of King Alfonso. The General was standing when the shot was iired at a wirdow of the Hotel de Paris, overlooking the Puerta del Sol. The King makes light of the whole affair, but the popular indignation is still extreme. The tribunal, an- active yat work investigating the past history or the prisoner, who ban been removed to the Saladine prison, and the prisoners arrestsd as his accomplices have been liberated.

October 28,

The "Herald" Madrid special says the excitement occasioned by the attempt on the life of King Alfonso has not by any means died out. The criminal aimed too low, and the ball passed through the hand of a soldier standing on guard on the opposite side of the street. The King saw a flash, and with an involuntary movement of his hand checked his horse. He then rode tranquilly along towards the palace. Several women who were standing near the man who fired pointed him out with loud cries, and he was at once arrested. He did not make any answer or attempt to escape. Terrible indignation was manifested among the people. Attempts were made to wreak vengeance upon the assassin. The prisoner displayed great coolness. During his commitment he insolently drew a cigar from his pocket, which he coolly lit and began to smoke. He is a very thin man, of medium height, wears a light moustache, and has his hair closely cropped. He admitted the crime, and triumphantly declared himself a Socialist and internationalist; but when interrogated as to where his accomplices wero, denied that he had acted in concert with anyone. He said he came alone from Tarragona purposely to kill the King, and this was his first serious disappointment in life. Baltimobe, October 22.

Captain Barker, of the steamer Express, which left here on Tuesday for Washington, reports that his vessel foundered in a gale at the mouth of the Potomac, and the passengers and crew were probably lost. The captain was rescued while drifting with the fragments of a boat. The passengers and crew had hardly time to realise what had occurred before a wave tore the saloon deck like so much paper, and the following wave swept it off into the sea, and with it nearly all on board. All had secured life preservers at the earliest period of the gale, and some officers tried to secure the boats, but they were washed away and broken up the moment after the upper deck had been carried away. The hull rolled over and sunk. She had a crew of twenty-one, and, as far as known, eight passengers. October 24.

The passengers on board the steamer Thomisirja,afteraterribleexperience, were rescued by the Tangier, and the vessel was towed to Chrisfield Harbor. The steamer Massachusetts is on shore disabled at Dawn Point. All on board well. The steamer Louisa is on shore on the Middle Ground. The steamer Ida and twenty-four schooners are ashore near the Massachusetts.

Washington, October 24.

The signal corps stationed at Cape Henry report that the American ship A.S. Davis of Eaßtport, Maine, Captain J. N. Ford, ran ashore at 2 a.m. on the 23rd instant, eight miles from the station. The vessel and cargo are a total loss. The crew, consisting of nineteen men, were all lost with one exception.

Philadelphia, October 24.

Shipping interests have suffered severely lately. Eight vessels being reported sunk and twenty-two damaged. By yesterday's storm in this city 384 dwellings and stores were unroofed and otherwise injured. Several were completely demolished, besides which there were badly injured thirty-one churches, twenty-three schools, thirty-five factories and warehouses, five hotels, two elevators, and fifty other buildings, such as depots, ferry-houses, and railroad offices. The fatal accidents were six and seriously wounded thirteen. The southern part or the city known as " The Neck" was inundated by the river for a distance of nine miles from its usual course. The inhabitants were taken out of the second stories of the houses in boats sent from the navy yard. Only one man was drowned, but the loss of live stock was very great, and eleven wooden bridges were swept away. It is impossible to estimate the loss in money, but it is generally believed to be about 2,000,000 dols.