AMERICAN ITEMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 243, 10 November 1876, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

Some workmen employed in the •barque Europa at New York overhauling her, one of them in the hold accidentally threw a lighted match on aheap of oakum, and this set fire to a quuntity of kerosene, benzine, &c, and the men in the hold being cut off, tbey were suffocate^!. When the £Uraea were extinguished it was found that five carpenters had been burnt to death. The British ship Lamonermio, bound fiom Calcutta to Demnrara, ia roported at Lloyds missing. It is believed she has foundered with all of the hands and three hundred Coolies. Columbus, O„— A moat frightful accident occured at Black Lick Siation on the Panhandle Railroad. The train was running at tbe rate of 40 miles an hour, when the four rear cars jumped the track and rolled down an embankment 25 or 30 feet. Four persons are known to have been killed outright. It is estimated that thirty to forty were more or less injured and some of them will doubtless die. New York September 23rd.— Iu Forest county on ThutsJay last, the mountain streams becoming greatly swoil n fom the recent waters, flooded partly tbe setlled valleys near Ealstou. -bislten persons were drowueJ. The houses were completely destroyed. Moody and Sankey have been at Chicago Moody's discourse is diacribed as a "perfect torrent of gospel enthusiasm." Iv tho late terrible hurricane, San Juan and the surrounding disricf, as far as heard from, suffered terribly. There is hardly a house standing, all the bridges are sweep away and the cane, rioe, and coffee estates are all ruined for the coming crop. Several coasting vessels were cast ashore, and j a number of lives lost. The yellow fever is raging at New York. Seventeen persons died in ono day. Every plaoe of business is closed and the streets are deserted. There is not a house in the city that has not been infected with the plague. Chicago, Ociober B—At8 — At Port Fetterman, a haying party of twelve men and seven ox teams were attacked by a band of twenty or thirty Indians. The fight continued nearly four hours. The number of reds killed is unknown, 'the Indians showed great courage, and were strongly armed wilh Winchester and army rifles. Julius Bloce, a blind man, and a professor of music, while insaue, shot his wife in the bead, inflicting a mortal wound. He then shot his child, aged three and a half years, in tha ltft side of the head, causing death in a few minutes. He then placed a pistol to his right temple and sent a bullet through his brain, killing himself instantly. The Sheriff of New York has returned the execution ou the cix million Tweed suit, being unable to fiud the least property upon which to make levy.