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' V.J / ; V ii ' OllEBEC'S TERRIBLE CALAMITY. Forty Fenons Killed and Land-slide. Injured by a SEVEN H0U8EB BURIED. A Qaebeo deapatoh of Tharaa&y aaya : About half paat 7 o'clock tbia ovonint; a terrible laod-alido occurred immediately below Duflerin Terrace, by which seven laonacH were craabud out of shape and from kwenty to forty people killed and wounded. Those who witneuutd the fall of the rook â- *y that Ihoy hearil a lonj;, loud report, as d Mveral cannon, and on looktni; up to- wards the terrace and citadel were horrified by the BJKht of an immenao maas of stones, xook and earth breakini^ loose and rustiiDf4 dowa the three hundred feet of a declivity npon the doomed horiaes below. Iramo- diately tlig air was Ullcd with duat, ao that no one could see ten feet in front of hina, and breathing was mude difllcult. This was followed by the sounds of timbers eraabinK and yielding to the immense power of the avalanche, and the shcutint; •nd Borcarain>; of men, women and children in all the a^ony of despair. The avalanche was oaased by the hot weather of the past few wjoki crackinij the earth and rock, whioh were loosened and driven down by the heavy rain of the last few days. Imme diately the men of the water police, whose station is near the eccne of (he accident, mtk to work to UESCUK TUB lUI'BISONED, while the Keneral alarm was sounded, which ealled oat the liru brigade and police, for what between lampa and stoves breaking the bouaes soon caught fire. A telephone meesaKa wau also aont to the Citadel zequeBtlni> the assiatance of a detachment of '• U " Hattery, U.C. A. The llames were, bowever, soon exticKuished, aud the men Xrom the Battery be^an the work of cxtri- aatin)j the unfortunates from the rains, •Siiated by many of the citi/.ens. Ak each of the suSorers was rescued he waa carried into the ijuarters of the water police, where A lari^e ataff of medical men waa on band •a well aa a priest, who did all they oould %o alleviate their uafleringa. All sorts of wild ramora were aoon llying about the city, and coiitlictini; reports were met with everywhere. At times it would bo said that •I many as twenty wore killed, and at others that the injarcd were few and far between. This is all aooonnted for by the xeaion that it waa next to impossible to obtain particulars, owio); to the fact that when the rook fell it covered the roadbed to the depth of about twenty feet, so that in order tc ^et at the ruina one must pass â- Jong the wharves at the foot of the clifl over bcfjo pilea of coal, and through immense orowda of horror stricken rela- Atvea and lympathi/.inf; onlookers. MANY IHIlliOttlNil Bl-'KNEH ooonrred aa the dead and wounded were oarried in, some with broken limbs, others broi^ied and many badly burnt. Here an old woman would be brought in, frantic with i^rief and oalling for a brother or hus- band or a child. YonnK children followed by weepini; mothers and distracted fathers were carried in the arms of Htron^;, resolute men almost melted into tears. or<;ri'ANTH or the iioi'seb. The oocupanta of the destroved houses were the following with their families : Chas. Allan, Tbos. lierrigan, Tim Berrigan, Henry Black, Mra. W. Bracken, James Bradley, Stephen Darke, Michael Deebey, Thomaa Karrell, Patrick Fitzgerald, Henry Iiawaon, Robert Lawaon, Itichard Leahy, Frank (larslow, Jamoa Uayden, Joseph Kemp, Luke KIrwin, Uenry MoUinH, Richard Maybury, Mrs. Widow, John O'Dowd, John O'Neil, William Stephens, Thomaa Power, John Uoady, John Henry. The dead bodies recovered and recognized are thoau of ThomsH Farrell and his little daagliter, hia wife si.d other children being â- till in the rains ; I'. Fitzgerald's two chil- dren, two children of Stephen Barko and one of Jamea Bradley. IIEHCCINII TIIK WOUNIiEIi. A later despatch aays : Bome soeneit were witnessed which ware extremely heartrend- ing. A yoang boy named Power was re- leased from the ruins. Ue, however, begged piteoaely to be allowed to remain and die with his mother and sisters, who were also in the ruina near by. Ho as well as bis parents and aiHtora were removed alive but badly wo'jndEil. A man named Berrigan was found near by pinned solidly under a bags rook. Ue was speaking to friends around him, who wore unable at the time to remove the immenao boulder and relievo bim from hia agonizing and periloaa poai tion, aa the rook was in such a position that it waa feared when it was moved It would oause his death. Up to the present hour, 11.30 p.m., there have been six bodies taken from the ruins, namely : Thomas Farrell •nd two of hia children, two ohildren named Bnrko, and one unknown child. Farroll's mother Inlaw, Mrs. Allen, and her hneband are atill in the ruina. About twentytive poraona have been removed from the debria badly injured. Bome have broken arms and legs, others being badly oruahed and mutilated in all ahapea. It Ih Bnppoaed that at least fifty persons are yet nnder the ruins. The roadway is blocked with Boliil boulders to the height ot fifteen feet in some places. THE UOINTAI.N HTILI. CHllMllUNfl. Midnight. â€" Under some of the houses crushed oriea ot " Help, help," are heard, but no iiiimediato aid can be given. An old soldier named Maybray, bearer of seve- ral mudala of merit, who fought in the Crimean war, ia beard shouting, " For Ood'H sake, do aaaiat me, pleaao." Although soldiers and oilixena are working to the relief like Trojana, very little progress ia made in recovering the bodies owing to the â- tupeodons mass of rook and debria encum bering the ruins. Abont 176 bodies are â- appoBod to bo buried nnder the debria. The body of a woman natued Mra. Berrigan baa jnat been palled out. It was mangled and bleeding, and presented snoh a sight aa to affect the strongest man. More rooks are still ornmbling down, and the people of the locality are lleeing with dread Inst the whole boulder forming the highest point ot Qaebeo will give way. Help ia coming in abundance from all <|uarters of the oity. Aooidants are ooonrring every moment to the reauuera. The crashing of timbers and the rolling of huge maaaea of rocks pat tho life and limbs of the volunteers in continual danger. PCrEEniM TEKJUce UN1;EIIMINEIi. The masa ot rock detached from the cliff's side left a vacant apaoe of extraor- dinary dimenBions. It has worked imme- diately under the Uufferin terrace, under- mining the anpport of that great promenade, so that it is now unsafe. The northeast bastion of the citadel is perpen- dicular with the cliff sidea. Huge rocks are atill menacing the locality, hanging a4 they are on the flank of the mountain. Ten corpaea and sixtoen woandcd aro now taken out. The work is atill carried on cheerily, but it will take eoveral days to haul out all the bodies. The damage will, it is said, exceed S 100,000. The houBcs in the locality were built of stone and brick, and inhabiteil by ship laborers, etc. llie scenes witnessed around the place of disas- ter are in every sense of the word heart- rending. Here a mother seeks a child and a desolate man digs in the debris in hoptu of finding his wife. KUBIEKS A.NK CIIIEH fill tho air It is ao that no pen can doacribe it. Tho oflioers and men of the Boyal School of Cavalry are coming to the ruscne with ropes, picks and shovelfl. About 000 men are now working with a heart clearing out rocks and debris of all descriptions. Three bcdiea are just taken out from the catacomba. Their names aro not ascertained. Two aro dead, while the third's heart ia still beating. One has hiu skull crushed in, another has an arm missing. The badiea are covered with coagulated blood and dust, and are a sick- ening spectacle to behold. The workers are cheered to work by aomo prominent citizens. The acene of tho terrible disister ia being visited by tbouaanda, who block up the narrow street und make it a diQicult taBk for any one to move in any direction, there being but one narrow street between the rook and the river. There is a oorapleto stoppage of traffic except by cUmbing over the debria of rock and dwelling bouses in- termiied. 8o great is the mass of material which will hate to be removed that the Allan Kteaniahip Company's and other busineaa houses whose establishments aro west of the sUde are oooupying temporary offices in the eastern part of tho lower town. The work of searching the ruins is going on slowly, though a large force of men is engaged in the labor. The shipping oflico in the Dominion Governmentbuilding has been turned into a temporary morgue. Over twenty bodies lie in it. It ia difGoult to identify some of them, so much have they been disfigured and crushed. The follow- ing have been identified ; Thomas Farrell, â- en., and hia ohildren Lawrence Farrell, Stella Farrell and Agnes Farrell ; Mrs. Stephen Burke, Mien Allan, Willie Black, Mrs. McKenna, Michael Deehy, Mrs. Widow Bracken, an old lady who had passed her KQtb year ; Kliz« Bradley, Ksther Fitzgerald, aged 4 yeara ; Patrick Fitzgerald, aged 1 year ; Mrs. Leahey, Charles Allan, Mra. CharlcH Allan. Norah Kennedy, an adopted daughter of Mrs. Uiobard Leahey. Tnere are several bodies not yet identified. Two of them are supposed to be tho little daughters of Mrs. Stephen Burko. Several of those persona reported miuBing have turned up, bat it is thought there will be ten or more victims to be added to the abovo list. No list of the in- jured has yet been made up. They were removed to the different hospitals and to friends' houses as they were removed from the ruins. Only one or two aro supposed to bo fatally injured. The City Council are holding a special meeting thix morning to consider what their beat course of ac- tion will be to complete the work of recov- ering tho remaining dead, and of opening up tho street. It is feared that a large part of the rook adjoining the uito of tho slide will come down, as large crevices huve appeared, and tho rain is still tailing and may repeat the operations which oansed last night'a disaater. People are moving ont of the neighboring houses. There has been no lack of volunteers for the work at tho ruins, but there is u lack ot intelligent dircotion, us there is no per- son in authority. Among the most useful laborers are two largo gangs from the works at the Louise docks, who were sent up by the contractors, Messrs. Larkin A- Connolly. Several citizens, including Hon. Mr. Meroior, have sent liamH of money to Mr. (iregory, agent of tie Marino Department, to be used by him to relievo any immediate dis- tress amongst the homeless women and children. The cliff being the property of the Dominion (iovernmont, application was made by telegraph to Bir Hector Langevin at Ottawa, who promptly responded, giving direotions to have the roadway cleared and expressing his sorrow at the calamity to hia native oity. There were several families of strangers from Newfoundland in the hoaaes destroyed; the loss of life among them is uncertain. Th? site of tho laiidBlide of last night ia almost identical with that in the year uf IHll, when eight buildings were crushed and thirty-two persona killed. To pro- vent a repetition of that disaster tho Dominion Government purchased tho buildings along the bane of the cliff and re- moved them, putting up a heavy revetment wall, which has served its purpose well in preventing accidents from small slides, which were common enough to attract bat little attention. In fact, some of the people who have now lost their lives aaw premonitory aymptomaof the disaster, one or two small slides having taken place before the groat mass of rook started. The houses now destroyed all stood on the river side ot the roadway, and were not thought to bo in danger, but the immense mass of rook swept clear aoross the roadway and over the brick buildinga, demolishing them like oardboard. The place from which the greater masa of rock fell is just below the King's Bastion at the west end of Dutforin terrace instead ot the gradual slope from the foot of the terrace wall to the street below which appeara a perpendionlar rook rising like a wall from a nage maaa of debris at the foot oloae up to the wall ot the terrace. It rises ao straight and clear that it might be taken for a part of the wall itself until a proper examination is maite. It is hard to speak positively, bnt from present appear- ances there seems little doubt but that the westerly end ot DufToria terrace will have to be abandoned or very much narrowed down. The thousands of tons of rock have fallen away at tho narrowest point ot tno terraoe, whore it w»h crowded towards tho river by the citadel works. Tho mass moved is. ronghly speaking, about (X)0 feet frontage by HO feet in depth. '.i«»<rf Home of the masses ot fallen rock mast weigh nearly twenty tons, and tbore are so many huge blocks that it makes the work of clearance very diflicalt. The working parties are now better organized and equipped and are making more headway with the work. The liat of those killed and wounded, so far as known, Ih as followa : Killud- Thoa. Farrell, three Farrell children, two Barke ohildren, one Bradley child, one child of P. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Bracken, Mrs. Stephen Burke, Uenry Black, Wil- liam Black, Thomaa Nolan and Mrs. Itcady. The wounded are : Mr. and Mrs. Carlson, Mr. J. O'Neil, Mrs. Luke Kerwin and child, Thomas Berrigan, Den- nis Berrigan, Jamfs Hayden, Wni. S'tvens and ton, Nelly Doehey, Patrick Fitz- gerald, Martin Ready, three of May- bury children, Stephen Burke and his mother, Mrs. Fitzgerald, Thomas Craham, William Power, wife and child, Mrs. Thomas Farrel. Bome dead and wounded are now being taken out of the ruins. The names of some are not yet ascertained. A last Friday iiighi's ueepatch from Quebec says ; Home 20,000 persona have vidited the scene of the disaster daring the day, have crowded into the morgue and seized every point inside and outside the building where a glimpcc could be had of the bodies of the victims. Many women who obtained an entrance bad to be removed in a fainting condition, the mangled bodies b)ing a sight to try the nervea of the strongest men. Preparations are being made tor the funerals of the killed, who will beburicdat the joint expenae of tbo city and the Local Government. Among ttiOBO bnried by the rocks aro a young couple named Nolan, who were mar- tied a few weeks ago. Nolan could have escaped, but lo&t biB life trying to get bis wife out of tho houso. It ia thought the King's Bastion, on the Citadel, will have to be removed, ae it ia now so much nearer the edge of the rock, with unsafe crevices in front ot it. As a precautionary measure all communication with the Bastion has been cut off and the morning and evening gans will no longer be fired from it. This afternoon it was derided to U3e small charges of powder to break up the huge boulders covering the roadway, as it is a certainty that there can be nothing living Ixnentb them. Tho horrors of the dreadful day are still 8UCC!>oding each other. While workers were busy clearing the debris of a crumbled building faint groans were beard at inter- vals from under the huge pile of rock. The efforts of tho volunloers were concentrated to that point, and after three hours' hard work the bleeding bady ot Joo Kemp was extricated from the maps of rook. The poor man was in tbo most mis'jrable condi- tion. Both legs were broken at the knees, tho left arm was fractured above theelbOAr, and several ribi were also fractured Kemp will not livj two houru longer. Ue ia anconsoious, and a livid pallor and deathlike appearance prtvail in the man's face. Two hours later his wife's body was taken out of tho wreck. Her head waa almost severed from the body, and indications of the most revolting aud violent death were seen on her corpse. Further away another hideous Kpectaclo was offered to the sight The corpse cf a young woman, Mrs. Law- son, who had been admired in her lifetime both for her beauty and amiability, waa f.xtrioatcd from under a rafter, on wbi;h about ten tons of stones and matter were lying. The night wan more than many could bear. She was smashed almost flat Tho abdomen was ripped open, her entrails wro scattered about. Uer buaband, at the sight of bis beloved wife's remains, became frantic, and is now insane tor perhaps the remainder of hia life. A man named Micbal Bradley, who had gone almost crazy when told that all his family had periahe<l in tho landslide, dia- covered while working over the wreck of bia house hia 6-year-old daughter still alive . hid joy waa inilcacribable. Ue kies^d and patted the mangled form, called her by endearing names, fondled her as a mother would her baby. It is thought the child will live. Up to this time the number of corpses found ia twenty. five, and the wounded is eighteen. FLOODS IN JAPAN. Fifteen Tboosand People Killed and Mioy Towns Deslroyei RELIEF FOR THE SQFFEEERS. Upon the Tre«8 Uprooted hlie Wiu Afraid f>f tho Doctors* Mrs. Elizabeth Uarper, wife of W. W. Harper, a jeweller at Hackensack, N.J., committed suicide Sunday night by hang- ing herself to a door-knob in her Bleeping apartment with a strip of white â- nualin. Mrs. Uarper bad been ill for several mouths and was attended by a professional nurse. Kecantly her physician and the family bad diaonssed the advisability of removing her to a hospital for an operation. This had a depressing effect upou a mind weakened by long illness. Mrs. Harper was well known and highly respected in the oommanity, and waa a leading worker in the First Keformed Church, ot Hacken- sack. Mexico'a Liquor I.lreiiiie Syiteiu, In the city of Mexico the income from the taxation of liquors and the lioense on saloons is very large indeed. Every liquor and puliiue shop pays a monthly lioense. In addition to the license fees on saloons, an octroi, or entry tax, is collected on all pulque coming within the oity limits. For tbo fiscal year just ended this gate tax amounted to the sum of $500,000 or more than $l,ri00 a day. 'X'he pulque shops open at U o'clock in the morning and close at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and not one of thorn has a back door. Onr IIIk ISalurnI Water Power. The amount of water passing over Niagara Falla varies with the height of the river. Prof. W. D. Gunning osiimatos the averaga amount at 18,000,000 oubio feet per minute. Allowing Ks'l\ pounds to the cnbio foot, this would give a total ot 6C2,600 tons per minute, or '25, Bl'2, 500 tons iu forty-five minutes, of whioh somewhat more than two-thirds passes over tho Horseshoe Falls. Olh'jr estimates place the total amount passing over both falls as high aa 100.000,- 000 tons per hour. In comparison, tho recent flood at Johnstown waa a gill. Dervish means " one who lies at the door." It ii not proper to call a returned fisherman a dervieli, tor he begins it as aoon ai he gets on the ferryboat. and Ewept Fields. A Weimiday'a San Francisco despatch says : Japanese papers place the number of persons drowned in the floods of Acgust 20ih in the city ot Wakayamo and m the dietricta o( Minami-Muro, Higashi-Maro, Nisbi-Moio and Uidaka at 10,000, aud the number of persona receiving relief at 20,4'.ii. The Biver Kinokuui swelled from thirteen to eighteen feet above its normal level aud the embankments at the village of Iwahaehi were washed away. Tbevillage and about forty eight hamlets were covered by the raging waters. On August I'J an enormous mass of earth fell from the mountain near the village of Tennokawa and stopped the coureo c( the river of the same name, which beiog already swollen submerged the village aud drowned nearly all the inhabitants. A number ot villagers belonging to Taujido took refuge in tteir temple on high groand, but when the land slide occurred fifty persona were buried alive. The Bteamer Ga6lio,trom Yokohama,briogs details of the overwhelming dieaster in Japan. The Province of Kii, in the eouth- westcrn part of Japan, has been viaited by the greatest floods known in the history of the country. Over 15.000 people have been kUled, several towns have been destroyed and others have been wrecked. The catas- trophe was caused by floods in the western part of the Province and by tho crumbling of a mountain, which buried six villages- Tbe early part ot August waa remarkable for its rains, and the rapid rise of the rivers socn became alarming. The banks of the KiiiOgawa, a stream over 100 miles long, broke near the city of Wakamayo on August I'Jlb, and a mountain of water rushed ojt upou the fields and towns, wrcckicg housis, bridges, fences, temples and all things in its path. In this di^irict 200 hi mea were carried away and 5.000 were ruined by the water, leaving liO.OOO people UEIENLEXT fPOS lUE LOCAL CEEltULS for food. Lower down the embackmenta of Hidakagown were also destroyed, flood- ing the cultivated fields and adjacent towns. Oat of sixty houses at Wakanomuda, bat two remain standing, aud more than .50 people lost their lives. An oSicial of the Nisnimura diilrict, who arrived at Waka- nioya Aug. 22nd, reports that about 4 p. m. Aug. I'Jih a sudden rise cf the waters took place at Baoabemaobi, and in a few min- utes the floora of buildings were covered. Many houses were carried away and about TUUEl; UlNHlElJ I'tUSCNS LCBT TUEIli LIVES. All the villages within a radiaa of ten miles were more or less submerged. In Cborail- romuta 700 houses were wasbej away, leaving only 11 buildings standing. Many persons loai their lives in that district The volume of the river Kinokuni, an acjtcent stream, swelled to an extraordinary extent, the rise being in eome places 13 to U-< feet. No bri(l;je over the stream could witbetand the force of the flood. The river steadily rose from l'> o'clock iu the evening until at midnight it began to overflow its embauk- ments, and about four miles from the city of Wakameyo tho banks at the village of Iwahashi were washed away. Immediately the village and its wholo neighborhood, in- cluding 4X other hamlets, were CDVt;RED I!V TUE UAOINii WAIEBS. The ilepih ot the flood waa from five to fifteen feet. The neighborhood of Ujaka also sufiered severely. At Osaka relief ia being given to several thousand people. The embankments on the Yodogown and Inkedapaigawn rivers were broken at several places Augcst 2l3t, and coosidera- ble damage caused to farms, while many houaes were swept away or partially wrecked. In Hongnmura 180 houaes were washed away and thirty persons drowned. In Higaahipo. Murogori and Neahip Marcgori several hundred houaes were demolished and coneiderable loss of life occurred. In Hidakagoria 380 houses were carried away and 70 houses were damaged, while 120 persona loat their lives ana 50 were injured- HVE lUOl'SOfD I'EOl'LE NABROWLY ESCArEl) nEiiii. Many houaes in Tsechigwara and 8hi- kiya, whioh are situated close to the Kuma- nagawa were carried away, and many Uvea lost. The buildings of the Kumano Shrine, except one or two small templea were awept away , but the sacred image waa saved. According to a report from Jeninu iu Uigashi Uurogari, about one-fourth ot the buildinga (over 500) and 100 persons were swept away. The Uikawga river rose 28 feet, and villages close to the river were flooded. About 150 houses were washed away and many persons perished. Seventy- eight bouaee and the Miwake police station at Sbusan were carried away. Owing to landslides close to the source of the Hidakiwaga vast numbers of trees are uprooted and swept upon the fields, where several tbouaanda are now lying. About 1,300 houses of the vil- lage close to the Tomitagawa were swept away and over 500 persona were engulfed. .According to investigations made at Waka- yamo up to Aug. 'it'iih thennmber of bouses carried away in NishiMarogari was l,0l>2, while 508 others were demolished and 440 were damaged. The number of deaths there waa 8C3. Other villages suffered much, and the number ot dead cannot be aocnrately determined, but for the province ot Kii it win not be below 10,000. Bloated bodies and wreckage cover the fields for miles, and it will be months before the eurvivora can proceed with tho work. The loaa in money is estimated at $ti,0OO,0OO. Relief has been sent to the ruined district, bnt the Buffering is intense and in the out- lying diatriots many will die from etarva- tion. The same rain which rained the western part of tho Province ot Kii by flood, alao wrought a moat similar disaater on the eastern aeotiou ot the eame Province. The rlvera rose rapidly and the people in the neighborhood of Am^nogawa, fearing an inundation, made nreparatioua for the emergency. While they were thus em- ployed the MOCST.USa erULENLT CBCMBLElj AWA*, obstructing commuuication between TsQ- jido, Mara and b«kam-<ta Mura, and the waters in the riverii which rnae in oonaa* quence covered the houits in Tsujido Mara, the people ileeing to the temple on an elevated piece cf ground. The mountain of Sugilama, at the Oack of the temple, atid- denly came down iu an avalanche, bnrying the entire village under grcnni, only the upper naif of the itmple r.)tiiig left to view. The villagej of N»g.t . Mora, Tani.-ie Mora, Uyenoike Mara aLdUayaahi Mura, along the TbiBUgawawgo were all boried nndex ground by the cruiubling away of the L'miyabara Mountam. AJl the villages of L'i, Nagatorio, Numala Hara and Aaahi, at tbeentrance of the Totaugawago, faoe each other and can be B«ea across the river, but there being no boats between these places NO HEU- COrL^ BE KE.M/E&EL. The villages of Uyeuo, Chi, Takaten, Kawatau and several others were all eilhez swept away or buried underground. The number of deaths in these villages has not yet been ascertaiiied, but as ali oalleie were blockaded the lo^a cf life must have been appalling. The villagts of Kaseahaya, Ushihara, Takigawa, Nojori, VamasaU and Taana were alao entirely swept away or buried by the ovtrliow of rivera and the crumbling of mountains. The damage along the lower course of the river and the viliagca skirting it has not been yet asoer- taiued, but it is supposed that out of fifty villages compriaiiiy Totsugiwaga, all have suffered more or \t'-i from the diaauter, and it is doabtful if one has escaped. In all these villages, EABMS, BIIE riELDS AM> BOCSEd are supposed to have been nearly or quite destroyed. The exac* number of deaths in this small region is not yet kuown, but the district officials place it between 4,000 and 5,000. The coal mines at Tatezato Mora, and Yoehico Gori also cav^d in, and forty miners are missing. In r-biono Mora a land elide occurred, crushing to death eight persons, besides which forty are mis- sing who are supposed to have be<n buried alive. It is impossible to famish aid to the thousands of suS>?rera, acd many must die of hunger and thirst. The losses in lives ai^d money will never be kcown, as whole towns have been annihilated, leaving no eurvivora to tell the stcry. Tbe wreck- age is strewn along tbe sea ccasi for ninety miles. The Japanese newspapers think the loss ot life does not fall b.low 15,000. THE CCBKISNT Fa I LEO. An Electric Car Kushea Down an IncUn»â€" Maay li\Jtire<t. A Chattanooga, TeuL., despatch saya : A car on the Electric Bailroaj up Mission Kidge bad nearly reached tbe top on the steep track to day when the electric current failed. Tbe car at ouue started down the mountain at great spetd. The conductor shouted to the pasaengere to jump off. Tbe car contained 50 p'^oplr, visitors to the re- union of the Army of the Cumberland, one- half ot the party being ladits. A panic seized the passscgers aod Ibey began leap- ing from tbe car. Five or six persons remained on the car with the conductor and motor man, atd all were uninjared, aa tbe car was stopped before reaching the foot ot the ridge. Mrs. Msry Adams, of Casey, III., who jumped od, struck a pole aoJwas thrown in front of tbe car, striiuQg on her bead, and waa tbrowu to tbe siiic of the track, sutiering injuries from which she died. WilUam Muufurd, of Casey, III., in jumping from tbe oar struck on a masa ot barbed wire and was badly cut, one eye being literally torn out. Abcut ten persons were aerioualy hurt and eome halt dozen badly but not dangerously injured. FlghtlugB Vottoa King. A London cable says : Energetic action is being taken by those employed in the cotton industries to defeat tbe Liverpool cornerer. who baa succeeded in buying up the great bulk of actual cotton which will be on the market at tbe end ot September. As the new crop iu any quantity will not be here antil the middle uf Ooicber the oornerer. who is a Duicn Jew, will have the market to himself for three weeks, and it his move is suco^ssful will be able to run ap tbe prioe to bis own fi(,ure. Both em- ployers and employees have agreed to take joint action in ordertodcfeat thering. Two- thirds of the mUl. owners have decided to run on short time. he remaining third will be nnable to work at all, as the Opera- tives' Union will call "n> â- â-ºâ- i' spinners from all the mills where ebort time ia not run. This will enable the masinti to make their present stock last out uutil tbe new ootton oomes into market, ana so kave the oor- nerer with the whole purchase on bis hands. * BIk fabllc rrauda to the South. A New Orleans despatch 8»>B ; Tbe in- vestigation by tbe estate etficials aud par- ties interested iu State securities coutinaes to develop new casts of fraud every day. In addition to the $303,t>00 ot consolidated bonda upon which lutcrest payments have been stopped, and many uf which (presum- ably all) have been surreptitiously put upon tbe market, instead of being cancelled, there have been disoovered in private handa a number ol 4 per oeul. " cousiitutioual " bonda that are clearly an overissue made in fraud. Tbe hi^hent legal laaue ot the 9100 series of these bonos la No. 200, yet numbers at least as high as 242 are out- standing ; and of the 9600 series, the legal Umit ot which is No. SO, bonds as high ai No. 5t> are afljat. Opinions dider as to whether ex-State Treasurar Hurfce is to blame for this state of afTairs- Taeht and flraaare PartT Lost. A Cleveland, , despatch says : The steam yacht Leo left Loraiue for this port on Sunday afiernocn, having on board John B. Tnute, J. D Lawler, T. P. Bitter, Benjamin Klii.e, S. D Kuighi, D. A. Law- ler, Capt. Sam Boot, Fred Pelow and an engineer from Detroit, name unknown. Nearly all ot them we e prominent acd vell-lmown bueiuess men ot Loraine. Tbe yacht was a small one, and had just been putohased at Detroit for $550. She en- coontered a heavy sea ou Suuday night, and was probably lost with all on board near Booky Hiver. Nothing was learned of tbe yacht until this moruing, when tho bodies ot Kilter aud Lasvler wers found by the life-saving crew iloating in tho lake. Tbo remaining bodies are being searched for. Finland has very cultured There is so mauh Finuish to it. society. <tB^^'f^ .f<. .