Casualties and Calamities
Casualties and Calamities.—Princess Chunkaloff and her two lady companions were murdered in her residence in the Crimea by a band of thieves, on July 9......Three men were killed and a number of mail clerks severely injured in a railway wreck at Canton Junction, Mass., on August 8.......Two steamers collided at Lisbon during the departure of the president of Brazil on August 8, and about twenty persons were drowned by the swamping of two small boats......For two days a terrible storm swept the coast of Formosa, and was followed by a tidal wave, which destroyed over five hundred lives and a great amount of property......The wreckage of two river barges has been found at the mouth of the Yukon River, and it is believed that the seventeen persons comprising the passengers and crew have all been drowned......A report from Hongkong states that the steamer Wingfoo has been lost between that place and Manila, with her crew of thirty-one......The failure of the Newfoundland and Labrador fisheries has brought disaster to the people living along those coasts, and many are said to be dying from starvation......A report comes from St. Johns, Newfoundland, of another marine disaster in the Straits of Belle Isle, in which a passenger steamer was sunk by collision with an iceberg. The name of the steamer is not known......On August 8, one negro was lynched in Texas, one in Tennessee, and one in Georgia, for attempted assault; while on August 10, four negroes were lynched at Clarendon, Arkansas, for complicity in the murder of a merchant of that place. The wife, who instigated the murder, committed suicide in jail shortly after her arrest.