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About The Conyers weekly. (Conyers, Ga.) 18??-1888 | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1887)
he CONYERS WEEKLY VOLUME X. bliTHEBN PROGRESS. ; r,„nvmE NTS i* rAnlous jet factory will be established at jam. \ c. Brothers will build an opera "atTroy, nai Ala. imktt factory will be established at yie " Ala., shortly. ' build $15,000 »Lutherans W ill a at Little Rock, Ark. jjstia will build a large hotel on nut street, Lexington, Ky. 1} $ have been subscribed toward hotel at Oxana, Ala. an & Company have started a pry at Galveston Texas. jesY.Whitted has built . a new to- , I factory at Durham, N. C. ■ere is talk of building* one mile ol I Icompany railroad at Roekmart, Ga. has been formed to build a If) hotel at Tuscambia, Ala. Kmc L(iiis cotton factory is Rock, to be Ark. started year at Little C rr j 8 «e factory will shortly be built Usboro, L Ky.,by Indiana parties. Elvtoii Land company will build a Lining L mill at Birmingham, Ala. the machinery is to be erected at [r mine in Montgomery county, N. C. Iterations are to be resumed at the ejold mine in Moon county, N. C. company has been chartered at Lille, 'stock Miss., to build a waterworks, company has been formed to [for oil and gas at Flemingsburg, ■tile factory has recently been eatab¬ le near Okolona, Aliss., by Brown & L Keystone Lumber company are Bing a saw mill at Bogue Chitto, I candy and cracker factory will be tit Florence, Ala., by James C. An¬ ion. Lid Mitchell will start a factory at tabu* da., to manufacture bed hik AbMOO stock company is forming fcild a cotton factory at Jackson. Ten - be Nashville Tenn., Gas company [sect a brick meter-house to cost LO trustees of the Female academy, of o!is, Ala., will erect a $5,000 fog Iff. Collins is rebuilding his saw-mill vas burned some time since at. Ca |i, Ga. Re Brush Electric Light company s contracted to erect a plant at. Talla i, Ala. peBear e decided Mountain to build Alining stamp company mill at a r. Ark. F A. Carlton will erect a three-story f front building at Athens, Ga., to f $ 10 , 000 . (hi Arkansas Midland railroad compa- i Ml extend their road from Clarendon ‘ “ot Springe. rrangemeats have been made looking ™ erection of a large cotton factory olumbus, Ga. i 1b Atlanta Ga., company have leased I ri>le quarries near Sparta, Tenn.,and ! 11 develop them. 1 t is reported that a comoauv has been I kil to develop 75 000 acres of land P Allardt. ’ ' ! Term. H [Paris dock mmrwmT Ra„ i.,, ,. • ® , Rseed’seSmtor Kv to 'mamifar f * t S m..,,. i t Georgia . Midland j railroad . i und -L°u8e company and de- ; f a ™ j umbus, Ga. “s Bessemer (Ala.) Foundry and Mu Bi works have been organized with i ^tock a " of $25,000. H. Griffin will start another brick- i »hy at Goldsboro, of 24,000 N. C. with a dailv : bricks * Mn . Ji ^ termed imported at Tyler, that a Texas, stock company lias 1 ’-Miactory to build a and an oil mill ’ The < Ark ‘) Building and i f * J ™°n tai1 - has been incorporated, •"■»**• Kliives, Kraft & mm u wilding the contract to 8cko ^ ° '■’rgima. to cost *17 * non at wheeling, The CaW er, ■ z&S * opm ‘ e • f,c tSK® Kansas Citv and Gulf railroad ?V° fa « ilci a touch road from Bessemer Ala., and have !& cv, C0Dt ract to .T. W. Worthington '■ ^road Henderson & Houston J » new company bridge have .Ir commenced VYi work , ^«G ^ISO.OOO. & So g n T exR R 1 11 ’ Tbf. f ... Paris and Dardanelle chaTtered capital stock $1,000 F to build a rail m ?, n Smith - Ark., to Darda- - miles. CONYERS. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 20, 1881. At Murphryville, Texas a jail is to be built not to cost over $12,000 andacourt house not to cost over $15,000. The Shelby iron company, of Columbi¬ an:!, Ala., contemplate erecting one or more iron furnaces at that place. The Norfolk Terminal company, of Norfolk, will build a large coal and iron ‘ pier at Lambert’s Point, Virginia. M. Crawford, of Vicksburg, Miss., will erect a mill for cleaning the lint from cotton seed, at New Orleans, La. The capital stock of the Gulf Coal and Coke company, of Mobile, Ala., will be increased from $350,000 to $1,000,000. The Young Men’s Christian Associa¬ tion of Charlotte, N. C., will erect a building to cost from $12,000 to $15,000. The Dallas Tex., Ice company, capital stock $50,000, has been organized and have nearly completed their ice factory. The Alabama Great Southern railroad will move 1heir machine shops from Chattanooga, Tenn., to Birmingham, Ala. The Ileyno, Iron Mountain and St. Louis railroad company has been charter¬ ed to build a railroad from Rey no to Corning, Ark., 20 miles. W. D. Wylie and W. M. Alexander have made arrangements for the building of an elevated railroad at Dallas Texas, estimated to cost about $200,000. The Talladega Land and Improvement will hold company, of Talladega, Ala., capital a meeting May 9 to increase their stock from $500,000 to $750,000. The Morrow Alining company, capital stock $140,000, has been incorporated Morrow, at Birmingham, Ala., by John C. W. A. Walker, Jr., and George M. Mor¬ row. Subscriptions are being received to¬ wards the organization of a company to build a cotton factory at Spartanburg, S. C. A Philadelphia syndicate has purchased Bris¬ several hundred acres of land, near said, to tol, Tenn., with a view, it is erecting a large iron furnace and lumbei manufactories. The De Bardeleben Coal and Iron com¬ pany, of Bessemer, Ala., have purchased mineral lately about 50,000 acres more of land and will build two more iron fur naces and 300 additional coke ovens. The Riverside Land and Lumber com¬ pany will enlarge the saw mill of Crowd er & Smith, at Riverside, Ala., and will build a large planing mill. The company has purchased 6,000 acres of pme lands. The Sloss Steel and Iron company, ol Birmingham, Ala., have purchased the entire property of the Coalburg Coal and Coke company. Tlie Sloss Steel and Iron company 11411 only build one new furnace, and will, it is said, begin work on a steel plapt at once. The Decatur, Cincinnati and South¬ western Railroad company has been in¬ corporated to build a railroad from De¬ catur, Ala., to Danville, Cy., and thence to Cincinnati, O. The same company has incorporated the Decatur, St. Louis and South Atlantic Railroad company,tc build a railroad to St. Louis. THE PRESIDENTS LETTER. What the Toronto Globe Has to Say ot the Document. Tokonto, Ont.,—The Toronto Globe of Monday says: The letter of President Cleveland to the president of the fishery un } on a remarkable and important doc ument. It is not such a letter as Ameri cans interested in the fisheries desired to receive from the president, hut the letter was evidently intended as a warning to Canadians, also. While we desire that the rights of Canada be firmly and effi ciently asserted and maintained, we hope that American fishermen will not here fused any privileges to which they are entitled, and that they will never expert ence un ; ust or unfriendly treatment from those employed in the protection of out rights. piit It would be folly, however, 1o out of sight the fact that many in the United States, including, apparently, his the president himself and members of cabinet, assert that fishermen of the United States hsve rights in our waters which we believe thev have not under whatever. From the misunderstanding i f we assert what we believe to be our rights, greater misunderstandings mav arise. This letter although sfudiouslv moderate in tone, intimates plainly what max follow. The position is, to sav the “ LAND GBABS IN MEXICO ___ A nericaBS W h„ Are Sec u.in* Large Tract* of t' an<l xs ern Mexico. The tract is traversed by the Mexican Central and also by the In ternational road, which Huntington is building from Eagle Pass to Laredo O this tract 1,000,000 acres is the finest cotton land in the country. It » the famous Laquna district Hartford.Vnn., A company composed principally . . bought of capitalists has 500,000 acres lyingln Sonora and Chihua hua, all grazing aud agricultural land. A purchase of 235,000 acres has beeu made in the western part of Chihuahua by Utah men. As this tract is adjoining the thr.Mormon colony, the purpose of purchase can be readily guessed. WASHINGTON GOSSIP, ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL. ,vhat u Being Hone by the nenrt* Of Our Government—The Week’s Review. THE NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT. Mr. DeLeon, jeeretary of the national drill, says he has written no general letter on the subject of the participation of colored troops in the exercises of the May encampment and drill in this city. Several commanders of southern conip-t nies have made inquiries regarding accord¬ the matter,and to each he has inquiry, replied he ing to the nature of the hut has kept no copies of his letters. The letter-, however, have all been published in southern papers. He has stated the ruling of the board of management to be that colored companies, regularly or¬ ganized as national guards, which applied before the first of April, would have their applications considered without discrimination. The only colored companies which applied were one from the District of Columbia and two of regularly organized he troops in Virginia. Mr. DeLeon says has also stated that there would he no social equality except such as soldiers might want. their Virginia contingent troops will under form a part of state command of Brigadier Virginia volunteers. General Anderson Only of the First three companies—the Montgemcry True Blues and Greys and the Atlanta Rifles— have decided not to participate in the in drill. Two companies in Texas, two Mississippi and one in North Carolina made inquiries, but they have not an¬ nounced their withdrawal. A NEW SET OF RULES. The commissioner of agriculture has issued a new set of rules governing the operations of the department in the sup¬ monia pression and and other exterpation infectious of diseases. jfieuro-pneu- The chief of the bureau of animal industry may cause exposed animals to be slaugh¬ tered whenever it is deemed necessary to prevent a spread of the disease from one state or territory to another. Provisions is made for the appraisal of and payment for slaughtered animals. Whenever it is deemed necessary by the chief of the bu¬ reau to supervise and inspect, any lines of transportation doing business in more than one state and boats, cars and stock yards, in connection therewith, he is re¬ quired to designate suitable inspectors and make all necessary regulations for the quarantine aud disinfection of such boats, cars and stock yards as arc suspected Should of heimr affected with the disease. it be found impossible to enforce rules in any state, the commissioner, if he thinks the exigency requires it; will declare the state in quarantine, and any person re¬ moving animals therefrom, except upon a certificate of the inspector of the bureau, will be prosecuted. MUTILATED BANK NOTES. There ivas received at the United States treasury Thursday for redemption a package of perfectly new United States notes of small denomination-$l,000 which were mutilated by punches had through them, through which a cord been passed and then sealed on the out side of the wrapper. The package was sent to Washington by express, by a Na tional Dank in Texas. The mutilation was evidently intended as an additional safeguard in transportation. This is said to be the practice of many of the soutn ern express companies in the transporta tion of money to the treasury for redemp tion, but the present is the first instance where new, umnjureu notes have been treated in this way. It is not known whether these particular notes by the were mu tilated by the bank or express company, butitisthoughtatthe bank depart ment that it was done by the to se cure exchange on New Y'ork at the ex pense of the government. Acting Ireas urer Whelpley refused to receive t e notes and directed their return to the bank at its expense, with the statement that such mutilation is considered a vio¬ lation of law and will not be permitted AN interestino report. The quarterly report of . he . ... , .. ___ bureau of statistics is just out, and soows some interesting figures. of the report s£s?i&x^HC£i‘» Seventy or more pages is estimates made by recognized authority are given upon various features of tins subject. In round numbers the consump tion of distilled spirits, domestic and imported in this country, is shown to S i ed reuarda wines 8 ^ twen ncreaS ine hun ’ dfe as t hs g to 'thirty JK bund reths. and malt from less than ^ ^ ^ moretban eleven llons< f ^ borate statement made bv F N. Ba reM itor of the Ne w York Grocer, bv request ‘ of the chief of the bureau, is . .. ’aveZe exi' other ^ n 5^ tbe P nresent 8 n diture C o Un tr f" v per annum for malt ,. q j h re tail “ > - ’ The drinking 9§5 popula- P at (ml88B)^-t’eTckpiU .. lg86 . 417, average expenditure per cap 0 i con. lamokt’s answer. A delegation of Irish-Americans called the j at the white house Monday to invite president to attend a meeting to beheld in the city to protest against the coercion policy in Ireland. They saw Col. La- ; raont and were informed that whatever the president’s private views on the sub ject. might be, it would be manifestly improper ing for him to attend such The commit- a meet- I in his official capacity. tee were convinced of the wisdom of this reasoning, and withdrew without further effort to see the president. The president has accepted an mvita tion to review, on Monday next* a pro cession of colored people on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of emancipation of slaves in the District of Columbia. WANTS A JUDICIAL DECISION. In relation to the reported conflict in Maine between the state and United States authorities respecting the authority of a state court to compel the production internal of records of the collector of revenue for use in the prosecution distilled spir- of persons accused of selling its in violation of the state law, .lie com missmner of internal revenue says that Ins office Inis no disposition to interpose of any obstacle to the enforcements state Saws but that a provision similar to that ment^f 0 an* i nteriud re venue "tax as^liq nor dealer prima facie evidence of a vio lation of state law, has been incorporated in the statutes of several of the states; that the question in issue iu Maine has been raised several times in other states, but never settled, and that it is his desire to obtain a judicial decision for future guidance in numerous cases likely to ar ; s( , NIPPED IN THE BUD A a Election Fraud Detected in Jersey City Entire Board Arrested. .Jersey City, N. J.—The entire elec¬ tion board of the eighth precinct, second district, Jersey City, whose polling place, the 600th, is on Mercer street, was ar¬ rested Tuesday afternoon for tampering consisted with a ballot box. The board of Patrick Golden, Judge Patrick Mc Ginnis and Owen McCabe, inspectors, and Cormae T. Dolan, clerk. At the uoon recess Policeman Murphy saw Clerk Dolan puiting the registry contained book into about the ballot box. The book thirty democratic tickets. The tickets were folded and dropped into the box before the clerk could be arrested. Mur¬ phy took the registry book out and found that about 35 tickets had been carefully folded and placed between the leaves. A number of citizens witnessed the at¬ tempt and great excitement prevailed for a time. Officer Murphy immediately sent for assistance and the entire board, together with the ballot box and registry book, were taken to the Gregory street police station. Subsequently a new election board was selected in the precinct and the voting proceeded as usual. The prisoners were immediately arraigned before Justice Stilsing. They waived examination and were held in $1,200 bail each to appear before the grand jury. Michael Kane, of 201 Wayne street, made an additional charge against Dolan. He swore that when he went to vote he was told that his name had been checked and that some one bad already voted for him. The bail bond was then increased to $2,400 for each of the prisoners. Assemblyman Quinulty became their surety. THE BUBNT DISTRICT Great Damage Dona to Farmers-SeTeral LWei Lost. Lincoln, Neb.—Along the branch line of the Burlington and Alobile railroad, a large number of settlers have lost their all by prairie fires. Railroad men say that for miles every foot of ground Cove 18 burned over. In Sheridan and counties the fires have raged almost as fiercely, and in one settlement four lives were lost. The report reached the telegraph thirty sta¬ tion, through a man who travelled miles, and he said that not one house in three in the fire tract remained unscathed. Across the line in Nebraska, Beaver Bot¬ tom has been on fire for two days. A large force of railroad graders on a line being built in southern Furnas county were surrounded in camp by the fire and escape was only made by the greatest ef¬ fort, the men leaving their tents, clothes and everything behind at the mercy of the , flames, „ One man was so seriously burne d that he cannot recover. A private of telegram to this city from an officia the road m th t vicinity estimates that at :r tsrjsr sisr-sr * very re ticent as to the damage incurred, but among homesteaders and settlers in northwestern Kansas, they must be very great _ Part 0 f t h e town of Norcatier, that was burned in the high wind, is re nock river, Virginia, reports the destruc tion of the village of Farnham by fire on Monday last The population was three hundred, and was entirely swept by due. It 18 situated about seven miles from -sharp’s wharf,on the Rappahannock and midway betweeniHeathsville and \V,nr saw. Among the heaviest losers are L, L. Mozings, F. Mozings and R. L. Rey. m.lds, whose dwellings were consumed. The old Protestant Episcopal church ) built in colonial days, and one of the old. est houses of worship in the state, was burned to the ground. The amount of could not ^ ascertained, NEWSY GLEANINGS. . XTEMS OF INTERES T FROM VARI orrs POINTS. short Paragraphs That will Prove Enter- i taining to Our Headers. Montgomery, Ala., will select city officers by primaries instead of by a con vention. Senator Wall proposes to amend the coust j tution so that women can vote on the j- 1 r quest 1 j on } n Fla. ' Greenville, 8. C., ... . , w P ' . before the interstate commerce convention ,n Atlanta, Ga„ on the 26th. Real estate continues to change hands in Fort Valley, Ga., and many inquiries are made for both building and storehouse lots. Mallory’s bill prohibiting free p asscs ove r railroads to delegates to po ]j t jcnl conventions will probably become n p w j n Florida. Hastewoodtownship.in 277to37,decided Chester county, in favor s . c by a vote 0 f q{ r subscription o{ $ U 0 00 to the cap st£)ck of the chester and Camden railroad company The money to build a hotel at Oxford, Ga If all been subscribed and work is to be begun on it at an early date. It will be located near the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad depot, In Fayetteville, N. C., Mr. Andrew Deal, while digging out the foundation for the dam and wheelhouse of the elec trie light mill, timbers came across a rock wall and heavy five feet below the bed of the creek. The general government, at the solici¬ tation of Colonel W. H. Yarborough, collector of internal revenue in the fourth district, North Carolina, has located a bonded warehouse in Fayetteville for the storage of grape brandy. A Mobile Ala. newspaper says at a recent ball a gentleman wore the swallow tail coat in which he was married fifteen years ago, which seventeen other bride¬ grooms had worn, and which had done duty at forty-three weddings. The plans of the boys’ school in Annis¬ ton, Ala , have been received and put in the hands of the contractors. The length of feet. the building will be 128 feet, width 55 It will take the $10,000 donated by Air. Sam Noble to complete it. Sunday Mr. W. J. Bridges’ burned saw mill in Fayette county, Ga., was to the ground. It caught from carelessness in regard to burning lumber saw dust. About $1, 000 worth of was destroyed and about the same amount of damage was done to the machinery. The Athens council only appropriated about $8,000 this year to the support of the city schools, when the board of edu¬ cation asked for $9,500. This will be supplemented by about $2,000 from the state and poll tax, which will be amply sufficient for the support of the schools. The sinking of the artesian well at the creosote works at Fernandina, Fla., was put in full operation and has reached the depth of over 100 feet. So far as the work has gone the contractors find the indications favorable for a speedy com¬ pletion. The crib of Mr. Joseph AIcClelland, full of corn and three horses, was burned to the ground. A few hours later, Air. Emile Poiret’s crib, situated at Plaisance, La., eight miles north of Opelousas, was also burned. The fires are supposed to be of incendiary oriran. Owing to the colff; dry weather which has prevailed for several weeks the stand of corn is very poor throughout the en tire section around Minden, La., and until it rains cotton will not come up. Even now farm work is very much re¬ tarded by the dry, cloddy condition of the ground. Fort Valley, Ga., is a good site for any kind of a manufacturing enterprise. Oak, hickory and ash are found in abundance around that place, and the hickory is said to be of the finest and most durable quality and of any handle in the south. A spoke, hub axe factory is badly need¬ ed there. Frank A. Butler three months ago went out into a place north of Plant City, Fla., which was then an old field covered with persimmon bushes and weeds six feet high. He went cleared to work—built land; cultivated fen¬ ces and a house; it, and last week was selling and ship¬ ping vegetables from it. Reports have reached New Iberia, La„ of a shooting affray that took place be fore the Catholic church of Loreauville. Pierce Herbert and F. Fourne't had a misunderstanding, when one sought his ad¬ re¬ dress by attempting to cowhide versary. After a short fight for the whip, both parties began firing and both were slightly wounded. Ou Sunday night last, a negro tenant living in a house on Mr. Jake Rhodes’ place about eight miles east of Greene ville, Ala.,went off, leaving five children, the eldest eleven years of age, fastened up in the house. While absent the house death. Cause of fire un n w . On Monday night of last week Jackson Ga., was visited by burglars. The store of Bryan & Williams was entered and the contents of their iron safe stolen. The safe contained $700 in currency and two gold watches. Six hundred dollars of the money belonged the town council. The safe seemed to have been opened by an expert, as there was no evidence that force was used to open it. Four hundred dollars was offered for the apprehension of the thieves, NUMBERS. %£ was found upon the battle ground 1867, of “Guilford court house” in the year eighty-six years after the battle was fought. It was uncovered by the rains, which washed a deep gully in Ihe field near the spot where the deadly struggle t o0 k p] ace between the Scotch Jiighland ers and the Maryland Continental line. The sword has beautiful chasing upon it, and bears the coat of arms of some dis tinguished family. Col. R. J. Brownfield, of Statesboro township, S. C., has the fossil remains of some unknown animal, which has been taken from a well over 75 feet in depth, The fossil consists of the teeth and frag ments of the jawbone of some small ani " tc eth greatly resemble those f a 8hark) although much smaller. Tbey were em bedded in a smooth, dark co i ore( j roc } £; which contained glittering After p ar ticles supposed to be mica. striking these fossils, in a distance of a very few feet the workmen met with eleven distinct strata of soil, all varying .neatly in color and quality, About sunset on Saturday Alcide evening Fils, last a little colored boy named aged nine years was playing on the rail¬ road track near Jeannerette, La. A bru tal negro called Ben Williams came along carrying a loaded shotgun. He ordeied the boy to kneel and say his prayers. The terrified little negro obeyed the^ orders, when the monster drew the trigger of the gun, lodging a load of shot in the neck of the boy, who expired evening. in great ag¬ On ony at 3:30 o’clock next old being arrested Williams mac?e the plea of not knowing that the ,S un ' waa loaded. MUTINOUS CONVICTS. The North Carolina Penitentiary the Scene of (treat Excitement. Raleigh, N.C. —This city was thrown into a state of high excitement Saturday by the riot alarm being given. The cause of the alarm was a telephone the message aid of from the penitentiary asking Governor’s the police and military. The Guards, under the command of Captain and Englehard, assembled at the armory thence went to the penitentiary, a half mile west of the city, while the police the and many citizens also hastened to scene of trouble. Just before seven o’clock, while the convicts were in the yard, a negro pris oDer named Jim Lewis, from New Man over county, drew a knife and threatened to kill anybody and everybody. The guards surrounded him, and finally one of them struck him such a sharp blow that he dropped the knife. He was then seized and taken to the hospital. As soon as Lewis was struck some of the other convicts shouted out that Lewis was killed. Upon this it appears the convicts made signs as if preparing for a rush and the guards ran for their guns. It was not desired to kill the convicts, but to overawe them. The convicts ga thered in the rear of the yard and blocked the corridors and shouted and yelled,but refused to enter the cells. Thereupon sent a call for the police and troops was out. The negro Lewis, who started the trouble, is in for life for rape, and is a bad man. An official at the penitentiary ringleader said that he was no doubt the in what was a plot for mutiny. The con victs are so well and kindly treated that they have become hold, and the people To in the city were greatly alarmed. add to the trouble the gas went out, and altogether it was decidedly an unpleas¬ ant evening. the troops enter. The troops entered the penitentiary At that about niue o’clock at night. and fifty hour, all of two hundred con victs were in cells save about sixty, all of whom were negroes. These tore up a part of the brick pavement of the cell corridor, but made no attempt at attack. At midnight f he gas was again turned on, and the great building was illumi¬ nated. No further attempt was made to force them into the cells. They waved red flags from the windows of the prison which were observed by hundreds oi persons who had assembled near the building. The talk they indulged General in was very violent. Adjutant prison, Jones and Warden Hicks, of the had a conference with Governor Seales, who gave instructions that bloodshed must be resorted only as an extreme measure, but it must follow the slightest placed attempt to escape or attack. He the military under the control of Warden Hicks. The latter and a member of the board of directors of the institution spoke to the convicts. The latter refused to go iu the cells, saying that they wanted certain grievances redressed. The authorities informed the convicts that they must surrender and obey the regula lions, and refused to make any terms. The convicts then promised to obey and enter the cells, which they did at the usual hour for locking up. The excite¬ ment here was remarkable, and was made more intense by the evident sympathy of some outsiders with the mutinous con victs. A TERRIKl-E CASUALTY. 1 alestine, T I „ s s., _ whi i e viewino - the Chicago fatally and a number seriously injured by the bursting of a large water tank. It is supposed the collision of the freight trains in the immediate vicinity in the morning had jarred the immense tank. containing one hundred thousand cracked gallon? the of water, and loosened or hoops, which gave away while the large crowd of country people were standing under the structure, when it collapsed and fell, burying people under the wreck¬ age and water. t v
