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TIME TABLE IN EFFECT DECEMBER 31st, 1886.
Flag stations are marked thus 4
trains SOOTH bound-read down. trains north bound—read up.
No. 1. No. ft. j STATIONS. ! No. 3, ; No, fl.c
7 6oam HlO pin Lv Cincinnati Ar ( ti iS pm 040 am
10 22 am 11 20 pm I,v Lexington Ar 415 pm 4CO am
11 35 am 12 53 pm Lv Ifcnction City Ai l 243 pmj 240 am
630 pm 015 am Lv Chattanooga Ar " st) am 555 pm
050 pm 935 am ;Lv Waulialcliie Lv] 730 ami 535 pm
+7 0T pm +9 55 am ILy .Morgunviile Lv; nOS am+s 15 pm
47 25 pm 10 14 am Lv Trenton.’..'.,, Lv, to 44 aui| 455 pui
t 742 pm +lO 32 am Lv Rising Fawn Lv 631 am 437 pm
755 pm* ro 44 am Lv ,v, Sulphur Springs Lv| 620 am 425 pip
48 22 pm' II 17pm Lv Valley Head Lv +5 50 am: 355 pm
4s 55 put’ 1155 pm Lv Fort Payne Lv +5 14 am 3 IS pm
40 39 pm 12 4S pin Lv CollingsviUe Lv l 425 ain! 230 pm
10 31pm 215 pm Lv ..Attalla Lv +3 32 am 125 pm
2 35 pm Lv Steele Lv ,12 50pm
2 58 pm Lv Whitney Lv 12 28 pin
11 59 pm 337 pm LV. Springville Ly 215 am 1148 aip
13 40am 422 pm Lv Trussville .i-.j®..Lv 133 am ll 1)2 am
1 40 ant 635 puijLv. * Birmingham Lv +2 50 am .1015 am
+0 03 pm Lv .Wheeling Lv 1188'sam
+6 12 pin Lv '. .lonesboro Lv | 9 30 am
42 40 am 059 pm Lv Woodstock „..Lv+U 32 pm 8 51am
47 06 pm Lv Bibbville i.Lv! * +845 am
7 15 pm IJLv Vance Lv 8 37 am
'• 735 pm Lv * Coaling I.’ ..Lv 817 am
7 54 pm Lv Cotlondale, Lv 10 47 pin 806 am
347 ani 815 pm Lv Tuscalodsa ...'....Lv 10 30 pm 748 am
. ] +8 58 pm Lv Carthago. • Lv +7 12 am
I 49 20 pm Lv Akraii Lv +9 30 pm 645 am
+5 08 am 052 pill Lv EL TAW Lv 911 pin; 620 am
532 am 10 15pm Lv Uoligee ...Lv 849 pm 532 am
ilo2spm Lv .-Miltey.,,.. Lv 840 pm
547 am 10 32 pm Lv Epos ’....Lv 835 pm nl4 am
605 am 10 53 pin Lv ....'..'......Livingston. Lv 816 pm 463 am
625 am 11 15 pm Lv York ! Lv 705 pm 430 ain
+6 40 am 11 33 pin ILv Cu ba Lv +7 38 ]mi 414 am
t 702 am 11 55 pm Lv Toomsuba Lv +7 15 pmi 351 am
740 mil! 12 30 am Ar '. Meridian Lv 640 pm; 315 am
843 am 1 19um Ar .Enterprise. Lv u2O pm 218 am
300 pm 735 mu 1 Ar New Oricana Lv] 10 40 am 800 am
12 siam Lv Meridian.. Ar L 235 am
5 05 am Ar. Jackson....;..'. '.Lv [lO 05 pm
7 30 am Ar Vicksburg.., Lv’| * |,i®W
2 40 pm[ Ar... 1::.........:’/...;... Monroe Lv 12 20 pm
6 45 pm]Ar Shreveport.a. Lvj 8 lo am
7 10 pm Ar Texas and Pacific . I unction Lv! I V 50 am
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TRENTON, DADE COUNTY GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 22. 1887.
CURRENT TOPICS.
A large' whale was captured off Loug
Island.
Good Friday is a legal holiday in Penn
sylvania. .
ByßAttsfij ELas.. elected five Indies to he
aldermen.
Train agents say women rarely buy com
ic papers.
The women of Bucks County, Pa., are cru
saingthe saloons.
Adam check is said to be
good for $9,000,000.
Dr. M ary Walker has at last got into
Jihe dime museum.
The National Amateur Press Association
meets in Cincinnati next year. t
Neither wine, ale, porter nor brainier has
ever been manufactured in Japan.
. The Bantu Barbara (Cal.*) hot sulphur
springs have been sold for 1100,000.
It is estimated that over 110,000 Montana
sheep froze to death the past winter.
Trenton, N. J., has elected its first Re
publican mayor in twenty-five years.
If all the gas is taken from the bbwels
of, the earth won't the surface cave in L,.
The president appointed Bentou J. Hall’
of lowa, to be Commissioner of Patents.
The Bell telephone has 14,185 miles of
Tine and its earnings for 1886 were £1,097,-
000. (
General Sheridan has taken to the usd
of Indian clubs to reduce his increasing
flesh.
One firm of envelope manufacturers in
London is said to make 1,000, u00 envelopes
a day.
The U.; S. wooden war ships Shenandoah
and Lackawanna will be sold at public
auction.
Egypt, England, France, Germany and
Russia, are neck deep in annoying compli
cations.
New York recently appropriated a half
million dollars for the improvement of the
State canal.
.They allow no marrying in haste in
Japan. It takes three weeks to perform
the ceremony.
A mitrailleuse is being tried in the Aus
trian army which will Are 1,000 bullets in
ninety seconds.
An Eastern man is trying to raise a
breed of turkeys with four legs for Thanks
giving purposes.
The Czar is reported as saying he is
quite prepared to fight but doesn’t think
he’ll go to war this year.
The reports as to the President’s poor
health, have resulted in flooding , the White
House with patent medicine advertise
ments.
Under the local-control law of Missis
sippi, only thirty-seven out of the seventy
four counties in that State can sell
whisky.
There are still remaining in Missouri
1,067,405 acres of United States lands sub
ject to homestead entry and purchase at
$1.25 per acre.
The use of opium, morphine, cocaine
and narcotics generally by persons of deli
cate organization is alarmingly large in
New York City.
Count Yhx Moltke is the oldest member
of the German Reichstag, though twenty
four of his colleagues are more than
seventyniaar* oid.
The students of the College of Physi
cians and Surgeons of New York hack in
pieces more than three hundred dead hu
man bodies each year.'
Easter Sunday came in on an earth
quake at Charleston, S. C. Church at
tendance was light in consequence, people
preferring the open air.
A man in Burlington, Vt., kissed a
strange Woman ( at the depot in place of
his sister, and she made him pay twenty
six dollars to settle the case.
Pretty soon the question will be not
what Indiana towns are boring for gas, but
what towns have not struck it. Appar
ently they are all in the belt.
Michael Davitt and wife were pre
sented with a furnished cottage on Kili
ney bay a| a wedding present. The do
nors were Irish and American.
The Grand Army of the Republic is to
hold a patriotic feast in all its posts April
27, and take steps to raise the fund for a
memorial to Grant at Washington.
Messrs. Chew,' Swallow and Hunger
ing were recently guests at a San Fran
cisco hotel, while Messrs. Fish, Bacon,
Plumb and Cooke were located at another
house.
A xoveltt in flowers, mentioned by a
flower grower, is the “mpon flower,”
blooming at night or on dull days, and
growing. faster thau even the morning
glory.
A dog in Black River Falls, Wis., com
mitted suicide. He swam into the middle
of the river, gave a long howl, dived, and
made no attempt to.get his head above
water.
Secretary Fairchild is short and stout,
fond of riding, yachting and other, out
door recreations, and ah attendant upon
the services of the Protcstaiit Episcopal
Church-
California first attained fame as a land
of gold: then as a of wheat; and
now the Navy Department says she makes
steel which is’equal to any that the world
produces.
Clerk Micou, of Essex County, Ya., has
been in his office as deputy and principal
clerk for sixty-eight years. He is eighty
years old now, and is a candidate for re
election in May.
Collecting silver spoons in Europe is
the latest craze among American ladies.
They buy a different shaped spoon in each
chief city, and have the name of the place
engraved on the bowl.
At least two women have turned up who
profess to be convinced that Colonel Wm.
Kissane Rogers, or Rogers Kissane, is the
man who married them many years ago
and then deserted them.
At a recent legislative reunion in Maine
Hannibal Hamlin, who will be seventy
nine in August, participated in every dance
and escorted home in tho morping the
prettiest'girl in the room.
A club of girls in Dorsetshire, England,
are under vows to make their own clothea
and never to allow a servant to make their
beds or dust their drawing-rooms.
TERRIFIC STRUGGLE.
A Bull Fight on the Plains of Ne
braska,
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Rivaling in Tragical Interest Those of the
Roman Arena—The Brute Falls Dead and
the s*ni Will I)ie.
Lincoln, Neb., April 18.—-This forenooit
F. W. Flowerdew, a farmer living alone
many miles west of here, was out in the
field stepping off a portion to plow, when
he noticed a range steer about half a mile
distant. He went on with the measure
ment, but presently, hearing something
approach, turned and saw the steer coin
ing qt him full speed head down and about
twenty yards away. Mr. Flowerdew
was not armed, and his only way
to avoid being struck by the first
charge was to dodge it, which he did.
The. steer turned and came again, but with
not so much force, and Flowerdew suc
ceeded in getting his right hand into its
nostrils. Here the battle began between
man and beast. To one it meant life or
death; to the other it made no difference.
.For area they had two hundred square
miles of level plain, in the center
of which the sky dropped to
the earth to form the boundary of
the scene of action. No Caesar was
there to crown the victor and no
amphitheater in Roman grandeur to ap
plaud. The nose was the best place Flow
erdew could have got hold of the niadden
eiL brute, and backward and forward they
struggled. The steer was three years
old, and as Flowerdew lisv a'
tall and powerful man; it'
made a nearly equal fight. For over half
an hour they struggled. All the while
Flowerdew was working his way to the
house, in front of which he secured a
heavy club. When he got hold of this he
. had a little better show, and commenced
to pound the steer over the head and nose. •
This the steer stood and suffered, but tho,
minute the pounding stopped the brute
charged, and had to be beaten off. The
last desperate effort made by the steer
knocked Flowerdew to the ground. Al
though the animal was fast failing from
loss of blood, It gored its victim horribly.
Flowerdew’s injuries are fatal. The steer,
from loss of blood and exhaustion, fell
dead oh his side.
Heavy Snow-Fall in Northern Ohio.
Wrllington, 0., April 18. —A heavy snow
lasting from morning until night, fell in
this section to-day, covering the ground
eight inches deep. A thick coating of sleet
is clinging to the branches of trees, and it
is ft wred the v adding fruit will be killed,
i The storm is a cold northeaster, and the
oldest inhabitant does not remember such
a fill of snew so late in April.
Tiffin, 0., April 18.—Tho severest snow
storm of the year is raging here and along
the lake. Snow has to the depth of
eight inches, and driving. de
layed. Wires are p&strate and
suspension of business is the result.
Toledo, 0., April 18.—Snow fell here to
day to the depth of several inches, and
the wind blew a blinding gale from tl*e
northeast, throwing this region back into
the winter season. To-night it has turned
out colder and is partly freezing. It is
feared that damage has been done to
peach, peai Njuid other fruit-trees which
had comnienceLt to bud under the warm
weathgx of the past week Or scf.
>|SnoW-Slorm in New York.
New York, April 18.—At 7 o’clock this
morning it began snowing hard, and at'9
o’clock about 1 1 , inches of snow was on the
ground. It then turned into a sleet storm,'
and at 10 o’clock the snow is cove'rod with
a.crust of ice. Reports from the interior of
the State shows that the storm is general
in the Eastern portion.
Navigation Open.
Buffalo, N. Y., April 18.—Navigation is
j practically open on Lake Erie, and many
i vessels are preparing to leave this port for
| Chicago and Milwaukee to-morrow and
j Wednesday. The propellers Jim Sheriffs
and J. A. Farwell, the first arrivals of the
i season, came into port last night.
Two Years for Eelection Frauds.
St. Louis, April 18.—Patrick J. Eagan,
the deputy roeorder of votes, who was
convicted of committing election frauds
by falsely registering names of voters last
November, was sentenced in the United
States Court to-day to serve two years in
the penitentiary.
Burned With His Home.
Winchester, Ind., April IS.—At or near
Deerfield, five miles north of this city,
lived an aged couple, Geo. W. Moulton and
wife, in a two-story house. During last
night the liouse caught fire and was de
stroyed, and Mr. Moulton was burned with j
it.. The old lady awoke just iu time to get
out alive.
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Stove Molders’ Strike.
Cincinnati, April 18.— About 1.500 stove
molders threw down their tools to-day
and walked out. They refused to work on
the St. Louis “scab” patterns. Five hurf
dred molders at Louisville quit work for
the same cause, likewise twenty-five at
Akron, O. All the stove foundries iu
Pittsburgh and vicinity are shut down
owing to tho molders striking.
Two Young Ladies Burned !o Dealh.
Lynchburg, Va., April IS.—A special to
the Advance from Seven Mile Ford, Smith
County, says: The house of a man named
Brewles. near here, was destroyed by fire
last night, in which two of his daughters,
aged nineteen and -twenty-one years, were
burned to uoath, and three other persons
so badly injured that they can not survive.
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Oleomargarine Dealers Fined.
New Y'ork, April 18.—About fifty deal
ers in oleomargarine appeared by attorney
in the court of general sessions to-day,
pleaded guilty of violating the law and
were fined from SSO to SIOO each.
CHICAGO’S {NEW MAYOR
Says No Place In America for Amyoliism
or Socialism.
Chicago, April 19.—Mayor John A; Roche,
after qualifying iu city couuuil .last night, .
read a brief inaugural, in Which be said :
“Every brick and stone and timber in the
buildings which line our six hundred and
•fifty miles of streets are contributions to
tfle grandest monument of labor erected
by willing hands and earnest hearts in
modern times. ’ The demand of the work
ing men for Just treatment and fair wages
is fight and should be respected.
Arbitratipn is a better method of settling
controversies between employe and em
ployer tftian strike* or boycotts or brute
force. Might is not the synonym of right,
and should not take its place in a land of
liberty and law and a free ballot. And the
mistaken men, who, while enjoying tho
benefits of a free Government, are seeking
to undermine and overthrow it, under the
guise of Socialism or Anarchy, musVlcarn
that this is not the soil for the growth of
their un-American doctrines. The first
duty of Government is tho protection o<
its citizens in their right to life, liberty
and property.”
Another Cutting Case.
El Paso, Tex., April 19.— Pedro Garcia,
editor of • the Dbmrvador Fronterizo , lan
guishes in Cutting’s old cell in Paso del
Norte jail for calling Mayor Provencio, of
Paso del Norte, a drunkard, and Proberto,
the tax collector of th<? State of Chihuahua,
a robber. Garcia published his paper in
El Pasp, and was arrested in the act of i
circulating the sheet in Paso del Norte, on
the Mexican sidq of the river. The case
is.identical with Cutting’s, the Mexican
Governiueut again exercising the right
of extra-territorial,, jurisdiction, except
ing that Garcia is a native Spaniard and is
held for circulating, and not publishing a
libel.
A Magnanimous Offer.
Montreal, April 19. —At a meeting of
the city council yesterday a letter was
read from - Sir George Stephens and Sir
Donald Smith, offering Jo donate $1,000,-
000 to establish a Jubilee Hospital for
the sick and suffering poor, pi-oviding the
city would grant a site on the mountain
side, known as the TayYor property.
The council resolved to accept the offer
and further the scheme in every possible
way.
Strange Occurrence at an Infirmary.
Bowling Green, Ky., April 19. Dr.
Robb, attending physician at the Warren
County poor-house, reryirts a very re
markable case whiqh occurred in that in
stitution a few doys since. Mariah Thomas,
an inmate of the place, gave birth to twins
—one white and the other black. The
mother is a white woman. The doctor
says this is only the third or fourth caafr
of this kind on record.
One Tramp Killed and Eleven Captured.
South Bend, Ind., April 19.—1 n a fight
here this afternoon between the city police
and a gang of tramps, eleven tramps were
captured. Six of them were anneu with
revolvers. Duping the fight Policeman
John Metz shot a tramp through the heart,
killing him instantly. Three business
houses were burglarized by tramps last
night.
Buried in HJs Wedding Suji.
Lafayette. Ind., .April 19.—Joseph
Butsch. of Indianapolis, in the employ of
A. Bruuer, sewer builder almost in
stantly killed this afternoon. 'Butsch was
attempt’ng to adjust the machinery when
the derrick fell, striking him on the head.
He was to have been married Wednesday,
and his wedding suit is his shroud.
Fatal Carelessness.
Wabash, Ind., April T9.—Charles Mc-
Ginnis, age'd sixteen, residing four miles
north tef Wabash, late last night fooled
with a 32-caliber revolver, purchased a
day or so before, and the weapon was dis
charged, the ball emtering his abdomen
and inflicting a wound which will prove
fatal.
Suicide by Morphine.
Bradt, Mich., April 19. —Clark Harrison,
a farmer, remonstrated with Jas. McGur
ren for abusing his (McGurren’s) wife.
Hot words followed and the men exchang
ed. shots. Thinking he had killed McGur
reu, Harrison returned home, took mor
phine and expired in a short time.
for Life.
Mourns, li.L.i April 19. —Th*e jury in the
case of Brakeman Harry Schwartz and
Newton Watt, on trial here for the murder
of Express Messenger Kellogg Nichols, on
a Rock Island train, a year ago, returned
a verdict of murder and sentencing them
to life imprisoument.
Anniversary of the Battle of Lexington.
Boston, April 19.—The town of Lexing
ton-to-day celebrated the 112th anuiyer-.
sary of the Revolutionary battle. There
I Was a procession this morning, an oration
in tjie Town llall and a children's enter
tainment. The whole concluded this even
ing with a grand ball.
Torpedo Sinks a Launch.
Annapolis, 11d., April 19. A torpedo
exploited under the torpedo launch hull
this afternoon in the harbor and sunk her
in ond minute and a half. Ensign Muir
wu3 in charge, and several navel cadets
were on board, but they were all taken off
m safety by an oysterman.
Demolished by a Tornado.
(Suffolk, Va.. April 19.—The dwelling of
Johu Wright, near here, was struck and
completely demolished by a tornado. Mrs.
Wright and James Luke Were kilted, and
Mr. Wright and his sister-in-law seriously
hurt.
Father and Son Killed by Lightning.
Fikevili.r. N. C., April 19.—During a
terrific storm the house of Taylor East
man, a prominent farmer, was struck by
lightning. Mr. Eastman and his son
were killed and Mrs.Eastmananda dauga
ter were badly stunned.
VOL. IV-NO. ».
FIVE MEN KILLED
By the Bursting of a Tank—A Frightful
and Peculiar Accident at, I'alattnc, IU.
Palatine, 111., April 17. — While view
ing thd wreck of a freight, tram, on the
Chicago and: Northwestern railroad near
this city, to-day, five persons were Kuted
by the bursting of a large watertank. The
accident occurred at five o’clock this after
noon. and it is supposed that the collision
of the freight train in the’ immediate
vicinity in the momiftg Had jarred
tho immense tank, containing one hun
dred thousand gallons of water, a ltd
loosened or cracked the hoops, whjch gave
way while a large crowd,of -countrypenile
were standing' immediately under the
structure. When it collapsed and.. feU U
buried the people under the wreckage and
water. Two bdys and four meu ws»c
killed two-others were fatally
and a number seriously injured. The killed
were Edward Wenke, William Darms,
George Meyer, William Meyer and Fred
Boeder. The injured are John Aamust
and Charles Storms. Tho Meyers wero
brothers aud both quite youthful. Storms
also is very young. The tank was a hugo
affair, constructed of upright oak pranks,
twenty-fqur feet, long aud four inches
thick. While "the crowd were gaprAg
at the wreckers a sharp crack wk* heard a
above, and the people scattered in all di
rections. Nothing further happening, the
crowd again'gkthfifed. Suddenly, without
further forewarning, the great ko» hoops
holding the timbers jnplaco simul
taneously. The flooring and sqpjiorts re
mained intact, but the rest of the
tune and’ its.burden of -water was project
ed iu all directions upon the people below,
crushing and smothering them horribly.
An eye-witness says that, had the acci
dent occurred earlier iu the afteyaogu,
when the crowd was thick, it would cer
tainly have resulted in the loss of half a
hundred lives.
Skeleton of a Mastodon Discovered.
Bucyhus, 0., April 17.—Tke remains of a
mast ad on were partly exhumed on the
farm of - Hubert Dubois, two miles east of
Tiro, this county, by Mr. Michner while
at work digging a ditch for Mr. Du
bois. He suddenly came upon parts
of decayed bones, and on further search
uiteartfied the huge* and flnely-pre
ser.ved teeth of the monster, the largest of
which weighs upwards of two polinds aud
measures twenty inches in circumference
The other teeth measure and weigh pro
portionately less, the smallest of which
measures three inches each way across
the crown and weighs over a pound.
Large quantities of huge bones were un
earthed, but where so far decayed that
on being handled they crumbled to pieces.
National Drill Entries.
Washington, April 17.—The following is
a list of military organizations of Ohio,
Kentucky and Indiana entered and acted
upon by the National* Drill Committee at
the closing of the entries on April 1, .1887:
Ohio —(Competing) Second Regiment
G.; (competing) Company D, Eighth Regi
ment; < competing (Toledo Cadets, Com pa;iy
K. Seventh Regiment; (competing) Bat
tery B, First Artillery. Kentucky—(Com
1 peting) First Bogiment K. S. G., (compet
ing) Battalion Louisville I*egion, (compet
ing) Battery A, First Regimeut. Indiana.
—(Competing) Battery A, First
Regiment: (competing) Gatling Gun Pla
toon. Third Regiment; (competing) In
dianapolis Light Infantry, t (competing)
Fort Wayne Rifles, Richardson Rifles.
Kokomo’s Wonderful Gas Well.
Kokomo, Ind., April 17. Thirty-five
quarts of nitro-glyeerine was lowered 956
feet into tho Junction gas well, Saturday,
aud exploded with terrific force, develop:
ing a wonderful flow; of gas. The well is
at the crossing of the Pan-handle and Lake
Erie and Western railways, in the north
edge of the city. This new well shows a
pressure of 375 pounds, which is said tobb"
equal to the famous Karg well at Findlay.
The blaze leaps * fifty feet high with a
deafening roar, causing the derrick to
fairly tremble with its force.
A Whale Captured.
New York, April 17.—A large whale was
captured off Aniogansett, Long Island,
yesterday morning by Captain Edwards
and his boat’s crew. The captain, attar
throwing tho harpoon, was struck by th°
whale’s flukes and thrown out of the boat’
fifteen feet into the water. He was picked
up unconscious aud taken ashpre, aud npw
lies in a critical condition.
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Rain and Snow in the West. -
Kansas City, Mo., April 17.-rA heavy
rain, lasting from early morning untif
about 7 o’clock this evening; fofl in Kan
sas. Nebraska aud Western, Missouri to
day. but was succeeded in- the Missouri
Valley at about 7 o'clock by r a sAow-sfortn,
w’hich covered the. earth to a depth of two
inches, and which threatens great damage
to crops and budding frurt trees.
Haddock Jury Disagree.
Sioux City, I a,, April 17.—The jury in
the case of John Arensdorf, charged with
the murder of. Rev. Geo. O. Haddock, dis
agreed and were finally discharged by the
court at 11:50 a. m. to-day. The jury stood
eleven for acquittal aud one for conviction.
Dennis O’Conuell was the juryman
who stood Out for conviction, and when
the jury was before the court he said that
his‘judgment was final.
Cause of Judge Cartter’s Death.
W ashington, April 17.—The autopsy on
the body of Chief Justice Cartter, of tha
District Supreme Court, was performed
to-day by Dr. Lamb. It showed thatdeath
was due to cancer of the stomach. The
remains win leat*e here on Tuesday even-’
ing for Cleveland, 0., where the funeral
will take place.
Terrible Disaster Reported.
London, April 17i—It is reported that an
Eugjish steaiper has foundered off Boni
facio, Corsii;k. and that one hundred and
flftv lives were lost.