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4 JANUARY 4 & 5, 1879 GRASS VALLEY UNION
horse;” and it will not be at all surprising if there is a very general pledging of Legislative candidates
against voting for the payment of any expenses the Convention may create after the exhaustion of the
original appropriation.
Persons and Things.
There will be a social at the Exchange Hotel on Wednesday evening next. A good time is
coming.
L. P. Dorsey, formerly a compositor on this paper, has for several years past engaged on the
Record-Union, is reported seriously ill of typhoid fever, at his home in Sacramento.
A Vulcan powder cartridge was exploded on Gold Flat, on the night before New Year, in the way
of “firing out” the old year, which shook the surrounding country as with an earthquake. The
shock was felt in Crass Valley, three miles distant, distinctly, but the cause at the time was
unknown.
The Josh Hart Novelty Troupe, which has been playing a long and successful engagement at San
Francisco, will appear in this place, for one night only on the 17th inst.
A coating of gravel has been put over the broken stone in front of Protection Hose Company’s
house, which makes the walk more smooth and convenient for pedestrians.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1879
Persons and Things.
To-day is the first Sunday in the year. The churches should be crowded with those who formed
good resolutions on Wednesday last.
Truckee Republican: Hamlet Davis was in town on New Year’s day, but has returned to his
labors in the Constitutional Convention. He intends to stick by the Convention to the last, pay
or no pay, and thinks almost all the members will do so.
Large numbers of mallard and teal duck are temporarily sojourning on the Truckee river,
between the town and Lake Tahoe, notwithstanding the shores of the stream are lined with
ice.
Leslie Coombs met with quite a painful accident, on Friday afternoon last, by cutting an artery
between the forefinger and thumb, while using a knife. He will have to carry his hand ina
sling for some time.
An Eye Injury,
A miner named Holden, was struck in the eye by a piece of flying rock, a few days ago, while at
work in the Idaho mine, which cut into the pupil, and made a wound which will probably result in
destroying the sight of the eye.
The Locomotive Disaster.
The explosion of a locomotive on the C. P. Railroad, of which mention was made in yesterday’s
UNION, occurred about 3 o’clock, on Thursday afternoon, in the snowsheds, one mile east of the
Summit. The engine was No. 17, a large ten-wheeler, weighing 40 tons, which had recently been put
in thorough condition, and was acting as a “pusher,” behind another engine, and attached to a freight
train.
The train was going at ordinary speed, when No. 17 suddenly exploded, tearing the engine
to fragments. The engineer, Norton, was instantly killed, his head being partly blown off, while
the fireman, Hoy, was so badly injured that he died in about five hours. S. H. Green was acting as
conductor of the train, and was on the engine when the explosion occurred. He was thrown at least
fifty feet, and outside of the snowshed, and sustained severe but not fatal injuries. His coat was
blown off his back, and turned inside out, and one leg of his pantaloons was blown off.