Baltimore, June 14. A general
alarm of fire at 2:30 o'clock this after
noon was caused by fire on board the
Norfolk steamer at Union dock. It is
thought she will be totally destroyed.
A large schooner caught fire from the
steamer and getting loose floated about
the harbor. The flames also communi
cated to the fruit packing house of W.
W. Boyer & Cos. The loss will be
heavy.
' v ' • Day, a foreman om the Chi
cago, Burlington i Quincy road, wai
run down in a ravine by a fast mail
train near Peoria, and killed,
Ihe House passed the Senate bill to
protect settlement rights where two or
more persons settle on the same sec
tion of agricultural public lands before
urvey tuereol I
WRECKED THE TOWN
Galva, 111. Struck by a Destructive
Cyclone and Badly
Damaged.
The Methodist Church. While Full of
People, Reduced to Kin
dling Wood.
Yiraculou-i Ks?ipes aud Other ThriJ
ling Details of the Work ot
the Storm.
Peoria, 111., Juue 14. —The worst
damage so far reported by last night’s
storm occurred at Galva, a town of
aboat 2,000 people in Henry county,
forty-five miles north of here A
cyclone swept over the peaceful
village, inflicting untold destruc
tion. It has been almost
impossible to get any detailed state
ment from there, for the place is en
tirely cut off from telegraph communi
cation with the balance of the world,
owing to the wrecking of the wires by
the storm. The only word received
Ooraes from Lafayette Station, six
miles this side of Galva.
