Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-19

Powder ExpIOsioa = Five Persons
Killed.
SAN FRAEolsoo, CAL, Sept. 1.-THE
whole business portion of Phoebe, Nevada,
was destroyed by fire. Five lives were
lost snd many wounded by an explosion
of powder. Loss $500, 600 to $500, ,000.
No other particulars received. .
LHter-A Large Number EnjuresE.
The amount of insurance on the prop
erty burned st Pioche exceeded quar-
ter of 8 million. The explosion of three
hundred kegs of powder in the supposed
freproaf cellar of Belsenthal & Co. Level
ed all the buildings in that vicinity, kill
ing six persons and wounding a large
number dangerously, including two or
three ladies, all of whom were either in
jured by falling rocks, Jared by concus-
sion or burned. Many of the wounded
will die.
The jury on the case Of People VS..
Fox, for murder, had been locked two
days. When the fire occurred the Jury
were dispersed, and one of them was
killed by the explosion. A new trial
win be required. - e. = -
N AfCH R~A@sO y - ~ - nm OO4NACt8-GO
Escape.
There has been break at the Nevada
prison in Carson. Five guards and Lieut..
Gov. Denver were wounded. also N.
Rixdey, proprietor of the Warm Springs
Hotel Mills. Twenty-nine prisoners
escaped.
LATER.-The fight at Carson on the
break of the State prison, on the 18th,
was the most desperate on record. Nearly
every officer and guard and several of the
prisoners were wounded. Lieut.. Gov.
Denver was shot through the hip and is
in critical condition.
The Bulletin has the following account
of the prison break at Carson, Nevada:
Volney Robbins, captain of the guard,
was locking in the prisoners, when one
of them felled him with bottle iDsensi-
BILE. He was dragged into a cellar just
as the other prisoners rushed on him and
finished him. The band then cut through
into the room of the wife and daughter
of Lieut.. Gov Denver, and entered
before any ala-m was given.
The prisoners were all armed with
slung shots and steel bars. Denver met
them with revolver and fired at +.
Clifford, horse thief, who appeared to
be a leader, and stunning him, but was
soon knocked down, his skull fractured,
and shot through the thigh by the con-
yicts with bis own revolver. A prisoner
for life, who was accompanying Denver,
as the latter fell seized chair and fought
like tiger, knocking down five prison.
ars. opo ouar tho hal, d;nO and Dc r,,
the stairs. This heroic convict saved the
life of the Lieutenant Governor.
This man himself was eventually knocked |
senseless and left for dead, but only
slightly injured, as was Clifford, made his |
way down stairs, followed by the crowd,
who at once seized the srmory of prison,
the office, clothing, ammunition, etc.
Mat Pixley, one of the propTieiOrs of |
the Warm Springs Hotel, hearing the fir |
ing, and IMAGINING the cause, seized q |
six shooter and in company with a man
named PeTarsch rushed into the prisoDysrd |
to assist the officers. The conVicts were |
still inside the guard room firing thro' the |
main door of the building at Isaac New
house and Perasch and Rixley rushed up |
TO the window and commenced firing at !
the prisoners inside, when Chss. Jones,
10 year old youdg man from
White Pine fired at him through |
q window, a ball from 8
Henry rife carried two panes of glass,
struck Mr.. p. just below the left eye, pass
ing through his head. He fell upon the |
stone porch in front of the prison dead.
Twenty-nlne prisoners then escaped,
carrying off their wounded. They are
still at large. The guard are all wounded,
several seriously.
Ku-KIux Specie Robbers |
A disguised party bound and gagged
the smslgsmator at the Auburn mint at
Reno, Nevada, and carried off $50 pounds
of silver amalgsm before daylight this
The treasurer soon discovered
the buried treasure, but the robbers es-
cared.