Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-18
A DEMON
In Human Shape Murders Eight
Children, and Nearly Kills
Their Father.
A Terrible NitrO-Glycerine FIX
plOslOn Tears FOur Men
10 Hhreds.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Dealt, and Destruction by Storm
and Floods.

Ooatn and Destruction by Storm
and Floods.
CINcINNArI, Sept. IA. - Joseph
''ongherty, acting Superintendent OF
Hunncwell Coal Mine, ut Gray son,
KY, had his back broken Yesterday
by the falling of slate. Miners who
we're working in one of the rooms re-
ported danger from slate Dougher-
~ went in to show them that there
was no danger when about a ton Of
slate came down upon him.
A young man named Wheeler Co.'S
tello, a student Of the University Of
MOrgantown, w Va, went down into
we'll to examine IL and WIS over
come by foul air. A man named
Weller attempted 10 rescue him and
was also overcome and before assist
lance arrived both died.
Advices from great number Of
points in Ohio, Pennsylvania aud
West Virginia, indicate that the storm
Of the past two days vas the most Sc
we're experienced for years. The de-
strnction to railroad property is es-
pecially heavy and the washonts Of
culverts and bridges have caused rail-
road travel on many routes TO cease
entirely. The storm seems tn have
expended its greatest force in The ih-
terror and Eastern portions of the
State of Ohio, Western Pennsylvania
and Northern West Virginia. On the
line of the Chesapeake Il Ohio Il. r.
any number of land slides and wash-
outs occurred.
An extra train ran into land slide
near Barboursville, West Virginia.
breaking the steam pipe on the eng inc
and engineer Frank Rosecranz, fire.
man Ed. Wheeler, G. w. Roberts,
brakemen, were scalded and The two
latter died.
Engineer John Mulcahy was order
ed from Cannellton with freight,
before he had proceeded two miles
ran into washout causing his instant
death.
The KAnswha river Ia higher than
the food of 81 and is still rising over
flowing Charleston and great por-
ton of the Kanawha valley, sweeping
with 1t the steamer advance" under
construction at Hinton, and number
less RATS of lumber and logs.
A Dispatch states that bridge No.
40, at Reeds Mills, on the Pan Handle
route. was washed away and freight
train coming east plunged into the
stream aud was badly wrecked. En-
gineer Burke and Freeman Meteor
mick have not been found and it is
feared they are buried beneath the
locomotive.
Much damage aud loss to farming
property has alsO been reported.
At Albany, Ohio, Elmer A. Arm.
strong's farm was flooded and over
so sheep were drowned. The corn
crop 10 pretty extensively Hooded in
large number of places.
At Quaker City, Ohio, the town
was flooded and At many places citi-
zens were compelled to move 10 the
second stories of the houses.
TORONTO, Sept. l4.-Ail trains run
ming west and north from this city
have been cancelled until further no.
tice. The Eeplsnade is much dam
aged and the railroad tracks are
more or less washed away. The
rainfall from half-past three o'clock
Tuesday up to noon to-day, accord
ing 10 the Meteorological Observable
ry reports, is Sol inches, the heaviest
since lS43.
LEwIsBURG, Pa, Sept. l4.-Tho sg-
ricultural works of James S. Marsh
were totally destroyed by fire, this
morning. Loss estimated at 500, 600,
insurance $4,000.
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION THREE MEN
BLOWN TO ATOMS.
OH CRY, Pa, Sept. ia special
to the Derrick dated Bradford, Pa,
10Th, says between IL and ] o'clock
to-day, magazine containing 20 lbs.
of glycerine and seventy-f five lbs. of
dynamite, located ON the Curtis farm,
two miles south of Bradford, explod-
ed with terrific force, instantly kill
ing Andy p. Higgins, J. B. Burk-
holder, N. b. Bnlwer, and Charles S.
Page. The mangled and scarcely
recognizable remains of the unfortu-
nate men were found at different
points about the magazine and at
distances from 1t varying from fifty
to one hundred feet. The cause Of
the explosion 10 unknown. Not ono
Of the party present 10 left to tell the
story. On tho night of August 9Th
burglars endeavored to open the mag
azine by inserting glycerine into the
lock and firing with fuse. The At
tempt failed and the explosive re-
maincd In the lock. Last Sunday
night, September 9Th, another at
tempt was made to bnrglarizc the
safe and disarranged the lock. Pull
yer and his friends were trying to
open the safe and It is supposed fired
the glycerine in the lock. The acci-
dent created . profound sensation
and hundreds of people have visited
the shocking scene. Fragments OF
flesh and shreds of clothing were
strewn over the ground.
A TEXAS HORROR.