Daily globe., 1879-02-12
DEATH IN THE PIT,

Record.
DEATH IN THE PIT.
ST.. LOUIS, Feb. ia Kansas City dispatch
says: terrible accident occurred obout 40
this morning, at the foot of Grand avenue in
a cut being made for the Chicago & Alton rail-
road. At that hour the cut, with it's almost
perpendicular walls ninety feet high, caved in
ana buried the workmen and their teams under
thousands of yards of fallen earth. There
were four teams in the cut at the time, and ten
men working at each team. Besides there was
the foreman, James Mccarthy, his clerk, and
three men working with picks. MIR. Soder, the
contractor. was not in the cut Six persons
were killed outright and several wounded. The
following are the killed: Peter Bagley, James
Hager, Thomas Casey, Ed. Hinef, Dan Lucett
and Richard Rine. All the bodies have been
recovered. The scene is heartrending.
LATER-Another dispatch from Kansas City
about the land slide there this morning says:
The earth first commenced sliding at the ton
OF the south wall and cut, and accommodating
IN force and quantity as it descended, it spread
on reaching the bottom clear across the excava-
tion and piled itself twenty feet high against
the opposite wall. The laborers, at first
alarmed, rushed frantically to the outlet of
the cut to escape, but their way was
time were standing squarely across the excao
vatlon, and six of them were overwhelmed by
the huge mass Of earth and sank down to die
under its ponderous weight. Those who es-
capped, dazed with horror though they were,
rushed with desperate energy upon
the murderous earth and with frantic
speed set to work to relieve their
buried comrades. Three hou1s of
untiring labor and six dead bodies were brouoht
to view, the names of whom were reported in
the previous dispatch. An immense crowd of
people collected at each cut and could only be
Kept out of danger by the utmost efforts Of the
Pollce' POI Women and children of
running from ali dleotons' ins cut r9sSeS
excitedly through the crowd, calling the names
OF husband, father, or brother, whom they
reared had been crushed to death. They could
hardly be restrained from breaking through
the llnes and the scene was not only sad but
heartrending. The walls of the excavation are
about ninety feet high and almost perpen-
dlcular. There is no rock there, and nothing
to sustain them but their own cohesion.
POOR SHOT.
CHICAGO, Feb. 11.-About half-past O. clock
tonight Frank Ryan, of this city, shot his
wife, from whom he has been separated for
year or two, and then shot himself in the head.
Ryan, it appears, has been endeavoring to in
duce his wife to live with him again, but fail
ing had threatened to kill her. Neither of the
parties are seriously injured.
WANTS TO COMPROMISE.
PORTLAND, Feb. 11.-Captain Prince con-
victed of pension frauds, offers to pay the
government $l5, 900 for his release.
BURIED.
ALLENTOWN, Pa, Feb. 1.-THE embankment
at Ziegler's ore beds, fifteen miles away, caved
in, burying fifteen persons, killing one, and
seriously injuring four.
THROAT r11TrrNa
CINCINNATI Feb. 1l.-William Meyer and his
wife Mollie Meyer, two rather hard characters,
met at the corner of Sixth and John streets, to-
night, quarreled, and the husband slashed his
wife across the throat from ear to ear, but not
seve,ing the arteries. The woman was taken to
the hospital. The man escaped.
coUNTERFE1TER's SENTENCE.
TRENTON, N j., Feb. 11.-Henry Cole, ac-
complice of Ulrich, tho counterfeiter, was SEN
fenced to pay a fine of $2 900, and twelve years
in the State prison.
CONGREGATIONS.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1.-THE Pennsylvania
tack works, Norristown, are partially burned.
Insurance 100000.
LEBANON, N. H., Feb. 11.-A fire in G.. N.
Northern's building caused loss of $4,000.
Insurance $4,000.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Feb. 1.-THE Jail at Au-
gusta burned last night. It cost $82,O0O.
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 1l.-Fire last night de-
stroyed group of buildings five miles north
of the city owned by Chas. Herman. The
property destroyed included Touring mill of
four run of stone, pearl barley mill, starch
peas and star ch. Loss $30,OG0; no insurance.