The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-10
An EXCITING AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN
REPUBLIC BOUNTY.

II
We sre sgain called upon TO record tht
rsvagGs OF tn. fire hend. Last Thursday
| night an ex ensiye prairie fire swept ov,r
a large tgact of country north Of town
| Iesvin ruin and Collation. in ils track
| We have h,en unable ss yet to get full
| acc uut OF the damage done, bui will Civ,
| our readers the particulars as far es We
| hase been able 10 gath Them from vari.
| Gus sources
". W Smith lost three horses, span Of
mules, ten hrg- 500 h1udrsd bushels OF
corn aud all 81 hi hay and grain.
John lssscs lost his corr.
School ID strict No. G6, has recently 70
| ted tond- 10 build new school house, th,.
| lumbsr / which was On The ground. and
building partially framed The lun-
WAS alt destroyed.
There are probably her lossss, but our
infornIaiion Is 20 GeJ ger 81 d I'M ats nc ory
| that We cannot give the psrJi ulsrs as tuIi
. We would like We hope that there are
20 other serious losse-, but fear that We
nave he ri bat part
TSo gentlemen, Me-srs. Sal h and Cti-
we'll, had n narrow esssIe from terrible
death. ihey were on their way home
{ ON where hey nd b en- f -hting fire; III,
q mes caught them, d they only saved
themselves by Jumping into by creek,
which, fortunately for them, b-iied IT,
usme at that place. and putting their
coats over their heads until sfer the hr,
ga 80
John Ambrose had Eis stable, ons calf
four hundred bush il f corn, gr.,arg aud
contents burned lie hsd barely got biz
cam out Of the stable when Ih- FIRE struck
p; two minutes later won d have made il
Impossible to save anything in il.
F Carbon lost twenty eight hog4. his sta
bic, all his corn, and everything except his
te IN.
Lon Petite lost hi4 team.
David III Bel had one horse burned, and
lost bis hay aud :, be
Mr.. Rtsmen en- il ore Of the heaviest
losers, having lost his house, stable, grain,
stock, in fact, every hing but one nurse
His family WAS compelled 70 iy from the
house with nothing but their night clothes
on, saving nothing else.
REMARKABLE DISCOVERY IN LYON
COUNTY
[Emporia News, 81
For several week Just past two laborers
named McCabe and Dpaneliy have been
engaged in gusrrying out rock for building
p 4rpo-es On pi-ce Of land formerly owned
by Weaver AID Rickabsugh,- situated about
four miles nearly due east Of Empori..
They had thrown off the earth for a en-
siderable distance back Of the edge of
deep ravine, along the border Of which
;htre i high ledge Of ok. running for
-ome distanoe up from N-o-ho river II
was on the border Of this cut that they we're
a work this fYren ,on loo-ening rocks bF
mesn- Of crow bars, when they suddenly
bsheid the ms-s OF earth and rocks giving
way heasaih th-Ir feet + rtuDately for
them, however, they were pos-esssd OF pre-
erc- Of mind ,oush 10 run
back ZONE distance b fore the rocks
hey had been at work upon fell inward
with terrible crash. They could di--
tinctly hear rumb!ing sourd for some
moments sfter the fall aud feel the earth
reverberating be1esih their feet. A shor,
time af,erxards a number Of men decenda d
into the opening or cave, ss may be
more prop-rly called. by means Of g rope
ladder, taking with them lighted lantern
Upon reaching the bottom and clsmhering
over the loose rocks lying beneath the
ops uiug, they found lii, level stone |
foor extending far beyond the cave ~hich |
was nearly ten feet high. The explorers
walked some distance, at least ten rods to |
TIE north, beneath the high prsirie where |
they found a port Of recess or opening 20 |
the right which they opened without diff
Gully. Here, (if the exciting story of |
our Informant is to be believed) they met !
a sight we'll calculated to transfx their |
eyes with wonder and aetonishment, and |
make their hears beat With terror Lying !
upon the rock floor upon either aide Of /
them we're hundreds Of human skeletons 4
piled on top of each other to The depth Of |