Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-05
NO. IS7
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES

TwoSt. Louis Children Killed by Careless
Patriotic shooting-Killed and Injured
.,y the Explosion of Powder Magazine.
THE sNY LEVY BREAK.
Especial Dispatch to the Globe.
QUINCY, Ills, July 4.-The river has
fallen two inches and is subsiding very
slowly. In the Sny valley the water is slow
ly spreading out over the country. The
bridge of the st. Louis division of the Bur-
lington road over the Sny Carte has swung
out of position by the food and traffic has
been suspended. People as well as property
are being taken to places of refuge, many
families having been driven ont of the val
ley by the backwater.
EXPLOSION OF POWDER MAGAZINE.
San FRANCISCO July "A dispatch reports
that by an explosion Of powder magazine at
Monterey, C. W. Burke. Company G, National
Guard, was killed; B. f. Hastings, Company @,
terribly mangled; and MIR. Buckbee. Company
G, slightly injured. No further particulars
yet received.
Further details of the accident at Monterey
are received Company ''G' left here Friday
by rail and went into camp near the Del Norte
hotel that evening. Saturday was spent in camp
festivities and It was decided to spend the
national anniversary in due form.
Between 10 and IL o'clock the guests
of the hotel and friends of the
company began to assemble. The camp
consisted Of two rows tents, that of the COM
manding officer being in the right centre, in
front of which the field piece were placed in
position. Ammunition for the cannon was
deposited in magazine in a tent near by.
At noon q salute was to be fred, and 3.
Hastings, of company &C." who had been
engaged specially to take charge of the gun, &C
companied by w. O. Burke and Spencer G.
Buckber, both of company "G," entered the
magazine tent to prepare the cartridges. has
of powder. At the first blow
an explosion followed. Burke was
killed almost instantly aud Hastings mangled
aud burned past recognition. As he was car
ried away for medical aid he cried my God,
this is all my carelessness." He may possibly
recover. Buckbee is only slightly hurt. The
explosion created great momcntary consterna-
tion. The tent and articles in the vicinity we're
blown in all directions. The disaster put an
end to the festivities and the company will re-
turn tomorrow.
INCENDIARY FIRE.
LANCASTER, Pa, July 4.-This afternoon the
large barn on the county farm was destroyed
by fire. A number of adjoining buildings.were
badly burned and at one time it was feared the
building used by the insane would also be
bnrned. Loss fully $1,000; insurance 6,000.
It is supposed the fire was the work of an in
cendiarY as it broke out in three places At the
same time.
CAHILL CAUGHT.
CINCINNATI, July 4.-Robert Cahill, recently
arrested at Fort Worth, Texas, on suspicion of
being implicated in the murder of Colterrecker
near fremont, Of which John Welch has been
found guilty, reached this city this evening un-
der charge of the officer who went to Texas for
him with requistion from Gov. Foster.
FOURTH OF JULY MURDER.
CINCINNATI, July 1.-The day has been OBJ
served much as the ordinary Fourth of July
by large influx of visitors from the country
and by the usual consumption of fire crackers,
firing Of guns and pistols. A large picnic was
held at Parker's Grove, eleven miles up the
river and during the afternoon o very serious
disturbance arose among party of drunken
men, in the course of which John Muller, for
merly private policeman at the Atlantic Gar
den, was shot dead with pistol by one of the
party, supposed to be Michael Moran. Half a
dozen men were more or less injured in the
melee. Moran and five OF hers were arrested
Mullen. at the time of his death, was proprie-
FOURTH OF JULY FATALITIES.
Sr. LOUIS, July 4.-Although tomorrow had
been set apart as Independence day, to-day has
been observed as holiday by various classes
of people. A score or more of picnic parties
left town this morning by river and rail, and
in the city there has been continual fusilade
of fire crackers, pistols and miniature cannon.
A number Of small accidents have occurred.
and two children, Auguste Kharl, S years, and
Michael Gallagher, IL years, were shot in the
head by stray bullets and are dying. To NOR
row will be observed as legal holiday, and
while there will be no public nor formal demon
stration all business is to be suspended and
the usual private celebrations will be INDUCED
in.
BODY RECOVERED.
NEW YORK, July 4.-The body of John
Wright, Of Glen Cove, Long Island, was found
near tho wreck of the steamer Seawanahka to-
day.
DEFAULTING EXPERT.
CHARLESTON, s. c., July 4.-Alexander G.
Lsughlin, engaged as an expert by the bond
commissioner, James @. Colt, to count and
cancel bills of the Bank of the State, which
are now funded in State consols at fifty cents
on the dollar, has been committed to Jail on
default of $4,000 bail, charged with frauau-
lently appropriating certain amount of bills
to his own use. There seems to be little doubt
dS 10 L2ugQlln gull, InG Only question: III
doubt being the amount he has stolen which
is estimated by some persons as high as
100000.
THROWN FROM THE TRACK.
ST. LOUIS, July "A freight train on the
Chicago and Alton railroad was thrown from
the track while passing through East Mexico,
Missouri, at an early hour this morning, and
fourteen cars laden with grain demolished.
Engineer Kelly and fireman arc reported
wounded, but no lives lost.
MURDER IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, July 4.-The body of an unknown
man was found in the extreme northern portion
of the city this morning, near the artesian
we'll, lying face in the mud, with cut on tho
back of the head and throat cut from ear to
ear. The body was found stark naked, but the
clothes of laboring man were found near the
place. At first it was believed laborer had
committed suicide, but subsequent investi-
cation revealed the fact that the man had been
murdered and taken to that spot, his clothes
removed and others placed in the vicinity, to
conceal his identity. He was evidently no
laboring man, but his well shaped hands and
cleaply appearance of person, except where the
body touched the mud, indicated that he was
rather professional gentleman than an
ordinary workman. No clue yst obtained
Eternal Fitness Of Things.