Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-21
The Mineral King Disaster - Terrible
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the Injured,

uhENsnsps- Oh the hnIufeu.
VIsALIA, April 2Oth.-Full particulars of
the Mineral King disaster are just received.
Last Saturday night there were. two snow
slides, one of them near the town, the other
at the mine. About o'clock Sunday morn
ing the people in the town were startled by
the intelligence that slide had occurred at
the mine, carrying away the boarding and
sleeping house and part of the ore house.
The exact time Of accident number one is
not known. The II o'clock night shift did
not go on, and the whole force of men
twenty-five in number-were in bed at the
time. Some of those who released them
selves first made their way to the blacksmith
shop, and Others stood stamping their feet and
rubbing their hands until daylight, and being
barefooted and clad only in their underclothes.
several were frost-bitteb. Assistance was
sent for at daylight, and everything was done
possible under the circumstances. Some min
ers were found 200 yards below where the
building had stood, but fortunately none were
killed. Following are the names of those
badly injured: L. Flaherty and Barney Tag
CART, both feet frozen Michael O'Bannon.
shoulder broken J. 0'Bannon, bruise on the
head and hand frozen John Brown, shoulder
badly hurt; j. and p Gleason, both feet
frozen A. Borock, toes on both feet frozen !:
j. Burns injured internally and hands and
feet frozen; Charles Dryer, feet frozen and
face and head bruised. Several others were
injured, among them Peter Farrow, William
Rurey, NJ. Rheus, j. Bonneau, C. Butman,
A. Hackett, J. Murphy, w. Watts NJ. Con-
merton. MIR. Fleming, the foreman, was car
ried several hundred feet, but not injured.
There was no loss to the company's property,
except several sections of the tramway near
the mine, which were swept away, and the
buildings demolished. A physician from vi
salia is at the mines attending the wounded
The Habeas Corpus Case at Los Angeles
Seeking Writ for Kearney - College
Destroyed by Fire.
Los ANGELES, April 20th.-Hoyle was up
before the Superior Court this afternoon on
the everlasting habeas corpus case. The
questions at issue were fully argued, and
at the conclusion Judge Howard rendered
the decision of the Court, and remanded the
prisoner to the custody of the officers from
Georgia. Messrs. Bruuson and Wells APP
peared as counsel for Mr. Collier, the agent
of the State of Georgia. In the former cases
that State was represented by the District
Attorney. Immediately after this decision
was rendered application was made to CHEF
Justice Morrison for writ of habeas CORPUS
from the Supreme Court, which was granted.
This matter is set for hearing tomorrow
morning at II o'clock.
Clitus Barbour and A. J. Kelly came down
by the train to-day, and it is understood that
they will make an application to the Supreme
Court in the morning for writ of habeas
corpus for Denis Kearney, the imprisoned
agitator.
The Christian College at Downey, few
miles south of this city, was burned at mid
night last night. The building was unoccu-
pied at the time. 1t was erected three years
ago at cost of $4,000; insured for 81, 0O0
The fire was the work of an incendiary.