Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-15
SIN AND SORROW.

| terious and Fatal Expl Jsion-- A SHOOTING
Affsir In the Dark--Love Tragedy ut Bath
Y.--Suicide of q Denver Womsn-Fatal
Fall of q Wharf at Mount Hope.
A WHARF BREAKS DOWN.
i FALL RIVER Aug. 14.-The wharf at Mount
| Hope, upon which was large crowd of excar-
siOnists, broke down at $40 this evening.
| There must have been number lost, but it is
impossible to ascertain tonight how many.
Inc hrst reports of the accident on the wharf
az Mount Hope appear to have been exagge-
rated, but owing to the darkness, there eng
no light on the wharf, il cannot be ascertained
Tonight whether any person was drowned. The
wharf parted in the middle, precipitaring from
seventy to seventy-hve into the trough. As
n:any Of them chung to the wharf and others
plunged into the water, many were taken out
unconscious and almost lifeless. but we're re-
susoitated.
LATEST ACCOUNTS.
FALL RIVER, Aug. 14.-News of the accident
to portion of the spinners' exourion party at
MI. Hope created great anxiety in the CITY. and
hundreds of anxious ones at once rusbed IL,
the landing 10 learn news of their friends. AT
"a, mfa night che last boatload came over.
-us CITY marshal was of the party
aua reports the excitement at the scene of
! the accident intense, and the screams of those
VINO nso fallen added to the confusion. Owing
70 tne 10" toe the water was no more thai,
i've 10 seven 1eet deep, and it is believed that
not more than two were drowned, although it
10 im Possinle, on account of The darkness, to
"neain accurate information as to casualties.
a NUMBER OF people are known to be iniared,
II rs I'm Possibie to get further particulars TO-
night.
p sUICIDE-POwDER EXPLOSION
DENVER, Col, Aug. IA young woman
known as Gypsy Dslake, committed suicide
at house of ill fame last night, by taking
morphia. Her real name was Minnie VIII
kinson. The desertlon of her lover, A.
Puckman, was the cause of the deed.
A special from Como gives an account of
an accident which occurred at Red Hill.
mail station on the South Park road, last
night About IL O'Clock fire broke out in
The depot, and caused an explosion of about
one thousand pounds of powder, which blew
the depot and every building in the place to
atoms. The agent, f. e. Colyer, was badly
iojored by burns and outs and is not expect-
ed to live. His assistant, Charley Hilton.
was killed, and two other men were badly
injured.
!I8E THE RED HILL EXPLOSION. r
DEkvEs, Aug. 14.-Furaher Particulars of |
the explosion at Red Hill last aight are to the
effect that Frank E. Collyer, agent, &. J. Con.
way. assistant agent, and Charles Glynn, |
ifeigotsf. were sitting In the depot awaiting |
The down train when the ex posioo oeeurredo
When the Fair Play coach reached the scene of |
the disaster, soon after, the passengers found |
Ohas. Hilton, an employe, fearfuliy msngled. (
Not a stitch of clothing save one sock was |
fonna on him Collyer was severely wounded |
ABOUT the head, and it is feared his skull |
ts pfosen. Conway was internally injured, !
but not fatally. Glynn was wounded abon5
the body, but not seriously. His coat was |
spnt from toe neck down. The ground on |
which the depot, freight house, engine house,
saloon, and Forwarding hoase, stood is now
bare The buildings were. blown into spIin-
aers tile size or stoo.h picks. Not one stick on
said that tweIye caaas 80 - |
powder were wv r leIsa house, but
his Is mere rumor, and there is some mys-
terry about the affair. Agent ColIyer, who has
recovered consciousness, says there was no
powder about the place. The wounded were
removed to Fairplsy. It is said that the stage
driver caught scoundrel breaking in the safe
after the explosion.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
BATE, N. Y, Aug. 14.-About S o'clock this
afternoon K E. Parkhurst, young lawyer
of this village, shot and killed Fannie Howell,
daughter of prominent merchant here, aud
killed himself. They were married about four
years ago but never lived together, a legal sep
aration taxing place immediately after the
marriage. The tragedy took place in q room
IN the Nichols house where the two went but
lew moments before the shooting.
The young man and woman belonged to the
best families In the place. and quite romance
Is connected witi their lives. Six or seven
years ago they were married at picnic, but
the parents interfered, and the courts declared
the marriage null and void. Since arriving at
age, .Parkhurst desired re.marriage, but the
girls parents objected, and the feeling was
engendered. To-day Parkhurst again tried TO
persuade the girl to live with him, and upon
her refusal drew revolver, shooting her and
then himself.
SHOOTING IN THE DARK.
DENVER, Col, Aug. A.-Daniel Linehan, a
whisky dealer in Buena Vista, last night fatally
shot Deputy Sheriff Murray Farnsworth, and
slightly wounded Roth Eastman, another Off
Ger. The disturbance occurred at Liuehan's
establishment, all having been drinking; pis-
tots were drawn, and Faru swOrth frat shot, ex-
tinguishing the lamp, after which thirteen
shots were fired in the dark. Fans worth was
shot through the heart.
Frank Keppler. German, was burned to
death at the City hospital at Silver Cliff, to-
night. He fell out of ped and pulled lamp
over on himself.
STORM AND FLOOD.
INDIANoIA, Aug. 14.-Thursdsy evening the
water of the gulf rose three feet Throughout
town. The wind was 4S miles an hour. A
number of people left the city by railroad for
Lavacca. Toe morning of the 18th the water
rose very rapidly and the wind reached rate
OF Is miles per hour. Track and ties of the
Mergar railroad we're literally lifted from the
bed and carried half mile by the wind. No
lives lost. The water and wind have entirely
subsidized.
BLoCDY MAIL BAG.
New YoRK, Aug. IA mail bag received
at the postofioe to-day was with its con-
tents saturated with blood. Inquiry showed
that q freight train on the New England
road ran into train of empty cars standing
On the the track and watering at the station
of North Windhsm, Conn. Several cars
we're wrecked, and Frank Way, engineer,
killed.
ENGINEER KILLED.
DENVER, Aug. 1.-The north bound freight
train on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad
ran into a washout about ten miles south of
Littleton. this evening. The engine and three
cars we're ditched, and the engineer, nam. d
Nolan. SO badly injured that he died in few
hours. The fireman was only slightly hurt.
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