Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-07-16
OVER THE WATER.
Meeting of fhe House of Commons
The Disturbance BilI-Terrible
Explosion at Risca-I2S Men Sup
posed to have Perished-Heart-
rendering Scenes - Excessive
Rains i'm Ireland.

[By Telegraph to the Sentinel.l
LONDON. July 15.-The House of Com
mons met at yesterday, and went into
Committee Of the Whole on the compensa-
ton for the Disturbance bill. Two hours
were consumed in a dispute over a ruling
of the Chairman of the Committee, which,
on appeal to the Speaker, was decided
against the Chairman. The Irish members
denounced the Governments course re-
garding the bill as weak and irresolute.
Parnell said the bill, as amended, ought to
be rejected. Lord Edward Cavendish,
Liberal, a brother of Lord Harrington,
thought that as matters stood the passage OF
the bill was hopeless, and after the attitude
assumed by Parnell, the Government would
be justified in abandoning the measure.
Gladstone said that if the rejection of the
bill was desired, a proper motion to that
end ought to be made. He urged the
| House to go forward with the details of
| the bill, and not to tolerate continued yio-
| lations Of the rules of procedure, as the
character Of the House was concerned in
| unfolding the established method for the
transaction of business. The Irish mem
bers talked out the session of the commit
tee preventing action on the governments
amendments. Gladstone said the govern
ment was determined to persevere with it,
and not to be thwarted by this sort Of OPP
position. He appointed to-day for a con-
tinuance of the debate.
An explosion occurred at 1:20 this morn
| ing in the London and South Wales Col
liery Company's new black vein pit at
| Risca, six miles from Newport. The shock
was very violent. 1t is supposed that 119
men were In the pit at the time, and there
is scarcely a probability that any will be
| saved. One body has been found at the
bottom of the shaft. Ventilation has been
restored in the mine with a view Of explor-
ing for the bodies. A dispatch from Car
diff says that 1913 men were in the pit at the
time of the explosion, and it is believed
| hat all persisted. About 8 o'clock the
bodies of three miners were found near the
bottom of the shaft, but they have not yet
been brought up. The force of the explo-
sion was terrific, blowing to atoms the VEN
tilating fan in the up cast air blast. There
is no hope that the men may escape.
While the men were at work yesterday
evening, the atmosphere was noticed to be
heavy and o~vercharged. At midnight it
was as dull as a November day. The
scenes about the mines are reported to be
heart-rending F; there is q large throng OF
people present, composed in great part Of
the relatives of the imprisoned miners /;
among them many women, who are bewail-
ing the fate of husbands and sons, while
little children are asking anxiously con-
corning their fathers. Everything posi-
Bile is being done to expedite the rescue OF
the men, but scarcely any one hopes to
find one Of the miners alive.
DUBLIN, July 15.--Excessive rains have
prevailed over nearly all Ireland during
the past two weeks, and are beginning to
to excite serious apprehensions in regard to
the harvest.