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

DlN ANU SOkkUW
Colorado Furnishes Two Seosations--Mys
terious and Fatal Ex pl ,sion--A 6nOotinl
| Affair In the Dsra-Lovs Tragedy at Bari.
N Y.--suioids Of q Denver woman-Fata
Fall ofa Wharf at Mount Hope.
/ WHARF BREAKs DOWN.
FALL RryKR, Aug. lA.-The wharf at Mount
Hope. upon which WAS large crowd of exear
sionists, broke down at $40 this evening.
There must have been number lost, but it Ii
Impossible to ascertain tonight how many.
The first reports of the accideut ON the wharf
at mount Hope appear To have been exaage-
rated, but owing to the darkness. there teing
no light on the wharf, it cannot be ascertained
tonight whether any person was drowned. The
wharf parted In the middle, preci ipitating from
seventy to seventy-fve into the trough. As
n.any OF them clung to the wharf and others
plunged into the water, many were taken out
uncOnsclOus and almost lifeless, but were re-
suscitated.
LATEST ACCOUNTS.
FALL RIVER, Aug. 14.-News of the accident
to portion of the spinners' excurion party at
MT. Hope created great anxiety in the city, and
hundreds of anxious ones at once rushed to
.ne ianoing 10 learn news of their friends, At
mianleht the last b0atload came over
Inc city marshal was of the marty
ano reports the excitement at the scene Of
tae accident intense, and the screams of those
wao nao Iaiien added to the confusion. Owing
20 tne low tide tae water was no more thai,
hVe to seven feet deep, aud it ia believed that
not more than Two were drowned. although it
IL Impossible on account of :he darkness tn
"Dooin accurate lnfOrmatlOn to casualties.
a number of people are kuown to be injured.
AZ Is I'm possible to get further partIouIars to-
night.
sUIcIDE-PowDER EXPLOSION.
DENVER, COL, Aug. IA young woman
known as Gypsy Delake, committed suicide
at house of i'll fame last night, by taking
morphia. Her zeal name was Minnie VIII
kinson. The desertlon of her lover, A.
Paekman, 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
iojured by burns and cuts, and is not expect
ed to live. His assistant, Charley Hilton,
was killed, and two other men were badly
injured.
THE RED HILL EXPLOSION.
DENVER, Aug. 14-Further particulars of
the explosion at Red Hill last night are to the
effect that Frank E. Collyer agent, y. J. Con.
way, assistant agent, and Charles Gjynn.
frelgnter. were sitting in the depot awaiting
me down train when the explosion occurred
When the Fair Play coach reached the scene of
the disaster, soon after, the passengers found
Chas Hilton, an employe, fearfully mapgled.
Not stitch OF clothing save one sock was
round on him. Collyer was severely wounded
ABOUT the head, and it is feared his skull
is broken. Conway was internally injured.
but not fatally. Glynu was wounded about
the body, but not seriously. His coat was
split from the neck down. The ground on
which the depot, freight house, engine house,
saloon, and forwarding house, stood is now
bare The bulldogs were blown into splin-
ters the size of tooth picks. Not one stick on
another remains of the five buildinos. II ia
said that twelve cases of gun
powder were in the freight house, but
this 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 Fairplav. 1t is said that the stage
driver caught scuundrel breaking in the safe
after the explosion.
MURDER AND SUICIDE,
BATH, N. Y, Aug. 14.-About o'clock this
afternoon K. e. Parkhurst, young lawyer
of this village, shot and killed Fannie Howell,
daughter of a prominent merchant here, aud
killed himself. They we're married about four
years ago but never lived together, legal sep
aratlon taxing place Immediately after the
marriage. The tragedy took place in q room
IN the Nichols house where the two went but
few moments before the shooting
The young man and woman belonged to the
best families ln the plsce, and quite a romance
IS connected with their lives. Six or seven
years ago they were marrled at q 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. 14.-DAniel Linehan, q
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 Liuehsn's
establishment, all having been drinking; pis
tolls were drawn, and Farnsworth 6rst shot, ex.
tinguishing the lamp, after which thirteen
ahOts were feed in the dark. Farns worth was
shot through the heart.
Frank Keppler. q German, was burned to
death at the City hospital at Silver Cliff, TO-
night. He fell out of bed, and pulled lamp
over on himself.
STORM AND FLOOD.
INDIANoIA, Aug. 14.-Thursday 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
Lavaoca. The 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 were literally lifted from the
bed ana carried half mile by the wind. No
lives lost. The water and wind have entirely
subsided.
BLOODY MAIL BAG.
New York, Aug. IA mail bag received
at the postofice to-day was with its con-
tents saturated with blood. Inquiry showed
that 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 Windham, Conn. Several cars
were wrecked, and Frank Way, engineer,
killed.
ENGINEER KILLED.
DENVER, Aug. H.-rhe north bound freight
train ON the Denver & Rio Grande railroad
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