National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-22
MORNING NEWS BY CABLE.
A Terrible Calamity in Newcastle
C)Iliery.
From Seventy TO Ninety Lives Lost by an
Explosion C1rpses Disfgured Be-
yond Recognition The Mine
Known to DO Dangerous
Startling Rumor from Ca.
bul-Czarina Dying.
TorribIo CollIery ExnloaIon.


LONDON. Jan. 2l.-An explosion occurred in
the Lycett colliery, near Newcastle. The
number Of persons killed Is variously stated
at from seventy TO ninety. The scene of the
colliery explosion is at Newcastle e-under-Tyne,
The disaster occurred at s o'clock to-day.
There Is little hope that any Of those In the
pit at the time Of the calamity. estimated
from seventy to ninety persons, will be saved.
Search for them is delayed by damage TO the
shaft. The explosion is attributed to the
gaseous nature.
LONDON, Jan. 21--6p. m.-.The latest account
from the scene of the explosion at Newcastle
under-Tync, fixes tine number of persons in the
pit, when the explosion occurred nt seventy
seven 1t is believed that not more than six
of the rescued can possibly recover. Twenty
five corpses have already been brought up, q
majority Of them being 80 dshgured as to be
unrecognzable. The few who wero rescued
alive are dying rapidly. The scene at the
mouth of the pit is most heartrcnding. One
of the recovered corpscs had lost part of its
head. Some others were burned to cinders,
while some others appear TO have been killed
by concussion. Gangs Of volunteers are de.
scending frequently. The part Of the Lycott
colliery where the explosion occurred Is known
as the Fair Lady pit, and is the same in which
six men were killed last autumn. The coal
belongs to the Banbury or Fiery scam, in Which
all the great Statiordshirc explosions have oe-
Cured.
A fire has been raging in the pit with great
violence since the disaster, battling the efforts
of the explorers, and precuding all hopes
of any of the victims boing rescued alive. A
later dispatch says the fire is being subdued,
and large quantities of debris have been re.
moved, enabling the explorers to proceed
more rapidly.
The latest report places the total number of
deaths at seventy. Another explosion is
feared.
The Telephone in Great Britain.
LONDON, Jan. 2l.-In the exchequer dvi-
sion of the High Court of Justice yesterday APP
plication was made by tho Attorney General
on the part of the postofices for an al iateria
injunction to restIa ain the Telephone Com
pany and the Edison Telephone Company
from discharging the functions for which
they were called into existence. After some
discussion it was arranged that an injunction
should not be taken, but that the defendant
companies were to keep certain accounts until
the hearing and final decision of the case.
The argument in behalf of the postoifce is
that telephones are telegraphs within the
meaning Of the act by which the latter inveu.
tions were committed to the charge of the
postoiilce department, and tho Attorney-Gen.
eral represented it to bo serious grievance
that the government, after spending mil
lions on telegraph, now found their monopoly
interfered with by telephones, which, he sub
mitted, were practically the same invention.
Inc government mas, tncrclOrc, nc salu,
commenced these proceedings by informa.
tion in the Court of Excheguer."
seventy Thousand Men to Attack Cabui.
LONDON, Jan. GA dispatch from Lahore
to the Daily Ners says: "Tho CirH aud Mi
td,y Gd:eHes Persian correspondents state
that $4,000 Ghazis. have collected fifty miles
from Cabul under the command of Mahomod
Jam and that they intend TO advance upon
Cabul. Their leadOr has written TO the chief
of tho Lughnanis, who has collected 10000
men, and awaits tho arrival At Cabul of the
Ghn2is." This is regarded as wholly sensa-
tonal.
The spanish Cortes.
MADRID, Jan el.-In the Chamber of
Deputies to-day the decree was read appoint
ing Scnor CanovUs Del Castillo foreign min
lister, and Senior Toreno, late minister of
foreign affairs was elected President of the
Chamber by vote of PAL to l2, The slavery
abolition bill was then adopted as Il whole, the
vote beng-yeas, 230 nays, 10. The minority
were absent.
Yellow Fever Quarantine Removed.
ROME, Jan. 2l.--Yellow fever having disap.
peared from the United States quarantine on
vessels arriving from American pJrts has been
The ASSerUatore Romano announces
that His Holiness the Pope has recovered from
his recent slight indisposltiOn.
The Empress of Russia Dying.
BERLIN, Jan. 2l-News has been received
from Cannes that the lilo of the Czarna is
despaired Of.
News From Mexico.
HAVANA, Jan. 2l.-Adviccs from the City
of Mexico to the 10th state that there is
mother cabinet crisis and il is thought Min
sters Parkhurst aud Garcia will resign. 1t is
also believed that Romeo will succeed Ruelles
as foreign minister
Peruvian Defeat Reported.
LONDON, Jan. 2l l--Thcre is a rumor current
on the Stock Exchange this afternoon that the
Peruvian and Bolivian forces in the Province
Of Taapaca have been surrounded by Chilian
orces, and that negotiations for their surron-
Ter are proceeding