The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-12-14


the boiler-shed, the blaclssmith-shol
and a portion Of the mill and ont
end of the copper works, killing ont
man instantly and more or less seri
ously injuring ten others.
This statesmanlike observation o
Senator Davis is exciting a good
deal of Democratic unhappiness
''There is only one way in which tn,
Republican party can be destroyed
which is by the disruption of the
Democratic party. do not believ,
the Republican party will die unit
the Democratic party is dead" Il
is ably remM ked by some Of The
Democratic editors that the only ex
cuse this diagnosis gives the Repub
lican party for existing is to Oppose
the Democratic party. Well, ism
that excuse enough ?
General J. Warren Keifer, Repub
lican candidate for Speaker of thu
House of Representatives, will bt
45 years of age in January next. Ht
graduated at Antioch College when
it was under the direction of Horace
Mann, and had Just entered upon
the practice Of law at Springfield, @.
when the war broke out in 1861. He
was among the first TO enter the ser
vice from Clarke County, and as
early as April q was commissioned
Major Of the Third Ohio Infantry
He remained in the army until
July, 1866, and left it with the brevel
rank of Major General.
In 1868 General Keiter was elect
ed member of the Ohio Senate, and
in 1879 was elected to Congress, and
has been an influential member
since that date.
Another State is ready to be added
to the Union. This is Dakota, the
great wheat district of the North
West, whose population has enor'
mously increased within the last
two years, and which is now much
better entitled to admission than
many of the Southern States that
have been let in, in the past. The
total vote for Congressional Dele
gate, last winter, was over 2S,000
while the State of Delaware cast only
29,40S; Nevada, q 1860; and Rhode
Island. 29,235. Dakota is filling vi
rapidly, and its voting population
will soon be much in excess both oi
Delaware and Nevada. There will
Of course, be a determined opposi-
ton by the Democrats in Congress
to the admission Of any State
casting a Republican majority, and
they will fight desperately against
Dakota, no matter how great claim
she may have to be part of the
Union.
Between two and three O'Clock
on Sunday morning a frame board.
ing-house, located on the line of the
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie, r. r., some
seven miles below Pittsburgh, was
set on fire by the explosion of a Goa
oil lamp, and of forty persons known
to be sleeping there only twenty-foul
escaped alive, and even they were
more or less burned, not one ofthen
succeeded in securing their clothes
SO rapid was the progress of the
flames. The others were literally
roasted to death without an effori
being made to save them. In les;
time than it takes to tell it the build
ing was wrapped in sheets OF fire
and the survivors could only writht
in pain and shiver in the frosty ali
of the early morning. As soon &:
possible word was sent TO the othel
clearinghouse along the line o
the work in progress, and physician:
were summoned from the neighbor
hood and city. Special engines were
sent down the Pittsburgh & Lake
Erie Road, and in the meanwhile
the shivering creatures were provided
with such clothing as could be OBJ
tained. The seriously injured were
brought to the depot on the South
Side and thence removed to the
West Penn Hospital, while those
who were less seriously burned were
removed to the hotel of Martin
Joice, Oh Penn Avenue. The scene:
on Monday morning, at the site o
the ill-fated building were of a sick.
ening character. In heap in ono
corner of the ruins were the charred
remains of six men who had evi
dently succumbed to the fiery ele-
ment while endcavoring to escape
through the opening in the roof
Among these was the body Of Pat
rick Foley, one of the foremen. From
the best sources of information the
following is list Of those who are
known TO be missing or dead, but
there are others yet TO be added to
the list: Patrick Foley, Michael
Donohue, Thomas Foster. James
Curran, John Reiley, John Kennedy,
Jerry Hanlon, John Connors, John
Conley, and John Duffy. Among
those sent to the Hospital are: John
Connolly, Martin Taffay, Michael
Morgan, Michael Leonard, Hugh
McKeown; and VIM. Barr.
\ Fire In East Liverpool.