Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-12
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SPECIAL TO THE REcoRp.usIos-
DOMESTIC NEWS.
stnl Another Horror = sixteen Men
Eurned 10 Death

stIli Another lsorror sixteen Men
Burned 10 Death.
PITTsBURG (Ps.l December 1osh.-The
news is received Of a terrible and shocking
holocaust which occurred at Rock Cut, seven
miles from this city, this morning about
O'Clock, by which sixteen men were burned to
death and large number fatally burned.
Tho ire occurred iG boarding. house, in
which nearly fifty workrnsn employed at the
DAVIS island dam were boarding.
SECOND DISPATCH.l
PITTsBURG, December l0th.-This morn.
lne's horrar exceeds anything in this vicinity
SINCE the collision on Twenty. eight street,
between Second and Third. A frame board
ing house, located on the line of the Pittsbure
and Lake Erie Railroad, some seven miles
below this city, was set On fire by the explo-
sion OF lamp, and of forty persons known
to be sleeping there only twenty -four escaped
alive, and even they were more or less
burned, and not one of them succeeded IN
saving his clothes so rapid was the progress
of the flames. Tho Others were literally
roasted to death without the posi-
bility of an effort being made to re-
move them. The building in which the
fire occurred, as stated above. was located
about seven miles from the city. at place
called Cut Rock, was owned by Martin
Joics. the contractor, but was under the
management of Mr.. kowp, :. boarding -house
keeper. 1t was thirty feet wide and 6fty
feet in length, and constructed of boards
put upon end. 1t had roof with q very
steep pitch. and Tia loft formed by the
slopiDg roof was the place IN which the
lsboress we're hudaled for the night. In the
lower story was the dining room, and at the
end OF the building was the kitchen. The stairs
Leading to the left were little better than a
ladder, and were located just at the side Of
the dcor leading from the dining.room to the
kitchen. In the loft bunLs were arranged,
but the only lights which penetrated it were
two windows without glass, but which were
closed at night with aiding doors, so as TO
keep out the chill night air Into this dark
loft some forty-thres men were supposed to
have slept last night At least that number
were at supper last evening, and none
were reported away gbep the hour for retir-
ing came. The origin Of the flames, which
wrought such terrible destruction to human
life, and which caused area agony to thoge
WHO escapsd from the death trap, was the
upsstting aud explosion of q kerosene oil
lamp.
TIE story, as told by an eyewitness of the
FIRE, was substantially az follows: Between
2 and 8 O'Clock this morning McKowp, the
boarding house keeper, arose and kindled
the kitchen FIRE, and left the lighted lamp
on q table near the door lesdi2g to the
dining-room, and went TO arouse his wife
and servant girls. While he was gone the ex-
plosion occurred, and in an instant the dining
room was filed with flames Mr Kown srlc-
cseded in escaping with his wife and girls,
but could not do more than call upon those
up stairs TO escape for their lives. In another
moment the flames had enveloped the stair
way. thus cutting off the means of escape foz'
tie doomed men above, except through the
small openings at either end, and from these
the sliding doors had to be removed.
Terrific Boiler Explosion.
PITTsBURG, December 1oth.-A boiler burst
in the Keystone rolling mill, killing one and
wounding ten men. There were $50 employees
in the mill, and there was frishtful scsne.
of excitement. It was a wonder that more
were not killed. Pieces OF the boiler went
AGO yards, and some of them did serious dam
age. The cause is unknown. John Quinn,
8 fireman, was killed, and it is also thought
Alvin Gedian will die.
Destructive Fice.
LEBANON (Ky.). December 10tb.-A fire Is
now burning, which may prove very destruct-
i've. The Cours-house will certainly be de-
stroyed.
A Prosperous Church.
NEW YoRK, December l0sh.-At the an
nual meeting Of Beecher's church the member
ship was reported os 9. .491-an increase OF
1S4 pew rents, S42. Geo; income from ether
sources, 915, eco
Execution ir 2rkansas-A Nest Inhurnan
Crime.
LITTLE Rock, December 1Gsh.-Howard
was execuied at Warren, Bradley
County, to- day, for tha murder Of his cousin
and sister in-law, Miss Saliic Watson. Tho
crime was one OF the most inhunan in the
annals Of the criminal history Of the Stats.
He 1ot oaly deliberately seducsd the Young.
beautiful and accom- plished sister Of his wife,
but in order to prevent detection when her
condition became known, killed her with aa
az. There is not one pnlliating circumstance
connected with the horrible affair. He re-
quested hymn to be sung or the scgffold.
He stood the ordeal without tremer, and
nad a good many words to leava his children.
he was swung of and died with his neck
broken.