St. Landry democrat., 1882-04-01


| cess to New York.
THE Pacific Mills, Lawrence, Mass,
closed on the 21st. Some 1900 employees
are idle.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
ANOTHER murder is to be added to
the account OF the feud between the Earps,
| Of Tombstone, and the Clanton and Mellow
rey gang of cowboys. The body Of Frank
Stilwell was found near the railroad depot
in Tucson, Ariz.. on the 2lst, riddled with
bullets. Six shots went into his body, four
rifle-b balls and two loads Of buckshot. Both
legs were shot through. A charge Of buck
shot was in his right thigh, and another
entered the breast, which must have been
delivered close at hand, as his coat was
powder burned and six holes were made
within a radius Of three inches. Stillwell
| had pistol on his person, which was not
discharged. He was evidently taken una
wares, as he was desperate in fight and a
quick shot. His watch was taken, but part
OF the chain was left. Stillwel had just ar
rived In town, and was to appear as wit
ness in a stage robbery case in which one of
the Earps was implicated. Three Of the
Earps, Doc Halliday, and another man, all
heavily armed, arrived on the Goth with the
body of Morgan carp, shot in Tombstone
on the 18th. One Of the Clantons was in
town, but he was warned and made himself
scarce. Stillwell, who had been seen with
him, went down to the depot to see about
some business, and that was the last seen of
him alive.
CHARLES RAY, son of William Ray,
well-known citizen, shot and killed James
Kennedy, an ex-policeman, at Louisville,
KY, on the 21st. The men were relatives,
and it is thought family affairs were at the
bottom of the quarrel. The shooting took
place in the office OF Rays saw-mil. Both
men pulled pistols at the same time; Ray,
ST., jumped between the two, and young
Ray shot Kennedy three times with a revolt
yer, pointing over his fathers shoulder.
Two shots struck Kennedy in the head and
hand and the third in the abdomen.
A CONSTRUCTION train on the North
spanning Sweet Briar Creek, west of Bis
marck, Oak, the other day, and eight men
were killed and twenty three injured. The
train consisted Of fiat cars, two seepers,
dining, kitchen, and store cars. A broken
wheel threw truck from the track just as
the train approached the bridge, and the
boarding cars were precipitated into the
stream thirty feet below, piling up general
wreck. There were about fifty men on the
train at the time, and the escape of even one
seems miraculous. In sleeper No. / were
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in their hunks asleep, others smoking and
reading and some playing cards. As soon
as the car overturned the bedding caught
fire. and the mangled and dying were roasted
almost beyond recognition. The only deaths
were among those in this car. Those who
escaped Immediately grapped such buckets
as they could find and worked like heroes to
eXtinguish the flames, but the straw beds,
blankets and other combustibe material
made it impossible. The names OF the dead
are as follows: Ole johnson, Thomas Will
son, VIM. Watson, j. Mccormick, Thomas
Grady, George Moser, James O'Brien, VIM.
McAndrews.
NEAR Emmittsburg, Iowa, the other
day, Charles Comedian and Fred Miller got
angry in dispute. Comedian drew revol-
yer and shot Miller dead. He then sent two
bullets into his own brain and fell dead.
A HUNGARIAN pauper was murdered
in the Westmoreland County (Pa.) Home,
March %, by August Johnston and Tim
Bacon, two other madmen. They got into
fight, in the ward for insane, and Johnston
and Bacon pounded their victim until he
died. Bacon some time ago killed another
boy in dispute over some sugar.
A BOILER explosion on the tug Henry
C. Spratt, at Philadelphia, Pa, March 90,
caused the death OF at least four persons and
the destruction Of considerable property.
George Scully, the captain, was blown over
the housetops in Water Street. The dead
bodies of Bernard Mccain and Patrick Elan
agan, fremen, and man named Maloney
have been recovered. Immediately after the
explosion flames broke out in all directions.
Pier No. s, occupied as a passenger and
freight station OF the Philadelphia & At
lantic City Railway. took fire and was de-
stroyed. The tug Ella, lying at the wharf
below, also took fire and sunk after being
well burned. Windows were shattered in
all directions, and the whole front of fer
ry-house was blown out.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE Curtis Manufacturing Company,
of Albion, N. Y, lost 500, 900 by fire,
March 81.
L. 0. CLIFFORD, railroad and ex-
press agent and telegraph operator at Cicero,
Ind, mysteriously disappeared on the goth.
A letter received next day stated that his
dead body would be sent home. His friends
fear insanity.
D. T. LAWSON successfully demon
strated his theory of boiler explosions at
Munhall farm, near Pittsburgh, Pa. on the
22d. The test was made under the super
vision Of General Supervising Inspector
and the boiler was exploded