The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
DEADLY DYNAMITE.

cIones-Thousands of Lives Lost by the
Recent Earthquakes-A Fire-Damp Ex-
Flosion.
DEADLY DYNAMITE.
CONFLUENCE, Pa, Oct 30.--A terrible
disaster occurred near Brooks tunnel, on the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Sunday morn
ing about nine o'clock, resulting in the in
slant killing Of FIVE men. The railroad
company had been Strengthening and widen
ing the tunnel, and some distance outside a
magazine had been erected, in which was
stored twelve hundred pounds of dynamite
for blasting About the hour named
freight train had just passed through the
tunnel and was side-tracked to al
low the passenger train, overdue, to pass
Four of the crew walked back to the vicini-
ty Of the magazine and were engaged in
conversation with the Waterman, when
people living in the vicinity were startled
by terrible conclusion. Houses for fifteen
miles around were shaken to their founda-
tons, and windows for g distance of seven
miles were shattered Horror-stricken, the
vestigation it was found the dynamite had
exploded with fearful effect Everything in
the vicinity gave evidence Of the terrific
force of the explosion. Trees were up
rooted, huge rocks torn asunder, and
telegraph poles for half mile Frustrated.
Nothing remained of the magazine. Por-
ti0ns of human bodies legs, arms hands
q baadc--.vsyora ,,ioIyod mr., bolf :. ~,
tant, but they were so badly disfgured as to
be unacceptable. On the site of the building
was a hole ten feet or more in depth and
twelve to fifteen in diameter. For several hun
dred yards up the track the ballast and rails
were spattered with blood and bits Of human
flesh, while the stout planks of which the
shanty had been built were reduced to
spIinters not larger than a Lucifer match.
High up the side of the mountain, on the
topmosJ branches of huge chestnut, was
bit of blue cloth waving in the wind. A great
toe of one of the victims was picked up half
mile up the mountain. The remains of one
man, identified as that of Charles Tissul,
were found near the spot. The face and
scalp and part of the breast were blown off,
but the trunk and the limbs were intact.
The remains of the four other victims were
not sufficient to fill a gallon pail. 1t seems
that all the victims except Tissul
had entered the powder-house-
for what purpose Will forever re-
main a mystery; that the latter stood
leaning against the doorway, and that with
in few minutes after the quartette entered
the explosion took place. The building con
tanned 1, $50 pounds Of dynamite, packed in
conyenent-sized boxes, and it is the most
reasonable supposition that one Of the men
picked up a box to utilize it as a stool, and
either jostled it about or let it fall. The
jury rendered verdict of accidental death,
and the fragments Of flesh were buried al
Confluence yesterday morning.
The names OF the unfortunate men are as
follows:
George Reynolds, engineer, Confluence, Pa
Charles Tice, fagman, Confluence, Pa.
Robert Hammond, watchman, Cumberland
Md.
W. A. Dean, tunnel blacksmith, Corvallis
Va. E
X Rurchfeld, helper. Corvallis Va
THE Observation-Disclosures SLAIN.
NEW YORK, Oct. 30.--A cable special
from Constantinople says: Further reports
are constantly coming in of loss of life by
the recent earthquakes in Asia Minor and
along the coast Of Greece. In Smyrna 1875
deaths are reported andv about 200
people wounded. At AIabanda 90 lives
were lost. A fugitive from Kespl
places the deaths there at so and the
number wounded at 1875. At Qk-Hissar 50
persons were buried beneath a landslide,
and few more killed by falling walls.
BOgaSeuSda suffered a depletion of about
one-half Of her population Of 1900 souls
Of the population of Surgerlis about one
third survived to mourn the others. From
scores of other hamlets come similar reports,
and when all are in the loss of life will pro-
badly be found to aggregate well up into the
thousands.
Along the coast of Greece the shocks were
very severe and caused great loss of life
and property. Advices received from that
section are somewhat meager. At
Capan Vaila many buildings were thrown
down, and some eighty persons were
killed, while 1875 more were severe
~ injured. AT Missha some twenty odd
people were killed and double that number
injured. M0nembasia also suffered consid-
cradle loss to both property and life. It is
believed here that the results all through
the western coast of Greece will prove mueh
Iaere serious than now reported.
FIRE-DAMP IN A CoLLIERY.
SCRANTON, Pa Oct. 30.-An explosion
of fire-damp is reported from the Penlsyl-
yania Coal Company's shaft, No. Z, three
miles from Pittston. Thomas and James
Gallagher, brothers, were brought out dead,
burned almost to a crisp. Six
others were seriously burned and injured.
Three will probably die, having inhaled the
afterdamp." There were thirty-6ye men
in the part of the mine where the explosion
occurred. The remainder escaped through
the mule-way. The force of the explosion
blew down the bratties and props and tore
the gates apart, lifting the men up bodily
and hurting some distance of twenty and
thirty feet.
ELEMENTAL FURY.
New ORLEANS, Oct. 30.-A cyclone
swept over the Tensas River Monday, pass
ing through Catahoula and Tensas Parishes,
in this State, wounding a number of per-
sons and destroying considerable property.
The cyclene struck Catahoula Parish about
two o'clock. On the Bowan place one house
was blown down. Mrs. Bowan escaped, but
her three children are missing, and it is
feared lost. On the w. G. Young place, adj
joining, two houses were destroyed,
three ON the Watson, and three on the Per-
mental plantation. The James Bowan
place was the first struck in Tensas Parish.
Here three houses were destroyed and four
negroes wounded. On the Highland place
one house was carried from its foundations
and swept away in the woods half mile.
Five negroes were injured here, several of
them badly. Three houses were blown
down on Stine's pecan plantation, and nine
on Moss, Helena place and eleven persons
were injured, nine of them very severely.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. 30.-A cyclone
struck the west side of Columbus, Ind, be-
tween one and two o'clock a. M, ,unroofng
Mooney & Sons tannery and Gaff, Gent &
Thomas new four-story mill; it also
knocked the corner off the Jacksonville,
Madison s. indianapolis depot and partially
demolished John Gynes' saloon. The total
damage was $700. The roof of the mill
took down three hundred yards of telegraph
wires. No one was injured.
A TUGS BOILER BURSTS.
MOBILE, Ala, Oct 3o.-Sunday after
noon the steam-tug Edic exploded her boiler
four miles south of Fort Morgan, in Mobile
Bay, and sank Immediately with her Cap
tain, John Carney, Mate Andrews and a
colored fireman. The engineer and cook
were picked up. The latter died while on
his way to Fort Morgan.
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The Mormon Question.
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