Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-24
PANIC IN A SCHOOL.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.


some shouted fire and others screamed
with fright. The uproar reached the Other
| room above, and the pupils there cams
| tearing down the stairway. A single mis
step would have thrown some child down
| ana blockade would have occurred and
many would have been trampled. In the
meantime the little girl whose clothing W as
on fire had ran out of the school room.
and down to the end of the walk, where
| she was caught by one of the Catholic Sis
tiers, who threw large door mat around
her, and tore the burning clothing which
the mat would not cover from her blistered
form. The child is still alive, but is prot
ably fatally burned.
| FATAL FIREWORKS EXPLOSION.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Oct. 23.-The people
of Kingston were startled this afternoon
by loud explosion, and it was soon re-
ported that the Excelsior squitIfactory had
been torn to pieces and eight children en-
ployed there blown out with flying timbers
in every direction. No one appears to
know the exact cause of the explosion, but
it Is believed they had teen burning wood
in stove and spark blown out of the
stove fired key of powder. Eight child
rem ranging from eleven to sixteen years
old were all seriously injured.
Matte James, whose body is crisp and
| filed with powder, is dead.
Mary Quinn, blackened and burned to
crisp, will die.
Hattie Moss, had feet burned and blown
into creek, will recover.
John Evans, SO badly burned, since
| died.
James Steele, burned to a crisp ad will
die.
Lizzie Edwards, seriously burned, may
| recover.
Mamie Norris is a terrible mass of sea-
CITED flesh, and died this evening.
Johnny James, terribly burned, may re
| cover. 1t is expected four injured will
die before morning.
SERIOUS RAILROAD CAsULTY.
ST.. Louis, Oct. 25.-An accident occarr-
red this morning on the Louisville g. Nash
vile air line. As the passenger train from
Louisville was about six miles from Ease
st. Louis it strlck broken rail. The en-
gineer felt the shock, put on the brakes,
and all the coaches passed over in safety
except the last two, passenger and sleeper,
which were both crowded. These two tip
ped over and were draggeda short distance
when the couplings broke. The scene was
terrible, and reports place the number of
injured at over 40, but only one fatally, SO
| far.
LATER-The number of injured as
officially reported is thirty-seven, bat of
these only about ten are badly hart and
one fatally, Mr.. Anthony of Providence.
OF ho bao
| ing. About sixty men, women and children
occupied the coach and sleeper. The women
shrieked, the wounded groaned and blood
| flowed profusely from numerous cuts
| which the inmates had received. It was a
| long time before the women could be
quieted. The wounded were brought to
| East st. Louis, where those not badly hurt
went to their destination. Others of the
| wounded were brought to this city. Mr..
Anthony received frjghtfuI scalp wounds.
He cried, "Oh, my poor wife and children y
| when he became unconscious and delirious,
and has remained so since.
j. B. Anthony's injuries are not SO bad
as reported. Physicians now express
strong hopes of his recovery. He is treas
urer and general manager of the House
hold Sewing Machine com pany Providence
R. I. The accident happened on the
Louisville & Nashville railroad, not the air
line. It is believed none OF the injured
are fatally hurt.
TRAIN DITCHED.
PINE BLUFF, Ark, Oct. 23.-The south
bound passenger train on the st. Louis &
Texas narrow gauge road was ditched ff-
teen miles north at q. M, and two coach
es and a sleeper thrown from the track,
| and Mrs. French, wife of the station agent
at McNeill, thrown forward on her face and
painfully bruised. The passengers were
brought to Pine Bluff in a caboose. The
| train was running slow at the time. The
accident was due to defective cattle guards.
DROWNED WHILE SAILING.
MILWAUKEE, Oct. pa sailboat, con-
tanning Frank Steinhauer, Theodore Eggers
and Frank Otis, was struck by squall at
$50 this afternoon, when three miles off
| shore, and the boat sunk under them.
Charles Tester, in another small boat,
picked up Eggers and Otis, but Steinhauer
was drowned. He leaves wife and three
children.
| BOILER EXPLOSION.
l oALfnE, W., OCt. % n pOiiOi 0APiONON
at the pump factor this afternoon snd
nine persons were injured, four of whom
will probably die. o. Lagrange died in
an hour, Thos Cranston, Jas. Hutchinson,
Geo. Garlosh. Frank Brookhart and Will
Howell are severely burned. Geo. Miller
| had leg broken in two places.
OFF THE TRACK.
CRAwFoRDv1LLE, Ind, Oct. 23.-The
rear car of passenger train on the Indi-
ana, Burlington & Western was thrown
from the track this morning near Rains
town, twenty-five miles east OF here. DE-.
j. @. Walker, W. G. Whitehead, Of Indian
apolis, were badly hurt and left near the
accident. J. L. Friedman, of Cincinnati,
was brought here with cash in his head
over the eye. The company's physician
went on west with eight through passen-
| gers hurt but able to travel.
LAKE DISASTERS.
MILWAUKEE, Oct. 23.-The schooner
Reed Case, which is reported ashore on
North Bass island, left this port week
ago last night with 21,5OO bushels of wheat
shipped by G. J. Kershaw & Co., and in
sured in the Big Four, of Chicago. A Che
boygan dispatch saws the barge Lilly May