Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-01-25
EASTERN NEWS.
Frightful Catastrophe at
Crested Buttes.
MINERS DEAD
OR DYING.
ALI Efforts to Reach Them of
NO Avail.
AN EXPLOSION THE CAUSE OF
THE HORROR.
House and Senate Talk and
Law Making.
A MAP or Yesterdays LIFE IN the
EASTERN STATES.
A MAP OF Yesterdays LIFE IN THE
EASTERN STATES.
ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL

ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL
Signal Service schools.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-Logan has pre-
sented a minority report on the Porter
bill.
A communication from hubert B.
Every, A. j. Mcwhirler and M. G.. Ellsey,
Committee on the National Agricultural
| Congress, to Gen. Hazen, Chief Signal
Officer, will be presented to Congress. 1t
says, in part: "We desire on behalf Of
| the great industries We represent to es-
tablish warning signals at every station
throughout the entire country which can
be reached by telegraph or signal or other
wise by any means sufficiently prompt as
are known to modern science, and we re-
| spectfully solicit from Senators and Rep
resentatives of Congress a prompt and
careful consideration Of the whole subject,
with q view to making an appropriation
sufficient to insure sending timely infor-
nation of the approach of storms and in
clemencies, threatening devastation to
the products of the farm to every &C.
OCoe1bAO AOOu h4Ou6hOhu ~ OA-
tire country"
Gen Hazen, in reply. says: "The Signal
Bureau is ready at all times to give the
necessary information and assistance,
but the estimates already submitted
to Congress do not warrant the ad-
ditional service suggested. To reach
what the committee desires, even
in a small degree, necessitates tele-
graphing data to certain telegraph sta
TONS" He says those Western Union
Company line and special dispatches for
this purpose announcing marked changes
in the weather cost for telegraphic service
alone one hundred thousand dollars; for
necessary e%quippage, flags, etc., above
SIS, 900, and hosting the same SIS, 600.
To carry this out more or less fully is the
extreme of what he thought the service
ought at first to attempt. Gen. McWbirten,
of the committee, who has been very active
in bringing the subject to the attention Of
Hazen and the prominent members OF
Congress, is of the opinion that the neces.
sary appropriation will be made.
Senate Proceedings.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-The Postmaster
General was in consultation with the Sen
ate Committee on Postofices and Post
Roads this morning. A subcommittee
consisting of Senators Sawyer, Wilson
and Jackson, we're appointed to consider
the matter at greater length. An informa.
opinion of the members of the committed
led to the belief that they favor the exclu.
sion of lottery advertisements and with
holding money orders and registered let.
tiers addressed to lottery companies. The
committee ordered a favorable report to
the House IN the bill making public high
ways post roads. The COMMITTEES decided
to devote the next regular meeting to the
consideration of the Postal Telegraph
bill. DR.. Norvin Green, President of the
Western Union Company, will be present
Hale reported favorably the House join
resolution for the relief of the Greeley
Expedition. The Senate voted down ali
attempts to limit the expense of the expe
dition. After the agreement to the amend
ment providing that the relief party be
volunteers, . joint resolution was agreed
to.
Jones Of Nevada reported an amend.
ment to the resolution relating to clerks
for the Senate. The amendment il that
clerks be appointed only for the session at
IS q day. The resolution as 30 amended
was agreed to.
Senator Ingalls, says he is not . candi-
date for the position on the bench vacated
by the resignation OF Judge McOreary.
The Chair announced the next business
In order was the consideration Of the
Alaska Civil Government bill.
Sherman inquired when his resolution
relating to the Virginia and Mississippi
elections would be in order. The Chair
replied that the resolution could not come
up before the Senate in regular order un.
til tomorrow. The Senate resumed the
consideration OF the Alaska bill.
Hoar's bill fixing the day OF meeting OF
the electors Of President and Vice Presi-
dent was referred.
Cook has introduced a bill providing
that pensions for total disability be $40
per month. Referred.
A Frfghtful Catastrophe.
DENVER. Jan, pa terrible explosion
occurred at the Crested Buttes, Gunnison
county, at 7 O'Clock this morning. in the
Crested Buttes coal mine, in which from
twenty-five to fifty miners are believed to
have been killed. The explosion block
AIDED the entrance to the mine, and the
full extent Of the disaster is at present
unknown. The mine is owned and oper-
ated by a Colorado coal and iron company
OF this city. They employ from eighty to
ninety miners in the shaft. No details ara
At present o~btainable.
A Times Gunnison special says: A ter
ribie explosion occurred at 8 O'Clock this
morning in the Colorado Coal Il Iron
C~ompany.s mine at the Crested Buttes. So
lar only the most meagre details have been