Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-03-14
FURTHER PARTICULARS or THE BLOODY
TRAGEDY AT TINE VAUDEVILLE THEATER.
A Frightful Explosion in a Vir-
ginia Coal Mine.
FROM 1875 70 $50 MINERS
INSTANTLY KILLED..
ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL.
Arrest Of n Great RObber.

Arrest Of a Great
MILWAUKEE, Wis, March 13.-Prentiss
Teller, the Pacific Express Company's agent
at st. Louis, who decamped with nearly
500, 900 a few weeks ago, was arrested at
10 O'Clock this morning by the Milwaukee
detectives and $50, 900 of the money re-
covered. The young man., looking like q
tramp, with a small mustache, brown
hair, slight built, unobtrusive features,
and of about 1876 pounds weight, bought
q trunk at the store Of Carpeles, Schram
& Co. on Tuesday, and asked to have it
shipped to G.. H. Pachen, Detroit, Mich.
He left the valise, which he asked to have
placed inside the trunk, to save him the
trouble of carrying it. When about to
put the valise in the trunk the clerk
dropped it, and the clasps burst asunder,
the bullying contents rolling out
upon the floor. On gathering up
the bundles be found them wrapped
in the Pacific Express Company's labels,
and a closer examination disclosed that
every package contained a prize, the total
amounting TO nearly $50, 900. The police
were notified, and with the description OF
the man, traced him to a cheap boarding
house in the Third Ward, but he was not
at home. They found his trunk and
seized it. As the clearinghouse people
said the man was frequently out all night,
the police continued searching the city,
thinking he must be on q spree. This
morning he returned to the trunk store to
ask about his valise and was arrested. He
has been at the Third Ward boarding
house since March 8, but it is not known
whether or not he boarded anywhere else
before that. Besides the money, there was
a large amount of valuable jewelry in the
valise. The money was placed in the
Merchants Exchange Bank.
The arrest of Teller caused q grert crowd
TO gather at the Central Police Station,
but the prisoner was carefully guarded,
and could be interviewed only very briefly.
He was loud in saying that he had no &c
complete, but at the same time added that
it remained for the company to prove that
| he stole the money. He was very happy,
| and proposed that the police should open
the doors and charge the crowd an admis'
sion price to see him as a curiosity. He
was identified by Chicago and st. Louis
agents, who were in the city, having been
/ Cdliou up ITOu1 OulCdSO ld5t ulSub, WHO'LL
the money had been found yesterday.
A Fearful Mime Explosion.
LYNoHBURG, Va, March ia special
from P~ocahontas this morning says
There was an explosion in the coal mines
here last night at 1880, and from 125 te
| $50 miners were killed.
Several parties yentured into the mines
this morning, but could not long endure
the foul air. A number of bodies have
been discovered horribly MANNED, some Of
them with the heads torn from the trunks
and others with limbs all gone, presenting
an appalling spectacle. The work of de-
struction was not confined entirely to the
interior Of the mines, but houses two OF
three hundred feet from the mines were
damaged, and in several instances entirely
demolished. A large ventilator Of the
Southwest improvement Company wai
blown to atoms. The mines cannot BIZ
entered until another is constructed for
the purpose of freeing the atmosphere
from the suffocating fumes. This work is
not progressing speedily. A large force il
engaged on the outside of the mines con
structing collins and perfecting arrange
/ lu0ub6 luz Vic luttI ulcub VI bu6 QedO
miners, most Of whom are foreigners.
Further intelligence from ~Pocohantas
represents the work OF destruction at the
coal mines as horrible and complete.
| There were $50 men in the mine at the
time of the explosion, not one of whom is
believed to have escaped. Those not killed
outright by the terrible force of the ex-
plosion, havemost likely persisted from
the after-damp. The cause of the explo.
sion is not yet definitely ascertained. The
presumption is that one of the miners
struck q fissure Of gas.
The latest intelligence. In exploring. a
party entered the mines q short distance
and brought out six bodies in q frightfully
mutilated condition. There is no hope
that any will be rescued alive.
Particulars OF ThompsOn.FIsher
Tragedy.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, March 13.-The
bloody tragedy at the Vaudeville Theater
last night. involving the death Of Ben
Thompson and King Fisher, the two most
desperate characters in Texas, and dan
~gerously wounding Joe Foster. has been
the one theme of town talk. In the
vicinity OF the Police Station, where the
bodies were removed, has been thronged to
suffocation. No two accounts of the
recontre agree. All was gossip until the
jury's inquest was returned, that the kill
ing was done by Joe Foster. William
Simms and J. s. Coy. The first two are
the proprietors Of the theater, and the
latter is q policeman in their employ. The
jury further found that the killing was
justiiable and done in self. defense. There
was no direct testimony as to who did the
shooting, but the evidence went to show
that Foster. one of the proprietors. pBfused