Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-04-21
GENERAL NEWS.
A Work Train in Colorado Caught
in a Slide.
MANY OF THE MEN PROBABLY
FATALLY INJURED.
Statement that General Grants Dis
ease is Not Cancer.
TWO BAD MEN SHOT IN FL PAso,
TEXAS.
The Various Markets Strengthen Over
Pacific Movements.
MORE PROMINENT MoRM0Hs INDICTED
FOR PoLYGAMY.
MORE PROMINENT MoRM0Ns INDICTED
FOR PolYGAMY.
wrecked by an Avalanche.

LEADynLE, April 19.-At 1880 yesterday
morning one of the most shocking &C.
cidents in the history of mountain railroad
ing occurred at a point on the High Line
division Of the South Park, in which one
man was instantly killed and five others
were probably fatally injured.
The list is as follows: Charles Claus, Ia
borer, instantly killed; James Mcmahon,
fireman on the work-train engine, serious in
ternal and external injuries that will prob
ably end in death; John Halligan, laborer,
legs broken and crushed, with injuries
about the hips; G. 8. Roades. laborer, ex-
ternal injuries; @. I. Baker, laborer, breast
and sides crushed in; M. Reid, laborer,
severe scalp wounds.
At the hour mentioned, the men were
upon the work train, and had started from
Wheeler g, on the South Park, to the scene OF
action, near Kokomo, where they had been
since April z, tunneling through the snow
blockade. The train contained about sixty
men, including all nationalities, and was
proceeding cautiously on the rail that had
not been used since the SHOWS took posses
sion Of it. On the procession of fiat cars
were swarming the ' snow birds, from the
Dago to the Dutchmsn. Towering above
the rail upon each side we're embankments
of sno that varied from thirty to forty
| feet in hight.
Upon the engine was James Mcmahon,
the fireman, together with the engineer.
The formers elbow was projecting from the
window of the cab, and as the train sped
along it struck the snowbank. In an in
| slant the snow that was intermingled with
boulders and gravel came down like an ava
lanche, knocking the fireman out of the
window and sweeping the laborers from the
| fiat cars and depositlng them beneath the
| torrent of boulders, snow and cars. The
| engineer, who escaped the path of the slide,
| held to the throttle and pulled the train to
a standstill after it had gone but q short
| distance further.
The men who had escaped were wild with
CONSERVATION, and picking up their imple-
| ments began to exhume those who were
under the avalanche. The victims were
scattered and buried in all directions.
| Claus, the man who was killed, was ground
beneath the wheels into an unacceptable
pulp; the others mentioned are all regarded
as having sustained fatal injuries, while a
1 uAlD VIM ACNCAfO0 oAA6As Y
supported to the train.
The engineer was ordered to hasten with
all speed to Breckenridge, as the u o cut
them off from Leadville. 1t is reported
here that they were then taken to Denver,
where the Union Pacific hospital is located.
The agoniZiDg groans n means OF the
unfortunate men is referred to by those
present as something indescribable, and
the injured were expected to die at almost
any moment.
1t ia thought that the slide was occa-
stoned by the jar from the train, together
with the contact between the fireman's
arm and the trembling snow bank. No
blame is attached to anyone, as it is re-
garded as one of those matters that ia
likely to overtake one in any department
of life.
GEN. Grant Continues to Improve.
NEW YORK, April 19.-The Sun prints
first under its editorial heading the follow
ing, in double-leaded type, the second SEN
tence in italic: "The improvement in
Grants condition steadily continues. 1t is
now ascertained that his disease is not can
GER, and there is no reason in his physical
organization why he should not recover his
health entirely"
The Sun publishes no data whereon to
predict it's remarkable editorial. Other
journals hint at similar rumors, however.
The Times has the following: The inn
provement of the past three days led Sena-
tor Chaffee to venture an opinion yester-
day, that the Generals ailment might not
be cancer, but liberated or malignant sore
throat, in which case there might be more
hope for his complete recovery. The Sena-
tor so expressed himself more than once
during the day, intimating that the doc
tors had diagnosed and treated the case
without understanding it. DR.. Shrady dis
played considerable warmth on account Of
having been subject to all ann of criti-
cisms by people who did not understand
the case.
An intimate friend of the Grant family,
who called at the house last night, said:
"The General feels his vitality increased
to such an extent that he no longer thinks
there is no hope of recovery. He felt so
strong that he worked three hours on his
book. His ability to undergo 30 much
exertion was rs surprising to himself as to
the family. II he retains his vigor for q
couple Of days his mental powers will be
on q par with his physical condition"
The same gentleman said to-day that he
thought Grant would be able TO make a
trip to California in q few months. He
considered il q remarkable case, and he
does not believe the doctors understand il.
The Markets.
New YORK, April 19.-London cables
announce q material improvement in the
tin market there. The price was yesterday
quoted al EFT It's Cd, an advance OF COS
from the lowest point. Copper, however,
fails to recuperate. II is only 2s Cd now
above the bottom figures. a fact which
strengthens the impression that English
operators. who virtually control the supply
of Chile bars, are arliicially depressing
the price of the latter for the purpose OF
making settlements for Lake Superior
product in their favor.
Stocks were weak at the opening on the