Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-02-22

Phelaas a...,l..t

rheiaas Assailant
NV YokK, Feb. 2I.-kiehara shor
appeared in the YorkviLIe Polios Coor
today 10 ansver 70 the charge of stab
btng Pheian. Judge Patterson denis,
9 mott0R % discharge Short and re
fused 20 redues his bail.
Tive Aeetdents.
CEcxsATI. Feb. 2l.-The 81. Loail
empress tram dne here this morning RAJ
into tie rear car OF a coEnmntAr'a traiI
waiting On the side track at Delhi. l,
miles froIn this city, iniuring soune |.
p4sssRRers, all snbnrban residents o
Cincinnati. The caase of shs ac,iden,
vas an open sSiteh, but Why it Was opss
10 sot caeaFiy explained. Several of the
injured received serious vounds,
Not fsr from the same time another &C
oident happened on the line Of the roaG
at Loskland station, IS miles north OF
the city. The Aev Yrrk express train
was approaching the city and had i1si
passed Lsokland when il ran over q
broken rail. Two sleepess and the rear
passenger car were thfowu from the
track No one Wns killed, % fas as
known, and only two are reported seri-
ously inidred. Q1ite nomber Of others
we're more or le.s bruised.
RxpleslsR sf Nafusal Gas.
PrrzBUAs, FEB. IA terrific explo-
sion Of natural gas ocsarred IN a t~o-
story briek building, occupied by Hell
sey BFos., ciear makers, ct Wellsburg,
W. Va. at half past one this morning.
The tIaildins, together with the adjoin-
ing property, was entirely demolished.
six persons are reported killed.
Later reports from the scene of the
Ras explosion at Weilsburg incEease the
horrors ef the singular disaster. six
lives sre known % be lost, viz: Mr.
HeIsesy, bis wife, the msther Of Mr.
Helsely, tvo children of Mr.. Helssly,
one aged six years and the other II
months. The eldest of the two chill
dren was taken out Of the ruins alive,
bot 30 seriously injured that IL died at
I a. nj. The youngest child has not
been found. Me-. Lucas Walters, wife
and two children. we're saved, but the
oldest son, aged about fourteen years,
In missing. Tue missing named are
undoubtedly In the ruins. Mrs. Walters
sustAined iRiuriss, bat they are not con-
sidered danQereas. Leonard EstsFcar,
a shoemaker, doing business in small
frame shop adjoining Walters house.
who boarded vita MIR. Walters and was
asleep In his room at Mr.. Walters, Te
ceived injuries which are not consider
ed serious. Miss Lucy Letzkut, resid-
ing with Mr.. Walters, asleep on the
second foor, vas carried With her bed
by the explosion into an adjoining los,
and mifasuiously escaped iniury. Fire.
men are busy throwing water on the
ruins, endeavoring n cool OF the debris
so that search can be made for the re-
mains of the missing children. As 20
ths cause Of the expIosioa il is report
cd by reliable persons that Mr.. Helssly
had stated that during the day and
evening the gas was ietkinQ iu
hrs cellar, and that hs had opened
up some approaches thereto tc
.liow the gas TO escape. and retired
for the nigh. The supposition is th 1t
the escaping gss found It's way from he
cellar 20 the apper rooms OF the houss,
zua coming ia contact With tae IRE IN
the CRATES or Ras ists, an explosion took
piaaa, halssiy and Walkers hoaSa.
loined, aud were two story brick build
iugs asd recently built. Both bnildinRs
thereof were scattered from one hun
dred 60 oue hundred and iiftV feet in
every direction. Tue house occupied
by MArtip Brownlee on she sou beast
corner from Helseiy's. was an old
structure aad was almost entirely sh Ak
on 10 pieces. The blacksmith shop of
Geo. Davidson. opposite the he!sely
home, Vas entirely demolished. His
residence aijoin u the lhop 10 aim lst a
total wreck. Two dwellings, of Mr..
John Fare, and the shop and dwell.
ing of Andrew Bartn, north ot
Davidson's, wsrs badly damaged.
The occupants of these houses were
thrown out Of their beds, and thoss
standing we're staggered BY the shock,
bot none Of them injured. Windows
were broken and doors blown open, and
thosa on the north, south aud west we're
alss damaged by the explosion. On the
east house on Commerce street. up on
The hill in THE vicinity Of the Catholic
Chafch. Suffered by having much Rlass
broken. The old brewery OF Leonard
Hebrank had nearly every light OF glass
In it broken. In fact every house, as be-
fore stated, within two and q bali
squares vas more or less damaged,
The expl0slon waa terrific. It was heard
for miles in the surrounding country,
and many farmers nade haste 10 town
10 ascertain the cause. The ooneu ssion
was feit in every house. Windows, fur
niture and ofookery were ratified in
way TO terrify and bewilder the inhab-
itants. A. faxsrville, one and quar-
ter miles north, the ooncussion vas felt