Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-06-04
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VICTORIA, June 3.-Poiice ofaioers have
broaght 20 Eamioops frsu Eagle Pas
young man named w. Brown. he Vas
committed by Jasties Vowel, of Far
we'll he - suspected Of murderine q
woman he IS said TO have been living
with. named Mary Purcell. Her BODY
vas found In the Columbia river, Ter
head badly eus. Brown, who Is we'll
Connected, says she drowned herself
he viii be brought before the court next
week.
A. Bowman has been appointed to
continue the geological survey of toe
provinces.
A traveller has come through from
Montreal in eleveR and half DAYS
Is is Eamored that the Canada Pacific
Railway Company have decided to ex
tend their line to English Bay, aud to
throw out 3 breskwateF on 5 parish
bank, al an expense of $50 600, foE the
protection of shipping. The rumor
needs confirmation; and even If true, ii
10 BY no means certain the Company
viii be in funds for some years 10 carry
their line below Port Moody.
A new site has been selected for a
Provincial jail on the outskirts of Vic
toria, and tenders called for. The cost
will be about $4,000.
W. @. Charles, for many years man
aQeF OF the Hndson Bay Company in
British Columbia, has resigned. HIS
successor is on tie way from England.
In the h1ong Lee case the Chief Jus
tIce today intimatsd that be would enter
Judgment for the plaintiff. unless the
defendant should bring forward fresh
and material evidence. The case was
far be Cd
Terrible Accident.
LONDON, June IA dispatch vas re-
ceived this afternoon fron Durham,
which says A Ore broke oat in the
Philadelphia oolliery, situated near that
city, at noon TODAY. Three hundred
miners are IN the pitt, and all attempts
so far to subdae the flames or render
assistance TO the impri oned msn. have
failed. Great excitement exists, and it
Is feared that majority of the entomo-
ed men will perish. A large force of
men are at WORK al the coiliery trying
TO rescue them.
Tke collievy on IRE Ia the property of
the Earl Of Durham, and is known as
the Margaret pit Il is now feared that
all the men aud boys within the pit will
be lost. The number Is placed at $40.
The excitement in the neighborhood Of
the burning colliery increases momen-
tariIy. Relatives of the imprisoned
miners crowd about the mouth of the
pit, weeping and wailing in the most
heartrendinR manner"
5p. ma later dispatch says that all
bat y of the miners have been rescued,
and those missing are supposed to be
killed. The fire was caused by an ex-
piosion of fire damp.
L0NDoE, June So D. m.-Another
dispatch from Durham states that the
fire in the soliiery near that place 90
Cured in the top seam uf the Margaret
pit, or the Peggy pit, as 10 is known
locally that 1t was caused by an expi0-
sion, and that - men and boys at work
there we're killed outright. The expIo-
sion was followed by q rush of water in
imnense volumes into the Sutton seam
The miners, men and bows, however,
we're all taken out alive. Working par
ties are nov iaboring zealeusiy 10 stay
the food. Fhe waters are rushing into
the Maudiin seam, where q great num-
Der of miners are imprisoned. and
whom the rsliefs hope to release and
rescue.
Naval Maneayers.
ST.. PETERSBURG, June S.-Tbe Cron-
stadt and the baltic squadrons of the
Russian navy have been ordered to unite
in q cruise, With the object Of executing
naval maneuSers on a grand scale. The
united fleet will consist Of Is men Of
var, a torpedo Aotills, training
squadron and several guuooats.
A New Light.
VICTORIA. June 3.-0tfieial notifica-
ton Is published OF 6 new lighthouse
erected as the northeast entrance of
Active Pass, this province. The light
10 axed white. and may be seen dis
| tAnoa az sight miles