Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-19
NEWS.
A Horrible Discovery Of Poverty and
Death in Detroit.
ANARCHISTS WANT Their RED FLAGS
AND OTHER PARAPHEaNAIIA.
John swilling, and His Wife and Daugh-
ter Burned to Death.
rHIRTY.FIvE PERSONS MORE OR LESS IN.
JURtD BY A GAS EXPLOSION.
Mrs. Juliet Cunningham Awarded
$4,000 Damages.
eRATloT WAsHBuaHE DIED YESTERDAY OF
CEREBRAL AP0PlExY.
ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL
A Revolving Scene.

A Revolving scene.
DETROIT. Dec. ia horrible scene
| of poverty and death has been discov-
cred in a dilapidated frame house,
No. 156 Woodbridge street in this city.
The house was occupied by a stone
cutter named Thomas Greass, with a
wife and five children. Mrs. Greass
died last Sunday and was buried
Wednesday, her babe being cared for
by the neighbors. Since the funeral
the house has been closed, and moth
ing was seen of Greass or his children.
Becoming suspicious that something
was wrong, the neighbors this morning
broke in the door and found the chill
dren on the same bed on which the
father lay, who was crazy drunk. All
the children were down with a virulent
attack OF scarlet fever. A girl three
wear old was dead. A boy eight years
old was strangling and dying, and the
other children were so i'll they could
not move. There was neither fire nor
food in the house. The Poor Commits
sion will do everything possible to re-
lieve the children.
"A Cave I'm the KObinOOr COiIiery.
SHENANDOAH, Pa, Dec. Is. =
Between 8 and 4 O'Clock this morning
the people living along West Coal
street, in the northwestern section of
this borough, were aroused by a crack
ing noise and the swaying of the
houses, resembling a series OF success :
sive shocks Of earthquake. The sen :
sation was produced by a cave in
which it took down fully four acres OF
that section of the town, upon which
stand upwards of 80 houses. The great
est alarm prevailed from3 o'clock until
after daylight. After the surface sank
the houses swayed and tottered, and the
frightened people, many OF them with
children in their arms, ran in search
of places OF safety, while the men col
lected their most portable property
and conveyed it from the doomed
district. The surface settled from two
to four feet, and damaged property
to the extent OF $4,000 to $75, 900.
The cave in was caused by robbing
the workings OF the Kohinoor Colliery,
which is located under that portion of
the town.
Anarchists Want Their Red Flags.
,, CHICAGO, Dec. 16.-Attorneys for
the Anarchists addressed a letter to
Mayor Harrison and the State Attor-
ney General to-day. They claim to
represent the International Carpenters
Union and other labor organizations,
and ask for the immediate return of
the red flags, monograms, and other
stuff captured during the Anarchist
} excitment, and if not returned legal
action will be brought. In reply to
the letter, the States attorney says
, he will not surrender a single article
until the pending cases of the eight
men are absolutely and finally dis
posed Of. After that, he hoped that
a bonfire would be made of the whole
lot.
A Whole Family Burne to Death.
ATLANTA, Ca, Dec. 1S.-Thursday
morning, after midnight, the house of
John Swilling was burned down. In
side were Mr.. Swilling, his wife and
three children, all of whom were
burned to death. Francis Sanders
was arrested, and confessed that he
had crushed in the skulls of the Sleep
ers, saturated the bed clothes with
coal oil, applied q match and left.
Citizens seized the murderer and car
ried him off to lynch him. A rumor
has reached here that Sanders was tied
to a tree and burned to death.
A Terrific Gas Explosion.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 18.-A Journals
Kokomo, Indiana, special reports that
gas was struck in well No. 2 at that
point to-day, and in running the drill
the gas was by some means ignited.
A terrific explosion followed, and 35
persons were more or less injured.
The force of the explosion threw
everybody to the ground, which prob
ably explains why the injured are not
fatally burned.
Awarded Damages.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 18.-Mrs. Juliet
Cunningham, who was SO seriously in
jured some time ago by jumping from
the street car Of the Peoples line,
which was in imminent danger of
colliding with railroad train at the
Fourth and Poplar street crossing, was
to-day awarded $25 900 damages.
Death of Gratiot washburne.
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 18.-Gratiot Wash
burne, son Of Hon E. B. Washburne,
and Secretary and General Counsel of
the American London Exhibition, who
arrived here yesterday in the interest
OF the exhibition, dropped dead at the
Gait House to-day of cerebral APP
oplexy.