Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-04-04

| EOTtl WOTL0y 16AhSJ onJcs % optS~Ps
has lust been make to start freight trains
| on the Missouri. Pacific. Officers Fulford,
| Sneed and Townshend are mortally
wounded, and three strikers were shot
down in their tracks. Intense excitement
prevails.
LATER-A Fort Worth special says: Citi-
Gems are arriving on ell sides. A fight is
now going on between the strikers and so
mounted police. The strikers are we'll
armed with Winchesters. Everything is
in an extremely feverish condition.
A st. Louis Hotel ON Fire.
ST. LOUIS, April 3.-At $3.50 this morn
ing q fire was discovered in the rear por-
ton of the Planters House. on the corner
OF Fourth and Pine streets. 1t was found
that the laundry-room as we'll as the dry
ing-room of the hotel we're in flames and
burning fercely. The watchman and
night clerks were awakened by a guest i n
No. 1874. The greatest excitement pre-
vailed, and for a time q panic was expect
ed, but as some of the guests reached the
ground floor and found no immediate
danger in that portion Of the building the
excitement grew less, and some of the
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such valuables as had been left in their
hurry to escape. Several trunks were
thrown from the third and fourth floors,
only to be dashed to pieces. One lady sp.
peared at a third-story window, and,
throwing out her grip, reached for one of
the rungs of a fire escape, and landed in
short order on the sidewalk The firemen
worked vigorously, and at about $40 the
fire was extingnished, and but for the
complete drenching the main portion of
the hotel suffered but little. The tiremen
! in making their rounds through the build.
ing made q horrible discovery on the
| fourth floor. In the north halls they came
| across the bodies OF two women servants
by stumbling over them ss they made
| their way through the smoke. They were
| conveyed to the d~ining-room floor, where
| a doctor was called, and every effort was
made to resusitate them, but it was a
| hopeless task, and after working over them
| for half an hour they were pronounced
| dead. The bodies were clad merely in
their night clothes. Their faces were
| blackened by smoke, and the skin on their
hands and arms peeled off at places, show.
ing where they ran against obstacles III
their efforts to escape. One was imme,
| diately recognized as Kato Cassidy, and
the other is thought to be Mary Burk. In
another room another pitiable scene was
witnessed. A third unfortunate was found
who proved to be Mary Cooney. another
| employe of the linen department. Th'
dead girls were not over 20 years of age
| The body of another girl, who died from
suffocatiop, was found later, making foul
deaths in all. One of the male employees
| of the hotel made his escape with grea
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from smoke. When he reached the side
walk blood flowed from his ears and mouth
Three years & the hotel had q narrow
escape. It was about the anne hour in
the morning that the fire was reported to
day, and in the same place in the kitchen
wing, facing OIL a narrow alley in the rear
where three lives were lost, the employees
sleeping in the top story Of the wing on
fire.
The Crisis at Fort Worth, Texas
NEW YORK. April 3.-The following dis
patches have just been received at thu
Texas and Pacific railroad ofices:. Th'
greatest excitement is prevailing at For
Worth. The Mayor and citizens are turn
ing out and arranging for a mounted pc
lice train on the siding. At least 200 ar
in the mob. We will not attempt to d.
any more until there is more protection
One of the strikers at the crossing wa
shot dead, and two are crippled. Thu
train that vent through Fort Worth q
1905 P. M. was attacked at the Fort Wortl
and New Orleans crossing by q lot OF mel
lying in the grass. Several shots wer,
fired, and three of the guards are badl,
wounded. One of them is dying. Th'
train returned to Fort Worth. TIL
strikers at the crossing stopped tn
train and the guards asked them why
The answer was a volley from Winchester
in the grass. The guards returned the fir
with the results as shown in two forme,
messages. Train No. 115 left Parsons a
1880 o'clock without interference. Thirt,
soldiers went on the train as guards. Thi
makes four trains or their way south.
train is TO- being made up at Parsons t
start north.
Congressional Sentiment Agains
Jay Gould.
WASHINGTON, April 3.-In the Hous
Mr.. Lawler, of Illinois, said that the op
ponents of the Arbitration bill had hat
three long months to prepare somethinI
upon the question, and had not done so
and now they insulted the intelligence o
well-meaning men on the Committee OF
Labor who had given it their attention
Passing on TO the consideration of tn
strike on the Missouri Pacific, he declared
that without wishing to become COMMIT
nistic in his ~utterances, he was free to sa.
that il Jay Gould was hanged to a lamp
post in New York il would be q blessing t,
the community known as the United
States. Laughter. The action OF ia.
Gould might cost hundreds and thousand
of lives throughout the Western States
The death OF a man like this was nothing
compared with what might occur if th,
difficulties were not settled in those States
There was no sentimental basis in the
matter. 1t was justice to workmen. There
was no harm in the bin, and the discussion
Of it had q healthy effect on the country. Il
was an honest bill. II there was anything