Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-11-27
EASTERN NEWS.
A Fatal Gas Explosion in a Wilkes
barre Mine.
DISCOVERY OF TIE MuRpEsERS OF
TIE POE FAMILY.
A Stay Of Execution for the Doomed
Anarchists.
A COLLISION ON THE CLEVELAND AND
PIrTssUaa RAILROAD.
Characteristic Letter from jim
Cummings.
cYcloNlc MANIFESTATIONS THROUGHOUT
NEW JERSEY.
Characteristic Letter from jim
Cummings.
CYCLONE MANIFESTATIONS THROUGHOUT
NEW JERSEY.
ESPECIAL TO THE sRsTINKL.l

Terrible Gas Ex pIosiOn in q Mine.
W1LKEsBARRE, Nov. 26.-Shortly after
the miners and laborers entered Conyn-
hams shaft this morning an explosion OF
gas took place. Between 20 and 30 miners
are said to burned and seriously injured.
but none are reported dead. But very
little regarding the accident can be learned
az vet, as the men are still in the pit, but
will be removed as soon as posi-
BILE. The shaft is known to contain con-
| siderable gas, and is owned and operated
by the Delaware and Hudson Company.
LATER-The explosion occurred IN a
shanty at the foot of the shaft which was
occupied by fire gas. No work was done
| yesterday, and consequently there was 9
larger quantity of gas than usual in the
| shaft. The men are now being removed
| from the pit and taken to their homes or
hospital. 1t il thought all will recover.
STILL LATER-The accid emit in the
| Conynham shaft occurred while the men
were getting ready to go to work. There
we're about so men sitting at the foot OF
the shaft awaiting the inside boss when
the explosion occurred, and only three or
four men escaped without injury. 1t is
known that several. possibly II Or Is, will
die, and the others be SCARED and manned
for life. The disaster was caused by Cor
nelius Boyle, a mine lsborer, who stepped
| into a worked-out chamber, which was
filed with gas, with a lighted lamp upon
his hat. Boyle will die. Many mules
| NO. l;llaI - un1nAo1 and tho 6amapa to
| the inside workings of the shaft will be
great. The fire bosses, William Williams
and William Evans. were fatally burned.
| There is great excitement in and about
the shaft, and a full knowledge as to the
exact number of those hurt, and the char
acter of the wounds Of those injured can
not be obtained.
M Poe Family Murdered.
LOUISVILLE, KY. Nov. ga Times
special says: A report has reached Will
iamsburg, KY, that the Poe family,
thought to have been destroyed by fire in
Knox county q month ago, were in real
ity murdered by a neighbor named Con-
cubine. The mother and five children.
and two visiting young ladies, were found
burned in the ashes of q destroyed hut.
The story OF the murder is told as follows
by an illegitimate son of CoEcubine. aged
10 years, whom the repu.ed father had
threatened and made mad: This boy says
the man cut from ear to ear the throats OF
each OF eight persons while they slept, and
that his mother then dragged the bodies
to the middle of the room and set them on
fire. They also fired the house, and took
come bed clothing and other articles and
departed. On the boys statement ar.
rests and an investigation followed, and
the Poe articles were found in the cellar
of the suspected parties house. They re-
fused to be interviewed, and are now in
the Bsrbouryille Jail awaiting an exam
ination.
IA Railroad Collision.
PrrTsBURd, Nov. 26.-The through Ex'
press on the Cleveland and Pittsburg rail.
road, which left this city at 1925 last
night, ran into a freight train at Con-
ways Station, "a miles from Pittsburg, on
the Fort Wayne road, shortly after mid
night, derailing a caboose and two freight
cars and the engine of the Express train.
Fireman Harry Burkshaw, of Cleveland,
was hurled from his cab and killed out
right. None of the passengers were in
jured. Tho freight train had stopped to
take Q supply of water when the Express
crashed into it.
A U. II. Hotel Burned.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. Nov. 26.-The Union
Pacific Hotel, owned by the Pacific Com
pany. was burned this afternoon. The
building partially and the stock and fur.
niture totally destroyed. The loss on the
building and furniture is $25. 900. partly
insured. The fire caught in the third
story from a defective fiue. A man named
| McElroy, a Union Pacific employe. was
killed by q falling porch, and several fire.
men were severely injured.
A Characteristic Letter.
KANSAS CRY, NO.. Nov. ga Jour-
nails Moberly, Mo-, special says: The
Headlight received to-day q characteristic
letter from the alleged Jim Cummings, the
| notorious express robber. The personal
| description and handwriting correspond
with that OF a man who swindled several
persons during the fair here last Autumn.
The letter is dated at Omaha. and was
mailed at Council Bluffs. Cummings says
he Ia having q good time and still has most
of the stolen express money.
A Chicago Hotel Panic.
CHICAGO, Nov. 26. The Centennial
Hotel was found to be on fire this morning
in six different rooms. The Fire Marshal
declares that the fire was undoubtedly in
cendiaries work. The hotel has 100 gnest
rooms. and the guests were thoroughly
panic sticken, rushing cut in the street In
their night clothing. The damage on the
building was only slight.
Accident to the Statue OF Liberty.
New YORK. Nov. 26.--The heavy cloth
curtain, which during the day time covers
the electric light lenses on the Statue OF
Liberty. caught fire Monday night and
fell on the light woodwork of the staircase
in the interior Of the statue. It was only
by the hardest work that a bad fire was
avoided and the great statue saved from
rain.