Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25
TERRIBLE LANDSLIDE.
Ten Carloads Of Excursionist3
Killed and Mangled in
Italy.
Two Leadville Miners Fall Eight Hun
dred Feet Down a Shaft-A Fear
fal Leap.
Four Colored Children Grematsd in North
Carolina-A River Captain Drowned
Other Casualties.

PoTENzA, Italy, Oct. 22-In the land
slide, which occurred near LaterZa Satur-
day, fifty meters of rock fell upon and
crushed ten cars, crowded with excur-
sionists returning from the fetes at
Naples. The scene of the disaster is in
remote district, and the telegraph wires
were broken by the falling rock and earth,
and the summoning of help was delayed
two hours. Meanwhile the scene was
most horrible, the groans of the dying
mingling with the shrieks of the injured.
Already ninety dead bodies and seventy
injured persons have been taken out of
the wreck, and the work of excavation
is proceeding as rapidly as possible.
COLLISION ON THE CENTRAL BRANCH.
FRANKFORT, Kan, Oct. 22.-The Central
Branch passenger train from the West
yesterday morning at 2:30 ran into the
freight express No. 424, standing on the
main track about 100 yards west of this
city. The freight, instead of running into
the side track, stopped on the main track,
and without flag. The passenger train,
in charge of Conductor G. w. Fletcher,
ran into it. There were only two persons
injured-Cameron Fortner, of Kansas City,
injured in the back, and w. E. Bennett,
brakeman, also hurt slightly. Governor
John A. Martin was in the sleeper with
other passengers, but escaped without in
jury.
FOUR CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH.
RALEIGH, n. c., Oct. 22.-Yesterday at
Winston the house of Walter Portor, coll
ored, was burned, together with four
small children. Porter was at work, and
the wife shut the children up in the house
and went away to pick cotton. The house
caught fire, and when assistance arrived
it was too late to save the children, they
being already dead. Eight children have
been burned to death in this way in this
vicinity recently.
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.
HoBoKEN, n. j., Oct. 22.-An explosion
caused by the spontaneous combustion Of
pencil wood dust, in the dust arrester in
the factory of the American Pencil Com
pany, on Clinton street, caused fire that
resulted in damage to the factory of 81 200.
The explosion caused a panic among the
hands, and Nora Casey, seventeen-year-
old girl, jumped from tho third story win
dow, receiving frightful injuries. She
will probably die. The others reached the
street in safety.
FELL EIGHT HUNDRED FEET.
DENVER, Col, Oct. pa Leadville spe.
cial says: Yesterday afternoon while
j. II. Bergman and John Flidell, two tim
bermen employed in the Wolfeton mine,
were ascending the main shaft with load
of old timbering, the cable parted, letting
the cage fall to the bottom of the shaft, 800
feet. Both were instantly killed, their
bodies being crushed into an unrecogniza-
BILE mass.
HoRSEMAN HURT.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 22-In "a race at the
Exposition park yesterday afternoon a
collision took place between MuGgins,
driven by John I. Shaw and blind horse,
William Newman, driven by Thomas New
man in which Shaw was so badly injured
that he is still unconscious. His recovery
is doubtful.
LAMP EXPLOSION.
OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 22.-The explosion of
lamp in the office of the junction House
at Kearney about three O'Clock yesterday
morning set it on fire, and it was burned
to the ground. The body of an old man
boarding there named Thomas Kane was
found in the ruins.
A CAPTAIN DROWNED.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 22.-Captain George
Mccoy, proprietor of the Fifth street ferry,
was drowned yesterday while attempting
to save a steer that had fallen from his
boat into the water. The captain was an
expert swimmer and has saved many per-
sons from drowning.