The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-02
BLOWN TO PIECES.
A Quarry Foreman Places Twenty
Sticks Of Dynamite on a Stove.
One Funeral and Five Italians HOr-
ribly Injured.
A Gang Of Men While Digging Out
0ne Train Killed by Another.
Ssvsnty-two Miners Perish by the
Dunsmeir Explosion.

PTTTsBURo, Pa, Jan. ga terrific
explosion of dynamite occurred thil
morning at the Carbon Limestone com.
pany's quarries, located on the line OF
the Pittsburg s. Lake Erie road, about
ten miles from Youngstown. Ohio
The foreman of the company, Masters,
placed twenty sticks of dynamite on
the stove in a shanty in which five
Italians were lounging. An explosion
occurred and the shanty was blown to
pieces. Masters was picked up some
twenty feet away; life was extinct, his
body being horribly mangled. All the
Italians were more or less injured,
nearly all having their legs and arms
broken. Two, it is expected, viii die.
The accident was caused by Masters
failing to obey orders in regard to dyna-
mite.
A TERRIBLE MISTAKE.
KEY WEST, Jan. 26.-Owing to a
mistake by the signal station, fearful
collision occurred Saturday night on
the Oeste railroad, that runs from Ha-
vana to Vuelta, in the Abajo district.
A passenger train collided with a
freight train seventeen miles east of
La Herradura station. The engineers
and fremen of both trains were in
stantly killed and their bodies terribly
mangled. Forty passengers were more
or less badly hurt, and both locomo-
tives were completely wrecked. 1t was
over seven hours after the accident be-
fore the news was received, as the con-
ductor of the passenger train had to
walk twelve miles to telegraph the &C
cident. Consequently many of the in
jured passengers died before medical
aid reached them.
THE PIKERS CALL FOR TROOPS.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. 26.-The
officials of Pike county have applied
to the governor for troops to defend
the people against the Hatfield gang.
Troops were refused, but the people
were given permission to arm them
selves. The sheriff of Pike county
has invaded West Virginia to capture
the outlaws, but West Virginian il
out with posse to drive him back to
to Kentucky.
sEvENTY-Two PERISH.
WELLINGTON, b. c., Jan. 26.-The
exploring party at the Dunsmeir col
lieries worked all Tuesday night divid-
ed into three shifts. and that under
Foreman Haggerty penetrated into the
east slope. They located a number of
bodies. 1t was not until about
2 O'Clock this afternoon, however, that
the work of bringing the bodies to the
surface was begun, and as one cage
was in working. order after the start
rapidly. In little over
an hours time the bodies
of seven white men and eight Chinese
had been raised to the surface. The
report in circulation during the day
that many more persisted than those
named in yesterdays telegram is hap,
PLY untrue. Every individual
in the east slope, when the explosion
occurred was killed. at tonight
wednesday,. after the change of shift
eighteen white men and twenty-five
Chinese had been taken out Of
the pit, while seven more bodies had
been found, and taken to the bottom
Of the shaft. There yet remains thir-
teen whites and nineteen Chinese in
ted from the report, making the total
number of white men who persisted in
the east level thirty-one and Chinese
forty-one.
A BRUTAL OUTRAGE.
HUNTINGDON, Pa, Jan. 26.-Three
masked robbers entered the cabin of
Henry Merritt, an old woodsman in
Henderson township, this morning and
demanded that he reveal the hiding
place of "a 600 he was known to have in
the house. He refused, and
they bound and gagged him,
held his bare feet to the fire and other
wise maltreated him in a most brutal
manner. He finally became uncon-
scious and his assailantS then searched
the building. They secured 81 500 of
the money and left their victim. Mer-
rift may die.
woRKMEN KILLED BY A TRAIN.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Jan. 2.-The
Mail train from the north on the Con
necticut River railroad, due at Hol-
yoke at six o'clock last night became
st illed in a cut two miles north IF that
city. A gang of men went to work
this morning to dig it out. The snow
was blowing about so thick that moth
ing could be seen a few feet distant
and the 1870 train from Greenfield,
dashed into the gang, killing three men
and injuring another fatally.
The killed are: Martin Griffin,
James Kennedy and John Shea
and the injured man is Michael Con-
nors, all of Holyoke. The train men
say they had not been warned to look
out for the gang of men. The whistle
was blown and Roadmaster Prit-
chard ordered the men off the track.
PASTOR MISSING.
New YORK, Jan. 27.-The pastor of
the Congregational church in Battle
Creek, Michigan, Rev. Thomas w.
Haven, has been missing since Jan
uary 18th, his health being some.
what impaired. Any one knowing his
address will confer favor by sending
it to the general Office of the Associated
Press.
FLAX MILL BURNS
ATTENTION, Penna., Jan. 25.-FirS
broke out at O'Clock this morning il
some flax stored on the first floor Of
Dearbourn & Co.'s new thread mil
here, and at noon the flax was still
g. T.
posed to be under control. There wert
1880 bales of Irish flax in the buildin,
and the loss will be very heavy. Thu
building and machinery were values
at S225, 900, and the stock of flax wa
of great value. While the buildini
will not be totally ruined it has beef
greatly damaged, some of the archie
and floors, carrying with them valuabl
machinery, have fallen. Some of tn
flax may be saved. There is no insur
ance on the building or contents. w
G. Wolf and George Weis, firemer
were injured by falling arches. Tn
factory had just been completed an
was to have been started this morning
The origin of the fire is unknown.
A DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. Pa speci;
from Jenkintown says: A terrific e.
plosion, the effects of which were fe
O'Clock this morning at the dynamic
factory at BelhayeTs station. a fe
miles above here on the North PeHl
syivania railroad. Four men were 81
gagged in the manufacture of dynami
cartridges when a large can of Il
deadly chemical exploded, tearing Il
building to pieces and blowing the IL
fortunate men into the air and landiI
them many yards away. All we
dangerously injured. John CASTOR
young man % years of age, had his ID
arm torn from the socket. 1t is thong
that all may recover except you
CASTOR.
TWINS SMOTHERED.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 25.-When I
wife Of a. j. Ellis, living at lIl3 II;
rison street, woke up this morning s
found her two children, boy and q
dead by her side. The little ones W,
all right at IL o'clock last night. /