The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-05-11
IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT.
A Car Load Of Dynamite Explodes
IIoar Shamokin With Terrible
Eject.
Seventeen Houses Wrecked on tho
Sleeping Inmates-Eight Killed
and Thirty Injured.
Circus Train Wrecksi-Grsat Loss of LIZ,
By Hail Storms in India-Drownings
On Like Erie.

W 1all SGoIinS IN 1nala- ur0Wni1gS
On Like Erie.
SHAMoKrN. Pa, Nav IA freish. train
on the Philadelphia & Reading railroad
was passing through Locust Gap. six miles
from this place, a. eleven O'clock Saturday
night, when u car loaded with powder ex-
rloded, killing eight people, wounding
thirty. some seriously. burning eight
. houses. ievelinS four blocks to the ground
and destroying twelve loadei cars
The freight train. con sisting Of seventy
five cars bound for Wi Transport, had b.
| come disconnected by the breaking Of a
| coupling and the engine and three cars ha
run h'lf II mile before the crew discovered
that the train vas divided. The first
section then awaited the arrival OF the
, second at the foot Of a heavy grade. The
two brakemea lost control Of the second
section and 1t dashed into the FIRST section,
causing an explosion in the third car, which
was loaded with powder.
AT the scene OF the accident the railroad
runs along II steep hill. at the bottom Of
which stood two rows of houecs occupied
by the Philadelphia & Rsaling Coal and
Iron Company's enpoye Ga the hillside
stood "a little cottage occupied by John
Quinn and his family Of four children, two
boys and two girls. The force OF the ex-
plosion wrecked the buildings, seventeen
in all. and the stoves set FIRE 10 the Rims,
and Qrinn and his two little girls were
burned to death. The two boys escaped
with burns.
Simon kcryick's family consisted of
Mary and Willie Cavanaugh, adopted
u <.r fo,,
en- years, Daniel kerwicx aged eight,
Alice kerwicS aged five, and his wife aud
new born babe. kerwich carried his
wife from the burning bull ding, but the
children were burned TO death.
Thirty persons were injured, tho most
serious being Mrs. Niles Dougher,y, leg
broken. bruised aud cut: her mother. Mrs.
Mathews, bruised and internally Injured;
Mary. daughter of Mrs. Miles. recis cut and
bruised; Andrew McElwec, right eve de.
stroyed and neck cut: John Domain. left
iiGnd amputatcd and cut about the limbs;
.irs. Patrick MciiaUus. injured By mis-.
siics; Mrs. Simon kerwicls. sufr,rin. from
shock, condition serious. Severa! # the
injured were sent to the miners hospital.
In ak twelve ears were destroyed and
seventeen houses ~ tn their furniture. ali
The windows in tne Locust Gap churches
and schools were broken and the doors
b.own off. In Mt Carmel largc store WIZ
COWS were broken. The total loss is esti-
mated al 5000.
The force of the explosion shook the
ground for twenty miles around. wrecAiEg
many HOUSES IN Mt. Carmel and the neigh
borhcod.
None of the train hands were injured,
although one is said 10 nave been blown y
considerable distance. The engineer OF the
locomotive which was very close at the
time of the explosion was stunned, but
soon recovered.
The sufferers were soon supplied with all
the help that willing h;iud, could give, and
shortly after the explosion large numbers
OF people were on the scene. Yesterday a
the roads leading to the horrible wreck were
lined with vehicles going and returning.
Locust Gap is d town Of about ., OOJ inhabit-
ants.
FATAL LANDSLIDE.
STEUEENvILLr. o., May AT one o'clocl.
yesterday afternoon, about three miles
above this city. at Mikanna station, Gs the
train Of the Miller a. Freeman circus was
passing through AZ deep cut known as the
Backbone" 1t met landslide which threw
the engine and five cars from the track,
piing them up in confused ard broken
mass. The cars were badly broken ard
were burned. while the engine was turned
over directly across the track. 4. T. Still
well, of Wei.sville, o.. the engineer, was
terribly scalded and 1t is feared received
internal injuries. Elmer Ellsworth. Of
Columbus, o., the colored cook, was killed
outright.
CLOUD BURST.
in. about six o'clock cloud burst is re-
ported to have occurred in the vicinity of
,Iaizs. a town about fifteen miles west OF
this city. The territory drenched was about
two hundred yards wide and mile long
For about twenty min ties the water poured
down, as expressed by an eyewitness, las
If the ent re heavens were tank OF water
and Il hole had been punched into it, the
size OF the paraiieogram receiving it."
The noise was terrible, the down pour
sounding much louder than the falls Of
Niagara. 1t did not look as though one |
could see ten feet into the pouring water. !
In fact il came straight down. The cloud |
GId not seem TO move. The clouds were as !
black as night, but to tue east was clear |
sky, jus: {; sm Ill strip Of it above the hori-
zou giving a little light. Had it not been
for this it would have becn perfectly dark. !
Most of the territory covered by the storm |
was a corn field and IL is though: there was
not a stalk Of corn left.
THE ARLINGTON, SEB.. HOLOCAUST.
OMAHA. Neb., May 1.-Tnc circumstances
attending the burning OF the widow Freese |
and her family in the barn near Arlington |
Friday are still q mystery, but further |
tends to remove the suspicion |
that murder was one Of the FEATURE, OF the |
horrible affair. The fire, with the excep-
ton Of few smoldcring heaps. had gone
ont, and another thorough search resulted
in the discovery Of the eighth victim Of
the holocaust-Lewis Grotzen, the hired
man-near the east end of tae barn among
the remains Of the horses.
TWO PLEASURE SEEKERS DROWNED.
ERIE, Pa, May "A sail boat in which
were party of Germans caps!zad On Lake
Erie near Westfieid yesterday, and Will
lam Bann and August Piercher we're
.rowned. The other two, G. Bader and |
George Smith, We're picked insen sibIe by a
passing vessel They will recover.
IA special dispatch from Nashville,
Tenn, dated April %, says: Miss Mollie
Green is a heroine in Perry County to-
night. She is but eighteen years old, and
teaches school on Cypress creek in Perry
County, though her father, Robert Green,
lives across the Tennessee river in Hick-
man County. The little log schoolhouse
was quiet and the little children busy
with their lessons. when q dog. foaming
at the mouth, swapping and biting, dashed
IN at the door and sprang towards one Of
The children. The brave teacher thought
only OF the children in her care, and sprang