The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-06
CRIME AND CASUALTY.
A Scanda! in High Life in
Canada.
HORRIBLE COALMINE ACCIDENT
Killed Each Other Railroad Acci-
dent-Terrific Gas Explosion in
Mine-POwder Mills.
COALMINE ACCIDENT

MONTREAL, November 5.-A sensa-
ton has been caused by the arrest OF
Adelaide Noel, on the charge of using
threatening language to c. E. Soraty,
once Under Minister of Finance of
France, and president of the Bank of
Lyons. AS president of the Bank OF
Lyons, he declared the reserve fund was
in gold, when in reality it was in bonds
eff the Union Generate. When the
Union Generate went under so did tie
Bank of Lyons. Soraty escaped to
Canado, taking with him. it is said
something like a million francs. He
also brought the wife of his private
secretary, so the story goes. and settled
here, where for the past few years he
has devoted himself to literary work.
Adelaide Noel, who styles himself the
head of the Paris police, on Saturday
walked into Soraty villa with revol-
yer and threatened to be avenged on
both Sora:y and the woman who ran
away with him, leaving her husband
behind to die of broken heart. If the
case is pushed some spicy history will
be brought to light.
GOOD SHOTS.
GooDHoPE, Ala, November 5.-John
Ray and w. T. Wilkerson, prominent
citizens, quarrelled about q land specu-
lation, and began fir ng. Ray was killed
instantly and Wllkerson died IN few
minutes.
BOATING PARTY DRoWEEB.
BosroN, November 5.-While four
yo1ng men, James Hayes. Henry
Gormley, w. Sellan and Charles Cogan.
were sailing in Dorchester Bay, this
afternoon, the boat capsized and the
three first mentioned were drowned.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
VIcKsRURG, Miss, November "a
freight train On the Louisiana & Texas
road struck q COW to-day, and was
thirteen cars we're wrecked. Three
men were killed and two wounded.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN A COAL MIMI.
Lock HAVEN, November Last
night, In the Kettle Greek Coal Com
pany's mine, thirty miles west of this
city, an explosion occurred in a new
drift in which twenty-one persons were
at work. AS soon as possible after the
explosion, the mine was entered, and
fifteen dead bodies carried out. Four
other men badly injured, were found,
one of whom has since died and others
are likely to die. The cause Of the ex-
plosion is unknown, but it is supposed
to have been through the striking of q
assure or pocket of gas. This afternoon
the disfgured and naked body of
miner was found fifty feet from the
mouth of the air shaft, through which
it had been blown.
THE NAMES OF THE DEAD,
so far as learned, are: Samuel Killinger,
Park Donnelly, Michael Curran and
three Carlston brothers. All bat those
named above were Hungarians or
italians, whose names are not fur
nished. A driver named Farrell, was
entering the drift when the explosion
occurred. He was
THROWN TOWARDS ITS MOUTH AND KILLED.
The force of the explosion is shown in
that the bodies we're blown clear out of
the mouth of the drift. Everything
possible Is being done for the injured by
the mine physicians. The bodies of
the dead were taken charge of by an
undertaken and prepared for interment.
The coroner will hold an inquest to-
morrow. The mine inspector of the
district has been summoned. Although
the explosion occurred before dark yes
terday, it was not given out by the of
ticials of the company until to-day, they
having been advised of it la:e at night.
1t is thought in making a drill hole,
gas feeder was struck, filling the cham
Der with gas, which, coming in contact
with the naked lamps, produced the eX
plosion. A ''gas feeder" is a pocket of
gas embedded in the coal. The super
intendent says the accident could not
be forseen, and no blame is attached 10
anyone.
PHILADELPHIA. November A
special to the Press from Williamsport
says it is rumored that
TIE DIRECT CAUSE OF THE EXPLOSION
was the unexperiencsd use of dynamite.
In conversation with one of the drivers
who escaped, it was learned that an
Italian had gotten 100 sticks OF dyna-
mite from the store keeper in the morn
ing and had also gotten 100 caps and
went after some fuse, and as there was
none in the store it is Supposed he tried
to set it OF some other way, thus caus-
ing the explosion. In the blacksmith
shop near the scene of the disaster lays
the charred and unrecogniEable remains
of August Pearson, who was blown out
of the air shaft fifty feet in the air, and
some of his clothes can be seen hanging
to the limb of tree near by. Next |
comes Mike Curfan, who
WAC BLOWN TWO HUNDRED FEET
out of the mine, and who was found in !
a ditch dead, but still clinging to the |
handle of shovel. He leaves a wife
and seven small children; besides him |
lies P. E. DOnnelly, who was also |
blown out of the mouth of the mine. !
Donneliy leaves wife and four child |
rem. John Farrell, a mule driver, tells |
this story: 81 was Dushjup a gar and