The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-04-27
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
LANDSLIDE.

VIC 'otalt Auhc eApIehS was running
through Black Canyon, a huge land
slide came tearing down the side O
the canyon, several immense boul
ders striking the engine, throwing
and hurting it down thirty-foo
embankment to the Gunnison river
The engine in it's descent turned
over several times, crushing fireman
William North to death. Engineer
Ryan was caught underneath por.
ton of the machinery and found in
the bed Of the river and nearly
drowned before rescued. He was
seriously injured internally. None
of the coaches were thrown from
the track, and on account of the
roaring waters it was some minutes
before the passengers and crew
knew of tho accident. The train
was ascending the canyon at the
usual speed, and II is supposed the
jar of the train started some loose
rocks from the top of the canyon,
several hundred feet above, and
these rolling down started others
and increased in size, and when it
struck the unfortunate engine it
had become n tremendous slide of
hugo bouldcrs and rocks.
MORMON MISSIONARIES WHIPPED.
Information comes from Dale
county, Alabama, that five Mormon
missionaries were severely whipped
and driven from the county one day
last week. These mon had been
holding meetings among the ignor-
ant classes Of the county and had
formed a colony to 90 to Utah. On
Monday night some forty citizens
of the northern part Of the county,
without the slightest attempt at
surrounded the house Of
a man named Irons, recent con
vert, who was entertaining the mis-
Without delay they were
brought out, stripped to the waist
and tied In row; then each Of the
regulators with long switch struck
zach sounding blow. BY the time
.he last blow was given, two Of the
men tainted and the others were
vet with blood. After whipping
.he mems legs they were given a
.hick coat Of tar and feathers and
hey were warned to leave instantly
,r suffer death, The names of the
Mormons are Asa r. Dixon, j. II.
Hagadom, M. +. Miller, John w.
x. Pearce and Uncel Morrison.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN NEW YORK.
The largest and tiercest fire wit
lcsscd in New York for years swept
.he east bank Of North River last
week Friday, from Fifty-ninth street
o what would be Sixty-Gfth street,
I that street ran to the river. 1t
destroyed more than million and
l.half dollars worth of property be-
longing to the New York Central
company, and at least half
a million dollars worth Of lard, flour
and the like, belonging to other
persons. N. X. Fairbanks, the great
Chicago lard merchant, was one Of
the heaviest losers, The flames de.
stroyed two big elevators of Van.
derbilts system of big brick build
ings. stretching from Fifty-ninth
street to Sixtieth street, occupied
ointly by the Fairbank lard rein.
Fry and the Roster stores, and
wiped out stock property of the
New York Central railroad from
Fifty-ninth to past Sixty-fifth street.
Henry Bemming, a workman in the
'airbank refinery, was killed by a
imp from the third story window.
Many others were seriously injured
~ jumping. The fire broke out in
he southeast corner of the Fair
bank reiinery--how, nobody knows.
Having been thoroughly saturated
With grease for years, the old build
ng was in llames in an instant. Men
It work III every story dropped
heir tools and ran to save their
ives. The staircases were soon
columns of flames, and the windows
the only means of escape.
Pursued close by the fire, the men
lung themselves out head-long, and
low many there were none could
ell. Many were picked up and
'arried away by friends. The fire
lad soon swept throughout the
ength of the building and shot
'ver toward the big grain elevators
IT the n. Y. Central railroad. Be
,ween the place where the engines
we're stationed and the elevators,
here were twenty-seven railroad
racks which no fire engine could
'ross, and next the Union stock
Yards half-a-mile of broad Enclosure
and pens equally impossible. The
only way for the engines to reach
he elevators was through 9th street
past the burning buildings, and
that street, after two engines had
fought their way past, was blocked
by falling walls. The total loss is
estimated to be s3,355,00O. The
n. \. Central loss is probably COW
cred by insurance, but the Others
only partly 80.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE,
A story has been published, in
several daily papers during the past
week, of the criminal neglect of
to furnish proper treatment
to their sick children. The parents
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