Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-10
One Man SuITocated and Several
Others injured.
MRS. PARKER BROWNS At CLATSOP
Dr.. Lindsey Injured, Fatal Fight
Over Whiskey,Fre Douglass Re-
signs,A Brakeman's Cruel Crime,
Excessive Heat in the East, For
eign and State News, etc.
FTRE An sPoKANE PALS.

/ UlCIhiNk tut litAtRiiuah on t'~ttaN
street saw flames issuing from Con
ways lodging house ri the corner of
second and NH. He Immediately
turned in an alarm aud the depsrt-
nicnt responded at once but before
the engine arrived the building was
1 4 mass of flames and the inmates
we're flying Tor their liyes. Hook
,ud ladder truck was Immediately
eailed into use to save LIVES of the
inmates. Il l. no, yet known just
now many persons were in the build
ing but one Is known 10 have been
inside who has not BEEN accounted
Tor. Charles Johnson,a man about 50
years Il sge WAS taken cat thTOOgh
the second story window oo Mil
,treei. He had bcsn snfiocated 70
teaih. His face was burned almost
0eyond recognition. just ScrOss
/ from him on the east side of = burn
ing building Was negro named
Washington A. Barber, his hands
and arms were terribly burned and
his skin being entirely peeled of he
will not recover. A man named
Green jumped from the third story
on Mill street side aud Is injured in
lernally, he lay ON the pavement
Just across from the burning build
ing and made pileous appeals to by
ISLANDERS TO fetch a doctor. He can
hardly recover. a few yards from
him lay J. IL. Dwyer another in
mate who had jumped from the
third story window. His Injuries
were broken arm. William
Clifford jumped from the third floor
and escaped unhurt. Frank Brown
threw his trunk from the second
story and jumped after il. his trunk
was smashed TO pieces but Brown
was unhurt. The building was
almost entirely gutted being large
three story tinder box. Had there
been a west wind the entire block
would have gone, the fire is sup
posed to have been Of incendiary |
origin. There seemed TO be no per
son whose duty il was to attend to
the sufferers as they lay on tine
street their groans adding to the
panic of the crowd.
DROWNED AT CLATsOP BEACH.
ASTORIA, Aug. 10.-The merry
shouts and laughter of $50 bathers
at Clatsop Beach were suddenly
hushed yesterday by the awful cry
OF "a woman Is drowningT' The
crowd on the beach began running
to spot short distance below the
Grimes hotel bathing houses. Here
the forms of woman and man,
almost insensible from exhaustion,
were being carried ashore. The
man, +. w. Dunn, recovered sufii'
ciently TO state that Mrs. Jennie NJ.
Parker, of Astoria, had lost her. life
In the breakers. AT the time of the
accident no one, except Mrs. Parker
and Mr.. Dunn and his wife, were
near there. They had just come
down from Astoria and entered the
water with the rest of the hathers
few minutes after 2 o'clock. Just
above the bath houses is long
reach of level sand which stretches
out into the ocean without break
for over half mile. This is the
place where nearly all of the bathers
go In, aud at the time OF the disaster
fully l50 people were out on this
place nearly all of them being
farther out than the spot where Mrs.
Parker was,
Clatsop Beach has long been noted
for being the safest beach on the
coast, and had Mr.. Dunn and his
companions followed the other
bathers OF asked In regard TO the
safety of the place, the accident
would not have happened.
THE DROWNED LADY.
Mrs. Jennie NJ. Parker was the
wife Of =. w. Parker, proprietor of
the AstOrlan. She was about 30
years Of age, and leaves two children.
The affair created intense excite
ment on the beach. An effort will
be made 10 find the body at low
tide this morning.
DR. LINpsLEY INJURED.
PORTLAND, Aug. l0.-ltev, A. l.,
Lindsey, for many years pastor of
the First Presbyterian church, aud
at present member OF the faculty
of the Presbyterian Theological uu,'
yersity OF Oakland, Cal, met with
serious accident yesterday after
noon. He has been visiting his sons
al their home on LOWS river, aud
while on his way home from charch
az ! pm, the team ran away and he
was thrown out and rendered un'
conscious. The steamer Mascot was
chartered and the reverend gentle
man Mas brought 90 this city and
taken 10 the residence of his daugh-
ter Mrs. Robert F, Hall, on West
/ Main slreei, near Stout
Rev Dr. Lindsey was unconscious
last night, ami Il was impossible 20
learn the eNtent ~ his injuries
owlng 90 his advanced age Il is
possible that he may not recover
ffom the shook.
8p, m. De- iindsley is San un-
conscious.
oYER NnlskEN,
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