The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-09-02
CHURCH PANIC.
An Outbreak Of Fire Causes a Wild
% trs. Stampede.
THREE OF THE PEOPLE BURNED.
Many Others Trampled Upon-Four Lives
Lost by the Fail of n Trestle-Suf-
fering Hebrews-The Welsh
Disaster.


FoREsTvULE, o., Aug. 29.-The
Roman Catholic church, three miles
from this place, was burned to the
ground yesterday and the following
people were burned: Miss Tillie Gus
tin, fatally; William Grand, seriously;
Mrs. Jane Armstrong, seriously.
The fire was discovered while services
were being conducted and a wild panic
ensued among the congregation. Nom-
en- and children were trampled upon and
many of them badly bruised. Miss Gus
tin, who was fatally burned, was so
seriously hurt during the mad rush for
the doors that she was unable to make
Horoscope and was caught by the flames.
HEBREWS STARVING.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. ga num-
Der of Hebrew sections of the Fedora
ton Of Labor from New York spent
yesterday at ZiontOwn, y. j., Hebrew
settlement, investigating the charges
that the people had been induced to go
there and invest their money in homes
under promise of work and were left
destitute and actually starving by Jacob
Zion, q New York manufacturer, who
owns all the property of the settlement.
The condition of affairs was found to
be serious. Instances of two or three
families being saved from starvation
only by eating green fruit and what lit
tie food they could beg in the neighbor
hood were discovered. The settlement
consists of a two story shirt factory.
half dozen small frame dwellings and a
half dozen more in different stages of
completion. There are about thirty
Hebrew families, most of whom have
every cent they own invested either in
lots or hall finished houses.
COSTLY FREIGHT WRECK.
WASHINGTON, Mo, Aug 29.-Two
freight trains on the Missouri Pacific
road collided here owing to confound-
ing of orders by the train dispatcher.
The weStbound train was ordered to
meet the eastbOund train at Castera.
while the eastbound train was ordered
to meet the other train at Dewey. John
Siebold. fireman of the eastbound train,
was buried under his engine and in
stantly killed. Engineer Joe Condor,
Brakeman William Poper and james W.
Goodwin. of Atlanta, Ca, We're serious
~ injured Fifty-six ears We're wrecked,
being piled in heap. The company's
loss is $4,000. The train dispatcher IS
said TO have disappeared.
FALL OF TREsTLE.
ELBOW LAKE. MINI, Aug. 29.-Pas-
senger train No % of the 500 road
which left Minneapolis at $50 this
morning met with serious accident
while crossing 4 trestle work near this
place. The train was running at
slow rate of speed and the engine and
first car passed over safely, when the
gan to sway. He put on more steam,
but before he could pull ahead there
was crash and the bridge fell carrying
down two coaches crowded with pas
seugers. -Four men were killed out
right and about thirty others were in
jured.
THE WELSH MINE DISASTER.
LONDON, Aug. 2D.-Forty three of the
men imprisoned by the explosion in the
PaI'llslip mine at Aberl1ensfic have been
found to be alive. Thirty-five of them
have been taken out: the other eight
were too weak to be moved and are still
below For the remaining 100 miners
there is no hope. Home Secretary As
quith arrived at Aberkensfg yesterday
on a special train. The lord mayor has
undertaken the raising of fund for the
families left destitute by the loss of
fathers or brothers in the accident.
\ FARMERS HARD LUCK.
HARRIsBURG. Pa. Aug. 29.-The large
barn owned 10y James Boyd. situated
mt Boyd station, on the Philadelphia II
Reading railroad a short distance be-
low this city, was burned yesterday
afternoon. Three mules, a horse,
steer, a COW and all the crops, together
with large number of farming imple
ments were burned. The loss is esti-
mated at between $4,000 and 100000
partly covered by insurance. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
SMALLPOX IN NEW YORK.
New YORK. Aug. 29.-Tomasso' Lom-
baudo, an italian S months old, died
yesterday of smallpox in a crowded
tenement house in this city. The health
board was notified and the house disin-
fected. 1t was subsequently learned
that the child became i'll week ago
and no physician was summoned until
last night.