Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-05-12
DURING THE WEEK.


A driver had just come out of the slope
when tremendous explosion occurred.
The shock upset his cart, knocked the
mules and driver down, and bruised
man standing one hundred feet away.
The report was heard all over town,
mile away. The mouth of the slope
was soon surrounded by an anxious
crowd, which swelled every minute
The number of men IN the slope is not
actually known, but is known to be
from forty-four to fifty. There is scarce
ly possibility that one of them has
escaped death One body was recover
ed in about two hours, another an hour
later, and two more at 1880. All were
terribly burned, indicating that death
was instantaneous The lower floor of
the city hall was converted into a
morgue. A sad feature of the disaster
is the large proportion of the victims
leave large families, and as they had
not had TO exceed two days work per
week during the past year many of
them were in n sad state of poverty.
One span of the Sheffield end of the
Memphis & Charleston railway bridge
over the Tennessee river at Florence,
Tenn, collapsed A freight train was
precipitated into the river, one brake
man being killed and two seriously in
jured.
The Interstate Oratorical Associa ton,
in convention at Minneapolis, elected
j. NJ. Challls, Kansas state, president;
Il. Il. Ly barger, Iowa college, vice. presi-
dent; and j. Murdoch, Colorado Springs,
secretary and treasurer. The next
meeting is at Columbus, Ohio. Appli-
cations of Arkansas and South Dakota
were referred to the exc cutive commit
tee to report at the next meeting.
The overland express train on the
Santa Fe railroad from San Francisco
to Chicago plunged through bridge
near Medill, Mo, ii few nights ago.
The frequent heavy rains had weak
ened the bridge and while the engineer
could see nothing wrong, his engine had
barely passed over when the structure
went down, carrying the train and
and slumbering passengers with it.
Seven persons were killed outright,
twenty-six others seriously injured and
about fifty others slightly hurt.
st. Michael's Roman Catholic church
at New York was badly damaged by
fire. The total loss is estimated at $780,
600. Fourteen hundred children were
in the parochial school adjoining the
church, but they marched out in safety
and there was no panic.
A section of the floor in the new
Havemeyer building, corner of Port
land and Church streets, New York,
loaded with mortar, fell into the sub
cellar. Albert thinner and Charles
Desolar were instantly killed and three
others seriously injured.
Seven workmen were buried by n
falling wall at the corner of Canal and
bourbon streets, New Orleans, the
scene of the Schwartz fire some time
ago The wall, which has tumbled
down, was left standing by the fire and
workmen were engaged on new
building next to it. Two of the work.
men were seriously injured. One will
probably die. The others were severely
bruised.
On the Panhandle road, near Pitts
burg, Pa, a passenger train was run
into by freight. The engineer and
three tramps, and half a dozen passen.
gers were more or less seriously in
jured. Much damage was done to the
rolling stock.
Gov. Seay, OF Oklohoma, regards the
situation caused by the ugly attitude
of the Cheyenne Indians towards the
settlers in the newly opened lands suf-
flciently perilous to demand his pres
ence on the scene, and he passed
through Kingfisher en- route there A
company of United States troops will
follow him. White Shield, "a Cheyenne
chief, is the leader of the rebellious
reds. Another cause for alarm is the
fact that the new town of Cheyenne is
being built on the site of the burial
ground of the Indians killed in the bat
tie with Gen. Custer in 1868. The In
dams regard the building of the town
there as sacrilege and threaten to
burn out and massacre the inhabitants.
Theodore L. Woodruff, inventor of
the Woodruff sleeping car, aged 81,
was struck by a tram at Gloucester, n.
j., and ins tantly killed.
A battle occurred near Saltwater,
Oklahoma, between u band of horse
thieves, who had stolen SIX horses
near Orlando, and n posse of citizens
from that place. The battle lasted
two hours. A storm coming up the
horse-thieves escaped. A member OF
the posse named Stormer was killed
and the thieves left one wounded on
the field.
The Jack the Ripper" crimes of the
White Chapel district in London have
been outrivaled by a Chicago murder
of degree of fiendishness that marks
it the most awful ever committed. A
laboring man named Walsh left home
leaving his wife alone. Returning in
the evening she did not meet him as
usual and noticing very disagreeable
odor which came from bed room, he
entered. The room was dark, but up.
on letting the light in pile of bloody
rags was seen. Lifting the bloody
mass, he beheld the horribly mutilated
body of his wife, unacceptable to any
one but the husband. The body was
hacked and gashed in sixty.tive differ.
ent places, the wounds varying IN
length from a half inch to foot Into
the left breast pair of long bladed
shears had been plunged, where they
still remained. The body in many
places was hacked almost To shreds and
a broom had been broken and the
handle thrust through the entire length
of the woman's trunk, from the lower
portion to the throat The vital or
gans lay strewn about the floor, the
murderer seeming to have left nothing
undone to make the crime as revolving
as was possible. The dazed husband,