Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-11-06

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hurting them for q great distance on
every side.
The Story of an Eye witness of the Dis
aster.
Copyrighted, 1898, 6y the Associated Press.
MApR1D. November 5.-An eye wit
ness of the terrible disaster at Santan-
der says that the dynamite on board the
Cabo Machichaco was concealed under
the iron which formed portion OF her
cargo.
The fire the eye witness referred to is
believed to have originated In some
packages Of skins which were crammed
into the steamers bunkers. When the
fire broke out, according to the story
told by this person, the captain OF the
transatlantic steamer, Alfonso All.,
ordered his steam launch TO DC
lowered and manned by nearly
all his officers and crew, whom he sent
TO the assistance of the burning steam
er. The steam launch with the crew
of Alfonso MI on board, arrived along
side the Cabo Machichaco just. mo
ment before the latter vessel blew up
and consequently they were blown to
atoms with the crew of the dynamite
steamer.
Continuing, he says: 1.-THE explosion
was like an earthquake. A shower Of
burning fragments fell upon the houses,
which we're already tottering, crushing
In the roofs, while heavy pieces OF iron
were hurled through the walls OF houses
with all the violence OF cannon shots.
'Houses were Immediately ignited by
blazing timbers which fell upon them
and the people who were not Killed
rushed in terror into the streets where
a number OF them met death or were
severely crushed or wounded by falling
houses. Others ran in terror from the
scene and hundreds mad with fear
abandoned the city ran into the heldS
shrieking and tearing their hair with
fury.
Others after recovering from the shock
fastened to the scene of the disaster in
order to search for missing relatives,
whom they believed TO have met death
through the explosion. Upon arriving
at the scene of the wreck and carnage
they found the place covered with dead
and wounded, many OF the victims
being so horribly burned and mutilated
that their recognition by relatives was
utterly impossible
words cannot describe
THE AWFUL SCENE
amid those burning ruins and on that
death-Strewn ground, rendered more
hideous by the shrieks Of pain coming
from the many wounded people lying
crushed beneath blackened timber and
weighted down by dead bodies or masses
of human frames torn to shreds by the
awful explosion. The scene became
more terrible still when the relatives Of
dead, wounded asd missing came stag
gering with horror to the spot.
"Many OF the searchers only recog-
niZed parts of the clothing OF those who
were killed and one unfortunate man
was identified by his watch h, which had
stopped at the moment Of the explo-
sion.
"There were many miraculous es-
capes from death.
Goa Saturday morning following the
awful night OF fire and death a number
of people who had been shocked into a
state of imbecility and madness were
found hiding beneath the ruins.
"For long time TO come the city OF
Santander will need assistance from
other cities, in order to succor the
homeless and wounded, to bury the
dead and to repair as far as possible the
damage done by the awful dynamite up
heaval,
THE number OF people who have
LOST THEIR SENSES
through the explosion is very great and
it is openly asserted that hundreds Of
people have completely gone out OF
their minds, and will have to be con-
fined in aSylums for the remainder OF
their lives.
"Mandez Nunez street Is completely
destroyed and a number Of adjoining
sections of the city have suffered ter
ribly and are In ruins.
"Many of those who were thrown in
to the water by the explosion were car
ried away by the tide and drowned
amid the despairing lament OF the few
who had managed to struggle out OF
that horrible swirl of blackened corpses
aud partly or entirely dismembered
bodies.
''No correct estimate can yet be
formed of the loss of life, some officials
claiming that thousands lost their lives,
while others hold that the loss OF life
will not be over 500 and may be lower. p"
LONDON, November 5.-The Madrid
cores spondent Of othe Times says up to
the time OF sending this despatch l25
bodies have been identified and buried
at Santander.
The correspondent Of the Times at
Fort Victoria says: 1t is stated that
King Lobensula, with 1000 of his war
riors are in the Matopho mountains, a
short distance from BuluwayO, and that
another fight is expected shortly, bnt
the Matabeles dread the machine guns
and fear an encounter In the open
fields.
PrsndsrgaSt Secures Counsel
CuICAGO November 5. Assassin