The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-07-26
CRIME AND CASUALTY.

ing powder upon soldiers and civilians
All the houses about were riddled
and shattered by the thicHly nyin:
shell! FRAGMENTS and The street was piled
up with powder-searei men aud horses.
Four soldiers were killed. three desper-
a,ely hurt. eight less seriously wounded
and three citizens-two OF them women
received injury. Nine horse. were killet.
That body in the vicinity -so'dier or
ped alive Is an absolute mir
acle.
The most daring and disastrous riot
ever narking labor troubles in that sec
tion occurred Monday afterno at
Pratt City, Ala At least seven me-
groes were killed and many wounded. and
ono deputy sheriff Was killed and an
other fatally wounded At 5:3) O'Clock
Monday afternoon Sheriff Morrow. at Biz
minYham. received the following telegram
from Jones Moore. superintendent OF the
Tennessee Coal Iron aud Railroad Com
pauy mines ut Pratt City: ~Send military
and deputies at once strikers are KILN:
ali E:y negroes"
Train e. on the Grand Trunk. was
wrecked at Battle Creek, Mich. at )
o'clock Monday mornin.. The fireman
was killed outright and several OF the
train crew and passengers injured. The
wreck was caused by the removal
OF the sh-plates from the rails on
the grade west OF the city. The
train was running about twenty-five
miles an hour. and when 1t struck
the misplaced rail the engine. tender
and baggage car were ditched and the day
coach and one Pullman turned across the
track. Fireman Thomas Crow. who was
killed. was thrown fifty feet from the en-
gice and his neck was broken. The work
was done by an experienced hand and is
attributed to strikers.
-Alonzo Jay Wh,teman. 1T one time a
member OF the Minnesota Senate. the son
of a millionaire and worth $500. 900 in his
own right, is under arrest for forgery. The
Corn Exchange Bank OF Chicago is said to
hold $50, 00J worth OF the spurious checks.
bedford Sanders shot and probably
fatally wounded George CooMer at Horse
Wells Ky. The women of the two families
had INDUCED in shooting aRray. but as
no serious damage was done the men had
agreed to let the matter drop They got
into a discussion over the affair. however.
and the sho otIng followed 1t IS thought
COOmer Will die
Tine most horrible accident which has
ever occurred about the mines In the
Hazleton (Pa.) region took place at No
stockton Mine Tuesday morning. Two
hundred sticks of dynamite exploded
among a crowd OF men who were prepar-
ing to go to their days work. All OF these
unfortunates we're scattered and torn to
fragments The exact number killed
Is not positively known at this writ
ing. but it is placed between eight and
eleven. The true cause OF the explosion
will never be known. a. none OF the men
~
place 300 yards below the surface the
shock was felt three miles south and adj
joining the mine No : Stockton. From
the latter mine a rescuing party rushed
through subterranean passagcva:s 10 Nc.
s. As these men approached the bot, ON
of the ILL fated $40. c ,hcy came up with
the drivers and other laborcrs cropping
about in the darkness Pushing forward
toward the bottom. they came upon ter
rible scene. Huge timbers were twisted
and torn and scattered about promiscu-
Ou-ly. Rocks and deLriS were every where.
over all was strewn human flesh. legs and
arms OF the unfortunate victims. and from
the jagged sides hung two shattered bodies.
Not one OF the several bodies was left suf-
ficiently intact to permit identity.
"A mob Of twenty masked men at Bur-
lington. Ky. took Louis Laferdetta from
Jail and lynched him bv hanging. He was
IL tramp and had murdered William Whit
lock. n farmer.
The excursion steamers Cetus and
Cephus collide in fog OFF Coney Island
and the lat,ef was beachel to prevent
sinking. The passengers we're panic
stricken. tut no one was hurt
"A Nor ;hern Pacific loo )motive attached
to Il passenger train was wrecked near Mis-
soula. Mont., by dynamite. which had been
placed on the track. Three railroad
bridges were burned.
Barney Swatzen and Fred Saser. Of
Lima. Olio. were taken to the Onio peni-
Tertiary by Sheriff Fisher for obtaining
money u der Ease pref Their scheme
was to 90 to Il miller for the purpose of
borrowing sacks in which to bring their
wheat They always go. the sacks and
would leave. Then one of them would
c1me back With the statement that they
had come to town without any money and
needed II few dollars until they brought
in the wheat The scheme nearly always
worked, and they rarely secured less thu; n
SIS at each place They worked all over
northwestern Onio. aud in Il confession
made by Saser he said they made s55I in
one week
Jordan Rogers. a rancher living near
ella Ho, Springs. ~ NJ. shot and killed J.
NJ. Hoffman. IA nei-hbor. as ,ha result OF
an old feud between the parties. Each
side has Its parti>ans and it Is feared that
other killings will follow.
In Il drowning acciden. near Port
Angeles. Wash. J. II Johnson August
Nelson. and John nippold lost their lives
The three left in a fishing boat for Dunye-
ness II. four miles east OF the city.
Their boat capsized in view Of people on
The beach who heard their cries for help
but havin. no boats could render no aid
Rescuing parties startel out in the morn
.n-. Eight miles east OF that point Nelson
was seen on the upturnei bottom OF "A toa,
$40 feet from shore. trying to paddle to =, he
beach. On perceiving the rescuin. part les
he >prang into the water and Vas drowned
before their eyes. His companions had
persisted IN the night
-Neil-. kenne. agel Q. OF Bradshaw w
Va. hanged herself because she had been
kept home from school, by her mother &c