Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-08-24
NEWS OF THE WEST.
Fatal Train Wreck as The Result Of a
Heavy Rock Slide.
TRACKING A BAND OF THIEVES.
three Miners Drowned aud a Hundred
Others Have Miraculous
Escapes.

A dispatch from santa Cruz, CsL,
dated Tuesday says. There Wa. big
run 90 salmon today. Colonel Robert
MoMurrny caught ak, and among
them was one that weighed hty'thfCe
pounds, the largest Of the season. IL
took three quarters Of an hour to laud
~. IL was sent 10 the Pacific Union
club.
Sheriff Armstrong, OF Vancouver,
"a, O., has received word from the
minister Of Juetice ut Ottawa that the
government will not interfere In the
case Of Hugh Lynn, sentenced 10 death
for the murder OF Green and Taylor,
two tanchera 10 north. Lynn was
Asntenced TO be executed In the West.
minister Jail this tFfldsy) morning.
An unknown tramp tried TO board a
stock train on the Elkhorn road at
Buffalo Gap on Tuesday night. Brake
mRn Hidinger ordered him OF, when
he drew knife and started for Hidin.
ger and cut him In the left arm, shout
der ard leg, infllotlng serious though
not dangerous wounds. Hidlngor
knocked him on the train with bis
lantern and the tramp IA ut Buffalo
DAP in n serious condition. Hidingor
IL doing we'll.
A very heavy rock slide occurto
some time ia the early part Of Tuesday
night In Granite or Eleven Mile can
yon ut Forlssant, Colo, between ;un-
ncls . ami 10. A freight train run
into the rock at S.o'clock next morning.
The engine and tender were totally
wrecked and thrown down the en-.
bantnen Engineer Blocker WAS In
staptly killed. He had doubtless seen
the obstruction, M he has act tho air
brakes md was blowing tbs whistle for
brakes when the engine struck the
rockg. Fireman Hofi, by n miracle,
escaped with very slight injury. A
track Ia being constructed around the
wreck 10 enable trains to run.
Grauge-llls, (fdaho) Free PrsSa
Article Of incorporation OF tho Nsuef
4 Idaho Northern Railway compsny
limited, have been iilei In the oiilce o (
Secfstaiy OF State Jackson, Atorne ,
for Mr.. Bates. The purpose IL to huil &
n standard gauge lire from y Int
ntsr Lewiston, with branch In /,
dlveTging from Council valley north .
westerly distance Of kbnut fOrly.hv (,
miles into the Seven Dsvils; also T.
branch essiefly from point ueEr the
Salmon McA1ova % the great Payotie
Lakes In Boise county. Weistr Il
designated NJ the princlpN place Of
business. Fifty years Is nxed NJ the
term OF the corporation.
A number Of cstlle and horses hav
Ing born stolen OIL the range around
Negc.silr, Col, during the summer,
sheriff Ware depuiizod Al. Robinson
10 trace the thieves. On Tuesday be
fau hcfosn their camp aud tucceeJsd In
capturing one OF their number, Pau
Greenwood, youHg lad " II. IL
Beeris, also, hat at the time Greenwood
was captured smother member Of the
gang, Jim Dickson, wa, close by, bur
ho suooscued In escaping by swimming
tue Grand river aud Ia supposed ~ he
endeavofiug 10 Join the balance OF the
gang. Tue effects In charge placed
Greenwood ia jail at Glenwood pend.
ing an examination. IL IL thought
that Green wood will turn stntt's evld.
ence aud impliento tue other paftisp,
who arc at large.
Three miuers were drowned aud o
hhhNAAA NAANtH hAh lhlNhNhlNhn tNs
cages in tho 6lengarry mine, near
Butte, Mont, about O'Clock on Tue
uBy afternoon. While stopping between
the 800 aud 400 loot levels toe miner,
broke through and into the old wofs
ings Of the Ground Squirrel aud Mont.
tor, two adjoining mines which have
not been worked for some time aud had
filed with wbter. Tho water rushed
through the break Ia itightiul torrent,
nnd Ia almost mn instant flisd the
0lengAfry wOfkiugs from the 40 ~
the 200 level. n aily all the men sue.
csedvu ~ climbing 10 points Of safety
on the upper ilvels, but at least three
miners are known 10 have been caught
aud II l. feared that the number Will b,
Increased after investigation. Thos,
known TO be- in tho Minis and drowned
atti Michael Brady, aged 30; jaime,
Morgan, aged 20; Joseph Curry, aged
-. All are single men. The bodic,
cannot be recovered for many dAys,
.ays the dispatch. AZ the water In tn,
flooded mine Il sill rising rapidly and
HN q. Il ia