The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-10-13
PUT IT IN THE STOVE.
a Michigan Mans Foolish Effort
to Thaw Out Dynamite.
his RESIDENCE IS BLOWN TO PIECES,
Himself and Four Others Killed and
Three Injured = Explosion OF
Steam Pipe Kills Three Men
Other Disasters.

use in the morning. Inc family,
consisting of seven persons, was
gathered about the stove chat
ting over the events of the
day and conversing with a neigh
Dor, Mrs. Peterson. In few minutes,
without a premonition OF danger,
there was terrific explosion which
dealt out death with an unsparing
hand. The following were killed.
John Ravell, Peter Ravell, Dan Ravell,
Louis Ravell and Mrs Louise Peter
son,
The injured are: Baby Clarence
Revell, Mrs. John Revell and Thomas
Rp-sil. The injured are reported in
dangerous condition and it is not un-
likely that the family will be exter-
minated as a result of the fathers
foolish move. The house was blown
to atoms.
Three Killed by an Explosion.
CHICAGO, Oct. 9.-By the explosion
of steam pipe IN the rail mill of the
Illinois steel works at South Chicago
Monday three employees were killed
and four others terribly injured. The
killed are: William Miller, A. B. Spar
row, John Holstrom. The injured
are: Thomas Dorsey, Oscar Wagner,
Joseph Todhunter and Peter Mickey.
The pipe which exploded was one of
the large main feeders running
through the entire plant. 1t passed
through the rail mill in its course
and the explosion came at a point
In the middle of this department,
in which fifty men were at
the time at work. Miller and Sparrow
were instantly killed and Holstrom so
severely injured that he died while
being taken to his home The injured
nen%were badly scalded by escaping
steam and severely injured by flying
pieces of the iron pipe. The cause of
the explosion is unknown.
Train wreckers In Wisconsin.
RHINELANpER, Wis, Oct 9.-The
westbound 500 limited passenger train
was wrecked at ? o'clock Monday
morning, going through trestle about
Is miles west of this place. Charles
Cotterill, the fireman, was instantly
killed and is still buried under the
engine, although men have been work.
Ing since o'clock trying to dig him
out He lived in Minneapolis and
leaves wife and two children. James
Dutch, the engineer, is badly bruised
and out and his right leg is broken.
The other trainmen and the passengers
escaped with slight bruises.
The train was wrecked in the same
manner as that of the attempted
wrecking on the 500 road last Monday
miles this side of Prentice. A cross
cut saw was stolen from the nearest
tool house, the stringers of the trestle
were cut, each stringer being cut
in two places about 10 feet
apart and the piles were cut on
slant of As degrees, leaving the
gap supported by the rails alone, but
with nothing to show that a trap had
been laid for the train. The trestle,
which was originally 90 feet high, had
been filed to within Q feet Of the
rails, and, although the train was rum
ming 80 miles an hour, the cars plowed
through the soft sand and the great
loss of life that might have been ex-
pected from the accident did not oc-
cur.
The wreckers left behind them an
overcoat with hnlf pound each of
coffee and sugar in its pockets and 1t
is thought that these may afford
clew. Parties are now searching the
adjacent woods, and the 500 Railway
company has offered reward of $500
for the capture Of the wreckers,/ Sew
eral men have been arrested on sus-
picion.
boy Killed In Chicago.
CHICAGO, Oct 9.--An unknown boy,
years old, was killed and number
of other passengers were badly cut
and bruised in collision between a
Halstead street electric car and a
lumber wagon at Forty-third street
shortly after 0 a. m. Monday. The
motorman and three other passen-
gers jumped from the motor and
escaped unhurt, but the boy was
caught in the wreck and so badly
crushed that he died few minutes
later. The passengers in the inside
car were thrown in a heap by the force
the of collision and nearly all more
or less injured, but none of them were
so badly hurt as to require surgical
attendance.
Death on tho Rock Island.
SEYMOUR, Ia, Oct GA west bound
freight on the Rock Island jumped the
track at Sleepy Hollow, small sta
ton near here, at 9 o'clock Monday
evening. Twenty freight cars fol-
lowed the engine into the gorge. The
following were killed: Engineer
Gerald Nolan, Fireman Marshall
Lower and Head brakeman Charles E.
Dempsey. Conductor Sam Van Hook
was injured
Jumped from His Engine
LA Fox, Ill, Oct 9.-Engineer Jack
Haley, Of the North western. jumped
from his engine here while running 80
miles an hour and was killed. He mis-
took the signals and thought he was
about to crash into another train that
was standing on the sidetrack He
had been with the Northwestern for
years and resided at Clin-
ton, Ia
Two Hundred Killed.
PANAMA. Oct GA dispatch to the
Star and Herald from Grenada says:
"A terrible catastrophe has occurred
here. The military barracks have
been blown up and whole quarter of |
the city has been badly damaged. The
number of dead Is estimated at 200