The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-11-30

will be the Number of the Dead Crushe.
by an Avalanche OF Earth, Loosenes
fromshe Pits Mouth and Falling THREE
Hundred Feet Upon Gang of Work
men in IA Nine at Carmel, n. Y.-Craz,
Woman Jumps from n Traln--Other Ac
cideutai Happenings.
Carmel, n. Y, Nov. 29-An accident
resulting in the loss Of thirteen o!
fourteen lives occurred at the Talley-
Foster mines q little after O'Clock this
afternoon. Foreman Patrick was de-
scending into the pit to take the time
OF two gangs Of laborers, numbering
about thirty-fve men. who were work
ing at the bottom, when q vast weight
OF earth and rock slid with the force
OF an avalanche from the mouth Of the
pit TO the bottom, a distance Of 800 feet
The earth crashed over the men with
tremendous force. Out Of one gang
of eleven, only five came out alive and
three of the men employed in another
gang were taken out dead. Among
those known 10 be dead are:
MICHAEL CANNON, foreman.
PATRICK H. NiURTHA, foreman.
JOHN EGAN. boarding house keeper
THOMAS DENNIS.
JAMES SMITH.
AN AUSTRALIAN, name unknown.
An Australian, name unknown, re-
ceived 2 fracture of the skull and will
probably die.
The names of the Others killed are at
present unknown.
Several of the WOrknen were severely
injured. The cavern caused the great
est excitement, but gangs of men were
soon set TO work to remove the bodies
Of those under the mass Of earth. Su-
perintendent Tompkins and Foreman
Lynch took charge of the work and up
to ) o'clock five dead bodies had been
brought TO the surface. Murtha was
taken out alive but he died five minutes
after he was taken home.
Darkness prevented the continuance
of the work of rescue, and it will not
be until tomorrow morning that fur
ther effort will be made to clear away
the ruins.
1t is thought that all the others in the
pit are Italians and Austrians.
There was some difficulty experienced
in identifying several of the bodies ow-
ing to the terrible Disagreement they
had undergone.
DEATH ON THE RAIL.
Madison, Wis, Nov. 29.-As a north
bound train on the Northwestern road
reached Shopiere, Wis, last night, an
elderly woman travelling with her ten
year old son, suddenly became violent
~ insane and caused a panic among
the passengers. The conductor order
ed all the others from the car and lock-
ed the woman inside. When the train
arrived at Evansville, Ii was discover
ed that the woman was missing. The
boy was demented and could give no
ccount of what had transpired
A searching party this morning found
a woman's body beside the track three
miles south of GAINESVILLE. She had ev-
identity been killed instantly. The
boy was brought to this city. In the
woman's satchel was found a waybil
which showed that her name was Mrs.
Vodre travelling from Champlain, n.
Y, to Springfield. In the satchel We're
also found seven bottles of morphine
and a box of morphine powders.
Huntington, W. Va, Nov. 29-At
Canterberg Hill on the Norfolk and
Western railroad a bad freight wreck
occurred late last evening. The engi-
several others seriously injured. The
loss to the company will reach far into
the thousands.
CHOKED BY GAS.
Platte Center, Neb. Nov. 29.-This
morning Rev. A. Heinrich and wife were
asphixiated by gas from their hard
coal stove Heinrich was found dead
and his wife dyeing when the neigh
hnrS fnTcGH haA door yThax- 20 from
Louisville, KY, several years ago and
We're we'll known in many states.
Chicago, Nov. 29.-Two sailors, S. H.
Richards and Benjamin Mugent were
asphyxiated by gas in a room in a
boarding house early this morning.
From letters found it is believed that
they belonged TO the steamer Egyptian
1t is not known whether they commit
ted suicide or not.
To purify your blood, restore your
strength algra "a tar-f1 rbalrF1 At ism,