Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-05-16
GENERAL NEWS.

ditch by broken wheel and ten cars
were piled up in a confused heap near
Hornellsville, n. Y, on the 18th. One
of the cars contained horses that were
being taken east to enter the races.
There were eighteen horses in this car
that were attended by their grooms
Three men were killed in the wreck,
all of them being grooms, and several
Others injured. Ten of the horses that
were in the car were killed.
THE McMoran grain elevator, with
its contents, was entirely destroyed by
fire at Port Huron, Mich, on the 18th
and the McMoran roller and Touring
mill adjoining badly damaged. The
fire started from an oil tank.
THE towboat City of CHARTERS, owned
by the Evansville Contracting Co., of
Evansville, Ind, burned to the waters
edge and sank on the 18th at Ironton,
o. The fire originated in the rear end
of the kitchen, and owing to a heavy
wind which prevailed all attempts to
save her were futile. The crew saved
their personal effects She was valued
at $40, 900 and was partially insured
BY the collapse of brick building
in process of being torn down at Chi
cago, five men were injured, while
nearly dozen others had narrow es-
capes. The injured were buried under
a mass of bricks and mortar. The fire.
men responded to the call and soon
dug them out. They were sent to the
hospital
In the mine of the Colorado Fuel &
Iron Co. at Sopris, near Trinidad, a
terrible gas explosion occurred early
on the morning of the 10th which re-
suited in the instant death of four per-
sons and the injury of two others.
Had the explosion occurred during the
daytime the results would have been
frightful, as ordinarily there are from
200 to 300 men employed in the mine.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United State for the
week ended May 10 showed an average
increase as compared with the CORE
spending week last year of % 6; in New
York the increase was 36.5; outside
New York, 10.6.
A DISASTROUS wreck occurred upon
the old Bee Line division of the Big
Four railroad, near Muncie, Ind. The
third section of a Chicago meat train
of thirty cars was flying along down
grade at the rate of so miles per hour
when the rails spread. The engine
and six cars passed in safety, but the
following eighteen cars were piled sc
feet high. Seven tramps were on the
train, and one of them was buried be-
meath the debris.
MOSES NEAL, of Oklahoma City, has
been appointed to look after the allot-
meIts of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
Indians. They have in all about 3, SOC
claims and it is the intention to lease
hat - l.
made.
ALL the union molders in Indian
apolis, Ind, struck on the 9th TO,
a rigid scale of wages from So 25 tx
s.. so per day. They were receiving
from 81 to So. 40. A recognition of the
npion was also demanded. The owners
of the ten plants involved will, they
said, grant neither demand.
THE international convention of the
Y. NJ. c. A. opened its annual session
at Springfield, Mass, on the Sth with
about 500 delegates present, represent
ing forty states and territories, besides
several provinces in Canada. The
nomination committee brought in &
list of officers and they were unani
mous1y approved. The report showed
an aggregate membership of 44.O7T.
The financial reports showed an in
crease in the property held by the Y
NJ. c. A. of more than 81, 600, 900 with ;
total of Sl6.252, s75.
IT was reported on the Sth that thers
wa little doubt that the schooner
Walter A. Earl, of Victoria, B. c., haG
capsized in the open sea in a recent
terrible gale and all her crew of six
white men and twenty-six Indian.
were lost.