The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-02-27
CHAPTER
OF HORRORS
Is Most DISASTROUS DYNAMITE
'Yplo sIoN ON REcoRo-0ME Nun
DRIED PEOPLE KILLED.

,.ap. ir.ak. at . Banginx-siIty Men
hurled Alive By = Mine Eapiosion--Yor-
People Burned To Death at . Naked
B.l.
rnu,SNEsBUEG, South African Re-
khIic. Feb. 20.-Details reached this
to-day Of what is probably the
It disastrous dynamite explosion
record in any part Of the world.
ousands Of people have been rem
red homeless by the terrible calam-
about 300 persons have been killed,
me two or three hundred men,women
bd children have been severely wound
and many others more or less '"-
bred. ,
Frher. were eight freight cars loaded
~;,h dvnamit. standing on the shunt
IN. Mt Viendendorp yesterday. Inc
leadly stuff was hidden under canvas
Eyprings to protect il from the rain
md sun.
| \. evening was approaching, there
a. All explosion near the freight de-
so awful in the intensity Of its
zee hat the ground for miles around
n. ronvulsed as il by earthquake,
u.es rocked and fell, masses OF iron,
r,h stone, wood and human remains
ere hurled skywards, the windows OF
mn.t every house at Johannesburg
ore broken, and people were blown
,rouph the air like straws before
MT Of wind.
The explosion had torn a hole 200
a n M a 4
here the eight trucks of dynamite
mod. The whole of that quarter OF
hannesburg was literally blown to
ece-.
on the ground were blackened heaps
human remains-limbs, heads,
mas, scorched and torn. The VIC
hi, were mostly Kaflirs and China
ON but quite a number of white peO-
. including six girls, are among the
|any victims.
I'm fifteen minutes after the explOs-
hn the bodies of forty persons, dead,
N horribly mutilated, we're picked up.
yer 300 of the most severely injured
.rsons were also carried away and
undreds of other wounded persons
ere taken to places where they might
" cared for.
ST.. I,orIs, Feb. 20.--Mismanagement
pcompetency, and torture ofiiciated AT
he hanging of James Fitzgerald in
he four courts Jail yards this morn.
ng.
The solemn procession from the con
emned mans cell began. Father NC
rlane. reading the prayers OF the dy
ne. supported Fitzgerald to the 100
N the scalrold. Sheriff Troll led hin
10 the trap and adjusted the rope ant
hood and to the concealed hangmaI
aid: "All right" At exactly 10 Il
o'clock the trap was sprung.
Fitzgerald's body shot downward
instead of stopping when the rope
md was reached, there was sharl
nap, wall from the unfOrtunat
wretch, and Fitzgerald's body la
vrithing on the ground. The rope ha
broken.
Officers at once rushed to the spO
ind found Fitzgerald was still aliv
Ind conscious. "My God! My Coo
My throat" he groaned. Before tn
horror stricken watchers could tOuc
him he arose.
Standing up with the black cap ov'
his face and the broken instrument
death dangling from his neck, he wal
ed into the mOrgue, where he was give
stimulants. lie was more anxious tina
his executioners for death, and begg'
that the end come quickly.
when a second rope was called Il
none was to be had, and Fitzgerald IL
moaning on a slab while a messeng
was sent distance of nine squares 4
new rope. Father McErlane be-
over the body of Fitzgerald and recit'
prayers.
once Fitzgerald raised his hand al
pulled the head of the priest to his ia
and whispered earnestly for hall
minute. What that COMMUNICATE
was will never be known, but the ia
of the priest, then ashy pale, turn
scarlet, and tears fell from his eyes.
At 10: i5 the messenger arrived WI
a new rope, which was quickly adju'
ed, and Fitzgerald was carried to
scatrold. 1t was necessary for t'
deputy sheritfs to hold him up VIII
the moose was placed. Fitzgerald's on
words were pleas for haste.
GLENwooD SPRINGS, COL, Feb. Is
\ gas explosion occurred in the v
can mine at New Castle, just before
to-day when there were between
and so men in the mine at Work.
the shaft mouth a hole 100 feet SOUS
was blown out.
Ed. Welsh who was just at the mot
of the tunnel when the explosion t(
place was blown to atoms.
All night a throng of weeping VIC
EN- and children stood about the moi
OF the Vulcan mine, while a band
rescuers were earnestly working
the hope of soon being able to re-
the sixty or seventy entOmbed min
ali of whom, it is conceded, must
be dead.
LISBON, Feb. 19.-At q masked
given by the Artists Club OF
raren, yesterday, fire started shol
before midnight. A terrible panic
lowed. Forty bodies have already b
recovered from the ruins.
All present rushed for the e,
which were soon damned with tt
fled people. Men, women and chile
then Jumped from the windows,
riously injuring themselves.
Bill Nye Dead.
Asheville, Feb. 22.-Edgar w.
better known as "Bill" Nye, Ole
his home at Buck Shoals about l o't
this evening.
A seaboard Engineer Killed by . \
Tramp,
At Weldon on the morning, oil
22nd, Matthew Dodd, engineer on
Seaboard Air Lines vestibuled
was shot through the head by
tramp. The tramp was IN the en-
cab warming when Dodd told nj
leave. The tramp again got IN
cab and was put out. He drew
toll and, standing a few feet
killed Dodd. The tramp was
tured.