The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-03-25
STEAMER CAPSIZED.
The Santa Rosa Found Bottom Up
Forty Lives Probably Lost.
MINERS HAVE A BLOODY BATTLE.
Huge Single MN Destroyed by Firs-The
summer Hotel at Berkley Springs
Burned-.A Domestic Tragedy
Powder Works Explosion.

SAN Francisco, March 28.-Upon the
arrival of the Pacific Coast Steamship
companys steamer Santa Rosa from
San Diego yesterday the news was re-
ceived of another horrible accident, in
directly attributed to the Alaskan gold
excitement, which is believed to have
cost the lives of 40 passengers and sail
ors. Capt. Alexander, of the Santa
morning, while nine miles off Point
Bonita, at the mouth of the Golden
Gate he sighted derelict, bottom up.
The tug Sea Witch was Immediately
dispatched to the point indicated and
found the derelict to be the bark
Helen w. Almy, Capt. Hogan, which
sailed hence for Copper river points
with % passengers and a crew of 10 on
Sunday last. The bark lay upon her
starboard side, with her stern low
down in the water, her deck hamper
badly wrecked, and several planks of
her hull washed loose by the seas
which broke over her. While there
were no signs of boats among the
wreckage IL is not believed that her
passengers and crew escaped by put
ting off from the vessel in them, as
there has been very heavy sea
for several days past. Furthermore,
no word has been received from the
survivors, II any exist, although the
derelict was sighted within ten miles
of the shore and fully 4S hours have
passed since the wreck occurred.
Among the passengers on the wrecked
steamer were John Smell, r. Nicols,
James Rinald, J. 4. Walker, Theophilus
Creber, John Mray, William Snedden,
John Small, James Saxon, j. Il. Golsky,
Barna Cinotti and Jules Gill, all resi-
dents of the little town of CoalPate, !.
T., having worked there in the coal
mines for several years. They started
for the Klondike with savings of from
$500 to So, 900 each and intended taxi
ing claims on the upper Yukon Most
of the men left small families.
MINERS HAVE A BLOODY BATTLE.
BRAZIL, Ind, March 23.-Twenty-
five Austrian and Hungarian miners en-
gagged in bloody battle at Caseyville
yesterday, in saloon orgie. An alter
cation between two of the party was
the signal for the general fight A
man named Mocki was fatally shot
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side and is believed to be fatally in
jured. Paul Peperock, George lllass,
John Lechnor, Jesse Downs, Andy Rob-
son, Clint Mcdowell and Joe Hook
were stabbed more or less seriously.
HUGE sHINGLE MILL DESTROYED BY FIRE.
TACOMA, Wash. March 23.-The
Pacific mill, the largest shingle mill in
the world, operated by Metcalf &
Wade, was completely destroyed by
fire yesterday The property is owned
by the Sather Banking company, of
San Francisco, and their loss will be
about SlOO,O 900.
SUMMER HOTEL BURNED.
WHEELING, w. Va, March 23.-The
famous summer hotel at Berkeley
Springs burned to the ground yester-
day morning. lncendiarism is sus-
pected. The cottages in the grounds
surrounding the hotel were saved.
The loss on the building is $50, 900; in
Surance, $4,000.
A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
PORTLAND, Ore, March 23.-At Cas-
cade Locks, 40 miles east of here,
Lewis Gerhard, aged 20, shot and
killed his wife, aged 81, and then blew
out his own brains. Gebhard had been
in i'll health, it is said, of late and
imagined that his wife was trying to
cause his death.
POWDER WORKS EXPLOSION.
SAN RAFAEL, Cal, March 23.-An ex-
plosion occurred yesterday afternoon
at the works of the United States
Smokeless Powder company near here.
c. A. jerks, one of the head employees,
and laborer named Jensan, were
lyn1ad