Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-05-26

other boys at St. Louis, little ten-year-
old Willie HAVE passed a dangling
| wire and caught hold of IL There was
! Sizing sound and the boy screamed
and spun round and round. Finally
mis- two companions seized his coat and
pulled him away from the wire, but he
| fell down and was dead in a few min
| 1tes.
/ OSCAR DEARING, an engineer of the
Terminal railroad at ST. Louis, was
caught beneath the wreckage of five
fat cars, which he was drawing across
the bridge to East ST. Louis, and
| fatally mutilated. The cars jumped
| the track.
| News of a terrible snowslide down
the Valdes glacier. in British Colum.
bia, was recently received. Fully 1Oe
persons were caught by the avalanche
and buried alive. Many were rescued.
however. but probably 20 lives were
| lost.
| THE Twentieth Kansas regiment of
volunteers, under the command of
Lieut.. Col. Little, reached Oakland,
across the bay from San Francisco on
the evening of the goth and went into
camp at the Bay district track the
| 1eXt day.
| A BIG fire broke out at Dow & SnelPs
wholesale grocery at Toledo, O., and
| ragged for six hours on the Goth before
| the fremen were able to get it under
control. The building adjoined the
| Toledo Blade and the newspaper plant
had close call. AS it was, the dam
age by water made it impossible to
operate the newspaper plant for a week
| Or two. The loss on the grocery plant
was estimated at $500, 600, the building
was worth $50, 600; all well insured.
c. L. BAKER. president of the Baker
| carriage works at Des Moines, Ia.
shot himself twice in the mouth, dying
| almost instantly. Financial trout les
unbalanced him.
| THE railroads entering Omaha. Neb..
have announced the rate which will
be made into Omaha on the opening
| day of the exposition June 1. 1t is a
rate of one cent per mile over a terri
| tory extending, in some instances,
more than 200 miles from Omaha.
THE cruiser Charleston, that sailed
on the 18th for Manila with ammuni-
ton and supplies for Admiral Dewey.
was back at her berth at Mare island,
Cal, the next day with her condensers
out of order. The accident was trivial,
but Capt. Glass concluded that it would
! be better to return and secure the
benefit of facilities than to repair the
| damages at sea-
A DISPATCH from Miami, Fla, to the
New York Evening World said that a
fire broke out recently in the coal
| bunkers of the auxiliary cruiser St
Paul. It took half day to fight the
flames. There were 1900 tons of am
munition aboard and Sigsbee and his
| na0plo had hot time Of II Tb;rtoan
| Of the crew were overcome by heat.
| OVER two score of lives were lost and
| thousands of dollars worth of property
was destroyed by a tornado which
| swept Clinton and Jackson coun ties,
Ia, on the 18th. Telegraph facili-
ties were paralyzed and the details
| were meager. At Preston five persons
were reported dead, at Quigley two, at
Riggs station two, at Stanwood two
and Delmar Junction two. The storm
passed over into Illinois and at Sa-
| vannah in that state four persons were
killed, at Skillman Valley four. at Ad-
| cline two. at Byron one and at Pawpaw
| one. Deaths occurred at other places.
Four large and several smaller jew
elry factories, some IL or Is dwelling
houses. several barns. marble works,
| carpenter shops and other buildings
| at Attleboro, Mass, were destroyed
| by fire early on the morning of the
| 18th. Three thousand skilled work
men were thrown out of work in the
| factories alone. The loss was esti,
| mated at over ST, 600, 900.
| THE Alabama, the greatest battle
| ship in the American navy. if not in
| the world, was successfully launched
| at Cramps ship yard at Philadelphia
on the 18th. Miss Morgan, daughter
! of Senator Morgan. attended to join
ing the name of Alabama to the pom
| derous mass of steel, and a distin-
guished party of guests from Wash
ington witnessed the ceremony.
APAssENGER train jumped the track
IL miles east of Boca, New, the other
day. The engine, mail. baggage and
| express cars were ditched The en-
gineer was slightly injured and three
Indians riding on the platform of the
baggage car were killed.
THE large flint mill of the Mining &
Mill company at East Liverpool, O.,
was burned the other day. The loss
was estimated at 500. 600: insurance,
S43. 600.
EIGHT men in the employ of the Co
lumbar Fire Proofing company at Bos-
ton fell more than 100 feet with an ell
evator on the nth One man was in
stantly killed, six others died soon
after and there was very little hope OF
the recovery of the other one.
A TORNADO struck the village of Pen
nington, Mimi, on the 18th, practical
~ wiping out the places Three per-
sons were known to have been killed
and probably SO injured.
TORNADO devastated wide dis
trict along the Republican river in