Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-02-05
Jail at Victor, Colorado, Fired by
Inmates and -Four Are
Cremated.
IRON MOUNTAIN WRECK
Brave Firemen Go to Their
Death Doing Duty at
Boston Fire.


'AN@0Ast OOsS ANN@t~fJ ~~'
burning OF the big Victor jail, thi
morning, three persons lost their lives
Thomas Quinn and James Connors
railroad graders, and an unknown
man, called "shorty." Another pri
soner, named .Dublin," was rescusd
but was so badly injured, that he viii
de. The four men arrested were last
night for disturbance. II is believed that
one OF them, Connors, fired the Jail,
hoping to escape, but the flames gained
such headway before being discovered
that they could not be saved. The in
mates were consumed with it.
FATAL WRECK IN MISSOURI.
DE SoTo, Missouri, February 5.-As
result of wreck of Texas fast
mail train on the Iron Mountain road,
eight miles north Of here, at 6 80 this
morning, the engineer and firemen
were pinned under the locomotive and
killed. Many of the passengers were
injured, several fatally. The wreck
was caused by collision with cow.
The baggage car, coaches and sleepers
were thrown over an embankment and
the bodies of the engineer and fireman
were frightfully mangled. Special
trains, carrying railroad officials and
surgeons, left St. Louis, while the
wrecking train, with local doctors, left
immediately.
YOUNG WIDOWS SUICIDE.
New York, FebruaryI5. The hand
some young woman who killed herself
in Young's hotel, Boston, yesterday
morning, BY inhaling gas, was Mrs
Laura Holtzerman Peterson, widow of
a physician OF Denmark. Her suicide
ended double tragedy, began across
the seas four years ago, when her hus.
band killed himself and set the tx-
ample she SO faithfully copied. Her
home. In the old country, being
brok en- up, the widow came here, and
being young and very handsome and
accomplished, made friends among the
rich and great, but she was nat happy
She took refuge in the Presbyterian
hospital as q nurse among the sick,
but did not find the rest she sought.
MANY KILLED IN BOSTON.
BosToN, Mass, February Fire
10 Bent & Cos. store, on Merrimac
street, this morning did $4,000
damages and injured five firemen, as
follows: Chief John Egan, Captain
Garrity; firemen, Edward Shea,
Thomas Corway and j. T. Doughery.
All were removed to the hospital. L..
is reported that others were caught
when one of the walls fell. The ruins
are being searched as far as the heat
and smoke will permit.
LArER-Results OF the fire are worse
than first reported; six bodies thus far
have been taken out dead, all firemen.
Chief Eagen went to the rescue OF. his
men, directing the work OF the res
cuing party, when he wall suddenly
fell. burying others. At l0:l6 Chief
Eoan and Captain Victory were taken
out OF the ruins, both breathing, but
died on the way to the hospital. Short
" after, Mulhern and Deskin were
found dead. A few minutes later,
Captain Garrity, Conroy Shea and
Philip Doaerty were taken out alive and
sent to the hospital, where they were
nut ON the dangerous list. The prop
erly loss is 100000.
BOY DROWNED.
BtNcHHAMPToN, N. Y. February 8.
Jos. Malleri, IL years OF age, was
drowned this morning.
STILL AT LARGE.
GUTHRIE, Oklahoma, February -
The coroner's Jury investigating the
assassination of Postmaster Rhine, OF
Tonkawa, returned verdict fading
James Taylor, who had a Rrudge
against Rhine, the murderer. Taylor
is hiding in the woods. 5
TOOK THE ROPE ROUTE.
ST.. LOUIS. Febrbary s.. Frank
Rueherer. q contractor, was found
hanging in the cellar of his residence.
this morning; no cause for suicide is
known,
GERMANY IN LINE.
KEEL, Germany, February Or A
navy launch capsized here to-day and
nine sailors and three workmen
drowned.