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The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04

The most terrible mine explosion
ever recorded In the west occurred at
tunnel No. Of the Pleasant Valley
Coal companys mines at scodeld, Utah,
At i0sis a m. May 1. A. midnight
il7 men, nearly oil heads Of families,
lay stretched out In the company's
boarding house at the mouth Of the
tunnel and from 30 10 ~ men yet re-
main to bo accounted for. That nearly
all Of these will bc recovered dead il
not doubted
Theories IA 20 the direct cause Of the
explosion differ materially, and II will
take some time TO arrive at a correct
conclusion,
bishop Thomas Parmlry. supcrinten-
dent Of operations, gives h AS his
opinion that the explosion was brought
about by giant powder which was
taken into the mine by some Of the
miners. that exploded In some unac-
countablc way quitting the dust, and
thereby causing hn explosion.
This mine has been worked for over
twenty years, aud has the reputation,
according to State Mine Inspector
Thomas Of being one ~ the best ven
tilatcd aud protected in the west lie
states that he Inspected IL less than
I've week.. ago, and believed Il entirely
safe ~ that time ~ has never had
bad air aud has alway, been free fiom
gas and nv the cual rs an loaded with
shovcls, there has not been large Ac.
cumulaiiou of dust
Ninc.ienihs ~ the men killed are
Americans aud Welsh. The former
come mostly from Utah. with small
number from Tennessee aud Colorado
Il !, distressing 10 witness the scenes
Of Wild sorrow. la some instances the
whole family except the mother ia
gone. In othcrs wife aud several
children are left without support. aud
there Ia scarcely home la scuhold
that Is not In mourning.
Two hundred burial outfits have been
ordered, salt Lake could furnish but
IA, aud the remainder were ordered
from Denver Wy telegraph.
IN several families every male mem
her IA numbered with the dead. 4
rescuing party of twenty men tried /,
gain an entrance Into No through
tho opening Of No. I, but the men wer,
soon forced back hy the Ore damp
The parties then headed Tor No 4
Here they found the air beginning 4
circulate, and after clearing away tn
fallen aud dead horses at the mouth o
the mine they entered about two hun
drcd yards when they came upon IN
dead bodies Of six Of the mon.
John Kir,on was the first one brough
out. at about ~ o'clock. his who'll
scalp being burned 10 cindcr and hi
face unrecognlzable. lie was stll
alive and apparently conscious, cryinI
out In agony for bis iellow.comradc
TO end his misery by killing him on IA
spot.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04
$1,000 PEOPLE HOMELESS.
Ftrs At ottawa. Ont, Destroys rropsrty 10
the value Of rsO.oOO.oOO.


Five square miles Of territory burned
over. more than $500 dwellings. fact.
cries, mills. stores aud other buildings
destroyed, entailing loss estimated to
reach $50. 900. 900 and between Il, 900 and
$1,000 men, women and children home
less is asummingof the havoc wrought
by FIRE at Hull and Ottawa, Ontario,
last Thursday.
Most Of the lumber piles in ottawa
and Hull, which is just across the river,
have disappeared and are now mere
heaps OF charrcd wood and ashes.
Half dozen churches and schools, q
number Of mills, the Hull waterworks,
the Hull court house and Jail, the post
Office, the convent-almost every bust
ness place and about 1000 dwellings and
shops In Hull have been destroyed. In
deed. practically nothing 81 Hull is lef,
but church and few houses around
H.
IL Is estimated that the number OF
people homeless Ia the two cities aud
suburban towns Is not less than 1900
and II may reach 1900.
Hull has population Of about is, 900
people, and more than half Of them are
homeless. The entire business part Of
the city, including the courthouse.
postofice. public buildings and news
paper Offices, is one mass OF ruins.
The large cliff which extends from
the Ottawa river back 10y Christ Church
aud ST. John the Baptist church onto
Rocherville was the only thing which
stopped the whole city Of Ottawa be-
coming a prey to the are. shortly after
noon the wind, which was blowing
previously In northwcsterly direction,
changed to southcnsterly direction
and In this way what remained OF Of
tawa was saved.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04
cLoUDBURsr IN TEXAS.
Eight Lives Lust mud Thousands Of Dollar
Worth of Property Destroyed.


Eight Lives Lost aud Thousands Of Dollars
Worth OF Property Destroyed.
An electric storm, accompanied by a
cloudburst and high wind, descended
upon Waco, Texas. Friday. aud the re-.
suit is that eight people are known to
have persisted In the city limits, and
property valued at several thousand
dollars has been destroyed. Tho dead
are; Mrs. Nancy Caudle. Miss Clara
caudle, Rose Chapman, Emma Decker,
Thomas Capps, Frank Walker and two
negro men, names unknown.
The downpour OF rain commenced
about noon, and was incesant until
dark. II was In the shape OF water
spout, and the rise In the creeks aud
branches was so rapid that II did not
give the inhabitants time TO fee.
Three persons, two women and "A
man, all colored, were drowned within
a hundred yards Of the city hall Their
bodies were washed into the BrAzos
river and have not been recovered.
There were several people, mostly
negroes, standing on bridge watching
the rapid rise OF Barron's branch when
the bridge, brick structure, gave way
without warning, preeipitating them
into the water.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04

Immediately on receiving word Of
the disaster Superintendent w. q.
sharp Of the Pleasant Valley company
arranged for a special aud at ills a.
m, II left salt Lake City. The train
was made up Of coach aud ear aud
on board were Mcssrs. Welby aud
sharp and DE-. +. :. Bascom, with sew.
eral attendants, A supply OF things
necessary for the comfort Of the In.
jured was also taken along. The train
made a fast run, arriving at seoaeld
At SEQ p. m.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04

In the meantime. John Wilson, who
had been blown with bis horses two
hundred yards across the canyon from
the moath Of the mine. had been dis.
covered and was taken to his home
The back u his skull was crushed and
some solid substance had been driven
through his abdomen.
Thomas sellers. who was working
about lfty yards from the mouth Of the
mine on the outside, had his right foot
crushed, back hurt and shoulder
knocaed out ot place. Sandy Wilson.
also on the outside, was hit by flying
timbcrs and his life !. despaired Of
Harry Taylor bad his jaw broken and
John Beddoes was severely bruised.
These men were oll on the outsids aud
were taken - SAT- Lake on a special
train for treatment.
The rescue party inside the mine dis
covered William liowter lying Ia the
midst Of several dead, and with assist
ance he walked TO the mouth Of the
mine ana was saved.
The after.damp delayed the work OF
the rescuing party. but the magnitude
OF the disaster soon became apparent.
All men ON the raise known as Pixies
Peak were lying In clusters.
John James, a county commissioner,
was found with his son, George, en-
twined In loving embrace in each
others arms.
All these men had apparently real.
izcd that death was coming. for all
were found A. though In attitudes OF
defense. Some had their cloaits about
them, others had tried 10 protect them
selves by burying their faces In Ia,
ground floor Of the mine. hoping thu,
to escape the deadly gas that was fast
cngelopinR them. They must hav,
lived for some time in praycrful expec
tation Of rescue reaching them.
bernard nougan. the promising und
enterprisiug young engineer from
springville, Utah, who had only just
entered the mine a few minutes before
with his assistants, was found with
his iusirumcut vet. while lie aud h'.
men lay dead around H.
The bodies are not nearly all idcnti-
fed. the work being necessarily slow.
about sixty have been identified as fol-
lows. John James aud son, VIM. samu.
els and son, Williams aud son, Adam
Hunter aud son. Robert Hunter aud
two sons. John Hunter WIN. Parmicy,
Davis and sou, WIN Refs Harry Miller.
Rams Miller, Isaac Miller, Alex Wilson,
John Wilson, Jas Wilson, Bob VIII
stead. WIN. Wilsicad. WIN Davis, two
Clark boys. John y. Lloyd, BERNARD
nougall, Il. 4. Evans, Dave Evans, Ben
Lloyd. Johu Wcbbcr, Thomas Weber,
James Weber. James Gathcrum, VIM.
uathcrum, Chas. Edwards, T. II. Rel.
ley, Langstair aud son, VIM. IIunter,
leo ,sor,lou, uu. sordou, Dave Huniep
John Price, John Burns, VIM. Powell,
Dan Muer, Pete Cocklctt, Rob Perish,
Llewellyn Williams, Jos Wallace Sr..
Dick Thomas, Dave Padhcld, 5, j Pad
field, Matthias Patterson, Levi Jones,
John Pitman, Dave PitmAn.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04

A woman known ms Margaret Con.
nette was sold at auction within a
block OF the federal building at GAL
weston, Tex, Monday night for $40.
The police and Observation-Disclosures are
searching for the parties involved.
The woman is said to have been Inn
ported from Belgium, together with a
lot Of other Belgian and French women
and was under contract TO the man
who sold her. United States Immi-
grant Inspector Levy is working on
the case.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04

Alta private conference In Chicago
between W. j. Bryan, j. q. johnson,
chairman Of the Democratic national
executive committee, Willis j. Abbott
editor OF the Bulletin, aud Mayor liar.
rison, the latter assured Bryan tina,
Illinois would send a solid Bryan dele.
cation to the national convention. II
was agreed, II Is said, that expansion
would be made rs prominent and In.
portant an issue ia the campaign a,
any other issue.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04

Among the bills and resolutions 10.
troduced In the house Is one by Repre-.
sentative Grosvenor Of Ohio, amending
the national banking laws so as To
permit national banks In loan on real
estate security, with a provision that
the security shall be double in value
the amount OF the loan, and that the
aggregate Of such loans shall not be
above 90 per cent OF the resources Of
the bank.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04
ARMED pAsHA COMING.
Representative Of the sairAa to start tor
America.

Representative OF the saitaa to start fer
America.
There are no fresh developments In
Constantinople regarding tho American
Indemnity question, II within weel,
the Porte does not answer the United
states legation note OF April 90, It Is
probable that Mr., Lloyd C. Griscom,
the American charge de'afairs, will re.
new his demand,
The project Of sending Ahmed Pasha
to the United States TO negotiate Tor
the purchase Of cruiser is persisted
In, although the United States govern.
ment continues determined not TO con.
sent TO the amalgamAtion OF the pro.
posed purchase with the indemnity
uuestion
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04
soER PEACE ENJOYS.

iio~ rhey WIN b. Treated ON Arrival NJ
Washington.
II can bestated that the persons com.
posing the Boer delegation, who have
sailed from Europe for the United
States, will not be denied accc TO the
secretary OF state when they reach
WashinFton. They will be rccciyed as
individuals, just as was Mr. Montague
White, but with the distinct under.
standing that they are not recognized
officially as lioor delegation aud that
the secretary does not admit their
competence To enter into any ucgotia.
lions with the state department
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04
CANCER BACiLLUs.

Professor schuelirr Of nrrlln Ulaim. To
Have Discovered IT,
Professor MaNimillan Schuellcr Of
licrlin claims to have discovered the
cancer bacillus A Berlin paper pub.
fishes report Of a sories Of expert.
ments, giving a detailed description of
the appearance and development Of the
bacillus.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04

The wife OF Major General james II.
Wilson, military governor Of the de-
partment Of Matanzas, Santa Clara, Ia
dead from tho effects OF DO ms aecl-
IDENTIFY received. She stepped on a
match which ignited her dress.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04
CHOLERA INDIA.

People Are Dying Faster Than They Can
lie Hurled.
A dispatch from Bombay says the
cholera is raging fearfully at the great
camp at Cobra, where thousands Of
famine-striclsen natives are receiving
relief A hundred aud flity cases were
removed yesterday, but one hundred
others had to be left, because II was
impossible to procure bearers.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04
wat.on MOI a Candidate.

Thomas +. Watson OF Georgia de.
clares; Under no circumstance would
l accept any nomination or any Office.
Please remember me among the politi-
cally dead and let ne heuceforth rest
ia peace"
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04
Prince OF wais. /. Gratlnsd.

The Prince Of Wales acknowledge
the sympathy and congratulations from
all parts OF the world on his recent
escape from assassination in a letter
Just made public.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04
KENTUCKY CONTEST.
nflsf Filsd In the Cass In Unitsd States
supreme Court.

supreme Court.
Consul for Hon william s. Taylor
aud John Marshall, 10 the contest In
the supreme court over the Offices OF
governor and acknowledgement OF
Kentucky, have filed their briefs. After
reviewing the various points involved,
the brief concludes as follows
I'VE will not attempt any resume OF
the arguments we have attempted TO
30 divide II NJ not 10 confuse II. We
simply insist that the pretended adjudl-
cation which is pleaded by Mr. Beck
ham as the foundation OF his action
whereby he seeks to take from william
s. Taylor and John Marshall the.oaices
10 which they certainly had the adj
mitted prima faeie right and whereby
he seeks to make himself the governor
OF Kentucky and the chief magistrate
OF her people, Ia an absolute nullity.
We feel that in this case is involved
the question OF whether we are politl-
cal freemen or political serfs; whether
we have In Kentucky a republic or an
ollgArehy; whether VIC vote by right
secured by the law or by grace OF few
men. Il matters not that these men
may themselves shave been elected.
They were given no commission by the
people to select governor for them
and as said by Mr. jefferson, in speak.
ing for himself aud his eompAtriots. an
elective despo,ism was not the govern
ment we fought for We have been
denied Republicanismi the principle
has failed In its duty and we cal 90
guArautor to make good its guaranty.
We ask for the protection Of liberty
and property against the arbitrary ex
ercise OF the powers Of the govern
ment"
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04
1866 MINERS KILLED
At SCOFIELO, UTAH,
Worst Mine Explosion in the
History Of the West.

Cause 81 the rspiosiaa My.is'y ~ the
Mine W.. Considered safe iI1 nodiss
Recovered snd Many More 10 be- Ar.
counted for Deaths Genessiiy Resulted
PROM Itfe Dsmp. Though rev Were
Kiiisd W the SHOCK ~ The tspi0.ion.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04

Illinois Populisis, In State conven.
tion at Chicago, passed a resolution In,
dorsing Bryan and instructing thirty.
seven delegates TO the Sioux Falls con.
veneion to vote for his nomination
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04
ACCIDENT ATpAms EXPOSITION
Sine People KILLED aud For,y luiared by
Collapse OF bridge.

An accident within the Paris expo,i.
tion grounds sunday caused the death
Of at least nine persons, while more
than forty are known to have been in.
jured, A temporary bridge, unable to
Withstand the crowd, broke. The acct
dent threw pail over the Immense
throng who had prodted by the mag.
niaeent weather to visit the exposition.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04
KNIGHTS OF THE SOIL.
New Farmers Organization Appear, In
Kansas.

Kansas.
The FIRST lodge In Kansas OF new
farmers organization to be known as
knights OF the Soil" has been organ.
lied at Abilene, Kas., with samuel
Lands Rs "Ilead Farmer" Similar
lodges are to be started throughout the
state, ana It is intended that the whole
shall finally form farmers trust that
will eudeavor TO influence the price Of
grain by regulating the acreage and
controlling the quantity placed On the
market at any one time.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04

Andrew Carnegie, In an essay IN the
May Century, entitled Popular Illus
ions About Trusts advocates great
aggregations OF capital as OF benef
both to rich and poor
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04

Senior Perfecto La Costa has accepted
the Office OF secretary OF agriculture
for Cuba, made vacant by the resigna.
tion of General Ruis Rivera.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04
Oialms Against rurhey Pouring m.

One effect Of the sudden application
OF pressure upon Turkey to pay is o
renewal OF the applications FROM -
lean holders Of other claims
Turkey for a presentation
cases One is from the family
clist LEM, killed In Turkey tan
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04

The plight Of the people in the
burned districts in Wisconsin Is terri.
bile, as the country is very dry aud M.
tie escaped the flames. The loss viii
be hundreds o. thousands Of dollars
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04
NE VOTED ron CLARK.
Montana Republican Di.fellowshipped by
Ills Party.

Ills Party.
G. c. Long Of Fergus county, a Re-
publiean member Of the legislature OF
$500 who voted for W. A. Clark for
,enator, presented himself at the Fer
,,ns county convention, called 10 elect
DELEGATES 10 state convention. The
eommittee ON credentials took the ere
dsntIais OF Mr.. Long and reported to
the Convention; I'VE find that c. Z.
I'ong il not entitled to sit In Repub-
llcan convention" This report wAs
Instantly approved.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-05-04

Two fatal cases OF what is
10 be bubonie plague have b,
tally reported at Port Said. (
has occurred. ]
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-01
Check-Certifica


In the case of Gale, Receiver VS. Chase
National Bank, recently decided by the
United State Circuit Court of Appeals,
and reported in the New York Law Jour
nal, it appeared that the cashier of an Ell
mira national bank, while in New York
drew check on his own bank, certified
it and made it payable in New York The
court held that the certification was inval-
id, and further ruled that if stolen money
is received in due course of business in
good faith and for payment of a valid
debt, the person to whom it is paid is
not subjected to the risk of repayment;
that a person who receives a cashiers
draft drawn by the cashier himself in
payment of his own individual debt takes
the risk of the cashiers authority; that
to constitute proof of course of business
sufficient to establish an applied author
ity to a cashier to draw a draft to the
amount of 5000 in payment of his own
individual debt, nine such drafts, COM
mencing in the previous year and amount
ing altogether only to $3.50, are too few,
and that drafts which, on their faces. are
apparently ordinary cashiers drafts in
favor of third persons are not evidence
in support of such a course of business.
even though they had been actually paid
for by the cashiers personal checks
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-01

party, and as result it had no use
for him A correspondent of the Intel
!igencer says Senator Wellington is
miffed at the administration because
appointments recommended by him
were ignored on the ground that they
were too responsible, and the admins
tration acted for itself Wonder if any
of the Cuban rascals were among the
number SO appointed by the admins
tration? If the administration would
take little advice once in while il
would be much better off.
Hon. M. G. C. Church is also sneered
at in the Intelligencer. He was fighting
The battles of Republicanism when the
editor of the Intelligencer was a kid
and has done as much for his former
party as any man in West Virginia
He was Republican leader, than
whom none stood higher in West Vir-
giria, and in all party councils and
conventions he held place in the front
rank. Now when he can no longer
agree with the prevented course of the
Republican party, and has been forced
TO leave it from conscientious motives
and from sound conviction that it is
wrong, the Intelligencer, true to its in
stincts of cringing fawning where
there is power and favor and of I'M
stinted abuse where some high-minded
individual is concerned, twits Mr..
Church with the assertion that he only
controls his own vote" and amounts
to nothing. This will do the Intelli-
gencer's cause no good. Many old Re-
puhlicans think with Mr.. Church, and
will act with him.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-01
IRON AND STEEL.
Manufacturers to Make Another Ef
fort to Boost Things.

Manufacturers to Make Another Ef
fort to Boost Things.
PITTSBURG, Pa, July 31.-Another
effort to revive the iron and steel
market is to be made by the leading
steel interests and the Bessemer fur
mace association. Since the failure TO
reach an agreement on prices at the
conference In Chicago last week, re-
ports of several concerns have had
consultations on the matter and as a
result it has been decided to call an
other meeting to be held in New York
next week.
What plan to hold the market is
now proposed has not been divulged,
but it is likely that it will be submit
ted by mail to the iron and steel men
within the present week. 1t is re-
ported that a proposition will be sub
mitted TO the steel companies for a
proportionate reduction in the output
of the steel companies for proper
tionate reduction in the output of pig
iron as compared with the capacity of
the furnaces owned by the different
concerns, and that each curtail pro-
duction from Is TO % per cent, as the
gathering may decide. It is the senti-
ment of most iron men now that the
only way to hold the market and to
prevent the continued accumulation
of over-production is to suspend oper-
atoms.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-01

les in control elect to fight it out? In
that event. according to present lights,
the lives of the representatives could
not be ensured from one day to an
other.
From a diplomatic view the forcible
detention of the ministers and proven
ton of their sending word to their
various governments is about as bad
as their actual murder, and the ulti-
mate reckoning which China will have
to pay will doubtless be as heavy as
though every man, woman and child
had been slaughtered in cold blood.
This sort of thing will not be tolerated
by the nations, and must not serve as
precedent. When the day of reckon
ing comes China will find out that
mere money nor even territory will
suffice, but that the high officials, even
phinces of the blood or the Dowager
Empress herself, will have to pay the
penalty for the unparalleled crime.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-01

The Register remarked, the other
day, that the Republican editors and
spellbinders claimed credit for every
thing, even to the coming of children,
and our observation has been borne out
by Lieutenant Governor Bates, of
Massachusetts, who, in his Maiden adj
dress, while expatiating upon the bene-
ficent influences of Republican rule, as
sured his audience that the daily in
crease of population in the United
States was 5000. The fact is, it is but
one-half of 5000, but whatever the
figures may be, what has McKinleyism
and Hannaism to do with it? Lieuten-
ant Governor Bates is a typical Repub-
lican prevaricator and dissemination of
political romances.