The Springfield herald., 1900-02-09
COLORADO NOTES.

| ''oiuuelu 10 lNe up W AeE pait oA th'
obligations.
Two Jail deliveries We're effected at
| Cripple Creek Wednesday, and five
burglars and ore thieves are now at
liberty. About, 5 o'clock In the morn
ing four men escaped. and at o'clock
| in the afternoon the fifth man secured
his liberty in the same manner that
| the other four had previously. The
| names of the men that broke out are:
Al. Smith. J. NJ. Souter, Fred Schwan-
| beck, Charles AIitten and Pat Carroll.
| Schwanbeck was caught befor' light
and 1t wns believed that ,al%othets
would soon be taken.
| Following the recent concessions OBJ
tained for Denver through the agitn-
tion of the Kindell case before the In
| terstnte Commerce Commission, inter
est In the establishment of Il state rail
way commission is reviving among To-
| cal shippers. Talk in the crowds out
side of the offices of freight agents of
late tended to an enthusiastic indorse
| ment of the establishment of such Il
| commission, and the feeling seemed to
! be that. the time was ripe for forward
ing such Il proposition, and for obtain
| Ing. in n measure, the same protection
| Tor the mountain towns. and the aSri
| cultural settlements on the eastern
and western slope, us had been OBJ
tained for Denver.
| In the chase after the escaped con
| vict. Wagner. the six guards who
! have been securing the Beaver Creek
country separated Friday morning,
each division taking different course,
but all working south One division
| followed the uardscrabble to its
source and reported from Quereda
this afternoon that it was following II
| strong trail, and it was believed Wag
oner was only Il few miles in the lead.
Another division took n route straight
| for Trinidad, and the third started to
ward Colorado Springs. hut returned
this afternoon. Warden Hoyt sent
man to Trinidad tonight with instruc
tions to take Il horse and patrol the
| country north. in the hope of heading
| the convict of.
Joseph L. Gallagher. state senator
| from Clear Creek county, who has been
in Leadville for about two weeks, was
instantly killed ut the Meyer mine on
the LIST. Senator Gallagher came to
Leadville and secured employment
from the Iron-Silver Mining Company,
| working in their Meyer mine on the
| force. During the afternoon he put two
blasts in ground where he was work
Ing. one of which exploded properly.
The other failed to go of. Later he re.
turned to the place where he had
drilled his holes. to put in more giant,
but Just as he got there the second
blast went off, he receiving its full
| force about the head, face and body. He
was blown some distance and horribl.
mangled, both eyes being torn out OF
his head. Death was instantaneous.
AT the recent session of the State Ed
t,I ,tpti Ion nIVrtf ton
adopted making Wolfe Londoner's "Cy
clone Cellar'-a proposed monthly pub
lication in the interest of the profession
the official organ of the association
The idea. presented apparently as II
joke. is to materialZe into n fact and
the Initial number. an eight-page paper
profusely illustrated and filled with
matter pertaining to the craft, will be
published in season. to be distributed
mt the meeting of the National Editorial
Association. to be held in New Orleans
next month Wolfe Londoner will be
the publisher and w. T.. Pabor, editor
and manager. The editorial staff will
he composed of the members of the
state association. all of whom are ex-
pcctcd to contribute n paragraph to the
first number.
Washington dispatch says: Applica,
ton for Il writ of certiorari in the case
of the Central Trust Company versus
the Denver n Rio Grande railroad was
denied by the United States Supreme
Court This decision practically
means that the Midland must pay dam
ages for deaths on the Rio Grnnde in n
wreck for which the Midland was re
sponsiblc. The particular wreck in
point is that at Newcastle on Septem
Der 8. 1897. when Il score of persons
We're killed and many were badly in
jured in a collision between Rio Grande
and Midland trains. The fatalities We're
among Rio Graudc passengers. but that
road made the claim that the Midland,
being responsible for the wreck, was
responsible for damages. This point
they won in the lower courts and the
decision in the Supreme Court was a
practical victory also.
At two minutes after S o'clock Friday
night terrific explosion of giant pow
der occurred in the shaft house of the
Pixies Peak No. | mine on Bull hill.
Three minutes after the first explosion
took place another heavy blast of n
smaller quantity of giant powder com
plcted the ruination of the shaft house.
Engineer j. NJ. Manville. on duty ii
the shaft house when the first explo.
sion occurred. was blown through the
building onto the outside of the shaft
house He received terrible injuries
about the head and his body and limbs |
were also badly bruised. He died in n
short time. Two miners who We're in
the bottom of the shaft We're at first |
thought to be fatally hurt, but later
they were found to be uninjured. When |
the first explosion rent the shaft house,
the latter at once took fire and burned |
fcarfully. The heat was so intense
that it burned the steel cable in two
allowing the bucket TO fall into the |
shaft. where it dropped until it reached |