Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-03-14
NEWS FROM ALL
OVER THE WORLD.

| mus laundry on Madison street lit
tie after o'clock this morning. and
the entire building was wrecked.
| 1t Is stated that about thirty girls
and between fifty and sixty male em-
ployes are buried in the ruins. which
Immediately took fire.
Twelve girls We're dragged from the
wreckage before the fire broke out,
| all of them badly hurt
| Il is feared that the others We're
caught in the crash of the falling walls
and flying timbers and killed.
| A general alarm was turned in and
a hundred firemen attacked the pile
in desperate effort to drag the unfor-
| tunates from certain death.
| The building was two-story brick.
The boiler which exploded was in the
basement.
At noon it is believed that eighty
people are buried in the ruins. The
explosion occurred after the force had
| gone to work, and it literally tore the
building into fragments.
| Fourteen dead and injured have al
ready been taken from the ruins and
! the rescuers are working with tre-
mendous energy in the hope of saving
the lives of some of the unfortunates
| pinned under some of the great tim
bers and perhaps still living.
The bodies of three girls, impossi-
BILE to recognize, were taken out at
| 10 o'clock. A few minutes later the
bodies of two men, horribly burned,
| were recovered.
Twenty injured were sent to hospi-
| tails. The firemen estimate that at
| least thirty are still in the ruins, and
| they are thought to be all dead. A
| list of seventeen missing girls has
| been made up.
1t is believed at 3 O'Clock this af-
| only IL dead and 25 seriously injured.
Many of the missing have turned up.
| DALLAS, Texas, March 1.-THE
reports this morning from the lorna
do and storms which extended from
Texas to the lakes, shows the disas-
ter to have been widespread.
Forty people are known to have been
killed in Texas and Arkansas alone,
and the property loss Will run into
the millions.
There is great deal of destitution
in southeastern Texas, and the storm
which swept up through Kentucky as
far as Chicago is unquestionably the
most fearful, not only of this, but for
many preceding years.
CHICAGO, March 1.-THE wires
are all down and the effects of the
| terrible blizzard in the northwest re-
mains practically unknown. The dis
aster, however, is widespread.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. March H.
| Former President Harrison is crjti-
cally i'll this morning.
Since . o'clock there has been
| consultation OF half dozen prominent
| physicians in a room adjoining the
| sick mans, DR.. Henry Jameson and
| Dr. Frank Dorsey being the consult
| ing physicians.
They have come to the conclusion
| that General Harrison will reach the
| crisis of his illness in about thirty
hours, when he would either grow
very slowly better or death would
claim him for its own.
The ex-president is suffering very
| little pain, his temperature being l03
| and his pulse less than 100.
The trouble is in his lungs, one of
| which is badly inflamed.
There is no danger OF sudden col
lapse today, says DR.. Jameson. but his
age makes the probabilities of his re-
covery against him. If pneumonia
develops he will hardly be able to re-
sist the attack.
Harrisons family are much alarm
ed and prepared for the worst.
PRETORIA, March 11.-General De
Wet is moving northward at the rate
of 25 miles day, with a view to
crossing the railway near Kroonstadt
De Wet is reported to be discour-
aged on account of his followers
dropping away from him by the hun
dreds.
1t is quite evident that British infiu-
ence is rapidly extending. that the
Beers are losing ground daily, and
that the end is close at hand.
NEW YORK, March ia special
to the Herald from Rio Janiero today
says very extensive plot to over
throw the Brazilian government is
on, and that it promises to be use
cessful.
PEKIN, March 11.-At last Minis
ter Conger has started for the United
States. He left this morning and
there was quite demonstration over
his departure.
All the foreign ministers bade him
farewell at the station, and their Ia
dies visited the family just prior TO
the start.
At the station there was quite a
crowd of prominent officials, soldiers
and notable Chinese, all of whom had
gathered to say goodbye to the Amer
lean minister and his family
MANILA, March Histories of in
surgents having cruelty terrorized
their associates came out today at
the trial OF natives charged with hay
ing murdered Gutenberg, president of
Calambo. because he was friendly to
Americans.