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THE CANADIAN CRESCENT.
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CANADIAN. - TEXAS
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
CONGRESS.
In the Senate on the 20th petitions were
presented asking equal protection for agricult-
ural products; restricting foreign pauper im-
migration, and for the election of Senators by
the people. A bill passed appropriating 15,000
to pay the funeral expenses of the late Chief
Justice Waite. Senator Cullom, from the Com-
mittee on Territories, reported a resolu-
tion declaring against the admission of
Utah until it is oertain that polyg-
amy has been abandoned. Commit-
tees reported and the Senate took up the
House bill to provide for the purchase of
United States bonds by the Secretary of the
Treasury, which was considered until adjourn-
ment. In the House resolutions were adopted
to hold the funeral of the late Chief Justice in
the hall of the House, and the Senate bill ap-
propriating f5,000 for the funeral expenses
passed. a few bills were introduced and the
Committee on Territories reported the bill for
the organization of Alaska Territory. District
business occupied the rest of the session.
When the Senate met on the 27th an in-
vitation to attend the funeral of the late Chief
Justice was received and accepted. Senator
Blair called for the second reading of his Con-
federate Soldier bill, giving preference in cer-
tain cases to disabled Confederate soldiers in
civil appointments, and Senator Edmunds
spoke in opposition. The matter went
over and the Senate took up the Bond
Purchase bill, which was under consideration
at adjournment In the House an invita-
tion to attend the funeral of Chief Justice
Waite was received. In the contested election
case of Worthington against Post (Tenth Illi-
noise district) Mr.Post was confirmed in his title
to the seat. Many bills were reported from
committees and placed on the calendar. The
Union Pacific Iiailroad Funding bill was debat-
ed in the morntng hour. Then the Military
Academy Appropriation bill passed. The Gen-
eral Public Land bill was takon up and debated
until adjournment.
After the Senate met on the 28th, and
prayer by the chaplain, the members proceeded
to the hall of the House to attend the funeral
obsequies of the late Chief Justice. After re-
turning to its chamber tbe Senate adjourned
— When the House was cailed to order the
Senate was received, also the President and
Cabinet, Supreme Court and other high officials
and after the funeral ceremonies over the re-
mains of the late Chief Justice closed the House
adjourned.
In the Senate on the 29th several commit-
tees reported and Mr. Berry addressed the Sen-
ate on the subject of the President's annual
message. The Senate then took up the calen-
dar and passed a number of bills, among them a
bill to annul the act of March 3, 1879, relating to
homestead and pre emption entries; to extend
the southern and western boundaries of the
9tate of Kansas, and several bills for public
buildings, and many others, the number
of bills that passed being sixty-one In the
House the Post-offloe Committee reported ad-
versely the resolution calling upon the Post-
master General for cortain information in To-
ward to a late order relating to postal reciproc-
ity with Canada. A long debate followed. The
bill was reported and placed on the calendar
prohibiting aliens from holding lands, and the
Post-offlce Appropriation bill was considered in
Committee of the Whole. Adjournod.
The Senate was not in session on the
30th The House non-concurred in Senate
amendments to the bill authorizing a confer-
ence for encouraging reciprocity commercial
relations with Mexico, Central and South
America and Brazil. The bills granting Mrs.
John A. Logan a pension of $2,000 ane increas-
ing Mrs. P. P. Blair's pension to $0.000 a year
then came up. After some debate the Logan
bill passed by 154 to 95, and the Blair bill by 14S
to 91. Pension bills were considered at the
evening session.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The Senate has confirmed S. M. Stock-
slager as Commissioner and Thomas J.
Anderson as Assistant Commissioner of
the General Land Office.
The annual meeting of the Flax and
Hemp Spinners and Growers' National
Association was held in Washington on the
28th.
Thb funeral ot the late Chief Justice
Waite took place in the ball ot the House
of Representatives at Washington on the
28th. The services were conducted by
Bishop Paret, of the Episcopal Church,
and were attended by the President and
Cabinet, the Justices, Senators and Repre-
sentatives and «other notables. The re-
mains were sent to Toledo, O.
The late Chief Justice Waite died almost
insolvent. There was some talk at Wash-
ington of applying to Congress for a pen-
sion for his widow.
TUS EAST.
Ex - Lieutenant - Governor William
Dorsheimer, the publisher of the New
York Star aud a prominent Democrat, died
on the 20th at Savannah, Ga. He was born
in Lyons, N. Y., February 5, 1832.
The Stickuey powder factory, near Ash-
ford, N. Y., was destroyed by an explosiou
recently.
The steamship Britannia, which arrived
at New York last year with cholera on
board, has arrived from Italy, this time
with small-pox. The vessel was detaiued
at quarantine.
The boiler of a passenger train locomo-
tive exploded at North Manchester, Conn.,
the other morning, killing the engineer
and fireman.
General Charles A. Stetson, for near-
ly forty years proprietor of the Astor
House, New York, died in Reading, Pa.,
recently, aged seventy-seven.
Commercial circles at Gloucester, Mass.,
are exercised over the disaster to the salt
fleet. The following vessels overdue were
formally given up: The Norwegian bark
Emigrant and the American barks Vesu-
vius, of Richmond, and the Mabel Stoddard,
All from Trapan, with salt for Gloucester.
It is believed that they were caught at the
^me.of the great gale and lost. Forty-five
tires are given tip as lost.
The British steamer Canonbury has beeu
abandoned off Nantucket, Mass. The crew
were saved, but one died from the expo-
sure.
One child was burned to death and an-
other fatally injured while alone in a tene-
ment house in New York City the other
morning.
IT is reported from Nantucket, Mass.,
that the seaman who died there after being
rescued from a wreck recently was a vic-
tim of cholera. The rest of the crew were
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Joseph W. Drexel, a member of the
great banking firm of Drexel, M&rgan &
Co., died in New York City recently, after
a brief illness.
The lower house of the New York As-
sembly has passed the Crosby High Li-
cense bill by a vote of 66 to 61 on party
lines.
The Executive Committee of the Ameri-
can Newspaper Publishers' Association,
adjourned at New York on the 2üth, after a
two days' session. Plans were agreed upon
for enlarging the scope of the Association's
work, which will at once be earried into
effect. \
The failure or Louis F. Zerega, broker of
No. 7 South William street, has been an-
nounced on the New York Cotton Ex-
change.
The sash, door and blind manufacturers
of New England, New York, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania have formed a combina-
tion to go into effect in June.
Two strangers were found dead ra a
Reading (Pa.) hotel the other day, having
blown out the gas the day before.
THE WEST.
Sixteen Mormous have been sentenced to
short terms in the penitentiary and to pay
fines at Provo, Utah, for living with more
than one wife.
John Matthews, Wiley Matthews and
William Walker, three of the Bald Knob-
bers, convicted at Ozark, Mo., of the mur-
der of Edens and Green, have boon sen-
tenced to bo hanged May 18.
District assembly 24, Knights of Labor,
Chicago, it was announced recently, had
given up its headquarters, owing to lack of
lunds. The district machinery was cap-
tured by the auti-Powderly faction at the
last election, and the membership had
fallen off rapidly. There are now but little
over 7,(XX) members, while in 1885 there
were 22.000.
D. L. Jones, of Mulberry Grove, III., has
been lodged in jail on the charge of cruelly
whipping a seven-year-old child. Besides
beating the little one, he held its feet on
a red-hot stovo until they were literally
rousted.
RicnARD F. Carew, clerk for the whole-
sale dr3T goods firm of Burnham, Aspel &
Co., of Detroit, has been arrested for steal-
ing several thousand dollars' worth of dry
goods in the past year.
Bank Examiner Stone has found that
the depositors of the Commercial National
Bank of Dubuque, Iowa, will get seventy-
live cents on the dollar.
The fast express on the Michigan Cen-
tral mot with an accident near Burnsides
the other night. Twelve of the passengers
were injured, five seriously. The disaster
was caused by a Wabash freight pluuging
into the express at the crossing.
The five story building at the corner of
Peoria and Lake streets, Chicago, burned
the other night, causing a loss of $115,000;
insurance on the building and contents
aggregate $90,000. Davis & Rankin, manu-
facturers of creamery supplies, occupied
the structure jointly with the Zimmerman
refrigerator factory. Both establishments
were destroyed almost completely.
The remains of the late Chief Justice
Waite were laid to rest at Forest cemetery,
Toledo, O., on the 29th.
The striking Burlington engineers and
switchmen ditched a freight train and
created a riot at Chicago on the 29th. The
trinnmen and their Pinkerton guards were
beaten. For a time matters were extremely
threatening, but at nightfall acquired a
more peaceful aspect.
A terrible explosion occurred in Keith
& Perry's No. 6 mine at Rich Hill, Mo., on
the 2!lth. Five men were taken out dead
and fifteen others seriously injured. It
was believed that others were in the mine
whose rescue alive was despaired of. The
disaster was the worst of its kind ever
known in the West.
The laborers of all kinds on the great
lakes propose to organize a marine trades
council'with-headquarters at Chicago.
Mrs. John GAKLicKinet a shocking death
at the auction and storage house of Ezekiel
& Burnham, Cincinnati, recently. She
attempted to step off before the car stopped,
fell, and her head was caught between the
elevator car and the floor. She was hor-
ribly mangled and was instantly killed.
August Hetzke, of Chicago, wTho whipped
his stepson to death with a strap, has been
sent to the penitentiary for life.
The St. Paul & Milwaukee switchmen
struck again at Chicago on the morning
of the 3<)th on being asked to repair the
damage done by ditching the freight train
the day before. The Burlington strikers
were accused of incendiarism, the round
house at. Aurora, 111., having mysteriously
burned down, causing a loss of $175.000,
and a car boing set on fire at Downer's
Grove.
THE SOUTH*
Silver is said to have been struck in
large quantities in Scott County, Ky., ten
miles from Georgetown.
The Governor of Texas has revoked the
proclamation offering rewards generally
for the arrest of all persons engaged in
train robbing, forming mobs or etherwise
violating the law. Amateur detectives, it
seems, were using the proclamation to
"gouge" the State out of rewards. In all
special cases, as for instance the robbing of
the trains at Flatonia and McNeill, the pro
clamation stands.
Judge S. G. Sharp, chairman of the
Democratic State Executive Committee,
has been nominated and confirmed as
Treasurer pro torn, of the State of Ken-
tucky, successor to defaulter Tate.
The president and cashier of the State
Natioual Bank, of Raleigh, N. C., are re-
ported missing with most of the funds.
Two white men and a negro were killed
and several men wouuded by tbe explosion
of a bo ler in a saw mill at Cookeville,
Tenn., recently.
Thomas P. Miller & Co., private bank-
ers, of Mobile, Ala., have failed with $150,-
000 liabilities and $50,000 assets.
The people of Mississippi wilV hold an
immigration convention at Jackson May 21
An engine and seven fiat cars went
through a small bridge near Austin, Tex.t
the other day, killing W. 8. Taylor, a
brakeman, and injuring six others.
The reunion of the Army of the Potomac
and the Army of Northern Virginia will
be held at Gettysburg, July 1, 2 and 3.
George William Curtis will deliver the ora-
tion. Many noted men aro expected to be
present.
The bodies of two victims of the bl'zeard
were found near Delaware breakwater re-
cently washed up by the sea.
Fire at Coldwater, Miss., the other morn-
ing destroyed ten business houses, causing
£¿0^0 loss.
Dr. Zabludosky has eommenoed to ad-
minister a course of massage treatment to
tbe Emperor of Germany. The doctors are
of the opinion that another loosening ef
cartilage is imminent.
Advices from China are that the crisis in
Hon an is past, but that the distress of the
people is appalling, two million persons be-
ing utterly destitute. The nearest towns
are invaded by hordes of naked and starv-
ing refugees from the flooded districts,
who, like swarms of locusts, are devouring
every thing.
The Russian Government has prohibited
operations by the American Bible Society
in the Baltic provinces. It is probable that
the Govern ment will ultimately expel all
representatives ef British and American
Bible societies.
A mob ef women in Constantinople re-
cently sought to obtain the arrears of pen-
sions due tbeir husbands from the Govern-
ment and besieged the office ©f the Minis-
ter of Finance, whojhad to be secreted to
escape the fury of the women. The mob
killed a woman who was advising them to
make their demands quietly.
An extension of the Burlington strike
was reported probable on the 28th. At St.
Joseph, Mo., a switchman was killed by
the alleged incompetency of one of the
new engineers. The local switchmen
thereupon struck, notifying the manage-
ment that they would only switch for
Brotherhood engineers and making a de-
mand for the redress of other grievances.
A carload of Knights ©f Labor switchmen
wa3 reported to have left Pittsburgh, Pa.,
for Chicago to take the places of the
strikers.
At the Wicklow (Ireland) assizes re-
cently, the moonlighters, Daniel Hayes and
Daniel Moriarty, were found guilty of the
murder of Farmer Fitzmaurice in County
Kerry in January last aud were sentenced
to be hanged.
Charles E. Cross, president, and Sam-
uel C. White, cashier, of the Bank of Ral-
eigh, N. C., have been arrested at Toronto,
Ont., on information telegraphed from Ral-
eigh charging them with forgerjr. Iuside
the lining of Cross' coat was found $9,459
and in White's $15,255. Of this amount
$600 was in unsigned currency bills.
Detective Fahet, of Montreal, has been
sentenced to fourteen years in the peniten-
tiary for robbing the Grand Trunk railway
offices.
Mr. Giliioolt, who, on Ivlarch 10, was
sentenced under the Irish Crimes act to
two months' imprisonment, has been sen-
tenced to an additional terra of two weeks
for assaulting Inspector Hayes.
Business failures (Dun's report) for
seven days ended March 29, numbered for
the United States, 179; Canada, 42; total,
221; compared with 243 the previous week
and 223 for the corresponding week last
year.
King John, of Abyssinia, on the 30th,
proposed terms of peace to General San
Marzano, Commander-in-Chief of the Italian
forces.
Another Ministerial crisis was reported
in France on the 30th caused by the defeat
of the Government in a motion for the
revision of the constitution. The motion
was really a Boulanger question. The
Ministers immediately resigned, and it was
reported President Carnot had requested
M. Floquet to form a Cabinet. The vote
was 26$ to 237.
A powder magazine in the fortress on
the island of Santa Maura, Greece, ex-
ploded recently causing a fire in the for-
tress. The loss of life was not known. The
inhabitants of the island deserted their
homes.
THE LAiJfiSI,
At Hetherarus, Hungary, 120 bouses
have been burned and 700persons rendered
homeless. Two lives were lost in the
flaines. The villages of Mezo, Bereny and
Huudsdorf have been destroyed by lire.
The bark British Princess has been
wrecked off Caminhá, Portugal, and twen-
ty-three persons were drowned. It was
reported that Spanish customs officers pre-
vented the saving of a number of lives by
firing upon a Portuguese lifeboat which
had gone to the rescue.
Clearing house returns for week ended
March 31 showed an average decrease of
25.5 compared with the corresponding week
of last year. In New York the decrease
was 23 4.
The Senate on the 3l3t passed a number
of bills of a minor uature. The House had
the Union Pacific Funding bill under con-
sideration. Several private bills were
passed and the River aud Harbor bill was
introduced.
The International Woman's Council
ondeé at Washington on the 1st, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton delivering the closing ad-
dress.
Amkrican securities were flat on the
London Exchange during the week ended
April 1. Other securities were m de-
mand. In Paris the bourse was steady un-
til the end of the week, wl:en the minis-
terial crisis began to be felt. In Germany
tue bourses were quiet.
Waruen, Ark., and surrounding country
was visited by a disastrous storm recently
and i he colored Baptist Church was com-
pletely destroyed and other buildings
damaged. Twelve miles south the damage
was great, houses and fence* being swept
away and timber blown down. No lives
were lost so far as known.
At the meeting of the Central Labor
Union atNewYo.kon tbe 1st Typographi-
cal Union No. 6 withdrew from member-
ship, forestalling their expulsion for en-
croaching upon the rights of the German
compositors. The Carl Sahin Club and the
Progressive Union also withd-ew.
While Rev. Clayton Mumm and Rev.
John Conrad were walking on the railroad
track. nearBushong's furnace, at Reading,
Pa., recently, tbe Pottsville passenger train
came along and both were rundown. R v.
Mumm died a few minutes after the acci-
dent. Conrad was taken to a hospital, but
his injuries were fataL
The British steamer Swallow was
wrecked February 22 off Namoa island,
China, by striking on the rocks. The
captain and a number of the crew and pas-
sengers saved themselves by clinging to
iigeing. but thirty-one persons, who put
off from the wreck in a small bóat are sup-
posed to be lost.
The German Emperor's amnesty decree
has been issued. The effenses to which it
applies are insulting the sovereign, crimes
and misdemeanors in the exercise of civil
rights, insulting or resisting officers of the
law, disturbing the public order, press of-
fense* and infractions of the law of public
meetings.
THE MILLS TARIFF BILL.
A Glimpse at Its Features as Prepared for
Presentation to the House of Represen.
tatives* and the Arguments on Which Its
Passage will be Urged.
Washington, March 30.-—Although the
Mills Tariff bill will not be reported from
the committee on ways and means to the
House before next Monday, and the state-
ment of the majority is under an injunc-
tion of secrecy, in the hands of the com-
mittee, its contents are well and definitely
known here. The majority report is of
great length, and is largely composed of
an argument in favor of free wool, and
tabular statements, compiled by the
Treasury Department in support of the
statistical assertions which the majority
make. The report begins with the
statement that the surplus accumula-
tion in the treasury last year was
$55,500,000, and that the estimated
surplus of this year is $81,000,000. With
receipts growing larger and expenditures
smaller, it is feared that the accumulation
of money in the treasury will work great
injury to business and bankrupt the people
if Congress does not take some action to
reduce the revenues. One way of making
this reduction is to reduce taxation to the
level of expenditures, and leave in the
pockets of the people all moneys not need-
ed for public purposes. Another way is
to raise the expenditures to the height of
taxation. The latter course the majority
of the committee deem unwise. Attention
is called to past eras when reckless ap-
propriations were made. The committee
have determined to recommend a reduc-
tion of the revenues from both customs
and internal taxation, and have carefully
kept in view the interests of the manu-
facturer, the laborer, the producer and the
consumer. The imperfection of the bill
is recognized, but it is recommended as
the best that could be agreed upon. Our
capacity to produce, it is stated, is far in
excess of the require nients of our home
consumption, and as a consequence many
of our mills are closed and many of those
still in operation are running on short
time. This vicious condition of business
could not exist with low duties on im-
ports. Prohibitory tariffs surround the
country with lines of investment and pre-
vent all life from without, while trusts,
combinations and pools plunder the peo-
ple within.
The interests of the laboring man by the
proposed reduction in the tariff are
pointed out in detail. The consumption of
raw materials which it is proposed to
admit free of duty form the text of the
argument for relief. More extensive
markets for tbe sale of our products and
active competition in business is pointed
out as the remedy for the bad condition of
the manufactures of this country. With
the markets of the world open to us our
manufacturers may run their mills on full
time, giving constant employment to their
laborers with a steadily increased rate of
wages. Elaborate statistics are pro-
duced to make strong these points.
An argument is submitted in support of
the transfer of dutiable articles to the
free list, the revenues upon which now
amount to over $22,000,000. The largest
reduction by the free list is in the woolen
schedule. The majority think there is no
greater need for a duty on wool than there
is for a duty on another raw material.
The recommendations of the wool growers'
and the wool manufacturers' associations
are regarded by the majority as proposing
a duty high enough to keep out all manu-
factures of wool. The change to ad valo-
rem from specific duties made in the bill
are strongly supported.
The minority report will not be made
public until it is presented to the House.
A BLAZING TIME.
Chicago's Fire-Fighters Have an Exciting
Experience Subduing a Conflagration in
Which a Large Husinees Block and Sev-
eral Tenements were Destroyed—Several
Firemen Seriously Injured.
Chicago, March 30.—Shortly after mid-
night fire destroyed the Davis & Rankin
block, at Lake and Peoria streets, to-
gether with several tenement houses and
cottages adjoining, causing a loss of about
$000,000. The block was a live-story brick.
125x150, and was occupied by half a dozen
firms, the largest being Davis & Rankin,
dealers in creamery supplies. In the
building were also Zimmerman &
Co., refrigerator manufacturers; Line,
Weaver & Co., fruit cans; the
Goss Printing and Press Company,
Lintholm Picture Frame Company, Chica-
go Egg Condensing Company and the
Steele Keye Drive Chain Company. The
fire was a furious one and a 4-11 alarm
called out thirty engines. The blading
building towered above a nest of closely-
huddled frame houses, occupied mostly by
workingmen. These little houses sur-
rounded the big block, and every wall
crushed a home. The fire was one of inci-
dents, narrow escapes*of firemen follow-
ing each other in quick succession, and it
was remarkable that no one was
killed. Marshal Murphy, with com-
panies Nos. 17 and 34, made
his way to the fourth floor, while
truck 2's men were on the floor below.
Suddenly there was an explosion of hot
air that knocked down everv man on the
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fourth floor. All were badly bruised. The
names of the men are: Assistant-Marshal
Murphy, Captain Anderson, Lieutenant
Sioat, Pipeman John McDonald. Pipeman
J. J. Leahy, Pipeman John Goodman,
Pipeman William Cannon and Driver Ben
Allison, of No. IT, and Captain Weber,
Lieutenant Lynch and Pipemen Haas,
Kelly and Leser, of No. 34, and Pipeman
Kirkland, of No. 13. Anderson and Kirk-
land were the most badly used, but all
scrambled down the stairway and escaped.
Most of them remained on duty, though it
will be some days before they recover
from the effects of the explosion. The
total loss will probably reach $300,000.
Davis & Rankin owned the building,
which cost them $110.000 t^ro years ago.
The owners had over .$60,000 worth oí
stock, machinery and fixtures. The build-
ing and stock were insured for $#0.000.
Goss & Co. lose $50,000, insured for $25,-
000. The loss of the other firms will
bring the figures up to about $300.000. Nc
one seems to know what started the fire,
but the watchman is sure it started on the
top floor.
During the time of its progress it was
one of the most stubborn and difficult fire?
to deal with that aas been sy perlenced in
a long time.
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COAL MINE DISASTER.
Terrible Calamity i a Rich
Coal Mine.
Workmen Entombed by a Gas Explosion-
A Score or More Taken Out Dead
aud Others Yet to Follow—Ter-
rible Scenes*
Ríen Hlli, Mo., March 30.— An explosions
of natural gas occurred in miue No. 6 ot"
the Keith & Perry Coal Company, located
about three miles west of the city, near the
Rich Hill Gas Company's natural gas well,,
shortly after twelve o'clock noon yester-
day. There are about 100 men employed in
this mine, but at tbe time of the explosion
only about thirty were below. Attempts-
were at once made to rescue the unfortu-
nate men, and eight miners had been
brought to the surface alive when a second
explosion occurred at 3:30o'clock, at which,
time Superintendent George Sweeney and
five miners were in the shaft at work, all
of whom were more more or less burned,
but uone dangerously.
The scene about the mouth of the shaft,
where the wives, mothers and relatives of
the miners, wild with the agony of sus-
pense over the unknown fate of their loved
ones were collected was heartrending.
The mines wereexamined about two weeks
ago by Mine Inspector Wolfe and pro-
nounced safe.
At two o'clock this morning a telephone-
message was received from the mine to tho^
effect that fifteen men had been taken out
the mine, fourteen of them alive. Mr.
Manviilo, who is alert and doing ail possi-
ble, is of the opinion that so long as the*
men taken out are not all dead it could not
have been due to gas but to powder. He
holds that gas always burns the oxygen
and no one could live under such circum-
stances.
later account.
Rich Hill, Mo., March 31.—It was al-
most four o'clock yesterday morning wben
the full extent of the calamity at the Keith
& Perry coalmine was known. At that hour
five had been taken from the mine dead,
fifteen alive and fourteen orfilteen were
known to be still in the mine. A final and
desperate, attempt was made to reack
these, and it came very nearly costing two
of the would-be rescuers their lives. They
were unable to accomplish any thing, but-
they saw stretched out upon the bottom of
the mine the dead bodies of their com-
rades. It was then definitely known that
all who remained in tbe mine had been
suffocated, and the exhausted crews sus-
pended work until daylight. The list of
the dead, according to the best informa-
tion that it is possible to obtain, is as fol-
lows :
The dead—Charles Smith, colorad; George
May, white; G. C. McPherson, white;.
Frank Lawler, white; Jordan Smith, col-
ored; Joshua Trickle; John Roberts,
white; George Black, colored; C. Black,
colored; W. Black, colored; H. Sheppard,
colored; J. C. Neptune, white; John Lof-
tier, white; Charles Kay, white; John
Gray, white; Bruce Brown, white; L. R.
Dixon, white; Fred Henderson, colored;,
W. H. Hill, colored; Alexander White, col-
ored; Gibson McFerron, white. Of the
above Trickle and Roberts died after hav-
ing been rescued, and the fourteen last
named are the imorisoned miners who
were suffocated in the west end.
The injured are: N. B. Gray, Norman
Gray, G. R. Sweeney, M. Dullahaunt,.
George Henry, Robert Dick, Charles Small-
wood, C. J. Neptune, William Young, R.
Mason, Frank Jac kson, W. Richards. J. L.
Williams, F.t Fernando, C. W. Roberts,
Arch Marshall, Joha Lucas, D. C. Jones.
This list includes Superintendent Swee-
ney and those who went down with him
after the first explosion aud were caught
and burned in the second. Most of the in-
jured were desperately hurt, two having
died yesterday. The fatalities will proba-
bly number thirty.
Later—The scenes around the shaft were
heartrending during the entire day. Up to
noon yesterday twenty had been taken out^
five of whom were dead. Four of the liv-
ing who were taken out have s.nee died.
Several others are in a dangerous con-
dition.
Seven more dead miners have beens taken
out aud seven more are known to be yet in
the mine, but are at points hard to reach,
iind it is difficult to find volunteers to go-
down and make the searcH.
Those minors who had risked their lives
to rescue the buried living, and bring to
the surface the dead, are from the mines of*
the Rich Hill Coal and Mining Company,,
under charge of Superintendent Joseph T.
Reavely, who, after Mr. George Sweeney,
of the Keith & Perry Coal Company was-
severely burned, volunteered his services^,
and has since been in charge of the ex-
ploded mine, and to whose careful work
good judgment and courage, is largely due
the success of the rescuing corps.
All uigat men were at work in the search
for the liviug and the dead, notwithstand-
ing the mine was so filled with natural gas-
that it burned above «the regular blaze of
the arc safety lamp usod.
The lower end of the double cage shaft-
had been crushed in the bottom, leaving it.
in a wedge shape, point down, and six feet
or more of slate and clay had fallen m
around this, preventing either crib reach-
ing the bottom. This was ail removed and
one crib is ruaning to lbwar the rescuing
corps and brin/ out the dead.
The only shaft the mine had wa* a sec-
tion of the main shaft, partitioned off, about
three by seven feet. This was blown to
pieces or into the south crib, necessitating
the converting of the south half of the crib*
shaft into an air shaft. Superintendent
Reavely kept the engine forcing sprays or
water inte this air shaft for four hours, at-
the end of whioh time it was only possible
for any one to enter the mine proper.
There seems to be no question but that
the explosion was caused from natural
gas, which abounds in the earth at and be-
low the depth of this mine in a large sec-
tion of country south aud west, frequent
explosions and great damage and loss oí
life having occurred heretofore.
The rescued dead are most horribly
burned, and present a horrible sight and
sickening smell of burnt human flesh
ready to drop from the bones!
In some cases past recognition ex-
cept by some other than personal evidence.
Dr. Rice, county coroner, was a* the m;n«
yesterday, and the inquest will be h*!d to-
day. The \arze blacksmith aud ca-nenier-
shop close by is b^iug used us a iaurgae.
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Miller, Freeman E. The Canadian Crescent. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1888, newspaper, April 5, 1888; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183555/m1/6/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.