Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1884 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

An explosion in the West Leisenring shaft In the Connellsville (Pa.) region caused the death by injury or suffocation of nineteen men. Twelve were rescued so badly wounded that they cannot live. Heartrending scenes were enacted in the miners’ homes after the recovery of the bodies. The steamship Frisia arrived at New York last week with the bodies of Lieut. De Long and comrades in steel-bound packages. Ten hearses conveyed them to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. At New York John Gassman beat Peter Golden and all previous amateur records in a thirty-five mile race, making the distance in 4 hours 22 minutes 42 seconds. Salmi Morse, of New York, who became notorious through his efforts to establish the “Passion play” in that city, fifing himself Into the Hudson River, whence his corpse was taken. It has been ascertained that Abbott, the absconding cashier of the Union Market National Bank, of Watertown, Mass., abstracted $66,000. The jewelry stores of Emanuel Marks, at Troy, N. Y., was robbed of diamonds, watches, and trinkets valued at over $50,030. Entrance was obtained by cutting through a twelve-inch wall from an adjoining building. The Coroner’s jury investigating the West Leisenring mine horror censured the company and the mine inspector for negligence. The relatives of the victims will now bring suits for damages.