Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1887 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A tank of gasoline exploded at Chattanooga, Tenn., and spread •with great rapidity to the grocery store of J. Moering and the Morgan House, a three-story frame building. The occupants barely escaped with their lives. Henry Iler and Peake, firemen, were buried in a mass of debris by a falling wall. Iler was killed and Peake so badly burned and bruised that he will die. Humphrey Reeves, manager of the Standard Gas Machine and Economizer Company, was blown out of the building, across the street, with his clothes ablaz He threw himself into the gutter and extinguished the fire, but not until he was horribly burned. James Reynolds and W. D. Miller, of Washington, D. C., two white men. and a negro named Peter Jones were also terribly burned. Several firemen were slightly injured and some overcome by heat The financial loss is about $9,000, partly insured. The celebration of tho Confederate Memorial Association was held at Staunton, Va., Thursday. Governor Lee introduced the Federal General, W. W. Averill, of New York, and the latter made an eloquent address. “Of all the triumphs” he had ever witnessed “this victory of'peace to-day is the proulest and most satisfactory.” At A A. Delong’s place, near Lexington, Ky., a fine Shetland pony deliberately hung itself with a rope swing in the yarl