Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1888 — THE WESTERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN STATES.

John R. De Camp, the indicted cashier of the late Metropolitan Bank at Cincinnati, has been surrendered by one of his bondsmen. A dispatch from Rich Hill, Ma, a mining town on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, 100 miles south of Kansas City, gives the following brief account of a horrible colliery disaster:

About 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon there was a rumbling sound in mine No. 6at this place, and a moment afterward a fearful explosion occurred that entirely wrecked the mine apd buried in the debris over a hundred miners, who were cut off from all means of escape. Up to the hour of sending this dispatch forty bodies have been taken out, and at least fifteen more are expected to have met a similar fate. The Superintendent of the mine was taken out badly injured, but will survive. In the terrible excitement and confusion it is impossible to give a list of names, or even an estimate as to the full extent of the disaster, but it is now thought that over sixty men were killed.

A labge five-story building on the corner of Lake and Peoria streets, Chicago, was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of >250,000. Several firemen were seriously injured by an explosion of heated air. At Kearney, Neb., Albert Murrish killed his wife and shot and fatally wounded his hired man, Thomas Patterson. The Supreme Court of Illinois, says a Chicago special, has just affirmed a judgment for $25,000 recovered in May, 1885, by Isaac Holland against the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company. Holland was a conductor for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad and recurved permanent injuries in a collision between a dummy train of that company and a freight train of the Eastern Illinois. He will never recover from the effects of the accident, and is now bedridden, and will probably always remain so. With costs and interest, the amount is $30,000, and this sum has just been paid to the attorneys for Hoiland by tho railroad. The verdict is the largest one for personal injuries ever sustained in Illinois.

The Northwestern Railroader, of Minneapolis, publishes a summary of the entire cost of the Western rate war now ending to the railroad companies involved. There have been just fifty working days since the first cut was made, and the loss is shown to have been $15,000,000 in that time. It is stated that in thirty counties in Illinois the winter wheat crop will fall off about 30 per cent; and that in eighteen counties in Missouri the reduction will be 20 per cent