Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1891 — MANY BURNED ALIVE. [ARTICLE]

MANY BURNED ALIVE.

MURDERERS RUN AMUCK IN MISSOURI. Heavy Bains Cause Washouts In North Dakota—An Ohio Preacher Umpires a Game of Base-Ball Played by Ladies. A dispatch from Nanaimo, B. G, Bays: The steamer Princess Louisa, from Skeena, brings news of a terrible landslide on the banks of the Skeena Eiver, resulting in the death of one woman>nd about forty Indians. Those residing near the Northern Pacific Cannery at Skeena River heard a great rushing noise In the direction of the high, steep mountain at the back of the cannery. In a moment an avalanche of rocks and earth and trees was upon the doomed settlement, carrying everything before It into the slough close by the cannery. The occupants of the houses had time to get outside the buildings, but before they could escape from the advancing column of debris, they were caught and carried along at a fearful velocity. In all nine houses and their occupants were destroyed, including the mess-house and residence of the foreman of the cannery. In the mess-room was the young Swedish wife of the foreman. She was carried along in the mad and deadly current, and dashed to death hundreds of feet be ow. Indians claim that among those destroyed were about forty Indians of the Port Simpson, Sitka, Motlakahla, and Kitimiat tribes. Two days after the slide thirteen bodies of the Indians were recovered. The body of the foreman’s wife has not yet been found, but there is not the slightest hope for any living thing within the range of the terrible slide of bowlders, trees, and earth. The slide just missed the cannery building about two feet. Had the slide struck the cannery or occurred half an . hour earlier, the death-roll would have reached into the hundreds. It had been raining in torrents for the previous four days, and it Is thought that the accumulation of water in tho ravines on the mountain side broke away, carrying death and destruction with it. The Indians are greatly excited over the disaster, and are mourning bitterly for their dead.

STORMS STOP THE TRAINS.

Bail Washouts Reported In North Dakota —Damage In City and Country. Specials from various points in North Dakota report heavy rains for fortyeight hours, which have caused trany washouts on the railroads and much destruction to property. Between 300 and 400 west-bound passengers on the Northern Pacific were stopped at Mandan, N. D Tremendous rains washed out a lar.e number of small bridges and culvcris and track west of this point All the bridges that are gone are small those of the Heart River be ! ng all intact Tho Hejart River is running hank full, and is rising. In Mandan most of the sidewalks were lifted and scattered along the street Numbers of cellars are full, and a good deal of damage done. Tho rain extended from west of Medora to Jamestown and poured in torrents for several hours. This supposed arid region has enough rain now to insure a bounteous crop. At Dickinson, N. D., the rain was worse than at first-supposed. Crews of track repairers are working both east and west repairing heavy washouts Westbound passengers were de.ayed forty-eight hours. S.reams are rising rapidly and it has commenced to rain again. Farmers will sustain damages from lodged grain.

MURDERS AND SUICIDES. A Jealous Ex-Policeman's Crnel Coed— Double Tragedy on the Road from ( h'lrch. Ex-Policeman Crowley, of Kansas City. Mo., who has been married only six months, shot and killed his wife, of whom he was insanely jealous. He then turned the weapon on himself, but inflicted only a scalp wound. Running down to the kitchen, Crowley snatched up a carving knife and attempted to cut his throat, but made only slight gashes. Crowley, fearing vio’enco from the large crowd attracted by the disturbance' ran up the street, the crowd pursuing him crying “lynch him, hang him,” and throwing rocks and other missiles at him. He wai protected by the police with drawn revolvers. Crowley’s injuries are not serious. Murder and seif-slaughter were committed at Toos, nine miles southwest of St. Louis, Mo. Frand lacleman, tho teacher of the Catholic church, and Joseph 1-rank were coming from mass at 9 o clock when T rank 1 red at Bacleman with a revolver The bullet took effect but did noi kill, but the second shot did. Frank then, in the presence of a hundred or more people, turned the revolver against himself a id took his own life. Had he not done so he won Id have been lynched. No reason can b) assigned for tho deed.

BELLES AT THE RAT.

Society Girls Play Ram-Unll, with a # Preacher Acting: ns limp re. Tho society girls at Washington, Ohio, have dropped the tennis racquet and taken up the base-ball bat An exciting and amusing game was played between a nine they have just organized and a picked nine of the society young men. Tho Rev. S. B. Aldorson, D. D , a prominent Presbyterian minister of the pla-e, and an enthusiast on base-ball, stood behind the bat as umpire, and dodged the foul tips with great agility. The young men played left-handed, so as to give the girls a fair chance. The score score 3tood 22 to 17 in favor of the young men. The girls say they will not play in public or travel. They belong to the best families. * Hannibal Hamlin was a candidate for Congress the year President Harrison's grandfather was elected President And yet Hamlin’s career was considerably shorter than that of Josiah Quincy, who saw the whole of the revolution and nearly .the whole of the rebellion, for he was born in 1772 and died In i&fg'. He saw Washington and exchanged letters with Lincoln.— Buffalo Courier. A man named Hutrh, living in Fancy Bottom, near Weston, Mo, stole a wagon load of corn from Mrs. Mary Bland, a widow, and started to town with it, but got stuck in the mud before he was a mile away, and had to abandon the corn and wagon, both of which are now in tho possession of the w dow. San Fbancisco has 4,500 saloons or places where liquor is sold at retail. If the populat'on of the city is 330,000, there is one saloon to every 73 persons. If the voting population is .-,0,000, there is a saloon for evory 13% votes. ,