Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — MET A TERRIBLE FATE. [ARTICLE]

MET A TERRIBLE FATE.

HUNDREDS OF HELPLESS MINERS ENTOMBED. Storms Spread Ruin and Death in the West —More Nominations by the President— Cashier Flood, of San Francisco, Made a Big Haul. Welsh Colliery Horror. . A frightful mine accident occurred Tuesday in Wales A spark from an engine ignited the gas in the coal-pit near Pont-y-Pridd and caused the gas to explode. Three hundred mlneis are entombed in thfe mine. The engine-house burned, and there is the greatest fear that hundreds may have perished. The rescuers who went down were driven back without being able to bring up more than five of the dead. The fate of tbe other miners is in doubt. The most agonizing scenes were witnessed, and throngs of men, women, and children, relatives of those below, crowded about the mouth of the coal pit. Later advices do not lighten tbe calamity, and the worst fate is feared for hundreds of miners. SWEPT BY CYCLONES. Several Lives Lost and Much Property Destroyed in the West. The Upper Missouri Valley Tuesday night was visited by the most severe storm of recent years. Akron. lowa, is almost swept away. Farm property surrounding was badly damaged or. wiped out. The loss in this vicinity will aggregate 1160,000. —Page, Neb., also suffered severely.— Sioux City was just on the edge of tbe storm, and received such a pelting from hail as she never before experienced. It is feared some lives were lost at Akron, while at Page it is known three were killed At Westfield, Neb., one was killed.—Willis,Everest,and Powhattan, In Southern Kansas, were laid in ruins, and at Robinson a 14-year-old boy was killed— Parser, a small mission town, was com; pletely wrecked, and several fatalities are reported. Page City is said to be swept away. The river front at fit Louis felt the full force of the storm. The steamer Pike was blown away and it is feared sunk with five men. The city was flooded. Several other vessels were torn from their mo wrings and have not reported. If they are lost the damage to shipping and land property will reach $200,000.

FAT PLUMS GIVEN OUT. Daniel N. Morgan Nominated for United States Treasurer. Several Important nominations were sent In by the President Tuesday. Tbe full list of nominations is as follows: Daniel N. Morgan, of Connecticut, to be Treasurer of the United States, vice Enos H. Nebeker, resigned; Conrad N. Jordan, of New York, to be Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York City, vice Ellis H. Roberts, resigned; Edward H. Strobel, of New York, to be Third Assistant Secretary of State, vice William M. Grinnell, resigned; Henry V. Johnson, of Colorado, to be Attorney of the United States for the distrlctof Colorado; Charles B. Bellinger, of Oregon, to be United States District Judge for tho distrlctof Oregon; William K. Reid, of Utah, to be Judge of Probate in the county of San Petre, territory of Utah; Daniel M. Browning, of Illinois, to be Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Frank C. Armstrong, of Washington, D. C., to be Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs. BOTH SIDES RE-ENFORCED. Troops Imperatively Needed to Prevent an Outbreak at Antlers. Secretary Hoke Smith Tuesday received the following telegram from Agent Bennett at Muskogee, I T. : Am reliably advised that both factions of Choctaws are being re-enforced strongly. Troops should be sent to Antlers as quickly as possible. I will go there when advised troops have started. Telegram just received from Atoka says: “One hundred mon going to location of troubles if government does not interfere. ” Have wired their leaders that you have asked War Department to send troops to prevent domestic strife and preserve peace. As requests have already been made upon the War Department to have troops sent to the locality to preserve tbe peace, no further action will be taken by the Secretary other than to furnish the War Department with a copy of the agent’s telegram.

GOT AWAY WITH 8104,000. Ex-Cashier Flood Arrested for Embezzling Funds of a San Francisco Bank. James Flood, who was forced to resign last week as cashier of the Donohue & Kelly Bank, at San Francisco, because of Irregularities in his accounts, was arrested Monday night on a warrant charging him •with embezzling $194,000 of the bank’s funds. When Flood first retired his friends said he could make good his shortage, which was caused by overdrafts by one of his assistants. Flood transferred his real estate to the bank, but since then it has been found that his shortage Is heavy. Be spent the whole amount in a single year. He had been twenty-seven years with the bank and his employers had so much confidence In him that they never had experts examine his books Indiana Tax Cases. Chief Justice Fuller has announced the decision of the Supreme Court upon the petition of counsel In the Indiana railroad tax cases to advance them on the docket. The petition was granted and the cases set down for argument on the second Monday of next term. In these cases is Involved the constitutionality of the new tax law in Indiana, the railroads holding that the law permits and the tax officers exercise a practically confiscatory rate as applied to the property of the corporations. In the Btate courts the law has been upheld. Murderer Arrested. Charles Salyards is under arrest at Winchester, Va.. charged with murdering Policeman Martin, of Carlisle, Pa. There was a reward of SI,OOO for him. Killed by an Explosion. An explosion in the fcctory of the Chicago Bubber Works, at Grand avenue and West Ohio streets, killed one man and badly wrecked the building. The dead man’s name is Fogerty. Be was one of the company’s employes. A defective heater used In the preparation of rubber caused the explosion. Court Orders Death by Shooting. At Provo, Utah, sentence was passed by Judge Blackburn upon Enoch Davis, whc murdered his wi£e at Ashley, Utah, in July, 1892. It was ordered that Davis be taker _lato the courthouse yard at Provo on the 9th day of June, 1893, and shot Four Bonded Warehoossoe Bam. The four bonded warehouses of the Glenmore Distilling Company, above Owensboro. Ky.. on the Ohio Bi ver. were destroyed by fire. 18.95" .barrels of whisky being burned. The loss is estimated at $350,000. The fire was caused by sparks from the distillery. and for five hours the flames raged furiously. _ Singular Fatality. fiaasuel Weist died at Kansas City. Ma, o* protracted hemorrhage of the gums. •Purplo spots appeared on his limbs, hands sad trunk. Monday morning he began bleeding at the mouth. Efforts were made t«stop the flow of blood, but to no avail

WILD WORK OF WINDS. Hailstones as Big as Biscuits Shot Through Plate-Glass Windows. Ten thousand furies swept down from the skies at sunset Friday evening in Chicago, and when the rush, rattle, and roar of the southwest wind had ceased a square mile of the South fiide looked like a cy-clone-swept section of a Kansas town. The ground was strewn with hailstones as big as biscuits, trees were twisted and yanked from the ground, bill-boards piled into heaps of kindling wood, countless window lights shattered. and tbe streets filled with terror-stricken people. Little children were caught at play and driven to the ground by the howling gale and storm of ice, and In three instances fell victims under the hoofs of maddened horsei Terrinc at firsts the hurricane gained velocity with each second, and witli thp growing speed the fall of ice increased until it was impossible to see the distance of the street’s width. Harder and harder it pelted and lou ier and louder it roared until the alt became filled with flying boards and bits of branches, and the frightened householders expected each blast to be their doom. Plate-glass windows went in with a tremendous crash, the street cars held crowds of huddling passengers as the stones smashed through tbe windows and then was not an unscared soul In the district. Noone was killed, but over SIOO,OOO damage was done. STRANGE FATALITY IN A FAMILY. Six Die tn a Short Space from Diseases and Two May Not Live. Near Deatsville, in Elmore County, Ala., out of the Seeger family of nine or ten persons living in good health a little over a week ago, only three are now living, twc of whom are at the point of death and are not expected to recover. The strangest thing about the singular fatality is that they are all supposed to have died of natural causes. '1 he family has been living at that place for sixty years and it is not thought the sickness is dbe to any local cause. BOUGHT BY SPRECKLES. The Sugar King Invests #IOO,OOO in a Coffee Plantation in Mexico. Tbe large coffee plantation near Cordova, in the State of Vera Cruz, has been purchased by Claus Spreckles, the San Francisco sugar king, for $100,060. He proposes to attract Americans with moderate capital into this lucrative business. Even the proposed export tax will not reduce profits at present rates more than 1 cent a pound, leaving 10 cents net profit There Is a regular boom in coffee lands all over tbe southern portion of the republic.

Advance in Wheat. R. G. Dun & Ca’s weekly review of trade says: ‘ Speculation has been renewed in wheat, with an advance hereof about two cents on sales of 32,000,000 bushels. Western receipts were 2,300,000 bushels in four days and Atlantic exports only 700.000 bushels, and the stocks in sight continue unprecedented. Corn dropped one-half cent and one and three-quarters on small transactions, while pork fell $1 per barrel, lard 60 cents, and hogs 80 cents per 100 pounds. Cotton also declined a quarter, with continuing full receipts from p’antatlons, but recovering an eighth because of better buying at Liverpool. Coffee has declined fiveeighths of a cent with small sales. Copper was weaker at 11% cents for lake, and tin Is unchanged, while lead is hardening at 4.05 cents, but the tone of speculative markets generally is not enthusiastic. Released from Prison. Mrs. Anne Margaret Montague, wife of Robert Atchison Crotnle Montague, who is a grandson of the sixth .Duke of Manchester, was released from the Dublin prison Tuesday. Mrs Montague was convicted just a year ago of tho manslaughter of her child, Mary Helen, aged 3 years, and sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment, “with such labor as was suitable to the sex of the prisoner.” Cruelly Stallbed to Death. While drunk at Waverly, Ohi”, David Williams, Jr., and Frederick Allman engaged In an altercation. The result was that Allman received two deep cuts in the back at tbe hands of Willlama Both the wounds penetrated his lungs and he bled to death. Williams fled. Nice Society Pet. John W. Taylor, of Covington. Ky., was arrested at Cincinnati for stealing tobacco by the hogshead from his employers, the Globe Tobacco Company. He stole, he said, because his salary of $1,200 did not enable him to move in the society he liked.

Shaken by an Earthquake, A earthquake was felt In Edgefield district. Charleston, S. C., Friday. Two shocks occurred. No damage was done beyond frightening people out pt their houses Two distinct shocks of earthquake were felt at Lincolnton, Ga. Cotton Brokers Fall. The failure Is announced of Werthemelr & Ca, Liverpool cotton brokers, for £70,000. James Bertols & Ca and Marks & Ca, cotton brokers, have also failed, owing to the suspension of Werthemelr ,& Ca Edward Should Have Minded His Business. Edward Rake was shot fatally at Newport, Ky., by Joseph Shields for Inducing Mrs. Rake, his sister-In-law, to leave her husband. Killed Their Boy. Mr. and Mrs. Grasser, of Valley City, N. D., gave their 4-year-old boy a drink of whisky. Half an hour afterward the child died. Flimsy Buildings, Two hotel buildings at tbe World’s Fair grounds were blown down by a light wind. The loss is over $30,000.