Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1889 — Page 1

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NEARLY A HUNDRED KILLED

A TERRIBLE RAILROAD DISASTER. An 'Excursion Train Loaded With Sanday. School Children Wrecked Xear Dablln, Ireland Nearly a Hundred Were Frightfully Mangled. Dcblin, June 12. A train containing an excursion party from Armagh was wrecked near that place this afternoon. The train contained 1,200 persons, composed of methodist Sunday-school scholars, their teachers and relatives. They were going on an excursion to Warren Point. Dispatches from Armagh show that the accident resulted in a frightful loss of life. Seventy bodies have been taken from the wreck and there are others buried under the debris. "Warren Point, the place where the party was bound, is a watering place at the mouth of the Netvry river in county Down. The excursion party left Armagh this morning on two trains. The accident occurred at a point where the trains had to ascend a grade on a bant fifty feet high. The first train ascended the rade without trouble. The second section attempted the ascent, but the weight of the train proved too great for the engine. Several cars were detached and allowed to run back toward the level track, but before they reached it they came in collision with an ordinary train from Armagh, which was proceeding at a good, rate of speed. The excursion cars were completely wrecked. The scene which ensued was heartrending. Hosts of volunteers were soon at hand and the dead and wounded were taken from the wreck and carried down the bank. Medical aid was called and a special train from Belfast brought to the scene twenty surgeons from that city and s number of medical men from other places between Belfast and Armagh. The disaster is unparalleled in the railroad history of Ireland. The accident has cast a gloom over Armagh. All the shops were closed this afternoon, and the people are in general mourning. The engineer, fireman and guard of the train and the traffic manager's clerk were summoned before a magistrate, and were remanded on the charge of being responsible for the accident. The brake power of the engine of the third train was inadequate. While the second train was ascending the incline, the engineer remarked to the fireman: "I am afraid we can't do it.'' The following train was commencing the ascent, when the engineer saw the runaway cars. Shutting olT the steam and reversing the lever, the engineer and fireman jumped from the engine, shoutin? to the passengers to do likewise. The latter, however, not hearing the cries, did not obey. No one was injured on that train. The engine was hurled sixty feet down an embankment. The carriage that ran into the engine was shattered to splinter?, and fragments of dress, umbrellas, etc., were scattered hundreds of yards. A dozen corp6es were found beneath the engine in a parboiled condition. Some of the occupants of the runaway cars tried to f-scape, but the doors were locked. The front part of the train started back in pursuit of the runaway cars and the passengers saw the collision at a distance of r00 yards. A car-driver named Hughes, who visited the scene of the disaster, was so horrified at the sight that he died on the spot. His rorpee was taken to Armagh in his own cart. Another account of the disaster says the engineer of the second train, finding his engine powerless to pull the train up the steep grade, unlinked several of the cars, with the object of taking the front portion of the tram to the next station and returning for the remainder. Heavy stones were places behind the wheels of the detached cars to prevent them from flipping, but the locomotive on restarting gave the whole train a shunt that displaced the stones. The result was that the detached cars began to slip backward down the grade, their speed gradually increasing until they had attained a frightful velocity. After running four miles they crushed with terrific force into the third train at a point about a mile and a half from Armagh. The shrieks of the children were horrible. The bodies of the victims were arranged in rows as soon as recovered. Many were mangled beyond recognition. There is scarcely a family in Armagh that has not some one dead. The embankment on which the accident occurred is seventy feet high. Many touching scenes were witnessed. The children bore their injuries with great patience. Wrecking gangs are at work clearing away the debris. A private of the Irish fu5ilcer3, before the collision, jumped on the foot plate of one of the cars and dropped four children to the ground. He then offered to assist others to escape, but his offer was refused. In many cases whole families were killed. Crowds of people are visiting the scene of the disaster, and the air is rent with lamentations. Before startinz on the fatal excursion the children paraded through the streets of Armagh with Mags and banners, and the town's folk turned out almost en masse to wish them a happy holiday. The. party of excursionists included ministers, teachers, the parents of some of the children and a iew other adulis. The train consisted of fifteen carriages. The bulk of the children were in the front portion of the train. Onlv about one dozen children were killed. The majority of the victims were about twenty years of age. They were in the last carriage, which was completely smashed. 1 he scenes on the identification of victims by friends or relatives were painful in tho extreme. All the bodies have now been taken from tho wreck. The total killed is seventy-two, of which sixty-four have been identified. At the formal inquest this evening the magistrate said it appeared on the face of it that there had been most culpable negligence. Attempted Murder and Suicide. Cincinnati, Jone 17. Late this afternoon the police were notified of a murder and attempted midde in a houe on Turner alley, in the western part of the city. They found Mrs. Nicholas Pearl dead, with her throat cut, and her husband with an ugly gash in hia throat He was taken to the hospital, and talked in an incoherent manner of bavin? concluded that it was better that his wife should die. lie is seventy-one years of age. They came from a farm rear Norih Vernon, Ind., tome months ago. Neighbors say they have had many quarrel. Stole From an Etate. Cinonsatt, Jone 17. William H. Meyer, a carpet salesman at Alms & Doepke's dry goods tore, was arrested to-day on s charge of baring embezzled $12,G60 ot the estate of minor of whom be was guardian several years ago. '

DON'T LIKE THE SERVICE.

The Lutheran Synod May Lay Aside The New Commaion Service. Pittsburg, June 15. The proceedings today of the Lutheran synod are likely to attract widespread interest among the members of that organization. At the session this morning a committee rather startled the members by the reading of a report that favored the adoption of the old common service of the church which several years ago was laid aside for the new, and it was supposed, much improved one. This blow at the new service in use in the Lutheran churches throughout the country was the signal for a vigorous controversy which was continued until adjournment. The common or liturgical service represents the labor of eight years, and was prepared by some of the most competent men of the church. It was adapted and placed in use in the Lutheran churches two years ago, or immediately after its completion and adoption. Since then, however, there have been certain murmurings on tue part of some against the new common service and in faver of the old. These objections took shape in the formal allegations made during th present session of synod by Dr. Gotthold of Springfiel J. O. The allegations were made against the committee which had prepared the new communion service. The allegation was that the committee had not taken the service from the source from which it should have been taken or the liturgies of the sixteenth century, but from later sources discriminating against the simpler forms of the earlier period. The committee appointed to consider the question reported the allegations in a measure sustained, but declared it did not have in its possession evidence sufficient to condemn the committee. The committee, however, recommended the republication and continuation of the old service. There seemed to be considerable doubt among the members of the synod as to whether the committee submitting its report this morning intended to report favoring the abolishment of the new service entirely or only in favor of the re-adoption of the old one by such churches as preferred the use of it. The matter is to be turther discussed. It is likely that the 6ynod will sanction the use of the old service or liturgical form by tho congregations wishing to use it. REVIEW OF TRADE. The Better Feeling In Trade Continues Less Favorable Crop Reports. New York, June 14. R, G. Dun & Co.'a weekly review ot trade says: "The better feelin; which was observed a week ago in the iron and steel and the wool industries still continues and improvement h now felt in price as well as in magnitude of transactions. Meanwhile exports of merchandise increase, and nevertheless gold goes abroad in large amounts, about $3,5C0,A0 having been ordered for shipment today. But in these two weeks of June the value of merchandise exports from New York gains 20 per cent, over last year. The exports of breadstuff's, cotton, provisions and oil for May were 12) j per cent aboe last year's. These facts point to a smaller but yet considerable excess of imports over exports this year, so that the outward movement of specie is fully explained, irrespective of trading in securities, but in these it is still the impression that foreign sales exceed purchases. The news as to railroad properties is more favorable. A proposition to settle the northwestern controversy on the basis of an allowance of W per cent, of the through freight to the lake lines is expected to be accepted. Other difficulties are in more satisfactory shape, and earnings continue in excess of last years. The general average of prices has again advanced a little. - Report from other cities indicate improvement in trade at Cleveland and Pittsburg, and in the wool and grocery trades at Philadelphia, but are otherwise but little changed. Collections show no improvement on the whole. Especial activity in leather has resulted from the floods in regions where many tanneries are located, and crop leather has advanced fully 2 cents since June 1. The glass trade of Pittsburg is fair. For anthracite coal there is better demand with reduced output. The sales of southern iron continues large, and prices or pig at Pittsburg are rather lower, but the Thomas iron company has advanced its quotations to $17 for No. 1. Better prices are realized for structural and plate iron, and a tenth of a cent better for bar iron, while the larger demand for steel rails has so stiffened the price that ?2S is now quoted. Part of the demand resulting from the necessity of rebuilding works, bridges and road destroyed by flood is but temporary, and yet the consumption otherwise must be on a scale hardly ever surpassed, since prices stiren, with raw iron coming into marketat the rate of more than 7,(X)0nX tons yearly. BreadstuSs are stronger. Less favorable crop reports are the pretext; probably excessive speculative sales are the cause. Coffee has receded a Ji'c. Pork products and hogs are lower, but oil has advanced ljjc. The rise in raw sugar continues, 41c per 100 lbs for the week, and refined has been marked up to PKc for granulated. No disturbance results in the money market here from the heavy exports of gold, in part because during the past week the treasury has paid out 3,'j00,000 more than it ha taken. The business failures number 2r0, as compared with a toUl of 22.5 last week, and 215 the wees previous. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 232. MR. CLEVELAND'S LETTER Accepting Membership In the Maryland Tariff Reform Club. Baltimore, June 13. Ex-President Cleveland has written the following letter to the secretary of the Maryland tariff reform club, under date of June 11: Your letter informing me of my election as an honoray member of the Maryland tariff reform club, is received. I accept the courtesy thus tendered me with thanks. The object and purposes of the club as tt forth in tho declaration accompanying your letter he my hearty eyiupatby and support, mt I believe tbeir accomplishment absolutely essential to the greatest prosperity of our people aod the highest development of uur country. You inu.t, however, permit rae to say that so far as parties ar concerned ray hope and reliance for a better condition of things is upon the democratic party organization, which, in my opinion, cannot be true to its traditions and ancient creed without a hearty and sincere, espousal of the causa to which your club is devoted. Found lead in lied. Chicago, June 15. James M. Gamble, a wealthy young real estate dealer in this city, was found dead in hia bed at the Palmer house this afternoon. The indications are that he reached the apartment during the previous night partly intoxicated, and either by mistake or with suicidal intent, swallowed a bottle full of carbolic acid. Mr. Gamble was a bachelor and has been a figure in several sensational affairs, notably one in which he broke a leg iumping from the window of a room occupied by a married woman. His hasty leap was caused by the sudden entrance of the woman's husband. Friends of the deceased insist that there was no reason for suicide, adding that his business is in very good shape. Gamble is said to own a controlling interest in one of the street railroads of Cleveland. Spencer's K. of 1. ErENCER, June 17. Special. Gen. Carnahan of Indianapolis, assisted by tRe uniform rank of K. of P. from Martinsville, instituted a rank here to-night of thirty-five members. Both teams gave exhibition of fancy military movements on the streets before retiring to the opera-house, where the ceremonies were performed. The uniformed rank of Spencer will celebrate their inauguration by having a grand jollification here July 4. Visiting teams from abroad will compete for purses. A Ghastly Find. Halifax, N. S., June 15. While the fishing schooner Hattle D. was on the banks one of her men caught a large halibut. The fish was of such huge proportions that it took several of the crew to haul it aboard. Upon opening the halibut a portion of a woman's hand, with the thumb and first and second fingers, was found. On the second finger was a plain gold bs od ring on which were engraved the letters "G. TV. G." The rinjr is now in Capt. hen. hanger's possession.

STRUCK A BIG ICE FLOE.

AN EXCITING NIGHT IN MID OCEAN. The Steamship Saale Narrowly Eteapei Go log to the Bottom With a Thousand Souls A Case Wherein Ocean Racing- is Dangerous. New Yokk, June 15. "When the Korddeutcher Lloyd's ßteamer Saale arrived at 8 o'clock last night at quarantiue there was a large patch of painting wanting on her port bow. It was an insignificanl-lookm abrasion, but it was the mark of as narrow an escape as a great Atlantic liner has had in many a day. The Saale left Southampton on Friday, June 7, at 1:30 a. in., eight hours having been spent in taking on coal in Southampton waters. The strike of the coal-handlers at Bremen had made it impracticable tc fill her bunkers at that port. Tuesday afternoon was beautiful. There was some light breeze ahead that had prevailed 6ince Sunday, morning, veering from west to northwest by west. There was only a ripple on the blue water, and the great pulsation of the open ocean was so subdued that the Saale rode as nearly upon an even keel as it ever befalls a 6ea-going ship to do. Toward sunset the breeze freshened and drew a little south of west, and the patches of thin white fog broadened and disappeared and were more frequent. By 9 o'clock the vessel ran into thick, wet banks of mist, and the fo-horn began its dismal task, and, with the damp air, drove the passengers below and early to bed. Capt. Eichter left Southampton with 915 passengers, all told. The Saale got gradually out to sea on Saturday when other vessels signalled that they encountered icebergs between longitude 43 and 4S. It is the season of anxiety concerning ice for all the trans-Atlantio lines, and the Saale's course was accordingly the most southerly, and took her well below the mo3t southerly point of the banks. By 6 o'clock on Tuesday morning, therefore, the Saale should, presumably, hvae crossed the path of all south-bound ice, if any there were. The great convoys of ice that float eouth in the first weeks of summer through the seas beyond Cape Race, and follow the deflected currents of the gulf 6tream, are generally broken up and melted before they reach latitude forty-two. The Saale was well to the southward. When the 11 p. ra. thermometric report was made to Capt. Ilicher he was on the bridge with the second officer, aid turned to him and said: "The water is becoming warmer. We shall soon get rid of this fog." It was no question of ice, but only the fog. The Saale was booming along as steady as a church, She was under a full head of steam, and at her topmost speed. Every now and" then sho broke out of a scurrying fog-bank to cross a waste of glittering moonliirht sea. Then another white, gray wall would rise before her and she would fade into it, only to presently reappear in another expanse of open water. At lu the fog was at its thickest, und the air perceptibly coider The watch was doubled. There were two look-outs in the "basket," a sort of arctic crow-nest on the foremast, about fifty feet from the deck. On the bridge were Capt. Pachter and the second officer. At 11 :15 Capt. Richter detected small ice in the water close under the bow. He sprang to the signal apparatus anil stopped the engine. Almost immediately the fog seemed to lift a little and right ahead the captain saw with his night-glass the gray outline of a huge iceberg. He gave the order "hard aport," and "reverse full speed," before any one about had eeen the ice or guessed his reason. The iceberg was about six boat lengths away and the Saale was headed straight for it. It loomed ut in the fog like a great, dark, gray wall, and it seemed to grow rapidly taller as the boat swept down toward it. On the right it descended to the water abruptly with an overhanging peak'. To the left it disappeared indefinitely in the fog, a wall of unfathomable gray, high here and low there, big as a cross town block, and from fifty to seventy feet in hight, but with foundations of seven times as many feet in depth. The Saale's helm was hard aport, but it seemed as if she never would answer it. The passengers, who had run on deck and out of the smoking rooms when they heard the orders from the bridge and felt the engines stopped and noted the violent vibrations of the reverse action, crowded under tho bridge and to the taffrail with their hearts in their mouths. The sight was appalling. The great bulk and uncontrollable impetus of the ship seemed to carry them to an overwhelming destruction. The ice wall loomed higher and higher; it reflected the lights of the ship and it gave back the sound of the wash of the parted waters at her bow. But slowly she swerved to starboard and then, as if by magic, she gave a great surge, shrank away as it were, from that mighty overhanging mountain of ice, and with a great careen to starboard and terrifying crunching and grinding along her iron sides, forged away into clear water. While the iceberg, all glittering with the ship's lights and with the. waves lashinar furiously about its base, vanished astern and was lost in the fog and darkness. The careen to starboard was on a grand scale, exactly like what happens to a New York ferry-boat when f-he strikes the spring piling of her slip. The Saale had ruu upon the submerged foot of the iceburg and had slid safely off again. The shock had been tremendous and exceedingly noisy, but it had inflicted no damage. Passengers on deck were thrown down : passengers in their beds woke up ou the floor, or in avoiding it. Everything loose pitched over to starboard with a deafening clatter, and everything stayed to 6tarboard, including probably a good deal in the hold, for the Saale maintained her list to starboard and brought it into port with her. As the passengers, in all sorts of deshabille, came piling up on deck with white faces they found the Saale stopped in the middl of a fog bank. Her fog horn was blowing a. regular intervals and on her forecastle was a group with lanterns lowering men over the bow to examine the plates. The ship's carpenter was sounding the wells, the screw was being looked to, and in a quarter of an hour, Capt. Richter came aft among the passengers and told them the ship was all rieht and they could go to bed. The feeling of relief was intense, for between awakeng to the danger and captain's declaration was as bad a quarter of an hour as could well be. The officers and crew of the Saale took it as coolly as if it happened every night. As to the passeugers only one really retained presence of mind, and he rushed on deck with a fully-packed valise. As a matter of fact all the people on board behaved excellently well. They were somewhat stunned and shocked and undoubtedly very much frightened, but the only serious etlect was manifest in the case of the considerable number who could not be persuaded to go to bed again, and who sat up all night in momentary expectation of more icebergs. On Wednesday thanksgiving service was held by the Rev. H. L. Duhring of Philadelphia and was attended by all the cabin passengers. A letter of thaDks to Capt. Richter was subsequently drawn ud at a meeting of all the passengers called for the purpose and a large sum of money was subscribed to buy a piece of plate to be presented to the captain when the Salle next arrives in this port. Lieut. Blow, manager of the hydoeraphio office in this city, was in his oflice when a reporter called this morning. The lieutenant censured the ofiicers of the Saale, while admitting that the captain did all in his power to prevent a collision with the iceberg, and did it welL "The Saale's escape was a narrow one, indeed," said the lieutenant, "so narrow, in fact, that I have heard but few that will equal it. The Saale's passengers can thank their stars that they uidnt't have to cash in their chips. The ice floe was reported to this oflice on June 9, and was immediately marked on our chart of the North Atlantic ocean. The ship that reported the ice passed to the southward in the regular course recommended by this office, and it escaped serious accident. The Saale, however, is what is called a racer, warranted to cross the Atlantic in a given time. To do this, and to maintain her reputation, the Saale's captain decided, and has done co before many a time, to make a short cut, to go to northward of the regular course, thus saving several bonrs. Why, just before the Saale struck the berg her captaia was compliment

ing himself upon his great prowess in overtaking the steamship Cettic, which very wisely kept to southward of the coarse adopted by the Norddentcher boats and nearer the regular course. As it is, however the Celtic was in the course of the iceberg", and ran a very good chance of falling in with them." The Celtic had not been sighted off Sandy Hook a 4 p. ni. to-day. No apprehension is felt for her safety. The Saalc is the first large ocean steamship to run into and be damaged by an iceberg for quite a while. In 1861 the Canadian struck sunken ice and went to the bottom. In 1575 the Vicksburg went down in a field of ice.

WEATHER CHOP BULLETIN. An Unfavorable Week For Small Grains Crops In Illinois Improved. Washington, June 15. The week ending June 15 has been warmer than usual in the states on the Atlantic coast and cooler in the central valleys from the gulf coast Northward to the lake region, in Minnesota, the greatest departure from the normal temperature being in the central Missouri valley, where the daily temperature was from six to nine degrees lower than usual. In the upper Missouri valley, including Nebraska, Dakota and Minnesota, the normal temperature for the week prevailed. There has been more rain than usual generally throughout all agricultural districts in the central valleys and the Atlantic coast, except in southeast New England and along the south Atlantic coast, where numerous showers are reported. Rains were unusually heavy over the central and westeru portions of the cotton region and the tobacco regions of Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia and southern Indiana, the heaviest rains occurring in the lower Mississippi valley, where they were greatly needed. The weather for the week was unfavorable for small grains in Minnesota and Dakota. Owing to the s mall amount of rain in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas, the crop conditions were improved by the weather of the present tck. Corn is reported as growing rapidly, bu in some sections of Illinois too much rain is reported. Wheat harvest is in progress in central Kansas, and will commence in Illinois nest week. A short crop of timothy and clover is now being cut in Iowa, In Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, all crops have improved, but excessive rains have interrupted cultivation and harvest works. Crops were generally retarded in Kentucky and Tennessee owing to heavy daily rains and little sunshine. In some sections of these states wheat has been damaged by insects and injured by excessive rains, although corn, cotton and tobacco is reported as growing well, but dry weather is needed for cultivation. THE WABASH CASE Comes Fp in the U. S. Court Before Judges Gretham and Jackson. Toledo, O., June 17. Judges Gresham and Jackson vere on the bench of the U. S. circuit court here to-day in the Wabash railway case. The special masters, in their report, demanded that the roiling stock of the company be sold and the proceeds divided among tho mortgageholders, either by mileajre division or accordirg to priority of mortices. Gen. Hubbard, representing the purchasing committee, asked that the property be turned over to the purchasing coaimittee on July 1. The Hon. D. H. Chamberlain, ex-governor of South Carolina, on the part of the first mortgage bondholders said there was no objection to the delivery of the property at that lime, provided the terms of the sale were complied with. The court ordered that the deed be made out and the property transferred on Tuly 1. Gen. Hubbard said that notices had been sent out that a rueeti'ig of the stockholders would he held on July3", "for tne purpose of consolidating the lines east and west of the Mississippi. New bonds will then be issued to take the place of all outstanding ones, the Central trust company of New York in the meantime advancing the purchase price on the personal security of the purchasing committee. When the point as to the distribution of the proceeds of the rolling stock came up, it provoked a discussion which continued all afternoon. Judge II. Crawfcrd ol Chicago objected to the division as to mileage, because in that event the Chicago division, which owns but about one five-hundredth of the rolling stock of the entire system, would be entitled to onethird of the proceeds. The case will be resumed to-morrow. A SENSATIONAL SEQUEL. What Was Thought to he an Attempted Suicide, an Attempted Murder. Wichita, Kas., June 15. A, sensational sequel to the supposed attempted suicide of J. A. Newcome, in the Clear Water bank. May 29, promises to be forthcoming in the near future. Ever since the shooting Newcome has been more or less unconscious until Thursday night when he made rapid strides toward recovery, and his brain was quite clear. Sending for his attorneys, he imparted to them the startling information that he did not attempt suicide, but that some one who was in the bank at the time had shot him. He said he had transferred to Tillinghast by trust deed some ?3Q,000 worth of property, and that though he had frequently asked for restitution it had never been made. Finally, he alleges, Tillinghast induced him to meet him in his otfice in Clear Water, and there he was shot. At the time of the shooting Tillinghast announced that Newcome was in dire financial straits and had been very despondent. An investigation has shown that this was not the case, so the statement made by the wounded man has all the greater color of truth. Newcome came here with considerable means from Painesville, and at one time was prominent in railroad circles. The knights templars have taken the case in hand, and startling developments are expected. THE ROOF FELL IN. Nearly Forty Persons Ituried in the Wreck F.iBht Killed. City of Mexico, June 15 (via of Galveston.) The roof of the Merced market fell in yesterday, bnrying nearly forty persons. Eight dead and fourteen wounded have already been taken out Soldiers are removing the rubbish and searching for bodies. President Wade of the Mexican Central railroad is inspecting the line. The black vomit has appeared at Vera Cruze. Tin Arthur Monument Unveiled. Albany, N. Y., June 15. The handsome granite and bronze memorial erected at the grave of the late President Chester A. Arthur in the cemetery here by 6ome of Iiis personal admirers was unveiled to-day without ceremony by the donors, who inspected it. Those present were: Stephen B. French, Daniel C. Rollins, Howard Carroll, Elihu Root, Joel B. Erhardt, George Bliss, Mr. Dowd, Charles L. Tiffany, Sherman S. Knevalis, John H. Statin, James C. Reed, Cornelius N. Bliss, Marvelle L. Cooper, Charles E. Miller of New York, Clayton Mitchell of Philadelphia and John E. McElroy of this city. lie Hwore Falsely. St. Locis, June 17. Julius Lehmann, member of the St. Louis house of delegates, was today arraigned in the U. S. district court before Judge Thayer on the charge of having falsely sworn at the late election that one Charles Blintker had come to this country three years before he had reached the agJ of twenty-one vears. thus securing the naturalization of Blintker. Mayor Noonan was among the witnesses examined to-day. After taking testimony of five witnesses the government rested its case and the defense will open to-morrow. Covered With Horning Oil. Pittsbübg, Fa., June 13. The Bear Creek oil refinery at Coleman Station, on the Allegheny valley railroad, was destroyed by fire this evening. The fire caught from the upsetting of a can of benzine, which exploded, scattering the burning fluid over five men. including the foreman and superintendent The former was burned to death and the latter will die. The others were terribly burned and ara in a serious condition. Their names could not be learned. Tho loss will be heavy.

BROKE OUT IS A SEW SPOT,

THE GOVERNOR OUTDOES HIMSELF. He Files a Motion Fora Rehearing in the Carson Case, Although He Bits Already Issued Commissions to the Insane Hospital Trustees. The 60ul of Napoleon has been stirred to its very depths again, and the result of the shaking up has been a surprise even to those thoroughly familiar with the asinine skin which now obscures the aforesaid bovine soul from the vulgar gaze. With all his bullheadednesa and perversity people have generally held to the belief that lurking about the gubernatorial person, somewhere or other, lay concealed an atom or two of common sense. In the light of later events this seems an erroneous impression. Late Saturday afternoon a motion for a rehearing was filed before the supreme court in what is familiarly known as the Carson case. It will be remembered that in this case the supreme court decided that the legislature had full power to elect i trustees for the insane asylum. Nobody but Gov. Hovey had ever questioned that right, and he claimed and was accorded the full credit of making the discovery that the legislature had no constitutional right to make such election. The supreme court couldn't agree with the governor, and that gentleman apparently accepted his knock-down and issued commissions to the new trustees. By agreement it had been determined that the cases of the trustees of all the state institutions should be determined by the decision in the Carson case. After the ruling of the supreme court, however, the governor broke faith with the trustees of the other institutions, and Mr. Riley brought suit to compel the obstinate executive to issue their commissions. In this case, as in the Carson suit, the governor was beaten. Still he wasn't satisfied. He still refused to obey the decision of the supreme court and after delaying the matter until almost too late for the supreme court to give a decision before the summer vacation, the governor filed a motion for a rehearing. His conduct in thus delaying matters nas rendered impossible this season the much-needed improvements at the deaf and dumb and blind institutions for which the legislature made liberal appropriations. Yesterday the motion for a rehearing in the Carson case was filed by the attorney-general. In speaking of it last night the governor said: "I am not aware that such a petition has been filed. I have not seen it. The advisability of filing such a petition has frequently been discussed, and I state frankly that I thought one would be Sled in course of time." "Upon what grounds did you base your idea for the formation of the new petition?" was asked. The governor quoted from the constitution of state, art. iii, sec. W. "The powers of the government are divided into three separate departments the legislative, the executive, including the administrative and the judicial; and no person charged with official duties under one of these departments 6hall exercise any of the functions of another except as in this constitution expressly provided." In explanation of the position he holds, the governor says: "The essential expression in the clause is 'except in this constitution expressly provided.' Why the English parliament nor the U. S. congress dare not choose an officer. It is entirely an executive function. My thought in sanctioning this litigation is but to carry out the constitutional provision." "You do not hope to secure better or more efficient men than are at present controlling the insane institution?" "Such a thought is entirely foreign to me; it is but to maintain the dignity of the constitution. The Sentinel has criticised my stand on the expression, 'and no person charged with official duties under one of these departments shall exercise any of the functions of another,' etc. I maintain that the clause means each member of the legislature individually, and censequently the whole legislature." "This," said he, in conclusion, "is far above politics; possibly the next legislature will be decidedly republican, and then there would be a general change f'i officers in our benevolent institutions. This should not be the case, and it is for this reason that I have taken the stand I have." EACH EMPTIED HIS REVOLVER. A Bloody and Fatal Street Duel Between Cousins. St. Loris, June 16. John O. Manion, a young farmer with a wife and three children, lived four miles from Fayette, Mo. On an adjoining farm resided Richard M. Fowler, a bachelor cousin of Manion. Fowler spent a good deal of his leisure time at Manion's house and his attentions to Mrs. Manion became 6o marked that trouble ensued and Manion and his wife separated and very bad blood was stirred up between the men. About noon Saturday Fowler and Manion met in Fayette, and when only three feet apart begau to shoot at each other. Manion was shot through the 6tomach and chest and died during the evening, and Fowler was wounded in the neck and both arras. After emptying their revolvers both men stood up and pounded each other with their pistols till friends separated them. Mrs. Manion is prostrated over the bloody afiray and threatens to kill herself. All the parties are highly connected and the afiair has created a great sensatiou. Probable Murder at Cayuga, Ind. Danville, 111., June 15. Special. Last night as some railroad men were standing on the depot platform et Cayuga, Ind., discussing a horse race an engineer offered to b et fifty dollars. John Sherwood, who is just out of the penitentiary and was half drunk, "put in," saying he would bet fifty cents that the engineer did not have a dollar. Frank Beatty, a brakeraan and a brother of the roadmaster of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad, gave Sherwood the laugh. Sherwood immediately drew a revolver and shot Beatty in the abdomen, inflicting fatal injuries. Sherwood remained unmolested at Cayuga all night. The local officers were afraid to molest him. He left early this morning and was traced bf railroad detectives as far as Metcalf, 111. A Mysterious Murder. Grand Rapids, Mich., June 17. A mysterious murder came to light yesterday. Nicholas Schüler, a farmer, walking in the woods in Alpine township, about three miles from the city, discovered the badly decomposed body of a man lying in a hollow among the bushes. The sheriff and coroner were notified, and upon examining the remains found five bullet holes through the back part of the head. The body had apparently been there several days. It was clad in a suit of dark clothes, fine boots and soft felt hat, and on the underclothing were the initials "M. L." Near the place was a five-chambered revolver with two chambers containing empty cartridges. George Lehman thinks the body is that of Matt Lang, a bartender, who has been missing since laßt Monday. Dawson's Murderer Indicted. Charleston, S. C, June 17. In the court of general sessions to-day, Judge Kershaw presiding, the grand jury returned a true bill against Pr. T. B. McDowe for the murder of Capt. W. Dawson in March last. McDowe waa arraigned and pleaded not guilty. Next Monday, June 24, was fixed for his trial. Will I.,y the Cable. San Francisco, June 17. The Evening Pott of to-day states that $1,000,000 has been snbscribed for the proposed cable between Honolulu and San Francisco, and that the work of laying the cable will be commenced within eighteen months. Death of the Iter. Mr. Hosmer. ACBCRN, N. Y., June 17. The Rev. Mr, Hosmer, a conspicuous figure in anti-slavery agitation, and one of the first temperance advocates, died this morning, aged seventy-nine years.

FLOODS AND CYCLONES IN KANSAS.

Fears That Cilontowo Has Been Swept Away Damage Elsewhere. St. Lons, June 17. Additional advices about the disaster in Kansas from wind and rain are that Uniontown, about fifteen miles west of Ft. Scott, on the Wichita & Wetern railway, was swept away and that two women and four children were drowned. Uniontown, which is a place of GoO inhabitants, is in the midst of a thickly settled country, and it is feared that the loss of life is even heavier than reported. As the wires are down for fifteen miles on either side, nothing definite can be learned. The storm 6truck the western part of Bourbon connty late at night, coming from the west, where it had played great havoc. At Augusta it assumed the form of a cloud burst, and though everything possible has been done to obtain details by railroads, all is uncertain at presen t. In Ft. Scott it commenced raining about 7 o'clock Sunday morning. Old residents say it was the hardest rain in thirty year. Water commenced raising in Buck run at 8 o'clock in the morning. Lamb fc Mead's ice dam on Sixth-6t. burst about 10 o'clock, causing the water in Buck run to rise at the rate of about three feet an hour, carrying away several houses and bridges across Sisth-sL The part of Ft. Scott known as Bell town is entirely under water. This was caused by the overflow from Marmatown river. People were taken out with boats. Several bridges were washed out, and trains were stopped on both sides of Ft. Scott The Kansas, Nebraska & Dakota track is under water lor about nine miles out. The Memphis road is badly damaged for about one thousand feet ten miles north of Ft. Scott. All the people in the bottom in East Ft. Scott moved out. At last accounts the water had stopped rising, and if no more rain falls the flood will rapidly subside. Every effort is being made to obtain information from Uniontown. Crops liadly Damaged. Iola, Kas., June 17. Allen county has suffered severely during the past thirty-six hours from floods in the Neosho river and its principal tributaries. The streams have been unusually high all spring and the heavy rains Saturday night brought them out of their banks, flooding the bottoms for a mile or more on either side. There has been no loss of life or live stock, as those living on the low land were warned in time, but it is feared that hundreds of acres of wheat which was just ripening and promised a very large yield will be almost a total loss, while the submerged corn and other crops will be greatly damaged. Walnut Valley Flooded. Eldorado, Kas., June 17. The upper valley of the Walnut is flooded from excessive rains, the streams being higher than they have been for years. Saturday night the river came up so suddenly that a family by the name of Grahara started from their home to the high land. The mother and a babe were drowned, the father and one child escaping. Grain fields are flooded and much damage must result. It is surmised that a number of people have been drowned in the lower valley. A late rumor reports the drowning of O. Beaman, in Cassady. ARE DOWN ON HILL. The Democratic Tress of the Country Opposed to His Nomination in ST. Loos, June 14. The LrpvltUe (dem.) will to-morrow print an entire page devoted to the opinions of democratic editors as to the availability cf Gov. Hill of New York as the democratic standard-bearer in the presidential contest of 1802. The newspapers to which the query was addressed circulate in ten Btates where democratic opinion is strongly represented by them. There is but one expression in favor of the nomination of Gov. Hill, coming from the August3 (Ga.) (JhrvuMe, a protection paper. Of the others all but two are unqualifiedly opposed to the nomination of Hill. The two exceptions are the Louisville Couritr-Jour-nil and Atlanta (Ga.) Journal. Mr. Watterson simply declines to commit himself to an opinion now. FOUR OF ONE FAMILY DROWNED. Mr. and Mrs. .Tohn Maples With Two Children Lose Their Lives. Wabash, Ind., June 17. Special. Mr. and Mrs. John Maples and two boys, residing in Chester township, this county, were, last night, drowned in Simonton creek, near North Manchester. The stream was swollen and Mr. Maples, with his wife, two children and a young lady visiting them, drove into the creek. The current upset the spring-wagon and threw all the party out, but a Mr. Foegler managed to save the young lady. Mr. Maples with one child, Mrs. Maples with her children in hpr arms were carried on down the creek and drowned. The bodies of Mrs. Maples and one child have been recovered and are now at North Manchester. FATAL GAS EXPLOSION. Fonr Miners Terribly Barned Xon of Them TTH1 Live. Wilkes barke. Pa., June 17. An explosion of gas took place this morning in the Nottingham mine at Plymouth, operated by the Lehigh &. Wilkesbarre coal company. Four Polish miners were terribly burned: MIKE ANDREW. SIMON NOVALK. JOHN KUTSCHKI. SOSEPII TAYLOR. Physicians say none of them can survive. The accident was caused by the ignorance and carelessness of the Polanders, who went into a chamber full of gas without first testing the air. Threatened Violence. CniCAGO, June 17. Another fatal accident occurred this evening in one of the power houses of the Yerkes' cable-car system. A scaffolding, heavily laden with brick, fell a distance of thirty-five feet, killing Peter Doornbos and badly injuring two Italians. Two Poles were also "hurt, but not dangerously. All the victims were workingmen. The accident occurred at the Milwaukee-ave. power station. A mishap, exactly similar, took place at the Yerkes power house on Madison-sL last week. This evening a mob of 3,000 persons gathered at the Milwaukee-ave. house alter the accident, and indulged in threats of violence, but gradually dispersed. Mystic Shrine. CniCAGO, June 17. Four hundred members of the order of the Mystic Shrine ascmbled in the rooms of the Medina and consistory here to-day to form the fifteenth imperial council of the order to last during the next three years. Every important city in the country is said to have been represented. Samuel Briggs of Cleveland was elected potentate; Henry E. Hosley of Boston, deputy; Joseph L. Wright of Philadelphia, treasurer. The next meeting of the council will be held in San Francisco. Ills Kar Burned OR. FRANKLIN', June 17. Special. Willie Kinney, seven years of age, was playing with a quantity of powder at the fair grounds yesterday, when a part of the powder was exploded by a lighted match in the bands of the lad. His face was eeverely scorched, one ear was burned to a crisp and most of his hair and eye-brows destroyed. Enforcing the Law. Cincinnati, O., June 17. Thirty-five violators of the law providing for closing saloons on Sunday, who were arrested yesterday, were in the police court this morning. Their cases were postponed indefinitely and they were all released on bond until called for trial. Famous Horseman Dead. Lexington, Ky., June 17. Gen. Willian T. Withers, aged sixty-four years, proprietor of the celebrated Fairlawn farm and breeder of noted trotting horses, died at his home here yesterday morning from the effects of wounds reeeired ia the ileiicaa war.

THEY GO HUNGRY TO BED. MINERS' CH1LDREMCRYING FOR FOOD A ritlfnl rictnre or Destitution In the Coal Districts Despondency Depicted on Ever j Countenance Almost an Entire Town Dependent on Charity.

Brazil, June 11. Special. The sun came out this morning and, if nothing else, it ha succeeded materially in dispersing the inactivity apparent all day yesterday in thi3 littlft city. In the mining tows, however, it baa probably produced little change, but even, there it enabled some of the men to go to work in the garden, and has given the children a chance to get out of doors. In company with, a gentleman who is thoroughly acquainted with the dirtrict, I took aride through Knightsville, Benwood and Cardonia three of the mining towns nearest here stopping long; enough in each to wander about a little and question some of the men. The majority of tha latter were to be found sitting in front of tha 6tores, looking as forlornly idle as is possible, probably, for men to be. Six weeks of this kind of employment has evidently exhausted every story in the miner's catalogue, and they have probably wearied even of talking about the wron?s of the working classes at the hands of the employers, for when watched a group of them, even at a distance, there did not seem to be a remark passed b tween them in the course of five minutes. They sat looking stolidly at the ground, or perhaps whittling awayat a chip an exercise, by tho) bye, that seems peculiarly popular with men who have nothing to do. They all wore thin, working clothes, but most of them looked neat and clean. Some of the younger men had. their boots blacked. "They are all miners,' explained my companion; "they are nearly every one foreign born, but have been in this country a long time, and speak our language.' My companion nodded to them, for he knew them all, and they returned the salute in rather an indifferent way iu most instances, although, some of them came forward and talked freely. A walk around town showed a great many at work in their gardens, which seemed to be ia splendid condition, notwithstanding the coo tinued rains. When the miner is at work in the mines his wife, or, perhaps, his children keep the garden in condition. As soon as the latter begin to yield their habest a few weeks hence tba condition of some who are now being supported will be far better. As a rule, however, the very ones who have gardens are the one who are the lea;-t dependent. They almost in variably own the property on which they live, while those who live in the "company houses' have co gardens, and will remain wholly de pendent as long as the strike lasts. The appearance of forlornness observed around the stores uptown was alo to be seen out among the homes of the miners, especially the humbler ones. Women were standing out in frcnt of the houses, leaning upon the fenoa and looking in a desolate sort of way at something ott in space. They did not seem to b paying any attention to one another, and I did not bear a good-natured remark: while t whs in the town. The children anl young people were about the only cre who seemed to be finding any &muemeot. I observed a number of games of bafe ball in progress. They were not quit fo scientific as those put up by the Indianapolis club, but were eminently more productive of runs. Even here, however, the evidences of "hard times" were apparentl for the balls ia use were all back numbers, whose identity Lai been preserved only by numerous applications of darning needle and cord thread. They had suffered from the strike. The miners' homes, of course, are nearly all of the humblest kind, and by the furnishing only may the comparative prosperity of th occupants be judged. Some look cory and comfortable, but many have never known the touch of a carpet and other comforts to be found ordinarily in the homes of even th poorest. The reports of suffering for want of food I satisfied myself were true. While it may be possible that there are some among the miners who would like to exaggerate these stories in order to enlist public sympathy, it is equally certain that there are personal in stances of hardship difficult to get at on ac count of the fact that the sufferers are to proud to let the fact be known. Men, whose manner convinced me they were telling the truth, said that many children at Knightsville were put to bed ou Saturday nightwithont having had any supper, and that the instances of hunger among the older ones were innumerable. In many cases heads of families had been compelled to go to their neighbors w ho were probably but a little better off and ask fo something "for the children." At Benwood and Cardonia the condition of the strikers is probably worse, if anything, than at Knightsville. Out of a population of 600 at Benwood ti;1! are dependent. Friday, when the commissary was opened, which was between t and lOo'elock, numbers of those who came to get their allotment of food for the ensuing half week had not yet had any breakfast, the supply of provisions in their families hav. ing been exhausted the night before. Secy. Kussell of the distributing committee at that town. said that for the 1'J applicants that families there were but forty pieces of bacon, and no coflee or sugar. "Man 'f us," said he. "have nothing whatever but flour or corn meU and water. Mush and water, therefore, is the most common food in the town. We have n cofieeatall. Yet the men here are the most determined to stund it out of any in the district." The gentleman who was with me said that Benwood was ahout the most industrious community in the county, and the inhabitants there certainly did seem a little more cheerful, notwithstanding the meager board they are getting. At Cardonia the condition was much the same, and the majority of the strikers were Fitting around the stores in the center of the town. One of the men declared they hadn't so much as a bar of soap to wah with. "Many of the miners." said he, "went away to get work, but they haven't sent 'ome a bloody cent to their families. Hits because they 'avea't got it." Along the road, between' towns came across some of the company "blocks" that are rented out to the miners. One of these, the "Watson block," was illustrated in THE SENTINEL last fall, and I see the illustration and accompanying description were not overdrawn, They are the cheapest kind of structures, but are rented at all the way from $4 to H per month. The "Jackson block" and the " atson block" are near together, between Knightsville and Benwood, and another is located or "Vinecrar hill," between Cardonia and Brazil. Near Vinegar hill I saw a girl, about fifteen years of age, and a little boy coming acroM & field, bearing a sack of flour or meal. Tber were poorly clad and were undoubtedly children ol a miner, and had been away at a farmhouse, begging. They had to wade through g small stream near the road, but evidently did not mind the muddy water, armed as they were with rations for the hungry ones at home. The custom of soliciting assistance from the farmers in the way of contributions of corn, wheat or fiour is extensively practiced by the miners. They go as far as twenty miles from home, and meet with tolerable success as a rule. They do it systematically, however, appointing a regular committee, which is rjvea credentials to be shown to the farmers. Then a wagon is borrowed from some sympathizer, and the committee starts out. Some of the farmers it encounters angrily refuse to contribute, saying the men oiuht to go to work; others profess sympathy, but plead poor crops and loss resulting from the weather; but there are also those who make more or less liberal contributions, saying they hope the miners will succeed, as they believe them to be a poorly paid set of men. I was misinformed sftcr all as to the mission of Mr. Koberts, Gov. Hovey's private secretary, to this city yesterday. While he came partly to attend the mustering in of a local raUitary company, he was also delegated by the governor to inquire into the condition of the miners, and this morning he met the relief committee, which was holding its weekly session ia Klinger's ball, in this city. Along with hic was a dcleg&uoa cf the citizens of Brad,