Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 14, Petersburg, Pike County, 26 August 1891 — Page 1

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THIS PAPER IS ON HII IN CHICAGO AND NEW YORK AT THE OFFICES C F *. I. KELL06S MEWSMPER CO. TRUSTEES* NOTICES OP Ol VICE OAT. NOTICE Is hereby Riven that [ will attend to the duties of the offioe of trustee of Clay township at Union on EVERY SATURDAY. All persons who have business with the office will take notice that I a ill attend to business on no other day. M. M. GOTTEN, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties Interested that I will attend at my office In Stendal, EVERY STAURDAY, To transact business, connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township. AH persons having buaineai with said office will please take notice. J. S. BARRET r. Trustee. OTICB is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will be at my re ildenee. EVERY TUESDAY, To Attend to business conned ed with the Office ad Trustee of Monroe township. w GEORGE GBIli. Trustee. NS JOTICE Is hereby given that I will be at my residence . EVERY THURSpAY To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Logan towns hip. WPoeitively no business trirnsarted except on offlee days. __ gn S1L4S KIRA ■ Trustee. N OT1CE is hereby given toall parties concerned that I Sill attend at my residence EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Madison ton nshlp. rPositlvely no business transacted except office days JAMES BUMBLE. Trustee. XTOTIcifo'hereby given to all persons inIN teres ted that I will attend in my office In EVERY FRIDAY, To transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Marlon tovnthlp. All p-.rsoiis having business with said office will please take notice. _ W. F. BROCK, Trustee. sift: NSt.S-fdSnSr.«sr.;s,s,»r *Vn^sY wnnecte l with tlx -- __

THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of tha Dally New* Tbs last Sioux Indian commission has completed its work to the satisfaction of all parties. Capt. J. W. Pops, assistant quartermaster, Fort Leavenworth military prison, has been ordered to Washington on official business. Tbs fortieth annual meeting of tine American association for the advancement of science was formally opened in the law lecture room of the Columbian university, Waihlngton, on the 19th. The old time telegraphers began the ir reunion in Washing ton on the 19th with 100 members presort President George

Ocean Spray, near Boston, two' men were asleep in a stable when it took fire. Both were burned to death. Kate and Mary Walton, sisters, have been drowned in Boston bay by the capsizing of a small boat Walter L 'Bragg, inter-state commerce commissioner, died at Spring Lake, N. J., on the 21st Mr. Bragg belonged to Alabama and daring the war was an officer in the confederate army. THE WEST. Mason M. Imley, a student from Illinois, was drowned in Sager’s pond at Valparaiso, Ind. The crop of oats in Iowa is reported to be enormous. A most destructive hailstorm visited Deer creek. Otter Tail county, Minn., and vicinity. It is estimated that between 12,000 and 111,000 acres of grain were laid low. The storm lasted half an hoar and cat a swath five miles wide. The bodies of Miss Clara Frehmer, of Cincinnati, and Miss Laura Bamberger, of Chicago, iwhd were drowned in the Ohio river near Cincinnati, were recovered. Reports have teen received that Mount Hood, Orego n, was in a state of eruption. Smoke could be seen coming from the mountain and it is believed that the old monarch of the Cascades is awakening from a sleep perhaps of several centuries. Joseph Bloch aud two young women were drowned in the Ohio opposite Cincinnati by a boat capsizing while out on an excursion. JACK Stivetts, the St Louis browns’ crack pitcher, has teen suspended for misconduct His suspension is indefinite. Edward Lambert, Jr., bookkeeper of the San Juan Smelting & Mining Co. and mayor of Dnmngo, Col., is a defaulter in the snm of $110,000. Lambert’s method of stealing was in drawing checks for freight charges largely in excess of the true amounts. The cruiser Charleston left San Francisco on the 10th for Yokohama. Steps have been taken to establish the people’s party in Chicago. The twelve-year-old son of Prof. Goodrich, principal of the Pecatonica (III) school, was drowned while bathing at Freeport I1L A Chicago board of trade membership sold recently for $1,475. Gov. Campbell, of Ohio, has been confined to his room lately with malaria, though bis condition is improved. The Cincinnati Price Current says corn is somewhat better and generally favorable; the crop in seven surplus states is estimated at 1,200,000,000 bushels; entire crop, 1,900,000,000 bushels. Later information justifies the maintenance at the wheat reports. The contesting boards of directors of the San Diego Land & Town Co. have finally agreed to leave the question of control of property to the supreme court of Kansas The friendly suit will be brought by the Bra man party at the request of the Kimball party. Eight miners were killed by an explosion of giant powder in the lower tnnnel of the Black Bear mine near Burke, Idaho. The tunnel was eaved in for 100 feet. Two boys were dri.wn into a sewer * ' — a recent heavy oil*. Ind.

The pallium was conferred on Bishop Katser, of Milwaukee, on the 30th by Cardinal Gibbons. There was a procession of 317 priests and vicars-generai. were attended with much The services i pomp. Masked mefi held up the conductor of a freight train at a signal box on the Council Bluffs road, near Kansas -City, Mo. After robbing him they shot Brakeman Ed White dead on top of one of the cars and escaped. There distinct shocks of earthquake were felt at St. Louis oh the night of the 90th. Seven thousand acres of grain south of Sanborn, N. IX, were destroyed by a hailstorm. Jonathan BeArrr, aged 60, died at Indianapolis, Ind., from injuries re* ceived the bands of footpads last Christinas eve. He was badly beaten and been confined to his house ever | The coroner’s jury impaneled to instigate the cause of death of Clark ^oodmah, the linseed oil magnate of naha, Neb, who was found dead in room at the Grand Pacific hotel, rendered a verdict that the bath was due to heart disease. ■Convicts in the state penitentiary at [alia Walla, Wash., tried to escape by ‘ ing a train in the' brickyard and king th«^ warden a prisoner. Two Invicts were killed before order was to earthquake shocks were felt in eyville. 111, recently. SB dead bodies of three children i found in an old tool chest atlronO., by their parents, George HamJ»n and wife. The chest had been Itened on the outside, indicating uomas Sutherland, editor of the btland (Ore.) Sunday Welcome, was bwned while boarding a ferryboat THE 8Cim. the circuit court of Des Arcs counArk., the suit of Mrs. Mary Sweet low of John Sweet who was killed |a wreck a month ago on the Iron itain road, was decided in favor of plaintiff. The jury returned a verfor 535,00ft. Fai.mouth, Ky., special says that tes Katchford, a notorious charater lat vicinity, was shot from ambush unknown assailants. Indications ited to the work of a mob. inators George and Walthall, of ippi, now have ninety-three legttive votes, which is three more than need to secure their election, laic, the sub-treasury candidate, only fifty-five votes. N. Webster, ex-sheriff of Covingcounty, Miss., was assassinated at residence near Williamsburg. Mr. ibster stooped down to piek up his Id from the back gallery when he deed a load of buckshot in his abien and died four hours later. No to the murderer. official vote at the Kentucky ition gives Brown, democrat, for >rnor, 144,163; Wood, republican, 087; Erwin, people’s, 35,631; Harris, ibibition, 3,391. For the constitution, ,930; against. 74,581. ACKSONViLLE, Fla., suffered severely i conflagration on the 18th. Sixtybuildings were destroyed, involva loss of $1,000,000. Hiss Grace Nesbit, daughter of Mr. itt Nesbit recently of Osceola, Ha, married at Belmont, Alexandria ‘nnty, Ya, to Mr. Badcliff Hordern, of “Throwley house,” Kent, England. The Georgia alliance convention reelected Congressman Livingston president and agreed to investigate the charges against him. It is believed a resolution will be passed condemning the railroad consolidation in the state and calling upon the legislature to ^enforce the provisions of the constitution. The Virginia alliance convention adopted with only two dissenting votes the whole of the California platform, with an addition demanding that congressmen elected should give the sub treasury plan a trial or something better.

The government rain experiments on the Staked Plains, Texas, are reported to have been successful. There was a serious fire at Dallas, Tex., on the night of the 30th, commencing at Hill’s business college. The total losses footed up $800,000. A i.ocai. freight train was wrecked near Cleveland, Miss., and two tramps and a brakeman killed. The Southern Lumber Co., with headquarters at Atlanta, Ga.. has assigned, with $135,000 liabilities and assets estimated at $300,000. Es MaCkae, an employe at the grave] pits a few miles west of Paris, Ky., was instantly killed by the pits caving in. He had been at work only about ter minutes when the accident occurred, and was buried alive in the debris. William D. Holtzmorth, the famous battlefield guide, ex-direetor of the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial association and superintendent of the soldiers’ national cemetery, is dead. In an altercation at Bagley’s store near Betham in Caddo parish. La., W. E. Bagley, storekeeper, shot and killed Mr. Etheridge, a bridge contractor o1 Carthage, Mo. The Earley national bank, of Montgomery, Ala., has closed its doors. GENERAL. As M. Lauer was leaving a meeting at the Cirque river, Paris, a revolvei was discharged at him by a bystander, an anarchist The charge missed M. Lauer, but grazed a coachman stationed near. The anarchist was arrested. David Gardiner, of Eden, near Winnipeg, Man., was taking shells out ol an old rifle, when one of them exploded and the bullet passed through the ceiling, the floor above, the bed and the body of a child four years old asleep in the bed and finally passed out through the roof. The child was killed. The British bank of Australia hai suspended with $800,000 liabilities. The wrought iron nail mon of the Worcester and Staffordshire (Eng.) die trict have struck against a proposed reduction of 10 per cent in wages. The strike affects not less than 8,001 liken. • $ The Bussian ministry of finance announces that the yield of rye is estimated at 711,000,000 poods, but that owing to the present snpplies being nearly exhausted 994,000,000 poods will be required to supply the wants of the people and for sowing purposes. The deficit must be supplied by {iotatoes and maize. Sick pilgrims will be permitted to touch the holy coat at Treves on producing a medical certificate describing their trouble. Devices have been seized by the polios at Chemnitz, Germany, with the legend “Bread or blood,” and evidently intended to be used in a procession. The devices were destroyed. Tn exposure of the "holy coit" st Treves is causing advene comment,

There seems to be two “holy coats, ” one at Treves and one at Argentenii, near Paris. Microscopic Cxamiitatiod favored the Treves coat ,a HuxGaB¥ has on abundant horvettl and will be able to send large quanta ties Of grain to Germany as soon as the treaty between the two countries comes into operation. The Chilian government cruiser Presidents Pinto is at Plymouth, England, awaiting instructions. Sib Hector Langkvin flatly denies! the boodle charges with which he has been connected in Canada. Russia is poshing her relief measures. A Fire which has been devastating the forest of Anti-Loussa, sixty-five miles east of Mostanage, Algeria, had already destroyed 35,000 acres of trees. LoUis Paulsen, the distinguished chess-player, died in London recently. American flour is selling at Callao, Fern, at $1$ per sack owing to the cutting off of the Chilian supply. The London Telegraph says Emperor William has grown a heard and whiskers. It is believed he will share his chin and retain his whiskers. The Lake Erie A Western strike is still on, causing much inconvenience by delayed freight A terrible hurricane is reported from Martinique. Many lives were lost The socialist congress at Brussels adopted the views of the British section, which were of a moderate nature. The American delegates distinguished themselves by violent remarks. At> Nordenheim, grand dnohy of Oldenhdrg, a scaffolding gave way and ten workmen were killed. The Freeman’s Journal publishes a voluminous contribution from Mr. Parnell in which he resumes his attack on John Dillon and the mass of his opponents. Queen Victoria viewed the French squadron at Portsmouth on the 30th. Dispatches from Rangoon, the capital of British Bnrmah, state that the harvest prospects almost throughout Bnrmah are of the gloomiest description. Six prisoners at Chihuahua, Mex., including the Texan, J. F. Clayton, who assisted in the kilting of S. H. Cavitt, have been sentenced to be shot. It is stated in Rome that if the next papal conclave is held abroad the government will occupy the Vatican and exclude the new pope. It is stated that water from the gulf of California is flowing into the new Salton lake in two places Dispatches from China indicate that the situation is most alarming and that the Chinese government is not able to guarantee the security of foreigners. Business failures (Dun’s report) for the seven days ended August 20 numbered 310, compared with 237 the previous week and 103 the corresponding week last year. The Turkish brigands who captured an Italian railroad inspector seventy miles from Salonica the other day, also captured the railroad foreman and some workmen, killing one workman who^ attempted to effect a rescue. A fearful storm was reported in the English channel. On the French coast much damage was done and a bark was lost and four men drowned. The report that Russia would prohibit wheat exportations is declared to be untrue. Two German missionaries have been murdered in New Guinea. The death list numbered over 300 in the recent hurricane at Martinique. . Lieut. Rukon^ of the Alpine chasseurs, while ascending the Chambeyron peak, fell down a precipice 1,S00 feet deep and was crushed into a pulp. A strong Chinese squadron has been ordered to Nankin. During a recent trip the stokers of the Netherlands steamship Obdam mutinously refused to work. In the dispute the captain shot the ringleader dead and the vessel proceeded without further incident At Toronto, Onh, the Society of the American Florists elected James Dean, of Bay Ridge, N. Y-, president The officers of the American Horticultural association elected: President J- M. Jordan, St Louis; vice-president J. D. Carmody, Evansville, Ind.; secretary, John G. Ester, Saddle River, N. J.; treasurer, J. Vaughan, Chicago.

THE LATEST. An explosion, followed by fire, occurred in the Taylor building-, No. 86 to 76 Park place, New York eity, on the 23d, which completely demolished the structure and caused an appalling loss of life, variously estimated from sixty upward. Nearly a hundred persons are reported missing, though it is probable that some of them will have been located when the full details of the disaster shall have been made up, Dan Bruce, city marshal of Shelbyville, Ind., was Bhot and fatally wounded, on the 22d, by Charlie Hawkins, a desperado. The murderer was arrested and placed in jail, whence he was taken by a determined mob and hanged to the limb of a tree. As soon as he was swung up to the limb his body was riddled with bullets. On the 23d Secretary Noble directed the commissioner of Indian affairs to instruct Indian Agent Bennett of the Union agency, I. T., to seize all packages of beer that came into Hie Indian Territory and to turn them over to the United States marshal to be libeled under the revised statutes. On the 23d John Gibbie and his wife and little child were crossing a canal bridge in Schenectady, N. Y., when the child fell through an opening into the water. The father jumped into the canal to rescue the child and both were drowned. James Wells, a well-known citizen o| Nottaway county, Ya., and his son sought shelter in a barn during a thunderstorm on the 31st. They had been there but a short time when lightning struck the barn and both were killed.' A tenement-house inhabited by persons of the poorer classes was burned at Shadwell, England, on the 33d. Two persons were cremated, and one woman was killed and two others were seriously injured by jumping. The bureau of American republics is advised that the Mexican government has recently declared forfeited no less than fourteen railway concessions the conditions of which had not been complied with by the grantees. The emperor and empress of Germany returned to Berlin on the 33d. Shortly after their arrival they proceeded on horseback to Tempelhof, where the emperor reviewed the guards. At the close of business, on the 33d, 830,684,150 4K per cent bonds had been presented to the treasury department for redemption at 3 per cent There were severe earthquake shocks i in central Portugal, op tjw 88d, bpt gg damage i* reported

INDIANA STATE NEWS. La Fayette will have af5O,00o eoadir.EK proruinea t citizens Of Morgatttown are under arrest for dynatnitiBg A saloon. The Sunman postoffice was robbed of a quantity of stamps. A i.arge vein of bituminious coal baa been struck near Hartford City. Ladoga claims to be the smallest city In the state lighted ■ y electricity. No less than twenty dead dogs were found on one street in Jeffersonville, the other morning, the result of being poisoned. Elizabethtown, a tillage near Columbus, was struck by a cyelone early the other meaning. A new schoolhouse just completed, was blown to the ground, and several residences were badly damaged. John Ulmer, a saloon-keeper, died at Vincennes a few nights ago, and. owing to his great size, a coffin could not he secured to hold his body, which weighs 389 pounds. At Nashville, Brown county, Wm. Pitman and John Clark fought in a saloon. Both fell through a window to the ground, Clark lighting on his head and fracturing his skull. John Dark, returning home near Goshen, the other night, was stopped by highwaymen, two of which held his horse and covered him with weapons while a third robbed him. * Some person has poisoned the fish in the pond of Asher West, near Crawfordsville. Frans Morrison, of near Garfield. Montgomery county, had seventeen hogs killed by lightning a few nights since. The colored people held a ten days' camp-meeting at Bluffton. Mrs. Nancy Siblings, near George-1 town, is dead. She was aged S3, and nearly her entire life was passed in the neighborhood where she died. She was living there before New Albany was platted, and before there was a town in Floyd county, and when Vincennes was the capital of the state and Corydon was a hamlet Crawford Fairbanks, of Terre Haute, is recovering from hiccoughs, which lasted a week, lie received hundreds of letters suggesting remedies Mrs. Helen Buck, wife of T. S. Buck, of Indianapolis, left her husband's bed at 1 o'clock the other morning, and running to the canal she attempted suicide by drowning. Four years ago Mrs. Back lost her little daughter by death and she has continued to grieve until her reason i^ dethroned. When Mrs. Samuel Smythe, of Waveland, awoke the other morning she was horrified to find the dead body of her husband lying by her side. He had hurst a blood-vessel, and died from internal hemorrhage while she slept The city conned of Muncie has passed the famous iscreen ordinance, requiring saloons to i-emove all blinds and screens from the windows during legal closing hours. Miss Lot? Cook, aged IS, the beautiful and accom plished organist of the Christian churdi at Taylorsville, left her home for service Sunday, hut instead met and "doped with John Wade, who had went to Columbus the night before, and got a marriage license. When they ret Tried to her home the old man, was stathy, hut finally forgave, This is the third and last daughter of Mr. Cook's married during the last year, all no a trying Johns. A stranger, giving his name as Bill Jeffries, alias WUliam Murry, alias William Johnson, passed three forged checks on different merchants at Columbus, the other night, for small purchases, each time receiving from 510 to 530 change. A telegram was received from Terre Haute describing the man, saying he was w anted there for similar offenses; that he is a plasterer, and has a penchant for forging small checks An infant of Wm. Sheppard, eleven miles northwest, of Greenfield, was accidentally smothered the other evening by a feather-bed being thrown over on the child while asleep, The state board of education has decided that teachers holding six-year certificates are not i-equired to again undergo examination. Henry Lane, uged 53, walked from Muncie to Anderson in one hour and fifty-eight minutes on a wager. The distance is eighteen miles Muncie business men have decided to raise 5800,000 for the purpose of drawing new industries to that town. The Montgomery county board oi review has raised the amount of taxable property from 515,000,000 to $20,000.000.

Nearly 10,000 strangers witnessed Columbus’ industrial parade. While Harry Leathers, of Mooresville. was tearing out an old fire-place In his home, he found 9800, all in crisp ten-dollars bills, that had been secreted beneath the hearth by some occupant of the house. - A swindler has been taking subscriptions in the neighborhood of Seymour for magazines and books at reduced rates. He gets the money and people who subscribe get the rates. A blacksnake 11 feet 1 inch in length and 12% inches around the body was killed near Connersville. Moses Ferguson, 92, of near Thornton, cut nine cords of wood during the month of July. - The ladies’ cornet band, at Elizabethtown, is in great demand. A big meteor with a hissing tail frightened a lot of picnickers near Ft Wayne. The strike among the nail feedcia in the Greenfield nail works was compromised. ' “Old Jim,” the oldest horse in Clinton county, belonging to Abe Kelley, is dead at the age of 33 rears. Lightning struck obediah Seudder’s barn at Muncie. Fred Puckett was badly burned and a horse was killed. -Harry Poindexter, of Peach Hill, in Clark county, was offered 910,000 fot the cjnp of 8,000 peach trees. He refused, and it is estimated that he will clear 918,000. The State Agricultural and Indue trial board, created by the last legislat are, to take the place of the State Agricultural society, which was afterward ^nocked out by the supreme court, filed a petition for a rehearing of their case a few days ago Jacob Heaton, of near Muncie, took his family to the circus and left his drove of hogs in a wheat stnbble without water. When he returned home he found If of the porkers had died from thirst A TEX-TEAR-OLD boy had his leg badly lacerated in ft wowing-machine pear NeovesviH# j

A FEARFUL STORY. ftxpkteiou sad ]£ir* in Haw York ^ ^ *•****■■• atW* A Cfcuit and * Collapse In VkM Searf* a Hundred persons Were Enurtlfed and Many Either Crashed at Horned to Death. New York. An?. 23.—A dreadful catastrophe, fraught with great loss of life occurred in this city shortly after the noon hour yesterday. Men, women find children, who, after a week’s weary toil, were within hnt a few minutes of their usual Saturday half holiday, tnefc death without a word of warning by the fall of Taylor’s building, 88 and to Park place, Anywhere from fifty to sixty persons were lolled. Six had been taken out dead at E:S0 o’clock, and these only from the edge of the street. How many are in the ruins nobody knows. Neither is it known what caused the collapse. It tnay have been an explosion, or the building may have fallen because it was over weigh Usd, or by the vibration of the printing presses. The building was condemned thirteen yeats ago. Some persons said that the boiler in the basement exploded. Whatever it was, the wreck was complete and the havoc awful. The whole front wall of the bnilding was torn out and dashed into a heap of ruins, which extended entirely across and partially blocks the street Following the crash came an outburst of flame, and in ten minutes all thin was left of the building was a solid wall of fire. The most terrible loss of life occurred in Peterson’s restaurant, which occupied the ground floor. It was a very popular little restaurant and was well filled. An eyewitness of the disaster says at the time of the explosion fully fifty persons -were seated at the tables. In addition to this number there were the waiters, the cooks and the proprietor and cashier, who, if the estimate of fifty customers is correct, would swell the list of the dead in the restaurant alone to fifty or sixty. Just exactly at what moment the explosion took place is unknown. It was probably nearer twenty minutes past 12 o'clock than half-past, so that only those who shut down the moment the hour for knocking off work came, and had already left the building escaped. One thing alone is certain, and that is that every one of those unfortunates who were in the bnilding when the awful crash came was either crushed to death or bnried alive. In addition to Ebcrle A Co., there were a number of other firms in the bnilding. On the little mound raised up by the wreckage the firemen squatted, shielding themselves as best they could from the terrible beat, and throwing three heavy streams into the heart of the flames. one of the swiftest and fiercest fire* known in New York for many shJ The firemen, with great diflicultjflPH the flames in check and kept them from licking up three or four of the surrounding buildings. - Hardly had the first eloud of smoke been blown away, revealing the terrible results of the explosion, when the police immediately sent ‘-hurry” calls to the hospitals. Calls were also sent in for,the city dead wagons The two ambulances from the Chambers-street hospital, which is only around the corner, were the first to arrive. The surgeons attached to the. ambulances found half a dozen men, the only men known to have escaped from the burning buildings, crowded together at ,tha corner of College place. They were put into the ambulances and taken around to the hospital. There was at that time only one man said to have been dangerously hurt. He was then unconscious. He is M. F. Barrett, of 160 West Fiftieth street, and was employed by Leiber & Emass. Hardly had the injured been removed from the scene of the disaster before a great crowd of persons gathered outside the hospital. The police had finally to be called upon to handle them. It was with great difficulty that the crowd could be kept back. In the throng were women with babies in their arms, weeping and in hysterics. Their husbands, they cried, had been in the house. Finally, so great did the crowd become, that sentries were posted at the entrance of the street, and all vehicles were kept from going through the street to prevent any accidents to the-people. Strenuous efforts were made by the firemen to cheek the flames, so as to begin the work of recovering the dead, and after an hour’s hard work they succeeded. The search for the dead was then begun. At 2:15 o’clock the first dead body was taken out of the rnins. It was found under a pile of bricks and mortar in the middle of the street. _ His face was battered past recognition, and he had a bad cut on the back of the left leg. The second body was brought out‘at 2:20. It was that of a man. Every stitch had been burned away and his flesh was roasted.

The third and fourth bodies taken out were those of two boys named Haegney and Gibbs. The fifth body to be taken out was that of a young laborer. The body was. badly burned, and was found lying face downward. One of the bodies taken out has been identified as that of Patrick Slattery. The three children of Frank Haegney. janitor of the building, 61 Park place, directly apposite, were skipping and playing on the sidewalk when the house fell. Their father stood, across the street on his own stoop, watching them at play. In his sight they were bnried by the falling wall. Half crazed by grief and terror, Mr. Haegney ran across the street and tore at the heap of bricks under which they lay. The firemen got him away with difficulty, and as soon as it was possible fell to work themselves on the pile. They had been at work but a few moments and had removed two bodies, when they were actually struck dumb with, amazement to hear cries for help issuing from beneath the ruins. The firemen responded to the cries by pitching into the debris that lay in heaps before them, and soon a head came into view. It was that of a little girl. She was Mary Haegney, one of the children of Janitor Haegney. The fallen bricks had formed an arch over the children and her life was thus save*! . She was uninjured. Kcar the place where the girl was found the body of a man was discovered. A‘t about 4 o’eleck a solemn procession formed down at the corner of Greenwich street and Park place. It was formed of policem an, who carried phit* pice eyfliua et* Uwir siumMws,

and tbo city’s hearse lUfiragfht op the rear. At ?:36 O 'ilocJs the men employed il! aearefrtog- few the bodies discovered two bodies to trout of No. Ifc They had WJUslifenih!* difficulty in reaching them as they wete groping in the 'lark. There W*3 m electric light or gas light on the Week. Coroner Henley arrived col the scene abort 0 ohiacte and with his deputy. Dr. Donlin, he remained daring the evening. Joseph Greonbanin, » waiter employed to. Peterson’s restaurant, who miraculously escaped, rays that as Bear as he can remember there were in the restaurant when he left only twontyone persons, J. 3, Smith, a clerk employed in the office of Liebe-r & Mass, said that there were forty men employed in the press rooms of the establishment, and. as far as he could leans, none of them escaped except Cane Schmidt, foreman. ' At S o’clock, where the ruins had been cooled off and the Sautes deadened, Assistant Foreman M. H. Slevto, of hook and ladder No. 5, and IVm. Gergiw, a member of the same company, taking two lanterns, effected an entrance by a small opening into the cellar. Working atone with difficulty, and in five feet of water, they male as thorough m exploration of the cellar and of the vaults under the sidewalk as the debris would permit. Among the overhanging timbers and iron pipes they discovered two bodies a few feet from the line in the building's front, wedged in and held seouTely by several wooden timbers. Both jgeuwere depd and more or less bnrneS^pfeey made an effort to get at rhem, bnt in their attempt to tear away some of the obstructions, found that sneh a course would result to bringing down upon their own heads the* immense mass of brick above and possibly result in their death. Lieut. Slevin said that he had made a thorough investigation of the vaults under the sidewalk, and was satisfied that there were no bodies there. It was completely choked with the debris from above, and he thought it wasvery possible that many bodies had been [ found there. When it became dark the firemen | were greatly impeded to their efforts to find the bodies, from want of proper lights, AU along Park place, between Church and Greenwich streets, the gas had been turned off from the street mains, leaving that portion of the street to total darkness. The only light that the workers had was that given oat by the few lanterns they carried. The list of injured, who are being treated at the Chambers-street hospital, is as follows: John Sheehan, of Fall river. Mass., laceralecUmKnd of the left eyebrow. - TVOU&tl °f nose. ennui of arm. the •.•>.:!•••!- JjW elbow and scalp woungHB^r^ 5 John WykeoTT, punctured wound of the arm. William Smith, of Brooklyn; chest wound. Mattie Haegmey, S years of age, scalp wounds. M.' F. Barnett, of Johnson City, Tenn., depressed fracture of the skull: will probably prove fatal. The difficulty of getting a clear idea of what passed to the minute following the disaster is greatly enhanced hy the fact that most of the adjoining stores and those on the opposite side of the street were closed, as it was Saturday afternoon. A printer named Henry Hoppe, who was passing at the time, says: “I left my office at 19 o’clock ior home, going down Park place. As I came near Greenwich street I heard a noise similar to that of letting off steam from a boat. I stopped a moment to see what it meant. When I saw the building next above the comer of Greenwich street trembling, and the next moment saw the whole front coming down. I could see human beings straggling in the wreck os it fell. A woman passing behind mo was struck by falling bricks, and I eslight her by the arm, but there was so much weight on her that I had to let her go or else I would have been killed, as some bricks struck me on the shoulder and then 1 jumped away.v&s I saw the rest of the wall coming down. The walls of the upper floors came first, and the others followed almost in one breath. By the time I reached the comer of Greenwich street I was almost paralysed. There were other people following on the sidewalk, but on account of the dust and smoke I am unable to say whether* any of them were kilted or not, but I think some were buried in the ruins

u qm iuq wmr ui tuc CApwwwu, which followed the escape of steam, 1 saw a man driviag a horse and wagon, directly in front of the building', and 1 suppose he and the horse were killed. 1 only heard eries of ‘Help, help.’ 1 saw one man falling in the debris, with his heat! partly smashed in. Being excited and ‘somewhat injured from the bricks that struck me, I left the scene and went home. I hope never to witness such another scene.” So far sight bodies had been removed from the rains of the disastrous fire. At 9 o’clock a red glow emanating from the depths of the ruins proved that the fire was still burning. Two streams were kepi constantly playing on the ruins, and will be continued during the entire night. Lieut. Slevin made a second descent into the sub-cel-lar on the west side of the building. When he eeaerged he reported seeing three bodies, two men and a boy. He finally decided to go down a third time and recover the bodies if possible. Two firemen went with him. There was ten miniates of suspense before Sievin appeared, struggling up the. ladder with the mangled and inanimate form of a man in his erms. The victim had been a man between 45 and 59 years of age. Later electric lights were strung up in the vicinity of the ruins and a force of laborers were put to work to clear away the debris. A strong cordon of police kept a surging crowd baek at the east and west ends of the block. There were many Inquiries made by people who tried to pass through the fire lines and search the ruins themselves for possibly lost friends Until the raiaa are thoroughly soaked and certain dangerous portions of the wreck removed it will be impossible to remove any trow bodies. There ate wild rumors about the possible revelations when the smoldering flames have been entirely pst out, and ae official will even venture an cpinioo. only shaking their £?«$» sadly at the • ef wiMkfc 1|| beta? tom

A t 0 o'clock the first dead _ posited its inanimate load at the morgue. It contained four bodi one of them, that of Pa),rick i the subway laborer, was M Half an hour later the first of the forlorn. procession of friends, and re’-** of missing ones began to arrive. The list of Hie dead np to 11 o’clock John Gibb, 40 years, 38? Greenwich street Sarah Haegney, 8 rears, 61 Park place. Patrick Slattery. » years. Eightyninth street and Part avenue. V nknown man, 35 years. Unknown man. 35 years. Unknown man, 34 years. Unknown man, 80 yean. Unknown man, 45 yearn. The following is a list ot the persona reported missing by their friends. All these persons were employed in tho burned buildings and had :aot returned to their homes: Miss O’Donnell, 18 years; John Hetnke, 45 years, of Jersey City Heights; Terrence Emery, 84 years; W. M. McPherson, Buffalo, Conrad Smith, Gus Heimer, Flowers, 16 ^ years; John Di years; Adam Dohran, 14 years; Sullivan, 1? years; Herman 33 years; Louis Rosen field," I Quinn, Annie Tully, 17 ,years; dough, 80 years; Mary Deimlin, John Hillts, Otto Wateer, 34; Peter Miller, 60; Richard Dobe, 30; Wn Berry, 36; Lizzie Dowd, Wm. McDonald, Frank Haeb. 82; Churles. Brietner, Philip Eberle, Miller, Jr., 16; John Foutb, 18; Robert, H. Marr, 85; Thomas Keogh, 30; Sir. Devine, St; Louis Miller, 36; George, McMann. 17; Lottie Heins, 86: Newman Goldsmith, 29; Sam Blitz, 80; A. Lt Lindsay, 40; Wm. Ellis. 85; John Schell, 80; Chas. McCarthy, 18; Leonard Cple, 30; Albert Middleton, 17; Wm. A. Durve, 4U, of Paterson, N. J..,( Thomas Williams, 30. Thought to Have Been a Safi Bo tiding. o RicSfikld Springs, N. Y., Ang. 83.— * Hon. D. Jones Crain, of New York, whose wife owns the building on Park place, destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon, says that the property has always - been considered by him to be one of the safest in the city from any such catastrophe. He avers that not only was the building comparatively new, and erected on plans drawn by the most prominent architects, but that it had been regularly inspected by the insurance men, 9 who gave a certificate of its conformance to the requirements of the law. The property, Mr. Crain' says, was covered-by $50,000 insurance in twenty different companies. He is at a loss to understand how the accident could have occurred, and denies emphatically that the building was ever condemned. ALMY AND ABBOTT. The Former Bu Nothing U, Say when r-oofMataa t> HU Renelhetor. Hanover. N. H., Aug. 33.—Mr. Warden, accompanied by bis 10-year-old son, visited Almy, yesterday morning, and asked the murderer why he had eoinmitted-so terrible a deed. Almy looked hts 'former benefactor in the face, his eyes dropped, and he said: “There is nothing I can say.” A prominent, citizen of Thetford, Vt., who lives not far from where Abbott made his home in that town, in speaking of Almy and Abbott yesterday said that Abbott came to Thetford . with Israel Abbott, an uncle, when he was about 15 years old. The bright young fellow showed a strong propensity for stealing, atone time pilfering a stove and selling np a blacksmith shop upon the bank of the Connacfickt river. As he became older he was a great favorite with the girls and was gentlemanly towards them. After breaking into a jewelry store in 1875, young Abbott was sentenced to four yean in the state prison, but shortened his time considerably by good behavior. After his release Abbott returned to Thetford, and as far as known led an exemplary life for a year or two. In the year 1880, however, several of tho neighboring towns were excited over numerous burglaries. Suspicion soon fell upon Abbott and he was finally shot in the hip while attempting to escape from a store in which he had been operating in Oxford. Tho, citizens formed a searching party, and after half a day’s -search Abbott was found in a hat among the lodges which overlook the station. Abbott made a' desperate resistance, bnt was finally captured. Frank Almy was taken to the county jail at Manchester, by order of tbo court, yesterday.

AN OHIO TRAGEDY. A Brutal Harder at aa Ohio County Fair and a Probable Lynching. Ada. O., Aug-. 24.—At th.? Harding county fair last week John Bristol, of Fort Wayne, and John Fruth, of Fostoria. became involved in a qudfrrel with Charles Mathews, but begot away from them before they came to blows. Friday night Bristol and Fruth came Bristol mistook Stokesbnry for Mathews and both attacked and knocked him down and beat him so badly that he died shortly afterwards. Fruth was arrested after some resistance and hurried to Kenton, the county seat, to save him from lynching. Bristol is in jail at Ada, and :f he is not also removed, he will probably be lynched. Stokesbnry was a thrifty yona& farmer and had never seen his assafl ants before. G Babe Hawkins Seeking Business with Judge Lynch. Shixbyvujjs, Inch, Aug. 24.—The excitement over the shooting of the city marshal Saturday night and the subsequent lynching of his assailant has not yet subsided. Bruce is still alive, his nerve being greaUy in his favor An affecting scene was witnessed yesterday when the wife and the mother of Hawkins were allowed to see the remains. There were five bnl» lota in his body and his skull was fractured It is thought that Bruce will