Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 26, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 November 1893 — Page 2

r\ ?hr gifcf Countjj #t\inorrat M McC. STOOFS, Editor «nd ProprietorPETERSBUKG. - - INDIANA. The Bigelow carpet mills of Boston, employing 1,100 hands, shut down, on the 3d, for an indefinite period because of lack of orders. The second trial of ex-Detective Daniel Coughlan for alleged complicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin, on May 4, 1889, was begun in Chicago on the 3d. On the night of the 31st the Liberty Bell left Chicago on its return to Philadelphia, never more, it is said, to be removed from the City of Brotherly Love. Prince Antonio of Orleans, husband of the Infanta Eulalie, and lieutenantcolonel in the hussar regiment “Princess,” will join the Spanish troops at Melillo. The senate amendment to the silver purchase-repeal bill was passed by the house, on the 1st, and one hour and thirty-five minutes later was signed by the president and became a law. During the closing ceremonies in the Woman’s building at the World's fair, on the 31st, it was announced that Potter Palmer had given $200,000 to erect a woman’s memorial building on the lake front in Chicago. Twenty-two miners’ cottages, belonging to the Monongahela Coal Co.; at Monongah, W. Va., were destroyed by fire, on the 2d, entailing a loss of about $10,000. Most of the occupants lost all they possessed. Hon. Morris McDonald, ex-mayor of New Albany, and one of the most prominent men in southern Indiana, was stricken with heart disease, on the 1st, and died a few minutes later. He was 56 years of age. An, that was mortal of Carter H. Harrison, late mayor of Chicago, was laid to rest, with imposing ceremonies and attended by the largest funeral pageant ever witnessed in the west, in Graceland cemetery on the 1st. Prince Alfred Windisch-Gratz, whom Emperor Francis J oseph desired to succeed Count Taafe as Austrian prime minister, has announced that, owing to important family considerations, he is unable to accept the office. Patrick Eugene Joseph PrenderGAST, the murderer of Mayor Harrison of Chicago, was arraigned in court on the 2d and pleaded not guilty. The assassin was so nervous when led to the bar of justic that he almost collapsed. It took nearly five hours for the procession of Cincinnati school children to pass the car upon which rested the Liberty Bell, in that city, on the 2d, and when they were gone the car and bell were hidden from view under a mountain of flowers. A crank entered the office of Edwin Gould, in New York, on the 30th, and demanded, instantly, $5,000. Mr. Gould stepped into another room, telephoned for assistance and then entertained his visitor until officers arrived and took him into custody. The Midway plaisance fakirs from the far east, of various tribes and tongues, will carry home about $1,000,000 as their harvest for the six months Of the World's fair. At least $30,000 in counterfeit money, lead quarters and confederate notes were passed upon them.

Prendergast, the murderer of Mayor Harrison in Chicago, is having a rough time in jail. The other prisoners have taken to using every opportunity to jeer at the wretch, and shrieking imprecations at him, so that exercise outside his cell has been made practically an impossibility. The reorganized national GermanAmerican bank, of St. Paul, Minn., which closed its doors during the financial stringency, August 4, reopened on the 81st. Since its failure the bank had made collections aggregating 9920,000, nearly *200,000 more than required by the comptroller. Senator Sherman was accorded an enthusiastic reception by the Cincinnati commercial exchange, of which he is a member, on the 3d. "He addressed the assembled members on the recent fight in the senate and the probable result of the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman act George E. Studebakkr, who was delegated by the A. O. U. W. to visit the counties of southwestern Kansas and ascertain the true condition of affairs there, returned to Topeka, on the 81st, and his account of the suffering in Seward, Grant, Stevens, Morton and Stanton counties is heartrending. Judge Dailey, of the Indiana supreme court, rendered a decision, on the first, holding the peculiar election bribery law of that state constitutional. By its terms a man who attempts to purchase another’s vote must pay the person approached *300, and may suffer imprisonment besides. The Northwestern Miller reports the stock of wheat in private elevators of Minneapolis, oh the 30th, at 507,000 bushets, a gain over the previous week of 68,000 bushels. This made the total stock at Minneapolis and Duluth 18,648,388 bushels, an increase of 1,209,979 bushels, against 11,948,000 ^bushels at the same date last year. A crazy printer walked in on Superr intendent of Police Byrnes of New York, on the 31st, and asked him for the 9100,000 the superintendent owned him. The original amount, he said, was *75,000, bat the interest had increased it to 9100,000. He wanted the 925,000 interest in pennies. He was invited into the detectives’ room to' get the money, , and five minutes later found himself (looked un in a oall.

CUBBENT TOPICS THE NEWS IN BRIEF. FIFTY-THIRD I^ONGRESS. [Extra Session.] If the senate, on the 3tfth (legislative day of the 17th>. the silver purchase-re peal bill was taken up. and after a whole day spent in speech-making on the part of-the repeal men. a ballot was reached at 7:30 o’clock and resulted in the passage of the bill by a vote of 43 to 32. _..In the house resolutions on the death of Carter Harrison, mayor of Chicago and an exmember of congress, were passed. In the senate, on the 31st. the only important action taken was the passage of the New York bridge bill.In the house the senate joint resolution to transfer to the state of Illinols the model battle ship Illinois was passed, as was house bill authorising the Arkansas & Fort Smith Railroad Co. to construct certain bridges. The discussion of the naturalization bill then occupied the house until the morning hour expired, when the bill went over. The joint resolution to remit duties imposed on war munitions imported by the navy department at the time of threatened trouble with Chili was passed. The house then went into committee of the whole for the consideration of the bankruptcy bill. In the senate, on the 1st, several bills were favorably reported from committees and placed on the calendar. Several bills, unimportant or of local interest, were passed. Mr. HH1 offered two.amendments to the rules intended to curtail tiie power of obstruction. A memerial from Miss Clara Barton, president of the American Red Cross association, asking the assistance of congress for the relief of the sufferers from the cyclone on the Sea islands and on the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia,was read. The Chinese bill was th^n taken up and some time was spent in its consideration.when. after a brief executive session, the senate adjourned. .In the house the sliver purchase-repeal bill was passed by a vote of 103 to 04. In the senate, on the 2d. among a number of bills passed was bouse bill providing for the construction of a steam revenue cutter for service on the great lakes at a co9t not to exceed $175,000. Consideration of the bill for the relief of the cyclone sufferers on the coast of Georgia and South Carolina and on theoSea islands was objected.to by Mr. Cockrell, and it went over without action. House bill to extend the time for the enforcement of the Chinese expulsion act was then taken upand passed — In the house a joint resolution to adjourn on the 3d. at 3 p. m.. was passed, as was the World’s fair prize-winners’ exhibit bill. Filibustering occupied most of the session. In the senate, on the 3d, Mr Cockrell reported back from the committee on appropriations the house joint resolution tor final adjournment at 3 p in. There was a feeble opposition to the resolution, which, however, was agreed to without division. House bill in aid of the World’s Fair Prize Winners' exhibition was passed. The usual resolutions of thanks were passed, and responsive speeches made, and after a short executive session the senate adjourned.'!_In the house the only substantial achievement was the final disposition of the bill allowing a rebate on World’s fair exhibits acquired by the Columbian museum, the greater part of the three hours’ session being spent in a wrangle over pay and back pay of congressional employes. At 3 o’clock, with the fall of the speaker’s gavel, the house adjourned. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. European military authorities, outside of France and Russia, are. congratulating themselves that Russian troops will require at least a year’s drill in the use of their new magazine guns before they will be ready to take the field. Father-General Sorin, founder of the Notre Dame university at South Bend, Ind., died on the 31st. He had been ailing for some time. E. A. McCilLivey and Joseph Irwin were arrested by the police of Sioux City, la., on the 30th, for counterfeiting. They scraped the fig-ures off bills of small denominations, pasted rice paper on the defaced portions, and with engraving ink etched figures on the paper, raising the bills to $20 and $50 denominations. i f a \ire Staw llio cplf-pniifpcsAil mnr

derer ot six members of the Wratten family, in Daviess county, Ind., made a third confession, on the 31st, before the grand jury, in which he implicated several other persons whose object, he said, was robbery. Mayor Latrobe of Baltimore, Md. on the 31st, received an anonymous letter in which he was threatened with instant death if he failed to provide employment for the idle workingmen of the city. The letter showed that the sender was well educated. IIezekiah L. Hosmer, ex-chief justice of Montana, died in San Francisco, on the Slst, aged 78. He was born in Henderson, N. Y. After being admitted to the bar he went to Ohio, edited the Toledo Blade, of which he was one of the proprietors, and started the daily paper of that naihe. In 1864 he was appointed by President Lincoln chief justice of Montana. On the Slst Postmaster-General Bissell transmitted to the secretary of the treasury the estimates for the post office department iot the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893. The total amount is $90,S99,485, as against $84,004,814 for the present year. Minor C. Keith’s clipper fruit steamer Foxhall from Port Limon, Costa Rica, arrived at New Orleans on the night of the 31st. Among her passengers was Francis H. Weeks, the New Yorkf^mbezzler, in charge of Detectives Reilly and Von Gerichten. A serious railroad collision occurred on the Lambert Point branch of the Norfolk & Western railway in Norfolk, Va., on the Slst, resulting in the death of two men and the dangerous injury of five others. The Chicago City Railway Co. transported 78,000.000 passengers between May 1 and October 81. This estimate is based upon the returns of cash fares for the time, excluding all transfers, policemen, firemen, employes and others who rode free. Harriet Ann, daughter of Thurlow Weed, died in New York, after a lingering illness, of pleurisy, on the 1st, aged 74. 4t The public debt increased during October $5,141,059.01. The Elwood (Ind.) window-glass factory, employing 600 hands, was discovered to be burning on the morning of the 1st. The immense plant was situated outside the limits of waterworks lines and oould not be reached by the department In twenty minutes the whole building was ablaze.' The plant,is a total wreck, and its employes are tWown out of work at the beginning of winter. Loss, $50,000; insurance, $6,000. The public debt statement issued on the 1st showed a net increase in the debt during October of $5,141,058.01. Cash in the treasury, $739,447,014.

Chairman Pec* reports the World’s fair treasury in a healthy condition. All obligations hare been met and there is a cash balance on hand of $2,500,000. The gate receipts from now on and the salvage, it is figured, will pay the current expenses until the end, so that the stockholders, who hare holdings representing $5,000,000, upon which they scarcely expected to realize anything, will be paid fifty cents on ]- the dollar. Shortly after 1 o’clock on the morni ing of the 2d a fire broke out in the ! house at No. 19 Third street. New York. A second alarm was sent out shortly after the firemen reached the scene. , Six firemen were overcome by gas and dragged out of the place by their companions. James F. Brannen, the leader of the mob that lynched Daniel Arata, the Italian murderer, in Denver, Col., on the night of July 6, last, vt-us indicted by the grand jury on the 1st. A flouring mill boiler exploded, on the 1st, at Windfall, Ind., instantly killing .Lewis Mill. Everything was wrecked. The silver repeal bill was entered upon the records at the White House, on the 2d, and the official parchment copy was sent to the state department for filing with the archives of the government. i At a congress of revolutionary socialists held in Brussels, on the 1st, it was resolved to carry on an active propaganda to bring about a strike among the soldiers of Belgium and elsewhere. The Viking started from Chicago, on the 2d, for St. Paul, Minn., to which city it was presented before the close of the World's fair. Ten thousand persons witnessed the unveiling of the statue of the late Sir John Macdonald at Hamilton, Ont., oh the 1st. i Snow fell for an hour at St. Paul, Minn., on the morning of the 2d, with the thermometer at the freezing point. The paid admissions to the World's fair on the 2d were 8,642. M. B. Curtis, the actor, who is wanted iD San Francisco as a witness in the case of McMaddus and Dunn, charged with bribery in the Curtis murder trial, left that city, on the 2d, on an east-bound train, putting himself beyond the jurisdiction of the California state courts. On the 3d the London admiralty court awarded $1,250 salvage against the Dutch steamer Maasdam in favor of the British steamer Winchester and her crew, the latter to receive $450 of the award. On the 3d orders were sent to the superintendents of the United States mints at San Francisco and New Orleans to resume the coinage, suspended some time ago, of standard silver dollars. Miss Annie Howard, who was to have been married to the late Mayor Harrison of Chicago, left that city on the 3d for her home in Biloxi, Miss. Later reports say that but six lives were lost by the burning of the steamer City Of Alexandria, off the Cuban coast though seven others were still missing on the 3d. The new French tax on bourse transactions, which became operative on July 10 last, has yielded in four months the sum of 2,079,000 francs. The president signed the Chinese bill amending the Geary act on the 3th Paid admissions to the World’s fair on the 3d were 5.690. The old hotel in Apple Creek, O., made famous as the home for many years of the noted lion-tamer, Herr Driesbach, was burned to the ground on the night of the 2d.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. The steamer Cabo Machichaca, laden with dynamite, burned at Santander, Spain, on the 4th. Thousands of persons had assembled on the wharf when the flames reached the cargo, causing an awful explosion which completely destroyed that vessel and the Alfonso II, lying alongside, and scattered burning debris over 'half the city, causing its destruction by fire. It is officially stated that over 300 persons were killed while hundreds more were injured, scores of them fatally. The weekly statement of the New York-associated banks for the week ended on the 4th shows the following changes: Reserve, increase, $3,225,975; loans, increase, $5,085,500; specie, increase, $552,000; legal tenders, increase, $6.211j600; deposits, increase, $14,155,900; circulation, decrease, $200,900. Ax attempt was made, on the night of the 4th, to hold up a Missouri Pacific train near Union, Neb. A brakeraan saw the would-be robbers board the engine and try to overpower the engineer. He opened fire on’them, and after the exchange of several shots the robbers fled. Count Iswoi.bkx, the Russian envoy to Rome, who has been absent for some time, will return on the 11th. He is charged with important instructions from the czar to the pope bearing upon the development of the papal policy in France. The imports, exclusive of specie, at the port of New York, for the week ended on the 4th, were $9,916,071, of which $925,959 were dry goods and $S.490,112 were general merchandise. While a party were hunting on the Grosspeterwitz estate, near Schweidnitz, Prussian Silesia, on the 4th, Baron Kubmitz mortally wounded Count Pfeil with a stray shot. President Cleveland celebrated the adjournment of congress by going squirrel shooting on the 4th. Secretary Gresham accompanied him. The imports of specie at the port of New York for the week ended on the 4th were $2S0,099, of which $277,608 were gold and $2,497 silver. James Stone, the murderer of the Wratten family in Daviess county, Ind., was, on the 4th, sentenced to hang February 16 next. On the 4th the banks of New York held $53,018,450 in excess ,of the requirements of the 85-per cent. rule. M. Pierra Emanuel Tibard, formerly prime minister of France, died in Paris on the 4th. The United 8tates cruiser Baltimore has arrived at Port Said, Egypt.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Brxry Dummerfrutt, a farmer. 60 years old, was found unconscious in a ravine near Laughery creek, near Lawreneeburg, five miles from his home, the other day, with terrible wound* inflicted by himself. He had had domestic trouble, and, going teethe woods, climbed a tree, tied a rope to a limb and the other end to a tree. He then jumped off. The rope broke, but choked him. The fall also broke his leg and badly bruised his head and face. He regained consciousness in several hours, and then cut both wrists horribly with a pocket-knife, quenching his terrible thirst with the flowing blood. Then with a pointed stick he stabbed himself in the abdomen repeatedly, tearing his entrails. He became unconscious again, and had lain in the ravine two days and nights when found. He was taken home and can not live. - , o‘ The following fourth-class postmasters were commissioned a few days ago: A. C. Crago, Carmel, Hamilton county, vice J. W. Nutt, removed; S E. Colvert, Plum Tree, Huntington county, viee \V. H. Eekam, resigned. Oh. has been found near Gas City, and a test well is to be sunk at once. Wm. Duckworth, an old soldier of Seymour, has been notified that his pension will be discontinued. Breht Dkrf, of Wabash county, pleaded guilty to outraging a ten-year-old girl and received a two-year sentence. Thomp80s’8 green glass bottle factory, at Gas City, has gone into operation, giving employment to a' large force of men. Five shops are being opera ted, and the number will be increased before long. Harry 6. Dye, of Indianapolis, committed suicide by taking morphine. He had been discharged from his position as gateman at the Union station. He leaves a wife. A valuable mare was stolen • the other night from John Campbell, of Delaware county. Gborgo W. Powell, head of the real estate firm of Powell <fc Prather, was the other day appointed chief of police of Indianapolis. He has had no police experience, and he hesitated a good while before accepting, lest it might ruin his social standing. Judge Frikdley, in the circuit court, at Madison, has granted the prayer of the citizens temporarily restraining the council from purchasing the Gamewell fire alarm system at $5,000, owing to large municipal indebtedness J. C. Brows, who killed Attorney Wesner in a sensational manner in court at Danville, last May. has been acquitted of the charge of murder. A bull and a stallion fought in a field near Lebanon, both being fatally injured and had to be killed. At Muncie the wife of James Parker/> slipped up behind him as he sat in a chair and fractured his skull with a club. The large pulp plant of the Indiana Paper Co., South Bend, was destroyed by fire, the other night. Loss, $20,000; insurance, $5,000. The fire was probably incendiary. The plant will hardly be rebuilt. Shortly after midnight the store of Cook & Snyder, of St. Louis Crossing, near Columbus, was entered and the building fired. Before the flames were discovered the entire building was enveloped, causing a total loss of $4,000.

1 HE nnamg oi goiu m morgan anu Brown counties is no longer a myth. Winfield S. Kichards was in Martinsville, the other day, exhibiting gold valued at $45 that he washed out of Sycamore creek, Morgan county, in two days. He had a two-ounce bottle filled with the glittering treasure, besides some fine specimens of shot gold. At Richmond Henry W. Greive was killed by a falling bank of earth. Several of the men with him barely escaped and Greive was completely buried under five feet of fine sand and gravel. One hour after swallowing thirty grains of morphine Linsey Sinkhorn, of Salem, was a dead man. He had been on a protracted spree, which was doubtless the exciting cause. The victim was 6(5 years of age, and leaves two sons and a daughter. “Lumpy jaw"’ is said to be breaking out among the cattle at Albion, this state. The Common Sense engine works at Muncie will resume business with a full complement of men. David Corbin, a prosperous resident of Toronto, en route to tfie World’s fair," was done out of $40 bjr confidence men at South Bend. In the suit of Miss Hershey against W. Cheeseman for damages, at Portland, on a change of venue from. Winchester, the jury awarded her $300. Mrs. Reneta Shultz, aged 05, was cut to pieces the other morning by a Lake Erie and Western passenger train at La Porte. The unfortunate woman was crossing a long bridge north of La Porte, when she was warned by the whistle of the approach of the train. She started to run, and in another instant would have crossed in safety, when she swooned and fell between the rails. The dismembered remains became entangled in the locomotive, and were extricated’with difficulty. David Dillon, a farmer near Andcr son, took twenty-five cents worth of morphine with suicidal intent, but the doctors may save him. The extensivegrain and general store business of Florian Groshour, of Ijams-. ville, Wabash county, was closed up a few days since, under a chattel mortgage. Liabilities, $35,000, with assets considerably less. The defunct First national bank, of North Manchester, is creditor to the amount of $13,000 in cash advanced for buying wheat William H. Terpany, of New Carlisle, a prominent resident there, is dead. Israel Asbury, aged 60 and insane, was killed by the cars at Ellsworth, four miles from Terre Haute, on the Log%nsport division of the Vandalia road.

TRAIN ROBBERS Hd*-Track and Ditch a Train on tfcn IlllnoU Central—An Attempt on th« MUftourl Pacific Frustrated by a Plucky Drakeman—The Iron Mountain Train Robber* Surrounded—One Hundred and Fifty Men In Pursuit. Cairo, 111., Not. 6.—Tha Illinois Central's Chicago and New Orleans limited restibuled train was side-tracked and iitched at Lime Switch, two miles north of Ullin, at 1 o'clock yesterday morning, and Fireman Charles Harmond, of Centralia, was instantly killed. There is every reason to believe that the wreck was the work of would-be train robbers, because the switch track runs out to a lime kiln, and is never used by passenger trains. The lock was broken and the switch turned and the lantern thrown into a ditch. The train was behind time and running at a high rate of t speed, and was some distance out on the side switch before the engineer discovered that anything was wrong. The track gave way under the ponderous engine and the tender were overturned, burying the fireman beneath the ruins. The baggage and express car followed and rolled over on its side, imprisoning the express messenger and two guards within it. Three coaches left the track but did not turn over, and none of the passengers were injured. There were ten vestibuled coaches in the train besides President Fish’s private car, which was occupied by Mr. Fish and his private secretary. The train was delayed until another engine could be sent from here to bring down the coaches that had remained on the rails. They were sent on to New Orleans about 4 o'clock yesterday morning. A wrecking train was at work all day yesterday and the coaches are back all right. .It is a lonely spot on the road and a favorable spot for a train hold-up. Would-be Train Robbers Routed. Union, Neb., Nov. 5.—An attempt was made last night to hold up a Missouri Pacific^ train near this place. Two men boarded the engine when it was leaving the water tank and tried to overpower the engineer. Brakeman Harp saw the would-be robbers and at once opened fire on them. Several shots were fired, and the robbers were routed. A posse is in pursuit. Great excitement prevails. The Iron Mountain Robbers Surrounded by Pursuing Posses. Little Hock, Ark., Nov. 5.—The probability is that the desperadoes who held up the Iron Mountain train aind killed Conductor McNally at Oliphant Friday night will be captured or killed before morning, as the pursuing posses are closing in on them on all sides. a U *-o4 rvosen nn 4L n rr^Aiind mo n

from this city, but it was quickly reinforced by officers from Jackson and Wolff counties, and to-day the sheriffr of Independence, White and Cleburne counties hare joined in the pursuit. After the robbery the brigands went direqtly west, evidently intending to effect their escape into the Indian territory, but so prompt was the action of Gor. Flshbaek in notifying the officers in that part of the state that they have been hemmed in. A skirmish took place with the robbers this morning, but the majority of them escaped. Two, however, were captured near Jamestown, taken to Batesville, and thence by rail to Newport, where they are now in jail. It is known that one of the robbers was wounded at the time of the robbery, probably by Conductor, McNally before he was killed, as the bloody bandages dropped by the bandits were found by the men in pursuit. The country in which the hunt is taking place is rough and mountainous and some distance from the nearest telegraph station. Several suspects have been arrested here to-day and are held for identification. One Hundred and Fifty Men In Pursuit. Batesville, Ark., Nov. 5.—By this time (8 p. m.) there are 150 men in pursuit of the robbers and a determined effort is being made to capture them. A courier has just arrived from the front with six horses, one of them wounded, and a lot of plunder and cheap jewelry also abandoned by the highwaymen. The robbers are now surrounded by the posse in Greenbrier bottoms where the men have friends, who are helping them to make the fight and escape. The men arrested this morning were Bill Lemons and Mark Arnott. who are now in jail here, but refuse to talk. No doubt but, what the capture is a good one. A Crank and? His Mission. Kansas City. Mo., Nov. 6.—A? dangerous crank, who wants to displace President Cleveland, was arrested heie yesterday. His came is Elmer E. Kaub, and he is from Finney, -'ftenry county, Mo. He arrived here yesterday, having started from his home with the avowed intention of becoming the president of the United States. The conductor of the train which brought him to Kansas City, recognizing the dangerous character of his passenger, telegraphed police headquarters to arrange for his arrest upon the arrival of the train. When the train came in, two policemen arrested him and locked him up. Upon being examined by a sergeant of police he said he was going to Washington. “I am going to succeed Cleveland,” he added, “first, I shall study politics from the practical point of view and then I shall become president. Cleveland must give way to me'.” Prince Windlsohcraetz Choses a New Austrian Cabinet. London, Nov. 6.—The Vienna correspondent of the Central New® says Prince Windischgraetz, has chosen his cabinet as follows: Bohoulaw Von Widman, German liberal, interior; Count Karl Choringski, clerical, justice; Ernest Von Blener, leader of the German liberals, finance; Count Justan Falkenkayn, clerical, agricultural, Taafe cabinet; Staniulaus Von Msdeyski, Pole, education; Count Frans Ranni, clerical, commerce; Apollinar Von Jaworsky, Pole, minister without portfolio.

HUNDREDS OF LIVES. Half of the City of Santander. ■ Spain. De> stroyed and 1.00(1 Persons Reported Killed or Injured by the Explosion of a Shipload of Dynamite and the Coullaxrntlon that Followed—Sights that Sickened Hardened Soldiers. Madrid, Nov. 4.—A thousand lives were lost and a vast amount of prop* erty destroyed by a terrific explosion on board the steamer Maehichoea last evening-, at the city of Santander, the capital of the province of that name, situated a little over 209 miles from this city. The wildest excitement followed the explosion, which set fire to the town, the flames adding to the horror of the situation. Among those killed was the governor of the province and a number of leading citizens and municipal officers. m Rendered Helpless by the Horror of the Disaster. Saxtaxder. Nov. 5.—The horror of the disaster that has befallen this city has rendered the people helpless. It is impossible to obtain a connected ■* story from any of the eyewitnesses of the explosion. Those who saw it and lived are in such a state of excitement that they can make only the wildest kind of statements. The Most Appalling Disaster .of Recent Years. There is no doubt that aside from the money loss entailed in the destruction of houses, quays and shipping, it is one of the most appalling disaster* that has occurred in Spain or elsewhere in Europe in recent years. The loss of * life was simply’ enormous Some of the estimates place the number of killed and injured at upward of 1,000. Later, when the people and officials become more collected and a systematic investigation can be made, it is probable that the loss will be found to be less, but It can be said that it will be very heavy. Streets Rendered Impassable by Debris. The streets in the vicinity of the quay where the explosion occurred are impassable, being filled with all]sorts of wreckage from the houses blown down. It is certain that a number of living persons are under the ruins, but the authorities and people are so helpless that little attempt is being made to extricate them. A number of soldiers were put at work yesterday clearing the debris, but their task is being performed in a perfunctory way. They have come acrossmassesof humanflesh. the sight of which has made them sis^l and they hesitate to push their work j with any heart, fearing the sights that they know full well their labor will uncover. Hospitals Filled With the Injured. The hospitals are filled with the injured and the physicians are doing everything in their power to alleviate the agony of the 'terribly mutilated persons writhing upon the eots. At the time the Yolo blew up the Spanish steamer AlfonsoXlI. was lying alongside of her. The steamer was. completely destroyed. All her officers and forty of her crew are. missing, and it is certain that everyone of them was killed.

The force or the Eipiosioti, The force of. the explosion may be judged from the fact that portions of the Volo and the Alfonso XII. were blown into , the middle of the town, carrying death and destruction with, them. It will be necessary to send troops here from other cities to aid the officials. Great delay is experienced is getting reports of the disaster to telegraph lines. There is only- one working out of the city and that is working very slowly. Nearly ail the press dispatches are carried to points outside the limits of the city. Half the City Destroyed by Fire. Even with outside assistance it was found impossible to cheek the flames,, and half the city,has been destroyed ^ by fire and explosions. The railway station has been burned, and so-rapid was the spread of the flames that tlia trains could not be hauled out. They, too, were destroyed. It is now estimated that fiflO persons were killed by the explosion. Many are missing, but most of them are believed to have gone to the houses of friends after their own homes were destroyed. Among the dead are the prefect, the chief of police and two judges. Sixty houses were wrecked. A train which was entering the station when the explosion occurred, was fired by flying pieces of burning wood. The station began to burn a moment later. The stationmaster was burned to death and manyjjassengers were suffocated, Dozens of persons living near the bay fled from their burning houses and in terror threw" themselves mta~.^_ the water. The ministers of finance and the interior left Madrid ; for Santander yesterday noon. Official Statement of the Killed. Madrid, Nov. 6.—Later dispatches ;onfirm the report that the explosion occurred in the steamer Cabo Machichaca. It is officially stated that over SO® persons were killed, including twenty-, seven civic guards, the whole police force, except two members; several officials, and the majority of the passengers on a railway train that had just arrived. The number of the injured is very large and many are dying from lack of medical aid. Dozens are missing. The queen regent wanted to go to Santander yesterday afternoon, but was dissuaded by the ministers. The Story of Two Rescued Seamen. Bilboa, Nov. 6.—Two seamen who say they were aboard the steamer Machichacohave arrived. They say they were thrown a great distance seaward by the explosion, falling among a mass of floating wreckage which was still burning. They swam together for a long time, eventually reaching a point miles beyond Santander,, from which they were conveyed to this place. They declare that they did not know there was any dynamite aboard the Machichaco. The two men were badly injured. They say the sea was strewn with corpses.