Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Magazine Point, Ala., two men were killed by the sudden slipping of a car. A terrific explosion took place at a magaizne containing nitroglycerin on Whetstone creek, southwest of the Miunington (W. Vn.) oil field. Otis Sykes and Daniel Rice, teumsters, were killed outright and Edward Vincent, pumper, was probably fatally injured. They were all employed by the Hartman OH Company. The teamsters, Sykes and Rice, had just arrived with two wagons loaded with the explosive and Jiad backed their wagons up to the mnguzine houses, when from some unknown cause the whole lot of it let go. The wreck caused by the explosion was terrible. Nows has reached Dallas, Texas, of a dueling tragedy which took place in Cotulln, a small town on the International Railroad in La Salle County, Texas, in which Henry May was killed and Editor J. Guy Smith of the La Salle Isonomy, a paper published in Cotulla, was so badly Mounded that he died a few hours afterward. Smith was commouly known iu West Texas us “Braun No. 2,” on account of his bitterness isl his articles toward many persons. A recent article he published regarding May was the cause of the duel. The affray occurred iu front of Burk's Hotel and May Is said to have shot Smith twice from behind before Smith got his pistol out. Both Smith nnd May were young men and well connected financially nnd socially. A frightful accident occurred in Benwood, W. Vn., in which two men met their death and one was fatally injured. The Riverside iron works is building a large coke plant, and George Prince, James Sullivan and Edward Fredericks were employed ou a derrick 100 feet high, -which was used in puttiug the heavy pieces in position. The boom pole of the derrick slipped and the men were plunged headlong to the ground. Prince and Sullivan alighted on a pile of brick nnd were instantly killed, both being terribly mangled, while Fredericks in his fall was stopped by a guy rope for an iustant, then fell ugain, being caught a short distance below by a bolt in the frqmework, upon which he hung suspended for a second, then dropped to the ground. He was unconscious when picked up and his life is despaired of. - °