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f' BLOWN INTO ETERNITY.
A Tremendous and Fatal Explosion
of Natural Gas.
Two Buildings at Columbus, Ohio,
Hurled Into tlie Air,
While the streots of Columbus, Ohio, ^ere
fuU of shoppers and persons going to their
homes after their day's toil a little after five
o'clock in the evening, an alarm of fire was
turned in from the corner of High and Maiu
streets. The clanging of the l>ells on the fire
engines and the general confusion attracted
a great crowd.
The alarm was caused by an explosion of
nrcc in a linncn nh t.lin corner of "Wall
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and Noble alleys. While the crowd surrounded
the place a second explosion occurred
in a house across the alley.
Without a thought of danger the crowd
rushed to the scene of the fire. It was found
that the first explosion had occurred in a two
story dwelling at the southwest corner of
Wall and Noble alleys, at the middle of the
square bounded by High and Front and
Main and Mound streets.
The police were quickly on the scene, but
the people were permitted to crowd by hundreds
into the narrow alley and push up
close to the house.
The cries of the injured people within the
wrecked house could be plainly heard. Moans
and shrieks mingled with the hoarse calls of
the firemen, the clanging of the alarm bells
on the engines and the murmurings of the
crowd.
A whisper ran through the throng that a
natural gas main ran east and west through
Noble alley, but this was soon put at rest by
the statement that the blaze was due to a
gasoline explosion in the house, and the people
about did not heed the warning.
Th<* fire was almost under control and the
people were standing about. The alley was
crowded with lookers on, mauy of whom were
turning to go home, when a terrific explosion
rent the air. A sheet of flame burst from the
building at the northwest cornor of the alley,
and a great mass of bricks, beams and stone
that thirty seconds before had constituted a
two story brick building went Hying with
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remac iorce imuugu iuc <??. ^mu uiun,
the quiet of death.
The scene that followed was terrible. The
people fled, shrieking, in all directions, while
the alley was covered with a mass of debris,
from which the moans of buried humans
came.
Pallid, trembling women tottered and ran
across the alley and streets, moaning or
shrieking. Men with foreheads and shoulders
drabbled with blood staggered from among
the debris. '
Petty Merrotte, enveloyed in a sheet of 1
flame, bare headed and frenzied, ran shrieking
from the house across the alley. A man ]
tore off his overcoat and ran to throw it i
around her, but a fireman who held the
nozzle of a hose saw her danger and turned
the stream on her. It knocked her down, \
but saved her life, as the water extinguished |
the flames. She was lifted from the ground i
and hurried into a neighboring house. Every
inch of the clothing had been burned from .
ber down to the waist. ,
An old man, venerable and with white '
hair and beard, was dug from the ruius and
hurried to a place where medical r.ss:stanco
could be given him. His frosty beard was '
covered with blood and he seemed to be in a
dying condition. ,
A mother, with her heart frozen by fear I
and grief, staggered from the rains, holding |
tight to her oreast the seemingly lifeless |
form of her threc-raonths-old babe. I
The explosion, as near as can be ascertained,
resulted from an accumulation of |
natural gas in the cellar of the house occu- ,
pied by Michael Bowers and Mr. Merrotte.
No natural gas pipes were ever put into the
house, but a natural gas main in Noble alley
leaked. The eround was frozen and the gas '
entered the cellar. It has no odor and its 1
presence cannot be detected.
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and Bowers house took a westerly and north- 5
erly direction, and scattered bricks and lura- 3
ber and lathing for a distance of twenty feet. :
The side of the Merrotte house was blown
out, and the roof, freed of its support, .fell (
over, hanging from the top of one side of the j
house to the yard below.
The exploded gas, after doing its terrible .
work on the south side of Noble alley, leaped J
over to the north side of the alley and com- 1
pletely destroyed the house at 34 West Noble, f
occupied by Edward Otstot and Mr. James. '
This house was a story and a half brick structure,
with three rooms down and two up C
stairs. Here the terrible force of the ex- l
ploded gas was shown.
Everything was blown to chips. A force ,
of workmen at work for a week could not ?
reduce the house to kindling wood so thor e
oughly as did this explosion in one short
moment. The explosion was upward, as
bricks, doors, window sashes, lathing, siding,
etc., were piled in a heap all about tne building
and only a dozen feet from it. I,
The work of getting out the dead and car- 5
ing for the wounded was attended with great 3
excitement. ?
By the two explosions six persons were
killed and nearly thirty injured, many ,
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ARRESTED AT THE ALTAR. j
Detcctivcs Break Up a Wedding Party
at Buffalo.
A merry wedding party was broken up at i
Buffalo, N. Y., in a highly dramatic man- 5
r.er. Pretty Linnie Hyman was to have
married John Brennan at the residence of (
Frank Geiger, on Kehr street. The guests, t
bridemaids, best man and the clergyman were t
all there. As the blushing bride stood up be- t
side the smiling groom and the minister got
all ready for business two special detectives .
entered the bridal parlor, and then and there |
art-ested the groom on a charge of forgery, to t
the great consternation of the assembled ?
guests. He was removed to the station-house
and locked up. The bride went nearly frantic
in the confusion that followed the appearance '
of the detectives. She now lies ill with fever. 1
Brennan is a man of about thirty years of
age, well known, and a pleasant talker. He i
was employed by William Brenuan, a pro- 1
duce dealer. The younger Brennan has for 1
some time been swindling his employer by
forging orders for grain to be used on the (
employer's farm. 1
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* MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. '
Joseph Jefferson has received $12,000 for 1
his autobiography.
Mart Anderson is thirty years of age, '
and has boen on tho stage fourteen years. !
M. Paclus, the French originator of the ,
"Boulanger March," is coming to this country.
Johann Strauss denies the report that
he is to come to Ihis country with his orchestra.
Victoria Vokes has closed her season.
Bad business, bad plays and ill health are
the cause.
Clara Morris is going on a tour of the
Northwest next season under the direction of
Klaw & Erlanger.
Stragglers from stranded theatrical com?mies
are as frequent on Broadway, New
ork, as bees in a hive.
Max O'Kell, the French writer, has begun
his American lecture tour. Tremont
Temple, Boston, gave him an audience of
2500.
They disapproved of Tamagno, of Patti's
opera troupe, in i_;nicago uecause ne r??vc?
$2000 a nigut and tipped the hotel waiter with
one-cent pieces.
Diox Boccicault has completed a new
play for Sol. Smith Russell, which will bo
seen for the first time at Daly's Theatre, New
York, next fall.
Miss Van Zaxdt, the American prima
donna, says she never enjoyed singing so
much anywherensinSt.Petersburg, although
the climate tried her voice very much.
Saint-Saexs's new opera, "Ascanio,"which
has been in preparation for months at ili?
Paris Grand Opera Ilouse. was held back for
want of a contralto to till one of tbe chief
roles.
It was announced that Henry E. House
would bring a suit for damages against
Samuel E. Clemens (Mai'k Twain) in connection
with the dramatization of "The Prince
and the Pauper."
SiGNOR Salvini, the Italian tragedian, ;
has a most wonderful appetite, and it is reported
of him that once when the cholera was
raging he preserved hig health by fasting on 1
three oeefste&ks a day. :
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED,
Eastern and Middle States.
The four-story brick block, 65 to 101
Bristol street, Boston, has been gutted by
fire. Five men were injured, and the loss is
estimated at ?100,000.
Adam Forkpauoh, the veteran showman,
died at his residence in Philadelphia of pneumonia
superinduced by grip. He was sixtyeight
years of age.
Two little girls named Walker were killed
by a train near Alleghany Citj', Penn.
Several men were shooting at a mark
near Snow-shoe, Penn., when Mike Bordner,
one of the party, shot and killed a man
named Stachick who was replacing the target.
Mr. and Mrs. George Comstock, an aged
and wealthy couple of Wilton, Conn., while
returning home in a carriage from the funeral
of a relative, were struck by a train
and fatally injured.
A quintuple wedding took place in Daviess
County, Ky., the other day. The five brides,
dressed alike, came in one carriage and the
five grooms in another.
li. HUSH, ft lire man, wuu ivas lujureu ujr it |
"wild train," has recovered $40,000 from the j
Northern Pacific Railroad. He lost all use
of his legs.
By the explosion of gas reservoirs at Sioux I
City, Iowa, several workmen were fatally j
hurt, several buildings wrecked, and $10,000
worth of machinery destroyed.
The Woman's Christian Temperance i
League was organized at Cleveland, Ohio.
Albert Paul Smith, manager of the Chicago
Clearing House, dropped dead of heart
disease.
Nicholas Meyer, of Chicago, 111., murdered
his pretty twenty-year-old wife in a fit
of jealous rage.
Five men were killed and several injured
by the premature explosion of a blast,
caused by a cigarette, in Willies County,'
N. C.
As a funeral procession was crossing a
railroad track in Chicago an express train
dashed into it killing three persons and
wounding another.
Heavy storms have prevailed on the Atlantic,
and a number of steamships have
arrived at New York considerably battered
by the waves.
Addison* M. Sawter, the millionaire of
Athol, Mass., inventor of the ''Sawyer pun,"'
which was used during the Civil TV ar, is
dead.
George G. Lounsbert, for many years
cashier of the New York Postofflce, shot
himself at the home in Hackeusack, N. J.,
after he had been told that he must give up
his place to another man; a shortage of $27,X)0
m his accounts was found.
By the sudden cave-in of an embankment
in an ore mine near Norristown, Penn.,
three men were smothered beneath twenty
tons of dirt.
During confirmation services at St. John's
Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia,
i young man arosa from his seat in the
:hurch, and pointing a revolver at Bishop 0.
W. Whitaker, who was taking part in the
services, fired a shot at him. Immediately
there was great confusion, and the would-be
murderer was taken into custody.
The body of J. G. Ditman, a banker in
Philadelphia, was found floating in the
Schuylkill River.
Tobacco-growers in session in Syracuse,
ST. Y., passed resolutions demanding protection
from Sumatra leaf.
Sixteen* miners' families at "Walston and
Adrian, Penn., were put out of their houses
ay Sheriff Sater. The Sheriff was accompanied
by fifty-four Pinkerton police with
iheir Winchesters, but the miners made no
;rouble.
General Lester B. Faulkner, the wellcnown
Democratic politician, died at Canaieraga,
N. Y.
George Ritchie, of Moose Hill, Me., aged
[6, was shot and killed by his cousin,
3ernard Ritchie, who mistook him for a
leer, while hunting in tho woods.
John Haffy, of Centralia, Penn., went J
lome drunk and threatened to beat his wife. |
She gave him some laudanum to make him I
leep, and it killed him. No one will prose:ute.
James Knap p. at Danbury, Conn., kicked
lis wife to death because she hid his supply
if whisky.
The Congregational Church at Danvers
Centre, Boston, has been burned. The church
s a historic one. It was the successor of the
mcitnt Salem village parish church in which
he witchcraft troumes Degan.
John Votozil, a Bohemian cigarmaker, of I
Jew York city, in a fit of insanity flung liis
x>y through a window and killed him.
W. H. McHEifRY and Alexander Carmen
fere blown up by nitro-glycerine near Bradord,
Penn., while preparing to torpedo a
rell.
South and West.
John* Gibson fell into a tank filled with
Dgs and boiling water at Grand Rapids,
Iich., and was scalded to deatb. Two other
aen while trying to help him received possiilv
fatal injuries.
Ex-Senator Riddleberger, of Virginia,
lied at Winchester, aged forty-six years.
A railroad collision occurred at Camp j
lill, Fla., by which two engineers, two train
lands ana one fireman were Killed and several j
lersons injured.
Three boys who were coasting down hill j
rom the Lakeview Hotel to the Mineral '
lange Railroad track in Hancock, Mich., ran I
inder a freieht car coming down a steep
jade. Oneof the boys were killed and an- |
ither fatally injured.
Ira Gate, foreman of the Red River ;
battle Company at Springer, N. M., shot and |
lilled two Mexican sheep herders because of |
heir trespassing on the company's reserval j
ion with their flocks.
The Denver and Rio Grande Salt Lake sin-ess
of seven coaches, containing about one j
lundred passengers, was lifted from the j
Back at Monument, Col., and sixteen pasengers
were injured.
Thirteen houses have been burned in
3unker Hill, Ind. Firemen from Logans- I
)ort saved the town from destruction.
Charles Sage, railroad brakeman and a
lephew of Millionaire Russell Sage, of New
ifork, fell between two cars at Lee's Summit,
klo., and was instantly killed.
At a meeting of the Territorial Democratic
^omnmiee ai> wneyenne, w yommg, a i kw
ution was unanimously adopted favoring
Statehood and urging Congress to take immediate
action looking to this end.
The State Supreme Court decided that the
Republican Legislature of Montana is the
legal body.
The Ohio and the De Soto, Mississippi
River steamers have been lost, the first being
sunk and the second burned.
Intelligence received at Denver, Col.,
"rom the Stanton railroad surveying expedition
shows that one-fourth or the entire
party perished in Marble Canon.
Washington.
Senator Sherman, who has been con
fined to his home for some time suffering
from influenza, has quite recovered.
The President a few days since sent to the
Senate a large batch of nominations, including
three Collectors of Customs and numerous
Supervisors of the Census.
Postmaster-General and Mrs. Wanamaker
gave their first card reception at the
Capital. It was one of 1 lie most gorgeous
affairs ever witnessed in Washington.
Tns sub-committeo of the House World's j
Fair Committee decided to ask the ful com- j
uuttee for permission to frame a World's
Fair bill, omitting reference to site.
TnE printc-1 report of the International
Marine Confer en 2 lias been issued for the i
information of mariners. It makes many
changes and modifications in the foi mer code, '
simplifying many of the signals, and milling
greatly to their efTiciency.
The Sub-Committee of tlio House "World's :
Fair Committee received permission to frame j
a World's Fair bill, leaving open the question
of sit*1.
Mrs. Harrison gave her first reception to j
the public at the White House.
Important deplomatic nominations by the j
President: Augustine Heard, of Massachusetts,
Minister Resident and ConsulGeneral
to Corea; Richard Guenther, of Wis- j
consin, Consul-General at the City of Mexico; j
Louis Gottschalk, of California, Consul at j
Stuttgart. John F. Winter, of Illinois,Consul j
at Mannheim; Thomas McDermott, of Ten- j
nessee. Consul at Saint Thomas, West Indies; i
George M. Pepper, of Ohio, Consul at Milan.
The House Ways and Means Committee is |
busily at work preparing the draft of a j
tariff bill.
Robert P. Porter, the Superintendent of
the Census has appointed Miss Phoebe Cozzins,
of St. Louis, a Special Agent of the
Eleventh Census.
The President and Mrs. Harrison, assisted
by Mrs. Morton and the ladies of the Cabinet,
gave a reception to the members of Congress
and the Judiciary at the White House from
9 to 11 o'clock.
The bill for the relief of the survivors of
the wreck of the United States vessels at
Samoa was considered by the House Naval
Committee, and an amendment bringing
those who have since died of injuries received
in the disaster under the provisions of the
bill was added.
Foreiffn.
The tremendous patriotic f ury in Portugal
against England is abated, The Anglopliobists
are nearly silent, and the excitement
and the demonstrations in the provinces
have ceased.
Five persons were killed bv an explosion
in a coal mine at Pontypool, Wales.
Nine hundred thousand arrobes of
sugar cane on the estates Iturralde and
Curbelo, near Cienfuegos, Cuba, have been
destroyed by fire.
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a large numDer UJL Ittuuin Uaicvaiuiot
at Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic,
amounting to about $10,000,000. I
Three thousand Portuguese citizens left
their cards at the French and Spanish Legations
in Lisbon, to show their appreciation of
the sympathy with Portugal shown by the
French and Spauish in the Anglo-Portuguese
dispute.
Edward Rothschild, son of Baron ai
phonse Rothschild, became involved in a dispute
with Marquis de Gouy. A challenge
was sent and accepted, and the duel was
fought near Paris. The Marquis was wounded.
The steamer Sardinian, which arrived at
Liverpool, reported that one of her funnels
was broken by a heavy sea and the fourth
engineer, Tillman, and two firemen were
burned to death and four others badly injured.
Dr. Talmage, of Brooklyn, took luncheon |
and spent the afternoon witn Mr. Gladstone
at Hawarden Castle, in England.
The National Bank of the United States of
Brazil was incorporated at Rio Janeiro, the
capital of $100,000,000 being subscribed within
four hours.
The Canadian Government was asked in |
the House of Commons to impose a probimtory
duty oil United States dressed beef
coming into Canada.
A fierce storm prevailed in Great Britain
and Ireland. Much property was destroyed,
great damage was done to shipping, and a
number of sailors were drowned.
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage and his wife
sailed from Liverpool on the steamer Aurania
for New York.
There has been a prolonged snow-storm
in Hungary and Styria. Houses are demolished
and many lives have been lost.
A treaty has been signed by Brazil with
the Argentine Republic which settles the
protracted dispute regarding the frontiers of
the Missiones territory.
The Roman Catholic Church at Beauport,
Quebec, valued at $300,000, has been burned.
The schooner G. C. Kelly, of Boston, went
ashore at Tusket, Nova Scotia. Tbree of her
crew were drowned.
The British ship, Loch Moidart, went
ashore at Callantsoog, Holland Thirty of
her crew were washed overboard after she
struck and all perished.
General de Fonseca, head of the Provisional
Government of Brazil, is said to be
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dying in a notei in a suduto 01 ruo utuieiru.
The United States brigantine George 0.
Whitford was seized at Colon by the Colombian
authorities and Captain Foster was cast
into jail. The vessel was searched for arms
and held in spite of the clearance papers issued
by Consul Calderon.
Queen* Christina^ Spain, and the whole
court attended at the Royal Chapel in Madrid
a thanksgiving service for the recovery
of the baby King.
The Indians of the San Bias coast, Colombia,
have raised the American flag and defied
Colombian law.
The Czar of Russia has declined to arbitrate
iu the differences between France and
Holland over boundaries in their South
American possessions.
LATER NEWS.
' Hamilton Hall, at Salem, Mass., built
in the Revolutionary times under the name
of Assembly Hall, and named Hamilton Hall
in 1805, in honor of Alexander Hamilton, has
been gutted by Arc.
William Messtenheffer, foreman of the
stone quarries near Lancaster, Penn., was
killed by an explosion of dynamite.
The Sharp Rifles, of Lexington" Ky., j
receivea oraers to oe reaay to marcn to
Harlan County. The occasion was the apprehension
of trouble there when the Circuit
Court opened.
Kinney Graham, a farmer of London,
Ohio, while intoxicated, shot and seriously
wounded "William Woodhouse and his wife.
An old grudge had existed between the
parties.
Three Chinamen were killed by a snow
slide at Green Valley. Cal.
Tiie colonial assembly which took place
in the theater at Richmond, Va., was the
most brilliant and original social event ever
witnessed there. The assembly was gotten
up by the ladies composing the Association
for the Preservation of Rare Antiquities of the
ouii/e.
The new Brazilian Government was formally
recognized by President Harrison.
J. J. Noah, a newspaper correspondent^
has been appointed a special agent of the
Xlth Census, to assist in the collection of
statistics relative to newspapers and tho
periodical press.
By the capsizing of a ferryboat at Grimlinghausen,
Gel-many, seven persons were
drowned.
Heavy floods prevail along the Rhine,
Germany. The bridge of boats at Dusseldorf
has been broken by the rushing wat?r, and
sections of it have been carried away.
The steamship Lake Superior, from Hallfax,
arrived at Liverpool, having lost 335
head of cattle, which were washed overboard.
Major Sep.pa Pinto, the Portuguese
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army omcer, arriveu ai< jjuuicuwj .um i^uc^,
on Delagoa Bay, South Africa. He stated
that at the time of his leaving Mozambique
that province was tranquil.
IMPALED ON A SHAFT,
A Young Man Meets a Horrible and
Carious Death.
S. B. Paul, a young man living in Baltimore,
has died from injuries sustained in a
singular manner. He was out driving with
Julius Klisties, a friend, wheu the horse became
frightened and ran off. In avoiding a
street car, the horse swerved to one side and
collided with a team coining from an oppo- !
sito direction. Paul and Klisties were j
thrown out, the latter falling on his face and .
bruising it severely. Paul was hurled direct- I
ly over the buggy's dashboard, and was iin- j
paled on the end of the shaft of the other j
vehicle, the iron end of the shaft entering his J
thigh just below tho lower rib, and coining !
out at the back. The horse leaped back wan 1
and released the shaft from Paul's body.
A QUEEN'S PERIL,
Queen OIga, of Greece, Narrowly lis- j
eapes Death by Electricity.
Tho Queen of Greece has had a narrow j
escape from a frightful death. While driving |
through the streets of Athens in an open j
carriage an electric light wire broke. A
portion of it fell upon the Queen and ,
tightly enwrapped her. Several officers i
sprang to her aid and quickly extricated her. !
Within a minute after the wires were re- I
moveid from her the current was turned on, '
so her escape is regarded as almost miraculous.
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BURNED AND MANGLED.
Many Persons Cremated in a
Railroad Wreck.
A Woman's Children Almost
Roasted Before Her Eyes,
Within seven miles of the place where the
Broad Ripple Railroad disaster occurred anotherMonon
passenger train has been wrecked
and thirty-two of the eighty-five persons
who were on the train bear the marks of the
accident. Six of them were killed, and others
were fatally hurt. The train left Chicago at
11:35 o'clock. It was within sixteen miles of
Indianapolis, and was approaching the village
of Carmel, Ind., when the jarring of the cars
made the passengers aware that part of the
| train was off the track. A rail had slipped
irom its piace or an (iiie woo iuua.ch juju oo
a bridge over a small stream, known as "Wilkinson
Creek, was reached. The locomotive
rushed ahead and, with the baggage and
smoking cars, passed over the bridge in
6afety. But the structure fell with the third
car and the Pullman sleeping-car.
When the accident occurred the train was
behind time, and was running at unusual
speed. The engineer, who was ill, had gone
back into one of the passenger cars, and had
placed in charge of his locomotive a substitute,
who got on the train at Frankfort.
Immediately after the fall of the bridge fire
broke out in the wrecked cars, and those
who were injured too badly to move were
burned to death.
The passengers who escaped injury at once
began giving such assistance as they could
render to their less fortunate companions,
and some of them did heroic work. One of
the most active was J. P. Altizer, a Chicago
commercial traveler, who was in the third
car. Another was Lewis Nauman, of Cleveland,
who, though himself badly injured,
worked for others until he fell unconcsious.
Farmers soon gathered from the neighborhood,
but the flames which spread over the
wreck prevented them from rescuing those
which were caught in the ruins, and they
could do nothing more than aid the injured,
i Some of these were found wandering about
in the fields near the scene of the disaster, insane
from their injuries and from excitement.
One of this number was Conductor AngelL,
who, with the blood streaming down his face,
| was running round and round in a circle, and
when recalled to consciousness was so weak
that he could not stand.
Mr. Altizer, the Chicago man, who took
the lead in the relief work, was sitting just
behind a lady and her two children when the
train fell through the bridge. The woman j
and children were talking and laughing
when the first jar of the car was felt.
"I staggered to my feet," Mr. Altizer says,
"and found that I was not seriously hurt.
Near me were three women piled in a heap.
The car was full of dirt, gravel and smoke. I
grabbed the woman on top of the heap, and
dragged her through the broken timbers to
the outside and laid her on the bank. I
ran back to the car and was joined
by a brave fellow, whose name I
do not know. We each brought
out another woman, and the conductor, who
was caught under a seat, was released. I
could do no more. The car was on fire. The
little children, who five minutes before had
laughed so gleefully, were held down by the
unturned stove roasting them to
death."
Nauman, the Cleveland commercial traveler,
was the other man to whom Altizer
refers as having helped in the heroic work.
In a dazed condition he rushed into the burning
car and tried to rescue the children,
whose cries, as the flames crept about them,
were agonizing. His efforts were futile, and
when he was driven from the car by the
flames he fell fainting, with his hands and
face badly burned. He has been unconscious
ever since. The mother of the children was
dragged from the car, her face and head
covered with blood. She started mck into
the car, crying pitoously for he children,
and had to be forcibly led away.
Otto Gresham, who was slightly injured
and escaped with only part of his clothing. |
hurried to the telegraph office at Carmel ana
sent to Indianapolis the first news of the disaster.
A relief corps was sent to the wreck.
An early morning train from that city
reached the place an hour after the accident.
The passengers on this train at once
joined the relief corps in the work of preparing
the injured for the trip to the city.
Nothing could be done for the dead and their
bodies were not taken from the wreck until
4 o clock in the afternoon. The injured were
taken to Indianapolis on the relief train -.t
11:20 o'clock. Several of the sufferers were
taken to St. Vincent's Hospital, among them
Lewis Nauman, of Cleveland, who received
probably fatal injuries in trying to rescue
ictims of the wreck.
When the relief train was approaching the
city, an old man, Henry Muston, in attempting
to board it, fell under the wheels and was
killed,
PKOMINENT PEOPLE.
President Harrison plays billiards very [
often.
President Diaz, of Mexico, is largely in- !
teres ted in the marble business.
Evarts, Depew and Ingersoll are said to
take scarcely any exercise at all.
Benjamin F. Butler says that he will
have nothing to do in future with political
parties.
One of the leading members of the Maryland
Senate is Mr. Poe, a relative of the
late Edgar Allan Poe.
Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, the famous Baptist,
is cnppiea witu tne sciuurca auu is ujiamc w
leave Mentone, France,
A farewell dinner was givenj to Henry
George, in New York city, previous to liis
departure for Australia.
The little King of Spain is described by
those who have seen hiin as a nervous,
irritable child and very homely.
Archbishop Corrigan has sailed on his
journey to Rome to consult with the Pope
about American church matters.
Atlanta has decided to bui'd a city hospital
to be named after H. W. Grady, for
which over $45,000 is now on hand.
Appleton Longfellow, son of the poet, ;
is at Nice, France, the guest of James !
Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald.
Rev. John Jasper, the Richmond colored
preacher, has repeated his "De Sun Do Move"
cormnn nno hnnrlrorl nnrl cpvpnf.tr.fivp t.imfiS
The Duke of Veragua, who has been appointed
Spanish Minister of Commerce, is a
lineal descendant of Christopher Columbus.
Mr. Gladstone says he is opposed to
nationalization of land. He does not see how
the State could be a good and capable landlord.
It is reported that the Czars doctors have
observed in him symptoms of cutaneous ;
poisoning after wearing his German uniforms.
It is related that when Calvin S. Brice. the
next Ohio Senator, went to college he often
found it hard work to pay his necessary expenses.
John M. Clark, the new Collector of the
port of Chicago, is fifty-three years of age,
and estimated to be worth half a million
dollars.
Secretary Proctor has a fortune of nearly
$300,000 and some valuable marble contracts
that bring him in $10,000a year besides
his official salary.
One of the hale old men of Great Britain is
Professor Blackie, the famous Greek scholar, j
who at eighty is still able to lecture to the
Edinburgh students.
Thomas Cook, the founder of the Cook's
tourist industry, was said to be contemplat
ing a journey to that country whence no
traveler ever returns.
With the exception of the time he was in
the Cabinet, Senator Sherman lias served
continuously in Congress since the assein- I
ulage or the Thirty-fourth.
Mark Twai.v works on!}' thres montlis in
the year, and then does his writing on a farm
near Elniira, N. Y., where he Ims an octagonal
glass room in which he works.
Andrew Carnegie, the iron man, says he
intends to give Pittsburg a larger public |
library, art gallery and music hail building
than the ono he has given Allegheny City.
Professor David Swing, the famous
Chicago preacher, says that the fate of the
first sermon he tried to preach would have
discouragtu most men from continuing in the
ministry.
John Ruski.v, the great leader in English
critical literature, has become hopelessly insane.
His health has been lailing for years.
He is growing steadily weaker and it is
doubtful if he ever leaves his bed a<rain.
;
FIFTY-FIRST CONGBESS."
In the Senate.
26th Dat.?Mr. Vest presented the credentials
of "W. A. Clark and Martin Maginnis as
Senators elect from the State of Montana.
They were read and referred, on Mr. Vest's
motion, to the Committee on Privileges and
Elections. On his motion also the four gentlemen
claiming to be Senators elect were
admitted, pending the contest, to the privileges
of the floor....The concurrent resolution
heretofore offered by Mr. Chandler for
the investigation by the Immigration Committees
of both Houses of matters connected
with immigration was taken up and agreed
to.. .A bill was passed authorizing the Secretary
of War to procure and present suitable
medals to the survivors of the "forlorn'hope
st >rming party" of Port Hudson... .Mr. Ingalls
spoke Tor two hours on Mr. Butler's bill
for the emigration of colored people to Africa.
27th Day.?There was a long debate over
the Chandler resolution concerning the recent
hanging in effigy of Secretary Proctor
at Aberdeen, Miss. ...The House bill to sim
plity the laws in relation to the collection
of customs revenue was presented
to the Senate, and on motion of Mr.
Morrill was ordered to be printed and
referred to the Finance Committee
Mr. Chandler presented a minority report
upon the Hale bill, authorizing the construction
of eight battleships and certain
other vessels... .Among the bills introduced
and referred were the following. By Mr.
Hale?To require the Superintendent of Census
to as?ertain the number of people who
own their farms and homes, and the
amount of mortgage indebtedness thereon.
By Mr. Pasco?To reimburse the several
States for the interest paid by them on money
raised for war expenses in the late war. By
Mr. Cockrell?To repeal the silver coinage
act of February 28, 1878, and to require the
purchase and coinage of $5,000,000 a month
in standard silver dollars On motion of
Mr. Call the adverse report heretofore made
from the Committee on Foreign Relations in
regard to the establishment of a republic in
Cuba was placed on the calendar.
28th Day.?The Direct Tax Bill was passed
... .On motion of Mr. Sherman, the Senate
bill to relieve the Treasurer of the United
States from the amount now chagfd to him,
flnH rlpnncitp*] with t,h*? fiflvprfll States. "Was
taken from the calendar and passed....
Bills were introduced: By Mr. Paddock?Providing
that soldiers entitled to 169 acres of
land under section 2304, Revised Statutes,
may take an extra 160 acres without improvement
or residence, and by Mr. Cameron
?Providing for the organization and rate of
pay of a veteriuary corps in the United
States Array.
29th Day.?Mr. Mitchell spoke on the
silver question... .Mr. Ingalis introduced a
bill to provide a monument to Lincoln at
Gettysburg.. .The report of the Naval
Policy Board was received.
In the House.
26th Day.?A bill concerning national
bank circulation was reported and recommitted
The Smith-Jackson contested election
case was reported.... In Committee of
the Whole fourteen sections of the Administrative
Tariff bill were passed.
27th Day.?The House, in Committee of
the Whole, disposed of five sections of the
Administrative Tariff bill, leaving ten sections
to be passed. Most of the day was devoted
to debate on Sections 15 and 19 and
amendments thereto.
28th Day.?The Customs Administrative
" l.j a r%
Dill was reported irum vAiiiiiunio; <_>i mc
Whole and passed, by a vote of 138 to 121.
The bill, as it finally passed, is left substantially
as it came from the Committee on Ways
and Means. Its object is to simplify the existing
laws for the collection of revenue
duties.
2'Jth Day.?A bill was passed, placing a
duty of fifty percent, on silk ribbons Mr.
McCreary offered a resolution, which was referred,
congratulating the people of Brazil in
their just and peaceful assumption of the
powers, duties and responsibilities of selfgovernment
as shown by their assumption of
self-government; declaring that the United
States of Brazil is recognized by the United
States of America as a free, sovereign
and independent Republic, and providing
that the* President shall give proper
notice of this recognition to the President
of tha United States of Brazil
Among the bills introduced and referred
were the foliowiug: By Mr. Covert?To increase
the efficiency of the military. By
Mr. Barnes?Making the United States arsenal
at Augusta, Ga., an arsenal of manufacture,
construction and repair; also to refund
the cotton tax. By Mr. Mason?Appropriating
$2,000,000 for a postoffice at Chicago.
By Mr. Struble?For tne appointment of a
Commissioner of Immigration; also, prohibiting
the transportation of intoxicating
iiquors from one State or Territory to an
other State or Territory in violation of the
laws thereof. By Mr. Kelley?To pension
the widows and orphans of people killed for
political purposes since the close of the late
war. By Mr. Burrows?For the erection of
a monument to Isabella of Spain.... In Com
mittee of the Whole, the House proceeded to
consider the bill appropriating $1,500,000 for
the erection of three United States prisons
and for the imprisonment of Unite 1 States
prisoners.
30th Day.?Mr. Dorsey called up his
National Bank Circulation bill, and it was
debated at some length, but finally went
over A bill was passed providing that in
cases of pension claims of dependent parents
it shall be necessary only to show the Pension
Office that the parents are without other
means of support than manual labor.
31st Day.?A long and heated debate was
had over the motion to call up the contested
election case of Smith against Jackson. The
wildest scenes were enacted when, after Mr.
Breckenridge had raised the point of no
quorum, the Speaker directed the Clerk to
record the names of members present but not
voting. Mr. Breckenridge denounced the
action of the Speaker as revolutionary.
TONS OF FLYING ROCK.
Three Laborers Killed and Several
Fatally Injured.
An accident has occurred five miles east of
Shamokin, Penn., by which three men were
killed, three fatally and many others seriously
iniured. Tho men were engaged in enlarging
a cut through the mountains to enable the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company
to lay a double track. They were foreigners
and known only by numbers. In the morning
three blasts were set, but, unknown to the
men, only two of the charges exploded. The
men returned to the cut and began removing
the shattered rock, when a terrible explosion
followed.
When the great cloud of dust cleared away
men came from the debris in all directions,
shrieking in their agony, some with their
eyes out, others with heads laid open to the
skull, while others could be seen beneath the
rocks covered with blood. The men who
were uninjured did not wait to succor their
wounded companions, but ran in a perfect
panic to the boarding-shanty a
few rods distant. Thomas O'Neil, a cartman.
was the first to return to the scene of
the disaster. John Gordon, the pit foreman,
had the back of his head almost torn off and
is internally iujured. Three of the laborers
are missing and four horribly injured and
bevond recovery.
the 12:30 train on tho Northern Central
road took almost the entire medical force of
tho town to tho scene. Meanwhile a large
rang of men work d away at twenty tons of
Jebris to gather the men supposed to bo underneath.
"Not one of the entire gang escaped
unscathed. Gordon, tho foreman, was hurried
from the scene as quickly as possible, as
it was thought the friends of the victims,
Ignorant as to how the accident occurred,
would attack him. Two bodies were taken
from the debris in tho evening, known by
numbers only.
EXPLOSION IN A SCHOOL.
Many Students and Tcaclicrs Terribly
Hurt.
A remarkable and disastrous accident has
occurred in tho high school at Lexington, I
111. I'rofessor Jess was conducting experi- !
merits in chemistry in which oxygen was J
general?1 in a retort composed in part of |
iron, with iron pipe connections. While the !
apparatus was surrounded by pupils ami |
teachers the retort exploded with a deafen j
iiv< uoi.se that was heard all over the town, '
and brought scores of territied parents |
flockiiigto the scene. Pieeesof the iron were i
driven through the brick walls, and the j
win.lows were blown out, followed by clouds
of steam and smoke.
Twenty persons had received injuries
more or less severe, while almost miraculously
110 one was killed outright. A piece of the
iron had been blown through a can of gasoline,
which was ignited, but fortunately tho
flames were extinguished before much
damaee was done.
WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
PROPER FOOT GEAR.
A woman with large feet should never
wear a patent leather shoe. On this
point it is best to be truthful with one's
self and one's bootmaker. You need not
tell your intimate friends that your feet
are too large to look well in patent
leather boots; wear an unobtrusive boot
and they will discover how small your
i feet are. If, however, you have small
feet wear the patent leather vamp and
the black kid uppers, or of yellow or
gray kid, according to the color of your
gown. Then there is also a boot with
cloth uppers, patent leather vamp and
Hn trifVi mnr1r>rntf>W Viirrh
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BOSTON'S LATEST FASHION.
The very latest fad,which has traveled
about the country in the wake of the
celebrated English Egyptologist, has
struck Boston with full force. This is
the adoption, by ladies of fashion, of
Egyptian costumes at their afternoon
teas. These costumes, which in many
cases are said to be very "fetching," are
modeled after the manner of the times of
the Pharaohs. One of them, worn by a
beautiful brunette, is described as of soft
brown silk, with long, flowing sleeves,
and yoke embroidered in silver. The
petticoat is of striped Syrian silk in rosecolor
and silver, with a wide sash of the
same colors. The slashings of the outer
gown show linings of Egyptian red.
Over the shoulders hangs a brown gauze
veil, embroidered in silver. Slippers in
rose velvet, embroidered in silver and
seed pearls, flesh-colored stockings, a
brown pendant of dull gold and an
antique necklace of cornelian and silver
complete the costume. These gowns
will no doubt be all the rage before the
season is over.?Boston Advertiser.
woman's dress.
A great many people think that
woman's dress, although radically different
from the old Greek costume which is
considered the height of grace and beauty,
is, on the whole, as near perfection
as it is ever likely to be. Mrs. Celia
Whitehead, however, does not agree
with them. In a little volume called
"What's the Matter?" she says: "Let
men and women change clothes for one
year. Let all the men begin at their
heads and tie up their hair into twists
and braids, frizzes, crimps and baDgs,
and get a hat with a crown so small that
long pins must be used to hold it in
place, cut out the neck and cut off the
sleeves of their shirts, get good, strong,
glove-fitting corsets and draw them tight
enough to cut off one-half their breathing
power and leave an ugly> ungraceful
depression at the waist-line, put on a
garment reaching from waist to feet that
hinders a natural step and requires unceasing
care to keep it dry and clean, and
finish up with shoes set up on little pegs
in the middle of the foot. Let them adhere
to this steadfastly for one year, except
when they arc sick in bed, and give
the women their outfit and if you then
call for proof that woman's dress is ruinous
to health I'll muster the long array
of doctors' testimony which I have on
hand."
eOJiE FAMOUS BLONDES.
It is possible to make an extended
catalogue of noted English and American
women whose personal charms have been
of the blonde type. Harriet Lane, whose
reign at the White House in James
Buchanan'8 day is still a social milestone,
was a blonde with "golden hair, deep
violet eyes, and a peculiarly beautiful
mouth." Kate Chase, the belle of Lincoln's
Administration, had auburn hair.
Harriet Williams,rthe Georgetown beauty,
who married Count de Bodisco, the Rus
sian Minister at Washington, and became
the belle of#St. Petersburg,'was a "magnificent
woman with golden hair and
brown eyes." Saidee Polk Fall, the belle
of Nashville, has reddish-golden hair.
Beautiful Consuelo Yznaga, now Lady
Mandeville, has brown eyes and black
eyebrows, but her hair i9 a mass of gold.
Miss Mabel Wright, perhaps the prettiest
girl in New York society, has been called
"the most exquisite blonde ever seen on
this side of the Atlantic," and Mrs.
Adolph Ladenberg, the married belle,
has a pink complexion, blue eyes and
curling hair that "is like spun gold."
Amelie Rives has straw-colored hair,
which she ties in a Pysche knot, and
violet eyes. Marie Bashkirtseff, the fair
Russian artiste about'whom the world is
talking, was a slender and delicate pinkcheeked
blonde.
Many of the ladies in the Administration
circles at Washington, including
Mrs. Morton, Mrs. McKee and Miss
Mildred Fuller, are blondes, and the list
might be extended indefinitely. If the
blonde is going out of existence she is,
from all indications, going out in a blaze
of glory.?Epoch.
A BEAUTY AT THE LATHE.
Miss Nellie Paterson, one of the prettiest
girls in the village of Mount Carmel,
Conn., has just completed a four
years' apprenticeship to the machinist
trade. She is now working at her lathe
| aad vise in the factory of the Mount Car!
mel Belt Company, and there isn't a mechanic
in the whole shop who can do a
better job or in less time than the fair
young workwoman. Four years ago,
when Miss Nellie began to think of the
means whereby she must earn her living,
she looked over the whole field of woman's
work. Among the trades or occupations
which the pushing women of this country
had made their own, there was none she
especially liked. She was a bright girl,
with a great deal of Yankee cleverness,
and considerable ingenuity and inventiveness.
The remark was made by a friend :
that she was so fond of inventions she
ought to become a machinist. The seed
thus idly sown took root, and she ap- ,
plied for a placc as apprentice. For the ;
past four years she worked faithfully, and
a few days ago her time expired, and she
is now a full-fledged machinist. She is
nble to block up a piece of work on the
planer or turn up an arbor ou the lathe.
She uses the drill or handles a file as well
ns any man in the shop. Her specialty,
however, is tool making, and to this she
proposes to devote herself. She cau also
draw plans, figure out dimensions, and
from the working drawings she can make
anything. She is not afraid of the grease
and grime of the shop, and her beauty is
not in the least marred by a long swipe
of dirt across her dimpled cheek, nor a
spot of oil on her nose, ller hands are
not as white as those of some of her sis- ;
ters, but they are by no means large,
though they are strong. She is a great
favorite with her fellow workmen, aud is
the pride of the little country village. JH
New York Sun. j
PRETTY FINGEE NAILS. J ij|
"Your nails always look so nice !'\. 1
overheard one damsel remark to anothe^^
not long ago," says a writer. "Do yoiS
go to a manicure every day?" ^
"Oh, no, I have never been to one, for 1
it is the easiest thing in the world
take care of one's "Own nails?just a litflHj
care every day."
. "Well, I've tried and tried, and can'^B
make mine look decent. Tell mc wha
you do."
Here I listened for the prescriptioi^H
which in sum and substance was as folS
"In order to keep the skin back fromfl
the nail I use a nail brush freely, using i^|
on the nails particularly. Then, in dry^J
ing my hands, I work the towel from the
point of the nail back toward the finger.1
I cut my nails often, and don't let them
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gtJt lUU IULIJJ. jjy uuttuig tuo uauo M.u
such a way that the corners do not ad-|
here to the skin,hang-nails can be avoided
and the shape of the nails changed.1
When the nails are thin and inclined to
break, frequent oiling is necessary, and
the nails should never be polished, except
when some oily substance is used besides
the powder. This keeps the nails more
pliable, and no matter how thin they are,'
if properly treated they are no more liablej
to break than thicker ones. Another
thing that is bad for the nails is polish-] '
ing them too roughly. They should be
lightly touched and not rubbed until
they become heated. This is one cause *
of white spots coming on the nail and
marring its beauty. A little attention!
eveiy day will make any hand look nice.
To this conversation which I overheard
let me add a word or two about ' the
hands. To make them white they should ,
be occasionally rubbed with lemon juice -!
and water. The hands should never be h
allowed to remain long soiled with &ny?*J
thing that will stain them. But unl?as- ]
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not to wash the hands too often. They :
should be dried with a soft towel. t. ?
FASHION NOTES. ./Jg
Princess skating costumes are madeentirely
of fur. .vj
Fur trimmings are more extensively
used than for many years.
Favorite fur 3 for trimming are seal,
otter, beaver and Persian lamb. ,
A becoming garniture for a low cor- i
sage of black velvet is a narrow border- {
of closely curled ostrich plumage. i
Lace is again used as a garniture, butis
set on flatly, as insertions around the
skirt, or in rows across side breadths, i
"White kid gloves are worn with whiteevening
gowns, and bid fair to rival
those of tan color to wear with colored'
gowns. \ ij
The ribbons used for loops, both on
hats and bonnets, are of a very heavy
quality and stand almost as stiffly as if*
made of metal. . ?$?
Busiles; they were always bad form,'
and now they are recognized as not onlybeing
out of the line of beauty, but in'
extremely bad style.
Astrakhan is much liked on red hats and
bonnets, and proves so decorative
that all further garniture, save a bow of'
ribbon, is unnecessary.
Among petticoats recently made for a
bride was one of rich black moire, satinwadded
and scented, the perfume being1 m
introduced between the linings. *J|
The high coiffure is gradually being. J
superseded by the catogan. In many! *
cases an excellent and becoming effect is - j
attained by the union of both styles. <j J
Shell slides covered with gold filigree
and hinged like bracelets are worn to en? J
circle and hold in place the catogan I
braids so popular with young ladies. i "
Selvages, which once served only as a. i
firm edge to textile fabrics, and were- *
often woven in a amerent coior, are uuw
as carefully finished as the rest of the
fabric.
Velvet trains for women of average- '
height are made of four breadths,and are
round or oval at the end, with very/ )
straight sides. Their greatest length is |
seventy-five inches. '
The finger nail worn in the French, j
style is pointed; in the English style- ,
rounded. The fashionable style of the- j
little finger nail in pointed style is about
a quarter of an inch.
The fancy for boas is said to have de-'
veloped into a mania with Parisiennes.1
Very dainty ones are made of soft lace or
slightly tinted or white ostrich feathers,'
and worn with lew dresses at the theatre.
' j
A handsome costume of black marquise 1
lace has for its vest and side breadths
wfori net. with two wide borders, like
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insertions, near the foot, and smaller
wreaths of medalions of jet embroidery
above.
Violet, gray and black, the colors of
half-mourning, with white, are favorites
this season with Parisiennes, who wear
them out of mourning. It is predicted ^
that those colors will be favored here foi J
spring ard summer gowns. i \
Five Generations in One Honse.
In the home of Mrs. Plummer, out on
Madison avenue, live five generations of
women. Mrs. Plummer is herself^!"
woman in middle life, and with her lives^
her mother, -who is nearly eignty, auu
her grandmother, who is 102 years old,
and without doubt the oldest woman in
New York. Mrs. Plummer's niece, with
her two young children, live in the same|
house. When the family is gathered to^
gether, therefore, one may see the fiye
generations represented as follows: The .
children, the children's mother, the chil-j
dren's great aunt, her mother and her
grandmother, who is the great-great-1
grandmother of the little ones.
The centenarian is not altogether the
sprightly old soul of orthodox newspaper
fame. She does not split wood or do the
family mending, or walk live miles to
church. But she is very well preserved
and vivacious old lady for all that, and
finds much to enjoy still in life.?New
York Sun. ;
Paper From Si>i<lor Webs.
George West, of Ballston, is in possession
of a curiosity in paper, sent him
in* .1 friend in Ilonir Kong, China. It ia
a sheet eleven by fourteen inches, made
from the web of the "sacred whito
spider" of the Flowery Kingdom. It is
as light as air and almost as transparent,'
but is also beautifully printed, containing
about two columns of matter, giving
iu English the story of how "Midslug^,man
Copplestone Was Presented at the *
Court of Pckin." Americans know much
about paper making, but it is safe to say
that there is not a spider web paper factory
outbide the almond-eyed kingdom.?
St. Louis Republican. 1
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