ESTABLISHED IN Ii FEARFUL DEATH _ I Of Many Miners in a Coal Mine Which Is Now FIEECELY BUENIM. Seventy-five Miners Are Entombed by tbe Explosion in tbe Mine Which Was Ceased by Gas. Tbe Wo men and Children (Jorge the Men to Rescue. A dispatch from Bluefield, W. Va., i says there are sixteen known dead and seventy-five men entombed as a recent of an explosion of gas, followed by fire at the West Fork mine of the Poca hontas Collieries company Wednesday night. Thursday rescue parties en deavored to get to the entombed men, fcut tbe heat is so intense no man can get near them, and the whole mine is -filled with gas. Women relatives are crazed by the knowledge that loved ones are either dead or dying, spur on the rescuers and bog to be allowed to go in the mine themselves. Three men were brought from the bottom of the shaft where they were knocked down by the explosion, but they could give no ac count as they were too far from where the explosion ocourred. | A telegram from the scene of the explosion says the work of rescuing bodies from the West mine has been in progress since early Wednesday i night. The first rescuing party to go j Into the mine was headed by Super intendent Willk.m S. Leckle, who took with him John OJuam, W. B. Talbott snd J. T Brown. This party had little success, as three members were overcome with gases, Odham and Brown losing their lives, and Talbott being brought out unconscious. The mine was then brattlced as the rescuing parties progressed and at this hour, 9 o'clock p. m , they have about reached tbe place of the origin of the explosion. The body of one miner has been recovered up to this hour. He is 3. B. Cook, who was within 300 feet Of the outside when found and he was ? the only survivor of the explosion of 11884. - A number of bodies have bsen loca ted by the exploring parties hut can not be brought to the surface on ac count of the debris occasioned by the terrimo explosion which in some places lias pilled up timbers and dirt j to tbe height of six feet. There were supposed to be some 50 ? or 60 people in this section of the j mines when tbe explosion occurred, but a greater number of them being .minors, there is no record kept ol them, hence the trouble to state ex actly those that have been killed. ?PArtics aomlng to work Thursday morning from the Tug river, on the West Virginia side of the mine, did not know there had been any trouble in the mines until they ran into some bodies on tue cracks, and some mules j ?dead with a man pinned between them. Wolle the force of the explosion was terriflo yet tbe foremen who were .at the mines' effloe did not known there had been any trouble until the | men and mules failed to come out at I the time for quitting work. No re port of the explosion was beard on] tho outside of tue mines. Supt. W. M. Leckle of the mine, who entered the mine as one of the rescuing party, bad a narrow escape from doaia. He was overcome by the j fumes and had to be oarri&d out. El war i Jones, the inside mine foreman, ledjthe first rescno party and when | that purtv failed ts return in a reas onable time a second rescue party under Supt. Leckle followed. Two of Leokie's party, John Od bam and El Brown, were overcome by gas and aied, and Leckle barely escaped with his life. The third par ty wae formed and continued the I work. M,i?\nwhile the first party bad reached another entrance to the mine I in safety and sent word over the] mountain announcing that fact. Ail this time the work of bratticing I the mine, necce^sary for carrying onj the work ol rescue, v*as being effec tivcly carried on. Some confusiun was caused In tbe de termination of I the exact number of men entombed by the fact that whe:i the explosion occurred the txoaangeot shifts was| in progress, addad to which wis the fad tbas & number or tue mau es cape! from the Bag Fork entrance. Tue sceuas arouud the mine were pitifui. Relatives and friends gath ered in grcup3 at the entrances and elsewn're awaltiug tiding of the vic tims g-ve vent to taeir urief as the bodies one by one wore brought out. Tae authorities anticipited the fearful ex tent of the causualUies by orderi g h carloads of coffins and bur ial supplies_ Lighthouses Gone. Forty-four lighthouses wer-3 swept] into tbe f-ea and lost or Che Sv uctur^s ] are so badly damaged thai l u ligh c n bo shown and four lighthouse kyep;;rs were drowned during the rtCont hurricane is the su^nr-jry cf j the report rr&de by tbe United S:a! light -use in-jp. ctor. T re lig t ? < ere located on the coast and adjacent Is lau s between the mouth of the Miss issippi river aad Mo lie. The ?n specior did not invest gate the light house losses between Mobile and Pen.^ODia_ t if a i'oiaoued. Hundreds o- roacu au i jack have been found floating help e - or lifeless in the R vor St:>rt, at Bishops S:or ford, E .inland, and it is relieved that the fisa have oeen p 'honed by disin fectants, used in the street gullits and the exudations from motor c*rs. S69. ?uMi? TALK TO THE NEGROES PROM A NORTHERN NEWSPAPER. It Says Very Emphatically That the Negro Wild Beast Must Be Put Uown. In discussing the reoent race riot at Atlanta the Northern papers gener ally have taken a very calm view of the situation. There is a notable ab sence of abuse of the South. The following from the Philadelphia Led ger is a fair sample of the comments of the Northern press on the race problem in the South, and it would he well for the negro to take notice: A dozen years ago it was the fash ion for Northern newspapers and "or gans of opinion" to denounce the South for lynohings, and to try to make it apper that tae Southern peo ple were a band of semi civilized crea tures, to be carefully differentiated from their brethren of the North. The North had no word but that of unmeasured horror of tbo Southern ers, and it' was usual to pay that it was the innate savagery of the white whluu led them to lynoh and to burn even when there were no attacks on wjbite women. In fact, for a long time the assertion was repeatedly made that the reports of the heinous attacks on women were wildly exag gerated and circulated for jhe purpose of justifying the lynching due to race hatred. Within recent years this libel Is not heard so often. Wtthin the past few weeics the lynohings in South Oaro llna,, vrhioh Go v. Heywaid tried in vain I to prevent, were the results of at tacks on defenceless women. At At lanta there is a record of thirteen hideous assaults upon white women by negro vagabonds within two months. Of that number one was cap tured and put to death and the rest escaped. The final chapter was the record of last Thursday, when four attac rs were made in the city limits upon women by negroes. 'The North no longer considers the South as in a class apart, because it understands the faots, and for tbe bet ter reason that the North now has a savage record of its own. In Wilming ton, Del., on Saturday, a negro was whipped and began zo serve a life sen tence fcr attacking two women in the highway; in Melda the judge only the other day sentenced another; In Wil mington only' a couple of years ago practically the whole city turned out to besiege the county jail and to burn at the stake the wretch who was wrested from the prison guard. . In the.se cases, if it be said that the mob directed its fury toward the cul prit alone and spared the innocent, it is only necessary to point to the r&cs riots in Springfield, Onio, where the fury of the people was directed against the negro population. It is therefore neoas?arv for the American people to recognize two faots very clearly: That among the American negroes there is a very considerable element of as dan gerous and as degraded human beings as exist on the planet; and that wher ever any considerable body of negroes live there Is always danger of an out break of raoe hatred and savagery which actually lowers the character of the whole people. These outbreaks will occur, and It is now pretty weil understood by the people of the North, from their own experience, that if negroes persist in attacking women the law will break down. It is easy to theorize ou the subject and to deplore this primeval savagery and this lamentable and aan gerou.1 disregard of tae law, but as a matter of faot we how know that un controllable raca hatred will result from the hideou3 outrages. What 1b to be done about it? There is only one thing as appall log as these outbreaks, and that 1 the seeming im possibility of solving the problem involved in the prc-enc of 10,000 000 people lately from the wilds of Africa dwelling among 10, 000,000 people of another rase, oolor and civilization. As a baglnalag to a serious con^aeratlon of the question nothing better has been said than the warning Issued by Booker Washington the other day, when he declared chat there was altogether too muoh erica by negroes. The negroes had betlet Unten to men like Washington than to the frothy demagogues who de nounce the whites because thencgroe are n'?c accorded that '"full equaality" for which they are not equipped: And ever,' decant negro community should begin to recogniza thst fact Chat the moet dangerous enemy to the negro race in America is the worthless negro vagabond wno brl?gs upon the heads of the lnuooent, a tarrlolis ven geance and involves all elements iu ciidly anarchy. T^ie negro wild beasi iru3t be eliminated. The negro mu6i jo his part, and as for the whites of Che United S:stes of America whu poured out the blood of half a million precious lives and untold treasure to free the negro?nc sum and no pains are too great for them to expend in order that the result may be a blessing lnsiiad of a curse. 1< Eighty t cetj Arthur Turner, a 10 year-old boy ?fork.! g on ibe S.u i era railway*! O ingarce river bricg-j near Oolumrjit Friday trij p dhlm eif b.v steppirg on a pl:c3 of ?ron cn the bridge and .'oil ? ig^ty f t Into the wat?r, mis^ln^ a r f: of urb3r fl ating by, by about ix f':a:, H: swein ?u the ralL aoc walked kome. When the doctors got to him they found only a bruiseu face. bixiv I't uplu JLua;, Sixty persons are n-rorted Irst n ?'h'3 foulet r:t>g of the emigrant steam er (Jiiart-.-rboese, w. Ich -ve^ic off Ha.nan H ao, S^pttmber 30tt. A raft belonging to the Oharttrhousc was pieked upbi- a tt inner wh:c^ rescu? d twenty tl eree (f ihi c^v. who-hadbaen drhting nearly forty eight hours. O?AKGEBTTIMoK ? STORMY TRIP, A Thrilling Story of a Voyage in a Storm GAVE UP HOPE ONCE. Bat Anchor Held and Schooner and Crew at Last Reached a Port. Wind at Sea Made a Plaything of the Ves sel. The Charleston Post says a letter has been received from James A. Deal, 3on of Capt. James 0. Deal, a well known pilot, telling of how tbe schoon er Laura B. Anderson, on whiob he took passage north, weathered the severe storm of a few week ago, which brought great destruction to vessels and caused loss of much life Toe letter gives an idea of the ter rific, force of tbe wind and sea and ac counts for the loss of so many vessels off the North Carolina coast, several of which were in company with the Liura B. Anderson, on the trip up tbe coast from Charleston. The letter is an interesting narrative of a trip, which was especially eventful to the young man, wbo was the guest of Capt Thomas Higsbae on the passage to New York, where he has since enter ed the Patterson Nautical College, having determined to follow the sea as his profusslon. The many friends of the young man will be interested in the story, practically told in bis own words: "We left Charleston on September 9, in tow of the tug Protector, and when we got outside the bar, near the Charleston lightship, the wind bad died out. The next morning, eve go' the ship under way in a light wind from the southwest, and with this fair wind we spread on full sail to get out into the gulf stream, where we would have the benefit of the current north, running at the rate of two and a half to three and a half knots an hour. We bept knocking about for th? next few days with unfavorable wir ds Oa Sunday, the 16 .b, the *?lnd start *d to lnomsa in vtlooity fron the northeast. We were in company with several ves els, all bound northward, these being the boat3, we beheve. which were subsequently raported as lost. Cipt, Hlisbee deemr-d it ;dv!< ahle to seek shelter, behind the ai d the wind at that time blowing eff toe land, and we anchored about fortv-fi ;e miles to the south of Cape Lookout. Wa out out both anchors. The sea was t':en running heavy and conditions were erowioK worse all of Sunday. At 2:30 o'clock on Monday morning the vessel gave a hard leap into the sea, and out oame her foretopmast and j.booom at one snap. The stays hold i?g these two spars bad to be hurrieo ly cut, as there were fears of their knocking a hole into her bo vir. "The sea was now lashed to its greatest fury. The wind had increased tu about seventy-five mlie3 about 5 o'clook, and jast when matters looked as bad as they could be, we parted tb< starboard anchor, and then had to pu; out a kedge and Boon afterward the kedge also parted, and w: wer."? depend ?nt now solely upon tbe p>rt anchor. Our lives ware at stake. Tne par log of the lone anohor meant our doom jr.d as the wind bl-im and t'^e sea roll ed in mountains, splashing and hre:k fug over Mi with terrifij f >rce we ioot ?.'.emed to be awaiting the ?aiomant o! death. All of us gava up hope, ever to Capt. Higi.hee. We felt that w -ere to die, and It was only a questl >n of just when deach would ome. Th anchor held, however, and, after a jime, it was apparent that tbe win: v>as abating aud we began to take on ?lopes of saf ty. Monday aftemcoa tbe ??lnd had diedout and we all felt b6t ter. i "We lay ia onr position until Tues day morning about 9:30 o'clock, whet i *e welched anchor aid started for Gape Lookout Cove, arriving tbe^e on Wednesday aftem-. on at 5 o'cio k. T iers we rema ned until Siturday 3:30 o'clock, wben ~e were taken in /w by tbe tug I. J. Merritt. We wcr? o'ng up the c st in fine style until e wire struck by a northeaster oil \ inv rqi.ar.6r HgbtebJp, wbieb ma?? s turn brck z.r.6 go into Hampton R >aod on Monday night at 10 o'clocir W j started again on th? following Vv^daesday rrornlng for New Yoik, v 1th the tug Rescue la tbe lead, the Merrlit havirg 1 f& us to puil on a teamer which bad gone ashore. We ?oally reached our anchorage off Sandy Hook, concluding an evomful trip for au of us " The thrilling experience of Mr D al, the first of tbe kind thai ho bus .an, has not dampened his i; tore-ti:. the s?a or caused him to t'lnk less i' making it his vocation la li;e. On the juntrary, he says in bis let'er: "1 wculd rather goto sea a tbcusaj.d jimrs t.'.an stay on. sb re." Toe y< UL'.u m-.u is ambitious to at tain sacce&i i? his chosen vocation snr1 he is no w hard at work, taking the .oui:.tf at- the sau' leal oollrg6 aoc ; okli g forward to his o#n ship ann pu., in the p sltioacf incurring toe t8ponblbilitj for the safety of his ves el and these w.;o may be committed .0 hlu oare. LiOHt in titorin. At New 0"! sns six p'rsens were downed inth? Mississippi sound by the i.urncj it.-, e.ii*< t iarg; sailing ves r.rsU and r.boi v. 30 soa vii vessels wer> vr'ck d aud Suip island, Cat islan *nd Hirn ielaod '.?eresuhaiar^el. In tedirii qUir.un ne station un Sliip is land vasbaoly dau.jg=d, and abou 81.000.000 damage was done to prop eitj on the mainland. u Cm THURSDAY, OCT?J THE GOVERNMENT DISTRIBUTES A LARGE NUMBER. Nearly Ivery Waterway in the State Got a Fresh Supply of Pish last Tear. The work of propagation and dis tribution of food fisher? 'or the past year has been vigorously prose cuted in all parts of the United States by George M. Bowers, fish commissioner, and bis assistants. The principal function of the burea of fisheries, the maintenance and in crease of the available supply of aquatic food products, has its largest fulfilment in the artificial propoga tion and distribution of fish and eggs. The eztennive and depleting commer cial fisheries for a number of speoles and the constantly g owing demand for food and game fishes for stocking private lakes and streams have led to suoh an enlargement of the field of operations that about fifcy speoles are now cultivated, the list Inoludlng the principal fishes of all parts of the country. A very Important f eature is the tesoue of young lhhes from the overflowed lands of the Mississippi valley, whare, otherwbte, they would be lost when the waters recede, Some of .the most valuable and far reaching results have come from the acclimati zation of non-lnd!genou3 fishes in va rious waters. The output for the year 1905 was over 350,000,000, more than for anv previous year in the history of tho bureau. This increase represents in particular a great production of Pac ific salmons, lake trout, pike perch, yellow peroh, large mouth black bass, lake herrinc and lobster and In addi tion, the propagation of the blue fin white fish for the first time. The shad out-put was small owing to the fact that an unusual proportion of the marketed fish were caught in salt or brackish water but few being left to reach the spawniug grounds, where the eggs are obtained for the hatch* erics. The work of the commission was either to distribute eggs or fry, which are small sized fish nor grown, or dn Korlings, yearlings and adults, in which olass is included all fish except tha very small ones. During the last year large mouth bass, fiDgerllngs, yearlings, and adultB have been deposited at the following plajet-: Denmark, Savannah Pond, in ihe pond at Ei3M)v r; in t ie follow ing tributaries of Elorei river: Beiver Dam creek, Buck Head creek, Oadar Snoal creek, E isna or??k, Eaar^e creek, Fork Shcal crok, Poyt's crtok, Two Mile Crsek, Warrior oreok. Tnosame varies of fi;h have also been deposed ear Fourta'n Inn anc In R?ed? river, in GrreaviLe o unty. I? Gresnvills octant the following streams have bi en well stocked with large mouth bass: Buck Horn creek, Middle Tyger river, Mount orec-k, Rsedy R^ver Mill pond, Rloh'ano creek, Sou h E ioree oreek, Suuth Sa uds, river and Wod's pond. Tue same variety has al o been pl:oeo n*.&r Jefferson, JhhnHton, Ksxahaw, Laaford, Lersvllle, Livingstone. Lync! burp, Maocdon, Mullios', 0 ran to, Neeces, Rijk H.ll, Gatawba Pov er Coajp>.h}'s pond, in Sp.J.rtioburg, ?.t Drayton Mill pond, both !o rer a.iu Draytoa pnad p:oper, Floyd'i pon^, H:gh pond, Ltwson's fork,* N? blfit's pmd, R/uqub's p ;nd and Walte'? M'll pond. Toey have al<-o been left 1 Surr pter county and at Swansea, Tremor), Tro,, v.:rdery, Welford, We (tvllle ar.d Wilhaton. R labor? trout wera genorou^p dis tributed in YueV. npnog. near Gasn wood. Sun fhh were pl-c d at Barnwell, B?tu burg in Goose creek, n> ir Char leston, in the lui- e at Oolumbia, tho ?it Oowpens, Darlington. E .'Oree, Greenville, Lancaster and Lxaduini. in the lalte-r place toe following ponds were Rfrck^d: ?elue pnd, Ool !i6 creek, Paga Pond, Smith creek They were ?lsi lefo at McBee end Bjsk Hill and placed In tue city reservoir at Spartauburg and in the Drayton pond. J.reoton also received i supple The largest nuaooer p.aovd were 5 250 large miuth blaok bats in the Root Hill pon !. (J: azy Mutoruian A Btreet car nl.ed with terrlfled pa t,ecge)8 dashed acrotsed New York ThurK-iay at full speed while Motor man L?o Sc;wartz, eudiecly berert of rca on stood on the fos^ard piat forr: fl .urlvhing Chi heavy cmtroll Icg bur and U:r.ctsr:lng to brain any tic who approve .od him. He wa.n dnally ?ubdu d s.nd the. car brought t? a step after a r'cspe-.r?te atrugfrl" with half a dczen policemen atd .*rreeti railway employes during which several passer ?eis jumped fn:m the swiftly moving car and sustained piinful bruises. Ooe of the rr.otor rr.an was so badly is j ;rcd that he iao to be tak?n t - M e h< p.oltal. Four .Ol. n Ki lea. Four men wers kilied aod el^ht in j i - d, tw"o perhapa fata ly, in 'in ae >td?ot at the work) of tue Maryh; d 3 eel Company, at Sparrows Point, old. Three of the dead are negroes L'he victims wew ovsrwnalrmd b? a "?uah of filming c&< ar.d 6:)k.<> 'rom i hole in one of tue b .?><. furnace, caused by the forcing out of It* st ci st of easting widen h ds the c m or.s-:d air pipe. The ra-ea bft: ju t put In a nev air pipe and the bltfit hid b.^'n turcif.d on about teo ir.!o when the ac^tdanc recurred. Oilielals ?.re a*, a losi Co accjuat for 'i s accident. N > txpl ^loo i ccurred, knd the furnace was not a^aged. Ssjivcd liini It ?ht. Bunk Walkie wa-< oavioted at J"s p r, G.., on T ursday cf running ?-.j with t^e ;fe rt o e Bra:a:.t ani was givrn t o y;:rs la the p '^i tea'.lary. he nawa> wife was fiued ?50. SEK 11. L906. GIRL SHOT DOWN By Boy She Had Refused to Marry. DYING IN HOSPITAL His Victim Exclaims "I Love Yon and Forgive Yon." After the Tragedy He Tries to Commit Suicide and Shoots at His Cap tors. Soorned by the girl be loved, Wil liam KUey, who said he was a report er, lay in wait for his erst-whlle sweetheart, Margaret Lynch, Wednes day night, and when she alighted from a trolley our, and was abont to enter her Wllllamsbarff borne,, he drew a revolver and shot her twics. And as mortally wouiaded, with a bullet through her left eve and anoth er through her hand, she tried to crawl away from him, he yelled in glee at the success of his orime, turn ed the pistol upon himself, and, when he failed at suicide, tried to kill the two polioamen who arrested him. Kiley, who is less t'uau twenty years old, lives at No. 2326 Second avenue, New York. At the badside of his dy ing sweetheart late Wednesday night he told the story of the tragedy while the girl gasped for breath and bowed her head weakly in confirmation of the tale she was too near the grave to tell herself. "It was four years ago that I, met Margaret Lynch," said KUey to! the nurses, doctors and policemen gather ed about the cot. "She was the sweet est girl in Wllllamsburg, I fell in love at the sight of her faoa before either of ns said a word to the other. "No man was ever happier?caring for a girl?than I, until a few weeks ago some thing happened which I wont tell about and Margaret said she did not love me any more and that I must not come to see her again. Twice after when I called her parents sent me away. Then I knew that life wasn't worth the living any longer and I decided that both Margaret and I should die together." At tnls point in the story the dy ing girl raised herself upon the cot and whisosred something to her lov er. "You tried to kill me," she sobbed, "buc I lova you yet, and I forgive you." KUey was so overwhelmed at this deatnbed confession that be could not continue his story, ani Polios Free stono, of the (Jlymer street station, who had arrested him, took up the tale. He said he was standing with Speolal Offher Tamoey at the oomer of South Tenth street Wed nesday night, when Miss Lynch alighted from a Franklin avenue car directly in front ^f her home. As she mounted the piazza KUey arose from nlaoocoealment in cue bushes bear-by and, confronting her, said. "I have found you out. You have ruined me. But oace before I go a way I want to ask you to explain why you have thrown my love asid3 " Miss Lynch consented to walk with K.: :y, and thay lud m i?ed half a olock when the mr.n sude^nly drew a "52 calibre rav nver from his hip pocket and shot p>int blank at the girl who still stood by his aide. Ttw oaII penetrated ner left :;ye aad lodg od at the bahr. trxg-cy, and though an oparati n wp.s rerformid fur tbe remov-1 of tbe bullat la hT brain the physi o-sgs said the would die tof jr ; morn ln? K hy was 1' ckoi up In the Olymer street police 3'ati' n. Fit n?. Is?v*e Kuijil t, ih' n '.-.lieh?H?n be brought 10 Columbia to save hire lynohlaa in July, was trie 1 z Alkeo hist ??-eck for crln.-':-- | ?>. ? ;. oa iul) y '\ w> n the aged No - hern wo mm, Mrs. E. S. Ohapln, on whos* p c3 he !i?ed KU-iht p!e fire. The police finally expelled them. Body of Child Found. At Phtlidelphia the dismembered body of a male c'tild ^as discovered In a truik in the storeroom of the Young V7om?.r's Christian association Saturday. The pollco mads every ef f ire to k?ep the affair a secret, al though the discovery was made Sat urday no word escaped until Thursday. The police admit they are at sea and have nothing tangible to work on by which they can untangle tbe threads of the mystery. The little bod; Shows evldt-ncj of oalloua brutality combined with skill, as physicians who examined it say tbe de;:th wounn not delivered beforu the cutting up began. Betrayed by Ills Son, A report from Chicago aaya Thoo. Stenlan ', of his own free will, betray dth w ereabouts of his father zi>6 . Liied in his c.p.ur-j. T eodore'fi 11 r to disclose t c whereabouts ol his father is said bo havi bc-.n made 10 Assistant State's A' orn: y Jumefc Barbour when that tfiio .l p-.-L-xiutd .. e ..u f'ra.lori' from po- ... ixrj. t, in turn for b s inforrc I. m and aid in prosecuting other offijiali of thebank cg I titutiou. L'ois promise was 1 ed d the grand j ory at itt opening session. Vtant-j D.miKLf. Miss Amelia Rob^.innvitz of Sa^ Carlos, Arizona, la tulr.g Dr. S. M. Samuels of Atlanta, Ga., for 825,000 for breach of promise of marriage. $1.00 PEE ANNUM. GAS EXPLODED. Six Killed and Dozen Hurt in Subway at Philadelphia. PBOPEETY DAMAGED. Explosion Dae to Leak in Biz Gas Mtfai in Busy Section. Flames Borst from Dozens of Pipes and Fire men Use Dirt to Extin guish. A terrific explosion of Illuminating gas in the subway of the Philadelphia Eapid Transit Company, under con struction at Sixth and Market streets, Philadelphia at 7 o'clock Friday morning, resulted In the death of six men, injuring of a dozen others and oaused thousands of dollars' damage. The explosion was caused by a leak in the city gas main, which was im properly repaired Thursday nieht It is believed that a workman car rying a lamp into the great hole, ig nited the gas. Sixth and Market is one of the busi ness sections, but fortunately, there was little traffic there when the ex plosion occurred. About a dozen workmen were gath ered near a large derrick and about five men are believed to have been in the subway. The force of the explo sion wrecked the subway for half a block and all the heavy timbering and other structural work, including tons of earth, fell into the excavation. The heavy rain during the night had slightly weaxened the walls of exoav ation and added to the damage. Just as the gas blew up a donble team cart was being driven directly across the covered subway. Vehicle, horses and man were blovro high in the nir, and the horses and oart fell Into the hole. The driver landed in ohf street only slightly hurt. Several workingmen standing near the derrick were blown across the street and either killed or injured, and a number of pedestrians were hurt by falling glass and Siems from tall business houses on both sides of Market and Sixth streets. Those portions of the subway not covered with dirt burst Into flames md for a time no person dared vennture near the place for fear of further explosions. Firemen *ere quickly on the spot but water was of little use, owing to the fact that the flames were mooting from dozsns of gas pipes, and the large gas main. Dirt ?&s %b n resorted to, and in the course of a few hours She flames wereentingulshed. From Fifth to Seventh streets on Marlcet and for half a square od Sixth street North and South large plate glass windows were broken and thou sands of dollars' worth of goods in show windows damaged. Gored to Death. Frederick Oowan and his seventeen rear old bride were gored to death by an angry bull in a meadow, near Mar? tinsburg. W. Vj., Thursday arcer nooti. The yo mg couple had just left the home A the preacher, wno uad married them, after a 83q-s.tion il elopement. The bright red dress, which adorned the person of the pret ty bride, attached and enraged the hull. Mr. and Mrs. Oo^an had cut across the field to the railway station in their eagerness not tu mUa their train Toey had not gone far whea the enraged aulxal charged. The ycurg husband fought wish ".he animal desperately in an effort to save hla you ig hrlda and hlmiolf. bat the horns of the enraged brute ripped in to bis side and hurled him to the ground, where he was trampled to death under the cruel boofd. Tho bull then <:urned his attention to tho bride. The girl was too pualitod by fright and horror then to attempt to make her escape and she was an easy viotim. She was caught like a chip in the wind upon the already go ry horns of the great animal, tossed into the air, caught again and finally ourled far over a barbed wlra fonca into the adjoining fijld. The youag woman was so badly li jured that she died within a few bourn of the accl ?lent. The bull is the property of John Hatfield, who Uvea near Rich mond Fal's, in R .letu'h ?cmaty. Tae young oouple had eloped aud Indulg ed in a hurried marriage In opposition to the wishes of their parsnts. The l'?.x L-vy. Comptroller General Jones will re new his fight L *-he coxing legisla ture for a flexible tax levy, and along with ti"