A TRAIN HELD OP, gen county, New Jersey, was killed at Rutherford on the evening of the 24th. in the Ochard, A TERRIBLE AGGIDENT, ! SIX TONS OF MELTED METAL ESCAPE FROM A FURNACE. CAPTAIN W, R. JONES AND B8IX OTHERS BURNED, ALL EXCEPT ONE PERHAPS FATALLY. PirTspuRra, Sept. 26.—A frightful accident happened at Carnegie’s Edgar Thomson Steel Works at Braddock to- night. Captain W, R, Jones, general manager of the immense steel works, and a number of workmen were hor- ribly, and perhaps fatally, burred, { Physiclaus attending Captaln Jones cannot state to-night as to his chances for reovery. Furnace **C,”” one of the largest of the blast furnaces, gave way at the bottom, and tons of molten metal, like water escaping from a reser- volr, ran out, The furnace had not been working properly during the day, and Captain Jones called this evening to see if he could not ascertain the cause. Ile was working with a number of men near the base of the furnace when the break occurred. In an instant flames of fire shot forth, and the hot metal exploded and fell like sheets of water. Tons of molten metal poured out of the furnace, and that any person near the furnace escaped instant death is regarded as almost a miracle. The injured are: Captain Jones, horribly burned. Michael Qualnn, aged 25, badly burn- ed; hus skin peeled off with Lis clothes, He can live only a few hours, John Mokake, badly burned about the body, but not fatally. Captain Ned Quinn, burned about arws and chest; will recover. Two or three other workmen, whose names could not be learned, are in charge of the company’s physicians, and may not recover. Captain Jones is well known through- out the United States and Europe, wherever iron and steel are munufac- tured. He receives a salary of $25,- 000 per year and a percentage on the product of the large mill, making his income almost $50,000 a year, It wat he who took 300 men to Johnstown, as his own expeense, a couple of days alter the flood, and remained there for a couple of weeks direct ng the work of res:ue, He is perhaps 6) years of age, LATER.—~The pames of the other working wen who were injured are: Patrick Hugh, Mickael Connor and John Needen. Michael King, a Hungarian, was present when the seething mass poured out of the furnace, and as he cannot be found, it is feared he bas been covered up. The injured were brought to the Homeopathic Hospital in this city, where everything is being done to re- lieve their sufferings. About six tous of the molten metal poured out of the break, The ter. rible rush of the liquid steel knocked Mr. Jones down 1ato the pit. Fortunately he fell between two trucks, or he would bave been burned to death instantly, When removed from the pit his clothing had been en- tirely burned from his body, The loss to the company will be quite heavy. PITTSBURG, Sept. 20. — Al midnight Captain Jones was resting easy, ‘ihe physicians say he will recover and that his face will not be disfigured. Two of the others will die. A FATAL WRECK. A PASSENGER COACH SMASHED BY A FREIGHT TRAIN. FIVE PASSENGERS KILLED AND A NUMBER INJURED, ONE FATALLY. CHicAcO, Sept. 24. —A frightful dis- aster to a suburban passenger train occurred to-night in the Southern out. skirts of the city. The Chicago, Rock Islend and Pacific train, which left the mala depot at 5:35 p. m. for Blue Island, was crashed into by a freight train at the Lake Shore and ’an Han- dle crossings near Eighty-sevesth street, Engle wood, The passenger train was at a stand- still, one coach projecting over the crossing. Into this coach, containing about 6) persons, plunged the freight train, The wreck of the passenger coach was instant and complete. How many persons were killed and injured it was impossible at the moment to learn. Half an hour afterwards four dead bodies had been taken out of the de bris, and the number of victinds was still a matter of guesswork. Most of the people in the ill-starred corch were residents of the suburban towns of Washington Heights and Morgan Park. When a thorough search had been completed it was found that three ladies and two gentlemen had been killed outright, and a third man was in a dying condition, Three other per- sons were seriously injured, The latter unfortunates were hurriedly conveyed to their homes, near at hand, while the dying man was taken to the institute of the Sisters of Mercy. The five dead were conveyed tu the Engle- Nood Morgue, The list of the killed Mrs. Kelly, J. McKinzle, Fred Hueb- ner, Mrs. Brown an unknown woman, all of Washington Heights, Those most seriously injured are: Gus Mulcahy, Seventy-sixth and Wal. lace streets, fatally hurt; Miss A. K. Steele, Anton Shuberg and Parker Harden, of Washington Helgh others hurt sustained but slight in. juries, pl ~ William Irvin, 8 miner, and his , a Pole, went to their usual General Manager, —— THE WORK OF THREE ROBBERS IN MISSISSIPPI. THEY SECURE $2700 IN CASH AND REGISTERED MAIL MATTER. MosiLe, Ala., Sept. 25.—The Mobile and Ohio south-bound mail and passen- ger train was held up at 3.10 this morn- img by train robbers, at Buckatunna, Mississippi. a station seventy miles north of Mobile, The traln was due here at 6 A, M, Just before the train left Puacka- tuna, two men mounted behiud the tender of the train, and, climbing over, covered Engineer Jack Therrel and Fireman ThomasH ust with their revolv- ers. Therobbers were disguised with red bandanna handkerchiefs over the lower part of their faces. The leader ordered the engineer to pull out and stop at the bridge two miles below Buckatunna, and to place the train so that the ex- press and mail car should be on the further side of the bridge from the rest of the train, the bridge being a trestle over a deep creek. “You obey instructions or it's death,” he said, « The engineer looked down the barrel of the pistol and slow- ly pulled the lever. The train ran rap- idly down to the spot indicated, and the engineer put the train just where the man with the pistol wanted it Then there appeared a third robber dis. guised like the other two, These three made the engineer and fireman come with them to the express car, and the engineer had to call out to expressman J. W. Dannoing to open the door of the car. The wooden door was already open, but the iron barred door was closed and locked. Dunning was seated with his back to the door, and when be turned round he looked down the muzzles of three revolvers, The command was given and Dunning opened the barred door, and in the chief robber jumped, the other two remaining outside to guard the eugineer and flreman. The leader made the messenger dump the con- tents of the safe into a canvas sack, but noticing that he was not closely watched Dunning shoved some of the money aside, so that about $1000 was hidden, the robbers getting $2706. All this woney belonged to the Mobile and Ono Railroad Company. Alongside the express car door was a plle of $70,000 Government woney, en route to Flor ida, which the robbers failed to notice, Then the robbers made the express man get out of the car and go with them to the mail Car. Ww. C. Bal, the mail agent, had suspecied that robbery was going on and tried to get Into the baggage car with anumber of regis. tered packages of mail. Just as he stepped to the end door of the car he saw through a glass that the robbers had intercepted him. The robber leader, supposed to be Hunch, faced him, pistol in hand and fioding Bell's arm full of packages, said “dump those here on wy left arm.” There were twenty-four packages In all and Bell dumped them as requested. The robber made Bell band bam, then, a registered pouch and ordered the agent to open it, but Bell had no key so the robber carried the pouch off with him. The pouch was made up at Meridian and the contents and value are unkmown. Just theu Billy Scholes, the conductor, who had been trying to find out the trouble and bad armed himself with a Win. chester, came out of the rear of the train, waved his lantern and shouted, “What's the matter?” The robbers fired two shots at him, crying out: “Come up here and you'll see what's the matter.” The engineer told the robber to let up on the shooting as the train hands would open fire and be shooting thelr own men, There was uo more shooting and the train was ordered to pull out at once, which it did, the robbers disappearing in the undergrowth on the west side of the track. The train pulled down to Cltronelle and swapped time with the accommo- datiou train, and the accommodation train engine's car was sent back to the scene of the robbery with detectives and an armed posse, The leader of the robbers Is a man six feet high, of about 170 pounds weight, dressed in commen clothing and a slouch bat, His assist. ants wore common clothing and noth. Ing to distinguish them. When the handkerchief slipped down a little off of the leader's face the express mes- senger says he saw he had a black moustache and thinks be had a beard, The leader of the robbers is believ- ed to be Rupe Barrows, a noted des. perado, the man whom & search for created so much excitement in the northern part of the State a few months ago. At that time it was be- lievad that he had organized a gang to hold up some train, and the Mobile and Ohio Company, anticipating an attack, armed all its train hands with Win- chester rifles, This was made public and was boublless what the robber re- feraed to this morning as he sald during the progress of robbing the mail ear: “The Mobile and Ohlo dare men to hold up a train, and I wanted to show them I could do it, A special vo the Mobile Register from Buckatunna, says the suspected parties were seen camping near the bridge for several days. Three men were seen this morning, about nine o'clock, on their way East on foot, They were armed and were avoiding the houses by going around them, They were believed to Le the train robbers. A posse was In pursuit up to last accounts and confident of over. taking the men. The Mobileand Ohio road offers $1000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the robbers, NEWS OF THE WEEK. ~The laborers at work at the rains caused by the recent landslide In Que bee, on the morning of the 24th, res- cued yoars, He #was still able to speak, after being imprisoned for jo8_bouts, and hopes His team became unmanageable at sight of a train and dashed in front of the engine. The horses were unhurt, An explosion of gus occurred in the shoe factory of John Richardson & Co.,, in Elmira, New York, on the 24th, Engineer Plerson and a fore- man named Keener, were badly burned. There was a panic among the 300 em- ployes, but they all escaped without serious injury. ~Erpest Willingham, a negro pugil- ist, was kiiled by a blow from the (ist of Thomas Branch, in Atlanta, on the evening of the 24th, They were spar- ring and Branch knocked Willingham out, breaking his neck, The mutila- ted body of a man, with the head sey- ered and lying beside the trunk, from which all the vital organs had been re- moved, was found on the morning of the 24th on the prairie near the village of Clyde, a suburb of Chicago. It is possible the body came from a dissect ing table, At Wilkesbarre, on the 24th, Martin King, who kicked and beat his wife to death about two months ago, was convicted of man- slaughter. Immediately after, James McGraw, about 00 years of age, was put on trial on the charge of having scalded his wife to death, ~Tex=, mners, the fall number allowed by law, were on the cage on the bottom of Leisenring shaft No. 3, at Uniontown, Pa., on the 24th inst. ready to come out of the mine, when just as they started upward snother man came running through the pas. sage wayjand jumped on the moving cage, His momentum jostled the others, and himself and another man were caught between the cage and the cribbing of the shaft, and both were literally torn to pieces. They were Hungarians, and their names are un- known, ~The boller at the saw mill of Putz Brothers, in Berlin, VPa., exploded on the 24th inst. John Putz, Edward Putz, Oliver Ross and David Baker were killed, and two brothers maned Brant were badly injured. The mill was completely wrecked, ~The New Columbia Houses and Koenig's summer garden, at Cape May, were destroyed by fire early, on the morning of the 25th, The loss is est! mated at about $200,000, The skel- elon of an unknown man, from which woives had eaten all the flesh, was found in the woods near Little Willow river, Minnesota, on the 23d. There was nothing to ldentily him save a shotgun, the silver-mounted buckles on his knit cartridge belt and a letter with the name **Aggle Heath, Minneapolis.” or “Minnesota,” written thereon. On the 24th a Sante Fe train was boarded near Crowley, Texas, by five robbers, who took from Lhe express car three bags of Mexican silver, said to contain $10,000, and escaped, —A heavy northeast storm prevailed on the 25th along the New Jersey coast. The surf was rusning under several cottages at Moomouth Beach and Low Moor, and some of the tele. graph wires were down. A telegram fromm Havara says that indications of the approach of a clyclone are visible in the southwestern portion of island. The citizens of Charleston, West Virginia, are in a state of terror through the evident detertiination of incendiaries to destroy the place, Ou the 24th the first atlempt was made, and by noon the fire department had been called out four times, Again In the afternoon four fires were started at once, Property valued at over $680,000 was destroyed. A number of men are patrolling the streets with Winchester rifles, -B, F., Cartis ja merchant, and John Wallace, a mail carrier, quarielled in Cairo, Illinois, on the 24th, on the re. moval of Commissioner Tanner, Wallace was struck on the head with a molasses jug, and so badly injured that he died in an bour. Two con- stables in Hamilton, Ontario, on the evening of the 24th, broke into the room of a man whose pecallar be- havior bad excited the suspicions of the woman with whom he boarded, The man fired two shorts at the officers which however, did no Injury. One of the constables returned the fire, in- stantly killing the man, Both officers were held, pending an investigation, Nothing is known of the dead man, not even his name, Policeman Me- Dovald who was shot by his wife in Chicago on the 24th, died on the 20th, ~John C, Snook, a wealthy farmer of Sussex county, New Jersey, was sentenced at Balvidere, on the 25th, to one year's imprisonment for beating his wife, They have been 20 years married and have a large family, «What is supposed tobe a dynamite bomb, with a fuse attachment, was found on the 20th in an angle of the court house wall, in Independence, Missourl, E. DD. Strange, Postmaster at Fisher, Texas, has been arrested on the charge of embezzling valuable let. ters from his office, ~The bodies recovered from the ruins caused by the landslide in Que- bec number 44. The fourteen wounded victims are in a fair way of recovery, The Laflin & Rand powder works at Beckville, near Cressona, Schuylkill county, Penna., blew up on the morn. ing of the 26th, killing three men and injuring several others, two or three dangerously, «Mm Emma A, Wood, wife of George M. Wood, a clerk in the Geo- logical Survey Office, in Washington, was burned to death, on the 206th. examination, aud found his wife lying dead on the floor, with the upper por- tion of her body burned toa crisp. A daughter o* Henry Tenner overturned in Coleago on ths and set Cre the The autumn leaves are whirled Away; The sober skies look down ; On faded fields and woodlands gray, And the dun-colored town, Through the brown orchard’s gusty aisle, In sad-hued gown and hood Blow passes, with a peaceful smile, A maiden pure and good, Her deep, serene, and dove-like syes Ard downward bent; her face, Whereon the day's pale shadow lies, In sweet with nameless grace. The frolle wind beside her blows; The sear leaves dance and leap; With hands before her clasped, she goes As in a waking sleep. To ber the ashen skies are bright, The russet earth is fair; And never shone a clearer light, Nor breathed a softer alr, O wizard love! whose magic art Transm utes to sun the shade, Thine are the beams that fil] the heart Of this meek Quaker mald, IAT, A FISH WITH CLAWS, | “But indeed, buys, I am not easy about having you go out there without your father,” said Mrs, Dixon anx- ously, “I am so afraid something will happen to you. You know a bear was seen in that same neighborhood only yesterday; and he was not killed. He will be sure to come back there again," **Now, mother!” protested Tom and Will together, ‘“‘there’s nothing in the world to be worried about, You know John Bracebridge is going with us; and he 1s Lhe very best guide in the whole region, Father told us we might go anywhere with him.” “Yes, I know; but that was before the bear had been seen,” **The bear is miles away from here before this time,’ It was the sanguine and impetuous Will who was so posi- tive on this point, just as he was on most others, ‘“*He got such a scare yesterday that he will not want to stay in this neighborhood, I can tell you! He was only a back or a cinnamon, anyhow, Bracebridge says he doesn’t believe It was a silver-tip at all.” "No," sald Warlike Tom; “and even if it was a sliver-tip, or a grizzly either, I'd like to know if three of us wouldn't be enough to tackle him. “But you two have nothing In the world but your fishing rods to tackle bim with,” “Well, tell you, mother,” sald Will, coaxingly, ‘if we see a sign of a right back it ’ i bear's track we'll come without walting to see the bear him. self. jut we shan't see any but old ones, Oh, we mustn't miss this chance, marmy! Bracebridge says the trout fishing in this stream is the best in all Colorado." With a sign of resignation, the mothers of very getic Dixon signified that the two such earnest and ener jul in, Mra, to indulge brothers as DOYS are apt were to have thelr and to work with wild enthusiasm to make their preparations for the day's fish ing. All Colorado was a novelty to the Pennsylvania family. Mr. Dixon had to spend most of the summer in the Centennial State on business; and be had brought his wife and (wo along so that the business trip might be made a pleasure excursion for the whole family, He had brought them at last, to this wild mountamn re- etreat, where residents and tour- ista alike love to come in summer for the fishing and huntiog, as well as for the healthful coolness and the match- less beauty of the scenery, Just after getting well settled in the little mountain hotel he had found himself obliged to go back to Denver for a few days to meet some sudden business emergency. So Mrs. Dixon was left to manage two restless but thoroughly good boys as well as she could, alone, It took only a very little time for the boys to make their preparations for this notable day's outing, and only a short time more for them to reach the stream where they were sure to find such sport as had never yet come in their way. It was only because they were young, active and eager that they were able to go so quickly, however. Older and less vigorous legs would have made much slower progress over the piled-up rocks, the fallen timber and the tang- led underbrush. To the guide accus- tomed to traveling such paths, and to the boys, full of joyful animation, these obstructions were not at all serious, But even the boys had to stop from time to time to admire the grandeur of the scenery and to go into raptures over the wonders of the great solitude that surrounded them, They discovered not a single bear's track, althoug, as Will sald, *‘it was Just the place to look for them, if you wanted any. And you might even Le accommodated with a rattlesnake,’ and in a short time they were too much ab- sorbed in the fascinations of the fshing to think about bears, snikes or any- thing else than the work they had in hand. “There's better’n this up above here a plece,,’ sald John Bracebridge, the guide, alter a time, ‘You two fellers Just stay right here. I'll go up a ways, \rospectin’; and when I've found the right plack 1'll come back, or hol- ler. Now don’t you git away now. bars!? The boys promised and of course & way, they set boys here givings, success where they were, but were quite willing to have better; so they waited with a little Jmpatience for the signal to rejoin the guide farther up to the stream, *1 believe the fish have al! gone down the stream, instead of up.” sald Tom after a little time. ‘‘Let’s go back to the pool below, We had better luck there, and we can hear Bracebridge just as well when he calls,” “All right, You go on, and I'll come right away. I think there's a fellow here that means to answer the line I've dropped to him. 1’ll come down in five minutes,”’ So Tom went and Will stayed, “a boy’s will is the wind’s will.”’ Tom changed his mind about going down the stream, and started to go a little way up instead, He would still sight of Will, and when Will moved down Tom would go down, too, Will was too much absorbed in his in fact forgot all about excitement of trying to get that tantal- izing fish, So he stayed where he was, who had Therefore Tom, i i | ! i { i i i | { i { | the Tom had gone down had Will supposed supposed Will gone stream. down the stream and John Bracebridge He came to the lower pool at length, but Will was pot there either. Pei haps Le also had heard the bear and was running away from it, However, he could not stop to speculate, He must get on without loss of time, for that fellow behind was coming along without any stogs, just as if no fist had been wasted upon him, Panting and weary, but with no thought of giving up the race, Tom came at last to an open space, And on the opposite side of the little opening he saw which made him laugh, in spite of his breathlessness and and his fright, He saw Will ing up the trunk of a tree in splendid Lylel As Tom came into sight Will reached the first branch and swung himself quickly up to a secure seat. Poor, tired Tom staggered across the Will saw him, and in a moment the wood® rang something laste with “1 thought it was a bear!” he ted, with a burst of hilarity, “Well, isn’t i?” shiou~ demanded Tor mn, against the “Isn't it what? Isay 11 were a bear, and I've been left them. None of them had a thought about the bear which disturbed Mrs, Dixon's thoughts, time, however. Ile had reacksd 1 $ point some little distance he and Will bad been fishing ise excellent things, here and 1n a very few utes was wild with the thrilling excite- ment that comes to the excellent fish. erman. He Will bad here, instead of going buck down the i wished stream. Where did you come from, Tom? 1 thought you the made, stream and 1'd over take you.” “l went up the Tom began to climb stream instead.’ hastily and in the can bears climb trees?” the tol” “Well, one I ran away from said Will, iaugiiog “But the one we've both ran away to the unfortunate brother, It would have been too bad to miss fears about a bear which some sald had been seen somewhere. A bear might come In sight, and they might silver-tips, which some people said were worse than grizzlies, and they could not scare him away from such fishing as this pool afforded. Tom?” *“*Thers t I beard you “What are you driving at, asked Will, growing serious, isn’t any bear, you know. just thought you were a bear: ana ! The joke’s on me!’ “There's a pretty good joke on both 1 imagine, Hark! Do you hear It was the and of course before, jut had been far- Will beard it, evide crashing sound repeated, nearer than it had the creature producing it ntly, been the or else the boys had made more rapid progress than they supposed trout in this pool of dark water. Sud- denly there was another interest, and in a moment it became as absorbing as the fish, although not balf so pleasant, Tom was startled by a loud crash in the woods somewhere above him. [If sounded only a short distance away- and became con. heard off, it at all at once the Loy t he had hh farther knowing tha the and SCI1ous sane noise mou that he had, without the time, beard it commis He could not help being conscious of Wg rapidly nearer. + it now, and for a moment it almost paralyzed him, charms, and he thought fish, He thought only of John Brace- bridge and Will Dixon and wished they were both with him. Yes, he no “1 do belleve it is a bear after alll” with a little quiver in his voice. “What in the world will mother You know we promised to come right back at the first sight of a bear. I wish we had frabiinier using fast! haven't proudise very We SAY, a gun. even our { 3 i i { that be and Will were with her in that safe place they had foolishly left, For without a doubt that was a bear he had heard in the woods, Nothing wanted to go. And It was either a grizzly or a very large silver-tip. He rather hoped, after what he had heard of the two kinds, that it was a grizzly. Another, crash, louder and nearer than the last, made him jump almost out of his rubber boots, He clambered out of the water as fast as the slippery nature of the stones permitted, and pre- pared for swift retreat. He would much rather read about bears than study their habits from bpature, Ie would get away rrom there and let the bear do the rest of the fishing. That reminded him. He had heard that bears were fond of fish, In an in- stant his basket was emptied of the morning’s cateh, and all the treasured beauties-—such a lot of them —lsy tame bled on the ground beside the pool. It was too bad; but, perhaps, with these to keep him entertained, bruin would lose his desire to taste a boy. Then without further loss of time, Tom started down the stream as hard as he could go. This was not the course of action they bad talked to their mother about, in case they should bappen to run across a bear. But at that time there were to be three of them together. One of them alone would do much better to run, Yes, if be only could run! When he came up the stream there surely had not been so many rocks and logs to stumble over, and such tangles of un. dergrowth to plough through. And he bad come up much faster] Why, he could only crawl now, in spite of his best exertions, And that dreadful creature behind was certainly gaining on him; the noise came closer and closer, He reached the place where he had left Will. Will was not there now, of course. He was at the pool further down where T'om ought also to be; he “John Bracebridge is the sec} thi M8 A gun, and m going Lo do us?’ At the mention of the guide’s name Will of laughter. “Well, we are a palr of loomes! cried. “That's it! Oh, thus is a good one! Don’t vou see? It's John Brace- bridge that’s the bear. You heard him coming and ran away from him, and I heard you cbming and ran away from you. Now he’s chasing both of us hat was his fairy tread we heard just pow. John! John Bracebridge!” Will shouted the name at the top of his voice and the cry rang through the silence of the woods, As if in answer to it another crash sounded at the opposite edge of the opening, and then, as though the name belonged to him, a living creature moved into the opening. The boys clutched each other and quivered with excitement and fear, “It is a bear, after all,” whispered Will; “and a silver-tip, and a big one at that.” “Yes, and what a splendid shot!” was Tom's yearning reply. “Oh, if 1 only had a gun! It is too bad to miss the chance for such game as that!" The bear, a magnificent specimen, if the boys could only have appreciated the beauty of his massive proportions and his black hair tipped with silver, seemed guided by Will's shout, for he ambled straight across the open space to the tree where they were in. At the foot of the tree he rose upon his haunches and began rocking himself to and fro like an old crone, looking up at the boys the while in the most disagree- able fashion, “You haven't told me yet whether bears can climb trees!” whispered Tom, “This one won’t bave to if he keeps at this kind of thing very long. He'll have us so dizzy that we'll tumble down on top of him, Hark! That's John! That's Jotun!” Sure enough, back in the woods, and not very far away, the voice of John Bracbelage was heard, calling the names of two boys, They answered with a yell that made the bear stop for a moment. way!" ered Tom; “Come care. w or he'll get away, We've can ) him till you uttered a wild shout
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