TWENTY-THREE MINERS PERISH Terrific Explosion Near Dayton, Tenn. —Ten Bodies Recovered. WAS LIKE A VOLCANIC OUTBURST. It Is Supposed That Ope of the Fuses Was Defective and Resulted in What is Known as i From the Blast Igoited the Gac, Which in Chattanooga, e.n explosion of gas im the Nelson mine of the Dayton Coal and Dayton, Tenn, at 445 P. M,, ignited the terrific explosion, known to have | een killed. ine It The men who work in the m were required to use safety lamps is the rule of the company f l place their fuses read blasts just before gq Fi Qi the miners are blasts Fhe miners quit work It takes them about 45 1 of the mine. The two firemen who are have caused the explosion Hunter and John Harney. They blasts at 445 o'clock, before miners could get It 1s ti one of the fuses was defective and resulted in what is known as a “blown blast.” The flame shot out from the blast and ignited the gas, which in turn ignited the accumulation of dry coal dust The explosion that to v rible in its intensity. I the mouth of the mine and wrecked shed at the entrance. Three killed while standing outside two seriously and one f The mine has been the previ explosions four men were ed and injured by an ex in 18935, an explos curred. in which May, 1001. an nature rary throm remen go tire we out at c 1 1 Howed wi Ous serious 1-4! 1 + Kid eight oston of ga ot mine Girls Get Out of Burning Building. street, were occ Saddlery floors by pany, destrove MOsStiy fire gotten ly the girls who w hie Believes Wilcox \' { a¥, Will Hang. abeth City on me heard August Church Moved Bodily. WwW Va \ the oil storm derricks wires Lauckport from its fous away, with th was a panic, | eral houses burg were tions and hal roofed. in were Tried to Wreck Traie. Mo Busch, aged 16 years, and George Young, aged f respectable parents of this city, made an unsuccessful attempt to wreck an eastbound Chicago, Rock ls- land and Pacific passenger train about five miles east of here. The track at this point is on a high embankment, and a derailment could scarcely have occurred without the of many i loth boys were arrested and have confessed Their motive appears to have been re- venge for having been put off a freight train. Dime novels are believed to have played a part Trenton, { Special.) « George 20, SONS o 3 oss Ss A Tunnel Five Miles Long, Auburn, Cal. (Special. )—A of Southern Pacific surveyors and engineers has just completed a survey for a new tunnel through the Sierras, which will be one of the longest in the world. Ac Corps will be five miles and Boo feet in length. It will eliminate nearly 1.000 feet of grade and. will reduce the length of snowsheds 28 miles. The proposed work will cost millions of dollars consume years in construction. Farmbouse Barned by Lightning. Crown Point, Ind, (Special).—A bolt of lightning during a snowstorm struck the farmhouse of Christopher Larson, near this city, and set fire to the struc ture. The bodies of Mrs. Larson and her 10-year-old daughter were found in the ruins, burned to a crisp. Bank Treasurer Ends Life. {ohn Wycoff, treasurer of the two hours later. A meeting of the di- rectors of the bank was called imme. diately after the shooting and the treas- urer's accounts were gone over, public that the funds were intact, SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS, Domestic. Mrs. Addie M. Francis was married by contract min the Tombs in New York to Albert T. Patrick, who has bee con victed of the murder of millionaire Rice A jury was impancled in Hudson, N Y., for the trial of the three Van Worm ser brothers for the murder of Peter A. Hallenback, a farmer, of Greenport. A number of hold and murderous assaults were reported in Richmond, Va., and a crusade HeRro gambling joints Roy C. Tompkins, dicted in Winchester, "no '} wis begun agaist Buffalo, was in on the charge of \ vd, of paying for peaches with a worthless | F. S of 1 Hobac k, i Howard The 1 Frust wrecked Cit non the Lompany, as re r Saving to per $5018 Bank of Detroit, asked the cour tit of aia JNK the stockholder being less than Liabilities over $3,000. threatened strike in Souther E Als aany big nN ded lemar el report fled OPPOSING Adventists in a churcl Charles Woodward, ay whose issued by day, was I'he and other any T0Mes I Jr. people 1d LL were « SOK latest cordon drawn b throug British lines excepting 179 1, includ ing Command H. Kruger [here were exciting ces between the British and the former recovering two guns captured by the Boers in Feb ruary. Prayers peace were offered the churches England and Pre tora Dr. Leyds, the European agent of loers, denied that he was to an interview with Lord Rosebery and other British Liberal leaders in Paris Colonel Rus