[DISASTER IN
A COAL MINE
{Over Two Hundred Men Were Imprisoned
and Probably Killed.
ACCIDENT CAUSED BY EXPLOSION.
Fully Three Miles From the Mines Opening
to the Place Where the Men and Boys
Were at Work When an Explosion Hurled
Them lato Eternity — Flames Shoot Fro
the Estrasce.
(Special) ~The
of
7.30 o'clock |
Tenn,
in the history
Coal Creek,
worst disaster
nessee mining occurred at
in the morning. Between 175 and 225 |
men and boys met instant death at the |
Fraterville coal mines, two miles west
of this town, as a result of a gas explo- |
Ten-
sion. {
Out of the large number of men and
boys who went to work in the morning,
developments at 10 o'clock at night show
that only one is alive, and he is so badly
injured that he cannot live [his man is
William Morgan, an aged Englishman,
who was a road man in the mine, and
was blown out of the entrance by
force of the explosion
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.
At a special meeting of the stockhold
ers of the United States Steel Corpora
tion the resolution to pay 4 per
commission to the underwriters of
though there was a minority potest
Because his proposal to marry a 13
vear-old
rejected, William Austin killed the child
suicide near the town of Hastings, Fla.
remanded Gaynor and Greene to the
in charge in behalf of the American au
thorities.
The Toledo Grand Jury returned in
ers involved in the municipal scandal on
various charges of corrupton
Bishop William Taylor, of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church, died at Palo, Al
to, Cal., at the age of 81 vears
Judge Wellford, of Richmond, Va,
social club scheme of the
selling law by inserting a provision if
the charters forbidding the sale of lig
uors.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is reported
to have given notice to the Western Un
ion Telegraph Company to vacate its
occupancy on the railroad right of way
on the Pennsylvania system
Brotherhood of |]
in convention in
accepted an invitation to
OCOmoOuve
Nor foli
were checked in for work by the mine
boss. In addition these were boys
who acted as helpers and drivers, road
men and others to the number of per-
haps 50.
Fraterville mine is
the Coal
opened in 1870 ully three
from the mines opening to the pont
where the men were at work. They had
not been at long the
rible explosion occurred was a
fearful roar, and then flames shot from
the entrance and the air News
of the disaster spread like wildfire, but,
as soon as possible, two
ties were started in,
trance, the other
mine, which adjoins
men were at work
was unable to mak 3
as stifled the workers
The Fraterwi
miles und
of slate was
rier men
against hog
be safe
1
ine sCencs
to
the oldest mine in
Creek district
It 1s full
having been
miles
WOrs tore ter-
fescu
thr
thre
while the
beyond dscr
The hope
howev er,
Continuous
FOUR KILLED AND FOUR WOUNDED.
St. Louis Fiyer Collides With a Cattle Train
on the C B. & Q Railroad
Lincoln,
bound west, with 2
There is nothing to
sponsible for the two
same (rack
and no d
riously injured
cured by
pany, which |
Rapids at a cos
Pittsburg Reduction
plant will cos
the manufacture of alumin
being made at a similar plant owned
this company at Niagara
$s: r
f 9300.000 and
New Law in Sea Crimes.
Manila, (By Cable). ~The
States Philippine Commission has passed
an act conferring marine jurisdiction
upon the courts of first instance, which
permits these to punish crimes
committed at sea ihe military orders
and acts of the provost courts referring
to such crimes, previously in force, are
repealed by the act passed by the com-
mission.
United
courts
Earthquake in California
San Francisco, (Special). —~An earth-
quake shock, which was felt generally in
Northern California, occurred at 10.30
o'clock A. M. In this city and the im-
mediate vicinity windows were broken
and in some other places the shock was |
even sharper. Felano county reports the
most violent shock in 10 years. In Sui- |
sun clocks were stopped at 10.322 The
tremor was from northwest to south
cast and lasted about 20 seconds.
“Peace May Be Near. i
London, (By Cable) —No details have |
been received regarding the Boer delib- |
erations at Vereeniging, but the Daily |
Mail understands that peace is absolute- |
dy assured. The source from which the |
Daily Mal obtains this information is |
the same as that which enabled the pa- |
per to announce on April 18, that peace |
was assured. That was before anything |
had been said about meetings between
Lord Kitchener and the Boer leaders.
13 Drowned ln Killarney.
London, (By Cable) ~—Nine tourists,
including four women, and four boat. |
men, were drowned the upsetting of |
a boat on the lakes of Killarney, Coun-
ty Kerry, Ireland, during a squall. The
wreck of the boat in which they went |
sailing was found near the where
the Pennsylvania University t crew
won its victory last July. ree forpaes
were clinging to the sides of the t
when it was found. Four of the tour.
ists drowned were South Americans and
the other five were English,
:
Sydney and Junius Booth, nephews of
the late Dr. Joseph Adrian Booth, files
L
New York a
1
caveat » Docto
il G
mon in Chicago that
Hirsch said in
the Jewish
was dead, and urged the observan
Sunday
Gaynor and
charged with «
ernment, are at
guarded by det
Re
to be a great legal
Church in a1
committe
+ (yeneral Conference «
spiscopal Church South
: irginia (
upon
x
Maryland
agreed
3a
certae
ns to De
t
Morgan
ine agreement
¢ were celebrated
ch France for the
the Martinique disaster
Fifty robbers of
of St. Pierre
imprisonment. Investigation shows th;
the sea has encroached from ten feet
two miles on the coast of the Island of
St. Vincent and that a section the
north of the island has dropped into the
sea. Mont Pelee was again active Thurs.
day might and yesterday, and the people
in a number of districts are panic
stricken.
The third court of the King and Queen
victims
the dead in the ruin
been
have sentenced
fue
Oh
was a brilliant function, notwithstanding
the agitation in London society over the
conflicting orders of the King concern
mg the wearing of trams
By the tactics of the oppositon, the ces
sion of the Danish West Indies was
again delayed in the Danish Parliamen
A mob attacked the palace in
au Prince and was fired on by the pres.
idential guard.
Andrew Carnegie declared in London
that it was true he had offered the
United States $20.000000 for the inde-
pendence of the Filipinos
Scientists who have arrived on the Isl
and of St. Vincent predict another erup-
tion.
place on the island
new crater of Soufriere.
ernment will decide to abandon St. Vin-
cent Island and transfer the people now
there to other islands.
Financial
The New York subtreasury statement
shows that the banks have lost $370,000
during the week.
M. Felton, president of the Chicago
& Alton, has been elected a director of
the Louisiana & Missouri Railroad.
The National Lead Company has de-
clared regular quarterly dividend of 134
J cent, on preferred stocks payable
une 16,
directors have declared a quarterly divi.
dend of 114 per cent. on common stock.
This is an increase of 14 per cent.
SCORES KILLED BY
TEXAS TORNADO
Reported Killed.
Furious Winds — Scores of Houses Are
Blown Down --§
at Aestin Considerably Damaged.
from Goliad, Tex
in
says:
the afternoon a tornado struck
and desolation in iis pathway beyond the
power of pen to portray
There
killed
A correspondent reached the scene at
were rom 100 to 1850 persons
7 o'clock on a special train from Vic
tc brought doctors,
friends and rela-
which
medic
Tex,
ia,
nurses and nes
tives of Goliad people and the O'Connor
Guards
I'he view which met the eye on reach
¢
ing the scene of destruction, whi was
in the
pall
streets,
distance
western part of
Between
which run
of a
left stand
Very age
: Was
within these bound
done except
aries over a width of
250 yards
I'he tornado was preceded by
and a deep
anstorm
disaster
10r escape
pe,
in a i
has most su
tion, the
1
settiement,
tained many fine
CROWN PRINCE MAY VISIT AMERICA.
Likely to Represent Imperial Family at Up
veiling of Frederick Statee.
$100,000 Rassom
Demanded.
coin {ne hun
Latest Air Navigator.
By Cable
wn § Tr Cit mmyentions,
m y have mvented a navigable bal
with which he could cross the At
in 36 hours. He says that he has
solved the problem of aerial navigation,
and has also invented an overhead tor
pedo
ver
po
Miss Hansa to Wed in June
Ohio, (Special). — Miss
Mabel Hanna and Mr. Harry Parsons
will be married at Senator Hanna's
Lake-avenue home on Monday, June 16,
by Bishop Leonard. It more than
likely that Senator Hanna will not be
able to arrive until the day of the wed-
Cleveland,
is
same evening.
Crushed to Death
Philadelphia, Pa. (Special). ~Two men
ously injured at the Baldwin Locomotive
Works by the fall of an elevator con-
taining an engine tender weighing 5.400
| pounds. All of the men were employees
of the Boston Elevator
Boston, and were engaged in putting in
| a new hydraulic lift.
———
Locusts Takes Evansville.
Evansville, Ind, (Special) ~The 17-
year locusts, in myriad numbers, ap-
daa
at the margin of this city. Their track
| is marked by the disappearance of cvery-
| thing green.
aA
Hardwood Lumber Men
| St Louis, Mo., (Special) ~ Before ad-
| journment the convention of the Nation-
i
| al Hardwood Lumber Men's Association
| selected Indianapolis as the meeting place
| next year. A resolution was adopted re-
| citing the fact that all the national for-
| est reserves are in the West, and urging
| upon Congress the importance of estab.
lishing a national forest reserve in the
| hardwood region of the Southern Appa
| Jachian Mountains as a means of pre.
| serving these mountains, and prevent
ing the disastrous floods in that region.
LIVE NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS,
Locusts Arrive on Time.
Large numbers of 17-vear locusts have
| appeared in this city, and reports of sim
ilar visitations have reached: the Depart.
{ and Nashville, Tenn
The department sent 5,000 postal cards
throughout the country asking for im-
mediate reports on the first appearance
of the locusts. The experts have a full
| Indiana, with the adjoining counties
| their neighboring States,
{ affected by the pest.
| entomologists say that young
trees and young shoots ¢f mature trees
are all that will sustain injury from the
visitation of the locusts, und that there
15 no cause for alarm over their appear
ance. It is anticipated that the locusts
will be reported from other portions of
Penns Ivania and Tennesse and from
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Vir
ginia, West Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina. Kentucky, Ohio. Indi
ana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and
possibly a few other localities
Farmer Exodus Is Checked.
Nebraska,
beet
Ex-Senator
had
Manderson, of
who been attorney for
two
ompanies, was before the Senate
on Relations with
etails of the cut in sugar at }
points
the
rx se
He
had
the trust
ning beet-sugar
Was
for the pu
growing
b said thi previous
siation
bet n
beet sugar. bu
to Cul
i leg
¥
grow
a
Sid
* 120g
from be
ng
RY
f¢
ers ng
Ing ym th
Manitoba
sugar growing had ar
11038
On
are
States
Military Academy Bil
emmy ADT
Reply Postal Cards
5 a0 ted
week hear
rious plans
have been asked
First Migister to Cuba.
President
of Herbert
York
i minister plempotentiary
of Cuba,
onsin, ©
sent to the Senate the
Goldsmith
to be envoy extra
) oe
and Edward S$
Bragg yusul-general at
Havana
The Danish islands Protocol
In view of the action of the Danish
Rigsdag in setting aside the Danish West
Indies treaty question until after the elec-
jon in September, Secretary Haiy and
Mr. Brun, the Danish Minister here,
will at once prepare for submission to
allowed for the ratification of the treaty
Capital News in Gemeral
The Senate adopted the conference re-
port on the Omnibus Claims Bill. The
agreement eliminates the Selfridge
| Board claims, which was the principal
| item in dispute
Corporal Richard O'Brien, who served
lin the Philippines, made serious charges
against army officers of improper con-
duct toward Spanish women.
| viding that three of the warships are to
{be built in government shipyards.
{ Capt. Bertram S. Neumann, of the
| Marine Corps,
| from the service.
propriation Bill and the most important
| amendment to the hill, which was pre-
sented by Mr. Mudd, of Maryland, and
which was adopted, prohibiting the use
of Maclay's History of the Navy as a
text-book at the Naval Academy.
The United States Supreme Court
decided that a court-martial composed
entirely of officers of the regular army
had no right to try a volunteer officer.
The remains of Major General Rose:
crans were buried with military honors
in Atlington Cemetery under the direc.
tion of the Society of the Army of the
Cumberland. Addresses were made by
Speaker Henderson, who presided, Pres.
ident Roosevelt and others.
nominations of Herbert G. Squires to be
minister to Cuba, and Edward S. Bragg,
of Wisconsin, to be consul general at
Havana,
FRACTURE SKULLS
From Such
Injuries.
The Area Covered by Lava om St. Viscest
Island Aggregate Sixteen Square Miles An
Abyss Five Hundred Feet Deep and Twe
Hundred Feet Wide Now Filled With Lave
~The Earthquakes Not Geperal
Kingston, (By Cable)-~In the absence
of symptoms of further eruptions of the
volcano of Soufriere the inhabitants of
St
tied
Vincent are gradually becoming set
Most horrifying details of the condi
tion of the Carib country
of
in a state of decomposition for severa
days
Although the number of
where thou
sands cattle and human corpses ia}
during the agitation, are revealed
deaths in th
“ 3 3 yy 1
island due to tl Gisaster 1g estimated
he
judging from the missing inhabitan:
1. 1.268 bodies ha
at 2,000, up to date only
been buried
are probably covered
1
{ey
a small shop
three vs after the
i.
Gav
COTPAES Were discove
them
$1,000,000 Desi
u go>
Sabbath Decadence.
ne i
the area «
in many stat
Hunter Killed by 8 Bear
Roanoke,
som. a farmer, 23 years old
Bur-
fatally
injured by a goo-pound black bear iv
Va. (Special). John
was
Bland county. Burton, with a party of
some time, and started out in search of
the carniverous animal. When the bear
was found he was shot several times anc
Burton, in his eagerness t«
dispatch the brute, rushed too close, anc
before he could shoot again was bowlex
over by the bear's paw. His face wa
lacerated. both arms were broken anc
his stomach was gnawed in severa
places. Burton died = a few hours o)
his wounds
Prominent Mes Indicted
Kansas City, Mo, (Special) —A spe
B. Hawes, president of the St. Loui
Board of Police Commissioners; Con
Villiam Flynn, of St. Louis, and abow
of small Missouri towns and a Judge o!
county on a charge of gambling. The
specific charge, it is said, is that the de
fendants played ‘penny-ante’ poker,
Youthful Heroine
Miles City, Mon. (Special) —~Many
Peden, 18 years old, prevented what
might have proved a serious railway ac
cident six miles from this city. She saw
a bridge on fire on the Northern Pacific
Road, and knowing that a passenger
train was almost due, she rushed to the
stable, mounted a horse and gal
in a race against time to the station here.
She arvived " or Ky train came in
sight. not the agent, who held
the train four hours.
SS — ———————
BOY KING ON THE THRONE
A Crazy Man Causes Alarm Trylsg fo Reach
Him Procession Unique.
Madrid, (By Cable). —Alfonso XIII,
“King of Gibraltar, of the East and West
and of the Continent of Ocean-
Ca was made reigning sovereign of his
in Madrid of
One thousand people, includ
1
Indies
monarchy the Chamber
Deputies
i
ng all the members of the Cortes, the
and grandees of Spain, and the
entatives of foreign governments,
were present at the ceremony. The act of
sforming a boy who just reached his
sixteenth birthday into the respo
-uler of 18,000,000 people took |
minutes An
ish constitution was ad
Ung
and
rar
path to observe
en
Span istered
Ww ho
CYAnEe:s
pS
NO
monarch,
four
v
1
Was ove
the
1 LIOn
. i ' rt head ne
laced on the King's head, and
f authority were absent
as simple
pres ident of
Ne ceremony was
of a
After taking the oatl
iuguration
State
3, where
of the (;
Foto :
l'oledo, the Spanis
FIRE IN STOCK YARD
Twenty-Nige People Hurt, Five
Will Probably Die
of Whom
aged 1
week
Loss of German Steamer.
Aden, Arabia {
1 steamer
{ By Cable) .-
Ehrenfels, bel
of Bremen
r k yet
$3 ryt
id nord
latitude
degrees eas bound
i icutta. Part of the
been landed at this port. The
40 other persons who were
her left in small boats, and
since been heard of them
rom Ca
saptam
wm board of
sothing has
Famous Decorator Dead
Boston, (Special). ~The death
William
ator was known all over the eastern part
of the United States, occurred here.
Dropsy was the cause. Colonel Beals
was 86 vears of age. He did the decora-
tive work for William Henry Harrison
in his famous “Tippecanoe and Tyler,
Too,” campaign
ODDS AND ENDS OF THE NEWS.
The Naval Branch Building of the
Young Men's Christian Association was
dedicated in Brooklyn. Secretary of the
Navy Moody, Migs Helen Gould and
Admiral Dewey participated
Reed Smoot, an apostle of the Mor
mon Church, announced himself as a
candidate for the Senate, to succeed
Senator Rawlins,
A number of children were killed by
the collapse of a school building at Le-
rida, Spain.
Esther Dowie, daughter of the pro-
prietor of Zion, died in Chicago of burns
received at the Chicago University,
where she was a student. Her bair
caught fire from a gas jet.
A London newspaper now claims that
peace in South Africa has been assured,
mainly through the British generosity in
the matter of farm rebujlding.
An Englishman caused a sensational
scene among aristocratic spectators of a
circus in Madrid by flaying the Duke of
Arion with a loaded whip,
of Col.
Beals, whose fame as a decor-
: \
hy
'
i
Former President Sam, of Hayti, de-
nied the story that he had made Fide
00 within the past six years