— a ——— N—— nr a—————————— AN APPALLINGEXPLOSION GIANT POWDER MOWS DOWN PEOPLE BY THE SCORE, | A Frightful Catastrophe During a Fire in the Rallroad Yards at Butte, Montana—The Scene After the Accldent Looked Like a Dat. tlefield — Firemen Decimated. | During a fire in the Montana Central Rail. way yards at Butte, Mont savaral oars of powder caught fire and exploded with tre- ’ mendous foroe, killing a number of firemen and spectators and maiming many others, There were three separate explosions, the first two breaking nearly every window within a radius of two miles, T fire nt- tracted a large crowd, and hundreds wero standing near when the first explosion oc- curred, Mon and women were mowel down like grass before a sickle, but many were stunnal by the fores of the terrific explosion. Debris from cars and adjoining buildings was seat. tered high In the air for half a mile away, many of the flying articles striking people in the crowd. On the day after the tragyly it was tain that no less than sixty. and perhaps as many as 100, were killad. At least fifty wore injured, About fifty bodies wars recovered, Fifty more were then myjssing Many were 80 mangled as to bafMa ldentifieation, The dead, so far as identified, are. J. RB, Miller, attorney, Salmon City, Idaho ; J. D, Cameron, Fire Maishal ; Fifer, fire man ; Jack Sloan, flreman ; William MeGee, fireman ;: C. E. Tracey, Fred Krembace J. Enright, J. J. MeHale, Cousaqua, Mike Mead, W Walton, Jack Charles, Charles Gutteaburg, an employe of the Butte Hardware ny ; George G. Galbraith, Edward Sloan, roman ; Dave Moss, fireman ; John Fudge, volunteer fireman; Alexander W, Milan, volunteer fireman ; Charles Bowman, volun- teer fireman; Samusl Ash, Peter Norling, James O'Leary. Miles MaDonald, Willlam Pierce, Albert Goddard, George Halloway, Dan Hickey, C. W. English, Charles A W. H. Nolan, Paal Hanson, E George Wilson, Steve de Lot It was 9.55 p. ment was called Butte Hardware There was a rum in the buildings, 1 the firemen reached At 10.05, when started to work, sion. The pow blown up. Am salon were thr first shook t to the work, whi had not become pa assisted in remo i t and injured from the proximity of t Ten minutes later came a sion, almost equal volums spreading death among scores of eltizens arts of bodies were hurled hundreds of feet away. A man near Northern Pa- oifloc water tank narrowly escaped being struck by the leg and thigh of a human being. Five minutes lator there was a third ex- Flouica, but it was a mild one, and it is be- ft 1A ar George Com ha frat the first, the eved that very fow, if any, wero Injured by The scene alter the explosions resembled a battiefleld. The doad were strewn every where, and the ories and groans of the In- jared and dying were pitiful to hear. Muti- od bodies and limbs almost literally cov- ered the space between the Northern Paclflo and the Great Northern depots, a space of 800 feet, Houses in the vicinity were | at Augusta and elected William | vanin, was innagueated the usual ceremonies, | sonvention of | by the Democrats after a THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States, Josnva H. Manrviv, Republican, took the oath of ofMlos as Governor of Delaware at Dover in the presence of members of the General Assombly and others, Tur Maine Legislature met in joint session P. Fryn to the United States Sonate, to succeed hime | self, D. H. Hasrixas, of Pennayl- at Harrisburg with GovErxonr Ix joint convention tha Housa and Senate | at Boston formally declared Hou. George F. Hoar ro-sloected as United States Senator from Massachuietts, Tre election of Hon, William P United States Senator was ratified in a the Maine Legisiature Frye Joint nt Augusta, AT Conoor! the Senate and Houss met in joint session and formally declared William i Chandler United States Senator-siect from New Hampshire, Ex-Goveaxon Ronny E. Parris nominated for Mayor of Philadelphia, Penn, factional fig the convention, Tue tie-up on tha De Kalb aven Franklin avenue lines, Brooklyn, was elared off through the agency of Mavor Schieren and State Arbitration Commissioner Feeney, Lexa Axpensox, seventean years old, granddaughter of G, Washington Anderson, of Perrinesville, and a two-year-old girl, daughter of Mise Anderson's closest friend, Mrs. Stout P, Henderson, ware killed by suf toeation at Hightstown, N. J. Tux Tensment Houss in its report to the New York Legisinture, made twentv-one recommendations and said that New York's population per sore was the densest in the world, Trinity Ct h, ti owner of many tenements, was censured, Commission, South and West, Joax Hanns and his wife, if the famine-striocken districts o cut their throats in thelr found a dead new-born babe mother's side, vine ’ despair, Avrea being the Republican islators at Raleig! ard, of Madison Senator forthes sot ton Ris M At 1 a caucus, A Traix of! twenty-one cars filled food and clothing for the destitute peo Nebraska and Kansas left Atlanta, Ga AT Baltimore, Md., Mr, and Mrs. Thomas Whitrides were dashed to death while try- o a a ET TarTYIY TS pe to escape from a byrning ballding Ofna mal 67 the 7 ng corps gather I Eight Ware twonty-soven dead bodies 10 one place, ware in anothe Two and throe groups hare and Every vehlole in the olty was brought lato service to carry away the soores of dead and the hundreds of injured, Tha hospitals were filled, The spare rooms in the hotels wero taken, and private houses wore thrown open whare it Was Docossary, Aftor the first explosion many of the wounded wars compelisd by thelr belpiess- ness t0 le near sgone, and the greatly intensified thelr sufferings, begged to ba taken away, but thers wa means of conveying them from the that time, A Gackman drove and a od to assist in the rem 3 | sot the second explosion killed him and his horses and mo wounded, The sights andertaking oeta ments when ruling dawned were rending, Hero was half of a head wit mutilated tr ther p with i» Ww he at nA ana of recog: 3 wmroaly bodies were rocogulzable, complete roll of duad will probably 1 be known, Thero are twelve dead at Butter undertaking rooms, at ti Montana and nineteen at the Sherman Forty«three wounded are in the hospit and twenty-eight them are in a erit oondition. Protessor Robins, or Robinson, also known as ‘+1 Baar,” waa a tan hunter and friend of Theodore Roosevelt New York, He pent all § : mountains, and w naking 1 guide a party through apra portion of the Yellowstone Park, flags In the eo wore mast, A relie! meeting oalled was largely ationded, and appointed for the ooliection the rele! of the The people are respoadin and a sufficient 1ount to is already guaranteed, In addition to the lose of life tion of property ls great, burned include the warehouse Hardware Company, Parot Company and the Kenyon eantile Company, the works, old Hehllt and n flour ani fond Wat house, The contents wera eatirely de stroyed, The Northern Pacifle ireigbt depot was wrecked and six oars were burned, The fire is supposed to have been of in- eendiary origin, as there was no fire, so far as known, about the place, —— Sh ssi CASHIER KILLS HIMSELF. Isaac F. Abbott, of Dover, N, Was Short Eighty Thousand, Isaac F, Abbott, the defaulting cashier of the Dover (N. H.) National Bank, shot and killed himself in his home just before the arrival of United States Marshal Campbell, who had a garrant for his arrest. His brother hearathe snot and found him lying on the floor, with his fase shattered and coy- ered with blood, Life was extinet, During the morning Abbott had confessnad 10 a reporter. He sald he might have tide] over the examination of the bank at this time and covered up his stealings for an- other year, but the amount of his embenzie ment was getting so large that could not long be delayed, and he decided to ‘‘Inoe the music.” He declared that he had arranged the lock of the bank vault so that it couid not be opened, He decided to oall his children to him und inform them of his disgrues betore they could learn it from the newspapers, “l made up my mind to let them know what had happened,” he sald, “and then de. wolded whether I should go to the State's prison or the cemetery," Abbott had been enshier of the bank fo tor placed a brewing discovery | twonty yoars and was one of the most prom. Anoent residents of the city. Examiner Dori says the shortage will amount to more than | 150,000, The bank has suspended. J Ar Lincoln, Hon. Join M. Thurston was formally elected United States Seaator from Nebraska, Govenxon Pexxoren wall message to tt J Oregon at Balem, It was inau i vornor-eleet delly i an adds Lee Mastrz ! Holona, were o n prevails am Washington. 6 : darg Tre resignat AR Congressman - iald bettors the Mus, Haxsnne 3 ft North Da n of acute pneum Tue President sith, of New ugh of ugn, : «Tt CLEVELANI nos in oO Wore s Breaxen Crisp decided to take t'" rest by )! his doctors suffering from an affection of the mt tis heart, rder Forelgn, Tar resignation of the Dupuy Ministry was sent to President Cassim r-Perrior after a defeat in the French Chamber of D puties A vYouxa married woman name! Moore ns | | EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT. | An Elevated Railroad Engine and a Car Fall to the Ntreet, The most serious mecident in the Eistory of the elavated rallroad system of Brooklyn oc- ocurred when Engine No. 063, of the Kings | County Elevated, drawing a train of tour ears, orashed into a bumper at the end of a ‘pocket’ switch at Bnediker and Liberty avenues, One life was lost and another en- dangered by very serious injuries. An en- when it went down with a crash that smashed the granite pavement and made a noise that could be heard blooks away. While the engine was shooting down to the street Engloeer Fish Jumped or was dropped from it and he fell beneath the smoker, Jnumann, less fortunate, was pinned beneath the engine, For twenty minutes ho was kopt there, suffering inde- seribable agony, bruised, battered and sealded by steam, The Police and Fire Department wers sum- moned, and bolsfing jacks were procured from the raflroad yard, It took twenty minutes to lift the engine and remove the SE A FEET swrvrwrrw ne LEEW bee Se Se Sete Be eh TRETYITTTY TET . sss LS, i... I'HE BCENE AFTE RTI A AI Fo WA | M'MILLAN RE-ELECTED. He Succeeds Himself as Senator From Michigan Don Jar Canada, troit in 185 began n bas « } 1876 be was a of the Republi Btate Centra) Con » and on of Zachariah Chandler was made Chalrman., He was re-elocted in 1888, 1890 and 1892 and still holds the position. He was a Republi- oan Presidential ele in 1884 and was elooted to the Tz | Senate to suo- 1 Thomas Wet taking his poat March 4 ne he the « oon ELKINS THE CHOICE. fo Be United States West Virginia Senator From The joint Republican Jharleston non for United Bt ¢inia to su BE. Whitaker, of Wi leliberately loft hor house at Windeasr Falls, | Cannda, with her baby (an her walked into the River St, Franols, and ebild were immediately swept under the fee and drowned, arma and | Mother | A THREAT to use fire and dynamite to de | stroy the city was placaried in Colon, Pana- | ma. The local government feared and asked for troops a revolt A marrige has been fought between the | Italians and Abyssinians in Afrioa, in which several hundred of the Iatter were killed, Tur Italian troops won a second vitor over the Abyssinians, who were routed with groat slaughter, 8ravon Cerri, Attorney-General of Milan, Italy, was murdersd in his offlos by an An. archist, who was captured by the police, Tug indieations are that the Government exhibit at the Cotton States and Interna- tional Exposition, to be held at Atlanta, Gna. , will not bul} be excaptionally fine, but will require mach more floor space than was os- timated, . EE nt—— Tweue is a good deal of suffering in the Cherokee Strip, owing to the cold, Many bottlers have not clothes and food is scarce STEPHEX RB. ELKINE, he wns the backbone of the opposition to Elkins, there was practically no contest when the caucus waa held, The nomination is equivalent to elnetion, Tha Hon, Stephan B, Elkina was born in Perry County, Ohio, on September 26, 1841, He was Attorney-General and United States District-Attorney tor New Mexico, and amassed a fortune in mining and stock rafs- ing. He afterward became a most intimate friend of the late James G. Blaine, and was Secretary of War under President Harrison EE ———— I'ug British Government instruste! Ad. mil Feamantle, commanding fhe British ‘fleet in Chinese waters, to prevent, by force it hscmaty: the Japanese squsdron trem ascending t o Yang Teo-Kinag River, Consul Mason Keports on the Great Diphtheria Cure . i “ . Frank Mas SEWELL FOR SENATOR. Nominated by New Jersey Republi cans In « t the auncus Rog fe ise of in fthe H after a two hours’ session at General William J. Sewell United McPhor WAS Wot ate WILLIAM SEWELL, tion is equivalent to election, His opponent, Franklin Marphy receive | twenty-folr votes, General Sewell was born in Ireland io 1885. Ho served through the Civil War, and while in command of a company at Chance. lorsville he captured eight colors. Ho was wounded In the charge, and avain at Gettysburg, His promotion through every grade of the army was rapid, After his soc. ond wound he was placed on Governor Par- ker's staff, and made provisional comman- der of the State troops, In 1877 he commanded the troogs at Phillipsburg, and maintained order there witli disorder reigned just across the river in Easton, Penn. lis served in the Sate, Henate for nine years, representing Camden County. In 1881 he was elected United States Senator. He was Chairman of the New Jarsey delegation to the Republican Con. vention which nominated James G. Blaine for President, Heo is a close Iriend of President Harrison, Co ———— Paesiorxt Joux McBaior, of the Fedora fan of Labor, is suffering from canoer of the ongue, his dlesase being similar to Genera frant’s Iatal afMiotion, ALL FRANCE ASPOUNDED M. CABIMIR-PERIER RESIGNS THE PRESIDENCY, His Action Causes Consternation in Paris He Says He Is Unable to Bolve the New Problems Before Him--Sketch of the Successor of the Martyred Carnot. Casimir-Perfer, President of the lepublie, has rosigned office, Freneh During the evening before this move: he conferred at the Benate, M, Paris with the President of Challemel-Lacour, and then summoned M. Guerin, Minister of Justice ; M. Leyques, Minister of Pablie Instru M, Polucarre, Minister of Finance, ar Prefect of the Belo, ‘tion i uimost « persuade his Pres and Yoo Al rs ¢ » Minister! Dupuy mel-Lasour and exha y induce M., Cast Sami {ecision, the E teed distress quitted Uaoe ithe memb aw that in ease of a President, through nal Assembly oot a new Presi vas wi forth. n the inter wl with Assembly being r n he Deputies issued a manifesto not believe that Casimir.P added Borialis to obtain him hy the of his weakness for the § against 1 He porls account is a victory ; 10 struggie instr nts rorruption of the He was Presid | tt en tren chief Career of Casimir-Perier, Jean Paul Pierre C ir-Perier was born in Paris on November 8, 1847. He ia the son of Auguste Casimir-Perier, who was Min. ister of the Iiterior in 1871, and grandson of M, Castmir-Perior, the leader of tha Op- position on the accession of Louis Philippe, and afterward Premier, After a brilliant career as a student he sorved in the Moblles during the Franco- sin German War, was mentioned for his gale | lantry in an order of the day, and received the cross of the Legion of Honor, When his father joined the first Republican Cabinet of M. Thiers he became chet cabinet at the Minwstry of the Interior. 1874 he entered Parliament as Norgent-sur-Seine, self ry the staunchness of his Republioan ism, and in 1877 was one of the 563 Deputies who refused a vote of confidence to the Brogh Ministry, In 1878 he beoame Undersecretary for Pablie Instruction, and retained the post in two Ministries, In 1883 he was appointed Under-Secretary for War, Having acted several times as Vice-President of the Chamber, he was slected President at the beginning of 1800, Ia December, 1808, he became Premier, supported by a very strong Oabinet, His tenure of office was marked by great firmness in dealing with the Anare ohsts, When the nstassination of the late Presi. dent Carnot startled France and the world it was felt that the situation ealled for a strong man of unusual firmness and energy, and all eyes were turned to Casimir-Perier, The election of the new President of the French Republic was made, according to the Constitution, br the National Assembly at Versailles, on June 27 last, when M. Casi imir-Peeior was alastad on a first ballot by 481 votes out of a total of 858 recorded. EE ——— For failure to produce vaseination osrtifl. oates 2017 ehildrin havs boon dismisgsd from the public schools of Philatelphia, In | In her own hand | temptation | nud the inventor of tied in Tonsberg, | joint legislative session du : member for | He distinguished him. | PROMINENT PEOPLE. Bexaron Coxe, of Texas, wil #1x yoars old when he retires in March, Kina he six'y- Humeenr, of Italy, is r pend more In charity than ans arch norted 1 porte] ) other mon ALEXANDER PUusngix the posts of Kassin riean ranks nigh His father was Dunixo a recent hunt at Cas Italy, King Humbert killed sey bonrs, Tur Empress splendid Bible Church in Paris, of to Germany the Ans Gorman On the fiy-len “Pray, lost 3 Bwexp Foy, known ! whale ostching on a large sos the Norway aged eighty-five Loup Rosgsery, the great student of the Bi which be made a short time the soven times and Aristotle once Jible Iris said has received slow ln his thinks of cons over his propos that the hints CHT Be Goverxor Fuaxg Bs y ne years tises in kind represents Lit wiobrated | “ria at ing lit ar better know pan AS many as los have boo market in Ba FU Was tato ¢ bs in poor ten tore unis WOLCOTT RETURNED. United States From Colorado Re-elected Senator and Senate me at D Wolcott 1 the The Colorado House t saver and res the Uni nom Edwarl © Statos Senate, elected Late Pence be 3 ‘WR “ EDWARD ©, wWOoLOOTYT the Populist party, received a compliment. Ary vote irom the members of that party in the Assembly, Charlies 8. Taomuas also res ceived a complimentary vote, The vote was wd follows: Wolcott, 57; Pence, 80, Thomas, 8,
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