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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-3-5, Page 2Al1111 D1SASER. Terrific Explosion of Fire Damp in a Nova Scotia, Mine, OE @ENURED AND SEVENTEEN DEAD. Catastrophe Unparalleled in Canadian Mining Ands, A Eletlifax, N. S,, clespetch sees : The details at bend from the terrible °eternity that happened at the Springhill colliery on Esturday show that it was the most dis• asttous as regards loss of life that ever 'happened in the hietory of Canadian mines, in faot, on the Continent of Anaerioa, with the exception of the exploeion at Boottada1e P recently. The death roll foots up to 117, and of the viotinas 51 were married men and 57 single men and boy; 151 fatherless children are left. By the pit explosion about ten years ego 53 Eves were asorifioeci, and by Om Drummond pit disaster twelve yams ago 64 lives were hest. The explosion on Sturdy occurred shortly after the men went to work from taking their dinner. It came so suddenly and without warning that few of the men in the section or the eastern slope, where the dienteter occurred, escaped, although eome of the workmen in the vioinity were able to get out. Over 1,000 men were at work at the time, but thins in the other elopes amity made their exit. The force of the explosion rent asunder the timbere supporting the roof of the eastern slope and zellowed it to fall. The collosal weight crushed the boxes and !MUTILATED BIEN AND HORSES in one elope most horribly. Some of the bodies were ao badly torn to pieces thst they had to be gsthered up in bags and thus conveyed to the surface. They were, of course, unrecognizable. The men in the other elope e died from suffocation by after-darap, and when found looked as peaceful in the fsoe as though only sleep. trig, though their clenched hands and twisted limbs showed that the poor men bad met death in convulsions. The mine bud been inspected on Friday by a Government ofEoiel and a few days previously by a +committee of workmen and pronounced perfectly safe. Among the dead is Manager Swift, but his body will not be recovered till some of the debris is cleared away. -Some moat miraculous escapes are re- borded. A. trapper boy named Feeds was sitting at his door when he saw a flash of ame ooming. He dodged under his seat and placed his hands over leis face. His hands and ears were burned and the doors blown on top of him. He was stunned, but got up and ran away and thus escaped suffocation. When a boy named Beeton heard the explosion he rushed sway to the plebs where he knew his brother was working and moceeded in carrying the latter out, although he was unconscious and badly wounded. As may easily be under. etood, the appalling character of the affair bas completely ' DAZED TILE INHABITANTS of Springhill. Thousands have been flock- ing to the scene all day from the surround- ing country, many beam:tee of curiosity and others to lend assietance to the grief. stricken widows and orphans and other stunned and bereaved ones. This afternoon it was a gruesome sight to Bee forty bodies and pieces suffioient to make up a score more lying in a row, while around them were moaning frantic women and weeping men searching for husband, brother or son. Special trsine conveyed a score of daators from the outlying towns to look after the wounded, who number about 50, some of whom are fetidly injured, but the majority will recover. The enormity of the deprivation at this time of the year of ao many bread-winnere can only be met by prompt and extensive aid, and an appeal has been issued to the generous ph- lio of the Canadian and American people. The damoge to property at the work is not great outside the eastern slope, and it will be possible to resume work in a few weeks. The volunteers to enter the mine to search for victims were many and prompt, and their bre.yery in enterittietweele mine so soon after the dieastertstectud tit;ed is much praised. Chief Managed,. cotgant „d other offloials and bOBSeS Ott resoui party. w - mine led the awie . of shout fifty of the dead , . frdie men showed ttiet they were not killed by the force of the explosion, but were overcome by, and succumbed to, the deadly fire -damp while trying to escape. BEREAVED retimins. In several families the affliction is very great. Reid Carter and his two sons, Win Isrd and Clarence, are all dead. Of the Ger- michsel family three sons, John, Andrew and 'Milian', are dead. Jeeae Arlieherw went down No. 2 slope yesterday and found his three sons Jesse and Herbert and John 33ainbridge, an adopted son, all lying to. gather. The sight eiokened and unnerved him so that he had to return to the surface without them, frantic with grief. The two sons of Robert McVey, both under 14 years, are laid out side by side. Hugh Bunt lost two boys, Andrew and Alex- ander. These sorrowful honseholders are only a few of the large number from whom the breaddvinners have been snatched. To -day one meets everywhere women and children weeping piteously. The deepest gloom , has settled over the whole corn- monnity, Up to midnight 96 bodies have been taken out, and the searching parties. are still at work. There will be a pnblio funeral on Tuesday. THE PROBABLE CAUSE. The explosion, Mr. Gilpin seys, did very little damage to the property in No. 2 elope, having extended but a ehort distance be. yond the tunnel, and all the deaths in that slope are •from suffooation by sfternlemp. This is made up of air that has been robbed of oxygen, and is composed of carbonic mid Tesultirig from the combustion of the fire. damp and coal dust. The explosion may bane been censed by an outbreak of gas which had taken place while the men were 'taking their dinner a short time previously. Fire -damp exsotly the same kind of gas as that distilled from coal for illuminating purposes. In this instance the death of the men is attributed to it. A. Spring Hill, N. S., despatch save: • The work of reoovering bodies at Spring • Flill mines was oerried on throughout the might moat succiesefully. A revision of the Eat this morning shows the number of deed is 119. Of them 54 were naarried men, 40 single men mad 25 boys, Ninetystevert bellies have been recovered. This loaves 22 Witte to be taken out. THE ALOW,UP SHOT, Thiel Mokning Cameral Manager Gowans, Inepector Gilpin and Assistant Manager 1110Innee went down No. I slop and made an eatominatioit of the bord in whiten the • blow-np shcit wag auppoeed to have been *be Sum of the disaster. They (tench:tiled there Wag no ground Whatever for the • theory that the explogitin Wee due to that ause. The esidenee was evedwiJelmindlY against thia. The shot was all right and there was a good fell of coal. This was in No. 3 bord, No, 7 balance. A. mettellrentend showet that everything in conneation with the shot was perfect. It wee in this born that the body of ShOt•Ffrer Tam Wild= was fOUna. SCENE OP Din et:mowed Xhe meaning parte e meee with some fearfut sights m their search for the dead, The scene ef the explosion is three gearters of a mile trona the bottom of No. 1 slope. The men in all the bords in that distriot were killed. Corpse were strewn thionly. Two brothera named MoVey were looked SO tightly in eseh other's arms that they were taken out and conveyed to their homes in their enalterace of death, In No. 2 elope the dead layin all directions. Twenty bodies were picked up within a distance of 800 feet. All these men had been overtaken by the deadly afterelarap while running away and succumbed. None of these bodies were burned. Two men had clasped hands end run until the damp overtook them, when they fell on thezr fame and died with their hands AM united. Thus they were found. Three bodies were found one on top of the other. They heti fallen over a pile of coal in rotation in their flight. A. boy was found leaning againet a rib, and three others were found standing, They had all evidently been in flight when death overtook them. Two men were carrying out a body when they heard portions of the "roof falling. They dropped the body, fled and escaped. When they went back so much coal had fallen thet it will require several days to reoover the corpses. One victim had run to within twenty feet of safety. One man had his dinner can strapped to his back, so he must have been on his way for home. His comradea say in five minutes more he would have been out of danger. THE RELIEP FUND, Thiel appeal is being sent broadcast to. night and. the necessity for prompt re- sponse is great. The first subscription to the relief fund was telegraphed from J. W. Glendenning, President of the Acsdenaila Cosi Company, New York. It amounts to 000. Thia morning subscriptions to the relief fund are flowing in. he first to be re- ceived was one of $500 from A. R. Dickey. This was followed by the same amount from Piokford & Blair, of Halifax. Other smeller amounts have been eubscribed. A. telegram from Moncton announces that a meeting of citizens will be held there to- night to appoint a committee for the pur- pose of soliciting aid. Expressions of sympathy are pouring in from all quarters, but relief is urgently needed to relieve extreme cams of distrees. THE INQUEST. The inquest opened this evening with Dr. C. A. Blaok, of Amherst, as coroner, Dr. Cove, the resident coroner, being diequali• fled owing to his official position as colliery dootor. The jury as soon as sworn in viewed the remains and inspected the por- tion of the pit where the accident happened. On returning from the pit at 10 o'o/ook they at once proceeded to take evidence. Msloolm Blue, one of the miners, was the first witness. They will continue in see• sion nearly all night. A number of wit. nessee are to be examined to -night and to- morrow. The coroner. Dr. Black, has then to leave for Amherst to attend to profeasional work. Maloolna Blue related his experiences on the day of the explosion. He thought the explosion took Owe between Noe. 2 and 4 bowls on No. 7 balance, but did not care to express an opinion as to the cause At 11 o'clock the coroneradjournleentet; inquest till to -morrow morning ate -0+0+0100u NOTES. ,— Preparations for the, 'nrial of. the dead are now being iln&dX A oar load of coffins mherst last night and doted to .day. Christie' arrived from more are exp fsotory is fully employed turning out the required nu afternoon. A large ployed di All Th the Der. The funeral begins this gang of men are now busily em. gging graves in the cemetery. e flags in the town are at half-mast. e two bands of the town have had e numbers thinned by the diasster, ey will attend the funerals of their mern• ers and the public funeral of strangers to.morrow. Arrangements are now being need° to put the pits in condition to resume work either Wednesday or Thursday. It should be stated that safety lamps were need exclusively on No. 7 belance, and that naked lamps were used en No. 6. The cause of the explosion will not be definitely known till the 1900,foot level is cleared up toonorrow. A. sad case happened this afternoon. Oliver Dupe, a broken-hearted French- man, was conveying home the body of his son, when his little boy ran out to meat him, &lipped on the ice, fell on his head and was killed instantly. At midnight Sunday the number of dead taken one of the pits is 92. over twenty bodies are yet to be recovered, including that of Manager Swift, who has not been found. He left the pit bottom shortly be. fore the explosion, and wentita the direction of the fatal slope. A meeting was held to -night and com- mittees appointed to attend the Intrial of the dead. A public funeral will be likely to take place Tuesday afternoon. A committee is in charge at the cemetery provided with lints of dead numbered and as soon as grimes are ready word is sent to the other committee with headquarters at the Methodist Church and the body is at once sent down. The ministers at the church hold a short service and then one minister accompanies the body to the cemetery. Bodies are being teken down on sleds whenever the graves are prepared. The Susquehanna Rising. A Williamsport, Pa., despatch says : Everything now indiostes a flood of not tem than 26 feet in the dusignehanna River. The river rose about a foot per hour this fore- noon, and at 2 p. m. was In feet and steadily rising. Advices from points up the river are that it is still raining and all the streams are hien Lune. bernaen ate very messy, and many merchants have conamemed to nitrVe goods from the lower eateries. A. 126.foot flood will bring the water up to the Court Houck) square. A flood is reported on the head waters of Pine Clreek, at Geleton. On that oreek a boom broke, letting nearly 10,000,- 000 feet of logs escape. Lsteet advices feona Clearfield state the* the water is with. in four feet of the height reached two years ago. Boetottians •Me getting tired of taking sitting drinks as they have to do under the present law. They want to tand before the bar, as it eaves time, ond incidentally money, becsnee they take their drink and got wherem if they it down at a table a Mend rosy drop in, and that will mean two or more drinks helot° the sitting is ended. A rednetibn of twenty ciente a dozen has been made in the wages of fereele knitters in the Kingston • hosiery mill. FOurieen acoepted the reduction and four went out, SWEPT HY THE rLoos. Four T1iousa0d People i)rivea From .gorae by the Bisiug Water. A Virginia Town's Demotatble Condition --dohnstownewientwain at the Nervy or the Flood, A dohnstown, dispatch says The foundstions of many homes have beim un- der -mined by the flood entailing heavy lose. The bortee of a victim of the great flood were washed up by the waters yesterday. Street oars are mining again, and it is ex' peoted the Cambria Iron Werke will resume operetione to -day, The most serious lose is the &atria -ion of bridges, as the tiff. ferent eeotions of the oity out have no doin- neftelineition by waggons or trains for months, The people living below thie city are still in great distreem while farming oommunitiee are heavy loser, A. Wheeling despetoh says : The Ohio River rose Isere ell day yesterday. The damage has been very great. Much Duffer. ing will reeult, as a large ales of the city is under water. The whole of Wheeling Island, the 7th ward, is flooded, and last night most of its 4,000 inhabitant e Slept on high ground in the main part of the city. In South Wheeling hundreds of homes of working people employed in milli+ and fee- tories ere under water, and. in the businesa oentre many of the whole- sale houses are flooded. The poet office and custom house is pertly war - rounded and the basement filled with water. Bneinees is almost entirely sus- pended. No traine are arriving owdepart. ing. The depots etre under wattrAtepol the railroad yards blockeded, the engine's -inn Isere standing in water over their whale. The Stamm and Windsor hotels have water in their first limn. It is not thought there will be a further rise of more than a foot, which will put the water a little above the 45 foot ethos. Reports from glees and pottery districts along the river show heavy losses are eustained by the flooding of factories. WAR 'EXPERT AL PARLIAMENT. A Close Vote on the weisestamishntent Question—The Newfoundland Question Again Discussed. A London cable says: Baron Henry de Worms, Political Secretary of the Colonial Office, in the House of Commons, in answer to a question upon Newfoundland :natters, said that the Government of Newroundland had protested against the face thaw the convention between Newfoundland -tend the United Statee had not been sanotioned by the Imperial Gevernment. Barbet de Worms added that the documenteteediating to the French modus vivendi and the Washington convention negotiations would be laid before the House before the voteeon the colonial estimates was taken, so as tic, enable the House to dismiss belly the Home Governnaent's action in the matter. . In the House of Commons this evening Morgan's resolution in favor of disestab. liehment of the church in Wales was rejected by 235 to 203. The close vote was greeted with loud Opposition cheers. Mr. Gladstone made a speech in favor of disestablishment. His argument, that an enormous majority of the Welsh were out- side the pale of the church, and that the opinion of the people expressed iu a con- stitutional manner demanded an equitable settlement, met with the heartiest response from his followers. A.NOTHER 8jlijED. _ , Tfit.aPennsylvania Company, Pr Resist Employees' Demand A Pittsburg despetch says • The Pennsylvania company which operates the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chimp ; Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis; Cleveland and Pittsburg, and the other leased lines of Pennsylvania west of Pitts- burg, have refused the demands of 3,000 conduotose, brakesmen, engineers, firemen and baggagemastera. The advance demanded would amount to e558,636 per year. This amount, capitalized at 3/ per cent., represents over e19,000,000 or more than enough to double.traok the north-west and south-west systems between Pittsburg and their western and southern termini, or almost enough to build and equip a com- peting line betweon Pittabarg and Chicago. The shareholders of the Pennsylvania °pm pany have had no dividend on their invest- ment in eight years. The Pitteburg, Cin- cinnati, Columbus, and St. Louis Railway Company have never had a dividend. The demands meat therefore be edema. HARD ON PARNELL. The Bishop a Dromore Issues a Letter to his Diocesan clergy. A London cable says: The Bishop of Dromore has sent a letter to the clergy of his diocese, in which he weans the faithful not to attend Mr. Pernell's meeting in Newry. He Bays he hopes the poisoned atmosphere of the divorce court, and the filthy, disgusting, and scandalous detailof the O'Shea case have not reached his diocese. The proposed meeting, he declares, will be a wanton insult to religion, to the bishop, and to the priests, and e laudation of a hemehoureed crime. "Let God arise," he says, " and His enemies will be confounded. Forbeerame has emoureged this inquity. Let the brave men and true, who love godlinese and bate adultery, use lawful meane to save the honor and good fame of their mothers, wives, and sisters, by resenting the daring aggression of those attempting to prostitute the cotutery to aggrandize an individual and hide their own filthy concluot." it BORRIBLE DEED. -- A Bank President Chokes filo 151/ife to Death. A Clark despatch says: Samuel Cowles, President of, tbe Pacific+ Bank and one of the °Meet citizens, was arrested yesterday, charged with having murdered his wife on Feb. 4. Mrs. Cowles wee choked to death in herbed chamber. The alleged motive is 55,000 life insursooe, which the bueleand took ont on his wife in the Ametican Legion of Honor. The Strike in the Coke Regton. A Pittsburg deepatoh eayil : With the ,second week of the great strike in the Connelleville ooke region abotrk closing, here is no (Agri of a settlement of the dim - °pities. Intelligence having been reeeived that Operators in competing fields of ^West Virginia and this State have been filling ordera originally placed in Connelleville, the vrorkmen in those fields will be ordered 10 • strike unless their employers desist forthwith. This would involve 14,000 more men airectly, and eterionely affect the iron trade. The strikere have refused the request of Operator Moran to resume work under the old mile pending a settlement of the present diffieulty. The Emperor of Austria has sent the German Empeees a dian1ond set which cost $1e,000 ae a gift at celebration of her infitnt'a chrlitening. THE LAST OF TECUMSEH. Gorgeous Military Funeral of Cfeneral Shermom. New Torit. in Pliourniiiir—leloral Tributes wrom West Point, A New Yozie despaton eats : New Yorkie paying every poesible tribute of reepeot to the memory of Gen. Shermae. The dawn of bia futierai day opened bright end clear. Its light fell on thousande of the national flags floating itt half-mast from public) and private buildings alike. The courts re- mained °Weed and the exchanges closed at noon. General Outliners wag brought almost to a standetill, One hundred pelleemen under ociramand of Inspector Steere and Capt. Berghold, guarded the block in 71st street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, in which the Sherman house is sitoeted, from the intrusion of ell excepting aloes especially invited to the house. No others were permitted to enter the block. A mother of -wreaths of flowers were reoeived at the house this morning from intimate friend e of the Sherman family. Among them was one large wreath of pink and white roses resting on a baokground of evergreens, Bent by Mu. Andrew J. Carnegie. A. few minutebefore 11 o'olook a large floral shield was received at the home from West Point cadeta. The shield was six feet in height and four feet broad. It was made of white and blue immortelles and bore the insoriptioia, " Williani Tecumseh Sher- ixiam, from hie Westpoint boys' oleos of 1840." At the top of the ehield was the American Bergh+ worked in blue immortelles and at the bottom a sword and soabbard in the same flowers. The hese of the shield was made of white calla, billies. About 12 25 the caisson draped in black and drawn by four horses was drawn up in front of the Sherman House. The horses were mounted by regulars and an army officer was in charge. At the caisson Was an orderiy leading the black charger which bore the military trappings of the general. A black velvet covering almost hid the horse from view, but the boots and saddle were pleinly conspicuous. The services were over at 12,30. The prayera were read by Rev. Father Sherman, In the front parlor were all of the members of the family. Secretary Blaine and wife and Mrs. Demme& were present in another room. Father Sherman was etesisted by Rev. Father Taylor and two other priests. EDITORS GO A -GUNNING. Deadly Street Fight Between Columbus Newspaper Men. A Columbus, 0., despatch says: A horrible tragedy occurred on High street at 1.30 p. m. to•day, in which twelve or fifteen shots were fired. It resulted from newspaper srtiolee in the Sunday papers. W. J. Elliott, of the Sunaay Capital, and A. C. Osborn, of the Sunday World, are understood to have done most ot the shoot. ing. A bystander named Hughes was shot and is reported dying, and P. J. Elliott, brother of W. J. Elliott, was hit. The street was crowded with people incident to a parade, and the jam for equates is so great that paetioulare (=not be secured. A number of people are reported slightly wounded. Elliott is under arrest and is said to have escaped injury. The trouble grew out of an exobange of articles of a eansetional character in Which the -wee; slandered each other and their farpalfes. Osborn war^ shot through tewe'heart and didenit- "died:" d'iddieldidletts are under arrest, and threats are openly madeagainat W. J. Elliott. His brother, who is the Columbus agent of the Free Employment Bureau of the State, was shot in one errn and the back. The stories of the shooting are conflicting. W. 3. Elliott claims that Osborn fired the shot which killed Efughea. P. 0. Sullivan, a bystander, was shot in the arm. Two ar three othere received slight wounds. A BONNE IN ORIIRCEL Strange Conduct of a Clergyman at a Communion. A London cable sets : At Newton Abbot, Devonshire, to -day, Rev. Dr. Pope was fined £2 for brawling in church. Dr. Pope attended a religioue service on Sun- day, and while the communion was being administered walked np to the officiating clergyman, wrested the chalice from big hands, and drank the wine, while standing near the altar rail. Dr. Pope then returned she empty chalice to the clergyman, re. raerking in a voice heard all over the church, "You're no Chtiatian. You aro unfit to administer the Communion." 13y this time Dr. Pope was greatly excited. He stood gesticulating near the altar during the rest of the service. The court to -day was crowded with clergymen and others. Amid considerable excitement Dr. Pope at first said he was sot guilty, and afterwards pleaded guilty and apologized for bis con- duct in the church. Dr. Pope's lawyer said his client's mind had became wanalanced, and it would not be just to be too severe upon him. AS GOOD AS GOTTA -Pitifte, .An East Indian Gum That Closely Resem- bles Crude Rubber. A Portuguese scientiat, Senhor na Coeds, is reported to have diecovereder excellent and abundant subetitute for etspercha in tbe solidified flaid which iesnee from the nivonoantena, a tree that grows wild in the Conoan thetrict of tbe Bombay Presidency, India, where it is generally planted for hedges. The gum is said to be insoluble in water, softening under heat and hardening in cold. When moulded the gum retsina the given shape, can be cast into thin sheeta, and is capable of taking the minutest iropreasions on fie surface. When it flows from the treeAbe gum is white, but when dried it has a chocolate color, olosely resembling gutta-percha. The Chilian Fuss. , A. dispatch, received from Valparaiso says a Government steamer has arrived there from Arica, where she landed troope. The steamer was pursued by the rebel Wilts Huesca and Eocelada, and had a narrow escape. The thettrgente heve sap. 'Lured the steamer Cosine,. Three regiments have been sent to protect Tacna. The Government are sending fresh troops to re. oepture Pisegue. The latest news from the rebel equadron 11 that the insurgents' Vessels are scattered along the coast, but Valperedeo is not in a atate of blockade. The young Imam wbo sent a inannsceipt to a NeW York newspaper office, where it got lost, ought to lia*e kept a copy. On suing for the Velem of the mentmoript the judge ronsuffed hitn on the ground that neaspeipers ale not to be considered the etietodiame of all the effnelone sett to them for publieetion. Thdjudge ehoweti wise disortneination in tatting tiro% a aerie from the jury. Lea presses the butter. Society tithes the Vett. A BROOKLYN 43101.001IU8An -ewe Si* Persons /nickeled to Death in an Apart. motet House Etre, Brootilyn, N. Ye deopetoh says: A. fire broke out here jest before 8 °leech:de on Saturdey night in the fourodory double ilet house, Nos. 129 and 13i Simile street. &fere it was extieguisheet it resulted in the alencet total deatruotion of the two buildings, and in the death of six persons. In the two buildiugu were 32 fanulies. The fire was fine discovered in the cellar of No. 129, and before the department arrived the flames found a foothold in the air shafts and were comiog through the roof. All escape for the inmates was out off by the antireeme, and the entire front, on which were eight fire escapes, was thronged with the inmates, who were rescued by the policemen se rapidly as possible. On the third floor lived John E. Dorney, his wife Margaret, and three children and their aunt, Mrs. Margaret Griffin, They oll rushed for the roof when they found eace.pe by the Rialto out all. The flames caught the dress of elm. Griffin and she was quickly burned to death. Soon afterwards Mrs, Margaret Dorney, aged 35; Daniel Dorney, 8 Nemo, and Minnie Dorney, 6 years, were burned to death, Jacob Benediot, 72 years of age, and Edward Benediet, a seventeen months' old child, were also burned to death. Mr. Dorney and one child were rescued. The fire is supposed to be ot an inoendiery origin. The loss is eetimitted t e10,000. THE CONFESSION OF FAITH. •••••••••• The United States Presbyterian General Assembly Make Important changes. A Washington despatch says The com- mittee of the General Assembly cf the Pres. byterian Church of the United States on the revision of the confession of faith, after a very harmonious session last- ing eleven days, completed its work and adjourned last night. The ohengee made have generally met with unaniznotte approval. The report will be presented to the assembly in Detroit next May and by it referred to the Preebyteries for adoption or rejection. The changes made in the state- ments of tbe conteesion have been of great importance, but have in no way impaired the integrity of the system of doctrine so long held by the Church. A VICTORY FOR STRIKERS. Grand Duke Alexis Degrades and DU - misses a Russian Admiral. A St. Petersburg despatch says: Admiral Virkofeki, who was recently assealted by strikers in the admiralty shop building dockyard, on SCOOnnt of his alleged tyranny, was summoned before Grand Duke Alexis, the high admiral of the fleet, to explain his actions. The Grand Duke was diesatiefied with tba Admiral's ex planation and dismissed him from the poet of command and of the Port of St. Peters- burg and transferred him to Vladivostook. The Grand Duke also ordered that the demands of the strikers be eatiefied. TI3lIRTEEN SAILORS PERISH. Terrible Disaster to the Elizabeth Exter- ing San Francisco Harbor./ A San Francisco despetoh sap) /: While entering the harbor last night Vete Ameri- can ship Elizabetinwene on the beach at North Heeds. Two dove boats were sent to her assistanew but could do nothing and bad to leatto her. Tint ship bad 30 men op, ledard, the captain, two mates etteeethe cook, and sixteen sailors, also the 'captain's wife and two children. Three sailors, the captain's wife and children got off in a small boat. The boat capsized, but the occupants were rescued. It is thought the rest of tl it,j+10%, s,)1 I) ned JUMPED THE TRACK. The Fireman and Two Passengers Killed and Several Hurt. A Charlotte N.C., despetali says : A mixed passenger and freight train on the Chester & Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad jumped the traok on the trestle two miles aouth of Newton yesterday afternoon. The killed were: J. Hoag, fireman; 11. M. Morrow and W.W. Ross. Those seriously injured were: Frank Coulter, C. C. Dunlap, conduator ; M. Johnston and Rev. J. M. Little. Better than Hoch's A Berlin cable says : Professor Lie- breieh's remedy for tuberculosis ie desoribed as a salt which is one of the strongest of poisons, but it is injected only in such minute doses and with such pre. cautions that it is quite harmlees, causing neither fever nor any other inconvenience. It is said to be efficacious not merely against laryngeal tuberculoaie but etgainst tuberouloais in general, end has already been applied against Inmes as well aa laryngeal phthisie. Prof. Liebreich recently stated privately that in his statement to- morrow in the Berlin Medical Society he intends to state ell that he knows of the matter, and the doctors infer from this that his remedy is some compound that is gen- erally known and which may be easily pre• pared without the special training necessary for the preparation of Kooh's tuberotiline. "Carrotty Nell's" Slayer. .A. London cable says: At the coroner's inquest today a etatercent by Sadler, charged with murdering "Carrotty Noll" in the Whiteohapel distriot, was read. It gave a coherent account of his doings be- tween the time of bis leaving the women in a lodginghonee and the time of his arrest. As far as hie drunken condition that night permits him to recollect, at the moment of the murder he was going to hospital to get hie wounds dressed that he bad received in the row at the daces. Ile denies selling a knife on the day following the murder. A. seaman identified Sadler se the man who came to the Sailors' Horne on the morning the crime was committed, and Bold him a big -bladed elasp knife, saying he had out many a model with the Mire. " Duladonachle" Insane. A London cable says : A sensation was °mused in Edinburg by the committal to an insane asylum of a noted Scotch band - lord named Alexander Robertson. Robert • eon, who is poptilerly known 00 -5! the name of "Dundee:auntie," committed an apparently unprovoked sesault upon Lord reesident of the Court of Sessions. Robertson struck Lord leglie over the head with a stick on Prinoesa street, inflicting, however, only slight injury. The lattd agitator was promptly arrested, and it wee obvione he was of unsound toind. He wits sent to an asylum by the magistrate before he was taken before the omart. An Atchieon women is getting a good deal of advertising because she succeeded in making a two -pound loaf of bread out of a pound of flour. If all the Atobielon women make their bread as heavy as thse it is no Wonder that the men are eodyspep. tic that they are always quarreling %bent something. Miss Zoe Gayton, the young lady who is walking from Earn Francisco to New York, reached 131. Thatmse /est evening, where' she remained all night. She heft Windsor at 9.10 a. m. on Friday het. SMASHED HIS SKULL. .A. Little Yotit Man Meet a Death in a Drunken Spree, PR0I3AET-IY A CASE OE MURDER. A, Toronto report says; The residents of the village of Little York and the farmers along the Soarboro' and Yolk town line were thrown into a state of terroefore before daybreak on Sunday morning by bearing that John Wright, a farm laborer hv ouimnwr living es zi ara mystery, b:oyhro ekwa twnougbwnor :en ho Bitwpi en, ea ihait,u0a dwea atasbtasheieenahnt. fao oulsludul cot; sequent izatelligence, however, went to in the parties who should be familiar with the transpiring events up to a few honre before the man met his death were in such a cordition of hatcaucation as to be unable to rely upon their menaories, The oironm. stances eurroueding the ease were of mob BO incrinzineting nature that a weft...tog:10 bachelor named James Chapman, 50 years of age, and livieg about three-quarters of mile from the village, was pieced under arrest yeeterday afternoon by County Con. stable Burns. John Wright, who had been living with a brother farmer for some years, left six weeks ago to work for John Walton at Wexford. On Saturday morning last he Onnle into Little York to purchase a pair of boots and some other articles that he required. Being fond of liquor it is said that he vieited a number of hotele and SOON EXCAME MUNE. Efe had not been in the village for a long tinae, and few of the inhabitants meg. nized him. After oontinuing his spree throughout the aftermon he started towards evening to walk four miles out the • town line to where bis brother lives. On his route, just threeiquartere of a mile from the village, at tbe top of a hill, standa nevennerected frame home, aboat thirty feet back from the road and thirty by twenty feet in size. The owner and occu- pant of this place is James Chapman, an old friend of Wright's, and he dropped in to see him. He rapped at the door and was at once admitted, but 'Emote entering he found that Chapman had other company, Joseph Baxter and Jeans Morrison, two farmers' Sons living in the neighborhood. These three had also been to the village in the afternoon and Iced been drinking to excesa. The four were together for about two hours, when the two young men left for home, /craving Chernion and his fr iend sitting at a email Cable open which etood A QUART BOTTT.' OP WHISEEY. Thie was about 10 o'olock on Saturday night, but what transpired between 10 o'clock and 3 on Sunday morning has not been maintained. At the letter boor Chapman went to his neareet neighbor, Archibald Beater, and told him that a man bad fallen upon the ground outtide of bis front door and he wanted aosistance in • getting him into the house. Beater went with tihapman and when they reached the place he saw the man leaning against the door step, which was about sixteen inches from the ground. It did not appear to biro that Wright was injured, and sfter helping to carry him insidehe turned to go back home. Chapman implored him to go fors doctor and he finally coneented. The house when Baxter left was in darkness. Dr. Britton came an hour litter bat the man was dead. GHASTLY SCENE, An inveetigation was made by the use of' the weird light of a lantern, and a ghastly condition of things was revealed. A piilow upon which the dead man's head was rest. ing was saturated with bleed, and, at the back of his head was a gaping mat four - inches in length. One of his eyes was blethkeried and on his forehead were two large brnises. Just outside the front door were two large pools t,f blood, and on the side of the house extending about six feet were splashee of the crimson ilaid. Two feet from the door step was a piece of frozen scantling, protruding an inch and 4 half from the greened, and npon which Chapman believed Wright had fallen. County Constable Tidsberry was notified, and he removed the body to the planing mill of A. & W. Hunter, where it remained nutil after the pot -mortem examination was held yesterday. CHAPMAN'S STORY. In an interview with Chapman, who appeared to be heartbroken'he recited the story of his spree with the two farmer boys at the village in the afternoon and of Wright's visit at 8 o'olock indite evening. Tbey bad eiwaye been the best of friends, and were talking of old times that night. After the young men left be went to bed,. leaving Wright Bitting at the table alone. He did not know that Wright had gone until he heard him calling "Jim" outside of the front door about midnight. '• When I went to the door,' wild the prisoner, "1 saw him getting up from the ground and as he did so again fell violently. I pulled him to the doorsttp but could not lift him in, and then went for Mr. Baxter. We were all pretty tight that night, and could not tell you jest what took place at the house. All I know ie that I am inno- cent of having done anything to injure the man. When I saw what had happened the poor fellow I was horrified." THE nterese. An inqueet was ordered to be held before Dr. Britton at Eropringham's Hotel yea- terday afternoon at 3 o'clock, but the pro- ceedings were delayed for more than an hoar owing to High Constable Jones' con- tention that Dr. Britton was not a gnali. fied coroner snd any steps he might take would be illegal. Acting Crown Attorney Johnson arrived at 4 o'clock and deoided/ that the doctor conld go on with the autopsy. Upon removing the top of the sknll the surgeons found that the brain was terribly congested, and that the skull had been fractured by a blow or a fall. The fracture extended from tbe base of the shrill upward almost to the apex, frotn the open- ing of the internal ear, to a length of nearly. six Melees, and backwerde to a point about Iwo inthes to the right of the median line. It was quite apparent to those who ex- amined the fracture that it was not made • by a sharp instrument, and from appear- ances it would mem that one blow or fall would have caused the whole injury. Archbishop Dennison's Famous Toast. "Reran health to all that WO love, were's health to all that love us, were's health to all those that love them, That love those that love them That love us." Do you notice what a lerge circle thin evieh to health includes? and will you, notice the reference is not to the wino -cup, hut to a standard medicine, the " Golden Medical Diecovery," that can bring health to the large number of friends we ench love. True, it is not a " beverage," and does not inebtiate, but is it healthigiving medicine, a blood -purifier, liver invigorator and general tonic—a remedy for Billow) nese, Indigestion, and Stotnach troubles. ft cures Consumption, in its early stegern Beonchitis, and throat dineaadt. • • The strike of plash weavere at BrecIferd ie extending and threatens to ineolve 5,000 workmen.