Show MEN BURIED IN THE RUINS alie salt lake express caught in a landslide NEW YORK april 19 the largest and fiercest fire witnessed here for years swept the east bank of north river today to day from fifty ninab street to what would be sixty fifth street if that street ran to the river it destroyed more than of property belonging to the new york central railroad company and at least worth of lard and flour and the like belonging to other persons notably F K fairbank tho great chicago lard merchant tho flames destroyed two big elevators of the vanderbilt system a big brick building stretching from fifty ninth to sixtieth streets and occupied jointly by the fairbanks lard refining and the rossiter stores and wiped out the dock property of the new york central railroad from fifty ninth to past sixty fifth street henry benning a workman employed in the fairbanks refinery was killed by jumping from a third sto window many others wore inbur by jumping but in the great cont sion attending the conflagration t names and extent of the injuries bat very few were obtained E mors rife all the evening that number of workmen had been baug and burned in the refinery but it h been impossible to verify them the lire broke out in the corner of the fairbank refinery ho nobody knows soaked in grea the old building was in flames in instant the men at work in eve story dropped their tools and ran to save their lives the stairs were columns of flames and the windows presented the only means of escape pursued closely by the firemen they flung themselves out headlong and how many there were nobody could tell many who came out were picked up and carried away by friends the fire had soon swept throughout the length of the building and shot over towards two big grain elevators of the new york central railroad between tho place where the engines were stationed and tho elevators there were twenty sev en railroad tracks which no fire engine could cross and the next union stock yards half a mile broad with enclosures and pens equally impassable there was no way for the fire engines to reach the elevators except alons sixtieth street past the burning buildings and that street after two engines had fought their way past was blocked by falling walls furthermore near the elevators wa only one small water pipe five engines were sent for and several of them soon began work in the heroic struggle to bave the elevators but it was in vain the tremendous heap across the street dried and warped the wood work of the big frame building under its corrugated iron sheeting in a short time elevator A was on fire and burning fiercely soon after the walls of the Eos fell releasing tons and tons of burning merchandise that rolled in blazing heaps in every direction this increased the heat and the flames and the efforts of tho firemen seemed to be entirely useless about this time the stockyard pens were cleared out at 7 elevator B caught fire and the sec no had then in the growing darkness a lurid effect ahat made a spectacle of awful grandeur the second elevator was entirely consumed also and at 11 tonight when the fire was gotten under control half a mile of ruins sent out furnace heat the estimate losses is as follows the kossiver Kos stores and contents the wilcox company stock elevator A elevator B dock B contents dock A the wilcox buildings total the loss to the property 0 the new york central company is covered by insurance the wilcox companas comp anys stock was insured for at a late hour tonight to night it is stated four men were in the ruins of the companas comp anys building in K s WEST 19 for tho third time at this academy a parrot gun has exploded while in UBO by the ca bets at target practice tho accident occurred recently while lieutenant hardin was in command of the third class the members of which were practicing with six parrott guns comprising tho biego battery some shots had been fired when the gun exploded the shock knocking down two cabets cadets they lay on the ground bleeding at the ears and nose cadet fuller who was directly behind the gun narrowly escaped being struck by the breach which flew back into tho embankment behind the breastworks burying itself in tho earth this piece of metal weighs about pounds another piece of pounds flew fifty feet and struck the platform of the mortar feet to the siege battery it fell within a foot of cadet H C dark and crushed through four inches of pine when the cleared away cadet geo white who had pulled the lan yard was found unconscious his head having been hit by a flying piece of metal which badly lacerated his scalp ho was carried to the hospital and will soon be able to report for duty cadet fuller was struck on tho face by a sliver from the carriage many visitors to the point were standing in the neighborhood of the battery it is miraculous that nobody was outright not ten feet from the place where the shattered cannon lies is one which exploded under like circumstances some time ago the guns did good bervice during the war one of them being the much famed swamp angell used against charleston 80 the matter has been laid before the war department and the responsibility of risking the lives of cabets cadets must lie with thosa who insist upon the retention of thes l ind april 19 sylvester grubb was hanged at 11 for the murder of his sweetheart gertrudo downey at princeton ind last september in full view of sever il thousand people the girl refused to have anything more to do with him and ho shot her three times and then tried to kill himself but the pistol would not go off fie came near being lynched he escaped a few weeks ago but was recaptured on the scaffold ho said he had much to say but talk because the reporter was present his neck was broken in alic col april 19 the engine of the lako express passing through tho black canyon last night was struck by a landslide and thrown down a thirty foot embankment ban kment into the divor engineer ryan was seriously injured fireman north was killed but none others were injured DENVER april 19 A montrose col special says A fatal accident occurred on the kio grando at 1 this morning while the salt lake express waa running through tho black canyon a huge landslide came tearing down tho side of the canyon several immense boulders striking the engine throwing and hurling it down a thirty foot embankment to the gunnison river the en gme in its descent turned over several times crushing fireman wm north to death engineer byan was caught underneath a portion of the machinery pinioned in the bed of the river and nearly drowned before rescued he is seriously bruised internally none of the coaches were thrown from the track and on account of tho roaring waters it was some minutes before the passengers and crow knew of the accident the train was ascending the canyon at the usual speed and it is supposed the aar of tho train started some loose Crai ilic into a sleeper louisville ky april 19 A passenger train on tho short line from cincinnati was run into by a local freight near glenwoo this morning the engine of tho passenger tram met with an accident and stopped for i repairs she was just starting up when the freight dashed around a curve and crashed into the sleeper were hurt none dangerously gerou sly an HI april 19 A hurricane passed through this village last night many buildings and tearing up the sidewalks and trees in a path about feet wide no one was severely injured ain bobbed fobbed fob bed ST louis april 10 information comes from dale county alabama that five mormon missionaries were severely whipped and driven from the county last monday night these men had been holding meetings among tho ignorant classes of the county and had formed a colony to go to utah monday night some forty citizens of the northern pirt of the county without the slightest attempt abc disguise surrounded the house of george irons a recent convert who was entertaining the five missionaries without delay they were stripped to the waist and tied in a i ow then each of the regulators with a long switch struck each ans onera sound blow by the time the last blow was given two of the men had fainted and the others were wet with blood after the whipping the mens legs were given a thick coating of tai and feathers and they wore warned tc leave instantly or suffer death tho names of the cormons mormons are asa E dixon J H hagadon Hag adom M F miller john W X pearce and ansel morrison yle ccle april 19 according to present arrangements for the centennial celebration tho presidential train will leave washington early on monday morning bearing the president and cabinet and their families arriving at elizabeth new jersey they will breakfast with governor green of new jersey the party will then proceed to where they will take a boat for new york city ending at the wharf where washington stepped ashore the party will proceed to the city hall and listen to an oration to be delivered by chaancey Chann cey M depew after luncheon president harrison will leoid a reception for two hours and then will bo driven to tho fifth avenue hotel he will also attend the ball on monday night Blai promised to respond to the toast tho house of at the banquot tuesday night l tor FORT SMITH ark april 19 malachi alien a one armed negro and james mills a half indian and half negro were hanged this afternoon both necks were broken alien protested his innocence alien was convicted of murdering shadrack petera and silas love in the chickasaw nation last july mills killed john windom a negro near in reservation in december last TIIE emperor of japan is allowed a year for his household department and his private fortune is largo and increasing he thoroughly understands business matters aud kaepa himself well as to his investments |