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Show FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE AT ALTA. A Cyprciin and her Panimou! Charred. K:rly yi.tervlay momini: various rcporu were circulatij through tin city of o frightful occurrence at AlUi City, I.illlo Cottonwood, but when the train from Cranite arrived the tcrribU truth became known, the horrifying and sickening details, of which tire Iriirhtful to contemplate. Alwnt six o'clock on Sunday evening ilauies were seen issuing from lhe house of a noted prostitute MadamtMillcr. The alarm was quickly sounded, and huiidmls of people rushed to the spot, but only to see the fiery element consume con-sume tho building, as the fire had gained such headway that nothing could be done to prevent the complete destruction of the house . At one time the entire town was in imminent immi-nent danger of burning, but owing to the exertions of the crowd the tlames were confined U the house, where they started. The owner of the premises and her paramour, one Capt. JIart, not being seen in the crowd, it wius feared they had perished with the building, and . when the flames had died sufficiently to allow a search to be made, the twi bodies were found, Hart's lying across that of Mrs. Miller. .They were both completely charred, the legs of each being burned oil alwve tho knees, tin arms gone, and their bod .. ies swollen and unreeognizabl-masses unreeognizabl-masses of steaming, burning, human llesh sights; sickening and ghastly I behoiel. Her back hair was; unburne. and clotted with blood. Concernini. the cause of the shocking affair vari ous rumors are afloat in Alta, but no one appears to know for a cerUint. 1 of the facts. The two havo been living liv-ing together for some months, and o, late they have frequently quarreled-They quarreled-They had had trouble during the day. md Hart had been arrested on a barge made by one of Madame filler's fill-er's female lodgers. About half ai rour before the fire was discovered Hart saw Madame Miller in ft saloon, md very much intoxicated. He tok: her to go home, when a quarrel ensued, en-sued, each making ' serious threats against the life of tho other. Bui finally t'.ie two went home together, in their entering the house, the fe male lodger went out, and as she did so the door was bolted behind her. The two were still quarreling when the woman left. About ten minutes afterwards the report of two' pistri shots was heard in the direction ol the house, hut nothing was thought of them until the fire broke out. The general impression in the town is that Hart shot Madame Miller, and then himself, having first set lire to the house. However, it is believed by some that a third party was interested in-terested in the affair. There are grounds for both beliefs, which are still, however, nothing but suppositions. The fact that the female's hair was bloody would imply that she had been murdered. Hart's brains seemed also to have oozed out of the top of his head, as if from a woimd in the skull. To support the second im pression that it was the hellish work of some unknown person, it is said that foot tracks, slained with blood, were traced through the snow leading from the front door of the house. From present appearances the cause will remain a mystery. What was left of tho bodies were removed to the court house, where Justice of tho Tcace William Gill Mills, and a jury held an inquest, yesterday morning. The following is the verdict received by Dcscret Telegraph-line last evening: THE VERDICT. Ata, 1. The jurors upon their oalbs say the name of one person they believe to be Annie E. Miller, age, ..lout thirlv-five, native of the hut. of Maine, lately from California, mm the name of the other Mathew Hart, .,.,ed about thirty-seven, native of ew Vo-k; and that Annie E. Miller cam. to her death by a premeditated act at the hands of said deceased Mathew Hart who first prepared the residence ot the deceased Annie E. Miller, tor burning, and having fired the house, then took his own life, thus committing commit-ting murder, arson, and suicide. The deed was instigated by jealousy, stimulated stim-ulated by the use of intoxicating h- ''''signeil, Spencer Purser, Edward Brvne, J. II. Crow. 01 the later lives of tno two persons who have thus horribly perished, either by their own hands or those of an unknown assassin, little can be said in favor. They had both fallen w in the scale of social existence as it is possible for human beings to fall. In former years they had both held honorable places in society, nnd both were more than ordinarily intelligent. intel-ligent. Captain Hart was about thirty-four years of age, and a man of prepossess-,n" prepossess-,n" appearance. He was originally from Albany, N. Y., where, in the breaking out of the rebellion in the south, he enlisted in the army and honorablv and bravely served lis a captain in the 00th New York volunteers volun-teers At the close of the war he emigrated to Montana Territory, where he resided until about eighteen mouths ago, and where he was highly esteemed as a gentleman ol culture and a bravo oil'icer, he having served in two or three campaigns against the Indians, t-ioing to Alta upon his arrival ar-rival in this Territory, he became ac-minled ac-minled and enamored with Madame Miller, with whin he has hveel unt, Sunday night. While in Alia he ha d acquired tho vice, am-nlg many olhcrs,ol'i.Uc.i.perancc,and continued nk in morality and to lose the re-. re-. .- .,1 ...i, i-ne.w him. until he Sm hekiccnddcscribedabove - Madame Anna E. Miller was well known in this Territory, as she was all over the Pacific Coast, as a beau liful, intelligent, but most wickedly dt-pntved prostitute. -V woman of superior organization and beauty, we'l educated and possessine. most ol i U,c charming accomplishments other -ex she had won the hearts and lor-lun'csofmany lor-lun'csofmany nohlo men wnom she hul afterwards completely mined. Through her agency several uniur-Uln:lte uniur-Uln:lte n.cn-one -ol Hem .a - citvhavc met violent deaths; whi.e others have been hopelessly outcast rro, the good society they onco weu. " ornaments of. She has been se e, a times married and at the tune o I e. death had three children in California, Califor-nia, which it is said she was rearing in luxury with tho fruits of her degradation. deg-radation. She is said to have been a native of Lowell, Mass., where s.ic as wealthy relatives; but Sir many years she has been a resident on this oa.-,t and in China, whore she at one -hue kept a boarding house. The end of theso two persona lias 'x'on a horrible one, but now thai hoy arc gone no one seems to mourn heir Icks, The following account of the affair viw received Kwt evening from our Alta correspondent: Alt a City, Xuv. 30, 1373. Editors Heraltl: At aloutti o'clock this evening, Alia Al-ia wus thrown into a state of intense sriieaieut by cries of "lire" and pU-Uil pU-Uil reports. -Almost simultaneous with two pUiol .shots Madame Miller's house wiw completely enveloped in tlames, md thd destruction of lhe entire town Pernod inevitable. A strong wind was blowing, and clouds of sparks and burning shingles were carried over md on to the stored and business iiouses ot the town. Cries of "tire" were heard in everv direction, and ourning shingles we're lodged on roofs in inaccessible places, making it, for 11 lime, seem as though nothing could irrest a general conflagration. Soon, lowever, the wind lulled, the enow fell thick and fast, and no house but Madame Miller's w;is burned. On the discovery of the tiro a rush was made to the house, hut an entrance en-trance could not be ctlected, the doors 1 ueing all securely fastened. Many conjectures con-jectures and surmises were expressed is to the whereabouts of the Madame md her disreputable associates. The back door w;is finally broken in, but the whole interinr was ablaze, and nothing but an old stove thai stood near tiie door was saved. Alter the roof and walls had fallen and burned away, the bodies of two human beings were seen burning in tho middle of -ho floor. A line of men, with buck-jts, buck-jts, was at once formed to the creek, md in a short time what was left of V.ie two bodies was pulled from the "ire and identified as the remains ot ladame Miller and Captain Hart, i'hey are known to have been I'.iarrcling and threatening each ither for some time, and I learn thai she had just returned to .he house, after making complaint to 'ne officers of his threats, wnen the ire was discovered. The general opposition is that during her absence ic had saturated the floors and walla vith coat oil, and on her return shot tor, fired the house and then killed d nisei f. This ends the career ot a tesperaie man anu woman 01 euper-or euper-or talent, but who degraded heisell mtil she had become one of the vilest jf vile women. Hold en. |