| Show SIX KILLED And Thirty Iiijnre by a Natural I OKI Explosion COLUMBC3 O Jan lSix pro lile were lk1ie and thirty injured I more or 14 I rerlously by an explosion explo-sion of natural gas lu this city early this evening Borne of the injured am in a critical condition nnu bins die A few minutes alter 1 oclock ocok the flee defiartaient r called to the corner of High anti Main streeta where it was said I an cxplcclou had occurred in a onestory dwelling at the cornerof Wall and Noble alleys Au excited crowd of onlookers rushed into the narrow alley with the firemen and pushed Up to the coming house from Immediately n Inch cries wen liranl wan renorteuVan explosion rent the air I sheet flame burst from the building on the iiurthn > et corner of Xoljle and Wall alleys and in an Instant the mass of bricks beam I and stone that constituted tho to story bulIJIng s l1 flying through tho air Tile scene was tprriblc The people fled shrieking In all ppe while the alley was Instantly In-stantly covered with a mass of debris deb-ris from which came cries and moans of the injured and er EVEHYTIIIXO WAS OOSKU8IOX As quickly as possible the police and firemen were orginUed and began the work of searching through the mass of bricks and timbers for the unfortunate victims Five were taken out dcaJ Charles Bccht John Seymour a colored boy In 1 Mirrott an unknown man and rlrtt an unknown babe Ar InfAtit chili of Charles Berry r dasied from Its mothers arms by the force of the explosion aol almost immediately run over and killed by a fire department de-partment team which was running to Ute burning building Thirty people men women and children were Injured by burns cuta or bruit and it I pcAslbio other bodies may b found in tho ruins of the building tomorrow Tho explosion at near as can 0 arIDe resulted from an accu mulation of natural gao In the cellar of Mcrrotts linne II bavlnji leaked In from thin street mains JtcsIJe destroying tho house on the block next to It a house on the other side of the alley was completely wrecked Mill n nioekndr SA > FBA > OSCO Jan ITho great storm continues on the mountains moun-tains and thu difficulties of the Central Pacific are Increased In con sequence TIes road has how been blocked for teh slays which I the longest period It ian ever been prio blocked The storm however I undoubtedly the most severe experienced experi-enced since the first overland road was built into California Many streams northern California have been rising rapidly again today and fears i nnother orernW are enter blIP snowstorm Is still pr vailing in the Sbklyou mountains 1nl and several slides have cccurrtd A Rumor Afloat 2fwv Yom Jan HA rumor was In clrctilaUon today around Wall Street I and ntnong various coninltelon laU of a JilOOOOOO failure Duen s Ayres Nothing definite could b learned Ululto < < Gel In LONDON Jan 2LTito British steamer Sardinian Capalu Richard son from Portland January 9 arrived ln ar-rived at Liverpool last 1 night She reports very heavy weather On January IGtu nn Miami of fire was caused by tho bursting of a steam gauge In tilts rarautlme tho funnel was smashed and the fires were FiuotherHl by Voter pouring tu non n-on them T oo Den were killed and third was S leully Injured that he Eubxequently died Three other men were badly injured 1 was Irnpo ei bite to replace the funnel for tnenty I four hour and In tho meantime the steamer drifted thu storm at the same time Increasing in severity thnc buried at sea The thre men were tOrld f when the storm abated AH the Sahiiniant lifeboats except one wire smashed ly the heavy seas A CathlerHnlelUe NEW Yom Jan 24 George IiOuiKliurvcasliItroftlle lostolllce of this city shot and klllerf himsell ofiis ct tills afternoon at his Jiomu In IlacLeusack X J Investigation laleosck developed this fact that his accounts ac-counts were short to the amount of 520000 He lud been away from the city for three days and this morning Rut a telegram to Po t mosler Van lt stating that be was confined to his house by Illness un and would nttcml r lof1 duties a < soon as he gr > t better Van Colt beIng suspicious flint all was not right E sctaboutlnvettigatlnglouns bnrysaccounts and discovered the shortage Lul try has been cashier since 1SSO Fouler Dinner OTTAWA Jan 2J Minister of 1 Finance Foster gave 1 dinner tonight to-night which a well attended Among those present were many members of Ottawa society but the I members of the cabinet were conspicuous con-spicuous by their absence The hostand hostewbeing prohibitionists no wine Was dispensed Foster I gelling much credit for the courage he displays in resenting the ostracism ostra-cism of Mrs Fester by viccroyalty t > emo < T lle Caucus WASIIIMTTOS Jan C4A caucus I cau-cus cf the democratic members of the Iou tonight Holman of Indiana Ind-iana in the chair discussed the new code of rules no win retiree of pre I pcrallon by the committee on r Ic Briefly stated tho o that were Instanced In-stanced by Carlisle as being jor Ucularly ol jectlonable to tho democratic demo-cratic minority are the rlilei that do away with Uie old House calendar calen-dar leaving only thocalcndarsofthe committee of thu hole and state of the Union that make 100 a quorum of the committee of Ibo whole that reestablish the old morning hour rule when business must b con ld cred In order of committee list that er orer bills must b regarded as pending until disposed of and that fall t make privileged motions to adjourn to fix a day or to make a recess There was a long discussion over the proposed changes which failed to result in the advancement of any practicable scheme foran amelioration ameliora-tion ot the repugnant features of the new rules The contested election cases were then taken up and it was generally 1e b agreed that the intention of the republicans re-publicans was to unseat A many democrats and seat as many republicans repub-licans as will give them a fair working work-ing majorityand to Insure quorum In order to force through the rules 1 Although no formal resolution was adopted it w understood among the democratic members when the caucus adjourned that tho republican repub-lican plan should lie resisted to the utmost and tho minority should exercise ex-ercise I1ll its constitutional rights to prevent its success Inotberword the determination is to fight the rules legitimately when obnoxious sections are reached and refrain from voting and leave the louse without a quorum if nn attempt I made t unseat democratic members before the rules arc adopted 1Inehe7ofn yooo oNTQOMKny Ala Jan 24 Groin Braiton I negro a banged at the Jail hero today for the murder of Lewis Pugh 1 year while of this city in May of last General Gar SIl CiiABtrsrox W Va Jan 24 General Kathan Golf spoke today before the general scmbly of the two houses of Ihu lirgisLlture In behalf be-half of himself as contestant In the gubernatorial contest He repudiated repudi-ated the charges that frauds were m tc and contended that i ho did not appear for himself but for the people IIIJar he said had elected him Governor lie made an eloquent elo-quent appeal for justice justice to thevoters of the State and declared his Intention toabide by the decision of the Legislative court IWI This closed the araumeaU for Gof Colonel HL Clalr will tomorrow tomor-row close for Fleming Shot Vy An AEeitt SAN iKA > cisoo Jan HL lironiwejl president of tho California Cali-fornia Insurance Company wasshot and badly wounded this morning by George C Pratt general agent f the pcim Theilioollng has caused a great tonsalion In explanation ex-planation of the shooting he said that he bad recently been sent to Japan by lirouvtell and ujwn returning re-turning a week ago received from hlsVlfaa r f that she had been reduced by Bromwell After obtaining evidence confirming this Pratt went to Jironnvclla office charged him dllro Iho crime nut1 then shot him Both men on widely known lu buslntts nnd social cirules Irall was married twenty years ago at Chicago He ha two tons liromwell Is married and has a family Jinmiwcll declined to make icy statement Pratt raid lib principal reason for the shooting grew out of the fact that his wife by reason of her betrayal has become be-come insane Clerk Io n Nif Indlr CHICAGO Jan 21The MiU says it Is reported on thu board of trade that tile Milling ctetkt ncof 11 P Ilutchinson by a series of rrats trades made to a certain broker have swIndle him out of a very large turn of money The amount taken was reoited to have been an much as 1100000 Ties Oral ° tars that Ilutchinson while admitting the embezzlcmeuttf denies that they foot up more than a few thousand dollars dol-lars The Journal says however that this I but n continuation or part of a sytcm of robbery whereby where-by Old Hutch has I been victimized victim-ized for nearly two years His trades on the board j > r said togs bo very loosely managed and this gsImeh I accounts fur the tare lln which I the stealing WM gone The Journal asserts that a Job was Jlt up by ThomasStoner onoof Hutchlnsons most trusted dirks and Bert Kins t hj1 a trusted clerk 1 of the broker 11 Dlcltcnson Ptoner would mark tip an arconnt he considered safe from O to f > 00a against Ilutchin t t llp son and to the credit of Vi P c DicKenson hug would make no coricfpoudlng entry on DickenMn sheet Tho amount would be duty paid into the clearing house but of course not collected by Dickenson I wuiild 0 returned to Ilutchin son us tincollccted when titoner would go to Hutcblnwma cashier point out the debt on tlib aunt and S CJI have a check drawn for Uickenron King would convert this into cah nnd ilKKlir ellis Ills Clttller III crime herr bfotu ortrn Xcw Yom Jan JTbe general gen-eral ten the Supreme Cuuit has affirmed thu conviction of Herr Most and hIs ectenee 10 one yearo imprisonment in the penitentiary Best was convicted of u lng language lan-guage teudint to incite 1 riot in a speech at all anarchist meeting In vernier 1SS7 < < Ilrb lurnet Down QUEBEC Jan 24Tue lioman Catholic church at Beaupott valued at 5300000 turned today Irrrslxl IiAitcoo Tel Jan 2tJ E White fonnefly eaprrfw tlgent for 11nfrt the United niL llxpreta Com pony running between Chatta noogi Tcun and > ew Orleans who was accused of being Implicated Implicat-ed with others In the stealing of 1 baggage from tllo Queen Cresccut Railroad Conij iny and who I I coped to Mexico was arrested it the Hotel Hamilton in Laredo thl morning by SherllTHiuchcz and will 0 beld fur requisition from the governor of MMsslppl The real name of White is said to be Latner by which he was known when employed as express B messenger mes-senger Sheer Orcnnlznllon CoLUJinus 0 Jan 21The two gnat miners orginlzatlont today adopted n constitution section by section but not without much discussion dis-cussion and feeling Although the constitution hn lot been adopted as a whole there ti no doubt that such action will 0 taken Ulojolnt convention which convenes tomorrow tomor-row The constitution provides the new organization shall be know as Lm United Mine Workers nut National Trades Assembly 135 Knighte of Labor and National Pro gres = le Union The objects are to unite mine cmployea and to ameliorate amelio-rate their condition by methods of conciliation strikes and the arbitration of |
