| Show SUMMARY OP THE details of the tho circumstances of tho the terrible calamity under which fourteen persons were suffocated or crushed to death outside the bristol theatre on or the evening of the ultimo L boxing 0 xing night have reach reached edus us through h tho the british newspapers it appears chacon that on tho the evening in question vast numbers of people assembled outside tho the theatre long before the hour of performance anxious to get good seats seat to td witness tho the new now pantomime this was especially thomaso tho case caso at tho the entrances to the tho pit and gali gall gallery ejr which branched out from a long crooked passage about twenty feet wide but which at first pursues a straight course down a steep descent abscent for i about nifty fifty peg feet tho the gradient being nearly ono in five this was wag tho the scene of the disaster tho crowd contained a largo proportion of weitien women and mero more children and also a large larg wo proportion portion of mentho were rendered excited and reckless by drink trink Itis it is proba blo hat that many women and children wont went wont early by reason of their comparative helplessness liss ness and as tho the only course by which althey 1 they coul coald d hope to obtain good places and that for this reason they contributed so brauch much to swell tho the number of victims during thelong the tho long iong time timo of waiting the tho crowd becam been m avery every disorderly and various loud outcries proceeded from them but these those were wex a oui oni only v regarded ded qed as is part of tho the natural courte courts ol 01 events at last and probably when the first forward movement was mado made in response to tho the got of the door leading to the tho pit it some unfortunate woman ia is said tp to have fallen it is probable she was pressed upon by the crowd on tho the hill behind and that teat tho the support previously afforded to her jy some one in front was suddenly with od redrawn rawn at all events she fell nearly in the 0 middle middie of the passage and jush just above tho the pit entrance at this point tho the course of the entering crowd tended in two directions those going to the pit wished to turn sharply to tho the left and if they were already on the right hand side wished to push across tho the course of those who were going straight on a little further before the outer passage mado made its turn toward the tho gallery with this conflict between the two bodies aiding the effect of the general crush tho the poor woman was no sooner down flown than others were pushed over her the heap of fallen momentarily illy tily increased but taut still there was room enough for eager comers to pass on either cither side of them tham and many passed by trampling 0 over them the rush into the theatre was w as not checked until it was nearly full and then a person mentioned at the pit entrance that a boy was down outside and fainting on hearin hearing this tho the two policemen on dut duty at the tho the theatre ortre pushed into tho the passage am and soon discovered the real state of affairs and ana with the help of a few determined men from among the tho crowd itself they kept back I 1 any further rush at this some one ono gave the tho alarm of I 1 nire fire I 1 which greatly helped to deter the mob from coming down the police doorkeepers door keepers and others then set to work to clear tho the ground when it was I 1 first cleared it is said that forty pen ten men women and children were lying in in a leap heap heap isome some rapidly recovered and went away abut but fourteen corpses were at once talen taken into onto the tho refreshment room of the u so completely had tho the shrieks and cries of distress resembled the ordinary commo ution atlon of tho the night and so completely was the the tho whole matter outside the building that neither the audience nor tho actors were were alarmed and many of them did not know what had occurred until the tho folio follow w mg ing the performances were continued as though nothing had happened tho the manager thinking with a house full lull of tho the very people who had just trampled on the fallen that ho he could not stop the pantomime without producing a riot ot panic and either would have certainly entailed additional disaster his course has been very g generally e ner approved and his reasons for it are deemed satis satisfactory facto rl 11 the local pap papers erple contain on tain many instances of hairbreadth hair breadth escapes several people wore were rescued from the crush by good sam ar itans who let lot down a ropo from the roof that overhung the passage but at last this rope was dragged away from its owners thrown down and trampled upon so little sense of tho the great danger was wan there among the crowd that some persons s whose actual companions wore separated from them and idilea succeeded in making good their own way into the theatre any ane and enjoyed tho perform performance anco without any anxiety about th the tho e aate of those who were less fortun fortunate aw anether aachen I 1 OFF utan UTAH the tho nit rit orial enterprise of thoa ad dinst sa says ys Sd senator wartha ste stewart has introduced a bill into the body of which ho he is a member lo 10 to change the boundaries of tho the state of no ivada vad a by adding to the state all the terri torri tor tory ly lying in g between its present boundary an nd 11 the following described boundaries namely common Cummon commencing cIng eing at tho the southeast corner of the state of oregon thence north to the centre of snake river thence southeasterly up snake river biver to degree of north latitude thence east along said parallel 0 0 o the do doree deree degree doroe ree roe of of longitude west fram wn washington hington thence south to the parallel of north latitude thence west to the tho degree of longitude west from washington thence south to the fth degree of latitude thence hegt west to the present boun daryline of tho of nevada provided that said sald territory shall not become apart a part of the state orse orNe of sevada nevada irada until said state shall through its legislature consent thereto tho the bill was referred d to the committee on territories A bill which wo we presume to be tho the same saine has baa been introduced in the house by representative fitch this bill ell if passed will give to nevada all that part cutah lying north of the parallel of north latitus latitude which inc includes Indes all the territory north of a line drawn from its eastern to its western boundary and passing in the immediate neighborhood of farmington it also cuts off one degree of the western we stern boundary of utah as far south a as the degree of north latitude leaving the southernmost portion of our territory in stain quo did this boundary line not run west at the sath degree of noi th til latitude but was continued to tho the southern boundary of utah it would absorb most of the settlements in our dixie I 1 possessed of a lican form of government cannot boast of a most liberal code of laws tho the practice of torturing persons in order to mako make thom thorn c confess is f still permitted and carried out within its borders quito quite lately a man in tho the canton of zug was accused of theft ho he acknowledged before tho the criminal court that ho he had a appropriated tho the missing property but EP ho resolutely denied having stolen them thera stating that b ho a 1 cc 1 dently found them upon which tho the court ordered further inquiry to bo made it next appears that from the of october to tho the ath of november the tho prisoner was put on bread broad and water diet but ho he mado made no concesion confes ion iou thumbscrews Thumb screws were wore then applied to the prisoner but still ho he mado made no confession dri gri prisoner six ix blows were next given him liim with a stick ho he writhed and groaned but declared ho he could say no moro more than he had said already upon which six moro blows administered isyou if you yon kill hill me mr judge I 1 cannot say anything else the prisoner was brought belore before tho the court and onto oneo moro more earnestly questioned but ho he adhered to his former statement upon this ho he was again placed on tho the ordinary prison diet it is estimo time timo switzerland followed the example of other civilized countries and abolished such a system of criminal procedure and it ia is highly probable that this ca bo be brought prominently before the tho federal may probably bo be tho the means of remedying the cal evl HOWARDS BILL billj the abo territorial te enterprise oer ter prise of the aind ins ing gives tho the following synopsis of senator howards bill we believe belleve its information ia is in the main correct senator howard ha hai i introduced a bill in con congress ress ross to regulate descent in tho territory of f utah which was referred to the committee on territories it provides that reas real or personal property in utah not disposed of by last will or testament shall upon the death of ortho tho the and subject to his debts descend to his children born in in lawful wedlock or if he had none to various other relatives who are specia specified led lea m minutely and the bill provides that gaw law a woman orrian shad nob not bo be deemed the widow of au an intestate who has not been lawfully married to him or who not having baving been thus married to him has hai i cohabited with him hina or been considered by herself as his spiritual wife according to the rites usages and customs of tho mormons cormons Mor mons A FEW piew days aro ago wo V 0 published in our telegraphic dispatches a c condensed account of a terrible storm that passed over kentucky and tho the neighboring State states 4 on the tho night of sunday tho the dinst the tho telegrams however failed to give a full fuli idea id 1 of the mischief done by the storm and we now condense from the columns of the louisville Om commercial mercial an account of the terrors of that night at cave city kentucky a small town of about four hundred inhabitants where the tho storm raged in its greatest rury fury IL TIring daring darlng the day it rained by spells with occasional thunder and lightning but whon when night came en on the rain grew heavier and the wind gathered strength until about half past four when a distant boarin roaring was a heard coming from the west and a I ense ensi dense black cloud shrieking whistling roaring as it trave traveled fed gradually approached the town it was accompanied by sharp loud electrical discharges whilst balls of firo fire burst and flew in its front and within it continually curling and vibrating were myriads of electrical spirals before it reached the town the air grew warm and thick the tho flashing of the lightning became one continuous glare and suddenly au 4 grew grow dark again A moment aft after ertho erthe tho wild work of destruction began house after house was torn from its foundation and roofs walls valis floors furniture and inmates scattered in every direction or carried along with the rushing storm trees from ten to twenty inches riches in diameter were wrenched wrenard up by tho the roots twisted into fantastic shapes splinted and thrown down again or carried bodily away sweeping along as with a huge besom besom bosom of destruction fences planking and every thin thing else thab that stood in the way strewing the road with shapeless heaps and confused piles of large and small trees as a child might fling a handful of crushed and broken wisps s of straw to the winds when the adt wild wind whirled away but put a little remained of cave city the strong well built houses of tho the rich and tho the humble shanties as of the negro laborers borers had all fared alike all were torn down and scattered to the four winds tho air was literally filled with fragments of the houses and the furniture bedding portions of trees rails and every pos possible sibia thin thing that could bo be torn from the earth and borno on the wings of the wind were deposited thickly over the ground for thousands of yards here and there a heap of dirty shreds and torn rags showed all that remained of tho the clothing of the inhabitants who stood wounded and shivering on the spots where there homes once stood or by tho the side of the ruins with their dead around them and nothing but the dreary desola desolate tb land to meet their teer eyes in cavo cave eity city and vicinity thirteen persons were killea killed at once and about fifty wounded of whom it eared earea at least a quarter will die many escapes were most miraculous ono one editor indeed saying how human life in many cases was spared was as miraculous as our savior raising falsini tho the dead in other places many lives were lost and much damage done but nowhere was the destruction carried on in such a remorseless less manner as at cavo cave city cily F from atou lato late telegraphic dispatches it would ouid appear that chicago is in earnest in establishing lishin ai a vigilance committee and not before it was wanted if the tribune of that metropolis of tho the west tells tho iho truth listen to its revelations nevor never was chicago chicag so crime ridden as now A black cloud of terror seems to hangover hanff over oven the tho city and our law abiding citizens with ono one accord as if their feelings were connected by somo sympathy apprehend the tho danger and cast about them fora for a remedy crimo crime I 1 is fearfully on the increase and assumes a bold bolo bolder or aspect with every succeeding deed criminals are literally in possession of the city and move and act according to the their ir own sweet will A score of burglaries is ca A poor nights work a half dozen cases of garroting parroting garro ting in the course of an evening is scarcely worthy of cOm comment merit ani and nothing short of a pantin horror would startle our citizens just now so inured havo have they become to the sight of wickedness and crime |
