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Show HE SEB-WEEE- A KATI05. T & V. BTDI, PEOPLE WATCHING AN OIL FIRE ARE SUD DENLY ENVELOPED IN FLAME. UTAH Esploalea of Naphtha at Pittsburg Tvs Hundred Feopla, Savaalj-flv- a Cent of Wham Will Dio. UTAH STATE NEWS. The postoffice at Fayson haa been raised to the presidential class. Over 1,800 men are now at work on within a abort f the Leamington dialanca of (Salt Lake. There ia considerable alarm in lit, Pleasant over a case of aickneaa which, It ia feared, is spotted fever. It ia reported that grasshoppers are liable to cause trouble in the vicinity of Cheater and Moroni thia aeaaon. son of Alma Ence, The of Richfield, waa kicked in the face by a horse last week and serioualy injured. The present population of Gold Moun tain ia 700, but with the passing of the anow thia will be doubled, and probably trebled. The Mortenaen murder case in 8alt Lake ia progressing very slowly, only eix jurors having keen aceepted up to Saturday last. Senator Kearns mansion in Salt Lake, which the contractora have just turned over to him, will cost, completed, not lesa than t3.r0,000. Ilenry Rills, a well known sheepman of South Jordan, ia dead aa a result oi an overdose of morphine taken with suicidal intent, after being on a spree. It is estimated there are 100 cases of It ia claimed measles in Fillmore. that no quarantine ia maintained and the result is the town is full of the disease. Ruth Rennett, aged 4, waa burned to death in Salt Lake last week, her dress catching fire while aha and some other children were burning paper in the street Dr. Allen Fowler, one of the beat known physicians in the state and one of the first prominent physicians to settle in Salt Lake City, died in Salt Lake last week. J. W. Calliater, a conductor on the Salt Lake street car line, waa serioualy injured one day last week by being struck by a telegraph pole while dismounting from a moving car. .Footpads attempted to hold up Wal- -t let Clawson in Sail Lake City Saturday night, he resisted and was shot through the shoulder, receiving a painful though not serious wound. There will be a civil service examination at Salt Lake City, June 17th, 18th and 10th, for cadetship in the revenue cutter service. Only single men between 18 and 25 years are eligible. The tomato canning companies are preparing to make a run for the season, but before operations are commenced it is probable that a combination will be formed to tain vrices. The police muddle in Salt Lake City has been settled by the resignation of Chief of Police llilton and the appointment of Captain Samuel Paul, a former chief of the police department, to fill the vacancy. A movement lias been started in Salt Lake to organize a club and offer a purse to Jim Jeffries and Hob Fitzsimconmons to meet there for a test during the Elks' national convention iu August. George Schafer, a Kio Grande Western brakeman, was shut in the leg by a tramp at Ringhain Junction last week. Schafer was ejecting the tramp from the train when the latter drew a revolver und fired. As the 'tsult of bring run over by a son of Mr. and buggy, the Mrs. U. C. Andrcason of Monroe is iu a precarious condition. The little fellow tripped and fell iu front of a buggy and was run over before it could be cut-of- four-year-- old record-breakin- g Stopped. Reaver ie to have an electric lighting system. The city council has granted a franchise to E. A. Hodges of Reaver, who will commence work at once ou a plant, having leased the water power of the Reaver Woolen Mills 600-lig- ht coin-pan- y. son of Mr. aud Mrs. of Richfield, was renDorrity, dered unconscious for several hours a few days ago by a kick from a cow. The boy waa thrown againat a wall with such force that concussion of the brain waa caused. While at work in a room in No. 1 mine at Scofield, Isaac Kmnputa waa crushed to death by a fall of rock. Kuinputa'a death is peculiarly aad iu that he leaves a wife and three children, who only arrived here four dayi previous from Finland. The F. M. DIE IN RAIN OF FIRE Three Members Native Cenetabnlery Treated la Meet luhamae Meaner by Oatlaws. FaMUhoss LOGAN. FEROCITY OF FILIPINOS. WILD SLfcufc OF FRENZY. Forty Thousand People Perish During band of fifty outlaws, armed with rifles and boles, attacked five members of tbe Philippine conslabnlary (natives) on the maio road between Bain-siand Barcelona in the province oi Sorsogon. The inhuman wretches captured three of the constabulary, tied them land and foot, gouged ont their eyes with sharp wood sticks, and then, placing them in the burning sand, with the sun heating into their eyeleaa sockets, commencing at their feet, ent them into small piecea with bolos, adding every possible feature of torture except burning. The other two members of the constabulary escaped to Sorsogon, where, nearly dead from an awful race of ten miles, they tried to convey some idea of the fate of their comrades. Only a portion of the remains of the captives were found when the spot was visited by an armed force later. A canic Eruption In West Indies. Tha City af Pae The Sheridan yard of the Pan Handle railroad at Pittsburg, waa the scene Tuesday evening of the moat disastrous explosion and fire known in this section for many years. A score of lives were lost and about 200 persona were so bsdly burned that according to the judgment of phyeiciana in attendance 75 per cent of them will die from the effects of their injuries. The cause of the catastrophe was the explosion of a train of naphtha cars, which were being switched at the yard. In the switching the rear car telescoped a car forward. The leaking naphtha ignited from a switch light, causing au explosion which threw the flames 50 feet high. The first car of naphtha exploded about 4:40 oclock, and the spectacle soon attracted a large crowd on the streets lining the hills on both sides of and parallel to the railroad. The second car exploded about 5 oclock, but it waa 6:13 o'clock when three more care of the deadly stuff went up with a roar that could be heard for milea and the work of destruction really began. The successive explosions had heated the air to such an extent that befors the third explosion many were rendered unconscious by theextieme heat and the gaseous fumes and were being carried away when the torrent of flams swept over the excited crowd. There waa an awful hush for a moment. Then followed a scene of frenzy. Men end women, their clothing ablaze, their faces scorched and blist. ered and their hair burped off theii heads, ran wildly shrieking hither and thither, only intent on escaping from that awful furnace of fire. Some gave vent to frenzied appeals to kill them and put them out of their miaery, and little children, with their curly locks and light summer clothing small pillars of fire, cried piteoualy as they were swept along by the tide of burning humanity. Marti-alqa- s, la Eaeupa. From tlU Island of Martinique, in the Weat Indies, cornea a story of one of the most horrible catastrophe! that conld be imagined. While the citizena of SL Pierre were pursuing their daily occupations, suddenly the volceno oi Mount Pelee exploded and fire from il swept the whole town, destroying practically all of the inhabitants of the eity and vicinity. About 1,000 of the population waa composed of white people, all of whom, it ia reported met MANY HOMES IN MOURNING-- ' Victims of tha Flttaburg Disaster Include at Least oua Fersou la Almost Every Homo In the Vicinity. A careful and systematic search for the dead and Injured in the Sheraden horror of Monday reveals a list oi twenty-thrdead and 202 injured. The complete list of the injured may Bt. i'lrrra, lalaad of Dsstrojod aud of tho Eatlra Fopulatloa of tho City But Thirty n Iajaras Vol- , ee never be known, as many were able to get away without making known theii identity, A conservative estimate by those familiar with the situation places the number more or less seriously hurt at not less than 300. The scenes in and around Sheraden Tuesday were pitiful in the extreme. Practically every house in the village bad one or more injured inmates, aud in many homes mourning families were gathered about the charred and distorted remains of loved ones who ware victims of the terrible calamity. Many children were caught by the flames, and as a result the two public school buildings were almost deserted. death. The governor of the colony and hii ataff and wife were in SL Iierre and probably perished. The inhabitants of the southern districts of the island, who were dependent on SL Pierre for provision!, are menaced by famine. The ernption began Saturday, May 3rd, when SL Pierre was covered with asbea end appeared to be enveloped in fog The flow of the lava continued nntil Wednesday, May 7th. Itia now believed that over 40,000 people, native and white, met death in the terrible catastrophe. LESS THAN FIFTY SURVIVE TO TELL THE TALE. Latest News from Scene of Terrible Disaster la Martinique Confirm the First Reports. Relief parties have ventured into the treeta of St. Pierre, says a Castries, St. Lucia, dispatch to the New York Herald. It waa not expected that survivors would le found, and so there haa been no disappointment at the mournful reports that have been re- turned. Piles of dead in the vicinity of the site of the cathedral tell the story of the attempt to find the sanctuary and refuge in the great structure of worship. Men and women, at the cataclysm, turned in the moment of their despair to the cathedral, and were apparently overcome before they could reach its doors. So far the search haa been hindered by the fires that are still raging, and the investigators are in great danger. From tbe positions of the bodies the opinion is formed that many were overcome almost before they realized the extent of the peril. Many of tbe e bodies are in positions, aa come a breath, with had though death case. been have the as, indeed, may to been have taken prevent Steps disease resulting from the disaster. Burial parties ere working night and day, but it is impossible that tbe dead can be cared for as their friends would wish. Military rule is established in the town to prevent vandals from working. Such property us has not been deOne of the stroyed will be protected. from arises misfortunes tbe fact great that the storehouses of provisions have been swept out of existence. Search parties have found 3,000 charred corpses on the site of the cathedral. All appear to have been asphyxiated at first. Not a sonl wae found alive in the whole town. panic-stricke- n -- life-lik- A dispatch received in Washington from San Juan, Porto Rico, says the cable officials there have received dis patches from the island of Dominica that A schooner which has arrived there from the Island of Martinique reports that over forty thousand people are supposed to have perished during the volcunic disturbance in Martinique. The cable repair ship. GrapDEAD AT ST. VINCENT. ple, belonging to the West India and Panama Telegraph company of LonIt Is Believed That Five Thousand Llvsa don, waa lost with all lianda during Were Kacrlliccd. the eruption of Mount lelee at SL Mount Colima, Iu Mcxlro, Shows IndicaReports from tiie island of SL VinThe Grappler cent, Danish West Indies, say that np Pierre, Martinique. tion of Great Eruption. Tha Colima volcano, according to a waa one of the first ships to disappear. to the afternoon of Friday laat over 200 deaths had occurred there owing to dispatch from Guadalajara, Mexico, The following cablegram has just the volcanic outbreak in that island. shows strong indications of a great eruption, and the inhabitants living in Imcd received at the elate department Definite news, however, ia lacking. the valley at its base are moving to a from the United States conaul at Point Many estates were destroyed and safe distance from the peak, from steam and ashes were belched forth THIRTY THOUSAND ARE DEAD- At 7 a. m., on the 6lh inst, a storm from 7 in the morning until 9:30 at which smoke and puffs of flame have Awfal Remits Rain of Fire Vf blah Swept been belching for several days. Mount of steam, mud and fire enveloped th night. The eruption is now invisible Over 8b Fierro. Colima has eruption for city of Pierre and vicinity. Not more at Kingston. Huge dnat clouds were It now seems to be generally admit- several weeks, this condition causing than twenty persons escaped with theii blown eastward. ted that about 30,000 persons lost their the work of constructing the extension lives. Eighteen vessels were burned Great distress prevails at SL Vincent, lives as a result of the outbreak of the of the Mexican railroad to Manzanillo and sunk with all on board, including where there are many injured persons. Mont Pelee volcano at St. Pierre on passing near the bsse of the mountain four American vessels and a steamei It is believed that abont 5,000 persons cease temporarily. The route of from Quebec named Roraime. Thf have lost their lives at St. VincenL Thursday last. Briefly put, laat Thurs- to the extension will be United States consul and family arc The majority of the corpses are still day morning the city of St. ierre dis- in order to avoid probably changed disaster any possible reported among the victims. A wai un buried. appeared within ten minutes, in a that an eruption might bring. vessel has come to Guadeloupe for prowhirling fire vomited from Mont Pelee; r ing of Cuba Flouts Over Slorro Castle. Girl Raves tha Lives of Thirty Men. visions and will leave at 5 tomorrow 30,000 persons were instantly and horAt 7:30 o'clock Sunday morning a The presence of mind of Miss Katie The state department has been reribly killed, and the volcano, whose ancient crater for more than fifty years Henderson saved thirty men employed ceiving dispatches from commercial large Cuban flag was hoisted over had been occupied by a quiet lake in in the quarries at West Cosliohkeu. 1a.. houses in New York, asking that wai Morro castle at Havana, a signal that which picnic parties bathed, suddenly from death or injury. Miss Hender- ships be sent at once to Martinique to the steamer Julia, with Iresideul-elec- t and his party onboard had been discharged a torrent of fiery mud which son resides a short distance from the afford relief. The matter is under con- Ialrna Cheers went up from the sighted. rolled toward the sea, engulfing every- quarry, and aa she looked from a win- sideration. thousands who lngl awaited the Julia's thing before it. Then the last of cable dow, she saw that the roof of the powsince The consul arrival ia at Thomas daybreak, cheers for the men Martinique communication was broken and the der magazine was blaziLg. The and the Hag which was new He r. Prentiss. in wss born president aware waa isolated from in nut were Michigan the at work doomed city the quarry of their danger nntil she ran to the and was appointed from Massachu- hoisted over the famous fortress for world. aa time. It was a moment of exquarry and named them, not a second setts consul at Seychelle islands in the first HAITI REBELS TRIUMPH. too soon. While the men and Miss 1871, and later served aa consul at Port altation for the Cubans, and tlie fact Govsramsut Baa Passed Over to tbe Henderson were fleeing there was n Louis, Mauritits, Rouen, France, and that the stars and stripes floated from terrible explosion. The air was filled Uatavia. lie was appointed consul at its customary pole over the castle did with splinters, stones and dirt, which Martinique in 1JOO. The not lessen their enthusiasm, A dispatch from Port au Prince says showered upon their heads. ia Ames sucat been who have revolutionists the Martinique that Tesart, lsacs In Mouth A fries Almost Assured. was born and appointed from Louisicessful and that a provisions! governVessel Carrying Treasure Is I out al Sea A dispatch from Delagoa Ray, PortThe .latest available ment has been established under the The German steamer Sakkarah, Cap- ana in 1808. uguese Fast Africa, says that peace in presidency of Hoiaroud Canal, a former tain Piening. hns become a total loss at figures show the total population of South Africa is certain to result froia chief magistrate of Haiti. He save all Iliiainlilin island, off the coast ofClii!-- . the Island of Martinique at 185,000, of the conference of the Boer leaders U the towns of the republic are in a state The fate of the crew urd piissi'iii'i - i. whom 25,000 lived at St, Pierre, and, be held at Vereening, Transvaal, May Roisroud Canal was not known. The cargo of the vom-'- . according to Mr. Ayme, have nearly 15th. It is said, the of revolution, dispatch continues, elected president of Haiti July I'.'. included Sl.MKI.ihiil in gool specie, all perished. that peace will be officially proclaimed A revolution against hi in broke out in which wits being remitted hy the ChilMay 201 h. Preparations are afoot foi Tbe commander of the French 187V, and he resigned about July 17 ean coverniueiit. left The general rejoicings. of that year. He was succeeded by Valparaiso, Chile, April VI for Haul cruiser, Suchet, hss telegraphed to the minister of Marine, M. Do Lanes-sa- n, Tragril; at l'nrllwnil. General Salomon. burg. under dale of Thursday, May 81b, About 8 o'clock Sunday evening a Thu Tlii.nmiuil Corpsn In n t'srlxMiU.il RACE WAR IS ON. known aa 10 as follows: at Cockney m.f p. longshoreman Cowlp luu. Have just returned from St. Pierre, George' was shot and instantly killed Five Nsfross aad Oua Whits Baa Shot at As a result of the measures taken by which has been completely destroyed by a man named James Williams. The Bragg. Inillaa Territory. the authorities, access to St. Pierre is an immense mass of fire, which fell men had been drinking together, and A race war ia on at Ilraggs, twenti now easier. The ruins of the town by town at about 8 o'clock in the a quarrel was started over the question on Five d the negroe-anmileaeastof Muskogee. have ceased smoking. Two t Iiiiiisiiik! The entire population of supper. Williams, becoming very one white man have been shut nml corpses have been found in a carbon morning. Seventy-fiv- e 25,000 one atabbed. souls) is supposed to have angry, went into a room adjoining that negroes ied condition. It is learned that tlx (about setwhite have brought back the in which the quarrel occurred, aud, tbe I to out perished. wipe attempted rain oT lire ceased at a distance of few about thirty. All the getting possession of a rifle, returned survivors, tlement of fifteen families near llraggs. from the village of Lu Carbet which ia one of the worst districts in in the harbor haa been de- and shot Cockney George" through hipping with survivors of the disaster tbe Indian Territory. The whites Talk fire. The eruption continthe heart. Williams escaped, but as Klateiii-.-ntby eon stroyed to tirnis the us awin' have applied to the United States . he is well known his arrest will probmarahal for protection, and have been suddenness of the catastrophe. Thcr-- ue." ably soon be made. was no seek to time safety themabsolutely instructed to arm and protect Other Great Disasters. in Might. selves. Qaarrsl Kails la Death. Earthquakes and volcanio disturbances of the past show the following loss of life: Awful Uaalh of Ifraxlllaa Acroaaat. Ten days ago C. A. Walker of Lead-villA W lilrlwlml of Yulmnlr Gasans Year Pines Lives lost si. I 'Ierre. The death of Senhor Severo, the BraCola, took one of the guests at TV Pompeii Z.000 to the theater. liia boarding-hou- se The path of the volcano lava which Sift Cilicia zilian seronsut, who with an assistant 80,0 Tbe next day the woman was teased was killed by the explosion of his air- swept over St.' Pierre is innrkeil out in KUS Naples, thirty villages ruined 70.0UC 1807 Schsmskl, lasted three months abont it by another miner named Jay 80,00( ship at La Paix, France, in which lie a strange manner. The vicinity o! KM Sicily, 151 cities, towns and villages Site told Walker, and he and waa making a trial trip, created terri- the shore, where vessel anchored, w io Taylor. wrecked 100.00C Tbe qnnrrel waa ble consternation. The aeronaut fell swept hy a whirwind of volcanic ;ra. 1703 Jcdilo, quarreled. Taylor SOO.OOC Japan renewed Saturday and Taylor knocked into the Avenue Du Marne and was which ripped, lure and shattered 1731 Peking 100.0UL 40.000 Walker down. He kicked him and dashed to pieces. The bones of his very thing in its path, but left few 1754 Grand Cairo North Persia 40,000 of forced solea the i otlu-wars of cinders traces then walked away. Walker rose to behind. On the through legs (755 Lisbon fio.000 hie boots. The rnglneer who accoin- - hand, the front, the center and udjuin 1707 hia feet, and drawing a revolver fired Country Between Rants Fa and him was burned to death. The ing parts of St. Pierrr are buried uudi-- i Panama two shuts, one of which pierced Tay40,000 Ipanied said to bavt been caused by a thick layer of cinders which conTcjwds In Peru and Ecuador 25,000 lor's hearL killiug him instantly. a leakage of gas. sumed everything beneath it. tqued f -- vice-cons- -- ul . e, hsi-Ove- 1 han, AM-Sav- eral |