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Show FAIfi sIuMl H 411 k I Great Fissures Open in the Ground and a City is Destroyed Tashkent. Asiatic Russia, Jan. 4. A violent earthquake was felt at various var-ious points of Russian Turkestan, ! from 4 to 420 o'clock this morning. Manv buildings were destroyed and there "were a number of fatalities, though the loss of life is not as yet known. Great fissures opened in the ground. Practicallv all of the stores and residences resi-dences at Vyerny, the capital of the territory of Sorairetchensk,, were de-stroved de-stroved and damaged. The city has a population of 23,000. ' Communication In the disturbed dls- i trict is interrupted. ! London, ,Jnn. 4. An' earthquake l of gigantic proportions was recorded by the seismograph at the observatory observa-tory at West Bromwlch, between 11-35 o'clock last night, and 3:5G o'clock this morning, apparently 3,000 or 44,000 miles to the eastward. The oscillation was so violent that the I needle of the Instrument collapsed. COLLISION OPSINS Five Men Dead and Others Injured Near Spokane Spokane, Wash., Jan. 4. Because Burlington train No. 2 was two minutes min-utes late in taking the aiding at Cheney early today, flvo men are dead, one Is dying, three are badly Injured and two coaches are kindling wood Rushing down the main line at a speed which the brakes could not stop, the North Coast Limited, east-bound, east-bound, struck the waiting train and crushed out the lives of every man In the two Pullmans, besides injuring injur-ing a score of trainmen and passengers. passen-gers. The Known Dead. STARR, of Seattle, express messenger. North Coost Limited.! G. L. WARREN, superintendent Spokane Orphans' home, residence near Davenport, Wash W. B. MASON, porter, rear Pullman, Pull-man, No. 42, eastbound. OLIVER, porter, Chicago. "UNIDENTIFIED MAN. One porter, name unknown, is fatally fa-tally Injured, his chest badly crushed. A traveling bag was found bearing the name of O. E. Brown, 2504 H street, Omaha, Neb , with instructions to notify R. A. Cavanaugh, secretary Illinois Commercial Travelers association, associ-ation, Chicago. The owner has not been found The Burlington "train No. 42, east-bound, east-bound, arrived in Cheney In plenty of time to mako tho siding. An unexplained un-explained delay of five minutes saw the Burington train still on tho main line with the North Coast coming at a terrific speed down the mile of straight track approaching the yards. The engineer of tho North Coast train applied the air brakes, but was unable to get his train under control. con-trol. It crashed Into the rear of tho Burlington at a speed estimated at from 35 to 40 miles 4m hour. The huge locomotive ploughed through tho standing train for three car lengths before It was stopped. That the death list is no larger is due to tho fact that there were only six persons In the two Pullmans. Not a man in the Burlington standard -sleepers- escaped with" his lifer v The Pullmans were smashed to splinters. Two coaches on the front of the Burlington train were shoved off the traok, but the entire North Coast train remained on the rail. nn |
