Show TE TELEGRAPH TIDINGS A saloon in arkana arkana buried in ft i bums ruins with all its inmates fearful fatal gas explosion Ez in ill a fashionable cafe in pane paris by w V U to the geraldl Heral dl dreadful disaster LITTLE ROCK july 12 A special from texarkana Tex arkana says tho lightning struck chiola new 3 story brick to night tile walls fell on the tile paragon sal saloon 0 grusbin crushing cru ahing it to atoms about 30 lio lives 1 14 were wort 1 lost t some somo of the bodies have already been taken out and workmen are nrc searching forthe for the others A firo fro has broken out under the ruins LITTLE HOCK july 12 A special from texarkana Tex arkana gives the tile following particulars tic ulars about pm a storm far broke ko out with heavy wind rain and lightning at about 7 1 p in ill ghiela new building a largo large 3 etory story brick brie almost completed was struck by y lightning and fell in a mass on oil the top of a frame build building known as the paragon saloon aloon burying every everything thin beneath the ruins it was raining in torrents at the time and kept up tho the showers until 10 pm the lamps in the saloon set fira to thu the ruins from underneath aab and burns burn cd ed slowly upward every man and water bucket in toi town were brought into use water was thrown on the fire but finally broke out beyond all control t and burned two frame build ings in next to the paragon and now at midnight it ia is burning inside the ruins ruins two persons had bad been balten out it is ill impossible possible to give the exact number ef af pf elioso buried in the ruins A agort report says there arc are between 20 and 30 0 two or three different parties who came out of th the a para paragon on 0 only a few moments before the accident eay say there were at least 30 men in the building 9 the names of some well known to be in the ruins are mayfield mercer Il harper arper terrible excitement prevails men women and children are bously for relatives and they cant find in the immense crowds and afraid that they arc are killed the loss to property is estimated at about or it tho the loss of life can not be estimated but will reach twenty persons july 13 12 1280 1230 30 am the remains of mayfield cid ze one of the proprietors prie tors has been taken out A man wan and a boy lunch counter are being taken out dead the fire is now supposed to be under control three men have been taken out that are living criminal carelessness WHEELING 1 va july 12 in the sc oto invests investigation ti on today to day th the c pilot 13 J long of th tho I 1 ziomas amas boat which sunk alic testified that beldad never before a boat from wheeling to Steu steubenville Steuben benville villo E n tv McCann te testified stifled that long got the signals for tile management of the boat all mixed up and gave him wrong ones democrats at decatur drca DECATUR TUR tex july 12 tho the fifth congressional district democratic convention nominated ex governor throckmorton throckmorton made a speech accepting tb the e nomi nomination nation mourning and und desolation panis PARIS july 12 early this morning tile escape of gas tas in a rate cafe of efthia this city was noticed and a slight ceplo eion mon even alarmed the people in the cafe fearing a calamity the proprietor went to the nearest maine to ask to have the matter attended to hardly biad la ho 10 started when a terrible explosion occurred in his owa own cellars the file whole front of the building was blown to atoms over twelve persona persons are believed to have been killed and nearly fifty were wounded A among moda them thern is a Commis Cominis saire de police licea ft captain of the firemen seventeen firemen of the rank and file and several sergeants nM de bille the news spread with the rapidity of lightning immense crowds crowd scon con gre gated at all approaches to the municipal Palace excitedly asking fox news of tho the missing friends and relatives at 2 when I 1 visited the tile spot the crowd wasas was as cicat as ever ill the 0 whole quarter which a few hours before was gayly getting ready flags and lanterns lor for the national fete was a scene of mourning and de solution coast chart charts NEW YOKE july 13 tho the heralds washington special says the tile hydrographic office lias has recently issued a number of charts of the harbors on the west coast of mexico from cape Corri corrientes entes to mangrove bluffs which also completed the survey to the gulf of fen benca the coast chart charl will be published at an early day it is intended to extend tho the survey to the gulf dulco in costa luca and when completed tho the american charts will be the most recent and complete of th alio c west coast from cape corrientes Corri entes to tho coast of costa kica this important work is in charge of commander phillips of the U S surveying steamer grangr and lias has been admirably done A harbor chart of manzanillo Manzani IIo bay is in hand for early publication and the cliart chart of acapulco is already in issue it is intended to publish at once a chart of altata in the gulf of california forn ia tina this chart will be important as it is the western terminus of the railroad through the province of sino loa which wilt will ultimately be a shipping p point 0 int of considerable magnitude jhc r lle survey of the tile west coast of mexico exico 11 and central america will be especially useful to the california trade as convenient harbor and shelters which mav become the centers of a paying trade aro are being developed and made known this work including a circle of charts of the whole west coast with its harbors will bo be a contribution to commerce and to the hydrographic knowledge of the world worthy odthe united fc tates which up to this thiB time has been dependent upon survey by foreign governments to a great extent for information regarding foreign waters nine very excellent harbor charts 1 have already been be aubri published mhd and at least an equal num number er n not 0 including the coast charts cli arts aro are yet to be engraved |