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Show WILL BOYCOTT JOHN. That's What the California Anti-Chi-nese Convention Propose to Do With the Heathen. New York and Washington Still Ont in the Cold. Diabolical Attempt to Bnrn or Blow Up Six Men in East St. Loni. Devilish Work in East St. Louts. St. Louis, February 5. A terrible attempt -upon human life was perpetrated last night shortly after 10 o'clock in the Bhanty near the railroad track in. East St. Louis. The railroad men who happened to be out were attracted to the shanty by the glare of fire and the . HEAET-EENDINQ SCHKAM3 USD .CEIE3 From six men who were in the shanty. The door was broken down and two men rushed 1 out enveloped in flames, while four others ! were carried out and rolled in the snow. The faces of the victims were blackened, and long strips of flesh peeled off, presenting a horrible sight. The unfortunate men were taken to a relay depot, and while there told how the fire originated. They had strolled into the shanty, one by one, to get warm, and were sitting around the stove talking when suddenly THE STOVE BURST OPEN And flames leaped all over the room, enveloping envel-oping the men before they could turn to the door. The fire was the result either of a practical joke or a deliberate attack on their lives to settle old grudges. The strange manuer from which the fire started canonly be accounted for on the ground that some wretch poured oil or powder down the chimney chim-ney to the stove. It is said the man who perpetrated the deed is known, as he had A GBUDGE AGAINST ONE OF THE MEN, And declared but recently that he would get even if it took years to do it. Near the shanty was found an oil can. The railroad men who ran to the rescue saw a man retreating re-treating from the shanty. . If the man had been captured he would have been lynched. The six men are all fearfully burned, but it cannot be learned whether any of them are fatally injured or not. |