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A few stoves and a few pieces ot Graniteware left. O. J. BLACKLEDGE. Ogden Utah, Feb. 19, Twenty (onr persons were killed' and 12 badly injured this afternoon by the explosion of a carload of dynamite, caused by a head-on collision at JacksoD, a telegraph station on the Ogden-Lucin cut-off of the South ern Pacific company, 85 miles west of Ogden. Eight of the dead and five of the injured are Americans. The others are Greeks. The collision occurred between two extra trains, and was caused it was said, by the airbrake apparatus on one train failing to operate. The explosion which followed the colli sion was tern be, every thing within a radios of half a mile being wreck ed. The report was heard in this city, 85 miles away. Several outfit cars, occupied by Greeks, were com pletely demolished, and the occu pants blown several hundred feet from .the track. . The telegraph of fice was 'shattered and Operator Taylor and his wife injured.. Fore man Burke, bis wife and three chil dren and his brother, who were standing ntar the station, were shot 5JUI" feet through the air and in stantly killed. When the news of the accident reached headquarters in this city, a special train with doctor?, nurses and stretchers .was hurriedly dis patched to the scene of the diba'tar. Late tonight this train returned to Ogden with the injured. The town of Terrace, 15 miles to the north, on the main line of. the Southern Pacific, was shaken as by t n earthquake. The telegraph sta tion at CoIop, 15 miles distant, and everv window pane broken. The explosion was so tremendous that the first knowledge of the dis a afcr inatnarl rf tknn rnia! vrasl Ymr telegraph from the scene of the aster, was communicated from. Ter race and Lucin, operators at those points reporting to headquarters that an explosion had occurred. The people of Terrace, looking across the old lake bottom, saw an im mense cloud of white Btnoke ascend from Jackson point, and spread out at a great height and then flames buret forth. This lniormation was given to Lucin, and a lineman -was started out from that station on a handcar to inquire into the disaster, and it possible repair the damage to the telegraph line, communication by wire over the cut-of having been destroyed. He had not gone far when an engine and a caboose was met carrying the dying and wound ed. Where the explosion occurred there was a hole blown into the ground large enongh to bnry a train. 500 yards of track were dis placed and three miles of telegraph ples blown down. The dead -were scattered for hundreds of feet in all directions, and a majority of the victim b had their clothes blown off. One Greek was found headless, and the arms and legs of the children of Section Foreman Burke were torn off. A laborer was pulled out of the burning debris, his lower limbs on fire. The injured were covered with blood and one heroic little wo man, her face scarred with deep gashes thst poured out a stream of blood, unmindful of her own inju r'es, helped gather up the dead and dying. - A witness to the scene of destruc tion said he walked out to where the children were, naked in death, and threw a few garments over them. A few feet away was the mother and just beyond the father and his brother a whole family wiped ;u,t. Of 4&.jersons at Jackson's point when the explosion occurred, only nine escaped without wounds. - London, Feb. i9. Lloyd's ; this afternoon are asking a premium of 3O per cent, against and outbreak of an Anglo-French war within the next three months. This high late is baBed on the fact that France has not given a formal declaration of neutrality, beyond a vague state ment Delcasse.-' Also that France allowed Russia to use Jibuti!, in the French colony at the head of the Red sea, as a base for the rendez vous of the Russian fleet. This is decidedly contrary to the usage of other neutral powers, and the Brit iah foreign office is very uneasy a- bout the outlook while the admiral-) ty is preparing for a quick mobil ization in case of eventualities. v . In view of all this Great Britain has practically secured an option for the purchase of five Chilian war vessels and is in other ways active in putting herself on a great war basis "''.''-. MANY. SLAIN. RUSSIANS DEFEATED IN LAND BATTLE. BIG Reports Are That More Than Two Thousand Russians Were Slain and Their Lines Driven . Back Other : News. . ' St. Petersburg, Sunday, Feb. 21. I have authority which prohibits me doubting the veracity of the re port, that in spite of the official dis patches stating that nothing is tak ing place and everything is perfect ly quiet, outposts engagements have taken place on the Yalu resulting iu the Russian Advance Guards be ing ' drivn back with considerable losses, which are estimated' at 2500 lives, but whether this, means those who fell on the Yalu or the) entire Russian losses since the commence ment of the war is not exactly clear. undone to add to' the general feeU ing of unrest within the country, and-have Beized on the defeats' of Russian naval forces in the Far East as a pretext for their agitation. At the word of a fresh" Russian re verse, the trouble is to be begun with demonstrations against the govern ment in all of the principal cities of the empire. The revolutionists are declared to be well armed and equipped and to have a well-nigh perfect organization, and that nam bered in the ranks are some of the best-known persons in Ruesia. In . addition thousands of students are enrolled as members, and many of the rank and file of the army and navy have sworn allegiance to the movement. Paris, ; Feb. 20 Fourteen ' em ployes of a celebrated comb factory at the Boulevard Sebastopol and the Rue Etinne Muriel lost their lives in a fire which was started by an explosion of gas. Twenty oth ers were injured. The explosion which occurred in a room in trie iourtn story, a rove bricks and pieces of glass againtt a house on the other side of the street and immense jets of flame followed immediately. Soon the entire strnc ture. was on tire, (simultaneously with the appearance of the flames, a number of men and women em ployed on the upper stories, and who had been eating their luncheon, ap peared at th, windows and shrieked for assistance. 1 bree men attempt ed to drop from a window to a bal cony beneath it, but missed it, fell to the pavement and were killed. The firemen arrived shortly after ward and devoted themselves first to saving as many of the endanger ed persons as possible. Several were rescued. One couple showed great presence of mind, occasional ly opening a window for air and closing it to prevent the spread of fire. It was not long before the flames were under control, ' and then a search for the dead was made. In a corridor leading through to the street five of the victims were found against the .wall. They had been asphyxiated and then inciner ated. In all, 14 bodies were con veyed to the moige, where they a wait identification. Five persons were taken from the building badly burned," two of whom will die. The damage is estimated at $10,000. Nieu Schwang, Feb. 2r. A Jap anese victory is reported near the Yalu River, but is unconfirmable from any source. According to the report current here a large part of the forces both Russians and Jap anese were engaged. The Russians are said to have lost several thous and men. There are no details of the engagement obtainable. New York, Feb. 20. The Amer ican prints the following cable from its London correspondent: A dispatch from Tokio today says: ' ' ' ' "Cannonading was heard this' morning off Mihonoseki, north- of Shimane Peninsula, - ."Three unidentified warships ap peared of Okurijl and Kntogori to day apparently searching for a ca ble. - . 'The steamship Tamagawa Ma- ru, which has arrived at fehimone- seki, reports that she was followed seven miles off Fusan by four Rus sian warships and that the chase was abandoned near Tsushima. ii IE. E.WILSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. OSce '.3 ? J-o'.f BaiUing. Comllis. Or B. A. CATHEY, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. Office. Room 14, First National Bank Bnilding, Uorvallis, Or. Office Hoars, ip to 12 a, m., 2 to 4 p. nu New York, Feb. 21. The Ameri can's Tokio cable, dated February 2I, sayB: .Russian warships are re ported beeween Japan and Uorea transports carrying troops across are heavily conveyed in conse quence. - Half the Japanese fleet is , J i.X occupied in surveying inu protect ing the landing of troops in Corea and the other half is searching for the Vladivostok warships. 1 The prefectural office has received a telegram from the chief magistrate of the Island of Miyaki, south of the Gulf of Corea, reporting that 12 Russians1 debarked in a boat from a vessel in the offing on February I9. The subsequent movements of this mysterious party are not reported, but inquiry is under way. . The Russians were probably seeking to cut the cable, s s three warships were reporled off Okushiri Island today searching for the cable. Warsaw, Feb. r. Heavy siege guns are nemg mounted on the coast 15 versts (ten miles) from O- dessa. They will cover the ap proacb of the harbor. Russia's feverish military and naval activity belies the optimistic official assurances to the effect that nothing untoward is anticipated and that no other power is expect ed to beconte involved in the pres ent conflict. Port Townsend, Wash., Feb 21. While the revenue steamer Area ta was tenporarily moored at Fri day Harbor dock Friday afternoon, the crew was engaged in shooting at paesing ducks with a rifle. A bird pasEed over the vessel and a coalpasser, Alfred Go9bel, leveled his rifle just as William L. Sayre, one of the Warrant engineers, came into range. A heavy bullet plough ed through the head of the unfor tunate man, entering at the base of the skull and coming out at the mouth, killing him instantly. A coroner's jury was empaneled at Friday's Harbor, investigated the case and rendered a verdict exoner ating Goebel, who is frantic , with grief. Sayre had been several years in the service and left a wife residing at San Jrancisco. Baltimore, FetClcj- The Balti more Underwriter in its issue to morrow will print a list of all the fire insurance ' companies involved in the Baltimore fire. . The total los is $32,864,800, of which $6, 000.000 falls on the local compan ies. The estimated total of salvage lis $1,769,700, which leaves a net Racine. Wis., Feb. 20. All that remains of the Racine county in sane asylum is smouldering ashes, the loss aggregating $114,UUU. All of the I33 patients escaped, though rescue. in many caBes was accom plished with difficulty, as some of the inmates fought their rescuers and tried to plunee back into the burning building. The patients were air finally as sembled and brought to the city on a special tram, where they were cared for at the City Hall, the po lice offices and the courthouse, Merchants ' offered ' bedding and clothing liberally. Many of the patients were thinly clad and suf fered much from the severe cold. Washington, Feb. 20. Comman der TakeBhita, naval attache of the Japanese legation, states that the report published this morning that a Japanese cruiser and torpedo boat were sunk in the engagement off ' Chemulpo is entirely unfounded. The official report of Admiral Uriu, commanding' the Japanese squad ron on that occasion, states that there were no casualties on the Jan-' anese side. . Tientsin, eb. zz. what is re ported to have been a band of Chun chuzes, but is believed to have been a scouting party of Japanese, at tacked the Russian force of railroad guards at Fu Chan and attempted to destroy the raliway. A pitched battle followed, and the attacking party was driven on: with loss. London, teb. 7.1. The corres pondent of the London Times ca bles that the British cruiser Am pbitaile has sailed for Hong Kong with the Russian wounded who were injured in the battle of Che mulpo, in which the Kussian cruis er Variag was destroyed. They will be landed there, and and, on giv ing their parole cot to fight again during the war unless exchanged, will be taken care of by Russian a- gents. A dispatch from Shanghai to the Times states that the Russian con sul is making arrangements to send the Russian refugees from Chemul po and the survivors df the cruiser Variag, who have been brought to Shanghai, to Odessa. They are des titute and suffering, and the Rus sian consul is unable to supply their wants. - Tien Tsin. Feb. 20. There has been obtained in Niu Chwang from an officer who survived the explosion on the Yenesi details of the acci- - dent which destroyed the ship. ihe xenesi was engaged in lay ing the 400 mines. Three . hun ered and ninety eight had already . been planted, but the three hun dred and ninety-ninth floated in stead of sinking. Thereupon the ' Yenesi drew off and fired her light gun in an effort to sink or explode it. While thus occupied a lookout discovered that the ship had drif ted near another mine. He gave the alarm and jumped overboard Immediately afterward there was ' terrific explosion. One hundred; and ninety officers and men, incln- , ding the captain, were killed and 90 others were picked up in boats. The official laying the mines was ' the only man in the fleet knowing' exactly how the mines were dispo sed. He was killed. A violent storm followed the explosion and the mines came to the surface and floated in all directions The next day the crusier Boyarin was sent to assist in securing the derelicts. The Boyarin was caught in a stormy and driven on the rocks and there became a total wreck. The loss of the Russian fleet to date is 11 large ships wrecked) or permanentely damaged. Trains running from Port Arthur to Har-;. bin are greatly delayed." The line is cloeely guarded. Geneva, Feb. 20. Russia is facing a revolution of great magnitude, and the uprising may come at any moment. At the headquarters of the central revolutionary Russian committee this evening it was stat ed that reliable advices received from St. Petersburg show that eve rything is now in readiness for a far reaching revolutionary move ment. "The men who have pre pared the g-ound have left colhing Berlin, Feb. 20. The Jews here have received information that the Russian government has expelled the entire Israelite population of Omsktomsk, Yakutsk, and ail towns on the route of the Trans- Sirerian railway, on the ground that they might betray their mili tary secrets to the Japanese. The expelled Jews are not allowed to use the railway and are compelled to take a long tramp through the snow aud cold to places of safety. Three thousand are affected, many of whom are liable not to survive the hardships of the journey. Paris, Feb. 20. According to the St. Petersburg correspondent of the Figaro, the . Russian government fearing for the safety of the battle Bhip Oslabya and the cruisers Dum try, Donskoi and Aurora and their convoy of torpedo-boat destroyers and transports, now at Jubitil,. French Somaliland. at the entrance to the Red Sea, has cabled orders to the admiral in command to return to Russian waters at once. It is known that a Japanese fly-. ing squadron is lying in wait to. capture this fleet should it altsmpt to continue its cruise toward Port A-tbur.