AN EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 4, 5 January 1901, Page 2

AN EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE.

TWENTY-SIX PERSONS KILLED.

THE BODIES FRIGHTFULLY MANGLED.

Mexico City, Deo. 5. Ail explosion of dynamite at mines of San Andres de la Sierra killed or wounded many miners. At the latest advices twenty-six dead bodies had been recovered. Fifteen injured persons, some of whom will die, were taken from the wreckage, and the ruins are thought to contain other victims. It is not known as yet how the explosion occurred, but nine cases of dynamite blew up at the powder house with an appalling roar, shaking the country for miles around. When the panic had partially subsided, wives and children of the miners hurried to the scene, finding all buildings wrecked and the dead bodies, fearfully mangled, lying about. The Late Oscar Wilde. New York, Nov. 30. The Herald’s London cable says Oscar Wilde died this afternoon at a small hotel in the Latin quarter of Paris. For the previous three days he had lain unconscious or in delirium from the effects of an abscess in his ear, which the doctors could not locate exactly. Inflammation from this gradually mounted to the brain, and he died attended by a few faithful friends, who declined to accept the general verdict of the world against him. His end must be compared to that of Verlaine, and it is interesting to note that Mr and Mrs Daventry’s play with the authorship of which Wilde was credited, is now the rage. The majority consider it very shocking, and everyone rushes to see .whether it is as bad as reported. Wilde, it is declared, was receiving one-fourth of the profits of the pieoe in whioh Mrs Patriok Campbell appears. Dublin, Nov. 30. A despatch to the Evening Mail from Paris says that Oscar Wilde died from meningitis, and was received into the Catholic Church on his deathbed; He had been living in an hotel on the Eue des Beaux Arts, where he had been known under the name of Manmoth. For some time he had been indisposed, and in October he was obliged to submit to a serious operation, from the effect of whioh he never recovered. Paris, December 1. The Journal says it is rumored that Wilde cemmitted suicide. Sir Arthur Sullivan’s Estate. London, Dec. 11. The late Sir Arthur Sullivan left an estate of about £50,000, nearly all of which goes to his nephew, H. Sullivan. He made. small bequests to his two other nephews and to Mrs Stephens, a niece who resides at Los Angelos, Cal., and bequeathed £IOOO each to his housekeeper and valet. Deceased also left a number of mementos from his silver and china to his persono.l friends, men and women, among them being Mrs Beachgrant, mother of Lady Essex, Mrs Eonalds, Mrs Doyley, Carte, and Mrs Crutchley, and also left a number of his original scores to the musical institutions and friends, Mrs Eonalds getting the score of “ The Lost Chord.” Deceased left his portrait to the nation.