Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1886 — Page 2

SljcPcmotraticScntinfl RENSSELAER, INDIANA, f. W. McEWEN, - Publishes

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Editorial comment in tbe Yale Courant, to the effect that Sunday services in the University are not what they should be, and that the students are fed on the “dry husks of religious conventionalism, which can hardly be expected to develop a practical and robust Christianity,” has created a sensation among the students and faculty. The total number of students in Harvard University this year is 1,077. The freshman class list bears 279 names, the largest on record. There are twenty-three Illinoisans in the co’lego. .. Bartholdi’s statue of Liberty, which was unveiled in the harbor of New York, was presented by the people of France, at a cost of $250,000. A still larger sum, with which to build the pedestal, was raised on this side of the Atlantic, mainly through the efforts of a New York journalist. The electric plant to light the statue was furnished by the Federal Government. The head of the goddess stands three hundred feet above the water. Among those participating in the ceremonies were M. Barthold', Count do Lesseps, President Cleveland and Cabinet, Gen. Sheridan, and the Governors of eight States Ilev. Dr. Phillips Brooks, in a sermon delivered in Boston, condemned the tendency to exclusivenoss manifested at the recent Epic cop 1 Conference in Chicago.

WESTERN.

In a curve near Pine Bluff, WisconHin, a wild train and a passenger train dashed togeth r, the engines being wrecked, and the baggage and mail cars, with their contents, burned. One man was killed and two others fatally hurt. Throe persons were severely wounded, and the engineer of the passenger train, who was caught in his cab, with his head and one of his legs crushed, was only rescued just in timo to prevent his being scalded to deatli. On the Grand Jury which, it is expected, will investigate the Haddock assassination at Sioux City, lowa, aro nine Democrats and throe other persons who are believed to bo opposed to the Prohibition law. It is believed that Henry Peters, a missing witness, was killed by tho assassins to prevent his revealing their names. A decomposed body found on tho 4th inst. at Crescent, lowa, and interred in tho Potters’ field at Council Bluffs, was exhumed, and an examination of the clothing lod to the almost complete identification of Peters. Tho jury in the Begley inquest at Chicago recommended that tho four prisoners who admit that they fired from the Pinkerton train, bo held to the Grand Jury without bail. Mr. Potheringliam, the express messenger who was robbed on tho San Francisco road, says tho perpetrator gave his name as Jim Cummings, tho last of the Jesse James gang, a participant in the Blue Cut train-rob-bery, which yielded him only $1,500. A. A. Mellier & Co., wholesale druggists at St. Louis, made an assignment. The firm place their assets at $30,000, with liabilities estimated at SIOO,OOJ. A poisoned well at Battle Creek, Mich., caused tho death of Mrs. G.' Winters, and tho serious illness of her three children and of a neighboring family. The dry-goods house of Shiply, Dorsey & Co., of Cincinnati, have asked an extension of time of their creditors. Tho firm's liabilities arc SBIO,OOO, with assets of $503,500. The building occupied by the Case School of Applied Science, in Cleveland, named after the late Leonard Case, by whom it was founded, was destroyed by fire. The laboratory, containing many chemicals, exploded. Total lo>s, $300,000. A disastrous accident occurred on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad at East* Rio, Wis., a passenger-train having been derailed by an -open switch. There aro conflicting storiqp as to tho loss of life, one dispatch stating that twenty-six persons were killed. A Wabash train which left St. Louis collided with a freight tram when ten miles out. Both engines were wrecked and an engineer and braktman were killed The banking-house of William M. Dustin, at Lincoln, 111., has suspended business, and an, assignment will bo made. Its liabilities are $230,001. Mr, Dustin wjs engaged in packing beof at Miles City, Montana, in company with Roselle M. Hough, who built the Chicago Stock Yards. Their buildings were burned last July, causing a loss of $40,000. The remains of thirteen victims of the railway wreck at Rio, Wis., were identified, bunt is believed that from seven to ten others perished in the blazing car. Two women, five childven, and three pinery laborers, who are known’to have been in the coach at tho time of tho disaster, are unaccounted .for. Later reports from Lincoln, 111., show that the Dustin hank failuro is greater than at first supposed, and that creditors will • not receive over 25 cents on the dollar. The propellers Eoauoke, Dean Richmond, and Wisconsin will run during tho winter on tho Milwaukee and Grand Haven routo. It is now claimed that the loss by the express robbery on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad amounts to at least $Bl,000. The de.eotives aro still watching Fotheringham, the messenger. Mrs. Henrietta Ohanfrau will present the latest New York success, “Tue Scapegoat,” by Sir Charles Young, author of “Jim the Penman,” at Me Vicker’s Theater, Chicago, the current week. The p:ay deals with the adventures of a woman who sets out to free her

husband from a charge of murder, and to put the crime upon the man who is really guilty. It is now claimed that the amount stolen from the Adams Express Company in the robbery on the St Louis & San Francisco Railroad will reach $121,000. Under the new tax law Armour propesos to manufacture even more oleomargarine than ever at his Kansas City house. An inquest held at Evansville, Vis., on the body of a stockman named Hamilton showed that his spinal cord was broken by a fall from a car at Barbaroo, and that he survived his injuries for a week. The official repor- of the recent disaster on the St Faui Road says that there were fourteen v.ctlms. The stock of apples in Chicago at the present time is estimated not to exceed 20,000 barrels, against the 401,000 barrels on hand a year ago, and there is little prospect of the Quantity becoming any larger. The last windstorm is reported to have boon very destructive to the winter apple crop of Michigan, and the supply from other sources can hardly make amends for the falling off in that region. It now looks as if there will be a decided scarcity of apples of good keeping quality, and that stocks of the evaporated fruit will be very light.

SOUTHERN.

No news can be received from Biloxi, Miss., as to the progress or decrease of the yellow fever epidemic supposed to exist there. It is believed that the correspondents of newspapers liavo been bulldozed into silence by the inhabitants of the place. Atlanta has no saloon within her limits, but the police picked up twenty-two drunken men on Saturday and Sunday. Editor Cutting, now at El Paso, Texas, is said to bo endeavoring to enlist 10,000 men, for the purpose of conquering three Mexican States. The recent dynamite explosion in the house of Commissioner Collins, at Cartersville, Ga., has been followed by the indictment for attempt to murder of Dr. Thomas H. Baker, one of the foremost citizens, an l his brother Gus. A killing frost occurred in Mississippi on the night of Oct. 28, and a light frost was reported along the river in the vicinity of New Orleans. Colonel S. L. James has sold to New York parties his plantation m Louisiana and the lease of the labor of the penitentiary in that Stato. A company will be organized to build levees and work the plantation with 1,000 convicts. A log cabin near Elat Rock, Knox County, Kv., was burned, the wife and five children of William Poe, and Misses Alico Carnes and Sallio Adams perishing in the flames. W. P. Payne, Prosecuting Attorney of McDowell County, West Virginia, had a drunken quarrel with his brother Albert, and killed him with a revolver. It is rumored in Vicksburg that C. P. Huntington and Leland Stanford intend to open and cultivate 100,(.00 acres of cotton land in the Yuzjo delta, on one of their railway lines. Six United States prisoners have been sentenced to be hanged in Fort Smith, Ark., Jan. 14, for murders committed in Indian Territory.

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

Under a decree of foreclosure, the Havana, Rantool and Eastern Railway, seventy-six miles in length, was sold at auction by tlio Marshal at Springfield, 111., for $100,003. At a meeting held in Atlanta by the Southern Passenger Association it was resolved that no more commissions on tickets bo paid. Somo of the roads will thus save $50,000 per annum. A committee of leading citizens of Omaha has requested the Northwestern Road to construct an iu dependent line from that city to Scribner, or some other .available point on its Nebraska extensions. 7 ’

WASHINGTON.

A couple of blooded dogs brought by a Virginian as a gift to the President got into a fight in liis presence, aud created a great racket. The dogs and their owner were finally put out of tho room, aud the presentation ceremony did not come off. The proclamation of tho President, reimbursing the 10 per cent, discriminating duties on Spanish imported products, is to be withdrawn, as Spain is to make concessions regarding duties on United States products imported into Spanish Wost Indian possessions. The announcement is temporary, in tlio expectation that permanent treaty arrangements will follow. Mr. Fairchild, First Assistant Secretary of tlio Treasury, says there is no legal provision for tlio cxc.usion of Mormon immigrants. Gen. Sheridan set aside the verdict of acquittal rendered by a court-martial in the case of Caps. W. S. Johnson, retired, who admitted having executed two sets of vouchers for his pay for the same month. In a building at Washington occupied by the fish commission a terrible fight took place between an Arizona lizird afad a Florida alligator, which had been thoughtlessly placed together on Ilie same floor. The latter received a dislocated shouldor and was probably fatally poisoned. Attorney General Garland has given an opinion to tho .Secretary of the Treasury that national hanks must deposit interestbearing bonds to secure their c rculation, and that the called 3 percent bonds cannot be used as a basis of circulation. It is proposed to renew the negotiations for au enlarged extradition treaty with Canada. It is estimated that the expenses of the postal service for the next fiscal year will aggregate $55,342,150, au increase of $976,286 over tho current year. President Cleveland has selected

Thursday, November 25, as a day of national prayer and thanksgiving. The official proclamation reads a 3 follows: It baa long been the eastern of the people of the United States, on a day in each year especially set apart for that purpose by their chief executive, to acknowledge the goodness and mercy of God and invoke His continued care and protection. In observance of such custom I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the 25th day of November, instant, to be observed and kept a 6 a day of thanksgiving and prayer. On that day let all our people forego their accustomed employments and assemble in their usual places of worship to give thanks to the Ruler of tne universe for our continued enjoyment of the blessings of a free government, for a renewal of business prosperity throughout our land, for the return which has rewarded the labor of those who till the soil, and for our progress as a people in all that makes a nation greut. And while we contemplate the infinite power of God in earthquake, flood, and sterm, let the grateful hearts of those who have been shielded from harm through His mercy be turned in sympathy and kindness toward those who have suffered through His visitations. Let us also, in the midst of our thanksgiving, remember the poor and needy with cheerful gifts and aims, so that our service may, by deeds of charity, be made acceptable in the sight of the Lord. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this Ist day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundredth and eleventh. By the President: Grover Cleveland. T. F. Bayard, Secretary of State.

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

The gamblers of Cincinnati have placed a boycott on the playmg-card-s manufactured by Russell, Morgan & Co., because of the determination of Police Commissioner Morgan to have all the gambling-houses closed. The National Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers re-elected their old officers, with P. M. Arthur as Grand Chief Engineer, whoso term is three years. Grand Master Workman Powderly lias interviewed Cardinal Gibbons, and it is said was assured that the Catholic Church will not interfere with the Knights.

MISCELLANEOUS. Flames wiped out the Jordan Block at Nasliville, Teim, valued at $100,0.0; sixteen buildings at Pocahontas, Va.; and a roll-ing-mill of the Old Colony Works at East Taunton, Mass. The nineteenth annual convention of the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of North America adjourned sine die at Chicago after a session of one week. A large amount of business was transacted, including the adoption of a financial plan for carrying on home and foreign mission work. Two druggists in Guatemala were recently put to death for giving poison and a bribe of $2,000 to a servant of the President to dispose of that official. The servant handed th s vial and the money to liis master. Business failures in the United States aud Canada for tho past week number 215, against 198 the previous wosk. Robert Evan Sproule, an American citizen, was hanged at Victoria, B. C. Hemet death without a tremor, and stoutly protested his innocence 011 tire scaffold. A disastrous fire, hard to subdue, broke out at Chicago in the building occupied by Knight & Leonard, printers, tho Goodyear Rubber Company, and Salisbury & Cline, which created a pecuniary loss of $225,000. Arthur C. Papineau, of tho fire insurance patroi, lost his life, and four other members of that organization received serious injuries. A fir 3 at Des Arc, Arkansas, destroyed six stores and two churches; the losses aggregate $150,000. Marshall’s foundry, Pittsburgh, was damaged hv fire to the amount of $25,000.

FOREIGN.

The Marquis of Clanricarde denies that he refused to abate his tenants’ rants. At a Conference of British Tories it was decided to follow Beaconsfieid’s Eastern policy. Floods are causing much damage in the proviuce of Vancluse, Frauca. Tho city of Avignon is partially suhtaerged. A state of siege has been proclaimed at Sofia. The Federal Government of Switzerland proposes to purchase all tlio raailways in that country. The rebellion in Mving-Yan is increasing. Maurice, a sou of Sarah Bernhardt, fought a duel with M. Langlois for exhibiting a painting ridiculing the actress, and gave him a slight wound. United Ireland tells tenants that the time for patient endurance has passed aud that it is time for them to stand up and fight, hitting from the shoulder. Heavy reductions in rents have been made by a large number of landlords in West Clare, Ireland. Almost every newspaper in Berlin is threatened with a strike of compositors in January. It is now said that the reason the Czar killed his aid, Count Reutern, was because he suspected the Count of criminal intimacy with a member of tlio imperial-family. The districts of MarefflnSa and Ferrara, Italy, are suffering disastrously frpm floods. Great distress prevails among the peasants. The guaranty fund for the Glasgow (Scotland) Exliib.tion of 1887 has reached £67,(MX). Tho space to be devoted to it comprises an area of thirty-nine acrea The situation in Bulgaria leads to t* new cr. pof warlike rumors. Turkey is poworloss to prevent the occupation of the unfortunate principality-by the Russians. It is reported that the proposition to increase the duty ou impor.s of breadstuff's by Franco is not by any means certain to become law. The Chamber of Dcpu'ios will not be able *0 reach its consideration before tho close of the year, and the opposition to the measure is so strong that they may not deem it expedient to pass a measure which would mean much dearer broad to every residont of that country.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Catherine Taswell (colored) aged 30, a married woman, was outraged and murdered near Haverford College Station, Pa. James Russell Lowell is engaged to the dowager Laoy Lyitieton, who, like Mr. Lowell, has been twice marr.ed, has three children, and is 40 yews old. Tbe will of Mrs. Cornelia Stewart was filed lor probate at New York She bequeathed the bulk of her estate to Charles J. Clinch, her nephew, of Paris, and Judge Henry Hdton, the latter in trust for several objejts named. Hans S. Beattie, Surveyor of the Port of New York, was fired at three times by a discharged inspector named Louis BaireL One bullet penetrated Beattie’s thigh, and another passed through the palm of his right hand. Bairei had been dismissed for exacting money from immigrants at Castle Garden. He was born in Brazil, and is seventy-two years old. The decrease in the public debt daring the month of October was $13,2j1,619. Following is the statement issued on the Ist inst: INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds at 4 '2 per cent <250,003,070 Bonds at 4 per cent 73i,7/0,400 Bonds at 3 per cent 80,848,700 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 191,500 Navy pension fund ut 3 per cent.... 14,003,000 Pacific Railroad bonds ato per cent. 04,623,512 Principal 51,153,443,112 Interest 8,933, .01 Total 81,102,430,073 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal *512,316,435 Interest J, 232,492 Total 812,548,927 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes. 5340,738,391 Certificates of deposit 7.140,000 Gold certificates 8 -,2 )4 909 Silver certificates 10J,300|80J Fractional currency (less 88,375,934 estimated as lost or destroyed)... 0,953,702 Principal 549,433,802 TOTAL DEBT. Principal 81,715,193,439 Interest 9,226, .53 Total. 81,724,419,403 Less cash items available for reduction of the debt 217,283,315 Less reserve held for redemption of U. S. notes 100,000,003 Total 8317,288,315 Total debt less available cash itemsS 1,407,131,147 Net cash in the Treasury 52,783,199 Debt less cash in Treasury Nov. 1 Debt less cash in Treasury Oct. 1, 1830 ; 1,3G7,549,507 Decreaso of debt during the month. 813,201,019 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding....’ 888,294,939 Silver held for silver certificates rctuully outstanding. 100,306,800 U. S. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 7,110.003 Cash hold for matured debt and interest unpad 21,542,4 C 9 Fractional currency. 4^057 Total available for reduction of the debt 8217,288,315 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882. 8100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the debt— Fractional silver coin 828,<00,335 Minor coin 2 :.5, 121 70ta1520,53.5,757 Cl rtificates held as cash 54,469,700 Net cash balance on hand 52,783,199 Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer’s general account., 8451,008,033 Tho Government re :eipts during tlio first four months of the present fiscal year ended Oct. 30 were 8127,814 377, being 814,108,891 in excess of the receipts during the corresnondi g period of last year. The txpeditures during the same period of 1830 were 882,254,035, being 811,918,451 less than tho expenditures during the same period of las year. During last week the visible supply of grain in the U.nted States and Canada showed an increase of 883,181 bushels of wheat, 50,000 bushels of oats, 80,810 bushels of rye, and 71,540 bushels of barley, but corn diminished 837,3 0 bushels. The dwelling of the late L<"iis Liclileichner, at Steubenville, Ohio, was destroyed l y lire, Lichleicliner perishing in the slimes. His wife and children escaped by jumping from a window.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YOKE. Beeves §3.75 @ 5.5 1 Hogs. 4.25 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 1 White 84 @ .84!$ No. 2 lied 8* @ .83*3 Corn—No. 2...... 25 @ .45^ Oats—White 35 @ .40 Pork—New Mess 15.50 011.00 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers 5.00 0 5.50 -• Good Shipping 400 @4.75 Common 3.00 @ 3.50 Hogs—Shipping Gradas 3.50 @ 4.25 Flour—Extra Spring 4.00 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 73 @ .74 Corn—No. 2 35 @ ' .3(1 Oats—No. 2. '.. .25 @ .26 Better—Choice Creamery 23 0 .24 "‘Pino’Dairy 16 @ .20 Cheese—Pull Cream, Cheddar.. .ll}£@ .12 Pull Cream, new 12 ~@ .1214 Eggs—Fresh 17 @ .18 * Potatoes—Choice, per bu 40 @ .46 Pork—Mess. 1 8.75 @ 9.25 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash .71 @ ,7i}£ C orn—No. 2...:... 35 <<« .36 Oats—No. 2 25 @ .26 Bye—Nc. 1 ; 50 @ .52 Pork—Mess.....'. 8.75 0 9.25 ■ TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2... 4 77 @ .77>4 Ccrx—Cash .1 .38 0 .3814 Oats—No. 2 \ .26 (® .27* DETROIT. Beep Cattle .... a .a. 3.75 @ 4.50 H0g5..... p/ 3.50 @ 4.50 Sheep .....'A'. 3.25 0 4.25 Wheat—Michigan. 76 @ .77 Corn—No. 2 38 @ .40 Oats—No. 2 White..... 30 & ,30>4 ST. LOfcJIS. . Wheat—No. 2 ,V... .74 @ .75 Corn—Mixed 3314 @ .34 V> Oats—Mixed. .'1 25 ”@ .26 “ Pork—New Mess f, 900 @9 50 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Bed 76 @ .77 Corn—No. 2 \ 37 @ .38 Oats—No. 2 27 @ 28 Pork—Mess : . 9.50 <« 975 Live Hogs..-,... 3.75 @4 50 BUPPALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard 83 @ .83'^ Corn—No. 2 Yellow 42 @ 44 Cattle 3.50 @4.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle 3.25 @5.00 Hogs 3.50 ' @ 4.25 Sheep 2.50 @ 4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Bed. 74 @ .74^ CtfßN—No. 2 34 @ .34^ Oats 25 @ .26 EAST LIBFKTY. Cattle—Best 4.50 @ 5.00 Fair 4.00 @ 4.5) Common 3.25 @4.00 Hogs 4.00 @ 4.50 Sheep 2.50 @ 4.00

IN A FIERY TRAP.

Appalling Accident Near Rio, WB., on the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. From Ten to Twenty-six Persons Burn to Death in a Flaming JPassenger Coach. Fearful Sufferings and Shriek? of the Victims—Bishop Whipple's EscapeHarrowing Details. [Milwaukee telegram.] The most appalling railroad disaster that has. ever occurred in Wisconsin resulted from the collision shortly after midnight of a passenger train on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad and a freight train at Rio, a small station fifteen miles this side of Portage and seventy-five miles from Milwaukee. By the collision it is believed that twenty-six were either crushed or burned to death, while a number of others were injured. Eleven charred corpses have been taken from the wrack already. The passenger train was a lightning express from Chicago for St. Paul, with baggage and mail cars, one day coach, and three sleepers. At Rio two freight trains were side-tracked to allow the express to pass. One of them- had just drawn onto the siding when tho express came thundering down upon it. Either through negligence or because there was not time to close it, tl e Bwiteh was left open and the passenger train, rushing at the rate of forty-five miles an hour, * dashed into it and at once left the rails. Thu sidings are in a cut where tho road curves sothat the switch-light caunot be seen from the east until a train is within a few rods, so the engineer of the limited could not see the switchlight was turned wrong until too late to stop. The engine left the track, rail a short distance, and brought up against the side of the cut. toppling over The baggage aud express cars and. the day coacn followed. The sleepers did not leave the track. The persons in the coach were imprisoned by the telescoping of the car. Fire broke out in. the wreck and rapidly spread through tho debris. Of all those tnus caught iu the awful trap all but two children perished—those who were not. killed at once by the collision dying a more horrible death by fire. The wretched people, smieking for aid, made desperate efforts to escape the torture of the flames, but in vain. Mrs. C. R Scherer of Winona, handed her children to a brakeman througn a window and then fell a victim to tho fiery destroyer. The names of the dead so far as known are : Mrs. C. R. Scherer, of Winona, Minn Mrs. liOoina Johns, of Winona, Minn., Mrs.. Scherer's mother-in-law. Louis Brinker, of Columbus, Wis. Emil Woltarsdorf, of Columbus, Wis. ■ Dibble, a traveling man. Mrs. L. Lowry, of Milwaukee. W'allace Stuart, of Columbus, Wis., aged 22 7 on his way to Idaho. In the pocket of one dead man taken from the wreck was an envelope addressed, “J. Tourin Lincoln, No. 2 Forty-ninth street, Chicago, Ill.” One of tho victims is believed to be M s. George A. 3 air, of Chicago. Her identity is, how ver, uncertain. Two other bodies are those of Sisters of Charity, one of whom is believed to be Mother Alexia, superior of a convent at Winona, Minn., who had been in Milwaukee establishing a convent. The injured are: Conductor Lucius Searle, of Milwaukee, badly hurt about chost, but probably not fatally, Wade Clark, of Oconomowoc, baggageman,, leg broken. uharles F. Smith, 516 Wabash avenue, Chicago, broken arm and wrist, face cut badly by broken spectacles. James Phillips, brakeman, cut badly about, tho head. Thomas Little, of Portage, engineer, cut about the face No passengers in any of the sleepers were killed. Mrs. Scherer, whose children were rescued by a brakeman from tho burning car, wa3 pinned down by a seat, and could not follow her little ones through tho open window. She was already enveloped by flames. The hands of the man who rescued the children were badly burned. Conductor Searle, of the passenger train, saysthat the occupants of the car where the frightful incineration occurred included a woman with a little' girl of about 6 years, another darkhaired woman with a babe iess than a year old, a blonde woman of 33, who seemed to bo a companion of the forme#, both bound for St. Paul, and two Sisters of Charity traveling on*a pass. He can recall no description of any others, but says there were not to exceed fifteen altogether. He has lost his tickets, and so there is no record. The burning of the baggage also hinders the identification of the corpses. District Attorney Aimstrong, assisted by Coroner Allen and a force of men, has been at work all day at the ruins of the wrecked train, hunting for the remains of the dead or to find some clew to identif ir those who perished. Up to a late hour to-night tney have succeeded in raking out trunks and other fragments sufficient to make up eleven bodies. All tho bodies were burned beyond recognition, and it will be days before the names of all the victims are known. Conductor Hankey, of the freight train, who fled to the woods immediately after the catastrophe occurred, has been found wandering around in a raving condition. He is likely to become a hopeless maniac. The hero of the catastrophe was the engineer, who, in tho face of seeming death, held his hand on the throttle, aud thus saved the lives of all the passengers in the sleeper. Then, when the train stopped, he crawled out from beneath his engine, bleeding, and alarmed the sleepers of tho danger from fire. Alter the .engineer escaped from his engine he ran back to the sleepers and warned the porters that the other ears were on fire, and that the passengers must be got out quickly. He was covered with blood, but seemed to have no thought about himself, but only for those on the train. One of the men from tho postal car was equally helpful. He ran to a window where he saw" two women, and attempted to help them out, lmt they were fastened down and could not be extricated. He took out two little children. The youngest was taken from the arins—pj. a lady who criod out five or six times, ‘ Tmlfe my husband s only child.” As soon as the child was saved she fainted, and was shortly- alter surrounded by flames. One of the passengers said he saw three women standing up in the car, seemingly fastened in some manner which prevented their mo ing in any directiou. They also were soon surrounded by the flames, and became a part of the burning mass From all accounts here must have been a frightful soene in the car iu which the fatalitie* 1 occurred. The pres-ure caused tho coach to assume the position of the letter A. Lamps were broken and the stovo overturned, a uttering five and flames in al directions through the coach. Mangled and bleeding, nearly all the passengers were pinned securely by broken sea s, many heaped one upon the otuor. Their agonized shrieks told tne story of fractured limbs, to which was added the horror of cremation. It is positive that only three escaped. Charles It. Smith is a medical student of-Chicago. Hi* parents live in Charles City, lowa. Mrs. Schev- 1 er’a two children, whom she reached out of a window as the flames surrounded her, are foul years and eigiit months old, respect vely. All the coaches and oars were burned except the last sleeper, “Nashota.” Tho trainmen, with the two freight engineers, worked vigorously to save tho sleepers by p lling them out from the flames, but their positions were such that they could.only uncouple the rear Coach. Mail Agent John Beach, of Blainfiold, with his four assistants, succeeded in saving the little mail by throwing it outside and - drugging it up the banks from tho flames. About sixty sacks of paper mail for Minnesota and Dakota were destroyed. The men escaped themselves with numerous bruises. The loss to the railroad company is placed at $53,000. _ Abram S. Hewitt is 64 years old and 64 inches high;