Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 July 1901 — Page 8
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Loss of Life In Ditching of a Wabash Flyer Was Appalling.
FIFTEEN WERE KILLED
Car Load of Italian Immigrants Caught the Brunt of the Terrific Shock.
Of These Fifteen Were Killed right and Others Were Fatally Injured.
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Logaiiisport, lad., June 27.—By the •wreciting of a Wabasli westbound "flyer" at a washout four miles east of this city, 15 Italian immigrants rwcre killed'outriglit and serious hurts Were indicted upon many others, some of whom cannot recover. Scarcely a passenger on the train escaped injury of some character.
The train, consisting of three baggage and express cars, three coaches, three sleepers and the private car of Superintendent W. M. Cotter of the Iron Mountain railway, left Peru :tu hour late. When the culvert which had been washed out was readied. Engineer J. S. Butler was driving the train at 50 miles an hour. In a Hash the ground sank away beneath the engine, and the train, with the exception of the three sleepers and the private car, rolled over a high embankment. The engine turned completely over, but the engineer miraculously escaped fatal injuries. Fireman Adams was fatally hurt, and Brakeman Charles Iflagegin got off without Injury. The express .and baggage care were telescoped and rolled td the bottom -with the smoker and'a car loaded with Ltalian immigrants followed.
The two cars were splintered and smashed to kindling. The immigrant car was packeu with Italians en route West, to locate, and the loss of life In their car was frightful. The injured were unable to speait English, and this axle0identification impossible. The day coach, which rolled down the, embankment, was not filled, b«t the ear .was damaged like the others, and the Joss of life was as great in proportion to flie numuer of occupants. The sleepers and the private car kept the rails, but they got a hard shock.
Div'.sion headquarters officials at Peru had become alarmed over the failure of the train to reach Logansport, and a switch engine had been Bent out ot locate it under the belief that the passenger engine had given out. Tho switch engine, upon reaching the wreck, immediately returned to I'eru for physicians. Lafayette was notified, and a special carried doctors from that city. Several Logansport physicians rode to the wreck on a handcar, and a number drove in their carriages. The injured were then taken to the general Wabash hospital at'Peru on the special. The dead were later taken to the same plaoe.
The washout occurred at a culvert. The'embankment on both sides of this drops away from the track at a sharp angle for 40 feet. IIere.it was that t'he cars went tumbling and crashing Into eaoh other, grinding the bodies of the helpless passengers, ouch was the speed ot' tho train tLat the engine appeared to leap across the washed-out culver^ to plunge into the soft earth on the other side. Then af its own weight -. Its momentum checked, it fell back into the wreck, carrying the fireman and engineer with it. The wrecked train was one of the crack westbound trains, and one of the oldest in service, besides being one of the speediest and handsomest.
French Lick Deal Closed. Louisville, June 27.—The ChicagoIndianapolis syndicate which had for soma time been negotiating for the French Lick springs, Ind., hotel property, owned in Louisville, closed the deal yesterday afternoon. The purchase price was $300,000 and a sufficient sum will be spent on improvements to make the Investment represent $1 000,000. The syndicate is composed of Mayor Thomas T. Taggart of Indianapolis Crawford 'Fairbanks of Terre Haute Charles Murdock, Lafayette Daniel Perwin, Indianapolis Livingston P. Dickinson, G. W. Krotringer and Henry A. Hickman rf Chicago.
Insurgent Prisoners.
Washington, June 27.—The war department has published a list of captures and surrenders in the Philippine Islands supplementary to the list published qn the 15th inst. It shows thai the total number of insurgents captured or surrendered up to May 15 last was 37,048.
Young Woman's Suicidc. Fort Smjth, Ark., June 27.—Grace Sullivaji, Jaged 19 years, daughter of J. A. Sullivan, president of the "First Kational bank of Sallisaw, I. T., committed suicide in that town by taking poison. No cause is known for tho act.
A Parade for Krager.
Rotterdam, June 27.—There was frand serenade and torchlight procos sion last night in honor of Mr. Krnger, who witnessed the proceedings from the balcony of his hotek There wan Immense enthusiasm tuaong the peo pie.
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Work of Reconstruction Now Rapid* ly Going Forward. Roanoke, Va., June 27.—The news from the flood-swept district in West Virginia shows no reason for increased estimates of either fatalities or property losses. Fifty is the outside limit of lires lost. The reports from all over the section are to the effect that while many poor people have lost all, yet there is no danger of suffering for want of food. It is believed, and from the evidences of destruction on every hand thejjolief is well founded, that the coal field will not be entirely restored for many months.
The efforts of the large force of men at work now are directed toward reestablishment. of communication. The property losses have not been exaggerated. but it is not thought that outside aid will needed, as the coal companies are taking care of those of their employes who were despoiled by the flood. The repairing and construction force has rea'clied Vivian from the East. The track between Davy and Vivian is still in a very bad condition. The Vivian yard is not in as bad a condition as was first thought. At Keystone 12,l»00 feet of the 15-foot embankment was washed away. The road now uses the coal track on the other side. It is now stated that the railroad line will not be opened until the first of next week, but'it is barely possible that it will be in sueb shape that light supply*trains can pass over before that time.
Series of Cloudbursts.
Cumberland, Md., June 27.—A sor of cloudbursts yesterday devastated the New Creek valley, south of Keyset*, W. Va. The river rose over 10 feet in half an hour. Many farm buildings were destroyed and the valley is strewn with carcasses of livestock.
MOLTEN METAL
Causes a Frightful Accident In a Chicago Foundry. Chicago, June 27.—Caught' in streams of molten metal which poured into the cupola room of the "soft foundry" department of the American Car and Foundry company, yesterday seven workmen were frightfully burned, three of thorn fatany.
The explosion of a dynamite shell which had been placed in the cuopla with scrap iron caused the accident. When the shell had been heated it burst, breaking tho walls of the cupola, the molten metal'streaming forth In all directions. Not one of the men in the room escaped the white hot metal.
Charges Were SHpporteiL Lafayette, Ind., June 27.—The Western Indiana division of the National Grain Dealers' association yesterday reported that charges tiled against the Samuel Born company and the Lafayette Elevator and Mill company, by \Y. C. Babcock, ltoss Brothers and others, who accuse the Samuel Born company and Lafayette Elevator and Mill company with making false reports as to grade of grain, are fully supported by evidence furnished, and the committee unanimously recommends that said Samuel Born Grain company be expelled from said association.
liggs for Dowieit.es.
Chicago, June 27.—Four Dowieites who wont to Evauston to hold an open air meeting last night were hooted down, -rotten ^gged, jostled about tlie street aifil Anally driven out of town.
TEUSE TULBGHAJIS
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The North American Saeiigerfcet meet In St. Louis in 11)03. A collision at Montgomery, A In., between trolley car and hoseenrt killed one man and injured four.
Fire svropt tho tobacco rehandling district of Ala.v.fleld, Ky., causing -a less of fully 150,000. Insurance, §60,000.
In spite of the discriminating tarTO, the onUook .for United States trade In Spain is hopeful, according to Consul General Lay at Barcelona.
A number tf persona were Injured hi a fight between striking laborers on street Improvement and the police of Rochester, N. Y.
It Is stated that Grunt GJTlesple of Missouri, one of Islington's olllcera, will succeed Adelbert Hay as United States consul to Pretorln.
At. Poplar Bluffs, Ma, Steve Cfark cut Alice Stiles to pieces with a knife and hatchet and then made an unsuccessful attempt at suicide.
Americans bought libomlly nt the auction sale of King Edward's sherry. Croker will Bend a big snpply to bis Tammany followers In Kew York.
A special dispatch from St. Petersburg says that M. DeGlere, the Russian minister to China, will shortly be recalled from Pekln, where he has shown Inaptntude.
The Marquis do Lnr-Salnces was yesterday found guilty by the French senate of treason with extenuating tfclrcumstances ahd sentenced to five years' banishment.
Frank J. Ostrander has been given a parole pardon by Governor Stanley as a reward for edurage and services In the recent coal mine mutiny at the Kansas penitentiary.
The Kingston chamber of commerce has passed a resolution asking the governor of Jamaica, Sir Angustus ITemmlng, to request the imperial authorities to send 3,000 Boer prisoners to that island.
Peter T. Foy, S7 years old. who wa« postmaster of St. Louis during the Civil war. is dead. Years ago he was editor of the Missouri Democrat and after the war ha edited the St. Louis Dispatch.
At the Harvard alumni dinner yesterday afternoon President EUrt announced that 3. P. Morgan of\New York h:id given more than $1,000,000 for the erection ef three buildings for the Harvard medical school.
Carrie Drown, said to have been the fattest girl in this country, died at Caledonia Wis., aged years. She weighed 050 pounds her bight was 5 feet 2 inches and •her waist measure 72 Inches. Her death was caused by the heat.
The Oregon and Oriental Steamship com pnnjr, which operates a fleet of steamships between Portland, Ore., and ports in the Philippines, China &nd Japan, Is seriously Considering the establishment of' a line from New York to* the far East.
Rather than accept money raised for him by a church fair,"of which he disnpfovps, the Rev. George B. Shaw of the Olivet W. B. church at St. Paul, badly In need of a balance due on salary, has accepted regular work In a Incal tailor shop, but coBtlauu lo charge of hlg pulpit.
Probable Total Loss of Lustania Off Cape Ballard.
IT STLTCK ON A RREF
Five Hundred TerrifHl P^^cnuvr.s „,,,Uo Fren/.ii'd At tin1 Imminence of the Danger.
Frantic Sccimn On Hoard Pending Arrival ot a Relief Vessel.
Pt. Johns, X. F., J1111'• 27.— The Orient Steam Navigation company's steamer I.uwiiania, 'Captain McKay, from Liverpool. June US, for Montreal, 'laving riKi passengers on board, is a .vreck off ('apt Baliard.
The I.usivatiia was bound round '-Jape IJace for Montreal, with a large cargo and a shipload of passengers. She mistook her course in a druse fog a ml went ashore 20 tuiles uorth of (.'ape Kace. The ship ran over a reef ami hangs against a cliff. The passengers, mostly emigrants, were panicstrirken. Tiiey stampeded and fought 'for the boats, but were overcome by the otiieers and crew, who secured control after great trouble and a ju-olong-"d struggle with the rougher element among the passengers, who used knives. The women and children were tirst landed and men followed. The :vw stjod by the ship. A heavy sea was running.
AH sorts of rumors tire current along .he coast as to the derails.of the wreck. The entire coast population is repairing to the scene in the hope of salvaging the Lusiwnia's cargo. The steamer (IlenviA'. bringing the Lusitania's passengers, arrived here last night.
The Lsi nie-ssage to the agents of tl.e Lusitauia here says the vessel is ':r:rd and linil aground on the reef and a hopeless wreck. Her engine roam and forehold are flooded.. The aftev .leeks are under water, v.A strong northeast breeze is rising and tumbling up a heavy sell Whir- wiK soon disii:: :itie the ship.
The steamer (llencoe brought six .ii-st. 17. second and 4.'l(i steerage passengers and U.'! of the crew of the Lusitania. Captain .MeNay and the chief ofiicers of the ship remain with the wreck. The passengers are almost entirely Kussian and Polish Jews, (,'apt.iin McXay ha-d to force the vessel upon the reef, lor if he reversed the engines tRe whole ship's bottom would have been torn out and she would have sunk instantly, Throe hours el.'ilisod between the time when the Lu'sitania struck and the time the pas sengers started to disembark. This delay was occasioned by the difficulty in controlling the passengers and handling the boats. All the passengers and crew agree that If the Lusitania had struck the rocks in rougher weather rot a soul on board would have been saved.
THE CRAWFORDSVILLE WEEKLY JOURNAL.
A Dcfith-IJeil Confession. Vinit-a, I. T., June "27.—George Williams, on his death bed yesterday, confessed to being an accomplice in the murde&feist September at Pry or Creek, I. 1". E. Smith and Green Smith of Sweden, Ma In his statementJWilliams also implicated William Nichols of Vinlta, William G. Smith and Lon Smitli of Pryor Creek, and John Smith, the latter now serving a term in the Ivans as state penitentiary for cattle stealing. Nichols and the two first named Smiths were arrested.
DEATH WAS His BRIDE
Ati Iowa Iiri(lc«Toom Shoots Hinoteelf At His .WwWing Hour, (larinda, la., June 27.—Tiiojajas J. iloyers, who wus to marry Hiss Inez U. Plank of tlirs city, daughter of Mrs. T.' J. iicKinnoii, at t! o'clock last evening, shut himself through the ltehd .'it that hour instead of going to the home of tlie bride, where the ceremony was to be performed. lie died an hour la tor. Mr. liogers three .yearn ago inherited $12,001) from his lather. Of this lie liad spent all but about $100. lie said only one thing to indicate that lie contemplated suicide. An, hour before he shot himself his sister, Mrs. C. .J. llytlin, with whom he was living, told him she was not well enougli^to go to his wedding, and he remarked that she would be sorry. Last evening his sister heard the report of a pistol and \. ent into the parlor to find her brotlier lyiug fatally wouudCd in front of the piano, clutching a revolver in his hand.
Non-Union Men Driven Off. Thaeker, W. Va., June 27.—Several shots were tired by strikers at nonunion miners who were attempting to enter the Maritime mines yesterday. The nonninion men were compelled to abandon the attempt to enter the mines. No ofiicers are'on duty now in the coal field, but a large force of deputy United States marshals are expected.
A 91-Teap-OId Blacksmith. Kerschdorf, near Heidelberg, has a lively 91-year-old blacksmith and church warden who recently climbed to thd top of the church steeple and tied a new fop© to the bell after th« younger men In the yilla'ge had r»fused to risk themselves.
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Graham's Busy Store
JULY 4th. JULY 4th.
Two strong attractions at Craw ford sville for the grand and glorious Fourth—Mrs Carrie Nation, a smasher of fine furniture, plate glass windows, mirrors, etc., and this store—a smasher of high prices on Dry Goods, Carpets, Shoes, fine Millinery, etc. Of course, Mrs. Nation will not be at our store, and there'll be no
Balloon Ascension at Graham's Busy Store
but here you will find a barrel of pare, free Ice Water, a free Fan, a good, cool place to rest—the use of our store for your personal convenience and comfort—and maybe you'll want to wash and clean up a little if so, you will find here plenty of clean towels and many items through the store which you may need to help along the pleasures of the day, such as a clean shirt waist, a fan, a few extra handkerchiefs, hair pins, pompadour combs, a clean collar, a belt, a necktie, or one of a thousand things pertaining to ladies'lingerie. All will be found here in abundance at this store's famous low prices.
COME EARLY and STAY LATE—Bring the family and cm straight to Graham's, for this Btore will be open all day. Bring your lunch and eat it here bring your friends to spend a day with you and us in this grand celebration.
Geo. W. Graham,
AMERICAN STORE. AMERICAN GOODS.