Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 31 December 1903 — Page 4

Weather Forecast. Indiana — ’’-tir, v, '.rmer; Friday cloudy, proLanlv i ::;a or snow. STOMACH TROUBLE. Stomach trouble is the ino:.t distressing affliction known to humanity, and takes on so many forms that it is often impossible for those without a me lical education to decide from a patient's symptoms as to just what particular ailment is ;■ Aiding them. People suffering from this dread disease become nervous and cannot sleep. They have b ’.hing and sourness of the stomach, bad dreams, acute stomach pains, or colic, a feeling of fullness after meals, appetites Varying from ravenous to that where there is no desire for food. They have indigestion, constipation, heartburn, yellow skin, coated tongue, bad taste in the mouth, liver trouble, and catarrh of the stomach. Now all these symptoms mean simply that the stomach has grown weak, and is not properly digesting the food given it. The intensity of action in modern life, the nervous strain in business and society, and the improper mastication of the food all contribute their share towards bringing about this condition. Many preparations have been offered to the public for the relief of those suffering from stomach trouble which aid temporarily only, for after a little the patient feds worse than before treatment. Within the last six months, however, there has been perfected a remedy for all these ailments, which absolutely reaches the seat of disease and positively cures any and all troubles of the stomach, bowels, lungs and throat. It relieves inflammation, builds up the system, enriches the blood, strengthens the various organs of the body, and is guaranteed not only to give immediate relief, but effect a permanent cure. This remedy is known as Milks' Emulsion, and is wonderfully beneficial to children as well as adults. Its effect on the sick is immediate, and one bottle will give satisfactory results or your money will t>e returned by your druggist. Price 50c per bottle. Manufactured by The Milks' Emulsion Company, Terre Haute, Ind. The Overland Limited. The luxurious electric lighted daily train for San Francisco. Los Angeles and Portland leaves I'hi cago8:00p. nt daily via Chicago. Union Pacific & North Western Line. Less than three days enroute to the Pacific Coast. The best of everything. Two other fast trains leave Chicago daily 12:30 p. m. and 11:35 p. tn. For illustrated booklets, reservations and full particulars apply to your nearest ticket agent or address, A. H. Waggoner 22, Fifth Avenue, Chicago, 111. CHEAP RATES SOUTHWEST Southeast Missouri, Arkansas, Louis iana and Texas. —Ilomeseekers’ Opportunities Here's your chance. Very low one way and round trip Southwest this winter about half the regualr fare, twice a mor th—nearby date are Dec. 15, 1903 and .Tan, 5 and I! 1 , and Feb. 2 and Iff, 1901. Good time t > visit Southeast Missouri, Arkan s is, Louisanna or Texas and pick out a locution. Hound trip tickets permit stopover on the going trip, return limit 21 days. Write and tell us your s tuning jxiint and where you want t<> go. We will tell you exactly what your ticket will cost, oneway or round trip we will see tint your baggage is ch ick? 1, and that you are comfortably hx'ated on the right train. Wri f e for our illustrated descriptive literature , maps, lists of real estate agents, and let us he Ip you find a I>etter home in the country along the I’jtton Belt Route. Write todav to E . W. Lißeaume, T. P. and T A.,<‘ ,tton Belt Route. St. Louis.Mo

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■fl OF 1 HORRORS I I 1 I ' Near’y One Thousand Persens Killed Or Injured In Theater Fire. LIKE RATS IN A TaAP Newest and "Safest” Theater In Chicago Proves a Veritable Fire Trap. Blaze Started On Stage And An Explosion Enveloped Audience In Flame. . In the Awful Stampede Which Followed Hundreds Were Trampled Out of All Recognition. ■ Irequois Theater Disaster the Worst the City Has Seen Since the Great Fire. Awful Incidents Connected With a Catastrophe Which Is SoulSickening. Chicago. Dec. 31.—Near one thousand people were killed or injured in ten minutes late yesterday afternoon 'luring a Are in the Iroquois theater, the newest. Hie largest and as far as human power could make it. the safest theater in Chicago. Coroner Traeger late last night reported by actual count 736 dead. Os the injured, many will die. A few of these people were burned to death by fire, many were suffocated by gas. and hundreds we:trampled to death in the panic that followed the mad plunge of the frightened audience for the exits. It will be hours before the number of dead is accurately known, and many days before all of them will be identified. There are bodies lying by the dozens today in the undertaking rooms, in the police stations, and in the hospitals from which nearly everything that could reveal their Identity to those • who knew them best is gone. Their clothing is lorn to rags or burned to cinders, ami their faces have been . trampled into an unrecognizable pulp by the heels of ihe crowd that tram pled them down as they fled for safety. The fire broke out during the second act of the play Mr. Bluebeard." which was the first dramatic production 1 given In the theater since its erection. ' . The company, which was very large, i ! escaped io the street In safety, nearly all of them, however, being compelled ! to floc into tlie snowy streets with no ■ clothing but their stage costumes. A . few motnliers of the company bus- . tainod minor injuries hut none was , | seriously hurt. . | Rarely in the history of Chicago has j its people been so stirred as by this calamity. It Is. next to the Chicago . fire, 'he greatest catastrophe that has ever occurred hero, and the speed with which it came and went seemed for a brief p riod to appall the business | section of the city. The news spread | with great rapidity and in a short I time hundreds of me.i. women and children were rushing toward the the ater The building in which the cal ; amity occurred stands midway be ■ tween Slate and Dearliorn streets on : the north side of Randolph street > Although every available po,iceman | ' within call of the department was Im . mediately hurried to the spot and men | placed in lines at the end of the block , allowing nobody to entei Randolph i street from either Dearborn or State, it was found for a time almost impos sib!* to hold back the frenzied crowd 1 that presred forward, many of them I having friends or relatives In the the > ater and anxious to learn something of them The conduct of the police was beyond all praise The offli ers , held their ground firmly and gently i pushed back all those who sought to gain an entrance to the theater, al though In some instances fr?- »'c men anxious to look forth dr I >ve<l ouc actually beat the officers with the i fisiM In their rage at being prevented Tile grea ext loss of life ne,’ ,:r, ,'ii at the tiKii of th" balcony stairway where there was a mass of dead Ihxl les In the center of the main doorway ■ where the awful crush occurred, and ' reaching to within two feet of the top of the passageway. All of the corpses at this point were women and chib I ' dr<-n The fight for Ufa which must have taken place at time two points Is something that la simply beyend i human power to adequately itescrilie. i Only a faint Idea of Its horror could be derived from the aspect of the bodies as they la Women on top of , these masses if dead had been ova> I i

taken by death as they were crawling on their hands and knees ovei the bodies of those who had died before. Others lay with arms Biretched out in the direction toward which lay life and safety, holding iu I'ieii hands frag nients of garments not their own. They were evidently torn from the clothing of others whom they had en-| deavored to pull down and trample tin- : der loot as they fought .or their own ! li- es. As the polio remov'd layer | after layer of dead in these doorways, the sight became too much even for police and firemen, hardened as they are to such scenes, to endure. The bodies were in such an inextricable mass, and so tightly were they jammed between th" sides of the door and the walls, that it was impossible to lift th“m one by one and carry them out. The only possible thing to do was to seize a limb or some other portion of the body and pui. with main strength. Men worked at the task with tears running down their cheeks. I and the sobs of the rescuers could be heard even in the hall below where this awful scene was being enacted. A number of men were compelled to abandon their task and give it over to others whose nerves had not as yet been shaken by the awful experience. As one by one the bodies were dragged out of the water-soaked, black ened mass of corpses, the spectacle became more and more heartrending. There were women whose clothing was torn completely from their bodies above the waist, whose bosoms had been trampled into a pulp and whose faces were marred beyond all power of identification. Bodies lay in the first and second balconies in great num bers. In some places they were piled un in the ab-les three and four deep, where one had fallen and others tripped over the prostrate forms, and all had died where they lay. evidently suffocated by the gas. Others were bent over backs of seats where they’ had been thrown by the rush of people for the doors and killed without hardly a chance to rise from their seats. One man was found with his hack bent nearly double, his spinal column having been fractured as he was thrown backward. A woman was found cut nearly in half by the back of the seat, she having been forced over it face downward. Tn tlie aisles nearest to the doors the scenes were harrowing in the extreme. Boules lay in every conceivable attitude, half naked, the look on their faces revealing some portion of the agony which must have preceded their death. There were scores and scores of people whose entire face had been trampled completely off by the heels of those who rushed over them, and in one aisle the body of a man was found with not a vestige of clothing. flesh or bone remaining above his waist line. The entire upper portion of his body had been cut into mincemeat and carried away by the feet of those who trampled him. Among the hundreds of persons who rushed to the rescue when the call of fire was heard on the streets was Bishop Fallows, who happened to be passing the theater. Without fear or hesitation he made his way through the darkness that was intensified by the volume of smoke that filled the auditorium to the top gallery ami as sisted in carrying out the victims. “God forbid that I ever again see such a heartrending sight." said the bishop today. “I have been in wars and upon the bloody field of battle, but in all my experience 1 have never seen anything half so gruesome as the sight that met my eyes when with the aid of a tiny lantern I was finally aide to penetrate the inky darkness of that balcony. There was a pile of twisted ami bleeding bodies ter. feet high with blackened faces anti remnants of charred clothing clinging to them. Some w -n- alive and muanlng in their agony. Others, anti. oh. by far the greater number, were dead. I assisted in carrying many of the injured down ami ministered to them the best I could.” It was the presence of the children, hundreds of whom were in the audience anti the efforts of their frantic mothers Impelled by their first thought •o seek the safety of their young, that '•auseil much of the pandemonium. Will J. Davis, one of the proprietors of the theater, said: "There was no need, as far as I know, of a single life j being lost. There were over forty | exits to the theater. The building is fireproof, and if somebody had not | screamed 'fire' I think that all. as far as those Killed in the panic are conI cerned. could have reached Ihe street |in safety. And of those who were suffocated by the gas. nearly all would j have been out by the time the explosion occurred ff order had been presorted in making their exits. As far as we have learned everybody on th" tint floor except three escaped, al though some sustained bruises and other minor injuries. The great loss of life was in tlie first and second balconies" The seats on tlie main floor were burned but Util". The balconies had vldentlj hielded lo a large extent the seats i:. the parquet. Tit" path of the flame was evident. The stage and the celling of the theater was blistered and blackened. There was practically no damage to the furniture on the first floor The boxes on the second tier were entirely <1» -troyed by Are. while those on the first floor were burned only in spots, evidently by burning fragments from above. The theater stands intact Asiatic Labor Favced. Preiorla. Dec 31. After three dava' debate In tlie legislative council a i,h> tion In favor of the introduction of Asiatic labor in h’o'ith A: h a was car ried by a vote of 22 to 4 i

* All ELECTRIC IMRE A Small Thing In Itself But Fruitful of Frightful Consequences. It Was a Broken and Grounded Wire That Caused the Awful Chicago Holocaust. Asbestos Safety Curtain of the Stage Stuck Just When It Should Have Been Effcct've. As Far as Human Power Could Make It t ie Iroquois Was the “Safest" Theater in Chicago. Chicago, Dec. 31. —The accounts of tlie origin of the Iroquois theater fire are conflicting and none of them certain. but the best reason given is that an electric wire near the lower pail of a piece of drop scenery suddenly broke and was grounded. The fire spread rapidly toward the front of the stage, causing the members of the chorus who were then engaged in the performance to flee to the wings with screams of terror. The fire in itself up to this time was not serious and possibly could have been checl ed had not the asbestos c irtaiu failed to work. As soon as the fie was discovered Eddie Foy. the chief comedian of the company, shouted to lower the curtain, ami this was immediately lone. It descended about half way and then stuck. The fire thus was given practically a flue through which a strong draft was setting, aided by the doors which had been thrown open in the front of the theater. With a roar and a bound the flames shot through the opening over the heads ts the people on the first floor and. reaching clear up to those in the first balcony, eaught them and burned them to death where they sat. Immediately following this rush of flames there came an explosion which lifted the entire roof of the theater from its walls, shattering the great skylight into fragments. As soon as the flames first appeared beyond ihe curtain a man in the rear of the hall shouted “Flic, fire," and the entire audience rose as one person and made for iht (loots. It is believed that the exit's sii n was caused by the flames coming in contact with the gas reservoirs of the theater, causing them to burst. Will .1. Davis, manager of the theater saiff after the catastrophe that if the people had remained in their seats and had not been excited by the cry of fire, not a single life would have been lost. This is, however, contradicted by the statements of the fire men. who found numbers of people sitting in their seats, their faces directed toward tlie stage as if the performance was still going on. It was the opinion of the firemen that these people had been suffocated at once by the flow of gas which came from behind th" asbestos curtain. As near as can be estimated, about l.fiffO people were in the theater. Three hundred of these were on the first floor, the balance being in the upper balconies and in the hallways back of them. Tlie theater is modeled after the Opera Comique in Paris and was tlie newest, largest, and. as far as human power could make it. the safest theater in Chicago. From the rear of each balcony there are three doors leading out to passageways toward the front of the theater. Two of these doorways are at the end of the balcony, ami one in the center. The audience in its rush for the outer air seems to have for the greater part chosen to flee to the left entrance ami to attempt to make its way down th ■ (■astern stairway leading into the lobby of the thoater. Outside of the ' people burned and suffocated by gas, | it was in these two d'xirways pn the I first and second balconies that the greatest loss of life occurred. When the firemen entered the building the dead were found stretched in a pile reaching from the head of the stairway at least eight feet from the door j back to a point about five feet in the rear of the door. The theater lias been constructed but a abort tbie and all its equipment was not yet in place This was un I fortunately the case with a fire-escape in the rear of the building. The small iron balconies to which the iron lad der was <0 l»e attached wore up. but the ladder hud not yet been construct. cd. When the panic was at the higlt est a groat number of women ran for these fire-escapes, only to find as they emerged from the doorway upon the 1 little Iron platform that they were ; thirty to fifty feet from the ground, a fire behind and no method of "scape In front. Those who reached ti.c plat form first endeavor"'! to hold their footing and to keep back the crowd that pressed upon them from the rear. The effort whs utterly useless and in a few moments the Iron Imlge-t were jammed with crowds women, who screamed, fought and tore at each other like maniacs. This last' d but a I brief Interval, and the rush from the interior of the building sn violent Hint many of them were crowded off and fall to the granlro-paveil alley below, others iciped from the platform fracturing legs ni.l arms, and

. , .in at this point with two were pt.'K l ’ 1 „ |;i , l( , d fractured skulls. .... " instantlv A fearful loss of life en sued here, the women being pushed 1 every instant into the alley. The members of tlie lheatrica eon . . ,1. Hr-.- floor had com pauy. being on the fir • ■ na-ativelv little difficulty in ie.iching|, }he street, although lheir situation : was for a moment highly ' 1 cause of the speed vvitli which t.u, flames swept through ihe n.-'s-s ■ i Icenery in the flies stage. MR. TAKAHIRA IS CALM Japanese Mincer Talks of the Situation in tbe Orient. Washington. Dec. 31- '' ar | staring his country in the fate. MM Kogore Takahira. the .Japanese mtnister. is as calm as any official in Washington. Having called at the state deparmieut and informed the oifieials Os the gravity with which the Tokio government views the stt mlton. Mr. Takahira said that he with the other officials of the Japanese foreign service were awaiting the answer of Russia to Japan's last note before making a second communication 10 the powers. Mr. Takahira said: "You ask mo if I think wat is inevitable. I can only say that Japan is waiting the arrival of the Russian reply to her last note. Japan will wait as long as clrcum stances seem to justify, but no longer We have been prompt in all our propositions. our counter propositions and in fact all tlie sieps of our negotia tions with Russia. In our last note we have stated the minimum proposition which wc can submit to Russia, i That country has the deciding vote | whether th.re is to be war or peace in , the far East. We have done all that ; we could.” Mr. Takahira expresse d , the hope that war may yet be averted. | but he regards the outlook as gloomy, j Further Wage Reductions. Youngster, n, 0., Dec. 31. A ’ • reduction in the wages ot imphers ai the Ohio plant of the Carnegie Steel company wi'l go into effect on Jan. 1 The wages of 1.738 workmen in all | department* are reduc'd troni ! • to 26 per cent ihe heaviest cut following on the toni.ag men. Bennett Will Go to the Chur. Elyria. O, Dec. 31.—John Bennett, convicted of murder in the first degree for killing his wife at Oberlin on Oct. 8 last, has been sentenced to be electrocuted on April 15. BRIEF DISPATCHES The Czar will ' nI Italy nrit »t»n•»’ The naounai 'invention of <‘ar -a **.en-ti-ii i* in n at Beatr '»rb. A treat; eomwwee and navigation has 1 been complete-! between ( üba an I Italy. The aunnal uiet-imtr of the Are Uwe-•!<><;ea! ! fnalitute of America t« in ae'sh n at Cieve and I Ohio. It nnofletally annontu e<l at St. Peterabin < ; that Ki-bimlT wa-i never qnieter than at the present time. Burgin * at Moines b >w a ;ui l carried away l w .°' 'in »' i and en h. wa: , xo l other property. Grave alarm if felt thr iaghmr German terri- j tory in *onth Afr -i There are -ar- f a ir»n- ' oral Hottentot ri-uajr. Japan ha- informed th f*»t» _ i .lip; . !»•;•*- j that th< ituat. ,n wthr• ;• i ' R i i If perate. bn; not h«>pele»-. .t, w. Ha . a retired iwreluuil ‘ Bru Tenn., waa in«i ii y kii'ed in the yar 1- <?f t•••- | Eu-t Tenue—ee and Weatarn (North • aro.ina I railroad. The correspondent of a Russian new * ag- n.-T at Kuhinrff ts a denial of the state- i ment that the Jewaare pillared hr the Russian*. Immigration al the port of New York m ia- I ha* I a’l previous record*. Ihiring toe calendar year now ending Hlft.WO imin'4*-anu—-■»teerage n;i*«enger—arrivd there, a agviut M7.IIKT m u' !. an increase of 72.7 k MARKET QUOTATIONS Prevailing Current Prices *or Grain, Provisions and Livestock. Indianapolis Grain and Livestock. Wheat—Wagon. No. 1 rt!. trong, 91c <’or«—Strong: N ■>. 1 42 t e. O ta—Stronr; No. 2 miied, ST*. Cattle—Steady at 14.5015 iv | H.»ga—strong al S4.no<i «* i Sheep—Stea iv at “LamM—Steady at |5. , '0 Grain and Provlglons at Chicage. opened ’▼heat — >’•' I •! .auz .MLora— • !?*■ 1 .« i, '» ( . oat.- ‘ “V M, . Perk— • - “y ■>♦' It"! 1 44 rd - * ” «•» — «■» cts ClMia ( iui ■arUi-Wh... <H. >«U. M.-; f ark. ,11.1.). lr lira. n». Cincinnati Grain and Liveatoek Wheat—rirm ; No. 1 ro t. i ora—Atoa.lv : No. t n ,. s «.'. ,j , Oan—Qiii.s; N... 11.,,,.!. :t ;' Cattir —Btroiifor ai Firm at . ti>M|>-nul| ai •i..y0«.-.:... “ .. . g l.anu»-l>uu at gi.'squ.ivi Chicago Liveatoek. Cattl- «... . .'..or. ii . toodors. lt.gx<4.l", *•'* Mog»—sioady at >a s.v. •twep—Lowr at j. Lank M—steady at New York Liveatoek. Cain-—ririii at U tMt. Firm al H.-Oa.-.j:. •bbrr|,—ririu at ft.frgi.iio. Lainw-Mrad) at East Buffalo Livestock. Catuo-si.a.l, ai u , Mos. Ictir. al It u><i, 1 . ►heep-cira.ly ai H.PVgew. ***“•. "tvaily at —

MARKET REPORT. Accurate prices paid by Devat ur merehantH for various products, Co r . reeled every day. BRAIN. BY K. L. CAnnOL, GRAIN MERCHANT. New Corn yellow $ 55 New Corn, mixed 53 Machine shucked one cent less. Oats, new ,U Wheat, No. 2 Wheat, No. 3 — _ 82 Rye — 51 Barley si) Clover Seed 5 70 Alsyke - - @5 35 Buckwheat - Flax Seed 80 Timothy - $1 25 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago marKetclosed at l:15p, m. today, according to J. D. Hale's special wire service, as follows: Wheat, December 82’ Wheat, May 84’ Wheat, July 79J Corn, December 41 Corn. Mav 45j Corn July - 451 Oats, Deci m >er 36| Oats, May 38j Oats, July— - — - 35} Jan. Pork — — Jl2 55 May Pork 13 02 January Lard oer cwt 6 82 May Lard, per cwt 7 02 TOLEDO GRAIN MARKETS. Changed every afternoon at 3 Os) o'clock b T J. D. Hale, Decatur. Special wire service. Wheat, new No. 2, red, cask. | 905 December wheat 90} May wheat 87J July wheat, 82*, ; Cash corn, No. 2, mixed, cash. 46] Corn. December 16] May Corn 40] Oats. Cash 38] Oats. December— 38] .May Oats 39] Rye, cash 58 OTHER PRODUCTS. BY VARIOCS GROCERS AND MERCHANTS. Eiggs, fresh, per doz _J 27 Lard 9 Butter, per pound 11@ 15 Potatoes, new 60 ; Onions 50 Cabbage per 100 lb EOc Apples, per bu 56 Sweet Potatoe, per bu 75 WOOL AND HIDES. BY B. KALVEB k SON. Wool, unwashed 16t020 : Sheep pelts 25c to 75 Beef hides, per pound 06 Calf hides 08 Tallow, per pound 04 Coon ... li to 1.25 j Skunk 20 to 1.25 |()'posstim 10 to 60 i Muskrat sto 22 , Mink 50 to J2.Cm STOCK. BY FRED SCHEIMAN, DEALER Lambs 4(0 4 50 Hogs, per cwt. f I 25 Cattle per lb 3 @ 3J Calves, per lb : 5 5» Cowa ...2 Q 2} Sheep, per lb 2 @ 2j Beef Hides, per lb— 5} POULTRY. BY J. W. PLACE 00., PACKERS. Chickens, young per lb. ... s}((ii; Fow ls, per lb 5((J6 Ducks, per lb 6 Young Ducks 6 Young Turkeys, per lb 1 Geese, old per lb 4 G eese, young, lb 5 HAY riARKET. No. 1 timothy hay(baled) S7 5O @|B.SX) No 1 mixed hay (baled) , .<>.oo 16 25 No. 1 clover hay (baled) COAL Per Ton Anthracite J 7 50 Domestic, nut 4 00 Domestic, lump, Hocking 4 00 Domestic lump, Indiana 3 80 Pocahontas Smokeless, lump 550 OIL ITARKET. Tiona |2.02 Pennsylvania 1.87 Corning 1.67 New Castle 1.74 North Lima 1.37 South Lima 1.32 Indiana 1.31 1 Whitehouse 1.35 Somerset 1.32 Neodasha. (Kan.) 1.21 Barkersville 97 1 Ragland 66 MARKET NOTES. Liverpool market closed steady. W heat,} cent higher. Corn, ’ cent higher. Receipts al Chicago today: Hogs 350U0 Wheat 73 cars 1 Corn 259 ear» Oats 242 cars Cattle 70000 Sheep 2001 U Estimate for totnerrow: Hogs 33000 Wheat 50 cars j Corn 13i"> cars Oats 133 ’art < tar.- p'. |2 uu front < 'hl'-aL'" round trip via (’hicugo Grout W< -t ern rilway. To old Mexico. No"' Mi-x'-o, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri. Kansas, Nebraska and ColoradoAmjiel return limits. Tickets on sale Dec. L.th, 1903; Jun. sth und I 19th, 1904. For furthre informn • I tion npply to J. p. Elmer. G P A , ■ | Chicago, 111,