Indianapolis Journal, Volume 48, Number 249, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1898 — Page 1

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A SLAUGHTER ♦ PASSENGER TRAIN STRIKES A LOADED COHOES TROLLEY CAR, And Thirty-Five Lnbor-Dny Excursionists, Mostly Women, Shockingly Mangled. EIGHTEEN PEOPLE KILLED S MANY OF THE OTHERS SO BADLY INJURED THEY WILL DIE. ■ ♦ t Motormon Among the Demi, and No One Able to Explain the Failure to Look Out for the Train. ♦ HEADS AND LEGS MASHED OFF ■■ ♦ ONLY A PART OF THE VICTIMS COULD BE IDENTIFIED. Accident Ocenrred at a Notoriously Dangerous Crossing on Delaware A Hudson Canal Road. •- ♦ COHOES. N. Y., Sept. 5.—A shocking accident occurred li. this city shortly before 8 o’clock to-night when a loaded trolley car of Troy City Railroad Company was struck by the night boat special of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad at a crossing at the west end of the Hudson river bridge, which connects this city with Lansingburg. and its load of human freight hurled into the air. Eighteen of the thirty-five passengers are dead and at least ten of the remainder will die. The followlg bodies were identified up to 1 o'clock: ARCHIE CAMPEAUX, of Cohoes. JAMES TEMPLE, of Lansingburg. EDWARD BARNEY, of Cohoes. MRS. JCHN CRAVEN, of Cohoes. Mfss KITTIE CRAVEN, of Cohoes. JOSEPH SENZ, of Cohoes. NELLIE SWETT, fifteen years old, of Cohoes. MRS. ELIZA McELROY, of Cohoes. MRS. JOHN W. SUTCLIFFE, Cohoes. MRS. JAMES TAYLOR, Cohoes. MISS WINNIE CRAVIN, Cohoes. JAMES LINEZ, Cohoes. MRS. ELLEN SHAW, Cohoes. JOHN TIMMINS, Cohoes. The Injured are: ISAAC SHAW, of Cohoes, skull fractured. GEORGE ANKERS, of Cohoes, injured internally. JOHN W. SUHCLIFF, of Cohoes, head cut and ribs broken. MISS LIZZIE M’ELROY, of Cohoes, leg broken. MRS. LIZENNESSE, of Cohoes, collar bone fractured and several ribs broken. She had a baby in her arms. It was crushed and will die. EMMA DEVASHISE, of Cohoes, skull crushed. MRS. JAMES TEMPLE, of Lansingburg, Jaw fractured and injured internally. MRS. IRA DEWEY, of Cohoes, head crushed. The cars entering the city from Lansingburg were crowded with passengers returning from a Labor-day picnic at Rensselaer Park, a pleasure resort near Troy. Car No. 192 of the Troy City Railroad was the victim of the disaster. It came over the bridge abput 7135 o’clock laden with a merry party of people fresh from the enjoyment of the day. The crossing where the accident occurred is at grade. Four tracks of the Delaware & Hudson road, which runs north and south at this point, cross the two tracks of the trolley road. It was the hour when the night boat special, a train which runs south and connects with the New York city boat at Albany, was due to pass that point. The tracks of tho street line run at grade from the bridge to a point where the disaster took place. ’ v*In consequenco of this fact, and of the frequent passage of trains, it has been the rule for each motor car conductor to stop his car and go forward to observe the railroad tracks and signal his car to' proceed if no trains were in sight. It cannot be ascertained whether that rule was complied with on this occasion, for all events prior to the crash are forgotten by those who were involved. The motor car was struck directly in the center by the .engine of the train, which was going at • a high rate of speed. The accident came without the slightest warning. The car was on the tracks before the train loomed in sight, and no power on earth could bave saved it The motorman evidently saw the train approaching as he reached the track, and opened his controller, but In vain. With a crash that was heard for blocks the engine crashed into the carload of passengers. The efTect was horrible. The motor car parted in two, Loth sections being hurled into the air in splinters. The mass of humanity, for the car was crowded to overflowing, was torn and mangled. Those in the front of the car met with i the worst fate. The force of the collision was there experienced to the greatest degree, and every human being in that section of the car was killed. Bodies were burled into the air and their headless and limbless trunks were found in some cases fifty feet from the crossing. The pilot of the engine was smashed, and amid Its wreckage were the maimed corpses of two women. The passengers of the train suffered no Injury in addition to a violent •bock. The majority of the passengers of

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the trolley car were young people, including many women. Within ten minutes after the collision fully one-half of the population of the city was surging about the vicinity in an endeavor to ascertain if relatives were among the unfortunates. The injured were taken to the City Hospital and to the Continental knitting mill, the former not having sufficient ambulance service to care for them all. The corpses were placed in boxes and taken to a neighboring mill shed. Many of them were unrecognizable. The crash was frightful in its results. Headless women with gay summer dresses bathed in their own fend the blood of others; limbs without trunks or any means of identifying to whom they belonged; women’s and men's heads with crushed and distorted features; bodies crushed and flattened; these sights constituted a spectacle that the witnesses will never forget. The train of the Delaware & Hudson road, immediately after the accident, proceeded to Troy. The engineer stated that he did not see the car until he was upon it. He tried to i prevent his train from striking the car, but his efforts were fruitless. His train was going at a very high rate of speed at the time. He was some minutes late and was trying to make up lost time. In consequence of the caution taken by the trolley road to ascertain if the tracks were clear at this crossing, the engineers of trains have always felt safe in running by at a high rate of speed. The engineer says that the first he knew that the car was coming was when It hove in sight at the corner of the street at which the crossing is situated. He was but a short distance from the car at the time. It was utterly impossible for him to bring his train to a standstill. He thinks that the motorman, when he saw the train was on him, tried to get beyond the danger line. The grade of this crossing and the speed at which his car was going also made it impossible for him, to stop before he reached the Delaware & Hudson tracks. It was the front end of his car that caught the crash and he was killed outright. Burled Under H! Locomotive. WASHINGTON, Sept. s.—Shortly before 12 o’clock to-night a stock train ran into an open switch at tho Long bridge, in South Washington. The train was derailed, the engine overturned and several cars wrecked. Fred Frieland, fireman, and Brakeman Cooper were instantly killed, the former being buried beneath tne locomotive. Engineer D. Harman was terribly scalded and otherwise injured. He can scarcely recover. PRESIDENT SHAKES HANDS With Hundreds of Workingmen and Reviews Labor-Day Parade. NEW YORK, Sept. s.—President and Mrs. McKinley end Vice President and Mrs. Hobart went riding at Paterson this morning. Mrs. McKinley appeared to ba well, and at Mr. Hobart's house it was denied that rhe had been ill. When the carriage containing the presidential party turned into Main street to-day a procession of labor societies was forming. The President was greeted with cheers as the carriage passed through the crowd. Mr. McKinley shook hands with as many of the men as he could among the multitude of extended hands. Later the President and Vice President reveiwed the labor parade as it passed Mr. Hobart’s home, and afterward spent the time quietly at Mr. Hobart's house. Attorney General Griggs to-night tendered a dinner to the President and Vice President and their wives. A few- personal friends of the Vice President and the attorney general were present. At 11 o'clock the President and his party left on a special train for Washington, via Jersey City. The train arrived in Jerley City at 11:35 and left for Washington at 11:42 p. m Secretary and Mrs. Porter left Paterson to-day for Hartford, Conn. VICTORY FOR CARNEGIE. Court Holds that the Cambria Company is Infringing;. PITTSBURG, Sept. s.—The Carnegie Company secured another big victory over its competitors in the United States Court here to-day. The Cambria Iron Company, at .johnstown, must cease to operate its bessemer steel process. The court says it infringes on the Carnegie patent, and that the process In vogue at Homestead and Braddock is the distinct and very valuable holding of the Pittsburg firm. Judge Joseph Buffington, who decided the case, handed down one of the most exhaustive opinions ever written, the court noting that it thought a full re/lew was necessary in the decision of so important a matter. The paper shows a careful study and research into the history of the bessemer process and the Improvements made on it, and, as a whole, would be an intensely interesting document for the manufacturing world. It is of especial interest to Pittsburgers, because they are all interested in the manufacture of steel and of this particular process. THE POSTOFFICE CLERKS. Small Attendance nt the Annnal Meeting; in Detroit. DETROIT, Mich., Sept. s.—Some sixty men and women postoffice clerks were present at the ninth annual contention of llie National Association of Postofflce C'erks, which began its session in the Hotel Cadillac to-day. The attendance is smaller than had been anticipated. Heretofore the railroads have provided free transportation to delegates, but two days ago the Postofflce Department gave notice that it would not approve such action this year. Postmaster F. B. Dickerson and Mayor Maybury made welcoming addresses and President E. P. Lincoln, of Boston, responded. This afternoon the delegates boarded a ferry steamer for Belle Isle. The coming three days will be occupied with business sessions, varied . ccasionally with pleasure trips. One hundred and seventy local letter carriers went jo Toledo this morning to attend the opening exercises of the National Carriers’ Association. HURRICANE AT ST. JOSEPH. Town Bndly DninitKed, the Loss Eatimatrd at $1 SO,OOO. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Sept. 5.—A hurricane swept over St. Joseph at 5:30 o’clock this afternoon. Rain and hail accompanied the wind. Residences Were unroofed, stacks and barns were torn down and many buildings were utterly demolished. The St. Joseph rolling mills were wrecked: damage, Jio.oou; Carey's saloon, five other houses and a field full of tents in the packing house disItrlct were scattered to the winds. Many families were rendered homeless. Thu monetary loss is placed at <150,000.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1898.

NAVY IS ANGRY -■ • G. A. R. COMMITTEE PROVIDES NO SHIP FOR GUNBOAT VETERANS. Commodore Atkins Blamed and His Chance to Be Elected Rear Admiral Gone Glimmering;. | 1 COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF GOBIN REACHES CINCINNATI AND GIVEN A SHOUTING RECEPTION. 1 r Camp Sherman, with Accommodations for 15,000, Formully Turned Over to the Chief. -' - • POURING IN BY THOUSANDS . RAILROADS EXPECT TO CARRY 200,000 TO THE ENCAMPMENT. Prisoners of War Association Commander Arrives—Usual Rivalry Between the G. A. R. Women. —■ CINCINNATI, 0., Sept. s.—The opening day of the thirty-second annual encampment of the G. A. R. surpassed expectations in the attendance and in the successful progress of events on the programme of the first day. During the Labor day parade and other parades in escorting prominent arrivals from the depots to the hotels, the city presented an unusually brilliant appearance with Its elaborate decorations, which are displayed everywhere. To-night the illuminations are in full blast everywhere, from the triumphal arches in the public places and at street, intersections. Excursionists have been arriving by the thousands for the past two days and with the arrival to-day of Commander-in-chief Gobin and his staff; Rear Admiral Kelley and his staff; Mrs. S. J. Martin, president of the: W. R. C.; Mrs. Flora N. Davey, president of the Ladies of the G. A. R.; Mrs. Jennie Laird, president of the Ladies’ Naval Association, and their respective staffs of ladies; Col. A. D. Shaw, of New Yont; Col. J. A. Sexton, of Chicago, and Col. I. F. Mack, of Sandusky, and their respective followers in the contest for the election of commander-in-chief and others, the encampment of 1898 was in full blast on the first day. The 'large Music Hall was filled to its limit at the naval camp-fire to-night, while receptions and reunions were going on at other places all over the city, anere will be big camp-fires at Music Hall and Camp Sherman every night this week and smaller gatherings at other points. There is noG able absence of the old commanders, but they have passed away. Many of the comrades refer to the serious illness of General Buell, who is now considered the ranking survivor of the civil conflict. The National Association of Naval Veterans threaten to withdraw from the reunions of the week. When the visiting* naval veterans were escorted to Horticultural Hall in the exposition building to-day, they rebelled against the arrangements. They acknowledged that the cots and everything were better than usual on such occasions, but they wanted quarters in a boat and no where else. They have had boats at other peaces, notably Buffalo, Louisville, Detroit and Pittsburg, and claim they were promised a boat here. Commodore William E. Atkins, of this cify, who is in charge of the local naval arrangements, has had no opposition for rear admiral of the association to succeed Kelley, and he at noon today announced his withdrawal from the contest, although he had more than enough Indorsements to elect. The indignation centered against Atkins, and he was forced out of the race, although he is not responsible for the situation. He did all he could to charter a steamboat, but the demand was such on the river at this time that the citizen’s committee could not get a boat for the naval veterans. The naval veterans threaten to declare off their parade for to-morrow and not to participate further in any way this week unless they are furnished a boat. The camp fire of the naval veterans known as the dog watch at Music Hall to-night was attended by over eight thousand people. Congressman Jacob H. Bromwell presided, and in addition to Weber’s military band and a chorus of several hundred voices there was music by the Cambro-Ameriean Choral Society and noted soloists. The biograph was used during intermissions for the display of war pictures, which gave vivid views of scenes in which many of the comrades had participated. The principal address of the evening was by General J. P. S. Gobin, commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., who was profuse in his praise of the arrangements made in Cincinnati for the encampment. He spoke of the heroic conduct of the American soldiers in the Spanish war as well as in the civil war. Rear Admiral Daniel F. Kelly spoke of the great progress in the American navy since the time that the present naval veterans were in active service. Addresses were also delivered by Colonel Isaac K. Archer, Rear Admiral B. S. Osborne and others. WOULD-BE COMMANDERS. Col. Albert D. Shaw, of New York, Col. James A. S?xton, of Illinois, and Col. I. F. Mack, of Ohio, the three candidates for commander-in-chief, are all here with elaborate headquarters and with their respective followings for the coming election, which will take place Thursday evening or Friday morning. Owing to the fact that the senior vice commander-in-chief has always been ceded to the city that entertains the encampment and the fact that the Cincinnati posts have selected W. C. Johnson for senior vice commander the Ohio department is not solid for Mr. Mack for com-mander-tn-chief. The friends of Colonel Mack, however, claim that the New York department is not solid for Colonel Shaw and that the Illinois department is not solid for Colonel Sexton. This is denied by both Shaw and Sexton. The contest for the location of the next encampment seems to lie between Philadelphia, Kansas City and Denver, and the canvass has not proceeded sufficiently to indicate as yet which candidate for commander-in-chief or which location for the next encampment is in the lead. The festivities of the week opened early, when the naval veterans formed at 6 a. m. to escort Rear Admiral Kelley from the depot. The opening exercises of the naval veterans, under the auspices of the National Naval Veterans’ Association, occurred at 9 a. m„ while the martial music of the G. A. R. posts was heard in every other part of the city .in preparing for the dedication of Camp Sherman and the re-

ception of Commander-in-chief Gobin. and his staff. The National Soldiers’ Home at Dayton, 0., is lejs than sixty miles distant, and the veterans from that institution are taking active part. Those who can participate in the parade will wear khaki suits, the same as the Rough Riders. They have over one hundred men in their band, the iargest ever at an encampment. Three other bands trom Dayton accompany this contingent, with which the Dayton posts will also be associated. It is estimated by Copt. Harry E. Feicht and Capt. T. J. Adkins that there were ten thousand people here from Dayton. Among the questions tQ be discussed at this encampment is whether to make all engaged in the late Spanish war eligible to membership as comrades in the old Grand Army. Commander-in-chief Gobin arrived this morning. He came from Camp Alger, via Camp Meade, and has leave of absence for six days only, so that he must get back to Camp Meade by Saturday, at whic'h place he is to report on his return. He was accompanied by the following members of his staff: General Thomas J. Stewart, Maj. Charles Williams, Colonel Charles Burrows, Colonel John F. Lovett, Colonel R. B. Beath and others. When the party arrived the G. A. R. posts were arriving in bodies as fast as the railways could get them into the city. There was quite a parade In connection with the carriages of the reception committee. General Gobin and his staff arrived while the big Labor-day parade was in progress, and he was most enthusiastically received all along the line, from the Pennsylvania depot to the Grand Hotel. AT CAMP SHERMAN. Commander-in-chief Gobin and staff visited Camp Sherman this afternoon, when the camp in charge of Captain Byrne was formally turned over to him. This camp has a capacity of over 15,C00 in its tents and ample provisions for more. The official salute was fired upon the arrival of the commander-in-chief, after which the bands rendered concerts. Prayer was offered by Rev. David H. Moore, editor of the Western Christian Advocate, who was a colonel in the civil war; Major Joseph W. Wilshire, chairman of the committee on camps, made the presentation speech and General J. P. S. Gobin responded in an eloquent address ot acceptance. The ceremonies attending the raising of the flag were in charge of Captain J. B. Sampson, after which there was* a concert and other festivities. Among the numerous tarans in the- suburbs and also in tio city is one 8t Garfield Park occupied by the James M. Lylse Post of Allegheny, Pa., which has its own band and is accompanied by 135 Sons of Veterans and others from Western Pennsylvania. The two cannon guarding the entrance to Camp Garfield w r ere made of burst shell gathered ftom. the battlefield of Gettysburg. The women are very largely represented at the encampment and there is the usual rivalry between the Ladies cf the G. A. R. and the Woman’s Relief Corps. The business sessions of their respective orders w ill not begin until the encampment opens on Thursday morning. Meantime elaborate programmes have been arranged by the women of this city and of adjoining clues in Kentucky for their entertainment during the week. The executive council of the National Board of Administration of the G. A. R. met this afternoon and appointed a committee to audit the accounts and report to the full council to-morrow. The business of the commmander-in-chief and his staff was found in complete order. No new business was brought forward. Charles F. Sheriff, commander-in-chlef df the Prisoners of War, escorted by Patterson Post of Allegheny, arrived over the Pennsylvania line this afternoon. The loeal association and all other ex-prisoners of war, who are in the city, turned out and escorted them from the depot to their headquarters at the Grand Hotel. Among the arrivals to-day are Commodore W. C. Collins and Commander Captain Andrew Robinson, who came from McKeesport, Pa., in a skiff on the Ohio river, a distance of ever five hundred miles. Their skiff was named the Hobson and they have been holding receptions along the Ohio Valley ever s.nce they started, Aug. 20. KILLED HIS SWEETHEART. Tragic End of a St. Louis Elopement Two Weeks Ago. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 5.-Belle McElheny, a seventeen-year-old girl, who came here from St. Louis two weeks ago with Frank Linderman, a barber, twenty-five years of age, was shot and killed by Linderman to-night in a Grand-avenue lodging house. The murderer then turned the weapon on himself, and is dying at the City Hospital from a wound in the breast. The tragedy occurred after the girl had declared her intention to leave Linderman. The murdered girl’s mother resides or. South Fourth street, St. Louis. Linderman’s parents also live in St. Louis. YELLOW FEVER SCARE. New Orleans Anxious to Quiet the Public's Fears. NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. s.—Dr. Carter, of the Marine Hospital Service, arrived to-day from Franklin and went to see the two eases which Dr. Dun, of Mississippi, thought were yellow fever. He had no hesitation in saying that one of the cases was by no means yellow fever. The other case will be studied fully*, there being doubt concerning it and he may announce a decision to-morrow. The local experts are firm in the belief that neither case is yellow fever and have full confidence that their decision will be maintained. The Mississippi towns along the gulf coast have refused to join in the vigorous quarantine established by Mississippi and announce t..at they will maintain daylight communication with New Orleans. Alabama Against New Orleans. MOBILE. Ala., Sept. 5.-ine Mobile Board of Health to-day advised that the State of Alabama declare quarantine against persons and baggage from News rleans until the suspicious cases in New Orleans are pronounced on. State Health Officer Sanders advised Governor Johnson, who is now here, to the same effect and the Governor this afternoon issued a proclamation declaring the quarantine as suggested. Mobile llh No Case*. MOBILE, Ala., Sept. s.—There is no yellow fever in Mobile and no cases of a suspicious nature. The health of the city was never better and the death rate is the lowest in years. Any reports to the contrary are utterly without foundation. "Will Have "Wheat to Export. SYDNEY. N. S. W., Sent. s.—The area sown in wheat in New South Wales is shown by complete returns to be 1,500,000 acres, which is an increase of 26 per cent, over the area devoted to that product last year. It is estimated that the total yield will be 15,000,000 bushels, which will allow of substantial exports. A Trolley Up Pike’s Peak. COLORADO SPRINGS. Col., Sept. s.—The owners of the famous cog road running up Pike's peak have decided to change the motive power from steam to electricity. It is estimated that the cost of making the change will be about <50,000.

WILL FIND OUT * SECRETARY AUGER ASKS FOR FACTS IN HUGH PAR RETT CASE. *—• Dead Ohio Soldier Reported to Have Been Refused Admission to Wikoif Hospital. ALL THE HOSPITALS CROWDED ♦ SURGEON STERNBERG GONE TO NMKOFF TO INVESTIGATE. * Gen. Shafter Assumes Command at Montank Point and Wheeler Reports Twenty-Five Deaths. LATEST FROM COL. BARNETT ♦ THE ISOTII REGIMENT WILL NOT BREAK CAMP BEFORE SEPT. ltl. Good Work Being; Accomplished by the Ohio Hospital Train's Visit to Soldier Camps. WASHINGTON. Sept. s.—Secretary Alger sent the following order to the commanding general at Montauk Point to-day: ’’Tne New York World of about the 2Sth ultimo published a statement of the death of Private Hugh Parrett, of the Eighth regulars, in which it is charged that when he begged the doctor to take him to the hospital, the doctor notified him that the hospital was for sick men, and it is reported that Parrett died that night. This account is sent me by Representative Grosvenor, of Ohio, who says there is great indignation in his community over the case, and if it Is as reported, there should be, and I wish an inquiry immediately instituted to find out about this matter and report made to me. I understand one Sergeant Rich, of the same company or regiment, is under arrest for having complained of this matter. I have heard much of the neglect of the men, much of which no doubt is fictitious, but if there is any foundation for this statement, or if there are any men ill in the regulars in their tents that are not provided for, I wish to know the reason why and at once; also the names of the officers in command of the regiment and company in each case. “R. A. ALGER, Secretary of War.” The Eighth Ohio Regiment, made up of men from Akron, Alliance and East Liverpool, will leave about 8 o'clock to-morrow on three special trains. The regiment has 1,061 men here, 202 of whom are sick. The regiment has eight carloads of baggage and four cars of horses. Colonel Hard told the President on Saturday that though the regiment had been ordered to Columbus on furlough, he somehow could not get the men away. The railroad seemingly did not have the facilities. The President directed Gen. Wheeler to make every effort to send the regiment away on Tuesday, and it is going. Companies B and M, of the Third Texas, 300 men, will depart for home Wednesday, Seven hundred and twenty-six recruits for the Seventh and Eighth regular infantry arrived to-night from Fort McPherson, Ga. A Swindler in Camp. WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—E. K. Valentine, formerly sergeant-at-arms of the Senate, has written a letter to Secretary Alger, stating that some time ago the relatives of a soldier belonging to the Second Nebraska regiment, received a letter saying that the soldier was ill and in want at Chiekamuuga and asking that money be sent to him. The money was sent, but no reply was received. A second installment was sent by registered letter, to which the soldier replied, saying he did not understand why the money was sent him and had received none previously. He said that he was well and had not been ill and had not requested any money. It is thought some swindler wrote the first letter. CROWDED WITH PATIENTS. New Arrivals More than the Hospitals Will Accnminodute. CAMP WIKOFF, Montauk Point. N. Y., Sept. s.—Surgeon General Sternberg arrived here to-day from Washington to see for himself how the camp looked and to inquire into the sanitary arrangements. General Sternberg to-night said that he had visited the hospitals and that he had found their condition excellent. He considered that the camp site had been well chosen. He was gratified by all he had seen. He said he had not come on a special mission, but simply on a visit of ordinary inspection. When he Returns to Washington he will make a verbal report to Secretary Alger. A thick, drenching fog covers the camp tonight and a cold wind is driving the moisture into the airy tents where there are I,B(K> sick men. General Shafter came out of the detention camp to-day. He is somewhat improved in health. He said that Camp Wikoff would be continued for some time and although many of the troops here were to be sent away, the camp will be fitted up with barracks for the accommodation of several thousand men during inclement weather. General Wheeler has resumed command of the cavalry and General Young will perform duties about the camp. General Shafter is now in full command of Camp Wikoff. The transport Roumania, which arrived yesterday morning with six hundred troops from Santiago, was the means of an additional test of the capacity of the hospital in the detention camp. Os the six hundred men on the Roumanian about two hundred were so sick that they had to be put in the hospital. The authorities of the detention hospital, although they knew of the transport's arrival, had received no notice as to the number of sick men they would be expected to care for. About 5 o'clock the ambulances with the sick men began to arrive at the hospital. The detention hospital will accommodate 450 men, with eight cots to a tent, which is the normal capacity. By putting cots in each tent, 560 patients can be taken care of, but with corresponding decrease of comfort. At the time of the arrival of the sick men from the Roumanian the hospital already had nearly 600 patients and these 200 additional ones swelled the number to about SOO, or 240 more than the hospital comfortably can hold. Although there were enough cots for the sick soldiers there was not the space under the canvas to place them. Therefore as a mattress on the floor takes takes up less space than a cot, a number of patients were taken from cots and placed on mattresses on the floor and the cots removed. 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tween cots on the floor. Consequently this morning about 250 men are lying on mattresses on the floor, because of lack of tent space. The detention hospital needs about fifty more tents, and some m°n will have to lie on the floor for several days. While the sick men were being taken from the Roumanian to the detention hospital two cf them died. They were Dorgts Broomer, private. Company F. Twenty-fifth Regular Infantry; Alfred Pickworth. private, Company G, Thirty-third Michigan Volunteers. Helen Gould Takes Twenty Soldiers. CAMP WIKOFF, L. 1., Sept. s.—Miss Helen Gculd has notified tbe hospital authorities that she has prepared quarters for twenty sick soldiers at her place at Irvlng-ton-on-the-lludson. That number of sick men will be sent there. * WHEN THE 15DT1I WILL LEAVE. Col. Ilarnett Sets the Date to Come Home on Sept. 10. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CAMP MEADE, I’a., Sept. 5.-Being requested to name a date when the regiment would be ready to depart for Indianapolis, Colonel Barnett has fixed Sept. 16 as the day. Unless imperative orders come to move cut before that date, the Onc-hun-dred-and-fifty-ninth will not leave earlier. It is tlie hope that all preliminary work necessary to the muster out will be completed by that time. The Governor has been asked to place the regiment in the grove at the north end of the fair grounds. Oliver Loekmun, a member of Company B. ot Terre Haute, One-hundred-and-fifty-ninth Indiana, and seventeen others have made application for admission into the regular army, and have received assurance that they will be considered among the first. Three deaths occurred to-day at Camp Moadc: Private John N. Caffrey, Company G, Ninth Massachusetts, intestinal trouble; Private Andrew Schroff, Company D Fourth Missouri; Private John Murray Company G, Third Missouri, typhoid fever. The Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Michigan started to-day for Island lake, and the Seventh Illinois. Third Missouri and Twenty-second Kansas expect to get away within the next forty-eight hours. Tho court had under consideration to-day the case of Private Charles L. Kerr, One-hundred-and-llfty-ninth Indiana, against whom charges of insubordination h ive been preferred by Major Lowden. First Lieutenant Guy Morriscn, Twenty-second Kansas, will be tried by court-martial Wednesday for alleged desecration of the graves of Confederate soldiers near Thoroughfare Gap. Morrison will be defended by* a Kansas lawyer, who is tn route to camp. Major Doster, Twenty-second Kansas, has returned from Virginia, where he has been assessing the damage done by the regiment on the march from Camp Alger. Ho reports that the damage was eonsideraYlo and that all claims*. will L>e turned over to the War Department. OHIO HOSPITAL TRAIN. Slow Work Gathering I P the Sick, in Southern tamps. ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. s.—The Ohio relief train left Atlanta on its return trip at 6 p. m. Thirty-eight men were taken on board here. Forty-three Ohioans, who were too sick to be moved, remain at Fort McPherson. The train goes to Huntsville, Knoxville and Chickamauga on its way home. The train reached Atlanta this afternoon having seventy-nine sick on board. Two cars from Fort McPherson were attached to the train. The sick are all doing well in the hospital cars. It is now thought that a trip to Lakeland, Fla., will have to be made from Chickamauga. The Ohio hospital train reached the southern terminus of its journey last night. Slow time has been made owing to various causes, and the attempt to gam time .by dividing the train and sending cars to various points in the extreme south after the sick has resulted in just what it was sought to avoid. At Jacksonville, Fla., thirty-eight members of the First Ohio were taken on board, among them being J. Grell, Company A, and Captain A. W. Morgadent, Harry Enoch, E. R. Banchan, Charles Stahl, John J. Crugett, B. J. Thomas and Louis Harteib. Tho following of the Fifth Ohio were also taken on: William C. Habrey, Cleveland; J. C. Crader, Fairmount; Robert Faust, Cleveland; Charles Goode, Ashtabula; Thomas A. Green, Cleveland; Charles Hauck, Cleveland; George A. Hubbard, Berea; Wellington Smith, Cleveland; Wipensenhagen G. D. Schneider, Berea; W. R. Rowley, Cleveland; Gotlieb Roerder. Youngstown; Fred Cook, Cleveland; William Murphy, Columbus; William F. Murphy*, no address. Third Regiment— E. W. Manning, Springfield; William Hoop, D. J. Weaver, Greenville; W. 1. Simonds, Ward Sherrer, N. \V. Benner and W. Fay, Dayton. None of these is seriously ill. At Macon the following were reported as additional sick picked up: Sergeant Nichols, Private T. 11. Bowman, musician; Charles Marginzinski; M. Ileigher, Fourth Ohio. Sergeant Joseph C. Dunn of Cincinnati and John Harrier of Mont Healy are also reported on board. The train will reach Columbus about Wednesday afternoon, going by way of Knoxville and Chattanooga. THE C HIC K DIM GA GUARD. Only Clio Fifth Rcalinent. I'. S. V., Cos Remain at tamp Thomas. CHICKAMAUGA PARK, Ga., Sept. 5. The last of the light artillery, consisting of batteries A, C, G and li, of Ohio, belonging to General Williston’s brigade, and the last at this point, left the park this afternoon for Columbus, 0., to be mustered out. The batteries numbered 120 men each. Thirteen sick men of these batteries occupied a Pullman car. The Third Tennessee began leaving this afternoon and the last section left at 9 o'clock to-night for Anniston. The Eighth New York was to have left to-elay for New* York city, but their cars failed to arrive anel they were compelled to wait until to-morrow. General Colby* and staff accompanied the Third Tennessee to-day. Two paymasters. Major Bostwiek and Major J. S. Wilkins, arrived to-day and will be joined Thursday by two others. The only men to be paid at this camp will he Colonel Grigsby's Rough Ridern, the Third United States Cavalry and the Sixth United States Volunteer Infantry, immune?, and the hospital corps. Colonel Grigsby's men will be mustered out of the service here next Saturday, having already turned over to the government officials their horses, arms, etc. The Fifth Regirmnt United States Volunteers, which is to be the only one left at Chickamauga, will move camp to-morrow and better establish itself for its long stay. Although the officers and men would prefer a transfer elsewhere, they are not, to any great extent, dissatisfied with the disposition made of them. Deaths reported are Connelly L. Smith, private. Company B, Second Missouri: W. J. Denison, private. Company H, First Arkansas; E. E. Walker, private. Company L. First Missouri; Frank Draper, sergeant. Company M. Eighth Massachusetts; J. C. Floyd, private, Company D, Second Kentucky. ♦ WHEELER'S DAILY REPORT. Twenty-Five Deaths. Seven of Them on the Roumanian. WASHINGTON, Sept. s.—in a report to the War Department General Wheeler au- * tinned on Second Pnge.J

FRENCH CRISIS ♦ MILITARY POLITICIANS PLAYING A GAME FOR PRESIDENCY. ♦ Resigned MtnUlor of NYnr Expects the Army to Ruck Him fur Highest Honor. SPANISH CORTES IN SESSION EaPECTED SENSATIONAL SCENES FAILED TO MATERIALIZE. - Conntltotlnniil Privilege* Still Withheld from the People, nnd a Bitter Debate Break* Out. • CHASING DERVISH KHALIFA CAVAI.ItY EXHAUSTED AND A CAMEL TRAIN SENT IN PURSUIT. Youiik Utieen AYllhelmina of Holland Enthroned at Amsterdam— Gladstone’s AN ill. PARIS. Sept. s.—General Zurlinden. military governor of Paris, has accepted the ministry of war In succession of M. Cavaignac. resigned. General Zurlinden was a member of the Ribot Cabinet, which went out of office Oct. 28, ISS. The crisis in tho Cabinet is not yet regarded as definitely settled. Both M. Brisson and M. Cavaignac are believed to be playing for the presidency of the republic and it is thought that Brisson is growing jealous of Cuvaignac’a increasing popularity. The latter, owing to his superior social qualities, is supposed to stand the best chance and it was with a view of securing the support of the army that he stood out against revision. Opinions differ as to how the latest developments affect the situation. There is a rumor tonight that General Zurlinden, the new minister of war, will advocate a mere annulling of the Dreyfus judgment and sentence as a sater way out of tho imbroglio than a retrial. involving all sorts of awkward revelations. Whether or not this be true there is much speculation us to how President Faure induced General Zurlinden to accept the war portfolio arter twice refusing it. When the Cabinet met. the minister of justice, M. Ferdinand Harrier, informed his colleagues of the receipt of Mad it.ta i> eyfus’s request for a revision of die vnuiet against her husband. M. Sarrler promised to give a statement of ihe result of hi3 examination into the matter at the meeting o{ the Cabinet to be convened after the minister of war shall have been appointed. The premier explained the reason actuating Generals Saussierre and Zurlinden in declining the office of minister of war. General Zurlinden's decision to accept th® war portfolio was communicated No President Faure. After long conferences willi the minister of the interior, M. Sarrien, General Zurlinden was interviewed by a newspaper representative. The minister of justice, the general said, asked for tho Dreyfuß dissler. When these were given him,' he added, he would study the documents carefully and inform himself thoroughly regarding the case before discussing it with the Cabinet. Interviews with tho premier, M. Henri Brisson. and the late minister of war, M. Godefrey Cavaignac, on the subject of the political situation in France as it has been affected by the recent developments in the Dreyfus case are printed to-day in the Echo de Paris. M. Brisson is reported as having said that all the members of the Ministry are convinced of the guilt of Captain Dreyfus, hut that the government must have considered the change that has come over public opinion since the suicide last week of Lieutenant Colonel Henry. M. Brisson expressed the view that it is the duty of tho government to end the excitement which is paralyzing the business interests of Paris and of the country. M. Cavaignac, in the course of the interview printed in the Echo de Paris, said that it would be a serious mistake, if not a supreme act of folly, on the part of the government to persist in its present course, and that he was not willing to participate in such a policy. ‘•You will see,” said M. Cavaignac, “in what a condition the country will be after anew trial.” The newspapers of Paris point out that M. Cavaignac’* resignation of the war portfolio has produced a painful impression in political circles, which, while recognizing tho fact that the innocence of Captain Dreyfus has not yet been disproved, they take the ground that anew trial of the charges against thf- prisoner ot Devil island has become a necessity. It is said in well-informed circles that the premier, M. Brisson, will assume tho war portfolio, relinquishing that of th; interior. which he holds in addition to tho presidency of the court, to M. Valle. In other equally well-informed circles it is said that General Zurlinden, who was a member of the Ribot Cabinet, has accepted the ministry of war. THE KHALIFA ESCAPES. British Cavalry Unable to Overtake the Fleeing Dervish. LONDON. Sept. s.—The War Office reeeived this evening the following dispatch, dated at Omdurman yesterday, from th® sirdar and General Sir Herbert Kitchener: “This morning the British and Egyptian flags were hoisted with due ceremony upon the walls of the saraya (the palace) in Khartoum. All the British wounded have left for Abadia in barges towed by steamers. I saw them before leaving. They are all doing veil and were comfortable. The cavalry sent in pursuit of the Khalifa was compelled to abandon the attempt owing to the exhaustion of the horses, but I have ordered camel squads to continue the pursuit." Dispatches from Omdurman relate that the newspaper correspondent, .Howard, who was afterwards killed, rode in the gallant charge of the Twenty-first Lancer®. These tioops were scouting when they saw in the bush between six hundred and seven hundred Dervishers. The lancers charged tho enemy and suddenly found themselves faea to face with 2,000 swordsmen, being thua outnumbered at least four to one. The Dervishers were hidden in a hollow. The lancers charged through them, reformed and charged back to recover their wounded, who were being savagely slaughtered. The official list gives the number of British officers killed in the capture ot Oindur-