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STRUCK A BROKEN RAIL PITTSIII RG .1 I.AKK ERIR RAILWAY TRAIN WRECKED. Firemnn Killed ntul Seventeen I’h*icnii'Tti Injured—Other Accidents Dne to the Cold Weather. PITTSBURG. Pa.. Feb. IT-Train No. 2. an accommodation on the Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad, which left Cleveland at B:3D o’clock this morning, was wrecked this afternoon near Fleming Park, opposite Davis island. The fireman is dead and seventeen passengers were badly injured. A partial list of the casualties follows: W. A. CAMPBELL, Fireman, found lying under the trucks of the baggage ear; died before medical aid could Ik? summoned. JOHN TOTTEN, engineer, painfully, but not fatally injured. GEORGE NEKSE. haggagemaster. cut about head and arms; taken to the hospital: will live. JAMES B. YOHE. a son of Superintendent J. B. Yohe, of the Pittsburg & Lake Erie road, badly cut about the head and face. He was traveling in the parlor car with his father. MISS MARY KELLY, Youngstown, 0., arms and neck badly injured. H. C. BARR, Newcastle, legs and arms injured. J. O. CATO. Aliquipp. hurt about neck. E. S. HUBBARD, Hotel Henry, not badly injured. C. P. WAGNER, Newcastle, slightly injured SAMUEL W. ARMSTRONG. Newcastle. CALEB WEBB, conductor, McKeesport. The wreck was caused by a broken rail. The train was running at a high rate of speed and the locomotive and several cars were badly damaged. When the news of the accident reached this city a wrecking crew was sent to the scene and physicians were summoned from near-by towns. The injured w-ere removed from the wreck and given as prompt attention as the circumstances would permit. Ambulances were called from the Homeopathic, the Mercy and the Pennsylvania Hospitals and were at the Smithfield station ready to receive the injured. The cold weather caused much sufferii*? to the injured and to those who aided in the removal. The train was composed of a baggage, two day ccaches and a Pullman parlor car. It is presumed that the broken rail was one of the ‘'Sects of the extreme cold. This is the first accident of this kind that has occurred in this part of the country since the cold weather began. The train was two hours late and ran on a sidetrack at Fleming Point to let another train pass. In running off the switch a rail broke and the engine was thrown from the track and turned over on its side. The tender ran on for several hundred yards before the air brakes took effect. Fatal Colittion Near Lancaster. LANCASTER, Pa., Feb. 13.-A fatal railroad wreck occurred this afternoon at Gallaghersvilie, three miles west of Downlngtown. The second section of the fast line east crashed into the rear of the first, which was due here at 5 o'clock a. m.. but did not leave until 9 o’clock. Engineer Joseph Smith and Fireman Corser were killed outright. Smith is pinned down under the engine. A number of passengers were injured. It is impossible to get further particulars of the accident at this point. Paßßengers Shaken Up. MANSFIELD, 0., Feb. 13.—The eastbound express on tho Pennsylvania, uncontrollable on account of frozen airbrakes, collided with a B. & O. freight at the intersection of the roads here. The express engine was badly damaged and six cars were derailed. The passengers were uninjured but badly shaken up. The engineer and fireman of the express saved their lives by jumping. Engineer and Son Killed. FORT TICONDEROGA, N. Y„ Feb. 13.Delaware & Hudson train No. 4, whi. h left Montreal this morning, was derailed near Gumndngs Station, two miles south of here this afternoon. The engine turned over and the engineer, W. S. Combs, and his little hoy, ten years old. were killed. The rest of the train hands and passengers escaped.

WILD BLIZZARD. (ConclmiPil from First Paffe.l open until late in the afternoon, was forced to suspend operations. The ferryboats connecting this city with the island ran about every hour during the day, but at night, when the ice floes in the bay began to clog under the counters and heeling the boats over until their freeboards touched the water, it was decided to suspend trips to or from the island. Newark. N. J., suffered from a water famine to-day and had to fall back on the Passaic river for a supply. The great reservoirs In the mountains, where the present water works are located, are frozen solid, and anchor Ice backed into the mains which supply the city, cutting off the supply to less than one-half of the usual amount. An early morning train on the New Jersev & New York Railroad is in a snow bank near Rlverridge, N. J. Travel was suspended on the Jersey Central Railroad from the Cummunlpaw- depot this afternoon and trains arriving at the Pennsylvania depot in Jersey City from the South and West were from five to eight hours late. The Lehigh Valley and Susquehanna roads were nearly paralyzed and most of the business done by them was of a local nature. The surface fines in Jersey City and vicinity were kept open during the day with the greatest effort. A water and coal famine is feared at New Brunswick, N. J.. where the storm has placed everything at a standstill. Elizabeth, N. J., has been snow-bound since last night and the conditions which exist there are about on a par with troubles experienced elsewhere. The factories there and at Perth Amboy are shut down owing to a lack of coal and the inability of employes to reach them. The meat supply at Burlington. N. J., has run out completely, and owing to the blockade existing on the railroad it is impossible to obtain a supply. The mills and factories there have suspended operations. At Paterson. N. .1.. the Erie. Susquehanna and lackawanna railroads are snowbound and almost at a. standstill. The mills and factories are closed. There were threo fatalities to-day due to the cold. William McKane, fifty-two years old, living at Yonkers, was found frozen to death In a snowdrift near Tarrytown this morning. Richard Atoheson. fifty-six years of age. was frozen to death here iii the snow. George Hatzon, an agent at No. 744 Broadway, was found dead in a snowdrift, and Ix*e Sing, a Chinaman, twentv-two years old. was frozen to death in Brooklyn. Dispatches from Connecticut, New’ Jersey and other States say the blizzard was severe and that it has entailed great suffering. * TRAINS ABANDONED. The Itliy.znrd I*l living- Havoc with Hallway* 1% J’eunxy t van la. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 13.-Aftcr a day of heroic battle, all tlie human forces that could be brought Into play against the elements have been forced to succumb, and to-night the city is fast locked in the embrace of the worst blizzard In the history of tlie local weather bureau. Steam and local traffic, are at a standstill and the snow-heaped streets are deserted. From 8 o’clock Saturday night to the same hour tonight there has been a steady snowfall, the aggregate depth of which at the latter hour was 17% Inches. Tlie high winds have whirled this into impassable drifts and there Is no sign of the storm’s abatement. While unusually severe, the storm did not x-eaoh the fury of a blizzard until to-day, when the wind attained a velocity of forty miles an hour. Early In the day the Pennsylvania Railroad succeeded in moving about 60 per cent, of Its regular passenger service, but no attempt was made to move freight or coal trains. Through trains to the West were abandoned early, the last one leaving here at R:.’ this morning for Harrisburg. At last report! It was stalled near Lancaster. The Western trains due here from New York at 10:25 and 11:52 a. hi. were both between two and three hours late and went no further than this city. The Pennsylvania limited, west-bound, was the last to leave New’ York, and It was also abandons. -re. The Pittsburg limited left there L JC .oc.’t last night for New York and

was switched off the main line and brought down over the Columbia branch as far as Lancaster, where it was abandoned. All incoming trains from the South and West which contrived to reach Broad-street station were iieid there. The decision to entirely abandon the New York division was not reached until 7 o'clock to-night, when it became apparent that the attempt to move trains would be of too desperate a nature. Early in the evining the Reading Railroad posted a notice that all train service was abandoned until further notice. Later a number of suburban trains were moved at intervals of an hour or more. No attempt was made on the main line. At 4:30 this afternoon the Williamsport express, consisting of two engines and four coaches, got away, and shortly after 5 o’clock two engines and one coach were started for New York and another short train for Trenton. Up to a late hour to-night no report of their progress had been received. The Baltimore K ■ Ohio abandoned its local service early in the afternoon. The train from New York to Washington got away four hours later, and was the last througn train in that direction for the day. No trains left for the West. The Pittsburg train, due here at 5:10 this morning, arrived at 2:05 p. m. and was abandoned here, as was also the Washington train, due at 11 a. m., which lumbered in at 5:10 this afternoon. There were a number of deaths and a good many casualties attributable to the prevailing condition. John W. Yeamans, aged sixty-nine years, fell dead at Seventeenth and Cherry streets; Benjamin Zebley. aged seventy years, became unconscious on the streets and died within a few minutes; James Hall was found dead in a >ard down town. The roof of the shed of the armory of the City Troop fell in from the weight of snow this afternoon, carrytng the walls down with it and causing Jj.bXi damage. No one was injured. Those districts which rely on Philadelphia for a supply ot anthracite are threatened with a famine, not a single coal-carrying vessel having passed out of the Delaware since the middle of last week. As the same conditions apply to freight shipments, the situation is grave. A dispatch from Easton says: “The weather records of Easton and Northampton county do not contain a parallel of the present blizzard and its paralyzing effects. Snow has fallen steadily since Saturday evening. Towards midnight last night the blizzard set in and the fall of snow since that time has been unprecedented. .The wind is blowing a gale and the thermometer registers from 2 to 3 degrees below zero. Trolley traffic is at a standstill. Early trains on the Lehigh Valley system were from one to two hours late. The road is still open from New York to Buffalo, it is reported bv Superintendent Spriggs’s office. Coal' and freight traffic lias been suspended and all efforts have been directed to keeping the road open. The Philadelphia paper train is stal ed on the Bethlehem division of the i.hi ladelphla Reading road. The Belvidere division trains, two passengers and a local freight, are stuck near Riegelsville, N. J.” Lancaster reports that that city is isolated. No trains arrived on the Pennsylvania railroad from the West. The Reading Is entirely tied up. The fast train from the West is fast in the snow in the tunnel cut in the snow near Columbia. Wiikesbarre reports that the snow bloek--Bde on the various railroads centering there is almost complete to-night, and will make no attempt to run trains over the mountain to-night. Upon the arrival of the Black Diamond express from Buffalo the passengers will be taken to hotels for the in .V h,n § 9 are even worse on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, whose tracks also cross the mountains. All trains have been abandoned at Wiikesbarre. Harrisburg Stormbound. HARRISBL RG, Pa., Fell. 13.-—Harrisburg is stormbound. Twenty Inches of snow have fallen in the past twenty-four hours. Traffic on (he trolley lines is seriously impeded and all the railroad lines are blocked. Passenger trail s on the railroads are from lour to eight hours late. There have been no trains from Pittsburg since last night and the train due here from Philadelphia at 5 o c.ock had not reached hi re at noon The snow has drifted ten feet high in some parts or the city and business is practically at a standstill. A handful of senators and members met in joint assembly at noon and went through the form of balloting for a United States senator. There was no quorum present and, of course, there was no choice for senator. One Train Run Through. WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 13.—'The blizzard of last night and this morning effectually blocked railroad travel in Delaware. On the Delaware Railroad, which traverses the length of the Slate, the trackelearlng crews are assembled at the various stations awaiting orders, it having been decided that it. was useless to attempt to open the tracks until the snow should abate By 11 o clock to-day the Pennsylvania Railroad had succeeded in getting a train through from New York to Washington, but only after great difficulty and very slow time. ’

COAL FAMINE FEARED. People of PittMbiirß,' Alarmed Over Tlielr Shortage of Fuel. PITTSBURG-, Feb. 13.—A coal famine Is threatened here. The total coal supply now In the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at Pittsburg does not exceed 1,000,000 bushels. The daily consumption is 200,000 bushels, and there are orders for instant delivery of at least 400,000 bushels. The rivers are frozen up tight and the railroad freights are not moving. Coal has advanced from 5U cents to 10 cents a bushel and in some cases is selling as high as 25 cents. Hundreds of wagons are waiting on the wharves to load and thousands of orders for fuel are being received that cannot be filled. The situation is the most critical in years. There are millions of bushels of coal'in barges up the river, but there is no way to get it here. The situation has become so desperate than an effort is being made to break the ice on the Monongahela as far as loeks Nos. 2 and 3. above which, it is said, there is coal enough to supply Pittsburg and Allegheny for a month if all other sources of supply are cut off. The mercury oontiues to hover around zero. Last night it dropped to 6 degrees belctv and to-day it is 1 degree below. Yesterday and last night many of the large mills were kept in operation to prevent the machinery from freezing. There is a continued stagnation of river navigation, but no further damage to boats and other craft has been reported. There is much ice in the Ohio, and the upper rivers remain frozen tight. The rivers are still falling and the greatest danger feared by river men is that craft will suffer when the break-up comes. THE SOUTHLAND SHIVERING. In the Grip of Cold Wave Tlint llns llroUcn All Records. ATLANTA. Ga., Feb. 13.~The South shivered to-day in a temperature of unprecedented severity. From the Gulf of Mexico northward, and from the Atlantic coast to the west boundary of Texas, the cold wave has settled heavily on the country and produced tho lowest temperature ever known. Anniston, Ala., reported the lowest temperature—fifteen below at 7 o’clock this morning. Atlanta comes next with eight below recorded officially. This was the lowest ever known here, the low mark being broken (i'j. degrees. Street thermometers recorded ten and twelve below and this temperature, accompanied by a wind which reached a velocity of forty miles an hour, made the discomfort almost unbearable. Great suffering was reported to the police early ir. the flay, and prompt measures were taken for relief. The newspapers co-operated with the police and furnished coal and provisions to hundreds of families. A large number of people with frost bitten hands, faces, ears and noses, were cared for early In the morning, and ten cases were sent to the Grady hospital. One week ago tin temperature hern was seventy-two. Street-car traffic is demoralized. no cars having been run on some lines since Saturday night. Four inches of snow covers the ground. Superintendent Stephens of the Western Union reports telegraph facilities badly demoralized. There is no connection with New' Orleans or Jaeksonvillle. Fla., and many wires in every direction have snapped as a result of the cold. The storm in the vicinity of Mobile has wrecked all wires to New Or lea ns, and a large crew of linemen left Mobile early in the day in an effort to restore communication. Among the temperatures reported to the weather bureau are the following—all below zero: Nashville, J 2; Knoxville. 10; Selma (Ala.), 5; Birmingham, 5; Columbus, 4: Mobile. 1; Montgomery, 4. and many others hovering near the zero mark. Will Kill Yellow Fever Germs. WASHINGTON. Feb. 13.—Viewed from a hygienic standpoint in its effect on the yel-low-fever germs tlie freeze in the South is a blessing to the people of that section according to T>r. Wyman, the surgeon general of the marine hospital corps. “It is just what we wanted.” said he to-night in speaking on the subject, “and I believe it will be productive of great good in stamping out the germs that may still exist after the very thorough work which has been done by the state and national officials in eradl-

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eating all vestiges of last summer’s epidemic. It certainly Is a blessing to the people of the South as far as next summer is concerned.” Dr Wyman went on to explain that New Orleans had been the main objective point towards which the efforts ot the government marine hospital bureau bad been concentrated to kill the disease. There the local and national authorities had jointly conducted the labor of areating and disinfecting all suspicious places. It was Just about completed, and the cold weather. Dr. Wyman says, will clinch the efforts of the medical authorities. Fruit* and Vegetables Nipped. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. Feb. 13.—Associated Press dispatches from throughout the South to-day and to-night indicate that without exception the cold weather record was broken in every State. Death and the destruction of early fruits and vegetables ac--'ompaied the cold blast. Up to midnight the deaths of ten persons had been reported. From Texas come reports of considerable losses of cattle, together with tho utter ruination of the oats and wheat crop in some sections. Railroads in Virginia are blockaded owing to the heavy snow drifts. From almost every section come reports of fuel famines and great distress among the poor. The temperature ranged to-da)l from 39 degrees below zero at London, in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, to 15 degrees above in the orange belt of Florida. In the latter State winter maturing vegetables were killed, but what damage was done to orange trees is yet in doubt. In the extreme South the telegraph systems were demoralized the entire day, the severe weather causing snapping of the wires. C.olile*t on Record In Kentucky. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Fob. 13.-The coldest weather ever known in Kentucky was recorded to-day. At Louisville the thermometer only reached ten below, but the State suffered much more. Lebanon (Ky.) showed a temperature of 39 below, Carlisle 30, Princeton 30 and the highest recorded in reports from twenty-five stations, was thirteen below. At Paducah a negro woman and her child were found frozen to death in the field. In many towns business has been suspended and coal shortage is reported from all parts of tjte State. Coal has advanced 2 cents a bushel in Louisville. The Ohio river is fast freezing. So far there has been comparatively lit.’le suffering, but if tlie cold weather continues any longer there is certain to be a great deal as the coal supply is fast becoming exhausted and the greatest difficulty is experienced in getting fuel to the places in need. Lasted Forty-Eight Honrs. BALTIMORE, Feb. 13.—A special dispatch from Cumberland, in the mountain district of the State, says the storm there has been of unprecedented violence and duration, having lasted for forty-eight hours without cessation. Heavy drifts have formed on the Baltimore & Ohio lines at that point and all trains for the West on the Washington and Pittsburg division have been abandoned. Those due from the east last night and this morning wens from six to twelve hours late, and those from the west are delayed, though not quite so badly. A coal famine is threatened in Cumberland, and the suffering among the poor of the city is Intense. Snow has been falling here since Saturday night. Street-car lines and all steamboat lines have stopped. Reports from all sections show the same conditions. Drift* Ten Feet Deep. FALLS CHURCH. Va., Feb. 13.—1 t lias been snowing here since 3 o’clock yesterday morning and the snow in northern Virginia in places has drifted until it is from seven to ten feet deep. On the Washington & Ohio Railroad all traffic is tied up. There are three morning passenger tlains scheduled south-bound and not one of them started to-day. All are frozen in at the terminal points and no train could penetrate the great drifts in the railroad cuts. Throughout this region all is snow-bound. At this and neighboring towns much concern is felt over a scarcity of coal. Much suffering is expected. So far no deaths from the storm have been reported in this section.

Factories Short of Coal. NASHVILLE, Tenn.. Feb. 13.—The weather here to-day was the coldest on record. The thermometer registered twelve degrees at 7 a. m. There is much suffering on account of lack of coal, but coal trains are being sent in as rapidly as possible, being given right of way over other trains. Some manufacturing establishments being unable to secure coal, have shut down, hut thev will be supplied as rapidly as possible and will be running again in two or inree u.i., Suffering among the poor is* being relieved by charitable organizations, whose funds have been largely increased by subscriptions during the past week. There lias been no damage to fruit in this section, as the cold weather has prevented early budding. l.owcMt Ever Known in ('liuttitnoog-u. CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., Feb. 13.-The thermometer in the weather bureau here this morning registered 10.3 degrees below zero. This is the lowest point reached since the establishment of the bureau twenty years ago. and the weather is the coldest within the memory of any resident of this section. Railroads, street-car lines and other things of the kind are having much trouble keeping in operation as they were unprepared for the snow and bitter cold. There is much suffering among the poorer classes, but no deaths have yet been reported. The public schools are temporarily suspended. Meinplii* Harbor lee-Boiiinl. MEMPHIS. Tenn., Feb. 13.—The present cold snap is a record-breaker for West Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi, Zero weather has prevailed for several days and there has been much suffering among poor people. The effect, of the weather has been to cause a complete suspension of navigation on the Mississippi river from Greenville (Miss.) north to Cairo. The wharf at Memphis is ice-bound and all local packets have gone into winter quarters. Early bearing iruit trees in Mississippi have been withered by the intense cold and tHe early fruit crop will be seriously impaired. Futilities In Kentucky. LOUISVILLE, l\y., Feb. 13.—The following fatalities, due to the extreme cold, have occurred in this State within the last twen-ty-four hours: William Brockman, carriage painter, found dead in bed at Richmond; Albert Maples, overcome by the cold near Jellico and was dead when found; mail carrier from Hazard, Perry county, to Mount Klkhorn; colored woman, name unknown, and her year-old child, found dead in a field near Paducah; negro child, Catlettsburg. Severe nt Savannah. SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb. 13.—A heavy sleet yesterday, snow to-day and the coldest weather ever known here, has paralyzed all business. Street-car service has been interrupted and all trains delayed. The schools were dismissed. A negro was found frozen to deatli in Ann street. ♦ CALIFORNIANS IMIAPI’Y. They Have Beautiful Weather, but Are try Ihr for Haiti. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13.—California and tne entire Pacific coast is now enjoying beautiful weather from a climatic standpoint, but the weather conditions are nefther pleasing nor encouraging for farmers and fruit growers, who are complaining on acount of lack of rain. In northern California the weather is more propitious than in the south, and crops are showing up better, but, unless rain comes soon this section will be as badly in need of moisture as the south. Crops are just commencing to show the need of water. Grain in most sections of northern California is showing well. The warm weather has started the fruit, and nut trees are blooming and the buds will soon commence to show. If rain falls and there be no severe frosts the Iruit crop of northern California will be enormous, but should the rain hold off too long, or heavy frosts occur, the opposite will hold good. The water in the rivers is not as high as usual, owing to the mild weather conditions in the mountains, where comparatively little snow has fallen. In Southern California no rain has fallen for four weeks and crops are In a deplorable condition and producers are most distracted. Rain is an absolute necessity and unless there are abnormal falls between now and the end of May, crops will be ruined. In some places even normal rain's w ill not result in any material benefit. As far as the limited supply of water permits the irrigation of low lands is progressing splendidly and in any event the Irrigated districts will generally produce fine crops. Feed on the ranges is becoming short and although there has been suffering on the part of cattle no very serious losses have resulted. Severe frosts have occurred in the coast region of Southern California during the past week

and growing crops have been retarded and injured, pasturage in, the south Is also scant. The situation rnav be somewhat relieved by the presence of heavy fogs, but much more moisture than that afforded by fogs is needed. Fuit in many of the southern counties has been injured and unless conditions change almost immediately, the orange and lemon crops will suffer greatly. Even now the fruits show the need of moisture. In the interior districts frosts have not been so severe but some damage has resulted from the cold snap. Grain is at a standstill and may prove a failure unless rain comes soon. Very large grain acreage has been sown. * —— SITUATION I\ COLORADO. Roml* Covered with Snon Twenty to Thirty Feet Deep. DENVER, Col.. Feb. 13.— The big storm in the vicinity of Leadville started in on its fourth week to-day after one day of sunshine, and although the snow’fall was not very heavy to-day there was enough to add considerably to the difficulties in the way of opening up the Ibex branch line to the mines in the gold belt. For the present Leadville has enough coal and provisions and arrangements have been made there to send food to outside districts. Two prospectors on snowshoes arrived in Leadville to-day from Wheeler. It took them four days to make the trip of fourteen miles. They report that the wagon roads are. covered in some places for tw’o miles at a stretch with snowslides and drifts twenty to thirty feet deep. There is enough food at Wheeler and other towns around Kokomo and Dillon to last ten days with care. Potatoes, flour and salt pork are the articles of diet. Stock is suffering, and between eighty and ninety head of horses between Wheeler and Leadville have scarcely any food whatever. An effort will be made to dig a road across the mountains to Pando, near Red Cliff, on the main line of the Rio Grande in order to supply the towns between Kokomc and Leadville, should the South Park remain unable to clear the high line within the next week. The wagon road would be but ten miles in length and the prospectors from Wheeler state that the proposition Is to have every able bodied man turn out and shovel snow. A relief and work train sent out from Boulder by the Colorado and Northwestern Railway succeeded in getting only as far as Klondike Point. There- has been no suffering so far in any of the mining camps on that line, but fuel and provisions are running short. The Ohio Full of Ice. CINCINNATI, 0.. Feb. 13.—While the weather bureau thermometer .showed eleven below zero as the minimum last night—five less than the record of last Thursday, private thermometers in the northern suburbs. where the north wind had full effect, ranged lower than on Thursday. They ran from twenty to thirty degrees below zero. The Ohio river is still open but full of ice. This condition exists as far up as Pomeroy. At Wheeling the river is closed. The coal in transit from Pittsburg to lower river points, has mostly gone into safe harbors. Its danger now' is from the breaking up of the ice.

Chicago in Need of Coal. CHICAGO, Feb. 13.—Chicago is beginning to experience a coal famine as a result of the excessive cold w'eathor, now well out of the way. The shortage is especially marked in the case of anthracite coal, which has advanced 50 cents a ton. At the beginning of the year the local stocks were 200,000 tons less than a year ago and the extreme coid weather of the last two weeks has caused the supply to melt away. The chestnut variety is exhausted. Cold Weather Notes. Thousands of range horses are said to be starving to death in eastern Oregon. Samuel Saunders, aged eighty-two years, was found frozen to death at his home, at' Moody, O. Charles Recor. aged fifty years, was found frozen to death Black River, New York, yesterday. The New Orleans races were postponed yesterday on account of frozen track. Entries stand for to-morrow 7 . The boxing show scheduled for last night at the Greenwood Athletic Club, Brooklyn, was postponed until Thursday night on account of the storm. John Reagan, a farmer who was bringing a load of feed to Middletown. N. A r ., was found frozen to death half buried under a lot of bags in the wagon. Ben Graves, Alexander Clark and Will Johnson, Collins county, Texas, farmers, have been frozen to death while attempting to walk from McKinney to their homes. One hundred coal miners at Ironton. 0., have struck for an increase from 75 cents to SI cents per load. Coal is bringing almost any price. Industries are crippled and a coal famine is imminent. Owing to the intensely cold weather the thermometer being ten degrees below zero, the Birmingham (.Ala.) Carnival Society called off the mardi gras celebration, which was to have been held yesterday and today. An old negro mail carrier named Brozier, who for many years has carried the mail between Little Rock and Fourche Dam in Pulaski county. Arkansas, was found frozen to death yesterday. The thermometer leached zero. Gallipolis. 0., is practically without fuel and a coal famine is threatened. Not a solitary dealer in this city, except one, has a bushel of coal, and this particular dealer has his barge of coal in the river and cannot get at it. Many in this city are without fuel. Captain Ross, of the steamer Alice Stafford. which is icebound in Lake Michigan off Frankfort, Mich., walked ashore on the ice yesterday. He says he encountered only two miles of open water in crossing the lake from Kewaunee to Frankfort. The Stafford left Kewaunee, six days ago. COL. COLSON WILL RECOVER. Members f the Provost Guard Who Disarmed Him to He Arrested. ANNISTON. Ala.. Feb. 13.-Colonol Colson’s wound, received in the fight here late Saturday night, is doing nicely. It is very painful and will heal slowly, but there is no doubt of his recovery, unless unforeseen complications ensue. He will be removed to the division hospital to-night. Lieutenant Scott, who was arrested, has given bond for his appearance. Lieutenants McKay and Phelps, of the Fourth Wisconsin, on provost guard duty, and who were in the restaurant at the time of the shooting, will be arrested on charges of assault and battery on warrants sworn out by Lieutenant Wilhoit, a friend of Colonel Colson's. They disarmed Colonel Colson, who resisted, and was struck in the face several times. Both Colonel Colson and Lieutenant Scott have been mustered out. and they will not be called to account by the military authorities. Gen. Leroy T. Frank, commanding Camp Shipp, has ordered an official inquiry into the part taken by the provost guard. May Not lie Prosecuted. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The news of the shooting affray of the Fourth Kentucky at Anniston, Ala., in which Col. D. G. Colson was severely wounded, was received with great regret at the War Department to-day. The question naturally arose as to whether the men. who were in process of being mustered out, were under the jurisdiction of the War Department or whether they would have to he tried by the civil authorities. Feuds, affrays and trouble of various kinds just when volunteer regiments are being mustered out have been so frequent during tne existence of the present volunteer army that the Anniston incident caused more annoyance and caustic comment than would otherwise have been accorded it. Asa matter of strict interpretation. the officers in question, not having been finally discharged, are still under the jurisdiction of the War Department, but it was said on good authority to-day that the department will not press its claim to prosecute the participants in the affair, hut will allow* them to be turned over to the civil authorities to be dealt with according to civil law. Obituary. WHEELING. W. Va.. Feb. 13.—News was received here to-day of the sudden deatli from paralysis at Webster Grove, Mo., of Hon. W. A' Campbell, of this city, one of the founders of West Virginia, and one <>f the proprietors of the wheeling Intelligencer. and until a few years ago its editor. Since his retirement from active newspaper life Mr. Campbell has lived in quiet ar.d n ver would accept a public office, though frequently offered the United States scant ursh ip. THE GRIP <1 RE THAT DOES FI RE. laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets remove the eausc that produces I*a Grippe. The genuine has L. B. Q. on each Tablet. 25c.

MRS. SEW ALL’S REPORT ON WORK \\D AIMS OF THE \ \TIO\AL COIACIL OF WOMEN. + Several Recoin nieiidu tionn by the President— Members Not Daunted by the Washington Ulicznrd. ♦ WASHINGTON’. Feb. 13.-A blinding snowstorm did not prevent the inerting of the National Council of Women. The report of the president, Mrs. May Wright Sew all, was the feature of the day's work. Following are extracts: “The attention of the public and of ourselves can never too often be emphasized upon that feature of the Council which differentiates it from all other organizations, namely, that it Is the purpose of the Council to bring together, not individuals on the basis of common aims and common principles, but organizations whose aims and methods are essentially different, and may indeed, as far as their fitness to unite in the Council is concerned, be essentially antagonistic. “Although the membership of the Council has been increased by three large national organizations, one State Council and four Local Councils since the last triennial, it is found that all of these organizations can find relatively adequate expression in a session covering eight days. “The history of philanthropy and reform shows that the charge of one-sidedness lias often been Justly brought* to bear against these organized agencies for the improvement of human society. Every national organization which is a member of the Council is consious of having experienced an expansion of sympathy and an access of intelligence through its council relationship. “The last four years has been characterized by the growing sensitiveness to prevailing defects in American municipal organization and management. Since our last triennial the National Municipal League for the Improvement of local government has been organized. The same influences w'hich brought the league into being have caused intelligent women living in American cities to feel the condition of municipal life a direct appeal to their own consciences. Sensitive as the average woman’s conscience is to personal wrong, even a superior woman needs a practical awakening to cure her of the obstuseness to official organized public wrong. "During the last four years a wonderful change has been wrought in American w'omen in this particular. The local council Is a manifestation of this change, and the local council will be found to be the most effective instrument that has been shaped to woman’s hand for the correction of evils and the inauguration of the reign of virtue in public places.” Mrs. Bewail recommended that a committee be formed whose business it shall be (a) to secure a complete list of all the titles under which women are gathered into organizations in this country, and (b) to classify these titles and group them under the heads of religion, education, civics and politics, industry, professional freedom and activity, literature, and art; that the council request the next president of the council to appoint eight women to stand at the head of each of the eight departments: that institutions as well as organizations be admitted to membership, on the same pecuniary terms and with the same representation as local councils. Mrs. Bewail also recommended that an effort be made to bring different women’s and coeducational colleges into affiliation with the National Council. A modification of the constitution would be necessary, but it would be possible to arrange so that such institutions could be brought into the council on a par with the local councils that shall be received into its membership. It was recommended that at this triennial meeting a committee be appointed to collate information respecting such institutions with a view to preparing a list of them to be presented at the next executive session. In view* of the practical extension of the United States it was recommended that a committee be appointed to study the social and domestic conditions of life in our island territory with a. view to seeing in what way the women there can be aided by the initiation of the women into American methods of organization for mutual benefit and for the public weal. That these studies may be intelligently prosecuted it was recommended that a commission be nominated from the National Council and that the council endeavor to secure for it the recognition of the government and that the commission be instructed to visit the islands. The last act of the present administration of the council, it was suggested, should he the sending to the Czar of Russia a letter expressing the sympathy, appreciation and gratitude of the council for the initiative taken by him in behalf of disarmament. Expressions of sympathy, Mrs. Bewail said, should be sent also to the national committee in Great Britain for their interest in the subject. It is hoped, Mrs. Sewall said, in closing, that by the Ist of May all debts will be paid; still experience demands the creation of a permanent fund, the income of which shall be devoted to the prosecution of enterprises undertaken by the committee and a standing finance committee should be appointed to work with the treasurer in devising a plan for the establishment of such a fend. The opening session of the third National Congress of Mothers, set for to-morrow, has been postponed until Wednesday, many of the delegates being unable to reach here because of delays to travel incident to the storm. 1

SIX-DAY BICYCLE RACE. Eighteen Hen Benin a Contest of Eudurance at San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13.—At 10:35 tonight eighteen men started on their long journey in the great international six-day race at the Mechanics' Pavilion, under the auspices of the American Cycle Racing Association of New York and San Francisco. For the past month these riders have been steadily practicing in this city, on the roads at Golden Gate Park and eighteen better conditioned and brighter-eyed men never started in such a contest. Predictions of the men favor 2,250 miles as the distance which will be-dovered during the week and at least six of the men expect to go through the first twenty-four hours without dismounting. Several of the men will not stop riding until they have gained the lead, so they assert to-night, and the battle promises to be very warm. Miller, Waller, Michael, Elks, Bnlil and other champions pronounce it the fastest track ever built within doors and no complaint is heard from the longdistance pluggers other than regarding the banking, which is eight feet in sixteen and pretty steep for the finishing hours of the race. The contest is to run 144 hours, whereas contests of like nature have always run 142 hours, owing to the style set many years ago by Sir John Ashley in the great pedestrian matches at Agricultural Hall, at London. The full list of starters is: Charles W. Miller. Chicago; Frank Waller, Oakland; Burns W. Pierce, Boston; Frank Alberts, New' York: Eouis Gimm. Pittsburg; John Lawson, Chicago: J. W. Nawn, Ireland; Oscar Aaronson, Sweden: Teddy Hale, Ireland: Ed Stevens. Buffalo; Oscar Julius, Sweden: Fredericks. Switzerland; Charles Turville. Philadelphia; C. W. Ashinger, New York; John Chapman, Atlanta, (la.: Tom Burnaby, Boston: Henry Pilkington, Philadelphia; George Hannant. Klondike. <;><¥ (lot (lie Decision. CINCINNATI. 0., Feb. 13.—Charlie Golf, of California, secured the decision over Charles Johnson, of Philadelphia, before the People's Athletic Club here to-night. The light was tame throughout, and the unanimous opinion of the large crowd present was that the bout was prearranged. C leveland Clnh to Go to St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 13.—The Post-Dispatch says: “It is certain that the Cleveland players will be transferred to St. Louis. The old Forest City team has been ordered to report at Hot Springs, and it will lx* moved into St. Louis from there." Onenr Gardner Bested. YOUNGSTOWN. 0., Feb. 13—Oscar Gardner lost the decision to Jack O’Brien, of New’ York, in a twenty-round bout here to-mght for a purse of SI,OOO. O'Brien was aggressive from the start and Gardner loafed for fifteen rounds. In the last three rounds O’Brien had decidedly the best of it, and when the bout closed Gardner was groggy and one of his eyes was closed. Rev Arrive* at Xevv Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 13.—Rex arrived to-da>, accompanied by a tine fleet. Including the Detroit. The Chicago ha? no* yet arrived. The military display was creditable despite the snow. Proteus postponed his night parade until Friday, owing to the inability of the mules to negotiate the slippery streets. Rex will have his day parade and Comus his night parade to-morrow-. More than the usual number of strangers

are in the city, including many American, Cuban and Mebican editors, Essenic Knights and other conventions. TOWN OF DIGBY BURNED. “tintfnnj to the I.mid of Evangeline’’ Almost Wlpetl Oat. HALIFAX. X. S.. Feb. 14.—The town of Digby. the gateway to the land of Evangeline. was almost wiped out by fire last night. All the business portion of the town is in ashes anil the loss will be ss>o,ooo. At 2 a. m. the tire is still spreading, threatening the Dufferin Hotel and the railroad station. School aiul Factories Durnei). NEW YORK. Feb. 13.—Public school No. 20 in Jersey City burned to-day. Jennet's photograph apparatus factory, Gottberg's glass picture factory, Martin's suspender factory and John Matenheimer's residence were damaged. Total loss is about $75,000. Battalion Fire Chief Hogan and three other firemen, when half benumbed by the cold, went into Gottberg’s factory and were overcome by the smoke. They were rescued in an unconscious condition by other firemen and taken to the hospital. Old ( htengo Hotel Rurued. CHICAGO, Feb. 13.—The United States Hotel, an old landmark at the southeast c orner of Cottage Grove avenue and Thirtyfirst street, was destroyed by fire to-day. During its palmy days, long before the civil war, the hotel was a favorite resort of prominent political men, among whom wear© Gen. U. S. Grant and Stephen A. Douglas. Two WiiißN of a. Prison Hurtled. HUNTSVILLE, Tex., Feb. 13.—The east and west wings of the state penitentiary, containing the prisoners and officers’ quarters burned this morning. There were no casualties, the inmates being quartered in shops and other buildings. The burned buildings cost originally $57,000. ON A FLOE ALL NIGHT SKATERS FINALLY RESCUED FROM PERIL OX LAKE MICHIGAN. Arthur Fletcher, Who Made an Herolo Effort to Save the Castaway!, Seriously Frozen. CHICAGO, Feb. 13.— After being adrift on an ice floe in Lake Michigan for over fifteen hours, the five people who were carried out Sunday evening by the breaking of the iee were rescued, and it is not expected that any of them will be much the worse for the experience. Young Arthur Fletcher, who made an heroic effort to bring them ashore in his boat, and who paddled around all night in the frail craft, did not fare so well, both his feet being badly frozen. It is expected he will be a cripple for life. The names of those saved are: ELMER D. BROTHERS, attorney. MISS OREL MANLEY, seventeen years old, niece of Brothers. CHAUNCEY MANLEY, brother-in-law of Brothers. GUY W. CARON, student at Lake Forest Universitv, Lake Forest. GEORGE MALLORY, student at Lake Forest University, Lake Forest. The castaways were discovered at daylight by two young men who had ventured nearly four miles from the shore in search of the missing persons, and were Joined a few* minutes later by Captain Fountain and several of the oarsmen of the life saving crew from the mouth of the Chicago river. Miss Oren Manley, the only girl in the party, was unconscious from the cold and exposure, and the rescuers were obliged to carry the Insensible body of the half-frozen young woman to land. But the four men, though stiff and frost bitten, were still able to walk, and with the help of the fresher members of the band* of life savers were quickly hurried ashore. Miss Manley was almost dead when ti.e life savers came, and for live hours after she was brought to land she did not regain her senses. The physicians think that she will recover entirely. A peculiar feature of the story is that, although Caron and Mallory were carried out on the ice many miles from where Brothers and the Manleys were, they met them during the night, while wandering around the ice. The rive people tramped up and down all r.ight in the effort to keep warm, and finally, w'hen Miss Manley became unconscious, they made abed for her of their overcoats. Fletcher, w r ho made such a brave effort to save them, reached shore somewrhat in advance of the others. His boat became disabled and he was forced to abandon the effort to save any life but his own. He suffered far worse than any of the others. Although but a boy. Fletcher has already distinguished himself by acts of bravery, having saved three lives within the last year and others before that.

SUFFOCATED BY SMOKE. Poor People Found bend in n Home and Three I'neonselonn. MARLBORO, Mass., Feb. 13.—A policeman who w r ent to a small house In rear of a shoe factory to-night to investigate a fire found the house full of smoke and in a room off the kitchen four persons lying on a mattress which had been placed on the floor, all dead, and in the kitchen three other persons in a rotate of insensibility. The dead are: EDWARD F. UNDERWOOD, about fifty years old. ‘ OLIVE UNDERWOOD, aged twenty-four, daughter of Edward. JOHN CLIFFORD, two years old, son of Olive. FRANCES UNDERWOOD, eight years old, daughter of Edward. The unconscious persons were: Robert McMullen, about fifty-five years old; Mrs. Underwood, wife of Edward Underwood; Guy Underwood, a son. The policeman on entering the house found a woman sitting beside a table. She did not speak. The officer threw open the windows to clear the smoke. Then he perceived an elderly man lying on a lounge and a young man sitting in a chair beside the stove. The old man was aroused but as he could not talk intelligently the officer went into the next room. On the floor, covering a mattress, were four persons and the officer found as he stooped over them that they were ail dead. All were partially undressed. In the kitchen was a small wood stove in which a tire was burning but there was little wood in it. The unconscious persons were taken to the police station and physicians summoned who gave treatment to save the lives of the unfortunates. Later the four bodies were taken to the morgue and the medical examiner began an inquiry to determine the cause of death. Will till Pay S-.-o a Day. COLON. Feb. 13.—At a conference at Panama yesterday between delegations representing the railroad company and striking dock laborers, the strikers' delegates reported that the men wire willing to accept 52.20 in currency for a day’s work. The railroad company refused 10 accept the proposed terms. Fifty more Fortune-Island laborers arrived on hoard the steamer Finance to-day. The situation Is unaltered. The Panama end of the railway is completely blocked with freight. The railroad company's loss through the embargo caused by the strike is tremendous.

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