Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1903 — SEVEN UNKNOWNDEAS [ARTICLE]

SEVEN UNKNOWNDEAS

And One Identified Found in the Wreok of a Train That Burned. V 0 SCARCITY OF BI0VAL& VOTED But They Cause a Horror Because Not Understood—Details of a Fatal Disaster. Jamestown, N. Y., April 21. —Eight persons are dea’d and ten Injured, three of them seriously, as the result of a collision between a passenger train and 8 freight train on the Erie railroad near Red House, N, Y. Of the dead only one, Robert N. Hotchkiss, of Meadvllle, a brakeman, has been Identified. Seven bodies apparently those of three men, three women and a child —were burned beyond recognition in the fierce fire which followed the wreck. The women are said to hare boarded the train at Youngstown, and to have come from Pittsburg. R. 8. McCready, a mall weigher of Meadvllle, Pa., and Frank Barhlte, of Jamestown, a traveling salesman, are missing, and tt is likely that two of the nldentifled bodies are those of the two mea Mass** of All (he Injured. The injured are: H. Pulsifer, New York city, badly Bruised; C. W. Mestck. 228 Adams street Chicago, back badly Injured; Anna St. Bel, Brooklyn, N. Y., shocked and very sick; H. E. Clemlnger, mail clerk; Gerry, N. Y.. ribs fractured and body bruised; John Drougoqan, Duluth, bruised and badly cut; Mrs. Foote, 80 years old, St Paul, Minn, bruised and shocked; S, A. Cookell, negro porter, New York city, back and ribs Injured; C. S. Johnson, negro porter, Somerville, N. J., leg factored; H. a Gabler, express messenger, Marion, 0., leg cut off, probably fatally Injured; R. T. Bell fireman, head and back bruised. Mrs. Foote, B. C. Gabler and Fireman Bel! are In the hospital at Salamanca. The others were able to proceed to their destination. Fire Joins la ths Havoo. The wrecked passenger train was known as No. 4, running from-Chicago to New York, and was pulled by an engine in charge of Engineer Samuel Cook and Fireman Fred Bell, of Meadvllle. It was derailed by striking a freight train which was taking a siding at Red House. The wreck at once took fire, and the combination car, two day coaches and two sleepers, together with several freight cars, were consumed. As to (ho Coaso of ths Wreck. There is some dispute as to the cause of the wreck. Some trouble was experienced by the freight train in entering the siding, and the engine of the freight was sent in along the siding with ft flagman, to held the express. It is alleged that the operator In the tower saw the engine of the freight which was bringing up the flag, and supposed the freight was on the siding behind It. Yale then displayed a white signal toward the passenger train. Indicating to the engineer that he bad a clear track. Then came the crash, the engineer on the passenger train falling to see the, flagman sent out from the freight train, and seeing only the clearance signal from the tower.

WILL B. DEATH TO TOUS •term Devastates n Kansu County end Injures Vive Persons. Topeka, Kan., April 21.—Word has Just reached here of a tornado at St Paul, Xeosho county, which destroyed a great amount of property and Injured five people, four of whom cannot recover. Mrs. David Chamberlain, and three membera of a German family named Longbam will die, it Is thought. David Chamberlain bas bruises of a severe character, while several other persons sustained minor injuries. The three-story brick school building was entirely destroyed, and the homes of David Chamberlain. Longbarn, and Mrs. Melius were blown away. Many bouses were also unroofed. The station platform was carried from the town site. The tornado Jumped a building occasionally, taking a bouse here and a barn there. The storm lasted about five minutes. VanTnligMEwi . Denison. Tex., April 21.—Four trainmen were Injured in a head-end collision on the ’Frisco roatf'fiear Spaulding, I. T. The injured are: William Hughes, passenger engineer, seriously; . W. T. Armstrong, passenger brakeman; Edward Hill, freight conductor; Fuller Hopkins, freight conductor, seriously. The collision occurred between ■ south-bound passenger and northbound freight train. No passengers hurt - , Tornado Strike. MloouL Fredericktown, Mo., April 2L A tornado accompanied by hall and rain passed over, this section, nearly destroying White Springs, a summer resort, five miles south of hero. Seventeen of the thirty booses ' were wrecked, of one of which no traces were found. The large hotel of Stubbleford ft Matbewe is a wreck. No fatalities. : ■ - ■ ■ Terrible Black Diphtheria. Emporia, Kan., April 21.—Seven children of a family named O’Mara, living neat Hartford, have died of black diphtheria. A member of another fans Qy has been attacked, ■

SINCE MORTOAOE WAS PAID. We’ve don* a lot of scrimpin' an livin’ hand-to-mouth, V * We've dreaded, too, wet weather, an' we’ve worried over drought, For the thing kept drawn’ int’reat, whether orope were good or bad, A< raisin’ touch or little, seemed It swallowed all we had. i The women folks were aavin’ an' there ain’t a bit of doubt But that things they really needed iota of times they done without. So we’re breathin’ somewhat easy, an’ we’re feelin’ let* afraid Of Providence’s workln’a, since we've got the mortgage paid, I wish I’d kept a record of the things that mortgage ate, In principal an’ int’rest from beginning down to date!— A hundred doaen chickens, likely fowls with yellow legs, A thousand pounds of butter, an’ twelve hundred dosen eggs; Some four or five good wheat crops, and at least one crop of oorn. An’ oats an’ rye—lt swallowed In its lifetime sure's you're born, Besides the work an’ worry, ere its appetite was stayed! So we’re feelin' more contented since we got the mortgage paid. We've reached the point, I reckon, where we’ve got the right to rest, An' loaf aroun’ an' visit, wear our go-to-meetin’ best— Neglectin’ nothin’ urgent, understand, about the place, But simply slowin’ down by bits an’ restin’ in tbwraee! In time I’ll get the windmill I’ve been wantin’, I suppose; The girls oan have their organ, an, we’ll all wear better clothes. For we’ve always pulled together, while we've saved and scrimped an’ prayed, An' it seems there's more to work for since we've got the mortgage paid. —New York Press.