Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 36, Number 7, Jasper, Dubois County, 27 October 1893 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER. C. DOAXK, Publisher, JASPEB. . - INDIANA.

It is said on unquestioned authority that Mr. I. I). Armour, of Chicago, will give 1500,000 to the Armour institute, which he has already handsomely equipped. Mrs. LTijcr Stonk-Hi.ackwki.i,, the well-known woman's suffragist, died Rt her home in Dorchester, Mnss., on the night of the 18th, after a protracted illness. Tiik council of administration de cidetl, on the 18th, to continue to admit visitors to the World's fair for one day after the SOth, the day to Iks observed as Columbian day and ns closing day. Gen. Davis F. Uukkk, a veteran of the rebellion, who commanded an Irish brigade which went to the front from New York, died in that city on the 19th. He had been ailing for some time. Tnr. mayor of Rrooklyn and sheriff of Kings eounty, X Y.f met, ou the 10th, and decided to prevent the Cor-bett-Mitchell fight from takings place at the Coney Island Athletic club in December. At a meeting between the members of the demolition committee of the Columbian exposition and the South park board of commissioners, on the 19th, it was agreed that the fair should officially end October 30. The Riverside glass works at Wellsburg, W.Va., the largest concern of tho kind in the vicinity, resumed opprations, non-union, on the 10th, seven shops working. Only two of the former employes reported for work. Cholera, has reappeared in Moscow, Kieff and northeast Hungary. In Moscow the outbrenk is most serious. There were thirty-two cases and eleven deaths in the convict forwarding prison at that city between the 1st and 11th It is stated that ex-Senator .Tames O. Fair, of California, has stricken a clause from his will which bequeathed half hisestate, amounting to something' like 15,000,000, to his son Charles 1)., and has substituted one giving him 1100. A nisPATCU from Rio do Juneiro to the Exchange Telegraph Co. of London states thatalleged tclcgraphicstories of destruction and carnage are absolutely without foundation. The contending1 parties are awaiting the result of the election. The Hawaiian royalists are becomingsatisfied that United States Minister Willis, when he arrives, will give them no help, and with this prospect before them they are endeavoring to arrange means to help themselves by neizing the government. The government party are confident. Marshal McMauon, a noted soldier and president of France from 187 to 1879, died in Paris on the 17th. He was born in 1S03, and was the son of a peer of France. In the war with Prussia lie was defeated at Worth, August 0, 1870, and at Sedan, where he was severely wounded, September 1. A siioitTAOK that may exceed $100,000 was discovered in the Cincinnati office of the Wells-Fnrgo Express Co. on the 10th. Local Money Order Clerk Win. R. Orchnrd, a trusted employe of the company for seven years, is missing-. He left for Chicago on tho evening of the 14th, and all trace of him was lost. Tiik Ameer of Afghanistan is selling' as slaves the prisoners captured by his forces during the recent rebellion of the Hazara tribes, and appropriating: the proceeds to recoup himself for the heavy expenses incurred in puttingdown the rebellion. Ten thousand prisoners have already been thus disposed of. Elijah Damon, .lames Dalton and George Holsapple, each for five years; Edward Holling, for three years, and Otto Harnett, for two years, were received nt the Indiana prison, south, on the 17th. They arc the live whitocnppers who inhumanly whipped Mrs. Elijah Dalton at her home near Horden, Ind., two months ago. A STitoxo box, supposed to contain 150,000 in gold and currency, shipped by the American Express Co. from a New York bank to New Orleans, was found upon its arrival nt the latter place, on the 10th, to contain nothing but trash. How or when the money was stolen was a profound mystery to the officers of the company. At a political meeting- held in Christiana, on the night of the 10th, speeches were made by cx-Minister Stein and State Councillor Ovam, both of whom declared that Norway must be independent, so far as foreign affairs were concerned, and that the liberals must deprive the Stang- ministry of means to execute Swedish rule in Norway. YViiii.k walking through a secluded portion of their estate in I'omcrania, Prussia, Count Ulucher and his wife were both shot and fatally wounded by a gardener who had recently been discharged from the count's service for gross misconduct. The murderer, after committing the terrible deed, made his way to the castle and there lihot himself dead The countess died soon after being- shot. Lout) Drsn.WKX was royally entertained at the New York Yacht clubhouse, on the night of the 17th, on the jcve of his departure for home. He went there with C. Oliver Iselin, the amateur shipper of tho American yacht Vigilant, with whom he dined early in the evening, and held an informal re iception in the spacious rooms of the Club. Then his lordship was elected tan honorary member of the club and jwas made to feel perfectly nt home.

CURRENT TOPICS.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. (Extra SfMloa.) Ik the senate, on the Mill, various Important amendments to tho rules were offered ami wrnt over. The silver purchase-repeal bill was taken up. Mr. Teller yielded the floor t Mr. Joses (Nrv.) who divided the day between speaktnjc and nnsweriDR question. In rUlne to more an adjournment Mr. Voorhec (In order to correct a falsa Impression that had found a lodh'tncril la some minds) declared that the friends of unconditional repeal had but Just hecun to tlctit In the Iiouho (In which at no time durin the day was there more than 100 members present) tho discus(Ion of the auxpenslon for six months of the Ueurv Chinese exclusion act wus drearily conducted without reaching a disposition of tho question. In the senate, on the loth, a joint resolution llxlntr the qualifications to veto und to hold office in tho Cherokee outlet vrns paused. Other business of minor Importance was transacted, when the silver purchase-ropfal bill was taken up and occupied the senate until 10 o'clock at night, when adjournment put an end to a bootless debate, Interspersed with roll calls to ascertain if n quorum were present In the house the McCreary bill was put to a vote and passed by 1 " to 10 I.v tho senate, on tho 17th. a lonir and somewhat acrimonious discussion over the approval of the loumal (which was Hnnlly approved) was followed by an extended debato on the cloture rule, durlnif which Mr. Morgan promised to ofTer an amendment to tho ullver purchase-repeal Mil for the repeal of the entire Sherman net. To avoid a night session the senate then adjourned to meet nt 10 n. m. on the IHih In tho house tho bill amending tho ruvised statutes so as to dispense with proof of loyalty during tho rebellion by pension claimants or applicants and applicants for bounty, was amended and pasted. In tho senate, on the lHth. the question of approving tho journal of the 17th was naln taken up, and alter discussion tho Dolph resolution to amend the journal was laid on the table. In further considering the question of approving tho journal the dlscusslan took n wide range, und when, at 5: 15 p. m.. the senate took a recess until 10 o'clock on the 10th, tho journal ol th 17th had not yet been approved. In the house the bill to amend tho revised statutes relating to dorks' and other fees was passed. Tho New Jersey bridco bill was amended and passed, after which tho house resumed consideration of tho printing bill. In the senate, on the 19th (legislative day of tho 17th), the question of apDroving the minutes occupied tho croater part of tho session Mr, Teller's motion to amend the Journal was withdrawn and tha journal was approved. Consideration of the repeal bill occupied the remainder of tho session In tho house a resolution making the bankruptcy bill u con tinuing order for the 23d was adopted. A bill was passed granting certain lands to the territory of Arizona. The printing bill was taken up, but wan laid aside, and the house proceeded to pay Its tribute of respect to the memory of the late William Mutchler, of Pennsylvania. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Tiik freight steamer Dean Richmond was lost on hake l.rie, in tue aw nil storm of the 14th, and every member of her crew, numbering eighteen souls. perished. The vessel carried no passengers. Tiik president has authorized the announcement that he will not go to Trenton, N. J., nor will he leave Wash ington for any purpose until the important public questions which con gress was called in extra session to ad just are in better shape than at present. Tiik cruiser Columbia returned to the Cramps' ship yard at Philadelphia, on the 18th, after a successful unofficial trial trip, during which it maintained a speed of 21 5-10 knots per hour, a half knot in excess of the government's requirements. Witn.K searching for bodies from the wrecked propeller Dean Richmond, on the ICth, near Dunkirk, X. Y., their boat capsized, and George Thurber, Frank Cahoon and George Mann were drowned. Tiik Norwegian bark Martin Luther, from Sidney for St. Johns with ballast, went ashore off Wash" Halls, near Head harbor, X. F.. on the 10th. Two of her crew were drowned, and the romning twelve had narrow escapes. Tiik steamer Wockken, of Cleveland, foundered in ten fathoms of water fust above Long- Point, on the northern coast of Lake Erie, in the great storm on the night of the 14th, carrying down with her all but three of her crew, which consisted of sixteen in nil. Ex-I'iUvsmr.xT IIaruihox honored the World's Columbian commission by his presence and a congratulatory speech at its meeting on the 14th. Tiik bonded warehouse in Lancaster, Pa., of .lacob F. Shaffer was totally destroyed by fire, on the night of the 15th, with all its contents, consisting of over 1,300 barrels of whisky. The building wns set on fire. Loss, $80,000; Insurance. 658,000. A VKSTinui.F.i) passenger train on the Wabash road, from Chicago for St Louis, left the track just south of Nameoki, 111., nbout 7 o'elock on the evening of the 10th, and ran down an embankment, where the wrecked cars caught fire. About fifty persons were injured, many of them, it was feared, fatally, but none were killed outright. A relief train from St Louis was early at the scene, and the wounded were soon in the hands of skillful physicians and surgeons. Tiik McCreary bill for the postponement of the operations of the Geary Chinese restriction and exclusion act for six months passed the horse on the ! 10th. Tun boiler of the Russian tug Annie, employed on Lake Dogn, the largest lake in Europe, exploded, on the 17th, with frightful results. The boat wns i t j mown entirely to pieces, anil every man on board was cither killed by the explosion or drowned. Guano Dukk Nicholas, the ezarowlt of Russia, was formally betrothed. on the 15th, to Princess Victoria, second daughter of the prince of Wales. lwth of the contracting parties nre in their twenty-sixth year. Tnr, llrnzilian rebel steamer Urnno, recently made an attempt to make the run out of the bay of IUo. Fort Santa Cruz fired on the steamer and did such good execution that the vessel was sunk in a surprisingly short time. Many persons on board of the Frano were killed outright by the fire from the fort and a largo number were wounded. Nearly all of the wounded were drowned when the steamer went -.lown. Timm: are now confined In the Indiana penitentiary eleven whitccappers, with assurance thnt more will follow within a fe,v woekn.

8ix men were HtenilW blown to atoms, on the lTtli, by the euploslon of a powder mill at the Servian village of Krajgujcvalos, There was not a tract of the mill left. Ciiik.k Khama, who is assisting tho liritish South Africa Co.'s forces against the Matabeles, arrived at Tatl, on the 17th, with 1,500 followers. Tiik treasury department has Issued an advance statement of the exports

for thu nine months of the present year. During that period the value of imports was tfi'JS,8S5,C2:i; of domestic ' exports, M87,041,4f'.i;of foreign exports, ' fltl,lvJ'-,,7'-,l, n total of exports of 00:i,104,188. The excess of imports over exports for the nine months was ?'J'J,-2-M.440. Ox May 5 last the well-kno wn Wall street (New York) firm of Patton fc Co. failed, with liabilities of $78S,000 and assets of 1 1,000. On the 17th William L. Patton, a member of the firm, was lodged in jail charged with the hypothecation of WO.OOO worth of securities held by the firm and also with appropriating to his own personal aecount SAM). 000 of the actual 1350,000 lost to creditors. It is understood that the treasury department will take steps to restrict the payment of gold over the counters of the sub-treasury at New York with a view to building up tho gold reserve, which had been invuded, up to the 17tli, to tho extent of 15.000,000, leaving it in round figures at $85,000,000. Hk.vjamin Dkitz, a grocer of Dayton, O., returned from the World's fair on the 17th and discovered that nearly $4,000 in money and notes, which ho had drawn from the bank and hid in a stove, had been stolen. Miii. Timothy Donovan, of Morris Hiver, Pa., died at Jackson, Mich., on the 17th. She is the thirteenth victim of the recent wreck. It is believed her spine was dislocated in the crash. EinvAiu Thompson was killed, and several others were injured, three of them probably fatally, by the collapse of a'span of tho new wagon bridge over the Des Moines river at Ottumwa, la., on the 18th. Pkksiiknt Doi.k of Hawaii returned to Honolulu from his six weeks' mountain trip, on the 11th, greatly recuperated in health. Mits. Rostor Conki.i.no died, on the 18th, at her home in Utica, N. Y. Sk.voh I) kt. Vai.i.k, the new leader ol the radical party In Argentina, made it a condition precedent to accepting tho leadership that the part' should abandon violent methods. A iit.ri: book just issued in London detailing the condition of farm laborers in thirteen counties of Ireland, says that their position is better now than at any former time. Oha HiciiAitns, of Galveston, Ind., was arrested, on the 19th, charged with attempting to wreck a Panhandle passenger train by throwing- a switch at (inlveston just before a fast passenger train was due. TiinitK were thirty-one new cases and one death from yellow fever in Hrunswick, On., on the 10th. Twentysix of these cases were colored and five white. Tub battle monument at Trenton, N. J., was dedicated, on the 19th, with impressive pomp and splendor. Tiik great cotton mill in Shanghai has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $500,000; no insurance. Tiik paid admissions to the World's fair on the 19th were 007,417. AxnitKW Dt'itsK and John McManus were smothered to deatli by a cave-in while digging- a trench in tins Carnagie steel works at Homestead, Pa., ou the 19th. LATE NEWS ITEMS. In Hie senate, on the tioth (legislative day of the 17th continued), a bill to facilitate tho collection of debts of the aided Pacific railroad companies to the United States, was introduced and referred.- Mr. Voorhecs offered a cloture resolution to anient the rules, prae ticnily the same as heretofore presented by Mr. Hill. The senate then went into executive session In the house an tuifrunt deficiency bill was passed. The bill requiring- railway companies operating lines through the Cherokee Outlet to locate and maintain stations at the town sites laid out by the interior department, was passed. The joint resolution to remit half the duty on goods exhibited at the World's fair and sold by the exhibitors was amended and passed. Twkxtv-six persons were killed many of them being pinioned in the wreck and cremated and a large number of others were more or less injured by a head-cud collision near llattle Creek, Mich., early on the morning of the 20th. on the Chicago & Grand Trunk railroad, between an east-bound Pacific express and a west-bound World's fair special. Disobedience of orders by train officials caused the ac:ident Tin: Cunnrd line steamer Lucnnia, apt. McKay, from New York, Octolsir 14, for Liverpool, arrived at Queenstown at 4;'JI a. in. on the 20th. Her lo-.r shows that her daily runs were: 0S 40, 491, 501 and !55:i niiles, and her ?xact time was 5 dnys, 1 hours, 80 minutes, again breaking the record. Patiikiv Kan.u.uv died at St Joseph's hospital, Syracuse, N. Y., on the loth, being- clinked with a sponge, which an attendant let slip down his throat while he was undergoing amputation of his legs. Tin: Furniers' Loan and Trust Co. of New Ork .has begun a foreclosure suit at Milwaukee against the Northern Pacific on second general and consolidated mortgages. Anothkh riot U'twccn Hindoos and MntiommedatiH occurred at Calcutta, on the UOth, the trouble growing out of in attack by Hindoos upon a Maliommedan mosque. Tiik majority of the Costa Rica cabinet favor refusing the extradition of the embezzler Weeks until a treaty is irranged with tho United States. Tiik senate, on the 19th, by a vote of j:i to 22, confirmed the nppolntmont of J. J. Van Alen to be ambassador to Italy. Path admissions to Ithe eWorld's fair on the tiOth wro 250,844.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Bkkjamik Jkxkb, a New Albany Me loon keeper, conceived the idea of exhibiting two polecats in his window. On complaint of a neighbor the case went through two courts, ending in a fine of II and costs and n rule for the removal of the animals. A nitfASTKOus lire occurred at Winfield, in which a livery barn was consumed and nine vuluuble horses burned. Loss, $5,000. A. C, HinutKUOKK, a prominent resident of Kokomo, missing for several days, was found dead in uu open field the other evening-. He was eighty-two years old. J. 11. Nklso.v, aged 50, died of small pox at the hospital in Mttncic, the other night This is the nineteenth death out of 137 cases. Miss Apa lliiux, daughter of. Dr. Drill, of Pittsboro. took a larire canstil-

ful of strychniue, the other evening, mistaking it for quinine, and died in a few minutes. Tiik employes of the defunct Darnell iron works at Mnncio were made happy the other night by Receiver A, 1a Johnson, who distributed over $'J,000 due them for wages when the mill closed. All were paid in full. In clearing away the ruins of the Wuynostown fire, the other morning, human remains were found. They were discovered in the cellar of the Hornell & Henry hardware store, where the llames originated and where the explosion occurred. Tho remains are almost consumed, and the coroner has been notified. Wm. Hammonds, while drunk, went to sleep the other night upon the Indianapolis and Vincennes track at Martinsville. A throug-h freight ran over him and cut his head off. J. J. Huowx, an influential farmer of Dick Johnson township, near Druzil, met with a horrible accident the other day. While hauling logs a chain broke, which held a large log on the wagon. It rolled off and crushed Mr. Drown to death, mangling his body beyond recognition. Tub following fourth-class postmasters were appointed the other day: Wm. Chandler, New Marion, Ilipley county, vice Theodore Drown, resigned; J. M. Smelbcr, Ohio Falls, Clark county, vice W. M. Reynolds, removed. ArrKit January 1, all prisoners in the penitentiary north will bo provided with the regulation fare. This plan will abolish the custom of convicts being supplied with delicacies by outside friends and by purchase. This step will be taken in the bolief that better discipline can be maintained. The management has also decided to uniform the prison attaches, and to prescribe regulations for the appointment of guards, At Huntington, John, the 19. year-old aon of Daniel Urshall, was shot in the abdomen, the other day, while cleaning a revolver in which were some unexploded cartridges. His injury is regarded as fatal. The town of Windfall, near Kokomo, had a bad fire a few days ago. A hotel, livery stable, two stores and the Masonic building were destroyed. Eight horses were burned to death. Tiik celebrated white cap trial at Salem closed the other morning. Judge Voyles gave Elijah Dalton, who stood by to see his wife whipped and is believed to have paid for it, five years in the prison south. His brother, James Dalton, who held Mrs. Dalton, and Holsapple, who whipped her, get each live years. Dolling, who was present but did not interfere, g-ets three, and Rnrrett, who was present, but was too drunk to help, gets two years. Peyton, for turning state's evidence, escapes. The public approves the sentence. Wki.comk Wood, while hunting nt Juno Lake, near Goshen, accidentally shot himself through the body, expiring almost instantly. Mns. Aroi'ST Tiiikiias, of Hobart was taken to Crown Point, she being the plain till in a divorce case against her husband. The lady was unable to appear in court, and Judge Gillett sent two attorneys and a stenographer to the hotel to take her testimony. After viewing the testimony, the judge granted the divorce. A messenger wns dispatched to the hotel to inform the lady of her success, when she dropped from her chair dead, having had an attack of heart disease. The ncwft of her death reached thp courtroom before the ink was dry on the court docket granting thu decree. At Huntington, Mrs. Cal Lyon obtained judgment against the Chicago and Erie railroad for $9,000, for the death of her husband, an engineer, who wns killed iu a collision at Huntington. The verdict has been set aside by the judge on the grounds of insufficient evidence. Cai.kii S. Dk.v.w was sworn in us mayor of Indianapolis tho other day, and Thomas L. Sullivan stepped down and out Mayor Denny states that ho will not announce any of Iiis appointments for a few days, and the members of the present boards havo been requested to hold on until their successors nre appointed. Leo Nixon, as clerk, and George Stubbs, as police judge, were sworn in. Mayor Denny's first ofllciul net was to instruct superintendent of Police Colbert that the saloons are to be closed at 11 o'clock at night and on Sunday, and that gamb ling is to be suppressed. The new mayor emphasized it that the order wa-i to go into effect at once and permanently. Emkhy Iwoffktt, a notorious tough of Brazil, who has committed many crimes, and is reported to have assisted in grave crimes iu Illinois, wns tried in the superior court the other tiny on a charge of grand larceny, and was sentenced to Jeffersonville penitentiary for five years and lined $500. He served n term iu the penitentiary some timo since, and after his released bccauio very religious and exhorted iu several revival meetings and was a persistent church worker for several months, but finally returned to wickedness and crimes. LtTTMS Sammy Tarkikson was gored to deatli bv a bull near SoicclamL

THE WRECKS PILE UP.

Tho Moat Horrible of tho Your Occurs at Dattlo Crook, Mich. two Trslm Loadad with Going aaa Comln World' Fair Vlattori Collide on tha Chicago aad Qraad Trunk, At llio IlMtilt of OUolitttlonrn of Orilam Thirty l.lrra I.ot uml a Ki-oro of Iba Vliitliu t'rdiiiittrtl -Many Othurn Injured. Hattm: CituKK, Mich., Oct. 21. Twenty-six heaps of charred, blackened flesh, all that remains of what but now were men, women and children in thu enjoyment of life, health litid happiness, rest upon the floor in an improvised morgue iu the basement of a furniture store iu this eit'. A mile away iu the city hospital are a score or more of human beings with gashed bodies and broken limbs. Add to this tin engineer in jail and a conductor a fugitive from the law, and the story is told, in brief, of the latest of railroad horrors, ami one of the most appalling iu its character of this or recent years. Direct disobedience of orders on the part of a Chicago it Grand Trunk engineer and conductor, both of whom had seen long service with the company and were regarded as model employes, was the cause of the tragedy. A Raymond and Whitcomb special train of eight palace ears, filled with eastern folk who had been taking in the sights of the World's fair, left the Sixtieth-Street depot of tiie road at Chicago at S: 1.1, as thu first section of the night express, known as No. (5. The train was in charge of Engineer Henry Wool ey and Conductor Hurt N. Scott, both residents of this place. All went well until the llattle Creek depot was reached. This was at !!::17. From here to the railroad yards, a distance of u mile and a half, there is a double track. When the Whitcomb special came to a full stop in the depot, the nig-ht operator handed to Conductor Scott two copies of an order for the train to proceed to the double track east of the station half a mile distant, ami there await tho j passage of the west-bound Pacific express, known as No. 0. This train, which was nearly three hours late, was composed of nine day conches and two baggage cars. Most of the eoaciies had seen many years service and were in poor condition to stand a collision. Every car was packed with eastern people the innjority of whom, taking ndvAiitngo of the low rates were on their way to take in the last week of the exposition. The Pacific express wns in charge of Engineer Gil Cranshaw and Conductor John Dird, both of whom hud received orders at Lansing to look out for the east-bound train on the double track, and were accordingly on the alert. After receiving his orders at the llattle Creek station. Engineer Woolcy proceeded up the double track, but instead of stopping, as were Iiis instructions.until the west-bound express had passed, he continued on and entered the main single track. He had hardly gone more than an eighth of a mile when the headlight of the Pneiflc express was seen coining nround the slight curve behind the telegraph-cilice of tho railroad yards. It was speeding westward at a rate of fully forty miles anhour. There was no timo to apply air brakes or reverse levers. The engineers and firemen of.both trains jumped for their lives, and r. second later the giant locomotives came together with a crash that could be heard a half mile away. With fearful force the engine of the special plowed nearly half way into that of the express, driving it backwards into the baggage ears, and the latter in turn into the day coaches behind. The shock was so terrifictliat the first four of these were completely telescoped, the first coach cutting through the second, and the second into the third like a liasii of lightning, the roof of each passing over the heads of the sleeping passengers, and sweeping f hem in a mass to the north end of the ears. To add to the horror the wreck took fire from the stoves or lamps, and tin the llames mounted up, the groans anil shrieks of the maimed and injured were succeeded by heartrending, ngoni.ing cries and appeals for help from the score of victims imprisoned by the heavy timbers or hold down by the seats and frame work. The travelers on the special, nearly all of whom had been shaken out of their berths by the shock, poured out of the ears, but before the fury of the llames they were almost powerless to rentier any assistance except to the injured in the fourth car. At tho moment of the crash Henry Canlield. one of tho night clerks in the Grand Trunk oflice, a short distance away, pulled the fire-alarm box and also telephoned to the engine house for aid. As ill-fortune would have it, however, the key to the tower was mislaid, and several minutes were lost before the alarm bell was sounded to a waken thu citizens. The fire department was prompt in responding, but the nearest hydrant was nearly -,000 feet away, and when a line of hose was laid the pressure was not sufficient to throw a stream. Finally a stream was secured from another hydrant, the firemen meanwhile attacking the blazing wreck with axes, hatchets, and lengths of rails found in tho yard; but by the time that a supply of water was available the telescoped coaches had been reduced to fragments of charred timber, little moro than tho trucks remaining. The firemen then commenced the grewsomo work of recovering what remained of tho victims, tho police taking charge of tho valuables und keeping the crowd nt a distance." In response- to tho alarm from the fire- station pretty nearly the entire town had turned out, and the lending residents, assisted by their wives, devoted themselves to the relief of those injured in tho fourth car. These were placed in buggies and cars and taken to the Nichols' house, where a corps of

physicians and nurses were in waitlujr to minister to their sufferings. The first body was found ubout t o'clock, and a few minutes later a dozen were discovered in a heap around the stove iu tho second car. The task continued until twenty bodies or portions of human beings had been brought out of the debris. For want of a sufficient number of stretchers, boards were nailed together, and a freight car standing on the side truck was converted into a temporary morgue. As the search went on portions of satchels and valises, pockets, several gold and silver watches, pocketbooks containing currency and a quantity of silver money, were brought to light and turned over to the oflicers. When a second search of the debris was made and it was certain that nobodies reninined the freight ear was backed down to the city depot, the charred remains transferred to an undertaker's; a wrecking crew set to work, the debris again sorted and afterwards burnt, nnd there is nothingin the railroad ynrds but a heap of ashes to tell the story of one of the most awful holocausts iu the history of tho railroad. Not until their dying day will some of the citizens who were early on the ground forget the scene that they were competed to witness and helpless to relieve. No pen can describe the last moments of Mrs. Charles Van Duscn. She had succeeded in getting herself out of the window, but her limbs were pinioned by the heavy framework of the seat she hud been occupying with her husband. Thus held, roasting and burning from the feet up, she pleaded and begged for tho help that those outside were powerless to give. Despite her terrible agony she retained consciousness to the last, and ns the flames crept up und surrounded her she called out her nuine and that of friends to be notified. "1 am a teacher in the Methodist Sunday-school at Sprout Drook, N. Y.," she cried. "Say I die like a Christian." Then the side of the car gave way and she fell back into the llames. Her husband had meanwhile been rescued from the next car into which he had been driven by the force of the collision. Doth limbs were fractured and he had also received internal injuries. He retained consciousness until his dentil, but was kept in ignorance of the fate of his wife. In Iiis last breath lie asked llcv. George D. lvttlp to send his love to his two children that he had left at home and also to give them his watch. He was 47 years old und n deucon in the Methodist church of his native village. Many articles found in the debrismay lead to the identification of some, at least of the long list of unrecognizable dead. These include a handkerchief marked E. Wurtz; a card of A. Allen & Co., 150 Ray street, Toronto; a card of Meridun Fire Insurance Co., Menden, Conn., with pencil writing that cannot be deciphered; a lady's watch with name engraved Ann Richard and case numbered 71; envelopesaddressed to Gagon ,JSerts; a,, letter- , addressed to Miss Warren Gal land,. Now York; letter from Sheldon & Henry, of Woonsocket, N. Y., introducingW. W. Henry to friends in Chicago and in which was a round-trip ticket from liostou to Chicngo; bank liook liiO.tni, Manhattan bank. New York, in the name of Harry J. Archbell; bundle of personal articles with card of Henry Opperinnn, passenger agent, 84Hroadway, New York; letter addressed to Onion Roberts, 99 Nashua street, New York; bundle with letter addressed to James G. Worfhmaii, 4'JL East Eightieth street, New York. That Wm. Lewis Wilson, of Evanston. 111., is one of the victims is evident from the contents of a valise that escaped the llames. A largo number of engraved cards, together with anumber of cards marked Mrs. L. D. Hayes, enclosed in a box, showing that they hud been printed by Geo. Mair, of Evanston. Other articles found included n chain of large gold bends, three watches and a lHble. having on the title page the following: "Emblem for St Clement'sclass, Anchor: Hebrews, 0:19. Teacher,, J. S. Arch. Easter, 18SS." Tho name is so near the edge that it could not have been Archibald, but a short name like Archer. A slip of paper in the Dible, but

probably not connected with it, us shown by marks of burning upon it, lind the following: '111., Octobers, isy:), The following orders from your customers, Pölten & Sons." Then followed a page of short lines, unreadable, and all were signed J. W. Uoddard .t Son. A OrewiMitiip Tank. It was a grewsomo task upon which General Secretary Den F. Derrynian of tho local Young Men's Christian association was engaged for several lionra to-night He had been requested by Coroner Gillette to examine the score and more of charred remains with a view of bringing to light something that might lead to tho identification of each. Upon a sheet of canvas stretched upon the floor at the far end of tho basement in Ranger & Farley's furniture and undertaking establishment, the blackened bodies and the trunks, some minus legs nnd some arms ami head, were In id in a double row. A Chinese curtain that shut off the res' of the basement and a couple of oil lamps thnt sent a funeral glare over the extemporized morgue seemed to invest the surroundings with additional horrors. As one sheet after another was drawn ttwny nnd that which was beneath exposed to view,more than one grey-headed veteran who had seen death in its worst form on the battlefield nnd elsewhere wns forced to turn away. There were but two of tho twonty-flve IkxHcs that wcro possiblo of identification even by the most Intimato friends of thu victims. Konntor Coke, of Texas, has rcplle to tho Fort Worth chamber of commerce, saylnif thnt ho will not vote for a repeal of tho purclmilntr clause of the Sherman bill without a provisionfor stiver colnago.

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