Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 102, Hammond, Lake County, 16 October 1907 — Page 8

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EKPLOSIO Dead Number Thirty-Five, Six Hundred are Seriously Injured, and One Thousand People Are Made Homeless. VICTIMS CREMATED IN BURNING RUINS Governor Hanly Goes to Stricken Village With Tents and Cots Terre Haute County National Guards Ordered There Shock Felt for Miles. Killed 35 Fatally hurt 20 Seriously injured Ot0 Property loaa 1,500,000 Fontanet, Ind., Oct. 16. At least thlrty-flve persons were killed, twenty fatally Injured, and about six hundred less seriously hurt here yesterday morning by explosion that destroyed the DuPont Powder Company's, mills. The little town, which is twelve miles northeast of Brazil, was wrecked, and other towns and cities within a radius of fifty or more miles were shaken and buildings damaged. Employes Suffered. Seven structures, comprising: the mill, were blown up, and It is believed that of the seventy-five or eighty employes none escaped death or Injury. Some of the victim's bodies were burned in the wreckage, which caught fire Immediately after the first explosion. Superintendent Monahan is one of the missing. Telephone communication with the town was destroyed and as telegraph facilities are meager, details of the disaster were difficult to obtain. First reports of the explosion placed the loss of life at 100, but later advices showed that this number was exaggerated. Four Distinct Explosion. There were four separate explosions, the first at 9:15 a. m two more soon afterwards, and the fourth at 10:45. The first explosion was in the glazing mill and the other mills nearby were blown up next. The magazine, in which It is estimated many thousand kegs of powder were stored, was the last to go. As soon as the first explosion occurred the wreckage caught fire and the flames communicated to a train on a side-track nearby. Tho first person rescued was "Doc." Carroll, an employe, who was caught in the debris of the mills. He was almost burned to a crisp, but he was Btill alive and he begged his rescuers to end his agony by killing him. Taken Out Dead. Ves Dial and his son were both dead when taken out. Will Dalton was found to be unconscious, and lie will die. All were employes of the company, Charles Wells, an engineer on the freight train standing on the siding, was badly injured about the left leg, and he was also burned, but his condition Is not fatal. Fifteen or twenty bodies were taken out and removed to a- temporary morgue, without their names being ascertained. These bodies were removed by strangers, who had no means of identification. School IIulldlnK "Wrecked. A brick building nearly a quarter of p. mile distant, in which there were twenty-five children, was wrecked. Sevieral of the children were injured, but Ihe teacher in charge stated that none fatally hurt. At 10:45 p. m. the heat of the fire caused the magazine to explode. This building was in a hollow, some distance away. Not a house was left standing unharmed in Fontanet. The roofs of some were torn off, the sides of others crushed in, the windows smashed and the chimneys dismantled. 700 People Homeless. Nearly TOO people were left practically homeless. One farm house threequarters of a mile away was blown to p'.eces. & None of the residents were killed in their homes. When the first explosion came the people rushed from their homes, and they were in the street or running toward the point of danger when the other explosion came. Damage at Brazil. The explosions were so severely felt in Brazil that In the resident district the windows on the second floors were shivered, while in the business district scarcely a block escaped damage, nearly jevery window being shattered. The new Citizens" Bank buolding, just being finished, had all of its plateglass front broken to fragments. The shock of the several explosions was felt for many miles around, many people attributing the cause to an earthquake. The loss to property In this city, as the result of the explosion, will amount to J10.000. The large art window In the First Methodist Episcopal church, at this place, was blown out. It is valued at $500. Many chimneys were blown from houses and bricks from the walls of buildings. LIST OF IDENTIFIED DEAD. The names of the dead whose bodies have been recovered and identified are: HOBO, GEORGE. JUSTICE. GEORGE IJOnO, JOHN KKI.U P, T. T. CARROLL, "DOC." MONAHAX, A. It.

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MOSAHAX, MRS. NEVIL, SAMUEL. SIIERRILL, YVM. VIAL, . WEESTER, "AD." DIAL, SYLVESTER WOOD, EARL. DIAL, . YATES, . HALTOX, EDW. SISTER OP MRS. HARRINGTON, II. A. It. MONAILAN. Many Injured Serloualy. Those most seriously injured are: BimJLi:, ALEXANDER. BISHOP, MISS srSAN. BRANNON. MARY. BRAN'NON, GRACE. BRANNON. MRS. BIRAS. BRIGHT, ELMER. BRIGHT, JOHN. CARROLL WILLARD. CROSS, EDWARD. CROSS, FREDERICK. EDWARDS, ALVIE. EDWARDS. II. M. GRAY, JOHN. H AM E RICK, CARL HARRIS. L. J. HODGES, GEORGE. HODGES, WILLIAM. HINES, MRS. ALBERT. KELSO, HARVEY. M'COY, W. V. MONTGOMERY. MRS. R. MOORE, DR. . MOSTELLER. MRS. . NASH, CHARLES. OVERHOLTZ, . PARR. MRS. THOMAS. PITTMAN. ANDREW. SH EARROWD, "W. M. SHOPTAI'GH. PROFESSOR J. STEWART, GEORGE. T 1 1 OM PSON, J AM E S. VL'LKER. . WALKER, WILLIAM. WASTELLER. MRS. . WEBSTER. MRS. M. WELL. CHARLESS. WILLI EN, DR. . 5 DIES UN! LODGING HOUSE David Redfield Proctor, Projector of Great Tower Passes Away. WAS ONCE A RICH INVENTOR Models' of Various Devices Are Found Among the Effects in His Bedroom Was Scientist. Chicago, Oct. 16. David Redfield Proctor, 81 years old, a cousin of United States Senator Redfield Proctor of Virginia, was found dead yesterday in a cheap lodging house at 148 South Clark streetHe had been In straightened circumstances for several years, although he made a fortune from the sale of royalties on an invention which he patented in the early 70's a device which arrested and extinguished the sparks from the funnels of locomotives, making the kindling of prairie fires by passing trains an impossibility. In the palmy days of the Columbian exposition he was one of the most pic turesque characters who haunted the offices of Director General Davis and Architects Burnham and Graham with offers of marvelous plans for enhancing the beauty and magnitude of the great fair. Planned a Colossal Toirer. He designed the Proctor-Morrison tower, which was intended to make the Eiffel tower seem a dwarf in compari son. For the rights to this tower he was offered it is said, almost $100,000, and a company to build it was started under the presidency of Engineer Mor rison, the "steel construction" bridge builder. But the collapse of the Steele Mackaye's "spectatorlum" theater caused the business Interests identi fied with the fair to look with dls favor upon so gigantic an enterprise as that proposed by Inventor Proctor, The great tower, which was to be 1,000 feet higher than the Eiffel tower at Paris was not built. "He is a perfect genius" Architect E. R. Graham said of Proctor at that time. His plans are marvelous and entirely practicable. It Is a pity the tower was no built. It would have been an amazing engineering feat. It would have been the wonder of Lake Michigan Shores for half a century Makes Model for Ills Bridge. When Engineer Morrison was plan ning to construct at Memphis, Tenn., the largest steel cantilever bridge in the world, he was not willing to un dertake the task until he found out whether a miniature working model of the structure could be made. "In ventor Proctor, as he was known, was then in Mr. Morrison's employment and he intrusted tho work of model build ing to him, after he had failed to in duce the most expert jewelers in the country to tackle the Job. The model was to be only two inches square and was to have 912 Joints and almost as many separate pieces. Proctor com pleted it in two months. The huge bridge was constructed exactly after his model. He received $3,000 for the work. The first "working" gondola launches at the world's fair were designed by Mr. Proctor. Interested in Aeronautics. After the fair he gave much of his time to the study of aerial naviga tion. He built scores of models of flying machines, one of which was a combination of aeroplane and balloon, which expert aeronauts found only one fault with its mammoth proportions, that rendered it immensely expensive to experiment with. When his lifeless body was found in the dingy hole-in-the-wall room in which he had lived and dreamt his dreams of astounding inventions for the last six years, the narrow little bed was simply festooned with tiny hand carved models of flying machines which he had guarded as embodiments of secret discoveries that he claimed to have made in the field of aeronautics. A Tip cn Puppies. Why can't one's neighbors puppies that woy' whjna? fcreej

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AFFINITY SEEKERS Retired Preacher Tells Presbytery Middle Age Method is Needed. ALSO AFTER BLASPHEMERS Dr. E. H. Patterson Startles Assembly in Philadelphia When Views Are Announced. Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 16. The Rev. Dr. Robert M. Patterson, a minister of the Presbyterian church, who i3 well known in Albany, Chicago, and Phil adelphia, and who has lived in Malvers, a suburb of this city, since his retirement from the ministry several years ago, caused an uproar In the Presbytery that met here today by declaring that the death penalty should be inflicted upon all heretics, blas phemers, and co-respondents in all divorce cases. Persons who sought out affinities should be harshly dealt with by law, said Dr. Patterson, and the death penalty should be established as the pun ishment for attacks on women Dr. Patterson had been scheduled on the program of the Presbytery for a speech on John Calvin. Wants Death for Many. The first thing he said when he got up to speak was: "If I had my way about it I would have an executioner called in to deal with all heretics and blasphemers Burning at the stake would be too good for those who revile religion and take the Lord's name In vain. The growth of heresy is such today that nothing but measures like this can stop it. "I would requisition the services of the executioner also for those de spicable persons who make divorce ne cessary by their Insidious machina tion between husband and wife "And for those who, under the guise of an artistic temperament or uncon trollable fascination take unto them selves affinities, forsaking their lawful wives, I would have the law recom mend harsh punishment. Execution I also should be the punishment for at tacks on women." , When Dr. Patterson had finished speaking the Rev. Dr. John Wheaton, the pastor of Mizpah- Presbyterian church of Philadelphia, rose to declare that such pronouncements were too radical for expression In the pres ent day. Near Clash. Over Views The Rev. R. C. McCook, formerly pastor of the Presbyterian' tabernacle, got to his feet with some heat and de clared that instead of being radical, Dr. Patterson was ultra-conservative. He had harked back to the thought of middle ages, said Dr. McCook, and his ideals were those of the inquisitors in Spain and the anti-papal religionists of Germany "There is no man In the Presbyterian church like Dr. Patterson today, I hope," said Dr. McCook in conclusion This aroused Dr. Patterson's Ire and he started to make a spirited reply. Others tried to speak at the same time, and the meeting was in an uproar. The moderator presiding pounded for order and announced that to preserve the peace of the meeting further discus sion on Dr. Patterson's speech would not be allowed. FISH LOSES A POINT HI ORDERJF COURT Judge Modifies Injunction as to Harriman's Victory. "TIED UP." STOCKVOTESTODAY it Changes Result, Then Illinois Central Annual Meeting Adjourns Till Dec. 18. Chicago. Oct. 16. Stuyvesant Fish was checkmated yesterday in his fight for mastery of the Illinois Central rail road. The restraining order issued on Mon day by Judge Farlin Q. Ball was so modified that even if Mr. Fish should have a clear majority of the undisputed votes at the annual meeting of stockholders today which he probably has not he wins but an empty victory, while if the Harriman-Harahan forces have such a majority they may legally and finally remove Mr. Fish from the board of directors. As one of the capitalists expressed it. the situation is such that Mr. Har riman can say to Mr. Fish: "Heads, I win; tails, you lose." The order modifying the restraining order stipulates that the 2S6.731 shares of Illinois Central stock owned by the Union Pacific and the Mutual Life Insurance company may be voted at the meeting today, but such votes must be tabulated on a separate list. If it is found, in casting up the totals, that this disputed stock or any of it is a deciding factor the matter on which such vote was taken will be passed as if not under consideration. Deadlock Postpone Sleeting. In case such a deadlock results In the vote on a director the order stipulates that the election be postponed until an adjourned meeting to be held Dec IS. Should it deve'op, however, that liar-

riman las a clear majority over Fish exclusively of the stock Involved by

the restraining order he can carry every point legally. On the other hand. Fish cannot win unless he is able to muster enough votes to overwhelm both the disputed and undisputed stock held in Harriman's Interests. The legal battle hinging upon the motion for a modification of the re straining order was waged all day before Judge Ball. The order finally granted was the one presented soon after court opened bv the attorneys representing Mr. Harrlman. It was met by a counter proposition from Mr. Fish's lawyers, in which they asked that the annual meeting be postponed until the injunction suit could be fought out on its merits. Had this been upheld by the court it would have given the Fish contingent more time in which to solicit proxies. One proviso in the order as agreed to it that proxy committee be chosen so that the interests of each side will be safeguarded. It was stipulated that Mr. Fish select a man agreeable to the Harriman forces, while they in turn chose one not objectionable to Mr. Fish. Then both sides were to agree on a third member of the committee. ILLINOIS SENATORS VOTE ON DRAINAGE Recommend Passage of Bill Dividing Drainage District in Two. MUCH OBJECTION TO MEASURE Juul and Schmidt Call it "Monstrous Crime Against Chicago Chi cago Edison Co. Interested. Sprlngfield, 111., Oct. 15. Chicago's Sanitary District was bludgeoned and garroted this afternoon in the Senate, then dragged to the edge of the leg'slative precipice, where is was 1-ft hanging over the verge. The Chicago Edison company com mitted the deed in the interest of Its electric lighting and power monopoly in Chicago. What was and still Is the Sanitary District will be no more if the work set on foot bv the "Senate combine" th(s afternoon is completed according to Indication of programme. For the senate, In committee of the whole, recommended for passage by fourteen to nine a bill that practically cuts the district in two parts, removing the part below Loekport and preventhng its extension or the development of water power south of its plant at Lockport. Owing to the lack of a quorum the bill was not sent to second reading, but the leaders of the combine Brry, Gardner and . Barr showed their hands for the proposition and assert tonight they will be able to put the measure through., . Senators Juul and Schmidt in vain pleaded with the Senators "Not to commit this monstrous crime against Chi cago," but their appeals fell on the ears of lawmakers deaf to anything but the alluring addresses of the Economy Light and Power company, wing of the Chicago Edison, which through the bill sees its chance to prevent condemna tion of its property by the Sanitary District. That the bill raises such a bar was declared on the floor of the Senate, where it was pointed out that, in lack ing authority to develop water power. remove obstructions and alter the chan nel, the district will lose the basis for its suits to condemn the Economy company's lands. Action Taken Yesterday. Joint resolution appointing a state commission of fifteen to investigate the entire subject, of water power and canal construction', to report to the next general assembly, adopted by the Senate. Resolution providing for a constitu tional amendment authorizing the issuance of $2,000,000 of state bonds to construct the ship canal to Utica from the present terminus of the drainage canal, adopted in Senate committee of the whole and will be considered by the senate today. Bill practically dismembering the Sanitary District of Chicago, and denying to the district the right of expansion or water power development below its Loekport plant, favorably recommended by the Senate in com mittee of the wholes In the interest of the Chicago Edison company, controll ing the Economy Light and Power company. JEW TARGET RECORDS Washington, Oct. 15. Rear Admiral Evans, in command of the Atlantic fleet, and Commander W". S. Sims, the fleet expert on target practice, came to Washington simultaneously today. Commander Sims made a report of the target firing to the secretary of the navy. From this report it appears that in some cases 33 per cent was made by the big guns that is, the twelve-inch guns. The rest of the fir ing was fully up to the average. The whole practice was successful. Commander Sims reports especially as to the Georgia, which la the pride of the navy. There is a little hitch about the six-inch guns; they would not work well, but the error was discovered before the guns were fired and will be remedied. This report disposes of all the stories that the ships were practically put out of commission by extraordinary action of the guns, straining of decks and blowing out of windows. Admiral Evans came here to talk about the preparations of the fleet. He said he fully expected to go in command of the fleet to the Pacific, and in this he was backed up by many of the naval officers. He does not expect to remain in command after August of next year, howerer.

ASH FANS SEE VICTORY SATURDAY Majority Think That Fast Team Will Outclass the Michigan Giants. COACH CAYOU IS CONFIDENT Sohl of Eammond to Do Punting; During Game Is in Great Form. (By "Spot" Elair.) Crawfordsville, Ind., Oct. 16. Coach Francis M. Cayou of th; Wabash col lege football team is using every effort to whip the team into shape for the Michigan contest on Saturday. The fact that Wabash only defeated urdue 2 to 0 last Saturday does not show any particular weakness on the part of Wabash. Wabash was pen alized over seventy-five yards during the game. This was caused by the men being over-eager and getting off side. Wnen time was called Wabash had the ball on Purdue's three yard line with a first down in front of them. The ball would have in all probability been pushed over for a touchdown. Today Cayou sent his Michigan line up against the scrubs and this combi nation tore through the heavy scrub line for three touchdowrns in twenty minutes. This work pleased the fans and unless anything unforseen should happen, the fans see a good chance to beat Michigan. Reports from the wolverine camp about the weight and speed of their line and backs is not worrying the "Big Chief" a particle. He believes that the extreme speed and charging of Searlit will overcome the weight of the Yost machine. Sohl of Hammond, Is counted on by the "chief" to gain many yards with his good right foot. Sohl has shown wonderful form in his punting of late. In the Purdue game his punt of sixty yards was the direct cause of the safety being registered against the Boiler Makers. Hargrave, the agile little quarter is expected to keep the Michigandeis on the Jump when he starts on one of his dodging runs. The probable line-up for the game will no doubt consist of the following men: Dobbins and Hess, ends; Gipe and Sunderland, taclkes; Watson and Bowman, guards; Sprow, center; Col bert and Sohl half-backs; Starbusk, full, and Hargrave, quarter. The substitutes who will be given a chance to play in the game are: Barr and -Wil son, guards; Diddle, Pearson, Burns and Patton, ends;. Glosscock, Gaiver, Romine, Stein and Quick, hacks; Brown, center. Manager Elles has wasted no effort in making this game a success. New bleachers have been built at Washing ton park, Indianapolis, in order to ac commodate tne crowd, mere is a seating capacity of 12,000 people. All the railroads .and interurbans have issuea special rates ior tne game on Saturday. As Wabash has guranteed Michigan $6,000, for this reason they hope to make the venture a success both finan cially and otherwise. BABY BOASTED TO DEATH. Muncie, Ind., Oct. 16. Mrs. William McKinley of Cammack, this county, crossed the street to call on a neighbor and during her absence her 18-months-old child fell out of a rocking chair into a hot oven and was virtually roasted to death. It's Simple Figuring now you might nave saved your home if you had begun to save your money in time and had deposited it bit by bit with us. WE HAVE HELPED OTHERS, let us help you; 3 per cent interest on your savings account. The CITIZEN'S German National Bank MAL TEA r n r r 0 tti s 0 A HISlV Whiting Wholesale Liquor Go.

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