Richmond Palladium (Daily), 9 August 1904 — Page 1

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NINE COACHES AND ENGINE NO 20. SUFFER IMMENSE LOSS Three Hundred People on Board and Not One Killed Richmond Boy on Board.

Indianapolis, August 9. Running to. sixty to seventy miles an hour on the fastest piece of track between Indianapolis and St. Louis train No. 20 on the Vandalia line, due here at 2:50 o'clock, was ditched and partly burned yesterday afternoon at Plainfield, twelve miles west of this city. Heaps of ashes and piles of twisted steel within a hundred yards of the little station represent this morning what was. vesterdav half of the Vandalia's crack daylight train. Yet not one life was lost and the seriously injured do not number many more than a dozen, although the train was crowded with 300 people.Railroad men said it wras a remark

able wreck. These are the results in

brief: Half of the train which consisted of two mail cars, a baggage car, two day coaches, two Pullmans and a diner, was derailed. The two mail cars, the smoker and one da7' coach were burned. The baggage car was smashed to pieces. Four freight cars of a string of ten standing on a siding jult east of j:, the Plainfield station and exactly at the point where the wreck occurred were burned. .... .S. - yiThe- iPlainfield' f' grain elevator, in front of which the wrecked cars were

p.'.iheaped, was burned to the ground.

The fire, starting from a lamp in one of the mail cars, also threatened to take a cabinet factory and the tank station of tlfe Standard Oil company. All of this happened, it is supposed because a journal on the rear truck of the engine tender broke just as the express dashed -past the Plainfield station, having dropped down the heavy hill west of Plainfield like a shot from a cannon. Raymond Liehtenfels, of Richmond, was a passenger, but escaped injury side from a terrible jolting. IESTC0TT HOTEL To Be Redecorated and Beautified at Once. Today the lobby of The Westcott hotel is filled with scaffolding. The proprietors have decided to redecorate the interior of the building and make it look fresh and new. The work is in competent hands and when finished will ad materially to the beauty of the already handsome hostelry. JOHN E. RICHEY A Prominent Hotel Man of Lebanon Q Visiting in Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. John E. Richey and their two daughters, Mrs. W. H. Kelley and Mrs. O. R. Dailey are visiting HMr. and Mrs. Charles C. Holcomb and other friends in Richmond. Lebanon has but one hotel, the Perkins House, and Mr. Richey has been the proprietor for many years. The capital of Boone county has been growing and Mr. Richey has found it necessary to enlarge and refurnish his hostlery and the same is being done while he is taking his vacation. He is a prominent Republican and an enthusiastic Roosevelt supporter. Mr. Richey is an elder in the Lebanon Presbyterian church and wishes t very much that he and family could extend their visit over next bunday especially since Rev. "Walter E. Price of Shelbyville will occupy the pulpit

of the First Presbyterian church here next Sunday. When Mr. Price was called to the Lebanon church, Mr. Richey was sent as a committee to Chicago to notify him of the call and has been one of Mr. Price's ardent friends ever since. Mr. Richey and family visit Richmond almost every year and think it

one of the most beautiful cities in the country. Next week he will go to Nebraska where he has real estate interests, returning about September 1st to reopen his hotel. Will Probated. The last will and testament of John W, Lough was today placed in the hands of the clerk of the Wayne circuit court for probate and record. The deceased leaves all of his property to his wife, Rebecca McNinnie Lough. Another Strike. (By Associated Press.) Chicago", 111., August 9. Six hundred employes of the fourteen clothing manufacturers in Chicago, members of the National Clothiers' Exchange, struck today against the proposed "open shop" plan. $25fllfllM IN ST. LOUIS PLANT OF AMERICAN REFRIGERATOR CO. BURNED 100 REFRIGERATOR CARS Included in the List One of the Worst Fires Since the Fair Began. (By Associated Press.) Louis, August 9. The plant of American Refrigerator Transit St the company was almost wholly destroyed by fire last night, causing a loss of $250,000, including one hundred refrigerator cars. PASSES AWAY AT HIS HOME IN CAMBRIDGE CITY LAST NIGHT PRESBYTERIAN AND MASON Companionable Gentleman Well Liked by Hosts of People Train Dispatcher. (Special to the Palladium.) Cambridge City, August 9. Mr. James Brooks, aged fifty-seven years, died at his home last night at 11 o'clock, after an illness of about one year's duration of heart trouble and dropsy. The deceased was one of ! the best known men in this part of the country and was especially well liked. He was a companionable gentleman and made many friends. Peing connected with the Western Union telegraph office for thirty-five years, he was posted on all branches of that business. He was a resident of Piqua, Ohio, before coming here and was a train dispatcher at that place. Up until last March he was employed in the telegraph office here. The deceased leaves a wife and four children Robert, of Iteca, N. Y., Mrs. R. A. Stiller, of Connersville ; Lillian and Bessie, of this place. He was a member of the Presbyterian church and also belonged to the Masonic lodge here. The funeral will occur tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. ; Internment in Riverside cemetery. ," s

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FIVE THOUSAND DISGUSTED PEOPLE LEFT GROUNDS RICHMOND'S SUPT. POLICE Has Gone to Terre Haute With Warrant for His Arrest Pickens' Career. Terre Haute, August 9. Five thousand people left the fair grounds Sunday evening after waiting all afternoon to see the much advertised automobile race of "Jed" Newkirk and the "terrible man-killing 999.". The race was not run, but after Manager W. II. Pickens had been arrested and taken to police headquarters he agreed to remain in Terre Haute until next Sunday and then give a free exhibition, in wThich No. 999 would go against the world's auto record for five miles on a circular track. Terre Haute has been subjected to many frosts in the way of Sunday entertainments, but the advertised automobile race was the worst ever. A pro gram of local races was advertised, and only this part was given. Poor as it was, it furnished a pastime for the people who had paid their money and no doubt saved the owner and manager of No. 999 some rough treatment at the hands of a crowd of jeering men and boys The greatest excitement of the afternoon was wrhen a section of the fence fell down, and spilled ' f ortyl ;boys mdtoeru ion the' ground. No one was hurt. No. 999 was brought on the track late in the afternoon and an apparent effort made to start the machine, but it would not go and the people became impatient. At G:30 the race was declared off. Immediately Captain Jack Beattie arrested W. H. Pickens, manager of the automobile, and hurried him to police headquarters. The arrest was made while a crowd of boys and men surrounded the advertised racer and demanded some satisfaction for their gate money. Pickens was taken to headquarters where Superintendent Lyons examined him. He showed telegrams stating that a new piece of machinery had been ordered from De troit and explained that in placing a new pisten the sparker got out of order and could not be repaired. The investigation was carried further, until it was shown that the gate receipts amounting to $1,000, were not in Pickens' hands, but had been taken by John S. Cox, Logan Hughes and Charles Pugh. Then Pickens agreed to retain the machine here and race it free of charge next Sunday afternoon and he was released. (The program at Terre Haute was exactly the same as that carried out here. Pickens arranged a local program and used names of local people to carry out the scheme. He also promised to race the following Sunday the same as he did at Terre Haute.) WILL TRAYEL Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Schnoing to Visit World's Pair. Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Schnoing have decided to enjoy some of the good things in this life besides hard work. For a great many years Mr. and Mrs. Schnoing have conducted a grocery business on South Fifth street and they have been most successful, so mucli so that they have accumulated enough "filthy lucre" to 'Lgest on their oars" the remainder of their days. Mr. and Mrs. Schnoing have decided to visit the world's fair at St. Louis and proceed from there to Colorado. It will be the trip of their lives. They have given their grocery business to their son-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Port erfield left today for St. Louis to attend the fair.

BOY IN RAYMOND LICHTENFELS HAS A ROUGH EXPERIENCE HE WXS ONLY ISLIGHTLY INJURED Returned Home Last Night Gave His Experiences to the Palladium I Representative. t , The dispatches today tell of the awful wreck that occurred on the Vandalia yesterday afternoon about 2 :50, near Plainfield, Ind. Right where the wreck occurred a short distance east of Plainfield Junction, is the fastest piece of track on the system, and No. 20, the Vandalia 'struck fast train, was running I from fifty to sixty miles an hour. On No. 20 was a Richmond boy, Mr. Raymond Liehtenfels of No. 124 south Twelfth; street. Raymond had been to Colorado, had been up on Pike's Peak, and enjoyed his western trip hugely, j -but the shock he received in the wrecking of No. 20 took all the poetry out of the trip for Raymond. He arrived home at 9:15 last night, and when a Palladium representative called upon him this morning he was still suffering from the fright and shock that was the experience of his life. Whten asked concerning his trip Mr. Liehtenfels said: We left St. Louis at S :40 yesterday morning; in buoyant spirits. EverthinsrijtJong smoothly until after Piainfiefd station was passed. The fast train does not stop at this station and the town of Plainfield is not on flip road. Wp had no intimation of the awful accident that befell us un til it happened. Oh! You can't des cribe the feelings that comes over one when something like this occurs. There is litte time for action and less time for plans. I thought my time had come and it was here I was to meet my doom. Thoughts of home and family came crowding upon me like a flash. There were several little children on the train and I was anxious about them. Just this side of the j junction the axle of the engine broke and the engine was disconnected and ran ahead about a half mile. The bag gage car was run onto the siding and was thrown upon its side. I was in the smoker and was just about to return to the coach where my suit case was, when the accident happened. The smoker was now in the lead. Everybody in the car (and there were about thirty-five of us) was jostled backward and forward, and at times we didn't know where we were, the excitement was so intense. My first thought was to jump out of the window, but I observed steam eminating from somewhere and my better judgment prevailed and I stayed with the crowd. The smoker in which I was seated was thrown over a ditch and into the yard of Mr. C. H. Oursler, whose house was on a hill above the track. Bv this time the smoker was on fire and in five minutes was a complete mass of flames. We got out of the smoker iust in time. I went in search of my suit case and found the coach on fire. It was fortvuiate for me that I had been sitting in the rear end of the coach, for by this time the front end was a mass of flames I crawled in at therear door and se cured "my suit ease, landing on the ground again uninjured. Mr. Oursler had telephoned from his house to Plainfield for help and people soon came from all directions and the work of caring for the injured began. The mail car was on fire, but all the mail, save one bag, was gotten out. There was an oil tank in close proximity and we were all afraid of an explosion. There were nine coaches on the train. Four of them were saved. A south-bound train enroute to St. Louis was reversed and we were taken on it to Indianapolis, and I arrived home last night at 9:15." "I tell you," said Mr. Liehtenfels, "it will be a long time before I will .want, to ride on a train again."

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WAR NEWS. St. Petersburg, August 9. A dispatch from General Stoessel at Port ! Arthur says the Russians withdrew

! from Wolf Hill on July 30, owing to numerical superiority of the Japanese. Wolf Hill is about five miles south west of the harbor entrance. St. Petersburg, August 9. The news is coming that a battle is ex pected hourly. The opinion is divid ed whether there will be a general en gagement or another rear guard ac tion. St. Petersburg, August 9. General Sakharoff telegraphs there is no change in the situation about Liao Yanr. Che Foo, August 9. From a source hitherto reliable it is said there is good reason to believe the Japanese are renewing their attack on the outer positions at Port Arthur. Officers of the Fuerst Bismark lying at the outer edge of this harbor express the opin ion that war ships were engaged about They could see the flashes of their guns. Other steamers entering the harbor todav heard no firing. CLOSED IN PUEBLO ACCOUNT OF SO MANY DEATHS FROM WRECK SOME CASES INSANITY Resultant From. Loss of Relatives and Friends The Death List is Still Growing. (By Associated Press.) Pueblo, Colo., August 9. Many business houses are closed on account of the deaths of the railroad wreck. More than forty dwellings were darkened by death in the wreck. Several cases of insanity was caused by loss of relatives or friends. RICHMOND BOYS BROKE JAIL IN DAYTON, OHIO, WHERE THEY WERE HELD ON CHARGE BURGLARY & LARCENY Richmond Police Notified of the EscapeOccurred at Three in the Morning. William Reckers and Frank Reddinghouse, who were in the jail at Dayton, Ohio, on the charge of burglary and larceny, awaiting trial, broke out of that institution last night and made good their escape, so far. The police department of this city was notified of their escape and they were asked to be on the lookout. The delivery occurred at 3 o'clock this morning. The particulars of the escape had not been learned at this writing. The crime for which the two Richmond young men were accused, was committed some time ago, and after a preliminary hearing they were remanded to jail to appear in circuit court. The Rev. Charles Broughman and wife, of Richmond, have been visiting at Warren on their way home after a short stay here. Marion News-Tribune. Mrs. Jacob Schmidt and children, of EvansvU'e, are visiting Mrs. Calvin Johnsoi and other relatives in the city.

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ALI SALMAN KAPOOL ARRESTED IN FT. WAYNE. FIRST DEGREE MURDER Is the Slated Charge Against Hi While Others Are Charged iz Second Degree. Hamilton, O., August 9. AH Sal- " Kap00-' the s.v"a PMU- arrested in It. ayne Saturday and charged with the murder of his i vmpanion, Mashud Ilamzy, was bru i ht to Hamilton Saturday evening over the Panhandle by Superintendent of Police Gorsline and detective T.!ih of Ft. Wayne. The party was met at the railroad station by Sheriff Brannon, Chief of Police Sipp and other officers. The prisoner was taken to the polk-t station and later to the jail. At the lice station Kapool admitted his ?iiilt but implicated Solah Mashud. The stories of Kapool do not hang together very well. At Ft. Wayne he exonerated both Mashud and Hasson, but after he arrived here he said that Mashud was implicated in the crime and that he helped dispo- of the body of Hamzy. He said that after the body had been hidden in the bushes r.:ir Mauds that the party separated. He said that revenge was the cans? of the murder and from later developments this seems to have been the main motive but Saturday ritrht Kapool said that while the party was sleeping in the school yard he, was awakened and discovered Hamzy in the act of robbing his '(Kaposi's) pack. He said that he rushed on Ilamzy and was knocked down. He trot up and with a big stone djalt Ilamzy a heavy blow on the head which rendered him unconscious and that afterwards he found the ax with which he finished the job. Warrants were drawn up in thtj mayor s court charsrinsr each or the Syrians under arrest, Ali Salman Kapool, Hamid Hasson and Solah Mashud, with murder in the first degree. THE PICTURE Has Not Faded From Parker's Back Cousin Says he Was Never Tattooed. New York, August 8 Stilt as plainly delineated as on Friday evening, when it appeared after anash of lightning, is the picture of the crucifixion upon the back of Abbott Parker, of Morristown, N. J. Thoucrh his back is sore in places, Parker is gaining strength rapidl, and has sat up several times in the private room at All Souls Hospital. Museum agents and curiosity seekers beseiged the hospital today, but none were allowed to see Parker. Charles Simpson, who says he is a cousin of Parker, and who left Boston with him two weeks ago, is at a boarding house in Market street, in Moristown. He declares that he has known Abbott Parker since he was a boy, and never heard of him having: been ' tatooed. Jhiring the ten days they have been in Morristown Parker, who an excellent swimmer and loves to be in the water, never let a day go by on which he did not take a swim. Simpson accompanied him on every occasion, neither of them wearing even so much as trunks, and" he never saw a sign of a picture on Parker's back. After swimming for half an hour or so they wouldgome out upon the bank and dry, ari Simpson says if Parker was tatooed he would certainly have seen it on these occasions, if not on any other. Besides, be says, each time they went in swimming boys also were bathing in-the same place, and a tatooed back would have attracted their attention. s