Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 347, 20 January 1907 — Page 1

MOM) A AJDIUM VOL. XXXI. NO. 347. Richmond, Indiana, Sunday Morning, January 20, 1S07. Single Copies, 3 Cents.

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TRAM HORROR AT SANFORD, INDIANA, LATE LAST NIGHT

Passenger on Big Four Was Passing Freight Train when .Car of Dynamite Exploded with Terrific Force. JAR OF WHEELS WAS CAUSE OF COMBUSTION Section of Freight Train was Blown to Splinters and One Passenger Coach Demol ished Near Terre Haute. Publishers' rres?."j Terre Haute, Jan. 20.-2:00 a. m. At least twenty per sons were killed and fully as many injured by an explosion of a car of dynamite on the Big Four at Sanford, Indiana, four miles west of here late last night. The terrible accident occurred in' an unusual manner. A passenger train, on its way to Indianapolis, from Terre Haute, was passing a freight train which had taken a siding to let it go by. Xhe t janofjhe Ljpjsswgertrain is thoughtTo havecaused the explosion. A loaded passenger coach was alongside the car containing the dynamite when the terrific explosion came. A large part of the freight train was blown to small splinters and it least one car on the passenger train was completely demolished. It is reported that the entire passenger train was blown from the rails. As yet, no names of those killed or injured have been secured. It is known that many of those who met death were horribly mutilated, their bodies being riddled and thrown into an almost unrecognizable mass. The passenger train was made up of three coaches, a baggage and an express car. A relief train r.nrrvinn nhv-

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been sent out from here. BUSY WEEK FOR COURT Cases of Much Interest to be During the Next Few DaysGambling Charges. Heard The The coming week promises to te a very busy one in the circuit court. It Is. likely that the first case to be tried will be that of Edward S. Holder against the Big Four railroad company for damages for the loss of trained animals last summer.. Among those charged with violations of the state statutes who will be given a hearing are Pleasant Davis Gates Davis and Albert S. Campbell, arrested on indictments for maintaining gambling devices in their saloons at Hagerstown during the fair last August. MUCH PROGRESS SHOWN First National Bank of This City to Put in a Savings Department Open on Tuesdays. The First National Bank of this city, which is one of the most progressive financial institutions in the state has entered upon a new departure. It has decided to open a savings department, the need of which for the benefit of small depositors, has been felt for some time. This department will open for the transaction of business on Tuesdays. It will pay three per cent on all deposits, and is to be in charge of Robert Wilson,

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CHALLENGE TO DEBATE IS ISSUED TO VARDAMAN John Sharp Williams Wants to Debate His Opponent for the Senatorship on the Subject of Government Ownership of Railroads. Publishers' Press.! Jackson, Miss., Jan. 19. Congressman John Sharp Williams today issued a formal challenge tp his opponent for the senatorship, Governor Vardaman, for a joint debate on the question of government ownership of railroads. The debate will commence March 7th and last until the state primary in August. Mr. Williams says he favors the nomination of William J. Bryan for president but wants him nominated on a platform that will make his election possible. Governor Vardaman is out of the city and it is not known whether he will accept the challenge. ADVISES JAPS TO Viscount Aoki Tells His Coun trymen to Secure Heiresses If Possible. ADDRESS IN NEW YORK STATEMENT OF JAPANESE AM BASSADOR SAID TO HAVE BEEN INSPIRED BY HIS GOVERNMENT, IN NEED OF MONEY. Publishers' Press. London, Jan. 19. Not in recent years has England enjoyed such a ssnsation as has followed the calling back from Japan of what purports to be an address delivered in the city of New York by Viscount Aoki, the Japanese ambassador to the United States, to an exclusively Japanese audience, in which he advised his hearers to be sure and marry American wives. "Make yourselves worthy of American women," he is alleged to have said, "but more especially of the daughters of millionaires. This will mean that when your father-in-laws Vecome aware of your merits, they will assist you in every way." This statement was considered so important that it was cabled by uese newspaper correspondents to the Tokio newspapers, which have just arrived here, and its translation and publication has started a hot discussion here as to whether or not this advice was not inspired by the Japanese government, which is anxious to secure funds from its subjects to re- j duce the foreign debt. Englishmen generally characterize the address of the ambassador as '"high handed impudence." Advantages and Disadvantages. The advantages of such marriages pointed out editorially in the Japan Times, as follows: "It as generally admitted by the Japanese themselves that, physically they are inferior to their American neighbors. On an average a Japanese adult is about the size of a sixteen-year-old American boy. The offspring resulting from such unions are a cross, being neither so small as the Japanese nor so large as the American mother. That the Japanese people desire to be larger is apparent as the diminutive size. That they also admire the features of the foreigner is also plain. Shortly after the decease of General Kodama, one of his intimates remarked that he was a line looking man, looking more like a foreigner than a Japanese. So, when a Japanese father sees his little son, by an American mother, a little above the average, he has cause for rejoicing, but when the American mother looks upon her little boy, by a Japanese father and notices his yellow skin, short stature and bowed legs, nothing but the greatest parental love can cover up such defects." HUNTS FOR LOST BROTHER Superintendent of Police Bailey Has Been Requested to Aid a Milwaukee Resident. Superintendent Bailey has received a letter from Bernard S. Baker, of Milwaukee, asking for information concerning a half brother. Fred S. Taylor, who is mysteriously missing from home. The writer stated that he had reason to believe that Taylor was in this city. The police are making a search for the missing man, but so far have been unable to locate him.

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ANOTHER RATE RULING ADVANCE AGENTS BENEFIT Hereafter Those Who Go Ahead of a Theatrical Production Will be Given the Party Rate Accorded His Company. Ticket Agent Elmer, of the Pennsylvania railroad, has received a communication from General Passenger Agent Moody, of the system, announcing that theatrical advance representatives will, just as soon as the lav will allow it, be considered part of the theatrical organizations which they represent, and an allowance will be deducted when the settlement ia maae for the transportation of the entire troupe. Heretofore advance representatives have been required top ay full fare between all points on their j trips, they not having advantage of the party, rates . given to theatrical companies. It is said that the new ruling laid down by Mr. Moody is the direct outgrowth of similar rulings mu'le by several other railroads of the country. FAVORS PAVED STREETS On Account of Heavy Traffic on Certain Thoroughfares Commissioner Dye Would Pave Them. Street commissioner Dye is an advocate of Improv44 streefs, and among the thoroughfares which he thinks should be paved with brick; because of the heavy traffic that passes over them are the following: North Eighth from E to Main;; North E from Tenth to Twentieth: Ft. Wayne avenue from Eighth to D; North D from Ft. Wayne avenue to the Doran bridge. It is not likely, however, that any action will be taken in the near future looking to the improvement of these streets. CHILDREN GET ESTATE WILL OF WM. H. ATKINSON William Henry Atkinson Jr., Named Executor With a Bond of $20,000 Wife of Deceased Died Shortly Before His Demise. The will of the late William If. Atkinson of Fountain City was filed for probate yesterday, the executor William Ki'nry Atkinson, jr., filing a bond in the sum of $20,000. Under the provisions of the will the entire real and personal estate was left to his wife, and upon her death the estate was to be divided among the nine children. Melissa Nicholson. Ark Atkinson, Thomas E. Atkinson, Hen ry Atkinson, Rachel E. Frazee, Louisa Nelson, Emma Turner, David L. Atkinson and Larkin E. Atkinson. The wife of Mr. Atkinson died a few days prior to his demise and as a result the entire estate, which is quite valuable reverts to the children. PUT OFF TILL SATURDAY Attorney Latta of Indianapolis and Eastern Can Not Meet the Commissioners Tomorrow. Owing to the fact that Attorney Latta of the Indianapolis & Eastern cannot be in the city on Monday the county commissioners have postponed until Saturday next, the meeting that was to have been held on that day.

PALLADIUM'S NEW COMIC SUPPLEMENT.

The Palladium has secured for its readers a comic supplement which will be furnished with each Sunday's issue. The cartoons in the new supplement are all from the penns of men noted in this line for the originality and life of their drawings. In the near future the Palladium will have still another new feature for its readers. A contract has been made with a large eastern firm to furnish the Palladium with a series of short stories from the pens of America's most famous artists. These stories, which will be run each Sunday, are written by such great authors as 0. Henry, Charles Battle Loomis and others. In In view of the greatly increased expense caused by the addition of these new features, the Palladium will hereafter discontinue its Monday edition. The rural Sunday paper will hereafter contain the markets, which have hitherto appeared in the Monday edition, of Saturday, and it will be furnished to our rural route subscribers in place of the Monday paper. The price of the Palladium will remain the same, one cent each daily issue, three cents on Sunday, and seven cents a week to regular subscribers. Remember, then, there will be no issue of the Palladium tomorrow.

THE WEATHER PROPHET.

INDIANA Clearing and much colder Sunday; cold wave, Monday fair; high northwest winds. OHIO Colder Sunday, with rain possibly turning to snow in north portion, cold wave at night; Monday much colder and fair except snow flurries in northeast portion; high southwest to northwest winds. The Ptxklxc Eye Is on every page in this paper, if vour aaver isement is h.r you are in the public eye. A WEEK OF CL000INESS ONE PARTLY CLEAR DAY Weather Record Kept by Waiter vossler at the Water Works Shows Unusual Conditions for This Season of the Year. ? The report of i Walter Vossler, weather observer at the water works station for the week shows that during that period there was but one partly clear day and that was yesterday when the sun at frequent intervals broke through the clouds only to quickly disappear. Foggy weather prevailed Sunday and Friday, while it was cloudy Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Snow fell on the night of January 15 and 3.9 inches covered the ground, turning to rain at 7 A. M. January 17, and continuing throughout the day and night. The high and low temperature for the week was as follows: Date High Low January 13 49 36 January 14 ..59 41 January 15 43 28 January 16 31 27 January 17 .. .. .. .. . .33 31 January IS 41 34. January 19 67 40 WINDS RESEMBLED A YOUNG CYCLONE Electric Light Wires Blown Down and the South End Was in Darkness. PHONES WERE DISABLED ALARM OF FIRE SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT AROUSED FEARS OF FIREMEN BUT IT WAS NOT SERIOUS. Winds fit almost to belong to the cyclone class invaded Richmond last night bringing trouble galore. Starting during the day the winds gradually increased in velocity till last night they were cutting some record break ing capers. Shortly after supper the rain began to fall and the way in which it was swept under the umbrellas of those on the streets and under the doors of many business houses and residences, to say nothing of the cellars which were dampened, caused words hardly fit for the eve of Sunday. Material damage was done by the fierce winds to considerable degree. Telephone service was handicaped many 'phones on both lines being put completely out of seivice while others worked with a buzz saw attachment. Electric light wires were blown down and to prevent serious damage the current was turned off the circuit in the south part of the city leaving it in total darkness late in the evening. Shortly after midnight an alarm of fire was turned in, the blaze being at the residence of Oscar Williams, 324 South 4th street. A chandelier catching afire burned the ceiling causing but small damage. Those who heard the alarm were greatly frightened for a fire with any headway would certainly have swept a swath last night. The firemen recognized this made a record breaking run.

TURBULENT WATER OF MUDDY OHIO

EDGES POCKET Thousands of Unfortunates in the Lowlands Along the Raging Stream are Rendered Homeless. PROMISES TO BREAK ALL FORMER RECORDS Situation In Southern Part of Indiana Rapidly Growing Alarming Pennsylvania Abandons Terminals. Publishers Press. 1 Cincinnati, O. Jan. 19. Lawrenceburg, Ind., twenty miles from here, is in a state of terror tonight. The ten foot levee which protects the city is giving away in places and all the residents are getting ready to move. At eleven o'clock tonight the river was C3 feet and one inch and was still ris ing. More ram Is predicted with high winds. Evansville, Ind., Jan. 19. The flood situation in the Ohio valley grows more serious hourly. An average of a half inch of rain has fallen through out the valley within the last twentyfour hours, and the weather bureau offers no relief from the storm until tomorrow night, when there is prom ise of clearing. There has been a continued rise at all points up the Ohio. Pittsburg reports a rise of more than a foot; Cincinnati two and one-half feet; Louisville, almost three feet, and Evansville now has a stage of forty-four feet, with the river still climbing the government gauge. At 10 o'clock last night Evansville got its first glimpse of the sky in twenty days. The moon stole fom behind the walls of its prison, and the loiter ers and refugees along Water street really gave it welcome. The Evansville harbor is still lined with steamers out of service because of the flood, and their white forms gleamed in the long-lost light of the moon. A brisk wind began blowing about the time the moon came out, and lashed the waves of the flood into a running sea. The rays of the moon played over the waves and made a picture good to look at, even though the scene was witnessed with knowledge that there were hundreds of peoI pie in the low lands who saw the wind rise in fear. For a wind means destruction now and the wind is rising tonight Cincinnati, O., Jan. 19. Flood conditions here broke the highest records since February, 18S4. A distance of four squares from the normal water front of the lower portions of the city are flooded. Railroad bridges are the only means of communication for pedestrians between the Kentucky sid of the river and this city, which affects seriously several thousand people, who work in Cincinnati and whose homes are in Newport, Covington and the other Kentucky suburbs. The town of California, just above the city, is inundated and a number of residents came to this city for refuge. Covington, whose high location caused it to be considered fortunate, felt the effects of the flood by isolation, and the cutting of communications. In Newport it is estimated that fully 5.000 people are homeless and almost destitute. There are nearly 100 blocks under water. Schools were closed and school buildings are used to help the homeless, free soup houses being opened there. The river will rise steadily several days at Madison, Ind.; Louisville, Ky.; and other points down the river. It is estimated that at least 15,000 people are homeless on account of the flood in the lower sections of Cincinnati and on the Kentucky side of the Ohio at this point. Fully 3,000 have been driven from their homes in Cincinnati, nearly 5,000 residents of Newport have been compelled to vacate their homes, and all the other cities within- 10 miles of this city report thousands more sufferers.

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"RIMMED" CHAS. FELTMAN Secured Two Pairs of Shoes and $9.75 in Money in a Hurried Transaction Feltman Thought he Knew His Patrot A bogus check worker "laid In" worthless paper on Charles H. Feltman of the Richmond shoe company, and separated him from two pairs of shoes worth $5.25 and $9.75. The fellow walked hurriedly into the store, and selected footwear for his "wife and son," and in pavment for the goods handed Mr. Feltman a check on the Minck brewing company for $15. Mr. Feltman thought he knew his patron and accepted the check, without hesitation. At the bank yesterday it was pronounced a forgery. The police are searching for the swindler, but have as yet made no arrest. IVTCREA LIKELY TO COME New President of the Pennsylvania Likely to Make Inspection Trip Next Month. James McCrea the new president of the Pennsylvania railroad has started his inspection of the eastern divisions of main lines of the system. When asked yesterday afternoon whether or not the great "I am" would visit Richmond in the near future, the officials in the Richmond offices, stated that they had as yet heard nothing of his trip west, but said that they expected him some time within the next month POLITICS PLAYIIIG PROMINENT PART General Assembly Takes on the Air of a Large Political Convention. ARE STRANGE "GOINGS ON" MANY ARE TRYING TO "GRIND AXES" AT THE EXPENSE OF THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE STATE 340 BILLS UP. (By Demas S. Coe.) Indianapolis, Ind.. Jan. 19. There are strange "goings on" in the gen eral assembly. Politics is playing as big a part in the proceedings as if a party convention were in progress in stead of a legislative body. Behind almost every bill that is considered of real importance there is some political movement. Not that these measures are devoid of merit, for many of them have merit sticking out in huge chunks, but the thing that is becoming evident is that politicians with axes to grind are for or against a bill, not because of the real good that might result to the people of the state in general, but for the good that may come to them personally. As a general proposition it would not appear that the dyed-in-the-wool politician could derive any good from the depository bill which is one of the measures that is regarded as su premely important. It is declared, however, that one of the republican and one of the democratic factions oppose the bill because it propose to take the banking of county funds out of the hands of the county treas urers themselves and they believe that indirectly this may have some effect on the organizations, which they hope to maintain. There is an other class of politicians, republicans and democrats, who are rooting tooth and toenail for the measures because they believe that if the provisions are "just right" they will be enabled to direct the selection of the depositories and will thus have a chance to build up a little machine of their own. There is one faction that desires that the depository bill shall have effect on state moneys alone, exempting county township and city efficers. There Is another that thinks the fctate should be exempted and the bill apply only to counties, townships and municipalities. And beneath all of this hub drub there are many honest legislators who are unable to tell which way to turn. Governor Hanly is being booted and cussed by some politicians and even by some legislators. He is being praised and petted by other politicians and other legislators. The personality of the governor Is to be seen in almost every measure of interest. He has the backing of a great many influential legislators. But he has the enmity of many othj ers and it appeared today and yesj terday that the "others" were about j to wield the ax. One of the strangest j stories to develop "thus far came to J day. It 13 to the effect that some j of the federal officeholders in India napolis, one of them in particular, who has been regarded as a leader in the Fairbanks forces and a warm

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GRIM DEATH CAME

T If! AWFUL MANNER Queen City Special, Fast Passenger Train on Big Four, Crashes into a Freight Near Little Town of Fowler. BODIES OF MANY VICTIMS ROASTED IN THE FLAMES Dense Fog Obscured the Block Signals, and Operator Couldn't Attract the Attention of Engineer. ' (Publish rress.l IDENTIFIED DEAD. W. B. HARRIS, Indianapolis; both lege crushed and died In Emergency Hospital at Kankakee. PETER J. HIDDINGER, Indianapo. lis, conductor of passenger train. I. H. MAGEE, baggageman, Indianapofis. J. A. SHANNON, Williamsport, Ind., died on way to Emergency hospital In Kankakee, III. HENRY E. OLCOTT, Cincinnati, fireman of the passenger train. HENRY A. PRICE, California, en route to Lafayette; body incinerated. THE INJURED. In the Hospital at Kankakee. E. W. TRIPP, Indianapolis, engineer of passenger train, jumped and was nearly drowned in pool beside track; condition serious. JOHN COBBLE, Indianapolis, engineer of freight train; slightly injured. MINOR GRIFFIN, Shelbyville, Ind., fireman of freight engine; seriously hurt, but not fatally injured. H. W. LINK, Hastings. Mich; seriously, but not fatally Injured. A. G. LANG, Chicago; slightly hurt. M. A. CREETON, an Armenian, New York city; left leg slightly injured. E. C. L. BARNES, Cincinnati; slightly injured. MRS. C. E. SCHAFF, Cincinnati, wife of Vice President Schaff, of tha Big Four: suffering from nervous shock. SUMMARY At least sixteen persons were killed or burned and many injured in a collision on the Dig Four railroad at Fowler, yesterday morning. The wrecked train was the "Queen City Special." enrouto from Chicago to Indianapolis. Owing to the fog the engineer was unable to see the semaphore, which directed him to atop and permit a westbound freight train to pass. Tho passenger train Van Into the freight while going fully fifty miles an hour. The combination (car was telescoped and only four of the fifteen persons In the car escaped. The wreck caught fire and eleven ot the, victims were burned to death. The injured were taken to Kanka kee. 111., In Vice President SchafTs private car, which was attached to the passenger train. Mrs. Schaff, who was en route to Cincinnati, con verted her car into a hospital and as sisted in caring for the injured. None of the passengers in the Bleep ing cars was killed. Lafayette, Ind., Jan. i9. Passenger train No. 33, east bound, on the Big Four raliroad, collided head-on with a freight traia at Fowler, Ind., killing and injuring a number of persons. The passenger train is known as the "Queen City special," and consisted of a combination baggage and day coach, three sleeping cars and the private car of C. E. Schaff, vice president of the company. The train was running at a rate of 50 miles an hour when the accident oo curred, and the force of the collision was so great that the tender of the passenger engine was driven through the entire length of the combination car, in which were a number of passengers, estimated at from 15 to 25. All the dead and injured were taken from the wreckage of this car, none of the passengers in the sleepers having been seriously hurt. Soon arter the collision the wreckage caught fire from the engine and all the coaches except the private car of Vice President Schaff and one sleeper were destroyed. Paul D. Harris of Chicago, an attorney, was the only person to escape from the combination car. He reached Lafayette on another train and reported that the dead and injured, af fast as they were drawn from the wreckage, were placed in the Cincinnati sleeper. This car caught fire and the victims were hastily removed to the next car, the Indianapolis sleeper. The fire also spread to thi3 car, and It became necessary to again transfer the dead and injured, this time to Echaff's private car, in which they were taken to division headquarters at Kankakee, 111. One passenger was pinned under some of the wreckage and burned to death. According to Mr. Harris, both trains had orders to stop at Fowler, but the passenger train ran by the block signal, which the engineer failed to see on account of the fog. Mr. Schaff was not on board th

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