Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 176, 21 July 1907 — Page 1

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EXCURSION TRAIN COLLIDES WITH A STANDING FREIGHT Accident Which Occurred Near Salem, Mich., Brings Death To Men, Women and Children Out on a Pleasure Trip. MANY BODIES TAKEN FROM THE WRECKAGE. filame for the Accident Placed On the Crew of the Freight, Which Had Orders to Give The Right of Way. Salem, Mich., July 20. Forty : persons were killed and about sixty injured today, when a Pere Marquette excursion train of eleven coaches, from Ionia, carrying the employes of the company's shops there on their annual excursion to Detroit, came into collision with a west-bound freight train two miles east of this village, at Washburn Crossing. Eight Hundred on the Train. There were SOO persons crowded into the eleven coaches of the train, many of them women and children, all bound for a holiday in Detroit. They left their homes at Ionia at 6 o'clock this morning. The wreck occurred on a perfectly straight, level piece of track. The heavy freight and passenger trains came together with terriffic force and six of the eleven passenger cars were entirely wrecked. When the uninjured persons recovered from the shock, they at once began extricating the dead and injured. Messengers were rushed to this village and to Plymouth and all the doctors from this place and neighboring villages were hurried to the scene. Farmers Hear the Crash. Farmers who beard the crash came to the rescue. A special train was made up in Detroit and sent to the wreck, a distance of forty miles, with doctors, nurses, surgical instruments and cots. By the time this train arrived there were several scores of people waiting to receive medical attention and over a score of bodies had been extricated and were lying on jthe grass beside the tracks. Panic Follows Crash. Mrs. Minnie Densmore, of Ionia, a passenger on the wrecked train, describing the horror, said: "My husband and myself were In the sixth coach, right behind the first five in which the greatest loss of life occurred. There was a terrible crash and the train came to a sudden stop, throwing us out of our seats. Instantly our car was filled with terror stricken people trying to fight their way out. No one knew Just what had happened, but every occupant of the car seemed to feel Instinctively that there had been a tragedy, and seemed to be filled with fear. "Their clothes were torn and they Inflicted severe bruises on one another in their mad efforts to get to the ground. That was before they realized that our car was not damaged, and that they were not in danger themselves. When we got out of the coach, we found the engine and the first five cars piled up beside the tracks, while shrieks of pain and cries lor mercy filled the air. "The first five cars were well filled with people, and it Is in these that Xnost of the bodies were found." Blames the Freight Crew. After arriving here with the wrecking train from Detroit and looking over the situation. General Superintendent Trump, said that the blame for the wreck rested with the crew of the freight, which was a west-bound local. The crew had orders, Mr.' Trump says, to wait at Plymouth for the excursion train, which had the right-of-way. Instead the train proceeded on toward Salem and the collision resulted. Many of the freight cars were also piled up in the heap of wreckage, which is so great that it required twelve hours to clear the track. The injured were placed on the special train and sent to Detroit. Three of the coaches were telescoped by the terrific impact of the heavy freight train and the fourth and fifth coaches were smashed into matchwood. Passengers on the wrecked train say the passenger train was running about forty miles an hour when the trains met. Some of Injured Will D.e. The banks alongside the track at the crossing where the collision occurred are ten feet high and the space between them for several hundred feet was literally filled with wreckage. The passenger engine was completely wrecked and its crew killed, but in some miraculous manner the

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engineer and fireman of the freight engine escaped with their lives. A majority of the killed were men, who were seated in the smoking car, which was at the head of the train. This car received the first impact of the collision, and the heavy .tender and engine were forced through it, crushing everything before them. Many of the injured are in very ser ious condition and will probably die. Fortunately fire did not break out in the ruins and add its horrors to the tragedy. ALL LIVED AT IONIA. Names of Thoe Killed In the Pere Marquette Wreck. Salem, Mich., July 20. It is believed that all those killed in the Pere Marquette wreck today lived at Ionia. Among those identified are the followine: Will Dot. John Patter- i son, Charles Macaloni, Al Hebert, Martin Kilduff, Mrs. Abraham Eddy, Herman Naff, N. J. Cornell, John Rogers, Willie Grams, a boy; John Tafel, Mrs. August Itichter, Ned Gal lagher, Lee Alvord, conductor E. E. Bixley and fireman Knowles. Dean Rogers, Fred Latham, Frank Smith, E. E. Pixley, conductor; Charles Hess, two sons of Mr. Hess, Char les McCauley, Sr.,; L. K. Merrill, Albert Trautwine, James Vizard, Harry Reynolds, Homer Smith and Fred Fitzgerald. Fred Vaughan, of South Bend, Ind., was also killed. The injured: Maloe Weitz, will die; leg broken; Fred Donnehty and wife, will die; John , Walton, will die. TENNIS TOURNAMENT IS ON FOR THIS MONTH Arrangements Were Complet ed Saturday Afternoon. LIST OF PLAYERS ENTERED. The July tenni3 tournament has been organized, and ten men have entered the singles, while eight teams have en tered the doubles. The tournament this month is attracting greater inter est than the most recent one did, as the interest manifested In tennis dur ing the month of June was contagious The first match of the single tourna ment was played Saturday afternoon on the public play grounds between Herbert and Haynes, the latter win ning by the scores of 6-3, 6-2. Haynes is visiting in Richmond. The manner in which he wielded his racket was good to see. He has an easy manner of playing, nothing sensational, and his work was highly commented on by the tennis followers who witnessed the work Haynes is expected to be heard from in the finals. The men entered in the July tourna ment follow: Doubles. Scott and Thornburg. Campbell and Harrington. Green and Sherman. Herbert and Moyer. Jenkins and Anderson. Tallant and Nixon. Brunson and Heironimus. Singles. Herbert, Haynes, Campbell, Thorn burg, Scott, Jenkins, Relier, Sherman, Brunson and Glass. One team of doubles will be entered next Monday, completing the eight teams. The tournament will be played ou as fast as possible. INDIANA CORPORATIONS HAD BETTER LOOK OUT Ten Thousand of Them Are Likely to Be Fined. SLOW IN MAKING REPORTS. A warning goes forth from the office of Fred A. Sims, Secretary of State. Something like 10,000 corporations in the State are going to get into trouble of a nature more or less serious unless they do better within the next ten days than they have within the last month. The new State law provides that practically all of the corporations organized under the laws of Indiana are to file reports by July 31 of their capital stock and other details. After that date there Is a $50 penalty attached for lateness of the filing. All corporations except railroads, insurance companies, banks, trust companies and such other financial institutions as are under the control of the Auditor of State, are required to file these reports. But they are not doing it with any large degree of celerity. In the card index record of Indiana corporations that Frank Grubbs, deputy Secretary of State has, there is record of about 20,000 corporations. Requests have been made for about 15.000 blanks, and these have been sent out, but only about 2,000 reports have been filed, and the shank of the time draws near.

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Miss Marlon ATIen, tne New Yor girl, who In String Baron Egon von Nuvelly, the Austrian nobleman, who is said to belong to one of the oldest and wealthiest families in Vienna, for breach of promise. She says that not only did the Baron promise to marry her,-but he borrowed considerable money from her and disappeared, leaving the rent of their apartment unpaid and bills coming in every day. The Baron takes the whole matter very lightly and says that as a nobleman he hasn't any time to waste on such matters.

CRUSHING BLOW TO CASE OF THE STATE Evidence Turns Up That Is Favorable to Fred H. Magill and Wife. SIXTH LETTER IS FOUND. IT WAS WRITTEN BY PET MAGILL AND STATED THAT SHE MEANT TO TAKE HER OWN LIFE MILLER REFUSES. Clinton, 111., July 20. The state's case against Frederick II. Magill and Faye Graham Magill, arrested on their honeymoon, charged with the murder of Mrs. Pet Magill, and now being brought back to Clinton by Sheriff Campbell, was given two crushing blows today when Attorney E. J. Sweeney announced that he would have nothing to do with it and a sixth letter written by Pet Magill was found.. - Attorney Sweeney is noted in central Illinois as prosecutor of bull dog pugnacity and when the state's attorney. Arthur Miller, announced that Sweeney was engaged to assist state in prosecution of Ma gill and his wife, people shook their heads and said: "It looks bad for Fred Magill." Today Attorney Sweeney notified Mr. Miller that he coujd not assist him in prosecution. Mr. Miller still maintained that the Magills would be held to the grand jury and indictments would be returned against them in October. Pet Magill left a sixth let ter that was discovered today. It Is addressed to Father Alexander Gandy and declared that in it she told her aged parent that she was about to destroy herself and bade him goodbye. She also begged his forgiveness. This letter, it Is said, never reached her father but was destroyed by relatives here. Sheriff Campbell left San Diego late this afternoon with the prisoners and is expected here Tues day night. , MOUNTAIN RANGES AND UGLY WATER JUMPS They Keep the Tourists From Perfect Scores. MANY WERE PENALIZED. Bedford Springs. Pa., July 20. The Glidden tourists had to climb three mountain ranges today and that in connection with a series of bad water jumps, played havoc with the scores and only about 35 or 40 of the contestants arrived on time, the others beng penalized,

KOREAN MOB BURNS A PREMIER'S HOUSE

Torch Applied by Incensed Natives While Official Was Visiting the Palace. STREET FIGHTING IN SEOUL THE JAPS HAVE TRAINED MACHINE GUNS ON TAIHAN GATE AND THREATEN TO FIRE ON SOLDIERS. Seoul, Korea, July 20 A concentrated effort was made at 2 p. m. today (Saturday) to murder the entire Cabinet. After haranguing at the temple of heaven, a mob of 2,000 marched a mile to the mansion of Lwanyung, which they sacked and burned. The same fate was then visited' on the homes of the Prime Minister and oth ers. The same mob then proceeded to the home of the Minister of War, near the old palace,- but here they were met by Japanese guards who repulsad the rioters, wounding and killing many. Tokio, July . 20. A dispatch from Seoul says that an enraged mob of 1,OOO persons has attacked and burned the residence of the Korean premier, Yi Wang Yang. The premier was absent at the time on a visit to the palace. . Four machine guns are now at the Taihan gate. Should the Korean soldiers repeat yesterday's behavior by firing on the Japanese police, the Japanese troops will not hesitate to retaliate. It is noteworthy, that despite the press news of the abdication of the Korean emperor, the official report confirming the same has not yet been received here. One dispatch says the rioters surrounding the premier's residence were dispersed by the -Japanese police with the assistance of the artillery. The premier sought refuge in the palace, the other ministers going to the Japanese quarters. The crack of rifles continues to be heard, and it is believed that a collision has occurred between Japanese police and Korean soldiers. If Japanese troops attack the Koreans, the state of unrest will be aggravated. Crown Prince on the Throne. The ceremonies attending the acces sion of the crown prince to the throne were carried out at o'clock this morning. In response to requests, eighty Japanese and other officials, including Marquis lio, with his military staff, ana many consuls-general, were received in audience at 4:30 p. m. After the accession of the crown prince, the former emperor took leave of the cabinet. General Hasegana's troops still garrison the palace and a regiment from Ping Yang arrived at Seoul this morning to reinforce the twentieth, regiment.

CONDEMN ACTION OF DRISCHELL III STOPPING A CAR

Wayne County Automobile Association Makes Itself Plain in Regard to Recent Glidden Tour Arrest. SAY THAT DRISCHELL WANTS ONLY THE MONEY Local Officials Will Receive Support of the Association But Drischell Will Have to Fight Hereafter. Marshal Daniel Drischell Esa. of Cambridge City seems to have taken hold of a bumble bee whose business end was In thorough working order, when he had the party of Gliddenists stopped in this city on last Wednesday that he might have fines assessed for what he termed "scorching" through Cambridge. Instead of the wrath of local people abating as time goes by, it increases and Drischell's actions are condemned on all sides. The Wayne county automobile club has become so "riled," that it has drawn up resolutions which handle Drischel roughly. In this set of resolutions Drischell is branded as being "a money seeking officer" "and state that it is largely through his mania for money from autoists, that he carries on his campaign. It is said that when an auto goes a little two fast In Greenfield, the town marshal peeks around the corner of his huge tin star, runs to a telephone, calls Cambridge and apprises Drischell. The same actions are carried on by the marshal at Knightstown. By the time the autoists reach Cambridge, it Is said that Drischell has all the hen coops, tin cans, dry goods boxes, slop jars and other refuse in the city piled up on Main street to 6top the machines. The resolutions which have been drawn up by the Wayne County Automobile club follow: Text of Resolutions. We the undersigned, wish to express our deepest regret that the laws of this state allow a money-seeking officer to degrade the police courts of other cities In order that he may get what is ever most in his mind another dollar or two. We are also very sorry that right in our own county, we have one of these money seeking officers In the person of the marshal of Cambridge City. He has gained much notoriety lately with his, as he thinks, perfect scheme of timing autos. When timing, them he eases his conscience by giving himself the benefit of the doubt. In a moment a telephone bell rings in the local police headquarters and the officers here are compelled to stop the so-called offenders, thereby earning dishonest money for this marshal. We wish the public to understand that the club appreciates the situation of the local authorities and that our feelings toward them are most friendly and will be only too glad to assist them In any way, as the superinten dent of police will testify. But as to our feelings toward the marshal, they are entirely different. We will assist no one who openly brags about "soaking it to the auto everytime he gets half a chance." His manner in the arrest of the Gliddenlte last Wednesday - has not met the approval of many as is shown by the Interest of the citizens In refunding the fine. That his one desire is for money, is clearly shown In the fact that he let all go by in the morning and then when one came in late he realized that his chances were rapidly decreasing; there was noth ing to do but have the man violate the speed limit and "nail him" with the aid of the police here. That even the police are not in sympathy with this officer, is shown when several of them here said that they would like to contribute toward refunding hi3 fine. We would like to give the marshal a small hint to the fact that hereafter he has to fight the American Automobile Association and that he will have to prove every word he says and know absolutely the number of the car he wants arrested and that no more of his baby play will be allowed. We sincerely hope that he will take this hint and avoid future trouble. We again wish to Impress upon the local authorities the fact that he are strickly for them and not working against them, but the other fellow. GEO. D. COLE. Pres. W. N. JOHNSON, Vice Pres. WALKER E. LAND. Secy. J. A., SPEKENHIER, Executive committee, A. C. W. C. J. M. DAWSON WILL SPEAK. J. M. Dawson, state evangelist of the prohibition movement will give an address this afternoon at three o'clock at Rhoda Temple to which all are cordially invited.

LOW FARE FIGHT CAUSES CLASH OFTHE COURTS Southern Road Fined $30,000 For Violating Law.

ONE JUDGE NEAR PRISON. Raleigh, X. C, July 20 With the imposition by the State Court yesterday of a $30,000 fine against the Southern railway and one of $3 against Thomas J. Green, the ticket agent, for violation of the 2U-cents a mile rate law, what amounts closely to Federal-State war was started between State and Federal courts. State Judge Reynolds Is threatening to jail Federal Judge Pritchard for contempt. Railroad in terests are trying to force Judge Pritchard to imprison Judge Reynolds and Governor Glenn threatens to call out the militia and resist such action with armed force. Money is being spent right and left by the railroads, and tha affair has attained great and sinister proportions. DISCRIMINATION ALLEGED BY THEJ.0CAL FORCE Think Richmond Should Have Another Clerk. P0ST0FFICE FORCE SHORT. Muncie has been granted another postoffice clerk and it is the opinion of the local force that Richmond is being discriminated against so far as clerkship appointments are concerned. The local office is in need of another clerk, but it seems that First Assistant Postmaster Hitchcock does not see fit to make an appointment. The eligible list at the postoffice is also used up and In case of Illness or death the postoffice would still further be disabled. With a new appointment the local office force would be large enough to handle all business coming to It in a most satisfactory manner. CULVER STUDENTS GO THROUGH THIS CITY Party Will Attend the Jamestown Exposition. On the nineteenth of August, the students attending the Culver Military academy will start for the Jamestown exposition and will pass through Richmond on the Pennsylvania. There will be between three and four hundred students and they will have a special train to and from the big show. The train will consist of eight Pullman coaches and the students will be under the charge of the professors of the school. From Jamestown the party will go to Washington for a short stay. There are a number of Culver boys in Richmond and it is probable that some of these will join the party when it passes through this city for the Jamestown Exposition. IS NOT ALLOWED TO SACRIFICE HIS LIFE Lieutenant Colonel Ayers Will Be Retired. New York, July 20. With tears In his eyes. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Ayers today listened to a report made to the retiring board In the army building, that he was incapacitated by incurable kidney disease from active service. "If I am ready to sacrifice my life for the good of the service, Is there any reason why I should be retired?" asked the colonel. "Yes." replied Major Guy U Eddie, one of the two surgeons, who examin ed "him. "Outside of your obligations to your family, the good of the service demands your retirement." JOHN M. WESTCOTT IS SERIOUSLY ILL Due to Advanced Age and Extremely Warm Weather. John M. Westcott, one of Richmond's oldest and best known citizens is lying at his home on East Main street In a critical condition. Mr. Westcott's illness has not been fully diagnosed. His advanced age and the extremely warm weather are considered the main causes for his serious Illness. Mr. Westcott has been in ill health for more than two years. It Is feared that he cannot survive his present attack .

HAWLEY DECLARES THAT ORCHARD IS A TRUTH TELLER

Attorney for the State in the Haywood Case Insists That The Star Witness Dealt in Facts. CIRCUMSTANCES PROVE IT THE SPEAKER INSISTS. Does Not Attempt to Defend Orchard's Double Dealing Picks Testimony of Defense to Pieces. Boise, Idaho. July 20. Continuing today the opening argument for the State In the case of William D. Haywood, which after two months and a, half of hearing, is about to be submitted to the jury, James II. Hawley, chief prosecutor, first devoted his attention; to the alleged attempt to wreck a train, on the Florence & Cripple Creek railroad. This was one of the incidents of the Colorado labor troubles testified to by Harry Orchard. "This matter came out in Orchara testimony," said Mr. Hawley, "but it was absolutely immaterial to the issue here involved. But the defense has taken this Incident and has tried to build up out of It a conspiracy on the part of the mine owners against the Western Federation of Miners. Orchard admitted that he had reported the alleged attempt to detectives In the employ of the Mine Owners' assorta. tion, and to the railroad. The defense has brought two women witnesses here to testify that they saw Orchard In one of the detective's rooms oa Viany occasions. These women sawi this man but casually over five years ago, but they come here and swear positively as to Orchard's Identity and to the number of his visits. Such evidence as this speaks for Itself. Orchard Was After Money. "Orchard undoubtedly was trying to secure money from all the sources he could, and I am not going to defend him for his double dealing In taking money from both the Western Federation of Miners and the railroad company. I am not here to naint Hurry Orchard in anything but his true col ors. There is but one claim we make for him. and that Is that he told vnu the truth. This fact has been indelibly nxed by all the circumstances in the case." Mr. Hawley said that immediately after the train wrecking Incident. Orchard was found again in the Western Federation of Miners. Taking up the matter of the attempted assassination of Governor Peabody, Mr. Hawley repeated much of the testimony of Orchard as to the plans he and Steve Adams laid to kill the governor. Orchard's testimony was amply corroborated, counsel declared, Mrs. Peabody herself taking the stand to testify to one of the most important Incidents. Darrow Turns White. Hawley took up the Orchard story of his experiences and criminal record in Idaho, his trip to Wyoming and the attempt on the life of Fred Bradley, of San Francisco. With the utmost deliberation, the leading counsel for the State charged wilful perjury against several witnesses. He argued the truth of Orchard's story and said that two men In particular might have been brought to contradict him, but that the defense was afraid to produce either Pettibone or Adams, and he said Adams had been brought to Boise from jail in Shoshone county in order that the defense might use him as a witness. White to the lips, Clarence Darrow sprang into action. "The statement is false, and counsel knows it," he shouted Hawley took a step closer to the defense table and, shaking his finger close to Darrow's face, said: "When counsel says that, he utters a delib erate falsehood." Judge Wood, with a sharp command and insistent warning, patched up a temporary peace. Mr. Hawley suspended his argument at 11:55 a. m. and finished this afternoon. THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Sunday fair; winds. light fresh OHIO Sunday generally fair; light to fresh winds. CIRCULATION STATEMENT. SATURDAY (July 20) Total Circulation Net Circulation 6,379 6,174 LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION. LARGEST COUNTY CIRCULATION. LARGEST RURAL ROUTE CIRCULATION. LARGEST PAID CIRCULATION.