Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 260, 9 September 1913 — Page 1

RICHMOND) PAJXABIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 260 RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 9, 1913 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS Thirty-Five Hurt, Two Fatally, in Pennsy Wreck; Spreading Rail Ditches Fast Train Near Wiley, O.

THE

C. & O. BOSTON STATION COMPLETELY DESTROYED BY FIRE THIS MORNING

I Three Boxcars and Five Hundred Posts Also Burn Volunteer Fire Fighters Greatly Handicapped by Lack of Apparatus Pull Five Blazing Cars Out of Flames.

.-DAMAGE IS ESTIMATED Thirty minutes after a blaze (had been discovered on the roof of the C. & O. station at Boston ithis morning, the building was ja smouldering mass of ruins, j three box cars were destroyed, ,500 fence posts were burned, and a volunteer fire crew of railroaders and residents were attempting to stave off the spread of i flames from the switch yards Sand other property of the railroad. The damage is (estimated at more than $5,000. J The blaze was discovered by W. C. Moyer, clerk of the yards, iwho saw the roof a mass of ; flames. In the cupola under the !roof was Train Dispatcher Taylor Minor, ignorant of the blaze. He did not foresake his post until he had sent his last dispatch, and stepped out just as the roof fell in. Fighters Handicapped. Greatly handicapped by lack of apparatus, the fire fighters strove with zeal to prevent the spread of- the flames. Five blazing cars were pulled out of the flames. Round House Foreman Peck ordered an engine backed to an adjoining track, and forcing water through an injector of the locomotive to which he had attached a hose, the railroaders were able to save the cars from destruction. Burns Like Tinder. The improvised fire apparatus was Impotent to save the station which burned like tinder after the flames had attacked the roof. It is believed that almost all the records in the station ware destroyed, as the clerks had I scant time to work before the building was gutted. The Richmond fire department was '.Informed of the fire, but was told ! ENTERS DENIAL TO EVIDENCE GIVEN BY STATE'S WITNESSES 'George f Schools, on Stand, Says -fJie Doesn't Understand Confession. Denying practically all the incrimi-,1

natmr evidence which had been inA'H. Jones, head of the improvements

ueen in-V witnesses .. troduced by the state's against him, George Schools took the

witness stand in his own defense to- yesterday evening in a pnysician s orday. Schools not only denied the fice at Economy. statements made by witnesses that he In company with the Rev. Arthur had threatened his wife's life, but also Cates, the Rev. B. Earle Parker and refused to substantiate statements his son, "William. Mr. Jones made an purported to have been made by him ' automobile trip to Economy yesterin the confession which he signed in 1 dav evening, where he and the two

the presence of Chief of Police Gormon and other police officials. "I don't understand that confession" said the defendant on cross examination. "I never told the police that I made up my mind to kill my wife when I left the back yard with her, as the confession says," prisoner. declared the I did not decide to cut her throat until she started cursing me. I had never threatened to kill her before that night as her mother, sister, brother-in-law and other witnesses testified." said the accused. "The incident related by Mary Hayes about my, drawing a razor on my wife a few weeks before is false. I started np town with my boy to buy him a new suit of clothes. Mary Hayes and my wife grabbed my boy and held me. I did not go as Mary HayeB drew a revolver on me and would not let me leave," he said. School Chased Hunter. He said he saw Hansom Hunter and his wife together in the back yard and that he drew his razor then and chased Hunter. That Mrs. Schools gave him the razor with which he afterwards killed ! ! her was brought out by the testimony j of Schools. The rarer was giTen to j Schools by his wife two years before ! the crime was committed. It is expected that the case will go Continued on Page Three.),

TO BE MORE THAN $5,000

that its services would be useless, as the volunteer fire fighters had held the flames from spreading further. Records Destroyed. No efforts were made to fight the fire until the engine injector was used, but the strong northeast wind fanning the fire reduced the station to ruins in a short time, thwarting heroic efforts to save the contents. Only a few records, a small amount of money, and a gasoline engine were saved. The dry' building offered no resistance to the spread of the flames. Very little freight was stored in the building, excepting twenty cans of carbide. The loss on the freight will be $200. The freight cars that burned were standing on a siding back of the station, and the terrific heat of the burning building made it impossible for j the switching crew to save them. One i car was loaded with fertilizer, another j contained tile, and the third was em pty. Wet Timber Smoulders. The railroaders turned the stream from the engine on the fence posts and logs back of the station. The wet timber smouldered slowly, drying out as the fire proceeded. The flames ate their way slowly into the timbers, damaging them irreparably. The fence posts were destroyed. When the Ire attacked the loaded cars, the heavy contents soon crashed through the floors, spilling fire on the ties, which were soon aflame. The steel rails were twisted by the intense heat. Residents of Boston, a town nearby, hardly knew of the blaze until the station was destroyed, so fast did the building crumble. They were unable to help the railroaders in extinguishing the blaze. Temporary railroad offices were at once established at the Kitchell grain elevator by Harold Minor, station agent. Traffic was not delayed by the fire. SYLVESTER JONES DIES IN ECONOMY DOCTOR'S OFFICE Prominent Local Man Succumbs to Stroke of Apoplexy. v . v Stricken with apoplexy, Sylvester xl. Jones, ncau ui mo iiuiiiuoruieuiB Vnd patents department of the Amer-1 i c. i aa 1 lean Seeding Machine company, died ministers were to address a Sunday i , , , On the trip out "Mr. Jones complained of feeling badly, but refused to return to the city or to enlist -the services of a physician at Williamsburg. Arriving at Economy his son drove at once to a doctor's office. Mr. Jones was taken inside, where he died a few minutes later. The body was returned ;to the home, 1419 North C street, at an early hour this morning. Prominent in Church. Mr. Jones was widely known as a church worker. He was a trustee of the First M. E. church and a trustee of Memorial hospital. He was at all

j "mes interested in any movement member of the board Baid he va3 , that bad for its object the improve-! ared tQ vote Qn the quegtion i mnt of th f"jr. He was one of thejand wouM to haye fnnheT tIme

guarantors of the Richmond Chautau qua and a stockholder in the Morton i Lake enterprise. He was a member j of the Travelers' Protective associa tion and of the Commercial club. (Continued on Page Three) WEATHER FORECAST Fair tonight and Wednesday, with slowly rising temperature. TEMPERATURE Noon 76 Ye?.eraay. Minimum 83 j Minimum 'J-1- f Ji JJ

DEFERS APPROVAL OF THE REPORT ON

VOTING

MACHINES

Commercial Club to Take No Action on Matter Until Next Meeting. HAAS GIVES OPINION Approval of the report of the special committee of the Commercial club favoring the adoption of voting machines, accepted by the board of directors last week, was laid over until the next regular meeting of the club last night, when that organization considered the report of the special committee last night. E. M. Haas, chairman of a special committee on voting macnlnes, said reflections had been cast upon himself and other members of his committee, which he considered unfair. Mr. Haas, in explaining me attitude of the committee, said four years ago when the question of the purchase of machines was up, he, as secretary of the Commercial club, was instructed to prepare data and present it to the board of directors. He .said that he alBo wrote letters to the various counties where voting machines were used, aii of which was presented to the board of directors, and -included in a recommendation made by the board of directors to the county commissioners and county council. Action Postponed. He said that at that time the question wag voted down Dy the county and had been up several times since, with the result that each time no action was taken toward the purchase !of machines, although the recommen dation of the directors was for their purchase. "When the question came up last week for discussion," Mr. Haas said, "the board of directors just happened to be in session on Monday night previous to the meeting or the county council, and I reported the matter to the board on that nignt, recommending that the former action of the board on the question of voting machines again be made. The board acted favorably on my recommendation and all the information, together with the recommendations, were forwarded to the county commissioners and county council." Takes Exception. R. G. Leeds took exception to the report of the committee on the ground that a thorough investigation had not been made or the committee could not have made a report in favor of the purchase of voting machines. Mr. Leeds said that an investigation of this kind should be made strictly upon a business basis and with a view to flinding out if the machines would be a real saving to the county. Mr. Leeds cited figures on the ex pense of machines in Marion county. whicn showed that the average cost of Imachines there was $77.00 per nremachines tnere was 5 7.00 per precinct. He said the figures, which the county auditor had presented to the commissioners, did not include the items of depreciation and interest, which should always be taken into consideration in determining the saving. Bowman Replies. Mr. Jordan and Mr. Bowman both took exception to .the items of interest and depreciation on the grounds that the maohines "were to be paid for out of the saving to the county, and therefore there would-be no depreciation or interest charjgesjv Mr. Jordan said tnat the, county 'never had taken into consideration in terest or depreciation charges in any of the public buildings. James A. Carr, member of the board of directors, said that he was not present at the meeting where a vote was taken on the question of machines, but he favored further time to make J an investigation. Adam H. Battel also to investigate. After a general discussion it was unanimously decided to lay the whole matter over until the next meeting of the club. John Robbins. a former prominent attorney of Richmond and now connected with a large law firm at Indianapolis, county attorney for years when he lived here, said that he was unalterably opposed to the introduction of voting machines in this, his home comity. "I fought the machines when the question came up severs times before when I was county attorney," said Mr. Robbins, "and nothing has transpired since to cause me to have any Continued on Page Tea. i

PASSES STRINGENT CITY ORDINANCE ON HEALTH PROTECTION

Council Puts Through Bill Improving Methods of Gathering Garbage. DAVIS MAKES DRAFT Mayor Zimmerman May Attempt to Keep Richmond . as Fourth Class City. EPITOME OF COUNCIL, Garbage ordinance passes after months of study and debate. Salary ordinance, covering next four years, fails to pass. Mayor asks council's help in keeping Richmond fourth class city. Council endorses report of "Lookout" committee to fill cut through park. Two ordinances providing additional appropriations and transfers pass. Council decides to investigate two proposed improvements in South Richmond. The most stringent ordinance for the protection of the public health and comfort and for the prevention of the dissemination of disease, was passed last night by city council after months of debate and study. The salary ordinance for the next four years failed to pass because of a split over the salaries of three minor city officers. The new ordinance . concerns the gathering of garbage, the elimination of fly breeding places, the cleanliness of the streets and alleys and provides heavy fines for failure to comply with sections of it. Given Thorough Study. The bill for the ordinance was drafted by Dr. T. Henry Davis and City Attorney Bond after council and the board of health had thoroughly studied the matter. It is a combination of several other ordinances which were rejected by council as being too small in scope. Councilmen have tried to find some means of preventing the alleys from being littered with trash and garbage. The new ordinance makes compulsory the placing of garbage in water tight receptacles. Another feature of the ordinance, which will be closely enforced, is the section which makes unlawful to place garbage and trash receptacles in the alleys and demands that these be placed on the premises of the owners. Davis, who has held the position of city health officer for 36 consecutive years stated that when he went into office, the city officials were wrestling with the same problem of "wet and dry" garbage as now confronts the present council. "The best plan I have ever heard of" said the health officer, "is to require that all garbage be drained and wrapped in paper. The paper bundles are much easier to collect and dispose of than loose garbage. Alleys Will Be Cleaner. Dr. Davis explained that the lack of previous legislation prevented council from passing even more stringent laws regarding the collection of garbage. He stated that this ordinance is not expected to stand for more than three years, when another ordinance will be passed which is expected to eventually cause this city to be one of the cleanest and healthiest in this section of the state. The ordinance will be printed in pamphlet form and will be distributed by the garbage gatherers. It will be enforced by the police and Sanitary Inspector Young. It goes into effect at once, but officers have been requested to allow the citizens a short time to become acquainted with the measure. If it is found that more garbage wagons are needed, the city officials act accordingly. It is expected that the crematory coal bill and the cost of cleaning the alleys will be materially decreased at the end of the year by the enforcement of the law. Arguments About Salaries. A motion of Councilman Evans to increase the salaries of the city meat inspector, sealer of weights and measures and the superintendent of the crematory started a series of arguments and when brought to a vote resulted in a tie. Mayor Zimmerman killed the motion by voting against it and as a. result the ordinance was left over until the next meeting. Councilman King started the contention by voting to increase the salary of Superintendent William Whitacre of the crematory to 1900 from $720. He stated that the salary of this officer has been "accidentally overlooked" In making the increases in salaries. However, City Attorney Bond denied that the city officers overlooked this salary in making the increases but stated that it had been considered r Continued on Page Three

Injured Persons Are" Rushed to Th 's City; Medical Aid is Given

Persons Living Near Scene of Accident Declare That New Rails Had Just Been Placed, and That No Crossbar had been Laid as a Precaution Against Spreading of Rails Women Passengers Escape Miraculously.

BADLY INJURED PLACEED ON IMPROVISED BEDS IN BAGGAGE CAR OF RELIEF TRAIN

Through "24-hour" passenger train No. 31, on the Pennsylvania railroad was wrecked at Wiley's Station, O., about four miles east of New Paris this morning, probably fatally injuring three men and injuring scores of passengers and members of the train crew. fi. spreading rail is said to have been the cause of the accident which would have been the most horrifying in the history of the Southwest system of the railroad had not all the coaches been steel. f After the engine left the rails, hurling a culvert clear across a dry stream bed, the coaches were thrown in all directions to the north of the roadbed and all were overturned except the two rear Pullmans. These also left the rails. i Injured in Club Car. Most of the injured were in the club car! which was just back of the combination mail and baggage car. Of the thirty-three people in that coach, all men, only one escaped uninjured. Most of them received only slight bruises, but several were badly cut about the head and body. Several persons who were In the dining car were severely injured. Only one passenger in the Pullmans was Injured, George Wright, a Kansas City manufacturer, enroute ' home from New York, where the train left at 6:30 o'clock last night. Wright is believed to be, fatally injured. He is an old man and besides receiving Injuries, sustained a severe shock. A remarkable feature of the wreck was that only two women on the train were injured. The relief train returned to Richmond about 2 o'clock this afternoon and the most seriously injured were taken to the hospital In waiting ambulances. Perfect self-possession was shown by all the passengers and the least seriously injured and those who had escaped without receiving any hurts, assisted in caring for t&ose who bad received severe injuries. The badly injured were placed on improvised beds in the baggage car of the relief train. Those who received slight injuries were placed in the day coaches of the train after they had received first aid treatments. L. Jones of St. Louis, a passenger, stated that a farmer who lives near the scene of the wreck, told him that new rails had recently been laid on the road ted and that it had been freshly ballasted. The farmer also told him, Jones stated, that the rail which spread had no angle bar attaching it to the adjoining rail and that the rail had been held in place only by one bolt. The farmer stated that he had noticed this defect just a short time before the wreck. As the train was traveling about 80 miles an hour when the wreck occurred, it ft believed that this insecure rail was displaced by the vibration of the approaching train. Threw Culvert Around. When the engine left the rails it struck the east end of the culvert which leads over a small branch, with such impetus that the culvert was thrown clear across the branch, the east end of the structure dropping into the creek bottom on the west bank, and the west end of the structure being high in the air. Miraculous Escape. After smashing the culvert this terrific blow the engine rolled down the south side of the embankment and turned over. Engineer Rogers and Fireman Clark were not thrown out and that they escaped being killed outright is regarded as miraculous. The coaches were thrown into the field to the north of the roadbed. Had they not been of steel there is not the slightest reason to doubt they would all have been telescoped. As it was, the terrific strain they were subjected to by the engine's collision with the culvert only served to throw tem off the track. They were all considerably damaged except the two rear Pullmans. Persons in those two cars stated they Hardly noticed the force of the collision and were not thrown from their seats. People In the coaches which were overturned were rolled about and received their injuries from coming to contact with seats and from flying glass. A short time after the wreck a relief train - with physicians laft Rich

mond and they were soon at work i ministering to the injured, assisted by

four New Paris physicians who went to the wreck in automobiles. Injured Brought Here. The relief train returned to Richmond about 2 o'clock this afternoon and the most seriously injured were taken to the hospital in waiting ambuI lances. j Perfect self possession was shown by all the passengers and the least sej riously injured and those who had es caped without receiving any hurts assisted in caring for those who had received severe injuries. The badly injured were placed on improvised beds in the baggage car of the relief train. Those who received slight injuries were placed in the day i coaches of the train after they had received first aid treatments. Curious Crowds There. Five hundred curious persons awaited in front of the Union station from noon until shortly before 2 o'clock for the rescue train bearing the passengers on to this city. In order to keep back the crowds, ropes were stretched at tne order of Station Master Mayhew and a force of policemen were on hand to keep the way clear for the attendants who carried the injured on stretchers from the baggage car to the ambulances waiting outside. Every ambulance in the city was pressed into service., but their number was insufficieat and several were compelled to make second trips from the hospital to the station. One undertaker had sent a hearse with a spring cot which was used to transport some of the injured. Hurled Twenty Feat. A St. Louis traveling man, who declined to give his name, stated that he was riding on the observation platform at the time of the accident. He was hurled twenty feet into the car, but escaped uninjured. "For some time after it happened there were no doctors to be had, so some of us broke into the dining car and got a lot of butter which we used to give relief to those who suffered from scalds and burns. "In one of the coaches there was an old gray bearded man sitting on the floor, suffering from a deep cut on his forehead. I wanted to assist him from the car, but he said that he was all right where he was, and that if I would find his glasses for him, he could take care of himself. W. H. Wiley, a farmer living a quarter of a mile from the scene of the wreck, beard the crash of the engine striking the culvert and at once ran to see what was the cause of terrible uproar. He said that all he could see was a cloud of dust and escaping steam. ! He said he knew at once that No. 31 ! had been wrecked and ran at once to !his house and telephoned in the information to the towerman at New Paris, who promptly notified Richmond of- ; flees of the company. Wiley then went to the assistance of the passengers. When he saw how serious the wreck was he telephoned the New raris tower again to send all physicians who could be secured. Fireman Tharp was taken to the Wiley home where he will be cared for until he can be removed. It is not believed his injuries will prove fatal. Wiley stated that it was fully thirty minutes before help arrived on the scene. Besides Richmond and New Paris physicians several from New Madison and Greenville assisted the injured. Crack Pennsy Train. Known as the "Twenty-rour Hour St. Louis Train No. 3L" the train is (one of the fastest operated between New York City and St. Louis. It carries no day coaches, and stops only long enough in Richmond to take cn passengers. The train leaves New York at 6:30 o'clock in the evening, passes through here at 10:12 the following morning, and is due at St. Louis in the evening at 5:25 o'clock. Intent for speed and comfort, the train maintains a high rate of speed on the entire run. Two Women Were Injured. All the colored porters and dining car waiters and cooks were injured most of them very painfully. They were all in the dining car at the time preparing to eat their lunch. One of them' said that just before the smash they felt a jolt and then the car left the rails, rolling over three times. Mrs. Jerome Casey and young son, of St. Louis, passengers, were also in tie dining car at the time of the

LIST OF INJURED:

PROBABLY FATALLY HURT. J. W. Tharp, internally Injured, eyts lost. Fireman, Columbus, O. George B. Wright, hip hurt. Internal injuries, probably fatal. Manufacturer. St. Louis. George Walker, scalded and cut; probably fatal. Chief cook, Columbus, Ohio. SLIGHTLY INJURED. v IV F Aull. bruises. Mall clerk, Richmond. John Rector, double fracture of leg and badly scalded and bruised; stoker. Columbus. O. R. H. Morgan, knee hurt. Porter of club car. Jersey city. A. 11. Gladden, side and knee hurt. Porter. Jersey City. James Potter, hand rut and bruised. Porter, Jersey City. O. K. Wenrick. bruised and cut. Mail clerk, Indianapolis. M. L. Althimer. rut about head. little Rock, Ark. F. M. Dickerman. cut and bruised. Mail clerk. Indianapolis. J. M. Minnix. leg injured. Mall clerk, Greenville, O. C. E. Metier, body bruised. Mall clerk. Piqua. O. J. G. Moody, shoulder and hand cut. i Baggage man, Columbus, O. li. C. Sway tee, cut about head. Passenger. Indianapolis. Walter M. Turner, side hurt. Porter, Columbus. I. E. Rogers, head cut. Engineer, Columbus, O. 1). A. DeWltt, bruised. Passenger, j Dallas. Tex. j James Porter, left arm cut. Porter, Columbus, O. D. Miller, scalp wound. Passenger, j Little Rock. Ark. j A W. Grietsen. chin cut. Passenger, j Baltimore. Marie Lee, scalp wound; maid, Jersey City. j Earl Curtis, fractured rib, waiter, St. Louis. Riley Jones, cut and bruised, waiter, St. Louis. Theodore Jones, cut and bruised, second cook. St. Louis. E. McCowan, bruised head and arms, porter, St. Louis. II. W. Ewlng. scalp wound, passenger, Columbus. II. A. Wilson, scalp wound, waiter, Columbus. R. W. Schruber, hip broken and internal Injuries, ' passenger, Brooklyn. Mrs. Jerome Casey, Internal Injuries, passenger, St Louis. One colored maid, name unknown, tongue split. wreck. Mrs. Casey was probably Internally Injured, but the boy escaped without any injuries. The only other woman hurt in the wreck. Maria Lee. of St. Louis, a colored maid on the club car. was also In the diner when it was wrecked. A Plucky Engineer. Engineer Rogers after the wrecfc crawled out of his overturned engine through a window, his head and face streaming with blood, and promptly asked a man who rushed to assist him for a stogie. After he had submitted to having his head bandaged he went to his badly injured fireman, who was delirious from a blow on the head and cheered him up with joking remarks about their narrow escape from death. Rogers was the coolest one of the wreck victims. PLANS TO SECURE FUND F0RC0MPAHY Directors of R. & E. Traction Line Hold a Special 4 Meeting. t To consider the proposition of O. M. Packard and T. H. Hazelrlgg for the construction of the proposed Richmond & Eastern traction line, the directors of the company held a special meeting this morning. Mr. Haxelrigg. a promoter, says that he can secure the funds with which to build the road, and proposes an extent ion to the line which the local company has had surveyed. The extension would connect South Bend Cincinnati, passing through Logansport, Portlsnd. Union City, Richmond. Liberty and Brookville. The line which the company had planned had its ter- ; minals at Portland and Liberty. Capitalists in London and Paris, Mr. Hazelrlgg thinks, would be induced to .finance the road. He has ben comtmunicating with them for some time. and expects to make a trip as soon as he has a definite proposition to make them. Mr. Hazelrlgg submitted his sealed proposal to the directors this afternoon. To consider its terms and to investigate the plans, a special meeting of the directors will be called soon. Mr. Hazelrlgg Is a former Richmond man. KRONE DELEGATE TO RED MEN MEET Fred Krone is In Washington, D. C as one of the Indiana delegates to the great sun session of the Red Hen of the United States. The conclave will last a week, x-i