Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 1, 1907, Page 4

Get Your Offi_ce Sup % 0. M. OLSON'S MIND IS TEMPORARILY DERANGED Ex-Postmaster of Northome Is Acting Queerly.—Taken to Grand Rapids. O M. Olson, ex-postmaster of Northome and at present deputy sheriff of Itasca county, has became mentally deranged and was today brought down trom Northome and taken to Grand Rapids. where he will be placed in a hospital for treatment by a local physician, in the hope that the ailment is but temporary and relief can be had without commitment to| the asylum. For some time prior to the late primary election, Olson had at times appeared a little *‘off” in his mental balance. He rc-; sigoed his position as postmaster at Northome and entered the field as a candidate for the re- pu-lican nomination for sheriff of Itasca county. He was de-; feated at the polls, and the defeat weighed heavily on his mind. He imbibed rather freely of liquor and his mind grad- ually became effected. About two weeks ago he was taken ill with what appeared to be lagrippe. He grew worse, men- tally, and at times during the past week has been very vio- lent, at times the services of four men being required to quiet him. It was finally decided to send him to Grand Rapids for treatment and if he does not immediately improve, it is more than likely that the sanity board of 1tasca county will pronounce him insane and he will be com- mitted to the asylum at Fergus Falls, Olson is well kuown in this north country and universally liked, and his unfortunate ail- ment will cause general regret. He has a wife and several chil- dren living at Northome. Chinese Gambler’s Penance. A Chlnese cook named Chin Kan had been engaged by a wealthy Chinese in Ho In street in Canton. All the money he earned had been lost In gambling. On one occasion his master paid him some money for the provislons he sup- | plied. The cook lost all the money at | one stake. Finding that»his debts were accumulating day by day, on the twenty-fourth day he went into the kitchen and chopped off the forefinger of his left hand as a self punishment and warning In order to relinquish this evil habit of gambling in the future. He became unconscious through the ! paln, but was brought round agaln in & few minutes.—Singapore Times. HATT 1. JOHNSON'S Is by Far the Best Blood Purifier and Rheumatism Cure Ever Offered. People suffering v.ith RHEUMA- TISM, KIDNEY TROUBLE, CA- YOUR MONEY REFUNDED If you are not satistied on taking half a bLottle. Could anything be fairer? ) fald Guarcnteed by Barker’s Drug Store. NATIVES PLAY “CAT'S CRADLE." American Game Popular In the Wilds of Africa. New York, Jan. 1.—Professor Fred- erick Starr, who holds the chair of anthropology at the University of Chi- cago, has returned from a visit to the Congo Free State, where he spent fif- teen months and traveled over 20,000 miles in his search for information regarding the natives, principally the pigmy races of that section. He re~‘ ported that the most wonderful dis- covery he made was that the Congo natives know how to play “cat’s cra- dle,” the game known to all the chil- dren of this country. The professor spent much time in finding that the natives had 100 different forms of that game. He also studied the natives along the Kafai and Batau rivers, where the people average 3 feet 10 inches in height. Startling Developments Promised. Edinburgh, Scotland, Jan. 1.—A warrant has been issued for the arrest of the driver of the express train wrecked at Arbroath Dec. 28, re- sulting in the loss of twenty lives and in about thirty persons being injured. The law officers have been searching- ly investigating the cause of the dis- aster and startling developments are said to be promised at the board of trade inquiry. Railroads Abolish Rebates. London, Jan. 1.—Under the agree- ment which becomes operative at once all private rebates to shippers are abolished by all the railroads in the United Kingdom. This agreement has been signed by all the chairmen and under its provisions any company- giv- ing rebates to secure traffic is liable to a heavy fine, payable to the railway clearinghouse. Robbers Secure $20,000. Kansas City, Jan. 1.—The police profess to believe that the murderer of Thomas W. Fanning, the aged re cluse who was found dead in his home in the southeastern part of the city, took $20,000 in government securities or currency and gold, supposed to have been kept in an old chest. It is known that he never placed his money in banks. Convicted State Senator Dined. Eureka Springs, Ark., Jan. 1.—Ex- State Senator F. O. Butt of this city was given a farewell reception by the citizens of Eureka Springs just prior to his departure for Little Rock to surrender himself to the authorities and begin his prison sentence of twc years for bribery. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. A gift of $50,000 from Andrew Car- negie has been announced by Pres ident George C. Chase of Bates col lege. Former President Grover Cleveland, who has been ill for a week at his home in Princeton, N. J., is improving slowly. George B. Young, for more than thirty years one of the foremost law- yers in Minnesota, is dead at St. Paul, aged sixty-six. Baroness Burdett-Coutts, one of England’s greatest and most famous philanthropists, is dead in London, aged ninety-two. There will be distributed during the first month of the new year in New York city interest and dividends ag: gregating over $200,000,000. Rev. Dr. Joshua Allan Lippincott, widely known in the East and Middle ‘West both as a divine and as an edu cator, is dead at Los Angeles, Cal. Upward of $43,000,000-has been paid for diamonds and other precious stones imported at New York in the present year, as shown by figures com. piled by the customs authorities. General John Walker Barriger died suddenly at the depot of the New York and Long Branch railroad at Asbury Park, N. J,, from heart disease. Gen- eral Barriger was seventy-five years of age. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Dec. 31.—Wheat—Dec., 73%ec; May, 77c. Corn—Dec., 39%c; May, 43% @43%ec. Oats—Dec., 33%%c; May, 80@36%c. Pork—Jan.,, $15.80; May, $16.37%. Butter—Creameries, 22@31c; dairies, 20@27c. Eggs—21w 24c. Poultry—Turkeys, 10@11c; chick- ens, 10c; springs, 10c. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, Dec. 31.—Cattle—Beeves, $4.10@6.80; cows and heifers, $1.65@ 5.10; stockers and feeders, $2.50@ 4.60; calves, $6.00@8.50. Hogs—Mixed and butchers, $6.16@6.42%; good heavy, $6.30@6.45; rough heavy, $6.00 @6.15; light, $6.06@6.37%; pigs, $5.50 6.15. Sheep, $3.75@5.80; lambs, $4.60 @7.75. ”j‘u To All Our stomers We Wish a Happy New Year ROE @ MARKUSEN. “ LARGEST ON RECORD ' CUSTOMS RECEIPTS AT PORT OF NEW YORK FOR YEAR 1906 NEARLY $210,000,000. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS INCREASE AGGREGATE FOR THE TWELVE MONTHS IN NEIGHBORHOOD OF $1,400,000,600. New York, Jan. 1.—All previous records of collectioas of customs in the port of New York were surpassed during the year of 1906. Statistics made public by Collector Stranahan show the amonnt to have been $209,- 909,385, an increase of $26,147,301 over the year 1905, which in itself was a record. The figures also show a big increase in both imports and exports of merchandise. Imports for the year aggregated $776,142,709, as compared with $712,791,497 in 1905. The total domestic exports amounted to $617, 062,978, as against $545,923,536 In the previous year. Domestic merchandise valued at $14.365,500 was sent to Porto Rico during the year, as compared with $12,811,874 in 1905. The month of December of 1906 surpassed all other months for the amount of duties collected. During the month $19,950,000 has been col- lected, $3,700,000 more than the cor- responding month of 1905, which month was a record brealker. MANY ARRESTS MADE. St. Petersburg Police Round Up Scores of Terrorists. St. Petersburg, Jan. 1.—Acting on information furnished by a traitor the police during the last few days cap- tured over 100 leaders and members of the St. Petersburg military organi- zation of the Social Democrats, who were conducting a propaganda in the army and navy. Among those taken into custody was the editor of a se- cretly published paper entitled the Barracks, twenty-five soldiers and sev- eral women. The police also arrested many members of an important group of terroristic Social Revolutionists and captured, according to a report, a list of twenty-seven high officials who had been sentenced to death. " Finally, it is asserted, that the police accidentally obtained information which frustrated a plot to blow up a number of per- sons at a conference which was to be held iu the near future. SIX MORE PEOPLE KILLED. Skirmishes Continue to Take Place at Lodz, Russian Poland. Lodz, Russian Poland, Jan. 1.— Skirmishes resulting in occasional fa- talities continue to take place between the Socialist and Nationalist factions. During the night six persons were killed or wounded. A funeral proces- sion which was escorting the bodies of four of the murdered Nationalists to the cemetery was attacked by a Socialist, who shot and killed one mourner, wounded two others and dis- persed the cortege. An appeal of Socialists to French labor unions to help the unemployed elicited the reply that owing to the lack of funds the unions were unable to be of any assistance. CASE HAS BEEN APPEALED. Receivers for Railroad Ousted After Brief Possession. Mobile, Ala.,, Jan. 1.—F. E. Dewey and J. L. Dantzler, who were recently appointed receivers of the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City railroad, have been ousted from possession of the property on an order issued from the chancery court. The action superseding the action of Dec. 26 was due to the fact that an application for an appeal was-made to the supreme court. The bonds in the case were fixed at $100,000. The old management, which was ousted on ‘Wednesday night last, has again as- sumed charge of the property. FOR PERSONAL INJURIES. California Jury Renders Verdict of $100,000. Fresno, Cal, Jan. 1.—The jury in the case of Willard Zibbell against the Southern Pacific company gave a judgment against the railroad for $100,000. This is said to be the larg- est verdict ever rendered in the Unit- ed States for personal injuries. In July, 1905, Zibbell, who is a race- horse driver, was struck by a box car : moving in the freight yards without a i hand, his left leg at the hip and his i right foot. HIS SLEEP DISTURBED. Otherwise King Oscar’s Condition Is Unchanged. Stockholm, Jan. 1.—King Oscar did not pass a good night. The bulletin Issued by his physicians says his sleep {was disturbed and that his tempera- ture is about the same. His condition otherwise is unchanged. General Hiram Schofield Dead. Seattle, Wash.,, Jan. 1.—General Hiram Schofield of Washington, Ia., Is dead at the residence of his daugh- ter, Mrs. Charles Patterson of Seattle, at the age of seventy-seven. General Schofield served with the Union army throughout the Civil war and was BATTLE BELOW THE RIVER. Workmen in New York Tunnel Engage in Deadly Fight. New York, Jan. 1.—Far below the surface of the earth in an airlock of the McAdoo tunnel under the North river two men fought until one of them was stretched out unconscious with a fracture of the skull which may cause his death. When a patrol man who had been called to the mouth of the tunnel by the report that there had been a fight down in the depths was lowered into the caisson he found seven men standing around the pros- trate form of John Lundening. Soon after the policeman arrived the in jured man recovered consciousness for a moment and pointed at Chris- topher F. Lynch as his assailant. He sald that Lynch struck him over the head with a pick handle. The cause of the trouble between the men could not be learned. Nearly half an hour was consumed in removing the wounded man and the policeman and his prisoner from the tunnel. They were obliged to pass through three airlocks, where the heavy atmospheric pressure under which the men work in' the lower tun- nel is gradually reduced. When the party reached the surtace Lundening was sent to a hospital and Lynch to a police station. SHORTER DAY REFUSED. Eight Black Hills Mines Close Down Indefinitely. Deadwood, S. D. Jan. 1.—Eight mining companies, all producers, have closed indefinitely on account of the demand for eight hours, which the op- erators were unable to meet. This means that these properties, which produced fully $1,500,000 last year, will all be closed down for an indefi- nite time. This production would have been largely increased during the coming year on account of the completion of new mills and the en- larging of old ones. The companies which will shut down because of this are the Mogul, Golden Reward, Da- kota, Reliance, Imperial, Portland and Clinton, Lundburg Dorr and the Wasp No. 2. Four of these properties were dividend payers and most of the oth- ers were in a fair way to become so. WILL TESTIFY IF WANTED. Family of Mrs. Thaw Ready to Go on the Stand. Pittsburg, Jan. 1l.—According to the statement of Charles J. Holman, whose wife is the mother of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, it will not be necessary for District Attorney Jerome of New York to send to Pittsburg for Mrs. Holman’s deposition for use in the trial of Harry K, Thaw. Mr. Holman announced that his wife, their son Howard and himself would be in at- tendance at the trial ready to give any information desired. “l have certain letters bearing on the case locked up in a safe deposit vault,” said Mr. Holman. “The na- ture of these letters,” he continued, “cannot be disclosed at this time ex- cept to say that the contents are high- , light and he lost his left arm, his right | commended for distinguished service. e e . ly important.” NEGRO SERVANTS LET OUT. Result. of Attempted Poisoning at Houston, Tex. Houston, Tex., Jan. 1.—A sup- rosed attempt to assassinate Mrs. L. H. McGregor, the wife of Representa- tive-elect McGregor, and the announce- ment that members of the family of F. Charles Hume had been poisoned has led many Houston householders to discharge their negro servants. A negro man, who was a servant in the McGregor home, is under arrest charged with shooting into the dining- room of the McGregor home. The bul- let narrowly missed Mrs. McGregor's head. The shooting followed a rebuke to the negro’s wife, who was em- ployed as a cook for the McGregors. The police are now investigating the alleged poisoning of the Hume family. PASSENGERS ROBBED OF $800. Two Masked Men Go Through Sleep- ing Car. Richmond, Va,, Jan. 1.—Near La Crosse, Va., on the Seaboard Air Line, the passengers in the sleeper of train 81 were held up and robbed of about $800, besides jewelry. The robbers, two in number, got on at Richmond as passengers and one remained in a day coach while the other went through the sleeper. The Pullman conductor, while attempting to arrest the man robbing his passengers, was shot through the arm by the robber. The man then pulled the emergency brake cord, stopped the train and with his confederate escaped to the woods. KILLED DURING FLIGHT. Rajah of Goa and Six Followers Top- ple Over Precipice. The Hague, Jan. 1.—The famous rajah of Goa, island of Celebes, Dutch East Indies, who had for many years caused trouble to the government au- thorities, has been found dead in a ravine. A Dutch punitive force dis- Christmas day, but the chieftain fled with half a dozen followers. During his flight the rajah and his compan- fons toppled over a precipice into a ravine and the whole party were killed. Severe Weather in Germany. Berlin, Jan. 1—Unusually cold weather continues to prevail through- ,out Germany, the temperature regis- (tering 5 to 10 degrees below zero. i Five persons have been ,frozen to death in the vicinity of Thorn, West Prussia, and other deaths from the cold are reported from various parts ! of the country, generally the result of Deople losing their way in the storm. covered the rajah’s stronghold on | plies at the Bemidji P Most Complete Stock West of Duluth lank Books, Ledgers, Journals, Etc., Stationery, Christmas Stickers, 1907 Diaries, Typewriter Paper, Scrap Books, Lead Pencils, Pens, Holders, Ink Wells, Etc. T T Legal Blanks, Copy Holders, Calendar Pads, Document Files, Note Books, Time Books, Scale Report Books, Trial Balanoe Books, Rulers, Erasers, Rubber Stamps and Pads, Fountain Pens, Letter Copy Books, P; Cli Kneaded Rubber Squares, Township Plats in ook form, it Biottors. L HORE PAY FOR SOLONS SENATE SUB-COMMITTEE FAVORS FIFTY PER CENT INCREASE OF SALARIES. UPPER HOUSE TO VOTE ON PROPOSAL POSSIBILITY THAT ADVANCE TO SPEAKER AND OTHERS MAY BE REVOKED. ‘Washington, Jan. 1.—The sub-com- mittee of the senate committee on ap- propriations, which for the last week has been considering the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill with the view of getting it in shape for the full committee, has con- sidered the question of increasing the salaries Of senators and members of the house of representatives and while no unalterable programme has been agreed upon it now seems prob- able that the sub-committee will rec- ommend an advance of 50 per cent on congressional salaries. The sub-com- mittee is practically unanimous in the opinion that such an increase should be made and there is a general feel- ing that the house provision for in- creasing the salaries of the vice pres- ident, the speaker and cabinet officers should be eliminated unless a corre- sponding increase shall be secured for senators and members. Many mem- bers ol the committee are of the opin- ion that the senate should be given an opportunity to pass upon the sub- ject and will advocate the incorpora- tion of an amendment in the bill by the committee covering the entire sub- Ject. RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. Measure Will Carry $6,000,000 for New Locks at the Soo. Washington, Jan. 1.—The various sub-committees of the house commit- tee on rivers and harbors have been engaged during the Christmas recess in considering the proposed river and harbor bill and Chairman Burton is now occupied in considering their rec- ommendations. It is his opinion that the bill will be in position to be re- ported to the house by the middle of January, but so far no summary of its contents is possible. Among the more important items which it is almost sure to carry are appropriations of about $6,000,000 each for a new “Soo” lock and for alternating channels in the Detroit river. It is also quite cer- tain that a somewhat smaller sum will be secured for the deepening of the harbor at Boston and that liberal sup- plies for the Delaware and Mississippi rivers will be voted. There is an effort on foot to increase the annual appropriation for the Mississippi to $3,000,000 and it may succeed HELD UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Federal Court Passes on Employers’ Liability Act. Loulsville, Jan. 1.—Judge Walter Evans, in the federal court here, has declared the employers’ liability act unconstitutional. The decision was given in the case of the administratrix of N. C. Brooks vs. the Southern Pa- cific raflroad and is believed to be the first handed down in connection with this act. The alleged cause of action occurred in Kansas. The husband of the plain- tift was kicked in a railroad accident and suit was brought under this act for $25,000° damages and an amount sufficient to cover the cost of expenses incident to death. The court holds in brief that the act In effect would reg- ulate commerce within the states as well as Interstate commerce and is therefore unconstitutional. WOULD REVIVE BOYCOTT. Anti-American Mass Meeting at Can- ton, China. Hongkong, Jan. 1.—Dispatches re- ceived from Canton report that more than 1,000 persons were present at a meeting held to discuss the American- Chinese exclusion act. The following resolutions were adopted at the meet- ing: First—To revive a boycott against American goods. Second—That newspapers shall not advertise American manufactures. Third—To dissuade laborers from proceeding to Panama. Fourth—To petition the viceroy ask- ing the imperial government to nego- tiate with America for a modification of the exclusion act and, lastly, that these resolutions be placarded through- out the country. CONTROL WATER _RATES, Railroads Able to-Maintain Non-Com- petitive Tariffs. Chicago, Jan, 1.—A dispatch to the Tribune from Washington says: That the country is in the monopo- listic grip of railroads is established more clearly than ever by an investi- gation Commissioner of Corporations Garfleld is making into the effect of water transportation on railroad rates. The facts unearthed demonstrate that the railroads have their hands upon the water transportation, both inland and coastwise, and that a working ar- rangement even exists with ocean steamship companies. The ability of railroads to maintain non-competitive rates and to discriminate between dif- ferent sections of the courntry thus becomes apparent. Fine quality colored Blotters, Letter Copy Presses, LA Waste Paper Baskets, Rubber Type Outfits, Staplers, Paper Knives, &¢ and Fasteners, Rubber Bands, Letter Files, Invoices, Typewriter Supplies, Postal Scales, l | RIFLES AND GUNS LANDED. Blg Shipment Secretly Received at Pinar del Rio. Havana, Jan. 1.—The statement is made here that several thousand rifies and machine guns reported to have been landed recently in Pinar del Rio province and idden in the woods near Mariel have been as secretly taken away. The recent movement of troops and police, which was consid- ered mysterious in the light of Gov- ernor Magoon’s statement that there was no fear of a rising in Cuba, is explained by this announcement, as it is now known that the movement was in the nature of a search for the arms, The possibility of a clash between Cubans and American troops is con- sidered remote, as their relations are good. The natives, however, are plot- ting against one another. 3 Just who is responsible for the shipment of the grms into Cuba is not known. One theory is that the arms ‘were purchased by the former Lib- eral junta in New York and shipped too late to be used in the last move- ment. It is feared that the arms are now in the possession of the negroes in the province. There are indications that it is go- ing to be difficult to repress disorder by the growing bands of negroes who are burning cornfields and tobacco barns, robbing estates and stealing cattle. APPEAL DIRECT TO FARMERS., Red Cross Asks Wheat and Corn for Starving Chinese. Washington, Jan. 1.—The offer of E. H. Harriman to President Roosevelt to transport on his steamship lines all supplies delivered at San Francisco and intended to relieve famine suffer- ers in China has opened the way for the American Red Cross to make an appeal direct to the farmers of the country to provide corn and wheat. The appeal for money contributions has been effective, but it is believed the greater good would come from gifts of grain now that the transporta- tion question has been met. Already the Red Cross officials in this city have suggested to Governor Cummins of Iowa that he ask the farmers of that state to make grain contributions. The call upon the gov- ernors had not been made general for the reason that the Red Cross officers were waiting to see whether it would be declared legal to use the army transport service to convey grain to the Orient. PAPAL BAN ON NEW SECT. Followers Given Twenty Days in Which to Recant. St. Petersburg, Jan. 1.—The pope has issued an encyclical pronouncing asolemn banon the new Catholic sect known as the Mariavits, who lately have spread widely in Russian Poland, and has excommunicated the founder of the new religion, a woman known as “Mother Mary Koslovskaia,” who is regarded by her followers as being the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary; a priest, Father Kovalskio, and others of the Mariavit clergy. The pontiff also threatens to excommunicate all the members of the sect unless they recant within twenty days. The encyclical, which was read in the Polish churches, has caused a deep impression. CRITICISES MAYOR DUNNE. Court May Cite Chicago’s Executive for Contempt. Chicago, Jan. 1.—Municipal Judge Cleland has taken strong issue with Mayor Dunne for his action in par- doning Joseph Wolf and his son-in-law, who were fined by Judge Cleland for keeping a gamblinghouse. The men were pardoned by the mayor at the instance of Alderman James Bowler before the sentence imposed could be carried into effect. Judge Cleland said that he was se- riously considering the citing of Mayor Dunne for contempt of court and de- clared that the executive of the city could not be permitted to override judicial action at his option. WITH SIMPLE SERVICES. Body of Alexander J. Cassatt Laid at Rest. Philadelphia, Jan. 1.—With serv- ices as simple as the rites of the Protestant Episcopal church would permit the remains of Alexander J. Cassalt, president of the Pennsylvania Rallroad company, who died suddenly last Friday, were laid at rest in the graveyard of the pretty suburban Church of the Redeemer at Bryn Mawr. Following out the desire of the railroad president and those of his widow only a small number of rela- tives and friends were present as the body was lowered Into the grave. MARRIED ON OPERATING TABLE. Victim of Stabbing Affray Weds Cause - of the Quarrel. New York,Jan. 1.—Charles Trocce, employed in Sherry’s restaurant, who on Saturday night was stabbed by an- other employe in Sherry’s Kitchen, was married on an operating table in Flower hospital to Julle Bernadl, kitchen girl at Rector’s. The stabbing occurred in a quarrel over the young ‘woman. Immediately after the ceremony Trocce was put under ether and op- erated on. The doctors think he will recover. Change of Venue Denled. San Francisco, Jan. 1.—Presiding Judge Graham has”denfed the motion made on behalf of Mayor Schmitz to withdraw from Judge Dunne’s court the cases now pending there on the indictments brought by the grand jury ; |nnd to reassign them to another de- , 1 partment. e [iFTY-THREE ARE DEAD FEARFUL LOSS OF LIFE IN BAL TIMORE AND OHIO DISASTER NEAR WASHINGTON. MORE THAN HALF HUNDRED INJURED CROWDED COACHES CRUSHED TO PIECES BY TERRIBLE FORCE OF THE COLLISION. ‘Washington, Jan. 1.—The list of dead as the result of the appalling wreck at Terra Cotta, on the Balti- more and Ohio railroad, has reached fifty-three. Inquiry at the various hospitals of the city where the in- Jjured have been taken shows a num- ber of persons whose concition is regarded as hopeless. The injured number over fifty, nearly if not quite all of whom will recover. The wreck was caused by an engine draw- ing eight empty cars running.into lo cal No. 66, known as the Frederick express, just as the passenger train had pulled out from the station bound for this city. Engineer Hildebrand, who was in charge of the “dead” train and who was arrested shortly after the disaster, declared that on -account of the dense fog he was un- able to distinguish the signal light at the Takoma Park block tation. Tower Operator Phillips declares that the danger signal was in its proper place and that Engineer Hildebrand’s train passed the tower station going at a speed of from fifty to sixty miles an hour. Among the dead are: . Colonel Robert Alderson, Newark, O.; Dr. E. Oliver Belt, Washington, chief surgeon of the Episcopal Eye, Eear and Throat hospital and surgeon for Baltimore and Ohio railroad; Professor T. J. King, Kensington, Md., organist at ‘Wesleyan M. E. church, Washington, and statistician of United States naval observatory, and Norman Rogers, thirty” years old, Marion, Ind., local traffic manager for the Central Union Telephone company. Coaches Torn to Pieces. Train No. 66 was due in Washington at 6:30. It was crowded, having fully 200 persons aboard, and was closely followed by the train of empties, run- ning as an extra freight. The fog was very thick and the operator and the railroad authorities claim the signal was set against the extra freight at Takoma. The engi- neer claims that owing to the fog he was not certain where he was and did not see the signal at Takoma. There is a down grade all the way into Washington and the empty train came at a tremendous speed. It reached Terra Cotta station just as the local train was about to pull out. The train of empties crashed into the rear coach and plowed its way through the coach, splitting it apart as if it had been paper. One side of the car toppled to one side of the track and the other fell on the other side. The train plowed its way through the second coach, piling the seats and passengers in a mass at the forward end. Six or eight people were killed in this car and a dozen were injured. After the engine struck the rear coach and split it open the people in it dropped to the track on either side and some In the middle. They were carried along by the tremendous force of the train and their bodies were dragged along the track. When the train stopped and after the work of rescue had begun five dead people were found lying on the ballast be- tween the tracks under the third coach from the engine. They had been car- ried for an eighth of a mile under- neath this coach. Villagers Work Heroically. The scene after the accident was sickening. Bodies had been hurled on every side and it was fully six hours before all the dead had been collected and placed on the special train to be brought to this city. It was only a few minutes after the col- lision until nearly all the residents of Terra Cotta, a sparsely settled village, had gathered at the scene of the dis- aster and began the work of remov- ing the dead and rescuing the injured from beneath the masses of debris. The workers labored under great difi- cultfes, for many of the injured were wedged beneath the wreckage and numbers of them died before they could be rescued. The many acts of herolsm and self-sacrifice that were performed will never be known. A detachment of forty policemen was sent from Washington and nearly fifty physicians from this city and the suburbs responded to a general call, but fully three-quarters of an hour had elapsed before the doctors were on hand to relieve the injured. For more than three hours after the fatal crash occurred the police and citizens were still taking bodies from under the great pile of wreckage, which was strewn for fully a quarter of a mile along the track. As the injured were taken from under the debris and while the physicians were giving them all the relief possible Catholic priests were administering the last rites to many of the dying. Women and children joined in the work and everything possible was done to relieve the sufferings of the injured. The officlals ,of the Baltlmore and ©Ohio railroad have begun an investiga- tlon to determine the cause of the catastrophe. )