The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 17, 1888, Page 6

{ i i | 1 nn cmcsnanaretia Bilin i ne an eee D No OVER FIFTY KILLED. Two Sections of » Loaded Excursion Tram Coliide onthe Way Home. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct. 11.—The | latest figures from the Lehigh val-| ley accident gives the killed at fifty- five and forty injured. The train which was wrecked was a special on the Lehigh Valley road which was returning from Hazeton with the Wilkesbarre delegation to | | colored woman named Clara Dickson do the Father Matthew celebration. The excursion trains from Luzerne and Lackawanna counties were in| seven sections. The fourth section, on the return home, was standing on the track at Mud Run, near Penn | house, when the following section swept around a curve and crashed intoit. The road at that point runs near the Lehigh river, and several of the broken cars rolled down the embankment and lie close to the wa- ter’s adge. Cincinnati, Oct. 14.—A Post spe cial from Wilkesbarre, Penn., says: “The Father Matthew celebration at Hazelton yesterday ended in a most frightful disaster, the like of which has never been seen before on the Lehigh Valley railroad, or indeed in this country. The wreck occurred at Mud Run, about midway between White Haven and Penn Haven Junc- tion. The first section, while stand- ing still, was run into by the second section. The last three cars of the first section, filled to overflowing, were totally wrecked and all the passengers in the rear car were kill- ed. The last two cars were tele- scoped and the passengers were cith er crushed to death or pressed against the boiler and burned to death. The scene was heart rend ing and beggars description. It was nearly six hours afterwards be- fore the first section was able to reach Wilkesbarre, the wounded be- ing conveyed in ambulances from Mill creek to thecity hospital. Pas- sengers on several sections of the train tell tales too horrible for be- lief under any other circumstances. They relate that the third section of the excursion train stood on the track a few hundred yards from Mud Run waiting for the sec- tions ahead to get out of the way. A brakeman, so they said, had been sent back with a lantern to guard the train in therear. Suddenly they saw the train approaching from the rear atahigh rate of speed. Sev- eral who were on the rear platform jumped off and escaped. One young woman sprang but seeing two little boys who were in her charge yet on the platform, she climbed back to rescue them and lost her life by her daring. In one instant the flash of the headlight illuminated the interi- or of the ill-fated car, there was a . frightful crash and the engine plunged its full length into the crowded mass of humanity. The shock drove the rear car through the next one for two-thirds of its length and the second into the third. It is not likely that a single person es- caped in the rear car. The second _ Was crowded with maimed and bleed- ing bodies and the third car.had but few passengers who escaped. The passengers throughout both trains were terribly shaken up and bruised. They soon swarmed upon the track and the full horror of the accident dawned upon them. Throngs from the two trains gathered beside the telescoped engine and car and there witnessed the most fearfnl sight of their lives. The shattered engine was pouring forth steam and streams of water which partly hid from hu- man eye many horrible sights. The hissing steam deadened the groans of those involved in the ruin. Ghast- ly white faces peered into windows to be greeted by faces more ghastly, already dead. Gripped in broken timbers some sat erect as life,staring open-eyed as if aware of the horn- le surroundings. Here a youth, stone dead, held in his arms his lit- ec SRL i into all sorts of shapes, whil lery part hung man 5 limbs. It was a slaughter pen blo j ier than a butch | { led box les. A Narrow Escape Frem Lyne Birmingham, Ala., October 10.— Engineer Brown and afreight train crew of Conductor Brantley, four men, on the Birmingham Miner- al Railroad, narrowly escaped lynch- ing this afternoon. A freight train, jn charge of Conductor Brantley and his crew, ran over and killed a at Smith’s mines, eight miles from this city. The woman was drunk and lying across the track. The en- gineer blew his whistle but did not slacken the speed of his train. The train passed over the woman, and her body was ground to fragments. The train was stopped and some of the crew took a shovel and threw the fragments of the body from the track. About 200 negro miners had witnessed the accident, and when the crew handle the woman's body in sucha manner they beeame in- dignant. Many of them were drink- ing, and nearly all armed. They surrounded the train with their pis- tols drawn, and swore they would lynch the entire crew. The crew of the train got on the engine, and a brakeman stealthily uncoupled it the train. Then Engineer Lawson pulled the throttle, and the engine started toward the city ata lively rate. A number of shots were fired at the engine as they dashed away, but no damage was done be- yond breaking the cab windows. The Superintendent of the road no- tified the crew that the first man who gave the story to the newspa- pers would lose his job, but some of the crew had already decided they wanted a job on another road. from |numerous friends. ‘would like to havean address from | him.—Clinton Democrat. i piaciioeieet eon ale tle brother, whose feet were pinion- ed. A fs ra 4 ® 7) Pp E ou a la eo B ic} & oO fos | Piles! Pile! ner who was crushed and | Sympro ty wrangled, lay at full length upon | ° rayere prostrate form of his son badly elged. When the steam and smoke eS hash from the rear car its Rheumatism and Neuralgia cured in 1to3 days tor 75 cents by Detchon’s “Mystic Cure.’? Do not suffer and waste money on other remedies. This abso lutely never tails. Sold by W. J. Lans- pDowN, Druggist, Butler, Mo. S-6m,. Judge Gantt in the Political Campaign. Judge James B. Gantt. who has received a multitude of invitations to speak this campaign, has thus far been able to fill but very few ap- pointments made for him, on ac- count of sickness in his family. Though invited also by the state committee to take part in the state campaign, he was unable to accept. However, he informed the committee that he would do what he could in the manner of loeal work, and ex- pected to make a number of speeches in this section before campaign was over. He also promised a number of his friends in the adjoining and neighboring’ counties. at their re- peated solicitations, that he would try to speak for them during the campaign.: Early in the season his wife took sick, and he has been compelled to disappoint some whom he had par- tially promised to speak to. In Cass county his friends were preparing for him to speak at Gun City, East Lynn and a number of other places. He has also been earnestly sought to speak at Jerico, Stockton, El Do- rado and other points in Cedar; at Cole Camp, Lincoln and other places in Benton; and at some place in Dade county. Besides these, Bates and Henry county have claims to hear one of their most honored ex- circuit judges. All of these places, and in addition Colhoun, LaDue, Lewis, Windsor, this county, he desires very much to speak at, but the outlook for his be- ing able do so is quite gloomy. Judge Gantt was seen by a Dem- ocrat reporter to-day, to whom he stated that he had hoped to be able to take an active part in this cam- paign, and was much disappointed thus far in not being able to do so. He hopes however, that sickness may leave his home, and he may yet be able to respond to the call of his Itching Piles. ° Clinton also 1 sr} his position would hare vetoed as he BIG ELECTION BETS. Odds Offered on Cleveland by a Mis- souri Man. | Philadelphia Times: The an- nouncement of a big bet on the re- sult of the national political contest or the serious offer of a responsible man to make one creates more com-} ment here and is received as posses- | sing more insignificance than the oracular utterance of leading states- | men of either party. This evening in the St. James hotel, among a} throng of political wranglers, it was mentioned that the night before, in Brown's famous chop house, a son of Phil Armour, the Chicago million- aire, had offered to bet $5,000 even that Harrison would be elected. In stantly Joseph K. Rickey, of Fulton, | Mo., pulled from his pocket a certi- fied check for $8,000 on the Madie} son Square bank, of this city, and) exclaimed: induce him to repeat the wager.” | Several young men made a run to- | wards the Brunswick hotel, where | young Armour is staying, but they | did not return. After waiting awhile | Rickey authorized his friends to an- | nounce that he would bet £8,000 | to $7,000 that Cleveland would be | eleeted. Coming from the man it does this bet possesses a greater significance than attaches to the ordinary wager. | Rickey, although a director of a bank in the town in which he lives, is the best known non-professional | rt With him | ng is nota sentiment. He haz- ards jis money on the face of a eoin on the speed of a horse, on the pop- ularity of a candidate, with a cool- ness born of judgment. ing man in America. Four years ago Cleveland's election. He wager- | ed altogether $30,000 on the result of that canvass and won $26,000. WHY HE IS WILLING TO BET. When asked upon what he based his prophecy of Cleveland’s election he said: “My reasons are many. In the first place, Samuel J. Tilden had an axiom that a party in power is; twenty-five per cent better off than the party not in power. If Cleve- land could win four years ago with an administration against him how can he loose now? That is the prae- tical way to look at the matter. Now everything is in his favor. Four years ago the democrats of New York City were disunited and Grant, the candidate for sheriff, received | more than 30,000 more votes than Cleveland. Now that condition of affairs is changed. I will make re- peated bets of $300 to $1,000 that Cleveland will carry New York, In- diana, New Jersey and Connecticut. I believe, and not from idle .rumor, that there will be a political revolu- tion in the northwest: and I consid- er Iowa, Ilhnois, Minnesota, Michi- gan and Wisconsin are all debatable states. 8 years ago lo., gave Garfield 40,000 majority, and four years ago I bet $1,000 it would not give Blaine 20,000 majority, and it didn’t. This may seem wild talk, but my money talks exactly as I do.” EnglishSp: n Liniment removes all hard, sof; or calloused lumps and blem- ishes trom horses. vlood spavin, curb, splints, sweeney, stifles, sprains, rore and swollen throat, coughs, etc. Save fifty dollars by use of one bottle. Warranted. Sold by W. J. Lansdown, Druggist, But- er, Mo. Tiel yr President Cleveland. It is only just to say of President | Cleveland that in the self-command, the independence, and the executive | ability which he has displayed he; has exceeded the expectation of his | political friends and disappointed his political enemies. Until he was nominated for governor of New) York in 1882 he was little known } even to the people of his own state; outside of it he was scarcely known } by anybody. His acquaintance with | public men was more limited than | Mr. Arthur's; his educational advan- tages were not of a liberal character, and yet it must be admitted by his | opponents that he has filled the of-. fice with dignity—that he has per- | formed his high duties with intelli- gence, thet he has been straightfor- ward 1 ons, and that he has not sought popularity by swim- ming with the current. Few men in | pioneers of did pension bills which must have been hastily passed or passed for party purposes. should make no friends, and would probably make many enewies. by! his vetoes of many of them, but up-| J} on careful examination he discovered that they were not meri he therefore withheld his signature. doubtless does desire, a renomina- tion. (Mr. Hayes was the only pres- rious, and from them ident who was content with a single | term.) but I have been unable to see | any indication of it in his official acts | WFARLAND BRO Keep the Largest Stock, Atthe Lowest Prices in, Harness and Saddlery, ‘or unofficial conduct. What ever else may be said j against him, he can never be charged with being a demagogue. By stal- | wart republicans he is charged with {not being governed by the civil ser- vice act; with making removals and appointments contrary to its letter and spirit. On the other hand, he is severely criticised by many demo- | crats fornot making a general sweep. | “J will give $50 to any man who | He has undoubtedly made mistakes bo} od r . ii reise of hi i " will bring young Armour here and | i0 the exorcise of his appointing and i wonder | removing power, but the should be (all things consider- ed that he has not made more. To disregard entirely the claims of party in the distribu- tion of patronage demands an inde- pendence of party fealty and a disre- gard of party obligations which no Presidext has ever felt, or ought to feel. How far to go in yielding to the claims of his party, without dis- regarding the higher claims of the nation, is an exeeedingly difficult question fora President to decide, if Mr. Cleveland, under the presaure to which he has been sub- jected, has yielded more to his party than should have been yielded, he ought not to be regarded as being greatly at fault by the advocates of civil service reform. That democrats, educaied in the old school of politics, should charge him with lukewarmness to his party, because he has not removed more republican officeholders, is natural; censure on this ground was rather to be coveted than avoided by him. No man should be nominated for the presidency whose qualifications are not unquestionable, nor one who has not rendered important service to the country in civil or military life. It certainly could not be said of Mr. Cleveland, when he was nom- inated, that his qualifications were beyond question, or that he had ren- dered very valuable service to his country, but it cannot be denied that he has discharged his manifold du- ties with singular independence and marked abililty. The republic has received no detriment by the elec- tion to the presidency.—Hon. Hugh McCullough’s Book. Eczema, Itchy, Scaly, Skin Tortures. The simple application of ‘“SwayNe’s OINTMENT,”’ without any internal medi- cine, will cure any case of Tetter, Salt Rheum, Ringworm, Piles, Itch, Sores, Pimples, Eczema all Scaly, Itchy Skin Eruptions, no matter how obstinate or long standing. It is potent, effective, and costs but a triffe. 32 1yr and The Much Villified Vampire. 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