The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 16, 1897, Page 2

PGS AD CERI Hee -sounty, was fatally hurt )Mr. Bryan he said: eh deta nee gunman moniter DEATH IN A WRECK. On the Santa Fe, Near Em-| poria, Kansas. Vwo Trains, Rooning at @ High Rate oft Speed, Crash Together—Ten Persons Known to be Dead, Others Missing. NEARLY A SCORE INJURED. | Wim. J. Bryan Hada Narrow Escape— His Coach Balanced on the Top ot the Wreck—He Crawled Out of a Car Window. Emporis, Kas, Sept. 9.—About 7:30 o'clock last night, three miles east of here, an awful wreck on the Santa Fe road occurred. The fast mail, going east, and the Mexico and California train, going west, collid- ed, and the list of dead and injured ia appalling. Tho trainmen state that the acci- dent was due to the negligence of the agent at Lung, who failed to flag No. 1, the west-bound train, as the was instructed by the dispatcher to do. The west bound train drawn by two engines was going around a a@ight curve, and met the fast mail in less than 200 feet. All three engines exploded, burl ing huge pieces of metal from 100 to 200 feet. The mail and baggage «ars of the fast mail were a total wreck. William J. Bryan was in the ‘wreck, but was uninjured. He was on his way to Iola, Kan.. where he avas to speak to-day. He was seat- ed in the smoking car on the west bound train. It careened over the vers in front and stopped, just bal ancing on top of the wreckage. Me. Bryan escaped through a ‘window, losing his baggage. He did great service in helping to carry out and care for the injured. County Attorney Butler of Chase Calling “It's all up with me, Mr. Bryan. I love you.” Mr. Bryan stooped over the dying sman and burat into tears. Said Mr. Bryan: “I have traveled ‘€bousands upon thousands of miles on railroads and I was never in a ewveck before. I can not for the life -of me see why we were not all kill vad. The scene here presented is the most terrible I haye ever ceen. It has made an impression on me that eon not leave me during my life Gme.” The railroad company soon had ‘lovtors on the ecena and the dead end injured were conveyed to Em- poria. A train bearing 17 injured was sent to Topeka, where the gen eral hospital of the road is located The explosion of the engines was simply terrible. Pieces of iron «ere thrown as far as 250 feet into acorn field, and boiler iron, rolled ap and twisted, was thrown fully as far. There is practically no two pieces of the three engines left to- gether. It is thought that had it not been for the fact that the west-bound ‘train had two engines pulling it the disaster would be still more appall- sng. The second engine, being very heavy, protected to some extent, the coaches that followed. The train must have been making at least 40 miles an hour. There wes no warping signal, and it must have been been terribly sudden, for no one felt the air brakes working. Thero was a shock as if the train bad bumped up against a stone wall. One man after getting out through @ window, said: “I thcught I was going through the fumes of hell ” After the clash and the crash the smoking car went off the rails and piled itself up in the wreck. In fact at ran over the wrecked coaches and/ ing can be found of the party send- engines, and as it ross and fell with | | ing it. the rise and fall of the wreck it wan turning upon, the sensation of pas sengers was dreadful. Nobody, knew how sova it would fall on, either side, cr go to pieces, cr be! Set oa fire ky the engine fires that | were under it. Ste m and smoke| fillen the cars and all the lights sud-! denly went out. When the people rea'ized the full extent of the great accident, the ex-| - Sitement was intenss. Some heroic Ws went to work immediately | Has on band a large amount Bates County farms at low rates of interest, and on long We inyite every Real Estate owner in Bates County that desires a new loan er t> renew an old one, to come and see ua. ————— Rates lower and terms more reasonable than : or short time. | ; ; ever before given in Bates county. FRANK ALLEN, » Secretary piace ee OOOO OOOO Oe RO ‘THE WALTON TRUST COMPANY, Of Butler, Missouri, of money to be loaned on WM. E. WALTON, President. aa ih ae i seek pach ae da eau: este PRRRAT and did noble work. A water gade was immediately formed to} prevent a conflagration. When the/ injured heard talk about fire their screams became terrible, and thrill- ing appeals were made for aid.) Stretchers were improvised, and the dead and wounded were taken from the debris One of the legs of Jim Brennan ; was torn from bis body and his en-| trails had protruded. Claud Hollis- | ter was a brave and nervy fellow. | Both of bis legs were broken and} shattered in several pleces. He | said: “Am I going to die?” When} he was assured that he would live if he would be bra.e, he said: “Am TI) not brave? Lcok at my legs dan- gling and ask me to be brave! My | God, what bas become of my com- rades?” j William Frisby, engince: of the| fast mail, whose residence is at To- | peka, was conecious until be died. He said: “I did not see the other | train until I came upon it. I turn- ed on ths air and jumped. I pre sume I can not recover from my | wounds, but I will die as bravely as Ican. I want you men to leave me} and help victims that are more for-| tunate than I am.’ | A party of travelers told of their | eccape from awful death. They | were in the rear coach of the west-} bound train. Suddenly they beard | acrash, then an explosion, then in a! moment the lights went out and| steam and gas from the coal emoke | tilled the car | They held on to their seats and | the feeling that followed was some- thing terrible. The car seemed to be pushed forward with tremendous | force, and it seemed to toss Anal raise and lower in the debris like a ship at sea. Every moment they thought it would turn over. The car finally stopped, and it began to catch fire from below. They crawl- ed through the windows uohermed | Mr. Yearout, of Emporia, follow- ed them, and a braye little lady, whose name is uvknown, followed Yearout. There were at least 50 people io that car, and so far as heard trem} none were hurt. This car actually balanced on top of the wreck, and it would have taken but very little to turn it over. Emporia, Kan., Sept. 10 —Three | more victims of Wednesday night's | awful Santa Fe disaster were found | in the derbis by the wrecking crew today. The bodies are so badly mu- tilated that identification his been impossible. These, with the death of Engineer William Frisbee at To- peka today, make the total number of killed in the wreck fifteen. Con ductor Wilsor, who is in charge of the wrecking crew, expresses the be- lief that several more bodies will be! found when the wreckage is cleared | away. Qne of the charred remains recov- ered is that of a woman. I: was, found early this afternoon. There was not enough of the body to iden- | tify except that it was a woman, as shown by the bust and coreet. A telegram wes received yesterday from Chicago, signed Goodrow, ask- ingif his wife had escaped the wreck uninjured, and it is thought , the remains may be those of the! woman inquired for. No address was given by the telegram and noth Notice.—The plans and specitica- {tions for the erection of a new | unpleasant situation church having arrived, we are now ready to consider bids from anyone who may wish to bid. |tea on building through unders —B. D Dixoy, Pastor. ed An Unpleasant Situation. An attack of chills or other malerial dicor- der without a bottle of Dr. Arthur’s Febrimel | on hand with which to care it is decidedly an Itisthe perfection of tastelese chill remedies, quick acting. th nee mildly laxstiye: a fine sromatic syrup | with an agreeable fisvor of figs. Strictir gusreateeds Price Ke. bri- | iA . | liam Jennings Bryan, ‘the head to leave him to | They ob-yed. |I have learned the | people trusted Jefferson. ‘time of Thomas Jefferson until! 1896 See commit-! Sold by MeClement | MAKES A NEW RECORD. Bryan Has a Day Without Par- allel in Kansas. SPEAKS WITH OLDTIME VIM Efforts Said to Excel His Remarkable Chicago Speech. Captures a Pickpocket.—Holds the Offender By the Throat Till the Police Come. Atchison, Kan., Sept. 10.—Wil- after captur jing the hearts of from 10,000 to 12,- | 000 persons bere to-day, caught a robber by the throat aud held him with a vicelike grip until two po- licemen bound bis hands and walked him off to jeil. The crowd shouted out “L«t us bang the pick-pocket,” when ‘hs great leader of democracy urged them with a simple shake of the law. A young man named Fentcn of Rushville, Mo, went to Mr. Bryan’s assistance, but the rob- ber struck him down with a power- ful blow and trid to get away, but in va'r. This pickpocket was a pro essiousl dressed up in the garb of a farmer but bis vernacular sbowed him to belong to the lowest class of heodiums. This was only an incident of the greatest event of its kind ever held in Kansas. Mr. Bryan made the most powerful speech of his life. His great triumph at the Chicago convention, which gave him the leadership of 6,000,000 of the best citizens in the republic, must take a second place to bis | speech of to day. That is the verdict of those who heard him at Chicago ‘and those who heard him at Atchi son. INGALLS PAYS TRIBCTE TO BRYAN. Ex Senator Icgells, who sat six feet in front of him, watching his | eloquent lips and burning eye io mut astonichment, is reported to have said: “That man is fitted for empire. He is an extraordinary genius ~ Ex Lieuteraat Governor Felt, one! of the leading republican editors of the state, said: “He isthe mest ex- traordinary man I ever listened to. sacret of the exercises over megic influence he | men; it is bis great sincerity.” As the great oratcr commenced to speak a band was heard playing “Dixie,” marching into Forest park The policemen present were ordered to stop shouted, “That band is from Mis- souri.” Mr. Bryan's great dark eyes flashed, and hesaid: ‘-J.et the band play, [ yield to it. God forbid that ' the enthusiasm of Missouri ehould | be checked at a democratic meeting. The music is now sweet in my ears | and I extead welcome to the boys of the grand old commonwealth.” BRYAN AND JEFFRSON CCMPARED. Ex-Gov. Glick, who was alao wild- ily cheered, introduced Mr. Bryan / with an elcquent tongue. “Thomas Jefferson trusted the people,” said Mr. Glick, “‘and the From the no man has received the trust of the people es did the father and founder of democracy. In 1896 Mr Bryan arose from tke masses avd became their inspicaticn and their hope. The people trust him because he knows their necessities and they believe in his honesty. I now take delight in introducing te you the ae Presi-' dent of the United States. This was the signal for the great est out-burst of cheering ever heard in Forest park. the SL af Ingalls daa Bry- the band, when someone} an’s pounding of logic, and the ef- fects manifested were marvelous. The ex Senator was present, repre- speecb, aud he was frequently heard jto remark to Gov. Riddle that the Mr. Bry-} argument was wonderful. an’s treatment of the doings of the | bimetallic delegation in England asj| a justitication of the position taken by the democratic party last year was simply unanswerable. He spoke of the causes of high prices, andj thrilled his audience with ccmpari sons. He referred to Cleveland as a of the servile attitude of Jcha G Carlisle, under the lata administra tion, compared with his attitude as the untrammeled statesman of fore - er daye, was reelly pathetic. Mr. Bryan was given a reception at the home of B P. Waggener be tween 7 and 10 o’clock, and no less than 6,000 people called there to do him honor. The lawo of Mr. Wag gener’s residence was beautifully illuminated and decorated. Mr. Bryan will leave during the night for his home in Linzoln. He will not be in Kansas again before October 1, when he speaks at at Witchita. SHOT DOWN LIKE SHEEP. Deputy Sheriffs Fire Into a Crowd of Strikers TWENTY DEAD, FIFTY WOUNDED. Tragic Crisis in the Pennsylvania Strike Situation. Hazelton, Pa, Sept. 10.—A_ terri- ble crisis was reached in the strike situation on the outskirts of Lati- mer this afternoon when a band of deputy sheriffs fired into a crowd of miners The men fell like so many sheep and the excitement sinee has been so intense that no accurate fg ures of dead aud wounded can be ebtained. Reports run from fifteen to twenty odd killed and forty or more wounded One man who reached the scene tonight counted thirteen corpses. Four other bodies lie in the moun tains between Latimer and Harleigh. Those who were not injured carned their dead and wounded friends into the woods and estimate is baftled. The bodies were found tonight oa the road near Latimer. Tha etrik- ers left Hazleton about 3:30 o'clock this afternoon aad it was their inten tion to go to Latimer. As soon as this became known a band of deputies was loaded on a trolley car and went whirling across the mountains to the scene wheie the bloody conflict followed. After reaching Latimer they left the car and formed into three companies, under Thomas Hall, H. A. Hees and Sawuel B. Price They drew up in a line at the edge of the village,with a fence and a line of houses in their rear. Sheriff Mar.io was in eatire ecm- mand; aud stood in the frcent of the line untii the strikers approached. They wereseen coming scrces the them The men drew up suddenly and listened in silence until he once mere read the riot ac‘. finished. a among the foreigners and there was aslight movement forward. Per ceiving this, the sheriff stepped to- ward them and in a determined tone forbade advance. Some one struck the sheriff ard tke next moment there was a com mand to the deputies to fire. Tie gun: of the deputies instant- ly belched forth a terrible volley The report seemed to shake the very mountainsand acryof dismay went up from the people. by surprise, and as ths men toppled and fell over each other, those who }remained unhurt stampeded. The men went dowa before the storm of bullets like tenpins and the groans of the dying and wound- éd filled the air. The excitement that followed was simply isdeseriba ble The deputies seemed to be terror strickes at the deadly execution of their guns, and seeing the living) strikers fleeing like wild aod otbers dropping to the earta, they went to} the aid of the unfortuzate whom they bad brought down. The people of Latimer jpell mell to the scene, te shrieks of the wounded ithe eries of the sympats | half crazed inhabitasts. Areporier who soon sfterward reached the scene found the road leading to Latimer filled with groups | of frightened Hungarians. Some surrounding dying companions, and | rasbed | but the downed; g and A Times correspondent watched | others fearful of pursuit, clung to; + senting the New York Journal, but) the band on his pencil ceased to act. early in the course of the great so-called democrat, ard his treatment | ridge, and Martin went out {o meet} hed | Th's! low muttering arose! The strikers were taken entirely | Nutritious. Cup. Asse alutety 3 uce—Deliciogs ss thaa One Cent a DORC the neweomer and bezged his pro- | tection. At Arley’s hotel there men lying on the poarch ; been shot in the head. W. O, JACKSON, LAWYER, BUTLER, - - were two Both had MO. Will practice in all the courts, FIFTY-ON ONE YEARS A MINISTER. a Smith & Francisco, LAWYERS, Office over Bates County Bank. Butler, Missouri. Alexander Procter, of the Independence, | Mo., Christian Church Retires. 4 Independence, Mo., Sept. 6 —Af-| ter fifty ore years’ active service as a minister of the Christian Church in Missouri and thirty-seven years as pastor of the Christian Church at | Independence, Elder Alexander Procter was retired from active ser- vice today by vote of his church. The action was in response to his | ~~ own request that a younger man be | A. W. THURMAN, given the responsibilities which have | ATYORNEY-AT-LAW, bent bis shoulders. Rev. James | win practice in all the courts. Ofice over Vernon, of Henderson, Ey., was Bates County Bank, Butler, Mo. (tf) called as pastor, and will take charge | = next month | RAVES & CLARK, Alexander Procter is the leader of | | ATTORNEYS AT LAW. the Christian church ia Missouri to-! : day. He is 72 years of age, but Make ich oll eae Site Bass mentally as vigorcus as ever. He} —-———— preached at the beginning of his | ministry in St. Louis, and also in! 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