Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 13, 1904, Page 8

a — \ a RAGING WATERS ENGULF SCORES TWO CROWDED PASSENGER CARS PLUNGE THROUGH BRIDGE INTO FLOOD. DEATH LOSS MAY NEVER BE KNOWN THE TREACHEROUS SANDS ARE DRIFTING OVER BODIES OF UNFORTUNATES. ' BODIES ARE STREWN FOR MILTS ONE OF THE GREATEST RAIL- ROAD DISASTERS IN HISTORY OF COUNTRY. Pueblo, Colo., Aug. 10.—The wreck of the World’s Fair flyer on the Den- ver & Rio Grande railroad near Eden, seven miles north of Pueblo, Sunday evening, proves to have been one of the greatest railroad disasters in the history of the country. Two crowded passenger cars and a baggage car were engulfed in the torrent that tore out a trestle spanning Steele’s hollow, otherwise known as Dry creek, and, so far as known, only three of the oc- cupants of these cars escaped death. Fortunately two sleeping cars and a diner, completing the train, remained on the track at the edge of the abyss and none of their occupants was killed and injured. More Than 100 Perished. How many perished probably will never be definitely ascertained, for the treacherous sands are drifting over the bodies. But that the number will exceed 100 there seems scarcely to be a doubt. Searching for the dead was begun about midnight on an extensive scale and still is in progress. All ‘corpses found were brought to Pueblo and placed in four morgues here. At 8 o’clock last night seventy-six bodies had been recovered, and of these, forty-nine had been identified. During the day bodies were recovered all the way along Fountain river from the scene of the wreck to this city. At 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon two bodies were taken from the stream at First street, Pueblo, more than eight miles from the point where The Disaster Occurred. and it is probable that some may be even recovered further down stream None of the bodies is badly mutilated and all are in such condition as to be recognizable. So quickly had the catastrophe been enacted that the occupants of the three cars remaining on the track did not realize that an accident had occurred until they alighted from the train. Then they were utterly pow- to render assistance to the vic- who had disappeared in the ishing waters. On the lookout for danger, warned by the squally clouds and heavy rains to the north, Engineer Charles Hind- man was running cautiously, about fifteen miles an hour, as he ap- proached the arroyo, which’ was spanned by a bridge ninety-six feet in Jength. The Condition of the Bridge was not known until the locomotive. one of the monster passenger type, had nearly crossed. Fireman Frank Mayfield, with a torch that the engi- meer and the fireman had burning to ascertain the condition of the track. was in the gangway. When Engineer Hindman felt the tremor in the great machine and caught a glimmer on the water he shouted his last words: “Put out that torch,” evidently thinking that in the accident he felt certain was coming the flame would serve to spread fire. But before Mayfield could obey, while the last words were still on the ‘lips of the doomed kindling wood and The Locomctive Dropped with the hissing of steam thirty feet to the bottom of the arroyo, cross- wise to the track. The baggage car, smoking car and chair car followed the locomotive into the stream and were swept away. All the occupants of these cars save three men, perished, and had not the roof of the chair car burst asunder, nore would have escaped. The fireman, as the locomotive went over, was thrown out, and, managing to grasp a piece of wreckage from the bridge, floated with that to a curve made by the caving bank and crept out of the water. He ran toward Eden, meeting on the way Operator F. M. Jones and his wife, who had already started up the track. “Notify Pueblo,” came the voice of the running man, “the train’s gone down and everybody is killed. Heard Cries for Help. Even as he spoke, relates the ope- rator, there were cries coming from the distance. The two men ran to where the bridge had been to search for victims of the disaster. When they reached the spot all cries for help had ceased. Relief trains with physicians, wreck and pile-driving outfits and scores of workmen were hurried from the city. The end of the Pullman sleeper Wyuta extended four feet over the brink, while broken timbers and ‘twist- ed rails hung still further over. The arroyo had been widened to over a l.Andred feet at the point where the pridge had been. The water tore a zigzag course across the trairie to a depth of thirty feet in several places. There Was But Little Left of the baggage car, a few rods, a truck or so, dimly seen in the muddy water, and a half-buried iron safe. The great locomotive, the boiler free of the trucks, the cab and tank gone, lies where it fell. A quarter of a mile to the east lay the chair car, windows gone, three- fourths filled with mud and sand. A hundred feet farther on was the smoker, bottom up against a sand bar. Five hundred men scanned every inch of the river and its surroundings a few hours after daylight. They waded in the stream and carried out mud-begrimed bodies which were found at widely separated points, some of them miles from the scene of the accident. And since the sun rose Over the Drenched Land, stretchers with sand-covered, dripping bodies were carried every few min- utes to the railroad tracks where the death train awaited them. Many of the bodies were almost naked, the clothing having been torn completely off. Many of them were slightly bruised, probably from the first shock of the wreck, but there was little blood visible when they were re- moved from the stream. Without doubt the great majority were drowned like rats in a trap when the ears were plunged without a mo- ment’s notice into the whirling water thirty-five feet deep, 100 feet wide and with a current strong enough to carry thousands of pounds of weight nearly a mile before subsiding. Some searchers worked all night and all day and never once thought of eating or resting. Identified Very Slowly. Bodies recovered were identified very slowly because many of them were strangers here, who had been to the fair at St. Louis and other East- ern points. The mountain river still rushes with the impetus of the flood and the arroyo has a clear, tiny stream trick- ling along where the fatal mass of water rushed a few hours before. The earth on either side is swept clean by the flood. The walls of the so-called Dry creek are rugged, irregular, caving and widened, but still so narrow that it is almost impossible to understand how the great coaches, the baggage car and tender could have been swept so far without becoming lodged against the sides. Most of the bed of the creek is now visible with little streams weaving about the strips of sand, forming islands of mud and sand which are being searched for bodies that may lie buried in them. RR RRR eeu OO TO RECEIVE THE VETERANS. Boston Completes Arrangements for Entertainment of Grand Army. Boston, Aug. 10.—Preparations for the annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, which opens here next Monday, are now practical- ly complete. The first day will be given up to receptions and a parade by the navy brigade and marines. The great parade takes place on Tuesday, and spectator stands seating more than 500,000 persons, are being con- strected along Boston Common and other points. The business sessions of the encampment will be opened on Wednesday. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee an- nounces that he will be unable, through press of business, to come to Boston with veterans who will make the journey. GOODNOW IS UNDER FIRE. Minnesotan in China a Much Accused Man. Washington, Aug. 10. — The formal presentation of charges against Con- sul Genera) John Goodnow at Shang- thai was made at the state department yyesterday before Assistant Secretary ‘Peirce by George F. Curtis, an at- torney representing interests in the ‘Orient. The hearing yesterday was the other Confederate | COMING TO NORTHWEST. Rivers and Harbors Committee to Go Down River From St. Paul. Washington, Aug. 10. — Chairman Burton of the rivers and _ harbors committee while here yesterday, gave out the plans for the trip of the com- mittee through the country in the in- spection of river and harbor projects. Chairman Burton left for points in New England yesterday, where he will meet members of the committee, and after a tour of the East the commit- tee will take the steamer Northwest at Buffalo for Duluth. A week will be spent in the examination of Lake Su- perior harbors and the reservoirs of the headwaters of the Mississippi, af- ter which the committee will go down the Mississippi river by | steamer. simply preliminary and occupied an hour’s time in private conference be- tween the attorney and secretary, in which was presented the documentary evidence, including petitions of Amer- ican residents in the Orient, and oth- ers making charges against Mr. Good- now. The matter will be taken up again later by Assistant Secretary Peirce, at which time it may be de- termined whether the department will invite a fuller statement of the the consul general. man, the bridge |. gave way as if it had been a,stack of | WHITE BEAR BOAT WINS. Challenger Gets Right Kind of Winds and Outsails Canadian Defender. Montreal, Aug. 9.-White boar, the challenger, won the second race for the Seawanhaka cup, defending Noorna by 53 seconds in Saturday’s contest. The race was sailed in a stiff 18-knot breeze and was a gallant test from start to finish. It was just the sort of weather that the St. Paul sailors had been wishing for, and a continuance of such conditicns will probably result in the big trophy moving to the Minnesota club. The wind held steadily from the west throughout the day, going down at sundown. There was a heavy roll on Lake St. Louis, but’ the conditions were such as to prove an admirable test of the weather qualities of the boats. Noorna had the better of the windward work, but failed to gain suf ficiently on the leg to counteract the losses made in reaching and running, which was the White Bear's s.rong point. MAIL BY AUTO. Rural Carrier in South Dakota Buys a Chug-Chug. Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. 9.—Christo- pher Hanson, a rural mail carrier whose route extends from Wakonda to the farming region in that locality, has set a pace for other rural mail carriers by purchasing an automobile, which he will utilize for carrying the mail on his route. So far as known he is the only rural mail carrier in the state or Northwest who uses one of these modern machines in the per- formance of his duty. He figures that the saving in time and horse feed wil! more than compensate him for the money expended for the machine. PEDAGOGUES WANTED. South Dakota Complains of a Scarcity of School Teachers. Huron, S. D., Aug. 9.—There is a scarcity of school teachers in this section of the state. Of the 100 schools in this county nearly one- half will be without teachers at the date for opening of schools in Sep- tember. County Superintendent Du- bois is using every effort possible to supply the demand, but ‘it is apparent that from twenty-five to thirty schools will be without teachers. Wages of- fered are from $35 to $45 per month for first and second grade certificates. IN FIT FALLS ON STOVE. Girl's Side Is Roasted Before She Is Rescued. Winona, Minn., Aug. 9.—Miss Sarah Miller of Arcadia, while working near a hot stove, was suddenly attacked by an epileptic fit, from which she is a sufferer, and fell upon the stove. Her father, who is badly crippled with rheumatism, was in another room, and heard her groans, and it was with the greatest difficulty that he was able to come to her rescue. When pulled away the young woman was found to be practically roasted on one side and arm. Her condition is critical. EMBALMING FLUID IN MILK. Sioux City Milkmen Charged With Using Formaldehyde. Sioux City, Iowa, Aug. 9. — H. R. Wright of Des Moines, state dairy commissioner, made a visit to Sioux City, and, after testing samples of milk from a number of dairies, dis- covered the presence of formaldehyde in a number of samples. He immedi- ately began criminal prosecution against four dairymen, F. A. Storer, D. A. Wilcox, N. J. Rowe and N. An- derson. LOSES REIN; IS KILLED. Boy Climbs to Wagon Tongue to Get Line and Falls Under Wheels. Sumner, Iowa, Aug. 9. — The thir teen-year-old son of Tim Corkey wad killed in an accident while driving. One of the lines with which he was driving became unbuckled and fell from his hands. He climbed to tha tongue of the rapidly moving wagoy to reach the loose rein, when he wad pitched to the ground and the heavy wheels passed over his chest. HOBOES STAB HIM. Drunken Tramps’ Victim Is in Critical Condition. Hastings, Minu., Aug. 9. — John Welch, aged twenty-eight years, hail ing from Schenectady, N. Y., wad dangerously stabbed in the left side by one of a gang of drunken hoboeg¢ on the opposite side of the river. Thé injured man was attended by Dr. L. D Peck. Chief of Police Ingalls and a posse scoured the woods for the as sailants, but without success. Secretary Metcalf Ill. Washington, Aug. 7. — Victor H. Metcalf, secretary of commerce: and labor, was taken ill with stomach trouble last night. The services of a physician were needed. He is said to be much better now. Newfane, Vt., Aug. 7.—One purglat was shot in the arm and captured ana others escaped with $200 in cash after charges and an answer on the part of | blowing open the safe of the Wind. j ham County Savings bank early’ yes. terday. U. OF M. CO-ED IS NUMBER ONE. Gets First Chance to Draw Devils Lake Land. Devils Lake, N. D., Aug. 10. — The first real excitement of the reserva- tion opening happened yesterday morning at 9 when a crowd that had been waiting, some of them since early Sunday afternoon, beheld the school house door open. There was a rush to be the first person to receive a registration certificate. There were a@ number of clerks making out re- ceipts, but Miss Marie Nugent of Heg- bert, Swift county, Minn., was handed the first document, which will entitle her to a claim on the Devils Lake res- ervation if she is a lucky person. Closely following Miss Nugent, certifi- cates were handed to Mrs. Belle Tolan of Hegbert and Dan E. Richter of Min- neapolis. Miss Nugent is daughter of Post- master Nugent of Hegbert. She at- tends the University of Minnesota ag- ricultural department. The official count of those registered yesterday is 1,180, which is considered a large number for the first day. It is expect- ed there will be more each day follow- ing, as was tha case at Yankton, S. D., in the Rosebud opening. Everything still is quiet. The hotels easily are taking care of the crowds.. WHITE BEAR IS OUTSAILED. Loses Third Race of Series for Sea- wanhaka Cup. Montreal, Aug. 10. — The yacht Noorna defeated the White Bear in the third race of the series for the Seawanhaka cup sailed yesterday on Lake St. Louis, and has now won two contests, White Bear’scoring one. The difference at the finish yesterday was three minutes and forty-five seconds. The race was sailed over a course two miles to windward and return. three times over. There was a steady 15- knot breeze from the west and not too neh sea, conditions suitable to the defender, SHOT WHILE HUNTING. Teamster’s Companion Is Unloading Gun When It Is Discharged. . Rhinelander, Wis., Aug. 10. — John Tunney, aged forty-three years, was accidentally shot yesterday while hunting with a companion. Tunney was on a hand car when his partner started to unload a_ repeating rifle. The lever of the gun slipped and the bullet passed through Tunney’s body below the armpits. No hope of recov- ery: given. Tunney is a married man with a family and was employed as a teamster by the Robbins Lumber company. LIGHTNING HITS SOLDIER. He Is Also Kicked by a Cow but Will Survive Injuries. Sturgis, S. D., Aug. 10. — Emil Donche, first sergeant B troop, Fort Meade, was struck by lightning yester- day afternoon at 5:30 o’clock. He was unconscious over an hour. He received several gashes about the head and was badly burned on the Jeft side, but will recover. . Also he was kicked in the jaw by a cow which was near him at the time. BARTENDER SLAIN IN FIGHT. In Assisting Marshal to Arrest Man He Is Shot. Merrillan, Wis., Aug. 10. — Peter Jepson, a bartender in the saloon of M. Bone, was shot and _ instantly killed yesterday afterioon while as- sisting City Marshal Owens to place two men under arrest in the barroom. The man who is alleged to have done the shooting, first gave his name as Wait, but later he said it was Fred Anderson. FIGHT WITH BURGLARS. Young Man Stabbed in Hand-to-Hand Struggle in Father’s House. Fergus Falls, Minn., Aug. 10.—Chas. Schacht was stabbed, shot at, and nearly killed in a hand-to-hand fight in the dark with three burglars who had entered his father’s house. He sus- tained several wounds but will recov- er. After the fight the robbers fied, vanquished, not even stopping for their booty. HAIL DAMAGES CROPS. Heavy Rain and Wind Are Accompa- nied by Icy Stones. Huron, S. D., Aug. 10.—An inch and a half of rain fell here last night, pre- ceded by hail and wind. No damage was done in the city, but corn and small grain in the fields ten to fifteen miles northwest of here was badly damaged. At Broadland scores of windows were broken and some build- ings were damaged by wind. Farmer Gored by Bull. Caledonia, Minn., Aug. 10.—Nicholas Hocmann, a farmer living two miles ‘north of here, had his face and chest badly crushed by a med bull. The shoulder was thrown out of place, collar and breastbone dislo-‘ cated, several ribs fractured, one of which perforated the lung. nose brok- en and several gashes op the head. Dubuque, Iowa, Aug. 10. — Fred ‘Knockle, aged twenty-five, a farmer, changed himself in his barn, He had ‘been suffering from melancholia. ; :| In Minnesota. i , State News of the Week Briefly Told. Michael Ziller, aged 55, dead at East Grand Forks. dropped John Palzer, proprietor of a general store at Perham, Minn, is building a large brick block. Fadden Brothers of Plato have sold their creamery at Buffalo Lake to Mr. Hayes of Minneapolis, who takes pos- session Aug. 1 Irving Pourtales, sixteen-year-old son of Mrs. Laura Pourtales, was ac- cidentally shot and instantly killed at Northfield. Peter E. Nelson, a farmer, was in- stantly killed while attempting to cross the track before a south-bound limited train at Rock Creek. The free employment agency estab- lished by the city of Duluth three years ago may be abolished. It has not had the great success predicted for it. The sales of binder twine at the state prison amount to 10,200,220 pounds, or more than 3,000,000 pounds above the output of last year, an in- crease of about 43 per cent. Potato buying has begun around Elk River with four buyers in the field. The price ranges from 30 to 35 cents. The quality as yet is poor, most of the stock showing black spots. The state board of control has de- cided to complete a new cell wing at the state reformatory at St. Cloud. Men have been taken off the new ad- ministration building and set at work on the job. Labor day will be celebrated in Brainerd this year with the usual pa- rade and program of sports under the auspices of the Trades and Labor as- sembly. Addresses will be made by leading labor leaders of the North- west. A first-class hospital, thoroughly ; equipped with modern apparatus, was opened in Cass Lake Aug. 1. Mrs. Antoine Riddell, who has been con- nected with a hospital at Brainerd and is an expert nurse, is superintend- ent. A sawmill to have a_ capacity of about 10,000 feet daily, together with a planer, matcher, lath and shingle mills, will soon be established near Ashawawa, a new village on the line of the Duluth, Virginia and Rainy Lake road. James Dorris, thirty years old, while loading cars on Basswood lake, near | Ely, was struck on the head with a piece of timber and knocked into the lake. He was dead when taken out, |'but whether killed by the blow or drowned is not known. Business men of Zumbrota have made arrangements to hold a street fair under the name of the Goodhue County Agriculturaly society. A sum of money has been subscribed and it is expected that this fair will be far better than the one held last year. John Hollem of Chisholm, arrested at Staples by Sheriff Erickson, had his hearing before Judge Warner at Brainerd and was acquitted of the charge of assaulting his wife and kidnapping the young son. He has been detained again, however, and there will be a civil suit to determine the custody of the child. Three elevators owned by D. C. Har- | rington of Pipestone have been sold at.a chattel mortgage foreclosure | sale. The elevators are in Pipestone, | Gray Siding and Hatfield. Mr. Har- | rington has assigned his right to re | deem on the Hatfield property to J. E. | Stair of Minneapolis, who will secure possession of the elevator. The Prohibitionists of Clay county held a two days’ rally at Hitterdahl. Among the speakers were W. G. Cald- | erwood of Minneapolis, J. F. Heiberg of Heiberg, the Prohibition candidate for lieutenant governor, and H. H. Aaker, candidate for governor of North Dakota. The attendance was large. A legislative ticket will be put in the field. Complaint was lodged with Mayor Robinson of St. Cloud by three repu- table business men of the city, accus- ing Officer Connelly of the police de- partment of having assaulted an unof- fending citizen in the person of John Bowers, an aged farmer of Monte- video, who is almost a cripple from rheumatism. Connelly has been sus- pended and the matter is being inves- tigated. Two hundred farmers of the vicin- ity of Hutchinson organized a farm- er’s elevator company by adopting by- laws and electing directors. The di- rectors are E. A. Tews, Sam G. An- dersno, J., Albert Barfknecht, Joseph Jackney, William Hoff, Henry v-..ch, T. F. Fallon, John Rickeman, H. H. Boniwell. They chose E. T..Tews president, Sam G. Anderson, Jr., sec- retary, Joseph Jackney vice president and H. H. Bonniwell treasurer. The company is incorporated for $10,000, arid enough stock has been sold to commence business. "YAWNING GOOD FOR YOU. Consolation for Sleepy Folks Tendered by Physicians. To be told that physicians recom- mend yawning as a remedy for dis- ease would make some people smile with incredulity, but it is a fact nev- ertheless. They say that muscles are brought into play during a yawn that would otherwise never get any exer- cise at all. The muscles that move the lower jaw and the breathing mus- cles of the chest are the first that come into use in the yawn. Then the tongue is rounded, the palate tightly stretched and the uvula raised. Near the termination of the yawn the eyes close, the ears are slightly raised and nostrils dilate. The crack sometimes heard in the ear shows that the aural membranes are also stretched and exercised, some- thing that cannot be done by any oth- er process.+ Nasal catarrh, inflammation of the palate, sore throat and earache may all be helped toward a cure by the suf- ferer’s making a practice of yawning six or seven times a day.. But good form requires that it should be done in private, of course. Stil! More Evidence. Bay City, Ill., August 8 (Special). — Mr. K. F. Henley of this city adds his evidence to that published almost ‘daily that a sure cure for Rheuma- ‘tism is now before the American peo- ‘ple and that that cure is Dodd’s Kid- ney Pills. Mr. Henley had Acute Rheumatism. He has used Dodd’s Kidney Pills. He says of the result: “After suffering for sixteen years ‘with Rheumatism and using numer- ‘ous medicines for Rheumatism and more medicine prescribed by doc- tors, I at last tried Dodd’s Kidney Pills with the result that I got more benefit from them than all the oth- ers put together. “Dodd’s Kidney Pills were the only thing to give me relief, and I recom- mend them to all suffering from Acute Rheumatisn.” Rheumatism is caused by Uric Acid in the blood. Healthy kidneys take all the Uric Acid out of the blood. Dodd's Kidney Pills make healthy kid- neys. Milkman’s Stool Always Ready. While passing a pasture recently I saw a cow with a rope tied to her horns about ten feet long, with a cedar block tied to the end of the rope. I did not know what it was for and asked the owner of the cow. “That’s ‘me milkin’ stool,” said he. I milk in me pasture and when I find me cow me stool is always handy.”— CARD SHARKS ABOARD. Passenger Complains of Poker Meth- ods at Sea. The Kaiser Wilhelm II. had not touched her pier at Hoboken yester- day when C. A. Stonehill of Chicago tossed ashore a piece of paper on which was inscribed: “Is there a detective on the pier? Three gamblers aboard.” The note was unsigned. According to the stories of the pas- sengers, four card players, led by a man who styled himself “Gen. Charles P. Thomas”—there is no such officer in the army—played the great Ameri- can game with a German, a French- man and a Turk, thought to be Lieut. Col. Ariz Bey, the military attache at Washington. Thomas’ companions were down in the passenger lists as J. H. Strosnider and Henry Seeley. The six were playing a fairly stiff game when Stonehill, who had been watching the play, accused Thomas of cheating. There was a quarrel and the game broke up. Thomas bristled up when reporters talked to him. He said that he would see them at the Holland house. No such person registered there last night. The name of Strosnider has a little niche in Inspector McCluskey’s Hall of Bad Fame.—Newark News. ‘OLD FASHIONED. But Still in the Fashion. It is an ever new and interesting s.ory to hear how one can be entirely made over by change of food. “For two years I was troubled with what my physician said was the old- fashioned dyspepsia. “There was nothing I could eat but 20 or 30 minutes later I would be spitting my food up in quantities until I would be very faint and weak. This went on from day to day until I was terribly wasted away and without any prospect of being helped. “One day I was advised by an old lady to try Grape-Nuts and cream, leaving off all fatty food. I had no confidence that Grape-Nuts would do all she said for me as I had tried so many things without any help. But it was so simple I thought I would give it a trial she insisted so. “Well, I ate some for breakfast, and pretty soon the lady called to see her ‘patient,’ as she called me, and asked if I had tried her advice. “‘Glad you did, child; do you feel some better?’ ““ No,’ I said, ‘I do not know as I do, the only difference I can see is I have no sour stomach, and come to think of it, | haven’t spit up your four teaspoons of Grape-Nuts yet.’ “Nor did I ever have any trouble with Grape-Nuts then or any other time, for this food always stays down and my stomach digests it perfectly; I soon got strong and well again and bless that old lady every time I see her. “Once an invalid of 98 pounds I now weigh 125 pounds and feel strong and well and it is due entirely and only to having found the proper food in Grape-Nuts.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek., Mich. Get the little book, “The Road te Wellville,” in each pkg.