Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 28, 1911, Page 1

TR VOL. LIll—NO. ms : The Bulletin’s erculatlon in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, a.mtlts Tafial Oirculation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population For Flight Down In Train Wreck The Mississippi|® DAVID DUNN IN HOSPITAL WITH|TWO COURSES LAID OUT TO COVER 1500 MILES. EALSE ALARM STARTED FATAL PANIC| Twenty-Six Dead From Suffocation, 55 In- jured in Pennsylvania Picture House SMALL BOY’S SHOUT OF “FIRE” When Machine Clicked—In Rush For Exit Foreigner Fell Down Stairs—Fighting Pile of Humanity at the Foot of the Stairway—Half the Dead Are Children —Manager Led 300 to Safety Over the Stage. Canonsburg, Pa., August 27.—Twen- | entrance when he came upon the life- ‘Cabled Paragraphs Dresden, Saxony, August 27.—Labor troubles in the metal working indus- tries of Germany have assumed more serious Dl‘ol;gmons The employers on Saturday letked out 60 per cent..of the metal workers at Dresden and at Chemnitz, an industrial center 39 miles ‘west of the capital of Saxony. Paris, August 27—The increased cost of food has widely agitated northern France and Belgium. Public assem- blagés around the market places in Fdench towns have caused the prices of eatables to be reduced. The police at Verviers protected the butter sell- ers from an exasperated crowd until the price was lowered four cents a pound. London, August 27.—Reports received here today by way of Paris telling of the activity of Cipriano Castor, the exiled president of Venezuela at Benguela, _Portuguese West Africa, have been followed by the suggestion that the two small steamers, which wede seized recently by the ciistoms authorities in the Thames and at Bar- row, respectively, have been purchased Norwich Man MINOR INJURIES. SIXTY- HURT SUNDAY Valley Division Train Went Off Em- bankment Near Middletown—At High Rate of Speed—Four Seriously Hurt. ‘Middletown, Conn., Aug. 27.—Sixtyy people were injured, four of them at least seriously, tonight when an ex- press train on the Valleye division of the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford railroad left the rails three and a down PRICE _TWO _ CENTS TO BEAT ATWOO0D From St. Paul to Vicksburg or from Dubuque to New Orleans Proposed Plan. St. Louis, August 27.—Plans for an aeroplane flight of at least 1,500 miles the Mississippi river in Septem- ber to eclipse the world’s record just established by Henry N. Atwood, are well under way it was announced to- the Condensed Telegrams Strike Guards Have a Right to car- ry arms, according to a decision in a Cleveland common pleas court. William L. Barron Was Killed and Harry Clark seriously injured in an automobile accident in Pittsburgh. Frederick W. Porter of lllinois was elected president ofithe National As- sociation of Insurance Commissioners. The State of Idaho and the United States government have asreed to ex- lx:éla;‘lse about 400,000 acres of land in . Idaho, A ) James Christie, president of the En- gineers’ club and vice president of the Franklin institute of Philadelphia, is ead. In a Race Riot at Indian Springs Hotzls, Ga., one deputy was killed, an- other fa.'.&!ly injured and other persons injured. Five Men Were Killed and five in- jured when a large bridge over the Mmpqua river collapsed and fell to Whether Maine Is to Keep “Dry” WHOLE COUNTRY WATCHING FOR VOTE IN SEPTEMBER. ARDENT CAMPAIGN ON Decided Doubt Admitted as to Out~ come—Prohibition Has Been in Con- stitution for Over 25 Years, Portland, Me., Aug. 27.—One of he most interesting and strenuous cam- paigns that New England has ever known, a campaign that is attracting attention from coast to coast, will ter- minate on Sept. 11, when the voters of ty-six dead {rom suffocation, twenty- |less forms of his two children, lying |10 carry war material for the ex-pres- | half miles below this city. night. Two courses are under con- | the river. Maine will give in their ballots to de- five seriously injurtd, thirt; ffering | beside hi: i if - VINE | {Gent The I i sideration. One is fi St. Paul t termine whether or not the policy of e seriously injurf irty suffering | beside his unconscious wife. . e Injured.. . rom St. O | Epederick H. Newell, di e - - from minor hurts. That is the human U Hi _— < Vicksburg, Miss., 1,511 miles. The rederick H. Newell, director of the | constitutional prohibition of the liguor toll exacted last night during an in- | oW His Granddaughter Swept to| p.ijo August 27.—Omcials of the| Edward J,- Hi Daggageman, | Sier 1 Sy om Bubigne, T to New | Teclamation service, has returned from | iraffie, which bas Drecailon Far mace excusable panic at a moving picture Death. foreign office were confident today Hmflfrd, nose. broken. z Orleans, 1,505 miles. 2 tour of irrigation projects in the |than a quarter of a century, shail be show in the Canonsburg opera house. | Samuel Lane of Morganza, not know- | that France will be able to offer suffi- eavitt, brakeman, Hartford, con- | ~'ppch 000 e S qiont is to focus | ROTthwest. retained. ing that his son’s family were at the theater, had entered the building a short time before the alarm was giv- en. He rushed toward the stairs and was making his way down when he saw a child almost under his feet. As he stooped to pick her up he recog- nized his granddaughter, but at that moment he was caught in the mighty whirl and she was swept out of his ;‘leal:h and killed. He was seriously urt, The moving picture machine developed & slight cefect. There occurred a noise like “click. A small boy shouted “Fire!” at the same time starting for the narrow exit. Bolus Dubrowsl foreisn miner, a giant in proportions, Jumped from his seat and ran wildly ! for the same exit. In a moment there | was a fighting ,struggling mass after hi At the head of a narrow stair- way leading to the street the foreigner tripped. he rolled down the stairs cient concessions io satisfy Germany in the Moroccan negotiations. Various versions have been published concern- ing the parcels of territory in the French Congo which France is willing to cede to German in exchange for absolute reccgnition of France’s rights forocco, but none of them has been authenticated. Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, August 27.—A series of sensational cussion of the brain. The two above are being cared for at the state hosbital for the insane. Those taken to the Middlesex hos- pital are: R. A. Mathes, engineer, Hartford,dis- locted hip. Erwin Sullivan, cut about the head and bruised. X Mr. and Mrs. J. Lawretnce Coit, New London, ‘cut and bruised, suffering from shcck. distances. tion. attention on the Mississippi on the eve of the deep waterways condition at Chicago and to promote aviation. in- terest in the middle west, eas early as to establish a new world's record for Albert Bond Lambert, president of the Aero club of St. Louis, is chair- man of the temporary organization of the Trans-Missippi Flight accocia- Edward Van Pelt, a brother-in-law of Senator Works of Califorria, shot and killed Charles Tindall on a street of Shelbyville, Ind. The 300 Residents of the Single Tax colony at Arden, Del, are shocked at the announcement of Upton Sinclair that he will sue for divorce. Claude-Grahame-White, the English- Speakers by the Hundreds. For weeks past the state has beem flooded with literature sent out by both the proponents and opponnts of the move to take prohibition out of tie constitution, while hundreds of speakers have voiced their sentimenis at public gatherings. First in Constitutional Prohibition. Constitutional prohibition, in whica Maine was a pioneer, was first adoptad ere awi 3 eir turn e e uring the night the police and fire- | of Rendel, in the province o esse- = = - = theater and Soon' thero ‘was ‘an-inde. | ment removed the dead to improvised | Nassen. A man named Gunderloch, a 1;":3“,’:".”' Hasford, bagk end orde, FOUND IN THE CLAMS? | Harvard Bostoh meet Saturday. attack. In 1901 a bill for resubmission e an »l :‘&n;hke sm:tdfhe foot of {3;’;‘23.’,}‘;‘,3;&%";,%3? tlgnied%r:}iggzt;g: ;xgxtp e lf{:n; n{iusizfi_e-bri*:zterh;fm"’s‘if; Laban Drehan, Springfield, Mass.|Jewel Popped Out in Willimantic Fish| The Two Miles of Corridors of the gur;:, it ZJ:“ “atolt’:sr)::ulldehl:gr::u: Untangling the Human Mass. bodies were taken to their homes, | ter and then escaped. The police, ac- | ™ EoT Ecles: Market—Dealer and Customer in|State, War and Navy building are to |tered in its favor. In 1907 a similas hearses being a familiar sight in many streets of the town during the entire afternoon. People came from the sur- rounding country by the hundreds and morbid crowds followed the -bodius while they were being removed. May Be Insane from Shock. Among the most seriously injured is Mrs. Minnie Lemmon of Lawrenceville, who was visiting friends near here. Mrs. Lemmon was a spectator at the show and was caught in the crush. To- night physicians believe that her mind i affected on account of the harrow- ing experience. It is reported tonight that there It was all over within a short tim Volunteer firemen, several policem. and a few level-headed citizens un- tangled the human mass. The unhurt and those slightly injured were pulled from the top of the pile. As they gained the street, they ran screaming like manic: to all parts of the small came the more seriously hurt and these were sent home or tak- €n to nearby houses, while a few were rushed unconscious to hospitals. The rescuers finaily came to the bodies of those who had reached the stairway fi One after another the victims, many of them women and small chil- companied by bloodhounds, immedi- ately went in pursuit of the murder- er and Gunderloch’s body later was found in a potato field where he had committed suicide by firing a bullet into his mouth. DEATH ROLL IS 28 FROM LEHIGH WRECK. the Injured Died on Sund-y. Mghchester, N. Y, Aug. 27.—Two more passengers of Lehigh Valley Two - More of The Dead. Holt, Hartford, minor injuries. David Dunn,- Norwich, minor injur- ies. Philip Lee Cremier, Moodus, minor injuries. A. P. Brown, Hartford, internally in- jured. 2 A. H. Gardner, Hartford, cut about the head. . D. Lawler, Moodus, scalp wounds. J. D. Lawler, Windsor Locks, scalp ‘wounds. W. D. Gorman, Hnn!oni right arm Dispute. coyrt. Charl-l Goff, East Ka.mpton. scalp O. A. Hawkes, Hartford, both legs ship. ‘bought a peck o ‘Willimantic, Conn., Aug. 27.—A ‘peck of round clams and a pearl means of bringing John N. Williams and Fernande P. Strong, both well known men of this city, into the law Saturday night Williams. went into the fish market run by Strong and round clams and or- dered them opened on the spot. As they were being opened ' al rage sized injure pearl; fell out of one of the clams and ‘Williams immediately claimed owner- Strong could not see it that way and alleged that Williams had bought The pearl will ay be be painted-for the first time since the building was constructed in 1875, The Biggest Tobacco Shipment to Europs from Boston in years, contain- ing 75,000,000 smokes, went in the hold of the Winifredian of the Leyland line Saturday. The Theft of Jewels Valued at *2000 from tha Newport, R. I., summer home of J. B. Liippincott, the Philadelphia publisher, was reported by the police Saturday. the The High Officials of the mavy de- partment regard the torpedo practice resolve was barely defeated. Democrats for Resubmissian. In the state campaign last year re= submission was one of the chief issu the democrats taking a stand in fave of giving the voters another chance fe pass upon the question, and the repub- licans standing pat on prohibition, which had been the party's policy fo8 50 vears. The election of a democratia governor and a democratic legislatura settled the questionpof resubmissi and it remained only for the formal vote to be passed at the statehouse. A few republicans, voting with the democrats, made the vote sure. dren, were carried to the sidewalk. train No. 4, which was wrecked near |y, d. clams, and not p 1 & Although both sides are alread: AT Bad Desn auseRar Yoot the stairwase. 1t 1s claimed toat | Me Friday; died today, inereasing the | ""HL" Reader, Hartford, cuts on face | be taken to 2 locaf joweler Monday for | 51 e German qruiter remen i Purt | Snin U S iR Sepie e toll of victims to 28, an seem 3 % z i dless of thei lief, admit t Cortmar T Tataun nas oeren a | €hes I the.vah for s ureti. V0L probable tonight that several of the <4 | “arsld " King, Middietown, ~scalp | 3nd Stroris refuses to glve it up.a guic SHTHEG there Is = decided doubt 2’1o the omts v s juries. 3 at law: wi rol v, - i . ' rigid investigation. He arrived at the Text for_Pulpit Utteranc ey v dalios b T TR Hartford, cut on-face| llama states that e intends to become | , The Interstate Commerce commis- | come, and this doubt increises as the scene early today and within a short time had selected a jury. The coroner announced he would investigate the matter immecdiately, holding the in- cuest. here next Thursday or Friday He will summon the state building inspectors to ascertain whether the laws of the state have been followed. Just Finishing First Show. It is customary for the management of the theater to zive two or three performances each evening and Satur- day the moving picture machine oper- &tor was ahout to complete the first when a film party, Some of the audi- ence had already commenced to leave the building and others were on the stairway coming up. Dubrowski Was a Victim. Dubrow wild flight through the theater 2nd his subscquent stumble down the stairs into those entering the building was the beginning of the death struggling jam at the foot of the stairs. The bodies clogged the doorway. Men walked over them and fought for position of safety until, overwhelmed by the weight from the moving mass behind, they, too, were crushed to death. Dubrowskl was one of those killed, Crawled Through Transom to Safety. When the doerway had been filled, stiil other persons walked over the bodies of those who had gone down and breaking the glass transom over the door they crawled through and dropped to the street. Manacer Kept His Head. Meanwhile Manager Ferguson had endeavored to stop the panic. Accom- panied by his wife, he started for the tairs when the first alarm was given, but_seeing there was no escape there Services were held at all churches, but the attendance was not large, In all, however, mention was made of the disaster and in-some cases the minis- ters drew a lesson from the lack of self-control exhibited. RIO JANEIRO ARCHBISHOP RECEIVE” BY THE ROPE First Outside Visitor Since Late Il ness of His Holin Rome, August 27.—The pope this morning celebrated mass and after- wards proceeded to the Vatican gar- dens, where he received his first vis- itor outside of the private circle with- ing his illness. ‘This was Cardinal Arcoverde de Albuquerque, archbishop of Rio Janeiro, who came to pay his farewell respects as he was leasing tonight for America. The pontiff ap- peared entirely recovered and interest- ed himself in ‘the aq affairs of the dio- cesé and ended the audience by be- stowing the apostolic benediction on the churches in South America. SPEECH WENT WHEN HE THOUGHT HE SAW GHOST Tony Zundio Recovered His Tongue After Attending Mass—Now Insane. — £ Meriden, Conn., August 27.—Tony Zundio of Berlin lost the power of speech Friday at midnight when he thought he saw the ghost of Antonio Vrezia, who was murdered July 30, ly- ing on the table at his home. Speech was restored Sunday morning_ after attending mass at the Catholic church. The man is now insane. The complete list of d2ad is availa- ble for the first time tonight. The list follows: Becker, Henry, 33, Waverly, N. Y., brakeman. Belt, D. M., 70, Los Angeles, Cal, G. A. R. veteran. 5 Hassett, Hannah A., 35, Philadelphia. Hassett, Mary E., 35, same address, sister of Hannah A. Hassett. 9 Headley, Mrs. Charles B, 21, Phil- adelphia. H‘h rs. Emily, 38, Philadelphia. H l'(-y, Joseph, 55, Philadelphia. Hickey, Mary C, same address, 50, wife of Josaph Hickey. Hicks, Charles, 75, Newark, N. J. Hicks, Mrs. Isabelle J.. 70, same ad- Hreil. wife of Charles Hicks. Hunsiker, A. H., 65, of Perksaie, Pa. Johnson, Mrs. G F., 50, Lakewood, O. Johnson, charlu P, 70, home near Jobstown, “Johnsoh, Mm Charles P., 62, same aédress. Lawrence, Mabel, 32, Philadelphia. Madden, T. C,, 48, Trenton, N. J. Mldd-fl, Mrs. T. C., 46, same ad- dress, tifa of T. C. Madden. Madden, Francis L., 6, same address, son of Mr. and Mrs. Madden above. Pangburn, Edgar D., 62, Brooklvn, N. Y., G. A. R. veteran (Ellis Island employe). Pownall, Estella T., 28, Newton, Pa. Pownall, Henry M., 64, same address. Rundle, W. 5. Haston, Pa. Uncle, 1. 8., 64 Smifl:ulle J. .Uncle, Mrs. I.'S,, 58. same address, wife of L S. Uncle. Vlndnrhp, Mrs. Rebecca, 55, Niagara Falk kal.r, ‘Mrs. Fredericka, 55, Phila- @elphia. Zudeck, Mrs. Barbara R., 60, Buffalo and “head. Passengers from Shore Reserts. The train which was wrecked is one which runs down from Hartford Sun- day mornings to accommedate those] ‘who wish* ’fé spead the day at the erent resorts along the shore, going as far as New London, and returning at night. The train is due at Middle- town at 8.04, and was fifteen minutes behind time and running at a high rate of speed, it is said, to make up for the lost time. Forty Foot Drop on One Side. It 'had passed the Maromas station and gone about a mile and a half when it left - the tracks at a place which makes the escape from loss of life a little less than miraculous. At the place where the wreck occurred there is a steep bank which runs down for- ty feet or more to the bank of the Connecticut river, on the right of northbound track. ~On the other side there is an embankment which rises ten or twelve feet to the highway. In one spot on the right bank there is a bank of sand which rises perhaps ten feet and extends for twenty feet or more along the tracks. Chopped Engineer Out. ‘When. the train lefh the tracks the engine and fi.! tender, plunged headfirst into this pile of , pinning the en- gineer in his cab so fhat he had to be chopped out. The fireman managed to crawl out without aid. The two bag- the train went down the the first car remaining upright, being stopped from going into the river by a clump of trees into which it fell. T he nd car turned over on its side it struck the suffrage the late its ‘possessor. KNIFE STAG FOR MAN WHO WARNED HIM. nbury Railroad Man Slashed in the Neck in Freight Yard. Aug. 27.—Charles Dyas, a railroad man, was taken to a local hospital today, seriously wound- ed,( the result of a stab in flicted by an Italian whose name is said to be Thomas Chassano. Dyas was at work in the freight yard and called to the man, who was walking the tracks, to get off, as a train was The answer Dyas re- ceived was a jab with a knife the man pulled as soon as spoken to. . stabbing Dyas, Chassano made his es- cape, though he was pursued by sev- eral employes of the road who saw the Danbury, Conn., approaching. the neck NATIONAL SUFFRAGE ANTHEM. Af- ter Completing Prize Composition. New York, Aug. 27.—The party today announced ' that Minette Theodora Tayler of Green Castle, Ind., had been awarded the prize of $100 offered by the party two months ago for the best poem to be set to music and to become the national suffrage anthem. The competition was announced af- ter the suffragist parads in this city last May, and the idea of securing such an anthém was_the outgrowth of an offer by, a prominent Italian composer who had witnessed the parade to write After woman sion has postponed the effective date of its order in the Duncan case in order to allow an appeal to the com- merce court. The Late John W. Gates left a sec- ond will, setting aside, in effect, the great ten-year trust created by the will drawn in 1910 for the joint benefit of his wife and son. The New Government of Portugal proposes to make the legislation of the church and state conform to that of Brazil, there being no confiscation of church property. Franklin Eldred, 75 Years Old, an inmate of the Utica Masonic home, was killed by a West Shore milk tramn Saturday afternoon. Eldred was walk- ing on ths track. in- The New American Ambassadors to Germany, Italy and Japan, probably will present their credentials to the sovereigns of those countries the lat- ter part of. October. Beginning Sept. 4, the Majority of the print cloth mills at Fall River will go cn haif time, some of the mills running three d@ays weekly and others alternate weeks. President Taft Has Issued an execu- tive order, directing “that all perdiem employes and other day laborers in the federal public service shall be excused from work on Labor day.” A Bag of American. Mail Matter which was lost everboard at Plymouth, Emng., Aug. 11, was picked up Saturday in the Helford river, near Falmouth, 50 miles down the English channel. | prohibitionis time for th: election draws nearer. No Strict Party Vote. The fight will not be setiled by a strict party vote, for there are many s among the democrats and many antis among the republicans. REFUSES FOOD OR DRINK IN PRISONM. Charles Hopper Killed Daisy Watts te % Rescue Her from Underworld. Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug. tremined, he says, to cheat a term of imprisonment, Charles Hopper of Chi- cago, who on Saturday night murder- ed Daisy Watts, better known as Grace Lyons, of Chicago, by throwing he off a steamer in Lake Michigan, has absolutely refused to touch food or drink offered to him in his cell in the county jail at Grand Haven. The murder of Daisy Watts has brought to life the tragic end of & misspent life in the Crinese dives of Chicago of the daughter of a prom- inent Grand Rapids couple. Hopper, in a confession made in the Holland Jjail before being taken to Grand Ha- ven, declared he committeed the crime to prevent the woman from returning to the life of the underworld which he says she was leading when he found her. i am glad T aid it” satd Hopper concluding his confession. “Now 1 know where she is. Those r‘hne-. devils can never get their clutches om her again.” NEW WITNESS FOUND IN BEATTIE TRIAL. Huckster Says He Knew of the Murdes by P le made his way to the stage. Calling 5 ol In Very Critical Condition. the music for the anthem if suitab) g e el loud t E T s words were supplied him. Two Sections of the Grandstand at to Be Committed. To% s Te 10t Bl ek DiED. OF DRSTON AT A e Miss Taylor was the founder and|the Elgin, Ill. road races collapsed on g the stage. Fully three hundred es- 3 ot I SAR NG Mrs. H. B passenger coach when the | first president of the Western Associa- | Saturday, carrying 1,000 to 1,500 spec- Aug. 27—Instead caped in this w) Professor Curtis of * Yale Divinity | Springs sanitarium, a - .| baggaze cars Iéft the rails centinued |tion of Writers and for several years|tators with it. A large number of t unddy wal evpee y. Firemen and Police to the Rescue. I Persons standing at the entrance of the opera house endeavored to extri- cate struggiing men and women from the rapidly rising pile of bruised and bleeding flesh, but to no purpose. alarm of fire was sounded and firemen and police hurried to the scene. When hey arrived they lent their efforts to ‘ing those still within the building School Was on Way Home from Maine. o7 Rockland, Me., Aug. Prof. Ed- Curtis, instructor in Greek at inity school, and until recent- ly acting dean of the school, died on the Boston hoat on the way to this city from Castine last night. His body was brought asho here today, and the remains were sfipped to New Smith, who has been unconscious at the Thompson Memorial hospital at Canandaigua since the wreck, was op- erated upon today, but is not expected to live. Several of the injured in Rochester hospitals are also in a crit- ical condition. The bloodstained doll taken from the wreck was returned today to little Esther Taylor of Lansdowne, Pa., who is at Clifton Springs helping to nurse on its way until it crashed in to the tender. tearing the top almost off and splitting it into pieces. It was in this car that most of the passengers who were._ injured were riding. The secona passenger coach was also badly smashed; the other six coaches left the rails and were buried to the tops of the trucks in the sand. The win- dows in all the cars were smashed and seats- broken, in many instances by Clubs. was the president of the Indiana State Federation of Women’s was a woman of remarkable literary and_inteliectual attainments. credited with having been mistress of no less than 75 languages and dialects. Miss Taylor died at her home about two weeks ago, five days after com- pleting the poem. She She spectators of the races were slight injured. The Situation between France and Germany on the Moroccan question is tence. France has instructed Ambas- sador Cambon what are her demand: Both countries are making war prep- arations. is The Rhode Island Democracy opened given to the principal figures in the trial of Henry Clay Bezattie, Jr., for the murder of his wife, a n™. w.t ness was accidental discoversa b the prosecution tod: who is said to have asserted he knew a day ahead - f time that the murder was to be com- mitted. His name is George Jomes, a sster and he is alleged to have given this information in the presence of H. B. Chewning, a well known con- : i - 2 e Day of Rest for President Taft. ; 7 ; o mimités <he opera house wa emp. | Haven by train tonight. Death was due |12t SFROUICH B CioUSS, o jured | passensers being hurled against them | 8L S, aug 7. President | their e [l . proaerution linve: mer’ - 5 - | to_an acute attack of heart disease. - y the % 1 - % od: ster dinner a! ocky Point and follow- Y s oot o ot 1y and in half an hour twenty bodies in the wreck but her little grand- Taft enjoved a complete rest today. + At of- [ ciosed. had heen recovered, Physicians came | ;00 o sntve of Snn Artod sl a5 |daughter escape d injury by being Help from Middletown. This morning he attended church withi d by speechmaking by many promi |CIGRe \_ ion nowever, 1 deter- from the town and from nearby places until th were at work. The dead were carried into stores and residences #nd the more seriously injured were hastened to the Canonsburg hospital. Broken Arms and Legs. Many of the slizhtly injured ran about the streets until taken in charge by friends, while automobiles were was the son of the Rev. William Stanton Curtis, who was at one time president of Knox college and was lat- er connected with Hamilton college and thé University of Michigan. Pre- to assuming the chair of Greek Professor taught in the McCormick Theo- logical schoool at Chicago.He was thrown through an open window by the force of the accident. The little girl, only 11 vears old, attracted much attention among the survivors by her remarkable calmness and presence of mind. When some one offered to look out for her and to telegraph home to her parents that she was safe, she exclaimed: “Oh,~ I've already (élfi- e As soon as the wreck was known an ambulance was sent from this city and an engine and car from the local sta- tion. Physicians from the hospital for the insane left for the wreck and all these were aided by passengers of a local which followed the express, ar- riving on the scene a half hour later. On board the train were Dr. Cahill of Hartford and' Dr. James Murphy of Mrs. Taft, motoring in from Parramat- ta to Beverly to hear the sermon by Rev. U. S. G. Pierce, chaplain of the United States senate and pastor of the president’s own church in Washington. In the afternoon, in spite of leaden skies and the steady fall of rain, he took a short automobile ride. Tonight Charlie Taft motored in to Boston and ‘brought out H. D. Taft, a brother of Rhode Island. One Hundred Thousand Dollars was pledged to Archbishop Ireland at the close of the annual four days’ retreat at St. Paul, Saturday, of the Catholic priests of the diocese by the 260 priests of the archdiocese. mined to probe thoroughly Jones’ knowledge of the affair, particularly is it affects the Binford family. In fact, having built up its case largsly on the Binford girl as the allezed motive for the murder. the state tomorrow will attempt to impress that point on the jury by producing witnesses to testify ahout frequent ts of Henry Clav e 1 . graphed my father and mother.” a 2 atiie, Jr., to cortain resorts wich th B e T o T oheTs | B rs. ot Bastin 7| bandoned the doll yesterday to o to | thir city. As 500n as they could they | the president, who will spend a week| At a Meeting of the Batid ot e - ir dom‘;fl :v z‘re they later re- g gne son and three daugh- | her Srandmotoher's beside, but it was | gave aid to the wounded, but they|at Parramantta. grand lodge of EIks at —e ceived medical attention. Amons these | SR Mt e d taken to her toda¥y. were without appliances for their work week it was decided to erect a new OBITUARY. were broken arms and legs, but the | ters s e family been 2nd used such es_as could be| Ryralists in Galicid Are S: Elks' home on the site of the present greater number of injured were hurt while making their way through the transom and dropping from the fire es- capes at the rear of the building. Their injuries were slight in the majority of instances. In many cases even the names of the wounded were not given the doctors who attended them. WilIl" Postoone Schoel Opening. Of the twenty-six dead, thirteen were children, seven of them pupils in the public schools. Today it was de- cided by the school authorities to post- pone for a week the opening of the &chools. spending the summer at Castine. WIDELY KNOWN EDUCATOR. Dr. George H. Martin Resigns from Bay State Board of Education. Boston, Aug. 27.—George H. Martin, who since the reorganizatizn of the Massachusetts state board of educa- tion has been acting as its treasurer and agent, has resigned those offices, to take effect Sept. 1. Mr. Martin has been connected with the public school sygten; of the commonwealth 48 e . = eginning as a mmar schoo Would-Be Rescuer Was Killed. teacher in Peabody, mfl;:w he soon ba- Arthur McPeake, whose name .is|came a teacher in the state normal among the dead, was passing the build- |school at Bridgewater, of which he was ing when the bodies began to pile up |a graduate, where he remained 18 Relic Hunters on Hand. Relic hunters flocked to the scene today and picked up numerous articles from the wreckage. Trains on two rajlroads emptied hundreds into Man- chester. Professional photographs mawked their wares along the path- y down the gulch that was made a | beaten track Friday when the victims ‘were brought to the top of the precipi- tous bank, As.darkness came on a storm drove the sight seers away, but the night sky was lighted by great fires in the gulch where laborers piled on all of the woung that had been the material of the wreced coaches. By daylight Sunday the last vestige of ‘wreckage will have been removed. Coroner Eisenline will begin his in- quest at Sohrtsville, tomorrow. made from the wearing apparel of the rassengars. On the amrival of the physicians from here with medical sup- plies, the wounded were speedily cared for temporarily. As soon as possible after the arrival of the car from this city 22 of the injured ware placed on board and brought here. The others after re- ceiving what treatment was necessary continued on their journey by electric cars or_in automobiles which they Others of the injured and thoss of the uninjured who' ired to were taken on board the local train and taken back to Saybrook, where the train: was sent over the Shore Line to New_ Haven and transfarred to the Ar Line and so on to this city again. About 500 Walked to City. highway. the sand. came to reine and the soaked sround thought to have caused the rails to spread. The roadbed is torn up for 3 distance of 300 feet and tha rails twist- ed into all sorts of shapes. One rail near the en from the ti Bi preparing to invade Portugal away of the water under the ties institution at Badford City, Va. It will cost about $500,000. With. Only a Comparatively Few of the thousands of members of the Loyal Order of Moose still in Detroit, the an- nual convention closed Saturday at Detroit with the disposition of matters of minor importance. is was_ ripped entireiy and the forward end thrown up on to the bank toward tha The other rails are bent in toward each other and ties splintered, thown down the bank and buried in Close Call for Baggageman. Ozie of the closest calls Baggageman Hilllard, who to dsath Henry Clemens, Town Marshal of Maryville, the county seat of Blount county, 16 miles from Xnoxville, Tenn., was shot through the heart and instantly killed Saturday by a negro he was trying to arrest. The Highland-American Liner Rot- terdam broke her own and other rec- Claude Clair Perkins. New Haven, Aug. 27.—After an ifi- ness frcm meningitis, lasting but four days, Clande Clair "Perking, an n- structcr in Shefficld Scientific sc died last cvening at hie home in Eir street. He was but vears of age. Mr. Perkins was horn in Pine Island, Minn., where ha passed his early Jifs, and received his common school edgea~ tion He later entered the Univarsity of Mirnesota, from which he was grad- uated fcur years ago. After gradvativg from college ant Mr. Perkins married Miss Esther Gran- ville of Fed Wing, Minn., 2 sister of Dr. Willam A. Granville of Get. burg, Pa., and formeriy of the Sheffi Lool. L After coming to New Haven Mr. Perkins took a post srad- courga in chemistry and last June ed the degres of Ph. D. from the ty. @t the door. The young man rushed to | years, before called to serve the state the rescue, and was in the act of drag- | board of education as agent. ging a body from the pile when a man | He has written and spoken widely came hurtling down the stairs. He |on educational subjects and is a mem.- struck McPeske on the back, breaking | ber of all the leading educatjpnal asso- the young man’s neck. ciations in the count ords from Rotterdam for New York on Saturday with 525 first cabin and 575 second cabin passengers, a total of 1,100, without the steerage. wasg in the first car to go down the bank. The car slid down the bank, its force scmewkat broken by the sand, wunitil it eame t1cadside on into a clump o/ trees, throwing Hilliard against the side of the cer, breaking his nose, but aside from ‘a few bruises not injuring Others, there were about 500 alto- gether, climbed the bank leading up to the roadway and walking through the mud of a country road, wet by z threq days’ rain, cama to this city carrying, dress suit cases and erips, TRAIL OF MONA LISA LEADS TO NEW YORK Two Persons With Framed Canvases The Disabling of the Reversing Gear " " Dr. Martin in his leisure expects to Had Just Bought Wedding Ring. | ontinna his historical and literary Sydney Rittiger was at the perform- | studies. ance with his fiancee, Miss Luln Fish- | er. Before entering the building they hadestopped at a jewelry store nearby and Rittiger had bought the ring that was to have beén used at their wed- ding. Both were killed. ‘Found His Two Children Lifeless. ‘Wilmer Lane, an employe of the Providence Speaker for C. T. A. U. Danbury, Conn., Aug. 27.—As a pre- liminary to the annual comvention of the C. T. A. . Which opens-here to- morrow, & meeting was held tonight at which an address on_temperance was o ziven by ACb«z)l:::nel ) -4 ‘l‘l. n?,gn d:fProv- Canonsburg pottery and a member of | idence. two hu legates are expected to be in a“Mu at ‘the one of gm voluunteer fire companies. to answer the unmmdm meetings, which will be held and Tuesday, Sailed from Cherbourg. Cherbourg, August 27.—In connec- tion with the search for the painting, “Mona Lisa,” which ppeared last Monday from the Louvre at Paris, the port police bere have reported to the Paris headquarters that on Wednesday last two persons, one of them smail and dark, carrying two fr: vases,” separated . 2 wooden panel, sailedsaboard_the iser Withelm for New York. They that pmllbly the panel was the painting Lisa.” The New York police have adviced. arriving here mud-spattered and wet, where they, too, proceeded on i way in automobiles and trolley ‘cars. There was no one in charge of the rescuing of the injured and only those who were taken to hospitals gave their names. FRaiis Supposed to Have Spread. “Thr cause of the-wreck is not defi been caused- by the ‘spreading of the raila. - Men, it - andantood were as late as 5 ‘The place is| 10 or 12 sted by heavy ed, - the engine. o ,cab being chopped awa iron bent until he could be puiled out. It was stated tonight thlt it will be hours before caught n. Engineer Mather also mnarrowly es- caped death, being framework of his cab, but the mass of iron twisting in such 'a shgpe that ths uppar part of his body was protected. his broken hip coming from a sudden twist. caused by the lurching over of He was one of the first be taken out, the woodwork of the twistad traffic can cansed (ke torpedo boat “81r0; Monaghan to crash into the wharf a the Newport, R. I, torpedo station Sat- urday. It required the united efforcs of ihree hoats o pull her clear. the Massachusetts Widow in Demand. Topeka, Kan., Aug. 27.—Answers by the bushel are going forward to a oung widow of Massauchetts, who a week ago wrote to Arthur Capper, ed- itor, publisher and republican candi- date for govemor requesting him-to find her a husb: westerner, bu hearted, bigs bod.led. whole soyled.” ‘be Durant, Known negro three year old son at Colbert, fifteen mides south iraued by the father of the child. anda’ neighbors, threw the child Into the Red river and fled. (e has not been captured, Sheriff William W. Worrell, County Detective Ellis H. Parker and & _* of over 50 persons are lelfclll ;:;; {erle}‘ m:mnuylld‘f - - 4 y for a forzigner who “ have committed murder on & fasm,