Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 22, 1893, Page 1

TWENTY WHAT WILL IT BE? Time When Gladstone Must Show His Hand is Now Rapidly Approaching. HOME RULE AND ITS PROBABLE SHAPE | 'COND Y Much 8peculation Concerning the Grand Old Man's Great 8cheme for Ireland. HIS MINISTRY WILL NOT FALL SOON | Prediction That Through Careful Manage- ment He May Last Another Year, CORRESPONDENTS AND CARICATURISTS Newspapers Paying Much Attention to the f the Individual Protect or- Personnl Pecullarith Members 8o fered by the Rules, [Copyrighted 1893 by James Gordon Bennstt.| LoNnox, Jan. 21— New York Herald Cable pecial to Tue Bee. | —At last the time is near at hand when the great mystery man of itics will have to con reveal the wondrous et is to make Ireland happy and con- and satisfy the people of England. Some people think they know all about 1t but the truth is there nem bers of the cabinet who a ck, and are humbly waiting till their mas pleased to tell them for. 1 believe you will are even still quite in the find the policy 1 indicated to you lo the correct one—that is, postponement and evasions: if this or that part of the sottle ment is not approved by the Irish or English allies of Gladstone, put it off and take up something ¢ If the bare bones of a home rule bill can be pushed or smuggled through the House of Commons and mect with an adverse fate in the House of Lords the entive scheme must go over until next year. The Irish will consent to that rather than run any risk that might bring back the cons ives to power. The radical party ly too glad to support it. Thus the minovity may run merrily along for at least another ye: 15 Tt is quite prol who expect to Gladstone sturned out of oftice within six months will find themselves much mistaken, A prime minister in these days need not be straightforward or consistent, but he must know how to double back quickly on his own tracks and take up opin- fons which happen tobe in demand at the moment. Gladstone has not much to learn in that department of statesmanship. Some of his followers think he is played out and hat they could put kim up toall sorts of use- ful dodges. He listens to their innocent chat- ter and smiles serenely. What dificulty is there that he has not been in at some time or other! Somehow he comes out all right, o little damagel at fiest, perhaps, but none the worse in the long run. Philip of Spain used to say “Time and Tare two.” Gladstone might repeat this boast. These two against the world, only it would have been better if time had not laid his hand so heavily upon his pariner. Newspaper Correspondents in Demand. Come what may, we are all getting ready for it. Members are preparing for the tough work which awaits them. Ministers are oracing themselves up to go through mighty fire of questions, Newspapers are engaging their correspondents. Never was there such demand for these last, because the number of mea who turn out really LlN)ll and readable parliamentary letters is v limited. Toby of Punch will be found at the old stand, and in addition he provides a syndi- cate of newspapers with gossip from West- minster, He is an experienced hand, and knows his way about as well as any man alive. Harry Furniss is also going heavily into] fthe parliamentary line, but his sketenes are not so good as those of a new man named Gould. The mannerisms of Furniss are rather pronounced, and he ham- mers mcessantlv, at one idea—Gladstone's collars, although the old man does not wear bigger collars than other people; Sir W. Harcourt's double chin, Randolph Churchill's curly mustache, which he has not got, and other peculiavities, real or imaginary. We have scen them s) often that we ave tired of them. There was ample room for anotvher artist in another vein, and Gould seems to be the man. Not an Easy Plan to Work. It is not easy to n ment, for no Ang see ke sketches in Parlia- s allowed to bring out a picce of pencil or paper within either house, and therefore the thing has to be done furtively in the lobby, or wherever the member whose likeness is wanted can be met with for a moment. 1fa pi of paper seen in a sty s hand he is orde one of the attendants to put rule is an old it had any seunse in thing may be iid for ‘Without some restriction of galleries would be filled with sketchers, making caricatures of the speaker or of the humbler members. Some of us, 1 fi popularity, but we might not like that pa ticular form of it. We t secrotly rejoice when we sce the caturist sum marily snuffed out. In the Paris gallery, of course, almost an thing © bo done, although I fancy that Harry Furniss would get the cold shoulder from the doorkeeper even there They can draw & counterfeit presentment of Gladstone, whose featu muried that no one could miss tham alto- gethor, but John Morley baftles them. Pe haps he presents no salient points. His fa is mild, amiable, mobile Descriptive writers fail with him, Balfour is tolerably looking man, and G nounced Jewish available. is by The over \, is it and down i it it the one, some today kind the '8 4re S0 strong! even, for he chen, with countenance, asy is a good pro ays his is alw Work of the Some of the daily paj little sketches of the politicians, but only the Mumes gives auything Jike a good report of the proceedings. Other papers boii it down into very small compass. The press is, [ hold, getting more powerful than Parliament itself, and therefore the latter is naturally pushed into the background. Descriptive articles. not reports, what the public soems to care for, so those who cuter for the public believe. srefore, the press gallery is full of flaneurs, while the industrious short Rand writer is seen at work for one pap alone. Soon his art, engraver, will be almost extinet at the reporters. and you will find th are { xiug thewr lynx eyes upon the members, and not reporting at all. A member canuot sitdown on his own hat nowadays without ons. are introducing Look up they forth into | | like that of the wood | | | the papal del i art colle being shown up a donkey throughout the country. We have no privileges left. The fierce light has been turned off the throne and gleams upon us Personal gossip is all the rage. It is the reaction against th able dullness, s alled dignity, long ized the E s such it must be welcomed. OIld stagers must be left, moan ing over the decline in public taste. A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT in every paper WHERE TH Y STANDS, Statement of a Promin Jesult in Regard to Ireland’s Views. [Copprighted 1893 by James Gordon Bennett.] Jun, 21, [New York Herald Cable 1'toTie Bre.] —The part the Society of Jesus is said to have played in the Satolli matter has been already alluded to by me in plain terms. Tn fairness I will tell you what the Jesuits answer. 1 have had talks with nbers and they one and all deny s which I have echoed. One of the most talented and active of the Jesuits in Reme said “It is absolutely false that we are opposed to Satolli. Far from having opposed him, we have been his warmest friends in Rome, standing by him through thick and thin, and have helped to make him what he is. Father Leberatio, one of our most gifted writers, defended him not long ago in the Civilita Cattolica. Father Brandi made him wel come at Woodstock in America about four years ago. ‘The charges rest on nothing.” ing into aetails, however, I perceived that all this devotion to Satolli did not ex tend to the ideas with which that prelate has been itly identified. 1t ended where te began to be an exponent 1 Ireland doctri RoME, Spe of the so-cull Opposed to Ireland’s Views. “We tinguished it. You mu said the dis. 't of opposed to Treland uit, and we make no sec not infer from this we have any personal hostility to that prelate. I Imire Lim for talent and character s does not prevent my disliking and ob. jecting to his views. The archbishop is per fond of sing our society of plotting against his son. He said and wrote th the G ot documents addressed ardinals he haps too ace e » same thing of has accused us of leaguing throughout the world to injure Knowing what you know of Germans, do you think it likely the h the ar of North Am care much mor Yes. have oursclves him hbishop residi a2 Do you fan for his viey we think a good deal about them and attacked them or had the right to do as we hold them to be false.” Lasked the speaker which of the vie the archbishop his order most disliked. What is Not Like irstly,” he ovders. | e swered, “his ideas on re- nd objects to their stence. In self-defense we must oppose him 1 aggain, we condemn his theories. Next we distrust his views on education and believe them dangerous. With regard to the church and state, we cannot see what good the church can gain from giving up the independence it has hitherto enjoyed in the states. As we stood until to- duy we have been free, strong, flourishing. Why go out of our way to give the state a vight to meddle? No harn will come of it perhaps, but tomorrow there u tile govern- ment at Washingtol ¢ and chiefly, we caunot admit Ireland’s doctrine that the state has the right to confer or give moral education.” From ull this it seems clear that Treland, Levents, has not heard the last of the oty of Jes Resistance to Satolli, who represents the pope, is now impossible alli less sacred. MerTz HOUGHT A VANDYKE. One of the Best of th traits Coming to A {Copyrighted 1893 by James Gordon Bennett.] Paws, Jan, 21.—[New York Heralda Cable Special to Tur Bee.]—James F. Sutton, tor and a member of the New York tion, has bought one of the more ndyke pictures from the earl of picture is a portrait of dinola and child, and dates is valued at $100,000. It is u picture, bx7 feet, and is in exceptionally good condition, a fact attributed to the small amount of handling it has gone through. It was bought from the \|ruml.x family by the Caledon family in er sine has formed the chief h-.ll\uo of the earl’s collection in London. It was exhibited at the Royal academy in 1 The Herald correspondont called on Mr. Sutton at the Hotel Normandie. He said “The s going to Am There ave to be a few private views, begin- ning on Monday at the Ime gallery. The earl wanted £20,000 for it, but I got it for a little less. I am not going to return to America with the picture, as 1 go from here to Spain, Italy, and the Holy Land, and then keep on ecastward until I get home after making the round of the world,” Master's Por- ™ Art important Calendon, March about 1632, de ca at once. AFTER MANY YEARS, James Francis B, Rele v English Priso Denay, Jan, 21 convicted of participation at Birmingham, and, iu 1834 in an Irish dynamite plot and to twenty years penal servi tude, released today from Portland prison by order of the home secretary on the ground of ill health Loxboy, Jan. 21.—Mr. Barry, the noted Irish wember of Parliament who has taken a deep interest in the movement to obtain 1's release, went to meet 0 at Port. land prison and accompanied him to his home in Birmingham The extra editions of the evening news- rs containing the news of the rvelease of an had an rmous sale. The general opinion is expressed that this action of the government but a prelude o further amnesty toward the Irishmen convicted of participation in alleged dynamite con- spivayies at Last from James rovGur FIERCELY, Italian Peasants ax an Rowe, Jau. 21 000 peasants and curred at Termini, a se today. Kight of the and twenty were severely wounded A large number of women were among the rebellious peasants, but it is not known that any of them ure numbered among the dead or wounded The fight was caused by the refusal of the peasants to vacate a tract of land, the owner- suip of which is claimed by the commune. The authoriti ta body of gendarmes with orders to eject the squatters by force, if necessary peasants resisted, fe struggle ensued. A number of the peasants were taken prisoners and others fled to the interior, swearing vengeance upon the gendarmes and the authorities, nddarn ight, rible battle between of gendarme port town in Sicily, peasants were killed es Engage in dy At bo a it sel wnd a | ()‘\I\ll\ UN HYMEN OVER ALL | Everything in Germany Submerged Under the Approaching Marriage of Margaret. HER OLD LOVER WILL SURELY BE PRESENT Heir to All the Russias Coming with Costly Gifts for the Bride. POLITICAL SIDE TO THE ROYAL MATCH Hope That a Better Understanding with | Russia May Be Reached. UNSAVORY MESS UNCOVERED AT LEIPSIC Police Authorities Discover a Scandal That Renches Three Continents -Bold Traflic 1 Young Girls—Caprivl Still Scheming tor Advantage. LCopyrighted 1893 by Jamea Gordon Bennett.) v, dan. 21.—[New He 1 to Tue Bee.]—Polit and anti-Semitism this week have be in the vortex of the royal wedding woing to be the grand in many n sunk which is t court function seen years. Princess Margaret was almost like her twin sister, the duchess of Sparta. She met her future husband at Hamburg. He is by nature studious, of an artistic but by no means military disposi- tion, and a great favorita of the empress who is herself of an highly artistic nature. The cold here has been inten though the week cnded in a thaw. Sucha hard winter has not been known in twenty years. oday the kingof Denmark sent a message suying it was highly u ly he would be able to appear at the weading, owing to the severe weather, which had m impossible. However we may see him here. His presence Just more than ordinary importance, s that the utmost en de navigation is of ng eavor 18 being made here for a rapprochement with Russi W of which the father of the czavina was reckoned to have had ¢ able influence. n v v The ¢ 1\ is coming, and that has raused the greatest satisfaction he: Rumor 1 it that both he and the king of Den- mark would not come, owing to the severe weather. That is nonsense. The czarewitch is not only coming, but is bringing beautiful m 'nts with him. It will be remembered Bismarck t betw: that at one time «d his utmost to make a match 'n Princess Marguerite and the czare- witeh, but Empress Frederick refused, for reasons which cannot be published in the columns of the Herald. vor will be madeto give the warm welcome. He upy the room at the palace of the formerly tenanted by the Czar Nich- Today T made a call at the Frederick pal- ace and found the w er witl sents were coming in at every The kaiser sends his sister a mag- viviere of diamonds, with ear- rings and three loops of diamonds, with large pearls in the center. Empaess Frederick presents a complete pareure of iamonds and emeralds, also a magnificent of diamonds in form of marguerites, the center formed by pearls. Th stones in the latter, and the lower part is formed by a plait of the princess’ own hair, Uni A scandal piquant to g moment. nificent arthed a Savory Mess, of which are too into print, has set the whole of Leip: 1i The center character is the banker Weiss, of the firm of Brahm Schmidt, many times a millionaire, but noted as a de- baucher of the worst kind. The scenes de- veloped in the Bayrischstrasse, near the Hotel St where lived Mme. Vorletzer, the mistress of the banker, She had taken the ground and first floors. Weiss paid the rent. In these quarters scenes of the wildes! uchery took place, wherein young girls were the features. ymbols of the members who took part in these orgies were 10 and 20-mark gold pieces with one side smoothed and a figleaf stamped upon it. A paper closely connected with the police that the public prosecutor has issucd orders that any woman found wearing one of the adges shail at once be arrested. This has put fathers, brothers and lovers on the alert, and many painful scenes have been the out- come of the discovery of the token, which in many c s has been worn as a bangle or brooch. Wives, fiancees and daughters are included in the victims of Weiss, who, by the way, has left his apartment. Among those ineriminated is the wife of an honest artisan, who had debauched her two young and pretty daughters to her own profit. The confrontation of the husband with his wife and daughtel the police, the det . when he was sumnioned by made teagic and pitiful in the extreme. The whole affair 1 scene has been reported upon to the king of Saxony, but the matter does not end th It has ramifications which extend to a house in the Rue Nicolai, reveal ing a white slave trade in young girls to North and South America, Holland and Turkey. The couple who run this establish ment confess to having sold sixteen young girls and having sent them abroad from Hamburg, Caprivi Still Scheming. 'he parliamentary commission hesitates now more than ever to grant the request of Caprivi for the military bill. The chancellor ised all kinds of sp: s to the mem be f the Reichstag without avail. promise has become the watchword, what compromise it would be beyond the sphere of any one to say atpresent. Heis not quite so clever in this respect as was Bis- y the latter used to beat the big drum in fine style, whereas Caprivi has merely the same tune in a ve minor ke The fact still remains that the people, as al; the ofcers, are strongly against the bill, The center party es to yield, notwith- standing impe andishments and the fact is it may be a very long time the military bill will be pa: even in its mutilated form Bavon Schorlmer, a of the center, has just been decorated, but on the other hand Dr. Lieber, another prominent member of the center, has rather tartly declared tnat nothing will satisfy his party but the two years service, Married a Ballet ¥ er. Loxpox. Jan. 21l.—Much sensation has been caused in Irish circles by the announce- ment ghat Mr. T. B. Curran, member of Par- linment for Kilkenny, hus been privately «d at the registry oftice i Manchester an Australian danseuse by the name of ie Brooks, who is playing the principal Com- but representative member DAY MORNING, , if the thaw continues, | It is a significant fact that | most | DU La, J. \\l‘ ARY art, that ota boy,in @ local pantomime Mr. Curran is about 22 ypays of age, and the youngest member of the, House of Commons. WAS ALMOST WAR. Actlon of England Egypt A Serionsness in Every Aspes [Copyrighted 1893 by James Gordon Bennett.] Panis, Jan, 21 New York Herald Cable Special to Tww B While events in France succeed each other with almost hourly rapidity, ang the mud continues to be stirred, the international politics of Europe donot cease to inderest. This week we hive 1 se interesting occu: First of all, there were the inc ypt If France had not been so much oceuy with internal affairs, her protest against England’s action would have been much energetie. It is certain thut England overstepped her rights. It is impossible to admit that a protector not even ofcially recoznized by Europe should insist upon the appointment of only choosing How the AMale Started of the o proached rences. lents in mor ministers of her own In reality the origin curious, he tri alliance desired to ¢ nitely embroil England and ¥y and hoped to provoke a. serious discussion be- tween the two countries. Pieuller Pascha an Austrian attache to the person of the khedive, provoked the erisis at the instiga- tion of the Austro-German consul general at Cairo. The plan failed, but the action and intervention of the triple alliance is incon- testible, since the German and Austrian em sies in Paris kuew of what had happened in Cairo. A curious fact king and qu s the reconciliation of the 1 of Servin, after scandals of every kind had been discussed, and even blows had taken place. They will both re- tuen to Belgrade, where Milan will political tutor to his son. . The reconcilia was brought about by the complete ruin of the king. What he lost at cards and spent with damsels of the opera amounted to about 8,000,000 francs per annum, Queen Natalie is very ambitious and desires to reign again Will Have a Bad “The impression produced by the diplomatic world deplorable body sympathizes with the couple Besides this the return of King Milan to his tes is likely to make trouble. The situa tion is always serious, especially after the centrance of Roumania into the triple liance, The treaty is ngt yet signed, but the cause of agreement wys\drawn up during the wedding of the erawn prince and s Marie of Edigburgh, when the n emperor and the king of Roumania were present s adhesion to the triple v disagreeable for Rus. sia, which must pass by Roumania in order to enter Turkish Bulgaria. Notwithstanding all the political assurances of the sover cigns, declarations made with a diplomatic view, I p still consider that the situation is slowly but. surely becoming worse. A storm is coming which will burst later, but all the preliminary symptoms are these, shown up in bold zelief. JACQUES ST, CERE, this comedy in is Cholera at Halle, [Copyrighted 1893 by Jgmes Gordon Bennett.] Hal . 21.—(Ne¥ York Herald Cyble —Special to Tnr Bee.)~There were seven- teen cases of cholera and two deaths here today. 'The epidemic ‘48 pronounced un- doubtedly Asiatic. Prof. Koch suys the outbreak 1s caused by the Saale n\m water. Altogether to date there are ty-three ases and nineteen deaths. The Magdebu ger Zeitung says three manths ago a nurse ame to Halle from Hamburg and brought acilli in her clothes, which under favorable circumstances were revived. PO 57 . FIREMEN KILLED. + Y., Visited by a Disastrous and Fatal Fire, Rocuester, Y., Jan. 21.—A fire broke out at 10 o'clock tomight in the McKay buildin -Sto) structure in Stone stre The fire started in the fourth story and hardly had the ajarm been given before the four upper floors were a roaring mass of flames. Half an hour after the alarm w; given a corner of tha wall fell upon three firemen, killing. one instantly and injuring the two oth One of these two latter died three hours later. The names of the llrvmvn are . R W. BURNS, killed. ly injured. FRrRED SACKETT, who-escaped with a broken leg and other injuries. The building was oceupied by nearly a dozen, manufacturing concerns, including a factory, a shoe tactory and a grocery store on the ground floor. It was valued at £0,000, and was insured for £35000. The estimated loss the coutents of the build- ing is 200,000, about half insured. AvLtooNa, Pa., Jan, —Property value of many thousands of do stroyed by five at Tyrone to in the stove store and dws of Harry Wandeson, Juniata street, and before its progress was stayed over a block of business s were destroyed, The firemen were unable to cope with the flames and assistance was sent from this city, A lady narrowly burning and one of the sustained serious, if not fatal injuries while | engaged in fighting the flames. No estimate | of the loss or insurance can be given, Rochester, to the was de- It started and dwelling hous ‘Tyrone firemen THR Explosion of a Boller at Naphanes, India While Being Teste sueN, Ind., Jan. 21.—The water works boiler at Naphanes, a'town of 1,500 inhabit- ants, ten miles southwest of this city, ex- plod k. this afternoon, killing three men and ijwipg two others. The boiler also operated. the electric plant and had just been repaired. It was being tested when the accidept happened. The killed are N. A. FRENCH, of the town board, GEORGE PARKER. I'RICAN JOHNSON, he injus 3 Joxas WaistLER, boiler maker, Isaac WaistLER, boiler maker, The stundpipe of the system collapsed not long since, fatally injuring several men Sufocated by Natural Gas. INpiaNarors, Ind,, Jan. 21.-As were no signs of life at the home of O'Neal, 40 Bre dside . aven this morning, friends brok father, mother, sister and almost at the point of de been suffo succeeded in resuscitating and daughter, who are, it is L affected They Thawed Out . ias LogaN, U. T, Jan. 21—A giant powder explosion at Richmond, U. T., tore Ben, Lewis to pieces, James Kerr was mortally wound . there Henry 8 o'clock nd found iter lying They had A physician 11 byt the , at in day, ath FA ligv Powder, Thomas Exoter, kred Ramscy nder Pratt were badly hurt ana se others injured less seriously. The men w blasting grave:, and while thawing out some glaut powder the explosion occurred, :d death by | | 1, fatally | min | 1, both arms and one leg being blown | Upper | | coutents a gas, the pres | too g —SIXTEEN PAGE 189 HARVEST OF DEATH Awful Scenes of Suffering at a Railroad Wreck in Illinois, OIL AND PASSENGER TRAINS COLLIDE Fire Oatohes in the Oil and an Explosion Follows with Terrible Results, | MANY ENVELOPED IN THE BURNING FLUID Fifty Smoke Grimmed and Fire Scarred Victims of the Accident. CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE OF A SWITCHMAN His Carelessness Brin, " Mourning to Many Familios artrending Incidents at the Hospital and at th of the Terrible Wr It ™ e Sr. Lovs, Mo, in its cons ing and years, occurr Junction, L., , Cincinnati & St limited passenger, e and four ec for the east, ran into a switch half alf a mile north of Wann Junction, and crashed into a train consisting of seven tank wrs standing thercon. The result was a fire id afterward an explosion which has already cost six persons their lives, fatally viously hurt still at property loss to which ppall occurred in on, or Alton he Cleveland, southwost- of Jan. 21.—A wreck, juences is one of the most a that has Lat Wann Junc this morning. I« consisting disastrous an injured several more others, and the compan, List ot the 1y WEBB ROSS, limited. HIRAM CORNELIUS, Towa, EDWARD MILLER, Alton Junction. WO UNIDENTIFIED MEN and ONE name unknown. All were burned to death “The following were fatally the head and body : W. AL SHU CK. Upper Alton, FRANK SCULLIN, Alton, 111, JOSEPH SHERMAN. Alton, 111, JOHN WILKINSON, Alton, 111 JOHN FRED, dsville Crossing, TIL. JOHN LOUK, Alton. FRAZIER, St. Louis, Mo, DWARD MAUPIN, Alton. RMAN, Alton. MCCARTILY, Alton. Alton Junction. RANK BARTON, Stamford, Ont. LEWIS MCINTOSH, Alton Junction, WILLIAM MCINTOSH, Alton Junction. GEORGE STAPLES, Alton Junction. JOHN HENRY, Alton Junction. JOHN AHA ast 8t. Louls, WILLIAM MILLER Alton Junction. JAMES MULANE, Alton Junction. The others injured were: W. C. HAnnrisoN, Wann. HENRY PENNINGTON, Wann. Louts DexeAve, Montreul, Cun. HeNRY Priariy, Alton, Josepn LutTRELLE, Alton. WitLiay E. Riciarnsos. Alton, DAVID RicHARDSON, Alton, HERMAN EsTRE, Alton, Fraxk Bawrierr, Brantford. Can. HAMELINE VALENTINE, Philadelphia, ALLAN HAMMOND, Alton Junction. B. Mexmus, PAT O'MEARA. Z. B. Jobe. Canres HARRIS, Jonx Bunk JOnN ZEISLER HRATM RICHARDSON, Jonx FiNLEY. Joux McPIKE, EN CALDW On Whom the Blame Rests. ¢ southwestern limited leaves St. Louis at 8:05 p. m., and is due at Wann Junction at 8:48. Wann Junction is a_flag station on the Chicago & Alton and the Big Four railway, and is about four miles east of Alton. There are no sidetracks there, but about half a mile beyond ata small village known as Alton Junction ave several switches. The tender of these switches, Gratkin by name, is also a barber. Upon him is iaid the blame by the railway officials and trainmen for the ccident e now searcning for him, as he fled during the excitement follow- ing the dual accident. The limited train, consisting of an engine and tender, a combination baggage and buffet car and three coaches, reached Wann twelve minutes late. It reached Alton Junc- tion running at the rate of forty miles an hour, the engineer being desirous of mak up lost time. A switch was wurned so us to send the flying train onto one of the side tracks, On this t only a few yards dis tant from the switch, were seven tank cars filled with refined lubricating oil, consigned from Beardstown to the Waters Picrce Oil company of this city Crashed Into the Oil Cars. As soon as he saw the danger Engineer Ross called to his fireman, Dick White, to jump for his life. He then reversed his engine and applied the air brakes, But he was 0o late. The engine crashed entirely through twoof the tank cars, splitting them in half, and was then forced on and entirely over the others. The oil irom the wrecked tanks at once caught fire, and a sea of flames instantly surrounded the engincer. He was soon a erisp and blackened corpse. ‘The five ped with a few slight bruis cngineer's heroism checked the spec of the train sufticienily to prevent any seri ous injury to the passengers, of whom there were about sixty. In the bageage depart ment of the first car were the wails, eleven nd a corpse, and these were all burned few moments, The corpse was that of A. Morrison, being for ded from the southwest to Boston. The s spread and all were soon 1 ruins Three of the oil tanks, which were broken open by the engine crashing over also consumed in her with the engine he and around the by caused a g 1 and 1 n, 111, e Jured ginecr of the BOY, burned about WILLIE DAN HARKI pieces of baggags in a them brief space of time, nd tender. villagers n crowded k. anxious to assist if possible, any unfortunate who might be in need of help. Crowds from Wann and from Alton and Alton also began as soon as the news spread. 1t time (11 o'clock) when a great nessed the destruction of the pany's property Awful Seenes. passengers ing w WUS UL vd this wit railroad com Two of the tank cars were but the heat of them generated their we of which became ft uninjured the burnir from by the engine oil all around t for the casks 10 with- stand. Simultuneously, with fearful force, they exploded, throwing pieces of their iron sides far out into the adjacent h iron and rrive | ches, which lefthere this | permanently 1 THE BEE BULLETIN. Weather for On nd Vieinity Fair; Colder; Variable Winds Istone’ Caprivi 8 Awful Resul Sena Crucial Test Approaches. 14 to Be Satisfio of w Wreek Near Alton. orial Situation at Lincoln, Doings of the I Departments, in Session, d Comment, 1 Girls Run Away. Building S, © Among the Progress of ieties, Art in Omaha om Lond Soclety Nows. L Stage Gossiy Additio 3 5 of Statesmen, Fashlon's Lutest Freaks. L Omaha's Gene Commercial wnd Finn Last Week in L, Musical Matters, Stage Notes and Theatrical Talk, L Bok's Litorary Gossip. In Woman's World . Sports of tho S cial Circles, fields and showering upon the assembled crowd of sightseers & mass of flame lquid o arose appeals for help and evies of and for several minutes the s indescribable. Almost without ex injured were burned about the f A their e it temporarily, if not destro 1 Hastily improvised litters were formed of doors and shutters and the dead and injured taken to Wanu, where they placed the hospital Word was dispatched to Alton by a fast courier, (the heat from the burning oil had melted all the telegraph When the train bearing the dead and wounded had ached Alton a little after noon, great crowds met it and as fast as the bodies were taken out of the train wiv mothers and daughters would snateh frantically at the ving. Finally all the dead taken care of the persed. terro w nic were in w ) cov and wounaed werc and crowd dis Seenes at th Before the hospital door another throng was gathered. Inside all was fusion and hurry. Dr. Haskell, the cian in charge, returned with the tr hurried to and fro, gathering about him his staff and urging his assistants to greater speed. Sisters of Charity busied themselves in taking the suffering to the various In a little while three rooms on the main floor were filled with the wounded. ‘The sick that had oceupied them were borne out into the hall or carricd into other crowded. he sc Hospital, immense con physi in, and rooms less es in the rooms when the wounded were removed from the rough temporary ters into the beds were heartrending. Lying on the couches, the dirty, uked AgS were cut aw from the bodies, and laid bare the horrible work of the burning oil. The hands and faces of all were scorched, torn and bleeding. The lips and noses were swollen and distorted, and the oyes woro cither burned out or woro in- flamed, and crusted with dust and blood. The hands of many were burned to a crust, finge: were missing and arms broken. Several of the victims, when uncovered, were found to be without cuticle, the flames having cooked an | Eurned it until it either clung to the clothing in removal or fell away of its own accor In the Chambers of Suffering. When all arrangements had the public were admitted. of mothers, fathers, wives and daughters hurried alos the aisle and into the cham- bers of suffering Here they viewed each face, but in many es witnout avail, for the forms and faces were unrecogni Soon by each bed, with anxious, te od s and disheveled app stood t! atives and friends, whisper words of comfort into the dy ears, sob- bing words of cheer that were half choked in the utterance, At 3:30 p. m. a second train Wann with four more bodies nes were enacted, E Al of the injure that they might be fr “Oh, I'm blind," said one. I want to die.” And then a loved mother bowed low over the moanin rm and buried her tear-stained face on the convulsed form on the cot. Several little boys were among the victims, The engine, tender, she en tank cars and a co track are totally ruined. ings which stood near the burned with their contenty The total pecuniary loxs ageregate §200,000, ol been made, An eager throng arrived from and the same 1 begged to be killed. from their pain. ol want to di our coaches, the lerable section of Two small dwell- track were also will probably Story of a Spectator, Accounts of the explosion as given by eye witnesses do not differ greatly in detail, One of these witnesses, Robert Curdy, said tonight to an Associated press reporter “I think the of the plosion must have spent itself in my Although I was 600 feet distant when itoceurred, the flames swept by me and rig, I can hardly not likea cannon; as the rushing of Looking around me 1 running 1w all directions forco ex direction and passed in a sheet overmy horse which were standing near describe the noise. 1t w nor like thunder; but more a mighty foree of air. saw boys and men through the flelds, ne man headed toward me. 1 did not recognize him, but Iealled to him to stop, which he did. Thad my knife in my hand, and as he halted I rushed up to him and cut and away through the sheet of until there remained not a vestige of original habiliments I tried with my ) him in his awful plight, my hands 1 did what I could to alleviate his pain. He rec- ognized my voice, and with his burned and sightless eyes turned toward me, he man d to inform me thut he was my old friend, James Murray. In pulling off the sleeve of his coat, the skin of his hand stuck to it and came off like o glove. [ threw dust over him and rolled him in the dirt, When 1 had extinguished the little was there in that charred but ing mass having any resemblance Murray. Others hurrying up in charge and bundling him into & wagon bore him to his home in Alton Over ne slashed flame tige his voie as with console flames, breath to James took him n the embankment and to the west of the scene of the horror, Mr ‘day the wins of a boy of 14 or 15 years of age. ar the house continued Curdy, smoldering It 1 shouted s v is supposed his name was Hagen to the flecing to walk vut fanned the fla Hurry took Wil MeCarthy, a lad of had done 1 I could for him, he lay down with scarcely a bit of clothing left on him, and in his agony rolled and rolled over on the suow and ice,” not run ining ing on 1 over 13, After I nes. | | | 9 1 HAD A LITTLE SCARE Independents Set a Rumor Afloat Whick Frightens the Ropublioans Some, FINE CHANCE FOR SNAP JUDGMENT Nearly All the Republicans Away for Sun- day, and the Populists Ready. INDEPENDENTS LAUGH AT THE IDEA They Say They Have No Notion of Electing a Man Until After Tuesday. DOUGLAS COUNTY CONTESTS COMING UP Rumors That the Fato of the Has Already Been Settled Republicans Congressman McKelghan Denivs That He Drin ks Ever Did or Drink, Neb., Jan. 21— [Special Telegram ]—There was an outbreak of the nd ague among th publicans hero 9 o'clock 1 sed by the that few of the inde- pendents 1 tho city for the Sunday recess, and that more than a third of the republican membe: and senators had gone. 1t was reported that the independents had discovered the situa- tion some time before, and that they were hurrying their men in a caucus. It was at once surmised that the populists were pres paring to take snap judgment, hoping to clect asenator in the absenee of so manv of the opposition, that nothing like a majority of all the members would be requi The Paddock men were the ones who made the startling discovery, and there was wild seul \phooftices to apprise tened danger, and about left ving to the teleg, the absentees of the th natifying them to hasten back by the firss train, The situation brought on numer- ous discussions as to how many to clect in joint cons vention, and while mauy were of the opinion that it would takea majority of all the mems bers, the consensus was to the effect that g majority of & quorum would be sufficient. As a joint majority of the members of each louse constitutes a quorum, it will be seen that thirty-five votes would elect in case there was barely a quorum present, Wil All Hurry Back, It is now practically certain, however, such a contingency will not arise, as many of the absentees will return on tomorrow ning's train and block any game of that Kind, in case it is attempted The independents laughed at the idea that there v any scheme of the described on foot, and t that the republicans were needlessiy frightened. Thoy say that nothing of the kind was thought of for an instant, and thas they-would not take advantage of such an opportunity at this time, even if it was offered, as they hold that an election before Tuesduy will not be legal, and will insist on each body balloting singly in its re ive house on that day to fully comply with what they regard to be the meaning of the law in articular., ything points to a hot battle the coming week and there is evidence of more ling in each of the parties tonight, addock and anti-Pade dock among the republicans, Boyd and anti-Boyd among the democrats, and Powers and _anti-Powers among the inde- pendents, There are growing evidences of nternecine strife among the partisans of every brand, and it is becoming more prob- able hour that before the fight is over purtisunship will be thrown to the winds, and that the contest will become a personal one with every candidate for hims To Unseat Republicans. The Douglas county cases come up in the house Wednesday, but that is not far enough. off to place them after the senatorial elec- tion. The republ will move to have the case of each candidate considered by ite self, instead of having them dumped in o bunch, Some of the democrats and indes pendents are opposed to this move, which would allow the contes tees to vote on every case but their own, whereas if considered collec- seven republican votes would be thrown out on the whole matter. The claim of the opposition tonight is that the evidence is the same in each case and that no one of the interested parties has any right to vote, no matter how the cases are taken up. 15 A conceded that the majority 't will be rable, bus there will be a minority report that will attract attention. There will be a hot fight over the adoption of the veport. The scnate will go into the contest business Monday, but it will hardly go farther at that tin the reference of the evidence to the com- mittee on privileges and elections, MeKelghan D n't Drink. Congressman McKeighan has a gri inst Tie Bee for making the statement » has lately been under the influence liquor. In speaking of the Latter tonight the congressman from the Fifth district suid were required that ance report does a great in- jury; 1 think 1 the source of Tue Bee's information, and 1 wish to say that the democrats who gave out the state- ment will repent their action in sackeloth and ashes before I am through with them, The fact of the matter is I amonly in Line coln now for the reason that my health will not enable me to get away. I am suffering from inflammatory rheumatism and am under- going the severest treatment. I never drink liquor of any kind. I n truthe fully say that I never drauk a glass of liquor in my life, except when the doctors gave it to me for the rheumatism. What is more, I will say that I ne never tell smutty stories, and I have never played a me of cards in my life. Lifeis too short, ther too many serious things to be considered After this Mr, McKeighan gave his idea of the senatorial situation s View of the Situstions “I'he independents,” he said, “‘will never sist in_the election of a democrat to the United States senate. If the independents )t put up A man acceptable to the demo- be ure that the demo- crats have no man that will be acceptable to the independents. 1 don't bea in fact, 1 in—that all of the spendent leaders together, Powers, , Neville, Burrows, and if you please, myself, could turn the indepepdent vote to @ mocrat or to o ropublican. The indepens dents cannot vote for either a democrat or & republican and go home and face their cons stituents “It is my {dea and my wish that the iudes me know and can crats,