Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 10, 1893, Page 2

roo) What s the total sheriffs that you have fite and property number of deputy sworn_in to protect and prospect of once in your and also n each of the two r counties? Copios of the dispatch sivea hero | Indicate that the officers have been masters of the situation. Nobody has been hurt ex- copt strikors, e al of whom have been killed and a Jirge number wounded. I this is #0, why call for troops, and {f additional help 18 necded why not swear in wore deputy sherifls? Answor at once. The same telogram was sent to J. H. Gil bert, sheriff of Cook county. At 10:50 p. m. Governor Altgeld received a telogram from Sheriff Kennedy of Will | county. It was state that it was next t impossible to secure men who will Borve as deput The use of deputies had the effect merely to bring ona fight and results, as it did today, in blosdshed. Ho belioves a military demonstration will save both lifc and property. He was informed that another movement would be under taken tomorrow, and he feared the result, which could ve avoided by a_ strong display of force. His deputies and posse numbered but twenty-five y At 11 o'clock Governor Altgeld was wait- ing to hear from the sheriff of Cook county before forming any definite action relative to calling out the militia. Troops Ordered Out. At 11:30 o'clock Governor had not received any word sherif of Cook county, but further outbroak at Lemont, he ordered Adjutant General | Orendorff to g0 at once to the scenc of action and telegrams wero sent calling out the Second and Third | regiments to repair at once to Lemont and | Joliet ana bo there by daybreak tomorrow morning. The Sccond regiment is composed of Chicago companies and they cannot reach | Lemont in & very few hours. “This regiment was ordered to proceed to Joliet. The Third regiment is composed of companic from Joliet, Streator and surrounding towns. Adjutant General Orendorff laft on the midnight train on the Chicago & Alton for Lemont and will arrive there about § o'clock in the morning and will remain upon the ground until peace s restored among the | strikers. Altgeld from the fearing Renay to M Cuicago, Ill, June 9.— out the Sccond regiment was not received by Colonel Judd, commanding, until 1: tonight. The regiment is quartered in two armories, one at the corner of Washington boulovard and Curtis strect; the other being on Michizan avenue on the South Side. By 2 o'clock this morning both armories were the scenes of thoe liveliest description. The Second regiment is fully 1,000 strong and fully capable of handling several times more sirikers than are to be found at Lemont, s s AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA. Burly Loafers Beg Meal and Steal a Wateh in Return. Tt will be safe for persous who are called upon by beggars to watch them. Yesterday two burly loafers called at the residence of John Alexander on A street between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth and asked for somothing to eat. They were accom- modated, and shortly after they were gone a silver watch was missing. The watch was lying on a stand and was used o give medicine by to Mr. Alexander's sister, who is confined to her bed by sickness. The un- grateful thugs have thus far evaded arrest. Rounded Up by the Police, ‘There were 50 many visitors in the polico court room yesterday that the floor had the appearance of a pen at the stock yards on a busy day. Bill Greeley, & man who is in for 8 foew days for vagrancy, took compassion on the judge and last meht’ gave the place a first-class cleaning up. Seven idlers were disposed of and A, C. Anderson, who was thought to be slight], demented, was discharged. Bit achuer John Menach and Joe Ching, all musicians, were fined £l each for disorderly conduct. George Iox, who lives at Thirty-seventh and [ streets, re- fused to pay 50 cents to the dog eatcher for pound moncy and was arrested. Fox said he ‘was willing to pay 2 for a dog tag but he re- fused to stand any furthe sessment. The dog catcher has had considerable trouble within the last few days and says his voca- tion is the most trying of any in the city Two pairs of pantaloons were stolen from Goldstein's place on N street yesterday fore- noon. Chief Beckett found a suspicious character hiding behind a door in onc of the rooms over the Nebraska Liquor house and lockea him up. Commenc ent Kxercises. The program for the commencement exer- clses of the High school which takes place on June 23 is as follows: Instrumental musie alutatory 3 Essay—Thoe Infl Moral Ju Aroverio .. Vocal Solo LColling' Orchestra sther Gertrade Erion of Fashion on Our Dolia Anna Wells i ardson Open Thy Lattlee A : 2 Miss Sadie Tinley Essay—1rom school Life to Life's sehool Fas; PWoins Blanche Glasgow Rssuy Gunan .’. . +...Mil¢red Ethel Dennis Class Tiistory Orin Sylvester Merrill Tnstrumen il music Coiling' Orchestra | Essiy-The Mission of thie Agitator WJennie Mauline L Nora Mue Sn By chorus ur dor Essay—The Nowspaper Th 1SS orus. tillor Essuy—Ho Who Cannot Paing Must Grind tho Colors..... : Marietta I, Howe COlass Song—Down in the Dewy Dell +oo By the Gradunting Class Marietta I, Howe as by the president of LB Chicek. Stole a Fire Team. A queer case of horse stealing has been reported to the police. On Wedn ay, while the firemen were ma a run, the two large, fine sorrel horses st No. 2 engine house disappearcd, One was tied to a stake eating grass at Thirty-fiest and It streets and the othier was loose and grazing in the same loculity. This team was given to thecity by Mr. Cud- ahy, the packer, with the proviso that the animals shoula be used for no other pucpese thau as fire horses. For Lhis work it scems the horses were no good, and although they were kept at the engine houso they wore not used. Search hus been made in overy direction and the animals have not heen od. The horses are beauties and would be easily de- tooted if they were scen in this iocality. Pythian M. Memorial services will be obsc Knight of Pythias members in South ( on Sunday next. All Knights are reque tomeet at the hall of lodge No v ol o'clock in_the morning. From thero they | will march to Laurel Hill cemetory and dec-- orate the graves of their departed brethren, | In tho ovening services will be Leid at the Episcopal church, when Kev. H. G. Sharpley \ch an appropriate sermon. 180 ity Gomsip. Another large crowd of sports attended thie Faces ot Papillion yestordny. The enumerators work of taking the school census W. H. Crawford starts today for Chicago with two speedy nags, Bob Lee and John L, Wilkes. Richard Swift of the Cudahy force, a | companied by his family, left yesterday for | Chicago. | i | menced the Robert Larkin, the genial young man who has charge of the ol at Cudahy’'s, left ye take in the smargarine department terday for Chicago to ights of the biy fair el 2, Tre: Puck: “Loog he Louisville to a sehod siyou'il have to disch from Mussachusetts.’ “Why “Why, sahi, she's telling the scholahs | at the human body is 80 per cout water.” | R He Smoked ipe. New York Weekly: Wifo-My dear, Il have togo andseo a doctor. i'm afraid I Bave a tobaceo hears and it's often fatal Husband —Ciood gracious! You don't smoke? Wife with you. on. suid Colonel Gore director of that eit, rge that now teacher | 0, but 1 live under the same roof r— Concealment Neoessary. Detroit Tribune: Lillie—Why, Billy, why do you put your umbrella under your coati illy—Smithers is coming | should | based on the | locked for by the mc | not be disposed | mesmerism, THE OMAHA T0 INVESTIGATE RAILROADS Their Management to Be Inquired Into by an Illinois Grand Jury, LINES ACCUSED OF DISCRIMINATING New York Said to Be Profiting at the Ex- e of Chieago and Other Western Points—Witnesses thut Have Been Sum 9. tion com- Curcago, TIL,Juno 9.—An investi into rallway management will be menced by the grand jury on Monday next This promises to be the most far-reaching and thorough inquiry into the affairs of the big railroad companies that has ever been undertaken by the Interstale Commerco commission and 1t is said the present in auiry is to bo begun after a diligent survey of the situation by the commissioners and Attorney General Olney Some of those on whom subpmnas have re: G. B, Blanchard, chair Traffic association; K. C. Donald, o chairman of the Western | Trafiic association; B, W. Caldwell, ¢ man Western Passenger association; W. White, western trafic agent of the Atch | ison; (. S. Crane, assistant passenger agent | of the Wabash railroad; J. Charlton, gen- 1 passenger agent of the Alton; Major H. Smith, manager Lackay ris this all. The Ticket B on has also boen served with notices to in attendance. Complaints of both pas- enger and freight discriminations been 1nade to the commission, 1t is hout the castern, western and southwest- orn lines. New York was said to be profit- ing at the expense of Chicago and western points. Rates bevween these two points favor eastward traftic, and 1t is charged that some of the passenger agents aro selling blocks of return tickets - good from Chicago cast to brokers here. Immigration business will also be a subject of inquiry and the rates fixed by the various fast freight lines. The attorney general has sent A. G. Safford from Washington to assist Attorney Mil- christ in the investigati been served, man Central W N EXCURSIONS TO THE ALR, They Will Not Start from the West Before August 1. Cmicago, 1il, June 9.—There will be no World's fair excursion trains from the west before August 1. Whether there will be any | after that time depends on circumstances. “This applies only to the iines in the Western Passenger association. The Atchison and Alton may run excursion trains before that time, The matter of cheap cxcursions to the fair was tho only thing considercd at the associatiom meetin was agreed that no cheap excursion trains be run before July 25 and that if no agrecment was reached at a_meeting of the association to be called at that time the roads would bo freo to take individual action m the matter, provided any vond wishing to run cheap excursion trains shall give five days notice to all competing lines. No_notic uch an excursion can be given before July 25, and that means August 1 be- foro tho fivst éxeursion can run from the west to the fair, unless it comes over the Atchison or Alton. These two roads have been awaiting the action of tho association and are not prepared 1o say at once just what they will do. The result of the conference over cheap excursions is not axactly what is expected, though it1s a de- cided movement for the better, considered from a railway standpomt the last obstaclo in adoption of the rovised the Western Passenger prevented a general demorali business thronzhout tne w It was i far more peaceful outcome of tho long and prot 1 meetings which the tion has held,of late than was expected The agreemerit as it now stands will give theroads ample opportumty to learn whether people of the west desire to travel on regular trains or on cheap excursion trains which consist of coaches alonc. The association agreement was adopted, to become effective June 15, provided the lines absent from toduy's meeting agree. These lines were the Minneapolis & St, Louis and the Burling- ton, Cedar Rapids & Northern. today. of of | and Cutling Freight Kates, St. Pavn, Minn., June 9.—The Great orthern today entered the lists and cut a big slice off Pacitic coust freight rates from the Twin Cities, Mississippi river points and ¢ Milwaukee common points. The reduction as first announced wis to be of effect only in classitication vates, but the Great Northern people today said that they had instructed their agents 10 use the new classification ratesas the basis for a corresponding reduction to tl points on commoditics. The commodit sduction, has not been'issued vreparation. and will be pushed reduction is sweeping in m respects. The first-class rate from St nd Minneapolis to Scattle is reduced from per 100 to £2.08 and the fourth class from $1.60 to 21.40. To Spokane the first-class rate is eut from $1.60 to §1.40 and the fourth class from 8155 to 145, The first-class rate to Helena and Butte City, Mont., was #2355 It is now reducea to §1.65 and the fourth class from $1.40 to 31.50. The other reduc- tions ure in the same proportion. ‘The wholesale reduction is justified by the Northern ofticinls on the gorvad that been mado necessary to protect their the etition of rail and wiater o5 from eastern points which have resulted in the war of rates between tho nadian and Southern Pacitie routes. 1t is belioved tho Northern Pacitic and Omaha roads will follow suit soon. common | licago ana but in soon. The it ha interests from com TALKS ON 11 . SIDE, from d A gentleman vecently arrived Sioux City said to a BEE man yeste in rogard to the recent collapse the "The feeling as to the future is divided, some being discouraged and othe | conraged. On the whole the solid busi- | ness men are glad that the agony of sus- pense is over with, as the crash in tho quarter where it oceurred had been e conservative ele- people with appre- time Now that a r place in the spocu- lative ventures, therve is a feeling of re: lief, as well an assurance that the growth henceforth will be wholly of solid character. As eastern money will to come there now, at least not for some time in the future, the growth during the next few years will be principally from within,” | ens mient of the busing hension for sow liguidation is takin “Notwithstandix in orange acreage in vears,” romarked g hotels last evening, the large increase alifornia in recent guest at one of the "It is a fact that the demand fort product keeps pace with the supply. Almosteverybody that goes there wants to raiso oranges. I know ono man who went there & fow years since who set out ten acres of olives, and | they are now yielding him a profit of an acre. Last year he cleared #10,000 from the place, ~ Olives don't re- | quire any irrigation, and are almost no | trouble at all to raise. There ave ver, fow olive farms in the state, the prevai ing idea being orange culture.” “All this claim about rain making is about on a par with the so-called psychi- cal phenomena said to be produced by and concerning which so much has r ly been written in both Kurope and America,” said a gentleman of scientific attainments yesterday, 1 see by THE BEE that the latest pre- tender in the artificial rain fake hails from Topeka, Kan. Prof. Newcomb of the Naval observatory knocked that pre- tension in the head, nearly a yvear ago, “Do you fear that he will steal itt" “Ng, that he will recognice is " with the simple remark that moisture canuot be produced by noise, and with- | a pestilence, | thorof a | make | much of this | banking business in Omaha. | about to be out moisture you eannot have rain. Tn- vestigation into all the rainfalls alleged o have been caused by Prof. Dyrenfurth last summer in Texas showed that in | every instance the rain was the result of naturnal causes, and commonly extended over vastly larger areas than those cov- erod by the rain-making oxperiments. The notion relied upon by these quasis scientific people ginally from an allusion in Plutarch that a beliefl ex- isted among the Romans that rain fell after heavy battles, but the would- be rain-makers seemed to overlook the fact that gunpowder was not usod by the Romans, and Plutarch explicitly states that the superstition roforred to was based upon the idea that the gods sent the rain to purify the corruption produced by the corpses of the slain for the purpose of preventing It was not supposed that the elash of arms had caused a humid condition of the atmosphere. The au- recent work on war and the weather, written with a view of bolster- ing the idea of making rain by means of oxplosives, could only show that of 2,200 battles of the American eivil war rain followed but 7 per cent of them. Yet he imagined that he had made out his case, just as the Hindus in charge of the great pagoda at Tanjore inform the traveler that the edifice ‘casts no shadow,’ insisting upon this pious decla- ration even while he secs the shadow as plain as Indian sunshine can make it. The intricate operations of nature which result in the production of rain arose | you may be sureare not to be duplicated by bombarding the air.” An Atehison lawyer, says the Globe of that city, was recently placed in a somewhat embarrassing position in Omaha. Ho and his wife were regis- tered at the Paxton. He went out in the afternoon to attend to some business, when Leo S. Estelle, the well known lawyer, sent him a note asking him to call at his room. He signed himseif Slstelle.” The lawyer's wife got hold of the note, and the lawyer made the best spooch of his life in demonstrating that Estelle was the name of a man. “The commercial world has but very little occasion for feeling alarmed over the alleged financial ¢ that we hear s0 much about,” said President Gibbon of the Omaha Commercial clubto a BEE reporter. “‘As a matter of fact there is agood, healthy tone to business, par- ticularly in wholesale and jobbing lines, and all that is nceded to make this a prosperous season is the confidence of the people. The paniey feeling we hear about is theresult of a fearful imagina- tion rather than the effects of any real or threatening danger. In financial matters, as in matters of physical health, d deal depends on the imagination and the confidence of the people con- cerned. A man can worry himself into asick spell if he permits himsélf wo brood over imaginary ills “The most damaging thing to business that can be inspired is the cireulation of rroundless vumors with regard to the standing of banks and other financial institutions. This invariably frightens the small depositors and they im- mediately draw out the surplus that they h wosited in the bank. While these deposits are not large, individu- ally, they camount to a vast sum in the wregate, and when this is drawn from the banks it isnot put into cireulation by investment in any other line of busine: carried to the private homes the peopie and laid away to become a ation for thicves and a source of ty to the owners. This hasa very detrimental effect on business, for it is just that much money actually wiped out for the time being. ~ Itis of no use 1o anybody so long as it is hoarded up in the closets and old ubreau drawers all over the count You can imagine the eflect of taking a lot of blood out of a man’s veins without giving him any nutritious food to help replace the life fluid you have tauken away. Well, that is just about the effect that this absurd scare has upon the business of the country when small depositors begin to hoard their savings instead of letting them remain in circulation. 1 this country needs at present to business first class is universal confidence on the part of the people and I believe that this will be established in a short time and pparent panic wiil disappear entively. ou will notice that the banks of the country are in the main all right. The institutions that have actually failed have b those that were not engaged in the legitimate banking business. The Omaha banks are especially flrm and is duo to the fact that banking in Omaha has been carried on ina fe and business like manner. Omaha has been fortunate in having as the recognized head of its banking inter- ests one of the safest and most careful bankers in the United States. .It is not necessary for me to name him. lverybody acquainted with the leading financial ‘interests of Omaha and the west knows to whom 1 refer when I speak of the gnizeds head of the His advice and the influence of his example hav permeated the banking business of this city fora quarter of acentury and no man can meas the substant fleets of his having been a eitizen of Omaha. I beiieve that the banks of Omaha will pass over these somewhat paniey times in perfect nity and the reputation for solidity which this city now enjoys from one end of the land to th will only be stren; of 1l | TURNED THE TABLES ON HIM. Koon-Wi'ted Stll Lives on the Frontier, It was during Cileveland’'s first in- cumbeney, says the Kansas City Times. The daughter of a lawyer promineit boring Kansas town had married an ofticer who, a few months after the ceremony, had been detailed 1o 4 remote post. The young wife, who had enjoyed a sort of belleship in tho semi-metropolitan community in which she had been reaved, felt as if sho were buried ‘alive. Encouraged by her husband and father she repaived to Washington to seck repriove at headquar- ters, “ort Riley? Why, that's a pretty good detail, isw't’ it?" asked whe president, to whom the lady had stated her case. No, sir; it doesn't suit me at all.” shouldi’'t we try to be satistied where we arer” continuel the chief magistrate with & patrouiziug smile. ou might have boen satisfied beiug sheriff at Buffalo, but_you w be the president of the United Si came the pert retort Mr, Clevelana arose with the s archal smile on his face, but the wife still dreads he Nevertheless the Woman with ed to ites,” ne patri- ieuteuant's visivat Fort Riley, — Fatriotie Chips, Washington Star: “Yes," said young Mrs, Milder, *Charley was out rather late last uight, but T didn't have the heart to scold bim. He was engaged in a patriotic celebra- tion " “How do you know?” asked the woman whose husband was out with Charley “Hecause he came home with a lot of red, white and blue pieces of ivory. 1 don't Kknow just what they are for, but” the colors show they have something todo with pat- triotism.” ——— Aun Ingrate, Jack Ford—Did you sco that glrl cut me then? Frank Wilcox—I noticed she didu't bow. Jack Fogd—And yet I saved her life! Frank Wilcox—How? Jack Ford—We were engaged, and finally shesaid she'd rather die than marry we, 80 Tlet her off, other | in a neigh- | DAILY BER CLERKS 1CRUSHED [CONTINUED PROM FIRST PAGE.| the crowds back sgthore was no tion to the work of rescue. Tho news of thodisaster flow like wild fire through tho cigy and soon anxious rolatives added hi' thoso who were drawn to the scene hy sympathy or curiosity In o short time bodies were being brought out so fast that they opuld not be attended to by the doctors on the scene, and after con siderablesuffering for vant of attention extra vehicles were brdught and the wounded were taken to tho hospitals, which were soon overcrowded and the sufferers were lit tle better off than at the scene of the disas- ter till medical students avpeared on the scenc and took charge of those least seri ously hurt One_ of was Georgce interrup- victims found M. Arnold, a colored clork from Wost Virginia, who jumped from the third story window and was dashed to death in the alley where Wilkes Booth had his horse tied on the night he inated Lincoln, Buker ped with a bad scalp He was at his desk on the third floor front. The crash came, ho said, with- out a moment's warning. Half stunned and dazed, he found himself in the cellar pinned down by debris and covered with plaster, furniture and chairs, Ho extricated himself a8 best he could ana crawled out of one of the windows. Tt was fully hatf an hour before ho recovered himself and even now can hardly account for his escape. His coat was torn to tatters, the first Account of an Eyowitnoss. Mr. 8. Dana Lincoln, who oceuptes a room in the Atlantic building, facing the rearof the theater building, gives this account of the scenws. He was sitting at his desk at the time of the giving way of the floors He said he heard noise as though of dumnping of bricks in an alley. He tooked out of hisoftice window and saw clouds of dust rising to the top of tne building. medintely at every window dozens of heads protruded, wildly calling for assistance, 1t seemoed ten or fifteen minutes before the firemen appeared with ladders, which were immediately run up to the windows. In reality it was only a few moments. The firemen rescued all those who had not es- caped by jumping from the windows, The last man taken out of the building alive was Captain Dowd of Indiana. He was found near the southwest corner of the building covered to a depth of two or three feet with brick and mortar. He had lain there for three hours, buta falling beam had lodged near him in_such a position as to breal the fall of the brick ana timbers and when lifted up he raised_his haund, showing that he was conscious. When he was lifted into the Garfield hospital ambulance the crowd saw that he was alive and cheered again and again. As the Injured Were Removed. The ambulances were kept busy carrying away the dead and injured. The faces of many of the victims were covered with pieces of cloth, an old coat, a newspaper or whatever clse could be had, but some of ti mangled bodies were carried out with thei faces exposed to th gaze of the eager throng that surrounded the building. During all the long hours whilg the workmen were working with all, their strength to v cuo sueh as were ot past help the mothers, sisters and, daughters of those that had gone down hovered around the front of the building and with stream- ing eyes inquired of, all whom they some tidings of thejr dear ones. Som hardly be restrained, from pushing theiv w into the building, A look into the intorfor e of how some werotaken and others left. Desks wero sean half toppling over th brink of the broien floor; others stood up- right, but the chair which stooa beside it and its occunant went down with a crash. Records and papers. were scautered eve where, but as fast.as possiblo they were gathered up and saved Many of thom were spotted with biood. told a sickening Crushed Out of Human Semblance, That any one should havo escaped with nis life scems the work of a miracle. As they were brought forth they presented a spectacle that uo one seeing it will over for- get. In many cases the semblance of human- iy was gone. It scemed as though the helpers wore carrying out mere bags of mat- tor, smeared all over with blood, filthy with dirt, dirt ground into them, blood on their faces, A wife could not have recognized her husband in that condition. With such ten- derness as rough and excited men could sum- mon at such a time, they weroe laid out_upon the stretehers and carried to the ambulanees that filled the space from I to I street. All the doctors could do for them was to clear away some of the dirt, plaster and filth” from tho faces of the injured men. In cases the dirt was ground into the cyes, noses and mouths so that without suchi attention men wight have suffocated. Many were uncon- scious and could not have helped them- selves. With a clang of the bell the ambu- lances started off for the hospitals, These were soon ov 1. Drug stores were turned into emporar pitals, Peoplo fu the nefghborhood of the accident opened their doors right gladly aod the dead and the wounded were hurried in, When the accident was over and befol the reseuers could got inside to their relief, thero were injured men who were caring {or their worse injured brothers. There were men who did not rush for the street to save their own lives. Regardless of the fact that more walls might fall and bury them once more, they stayed to succor men who could not got away by themselves. Herole Doods. A man whose arm was crushed used his otherarm to drag a man from that place of death. Men stayed to strugele with beams and rafters that bore down upon their fel- lows. They spoke words of cheer when their struggies were in vain. ‘When the first of the relief corps entered it wus struck by the silence that pre vailed. There were no cries to be heard from ben If any cries were made they fled by dirt and mortar that made almost a solid floor on which men might 1k, Men did not walic upon it more than they could help, however for no one knew but that he might be staud ing directly above the bodies of the dead or aymg men. Nervously and excitedly they tore away beams and_rafters that made the tomb. It was a horrid task; it was a airty task, Men workoed like demons, with sweat pouring down their faces, The dust and the dirt lay thick upon their faces, so that one could searce tell the color of the man. The trim uniforms of the firemen were ruined and battered, but never for a moment did they stop in their noble work. Every moment throwing aside of wrec oxposed tho bloody and often mutilated of some one of the yjetims, Oceasionally one of them revived gufliciently to need but littlo ussistance to ;get to the outer air, but the majority of themn—dusty aud bruised, with their clothing” toPn almost in tatter were carried into the clear atmosphere and through the sorrowing crowd to the ambu- lances that were inwaiting, irst Effarts at Rescue, At first inefiicient, tem pre the utmost rapidity. -Weary rescuers gave place every few minates to fresh and willing successors who wordced with torrific energy in their endeavor to save some of the buried ones. As the bleoding and "mangled bodles were brought out groans At outeries arose on all sides. The surroundibg houses, drug stores and business places were filled ina short time with the bloeding and groaning men As a mangled body was brought out it would be surrounded by weeping friends The persons who were evidently dead were laid aside, while those who possessed life were brought out. One man was found sticking head firstinto the debris. His feet were seen first. Soon they hai uncovered his legs, which moved foebly, showing that he was still alive. As fast as human hands could work those res- cuers did, and soon they had the unfortu nate wan out. He was alive when he was brought into the alr, 'but he died before he reached the ambulance in the street. This was but one of the many shocking sceues that were enacted. The general opinion is that the accident was caused by & weakening of the aiready weak structure by reason of excavations made beneath it foF an electrio lighting sys tem. It was stated this afternoon that soveral days ago the clerks in the bullding circulated a petition protesting against this work being continued, as they considered the efforts’ to rescue were most but after.a httle whilo sys | by water. Tm- | iled and the work wentahead with | that it imperiled the lite of every man who was working fn the building. Ohjcotions of an OMerous Clork. This afternoon the fire department turned astream of water into the building. This was done to lay of clearing away could be better accom plished. A died-in-the-wool government clork objected to this procedure, beeause, ho said, the place was stored with important government papoers, which would bo ruined A man who was standing him shouted back excitedly: “We don't ca ad-d for the papers of a government that lots its clerks work in such a trap. it's men we're trying to save—not papers.” At the morgue the sight was one to behold. 'The little building, in which was one ice chest and a dissecting table, ‘vas not nearly largo enough 10 hold the dead bodies brought from the wrecked building. When the morgue was fillod the stable was turned into a puion room for the bodies Blunkots woro spread on the floor and the remains were laid out as respectably as pos sible under the circumstances. Blood from the bodies formed a la on the floor, and crushed skulls, arms and legs, made the scencindescribable. Then there were some of the victims who had not been crushed. They had been smothered, and the discoloration of thei faces and necks gave visible evidence of the cause of death. The president was informed of the sad event just as he reached the entrance of the white house, by one of the clerks and he at once interested himself an relief moeasures, learning with satisfaction what had been done by Assistant Secretary of War Grant, At the Hospital, s pool broken Tho superintendent 1n_ chargo of the Emergeney uospital says that nono of the men at the hospital will di The following injured are at the hospital, their_ condition at present being too bad to permit of removal: F. W. Test, scriously, arms and fractured ribs, IANK METCALF, seriously shocked from fall. A. L. Awes, scriously injured about the neck, face and ankles. Robewr Syimn, fractured skull; operation necossary. An oxamination of the oficials shows that the insecurity of the building was brought to the attontion of congress in a pointed manner as far back as 1535, Atten tion then directed simuly to the army medical library and museum. The protection of human life was not especially brought in the question. Mr. S. M. Stockslager of Tndiana, who was irman of the committeo on public build- id grounds in the Iorty-eighth con- , made a report in favor of the construc- 50 a new building for tho museum anct ry in place of Ford’s theater, then used for that purpose. “The building now used by the medieal dopartment for its library and museum.” he said, “is not only too small to contain the records of the 1iby museum, but 1t is unsubstantial posed to destruction by firve,” about faco and and Its Inse When the bill v urlty Well Known, before the house for 1ts consideration, February 16, 1835, Mr. Stock- ager said: “There is a medical museum, the most complete in the world, the resuly of the great war, which is now kept in the old Ford theater building, a building totally in- adequate to its safe keeping, a mere tinder box, surrounded by wooden' buildings and lable to be destroyed by fire at any time. 1 visited it a short time ago in company with urgeon general and found the building 1 absolutely dangerous condition. The 12 was originally put up under a con tract in ninety days and was very badly con structed. The east wall 1s more than twelve inches out of plumb. The southwest corner of the building has given way until there is a great crack in the wall and the ofticers in charge bave been prohibited from putting heavy articles into the upper story for fear of pressing out the west wall. 1t is, indeed, in a tumble-down condition.” General Slocum, who also visited the building in the course of the same debat d: My attention was directed to the importance of this proposed building by visits to the building where the manuscripts and books and specimens are now kept and 1 do not believe that there is a gentleman on this floor who would hesitate to vote for this bill after going there and secing for himself the value of the contents of that building and the danger to which they are now ex- vosed Had No Thonght for flaman Life. Congress acted upon these statements to 1the extent of removing the inanimate con tents of the museum to a new and sa building, but congress and tho War depart- ment thought proper to expose Fovernments clerks to risks from which they shiclded skeletons and medical books, I"rom a responsible gentleman who y day took a loo t the work going o tho doomed building, this statcmont tained: “As 1 passed the buildiax . R. Thorp, chief of the bu supplies of the War department, scen be directing some work and 1 stopg what it was. There was a brick wall ru ning from the back of the building to the middle of the lower floor, which it supported Anumber of workingmen were excavating under this wall for the purnose, I was told, of putting in an independent clectric light plant and they were preparing to support it by under pmning. 1t now seems very evident to me as they undermined this brick wall the first floor gave way, the second floor, being supported by columns rested on that floor, collapsed also, and that the vhird floor col- lapsed in like manne As soon as Secereta Washington steps will thoroughly investigate the cause of the dis- aster and to fix the responsibility if the coroner’s Jury does not anticipato the de- partmeut in that direction, te unider is ob Cap- .u d to i@ 1o see 11 Lamont returns to probably be taken to Other Unsafo Bulldings. The collapso of the building had excited earnest attention to two other great public buildings believed to be in an almost cqually unsafe condition—one the government print ing oftice, where 1500 people are cm- ployca; the other is the rickety shell known' as the Winder building, also be. longing to the War department and occupied by hundreds of cierks of that department and the sccond auditor's office. ‘T'his place is notoriously dangerous, and the floovs are overloaded, all of the facts being known to congress for years, but receiving no atten tion. Building Inspector two assistants, was on the aceident oceurred. Ho said that last week application was made to him for permit to underpin the building, but he de- 'd 1o give it,as it was o gov building, and camo under direct ‘supervision of the federal oft In fact, he had no Jurisdiction over the government buildings and was prohibited by law from iu terforing. The cause of the whole affair, he said, was undoubtedly duc to the underpinning. The workmen dug under the heavy upright columns which sup port the building and the collapse followed. Oneof the workmen, s colored man, who was employed in_excavating the cellar, znd who escaped with only slight cuts, says: I told them yesterday that the archiay would fall, for every time any ono walked over the tloor it would bend.” It is thought that when cleared away all the papers of recovered. Have the Bodies Entwistle, who hand shortly has after the debris is value will be All Out, The laborers « until anout 7 d not o'clock this they had reached the bottou of the excava tion in tho basement and further search soomed uscless as tho debris in all parts of the building had been entirely cleared awny. Some held that two laborers who were at work in the basement at the time of the accident were still missing, but as the search had becn 8o thorouzh, nothing to warrant its condnuance could shown, But one body, that of Dr. Nelson, was fouud during the last seven hours of the search and those in charge of the work think it im possible that more remain in the ruins. ‘I’ work was therefor pped, the streets roped close to the building' and a police guard stationed there for the night Various plans for the relief of the suf ferers are on foot. At a meeting of citizens this afterncon #5600 was subscribed President Cleveland, who had asked to preside over the mect ing, but was unable to do s0, bec of o pressing official busiuess engagement, sent his check for $100 and Secretary Thur- ber his for ‘The newspapers of the city are actively engaged in the good work and the clerks in the department are contribut. ing liberally. The number of dead 1s now known to be twenty-four aud the injured 50 far as ascer- cease their efforts time rnment | | gramto Tne Bee.) beside | horrible | | | | | | | mto been | i 1000 | convenient of | military | thousand | ancient tainable aggrogates fiftytwo. The hospl tals all report the patients doing nicoly Nobraskans in the Wreck. Wasnisarox, D.C., June 0. [Special Tele theater building which fell today: 1. 8 Baker, injured on the head and hand, but walked homo. His escape was most mira He fell from the third story basement, and was protected from the fa ing dobris by an iron himself_and walked o Doney, T. H. Lewis, C. bauni, 8. P, Sprecker and W. A Tylor, € P. Sprecker, with th mpanions, os d by seeling sheltor m a vau Jist P HC Lucas, W 1 wst, J ISTORY OF THE BUILDING, Brought Into World-Wide Prom Lincoln's Assassination ote tho coincidenco—the building in which Lincoln was assassinated falls on the morning of the funeral of the last brother of tho assassin whole genc nee by Tts Later Uses. surviving awful tragedy which brought tho edifico world-wido nate aad the hardly loss shocking catastropho in which it figures today. The date of the ass April 14, 180 The building stood on Teuth streot W. and I'streets N, 1t was a plain brick struc ture, painted dark brown, threo high, having a frontage of seveuty-one fect nd a dopth of 100 foct. Originally it was a church, and then a thoater. The building was closed by the government immekiately after the assassination, and twelve months later it uwas purchased by £100,000 for the purpose Medical Museum, to which it been applied, at tho su of Surgeon-General Josoph K. was the foundor of tho wstitution. terior was taken out, remodled fire-proof, leaving mo traciu scene of the assassination. the about midway betwoen cony of un Army ostion The in and of the exact A Gront Loss to Sclence. The museum was on the third floor. was a unique institution part in ana America_or Europe. wreat celobrity and w of people, most! overy year, It obtained as visited by thousands medicnl men aud students, who came from of the United States and Visitors of every class wore ¢ to duspect its immense collections Anattendant was at hand whose duty it was to answer questions relating to special interest. Tho floor was weil 1 in front and rear and by a 1 sky- light which lighted floors below through oblong openings. i mens wor di od 16,000 lowed objects of hted also arranged in cases and otherwise, into six The scetions were the surgical, med sscopical, anatomical, the ot comparative anatomy and the mis ancous The scctions, and numbered 1cal, mic ction in the museum wiis of sci and its ti was the finest of the kind in the world. "Thooriginal desien of the museum was the collection of illustrative of military and camp diseases for the education of mod- fcal men for military service, Its tion will be a heavy, if not irrepara to the entire civilized world, crests col; m specimens surgery destruc- Vataw cords Damaged, On the first floor of the Army Medical Mu seum, as the building called, w the pension and record of the sur- Gen ‘pa where iployed numbered over Ihe majority were engaged upon m concerning the seitloment of pen n appli: cations. ‘The hospital records stored on this floor exceeded 16,000 volumes, and as the pay ment of pensions s based upon information received from these records ( pension oftice for some likely to be seriously impeacd phibetical registers on this floor, 1000 volumes, contained about « 300,- names of ‘the dead of the army and besides these were the papers belonzing to the military hospitals and monthly sick reports of the army du the beilion, 1501-65, and those since rece from t ous posts of tho reg army Piste in all, cot the nmames of over 000,000 sick, wounded and deceased ud mearly half the names wors form for every-dny overed from the ¥uins o lu this imm amount of v information as we of the civil war, which we sido it and very 'complete to be in_n badly mutilated condition much of it may he irreparably destroyed. Thousnnds of Modical Volumes. The second floor contained the 1 the surgeon general's department, which was considered to pe the lurgest and best collection of medical boc in the world. In the were 50.000 volumes and sevent vamphicts, some thom v They were iu many nages, aud constituted a thorough history of medicine and surgery, from the earlicst times. Th library avas used free of chargo by siciuns and was much resortoed to members of the profession going from tant parts of the country to consult its rare and precious books, On the north side, in the r ing, was o small win seum workshops, south side, wils by the chemical Mcers on duty. The lnborate with the examination of alloired adultcra tions of medicines and hospital and otner investigations of a nature which come before the surgeon al, who hus tho care of the health of the musenn were illusteations 20,000 specimens taken fr ranged in systematic seric intere g exhibition, even fessional, and furnished objeet lessons. ‘The dis) implements and appl and included the ancient modern, and ther models of barracks, cars for the sick and wounded, ect. A gre: deal of pains was taken with tho muse and yearly its unsurpassed collections have been considerably incrensed When one thinks of the nature of the e tents of the collapsed bulding, emb not only co of various kinds and rare valuo stacks of documents necessary formance of the functions of two rtant depart wents of tho general e ont, on cannot but feel thankful that tho fall of the structure was uded, us is 50 often the case, with an outhreal of ' fire its ! fr one leaves ason to hope U v ful wanagement a great deal may yet has been division 1ent, geon wl's ¢ clerks e 400, ers time to como The over soldiors, arvanged in referene Wh tior n re of wary of nearly of the build- the mu on - the i front, in )ther similar omprising m life and s, It was a v the 1o instr surgica wi vy largo well as th retion of vatlroad over Ty Live AICes ns ing tions bu in the p ) 1 — . Bosting D nmer-—-It just beat D for an umbn struck has Inventor aucing apparati was knee deep in» Drummer-—1 and 51 'm tra v in-pro say, | PERSONAL PARAGIAPHS, s travel together, J. Turkle and Ay from then visi family returned with friends 1n Mr. and Mrs, Frank Could of Portl Ore,, ure in the city, guests of Mr. Williaw Rochefora, jr. ‘rank Lord, formorly with the Delloge, is now with the Ingram, Chicago, and W. A Fauning has succeeded him at the Dellone E. W. Stickney fe of the Mercer have gone to Denver visit of & couple of weeks. Mr. Charles Crate will hold the day desk in proper position during the absence of Mr. Stickney. At the Mercer: MeCabe, F. M. Hale, J, Motter, H. He Chicago; W. W. Tiubudeau, Deadwood, S D.; C. R Hicks, Philadelphia; L W. Rus sell, Glenwood, Ia.; H. H. Steve Neb. ; £d Schneider, College Park, Cal It. Williamson, J. W Tho following Nebraska tho dust so that the work | clerks were employed in the ill-starred Ford to the Ho extricated fon, as tinie 18 counted, has passed away between the occurrence of the ssination was cast side of E stories for has Barnes, who made Naving no counter- ho work of the | is | wd, | wer, | Western, | { FOUND A WOMAN 1N THE CASE Developments of the Coroner's Jury in the Gotham Killing, :STORY OF CARLTON'S A LITTLE MIXED | Both Wera Tntorestod in the Same Yo Woman Their Domestio AMairs Juag v Littie Confused — Story of the Crime Ihere's a woman in the case. Yosterday morning Tie Bee printod dise patel from Ifremont, giving the particula 80 far as then known, of the killing of Au gust Gotham by Charles Carlton. Only from what Carlton told the sheriff of Dodge county on @iving himself up was anything | known of the crime, even the identity of the murdered man being covered by throe ad- dresses found and the general statement that he was a tramp. From what was de- veloped yesterday it is safo to assume that the tragady was about the last in a little do- stic affair that will bo all cleared up be- ond of the trial August Gotham rocently camo to South maha from Norfolk, his family coming Wwith him, and the houschold goods were establishod atJd and Twenty-third stroots. Now, Gotham was about 43 years of age and had four children, the oldest a boy of 19, the youngest a boy of 7. His wifo had been dead some timo when e met at Norfolk a | Young woman, or vather a girl of 18, Feeling the need of a wife he made matrimonial overtures to the maiden, and_they accord- ingly went over to Towa last November and were married. When the Gotham famity left the Norfolk home for South Omaha tha young stepmother started with the othors, but somewhore near Fremont sho disap: peared, and from that time till his dea Gotham saw no more of her. Hunting a Span of Mules, Last woek a span of mules bolonging to Gotham strayed, and on Wodnosday he started in search of them. Quite naturally he concluded they had headed for Norfolk, and 80 ho started in- that dircetion. Bofore leaving he gave to his son, Louis, $185 and left him iu charge of the family. With him the dead man took some &0, most of which sum was found onhis " porsonafter his \ ie next heard from Gotham was the ro- from of hisdeath. At tho roner's inquest yesterday it came out that | he had found his missing wife. On veaching Omaha from Norfolk, Emile, the oldest of Gotham's sons, disappeared, and it was sus- cted that he had returned to Fromont and | joined his nother. This suspicion is now removed frow the young man, According to to the tostimony_ of Mrs. Gotham, she was | married last weck at Tilden, Neb.. to Chiarles | Carlton, who is now charged with killing her Lawful husband. Just how Gotham made | the discovery will probably never bo known. | 1t is known that he wct the man who | killed him, and_after a short conversation with him was shot. a n Premont. concerning the deed are concernc®this dispateh from Fremont gives abou hat have yet been brought out neyoNT, Neb., June 9.—[Special to T Bee|—The court room [ Facts ¥ £ as facts cle- i was 116 y packed with men this afternoon o [ 1earn more of the partieulars of the shooting yesterday. Tho ™ evidence showed — that v Carlton, while coming to the ecity rday with n team, met August Goth- fter a fow words conversation passcd him, and taking another rond re- turned home and sont his wife and father away from home befc Gothan arrivea, Gothan he told several W t ho had done and came to the | city and told the sheriff he had shot a tramp and was lockod up (& s Carltor | 1S years of age, bei ied 1o Charley one = k ago last Mondiy. She saw the dead knew him to be August Gothan, | Continuing, sho said: “1 came from Til- | den, Neb., with threo boys and one girl. They were my st laren. The dead man was the father of the enildren,” She admitted to the sherilf this morning that they were married in lowa last Novem- ber. A post-mortem examination found three gun shov wounds in the head of Gothani. The jury adjourncd until tomor- row. — - LOCAL BREVITL The Omaha M annual election of Turnverein will iduy at Germania hall 1r, William Anderson, years been o familiar fig at the Murray, has resi v 7 th oflice take of piace the uexty, vhio lis for several are behind the desk Nho 5 and ¥ has apy of cire 200 for second-cla mis tinance ) for 0 for f the Saratoga (fongre { chureh wall give a_dinner and supper on Sat 1y at the Youn Men's Christian | association hall 11:30 to 2 and 5:30 to 7:30. Union Veteran Legion encampment 21 | will hold a v wssembly on Saturday evening at S o v, Election and im- | portant business will be the order of the | evening | The bite of a cat of a few days ago caused the hand of the Syear-old daughter of | Andreas Zimmerman, vesiding at 1120 North street, to swell Lo such propors gational Thirtieth | tions that amputition was thought necessary | foraw Building Inspeetor Tilly is | walls of the Shiverick buildin | downas rapidly as possible v day or 80 | e expeets to have the portions down that | he considers necessary in the interest of | public safoty | Devuty & | causing the to o torn heriff ws of the enst- socictics, requesting nim to be L\ party 1o stopping of the cowboy race from ¢ n to Chicago, and offering him 00 it he would hold the - boys ub the Yoo coiv one ern human on Veteran Five | at venthi and 1 | attend the benetit | nam Street t ion who hiverick fire a woel Tho long drawn conirover rding of the city pr adjudicated and the city passed roccipts by which th of the a [ wry, the « 510,000 for the Purposs of midking the settlement. The mouey Wits turned over to the county yester- | day Sunda, iniform, to performance at the Fav- ater for the familics of - the kille orinjured ut the ik o X | Arnam over the has been ity huy have squared the 1st of last For many years an estecrned commu Trinity Episcopal ehurch, Newburgh, g alvays si¥s ¢ Thonk Yeu to Hool's Sar- It Blie suffered for years (1o Eeaem: & Yofuls sores on Lor face, hcad an ears, making her deaf noarly a year, and affect {ug licr skght. To the surprise of L friends Hood’s Sarsaparilla Has effected a oure and she can now hear and seeaswellas ever. For full particulars of Lie 50 scnd 10 O. 1. Hoop & Co., Lowell, Mass, HOOD'8 PILLB siv haid wado, 4 are ook 1 condition, proportien aud sgpearance.