Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 16, 1901, Page 1

‘THE OMAHA DaAILY BEE. ESTABLISHED JUNE OMAHA, MONDAY MORNIN( DECEMBER 16, 1901-TEN PAGES, COPrY FIVE CENTS, CRASH 0N A CURVE i sy i it FIRE THREATENS NANY LIVES | CAPTURE COLOMIAN SEAPORT THERMOMETERS LOVKING | WYOWNG snow STLL one7s 11V BY FLOODS train. The by Mr. Higgins to X Ka¥s 1o ARG L w“: Libernls Afded by vx\nnuol.n- Re- Cold Wenther but the | at Irene miles east of Perryville. port Anciherinotabie Losses to Stock Prove Not to Passenger and Freight Traine Collideen the | Mr. Hiekine said of the wreck of Big Apartment Howse Driv Vietory, Rise of Twenty-Two Degreen Reoerded Since fe Extensive, " It was a bad wreck and a lamentablo | frem Beds by Flames, P— Early Sunday Mormirg, 5 oluge of Rain Sends Eastera Rivers on aceldent. 1t was due to the fact that the | WILLEMSTAND, Island of Curacao, Dec - CHEYENNE, Wy Dec. 15.—(Special Rietous Career. ~— conductor and engineer of the freight failed | 15.—The Venezuelan General Vincente San- | Telegram.)—The severe snow and wind- | BIX OF THE DEAD" %, NTIFIED | 1© obey orders. The passenger was delayed DARING RESCUES IN ARCTIC WEATHER | chez. who is now here on his way from | CONDITION GENERAL THROUGHOUT WEST | .iorim which wot in tast Tuesday night, and | by, three hours and forty minutes by the Maracaibo to Caracas, repoFts that 4 thous | WHICk has been accompanied t the codest | HEAVY LOSSES THROUGH PENNSYLVANIA I JW ather. Coleman is the regular passing | sand Colomblan liberals distantly supported | B | weather seen in this state in many years Twe Others Misving Are Buppeses 0n W point for the two tralns. The conductor | Lineoln Avenue Car Barns Also Des | by 4000 Veneziuelan (roops, captured (he | OMARA Gets About as Much Snow n~‘ | — engineer of the freight train were in- | stroyed=Frosen Hydrants Hame | Colomblan seaport town of Rio Hacha, on| Any Other Point, and that Mardly i faliing, but what has fallen is bein | 1% still raging in some sections. Little snow | 4 | Ruilroads Are Washed Off the Map and Perithed Miserably. ed that the passenger traln was late, Sob e Flssliei n Mol the northeast coast of the Guajiva penin Enoukh (o Measure on drified badly by a high wind, which, un- | p was thelr duty to sidetrack at Irene sula, December 10, after Generals Clodo- tle aange 8 it subsides during the night, may 'e Wires Go Down. ' lch they neglected to do. Work, miro Castillo and Cirio Pupo, both Vene road traf mpletely. 1 ELEVEN MORE KNOWN TO BE HURT| “There is no explanation of the explosion zuelans, had defeated 2,000 Colombian con- e nd light and packs in railroad [that we can get word of. Employes on | e servative troops near Treinta. Treinta is | FOrcenat for = Nebraska-! cuts and other depressions solidly WIND RIPS ROOFS OFF MANY HOUSES t ns s n rty miles sout Warmer M 3 A b f' both trains say both were running CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—The four-story w"‘_‘nn.v milcs southwest of the Rio Hacha, in While high wind and drifting snow Passengers Ponned in by Wreokage AL full apeed and that the shock was terri- | uene” building, known s the Olinger fats, | CU/OmbIan territory rtions; Variable Wind will cause the railroads untold trouble and Rossted te Death. Mo, arems there were three dIstinct | ¢ the corner of Indiana avenue and Thirty- CHII Sitantion Tmproves. plotd® | expense, the conditions are becoming more | Indusities Are Paralysed by 4 ) blows, due to the recolls of the cars. The | neiy sreet, was burned early this mornis, SUBNON ATRS 9 g permture at Omaha Yesterduy: | favorable for the stock interests of the ™ men say they were thrown down three times d 1 & 3 AYRES, Dec. 15.—(Via Galves e for cattle and sheep will now be able | e A The wixty tenants, most of whom were | ton) - Although th in rapid succession. The entire passenger ough the situation between Ar w10 ecure feed alme nywh ¢ " loep, were aroused by the dense smoke | ge W " b Boses o B FLAMES DRIVE BACK THE RESCUERS | train and a large part of the frelght train | *° y gentine and Chill has improved it has not . ratiges, whers {he stow. b A la art of the fre tra N > . « ! anges, where (he snow has been blown off e | were demolished with the two locomotives,” | "4 MABY Darrow escapes from death were | yet been clearly dofined. The council of . : [1¢ 15 only when snow covers fthe wround | BRIDGES GO DOWN, ONE WITH TRAIN | spectacular and exciting. Argentine ministers 0 . 3 b Lk Btoby of & B6POL i L 4 itine ministers has spent much time | o | to considerable depth and les for a week erribie Sultering of the Survivors So far as reported everyone left from |in studying the two paragraphs of the | 3¢ i or e Bernard R. Ahrendt of Chicagn, on the bullding by fire escapes or by ladders | Chilian note, which form the basis of that |11 n. 4 | stock. The the survivors of the wreck who was injured | hoisted to the upper windows by firemen, | country's propositio greome Sikied Y69 Misenen) o I proposition, at’ agrecnent Lllineis s ral “ailron ger that there are losses among present storm has not been of hospital, staggered fnto his | but much suffering was caused by the ex- | which would mean the solution of the pend . "u ¥ ol 156 Revetior (0t & Pé3 H | Are Wideo the Intense Cold=Train Crew in coming and its severity for a perfod of War Auninst the several duys have undoubtedly caused losses Haman Race. in some sections, but there are no official of Orders. r's home store at 669 \West Ninth | Posure to the intense cold in scant attire. | ing difficulties night and fainted on the threshold | When the first detachment of fire-fighters | Tha council has declded to accept the e from the fatigue and nervous strain he had [arrived the majority of the tenants were | first paragraph concerning the construction | Nebraskans may turn down their coat col PEPUNIS OF 85y Tonen SRGErt Wiers BOSGe ROCKFORD, 111, Dec. 15.—~Fallure on the | been compelled to endure. When he re- | panic-atricken and rushed wildly through f of roads. This paragraph s satistactory to | 14T ad take off their ear tabe today. The | TG 0 Tl 0l (00 "‘ “ My ‘I“"' 1 - Part of a conductor (0 obey orders is sup- | Covered later he told the following story of | the halls and apartments in their efforts | the Argentine Republic. The compilation | €0} wave e flapping itselt out of the state | L CHEE BT BICHOR AE FALTFONE CUts and | PITTSBURG, Pa, Dec. 15.-Stage of the wosed to have been the cause of a head- | the wreck | to leave the building of tha second paragraph relating to the pre- | A0d when the winds thus created are I St tne e . end collision on the Ilinols Ceutral be-| I was riding in the chaircar when the | The attendant cold spell was responsible | tended occupation by Argentine of Chilian | the wave itself will be found to be a thing [ 00" B JHEE TEAREMATEE At il tween Irene and Perryville early today. | crash ca I was knocked senseless for | for the fire. Complaints from the tenants ritory at Ultra Espana 18 not acceptable | Of the past date, except the railroad "H ”"“’ o m inches an hour; Lock No. 1, Monongahela The two trains were the eastbound A moment and the first | knew the steam | that the bullding was insufficiently heated | (o the ministers At least that Is the prospect as based | joopiy 0 '\wml‘ & fow h‘ ‘”'lh"l “‘ | river, 26.7 feet, rising six Inches an hour senger train No. 4 and a through frelg rom the burst pipes was enveloping me wsed the Janitor, John West, to overheat | The assurance {s given that the Argentine | 00 the decided fall in temperature that|my ne has hoen no loss ,mmm‘ itle 'TIY‘. Davis Island dam, Ohlo river, 218 foc from Chicago, going west AR & I broke the window with my fist and|(the furnaces in the basement, where the | government replying to this paragraph will | began Sunday with the first ding &t 51,000 of life in Wyoming :|;,.‘ to ‘m‘ blizz “x rising six inches an hour elght people are dead or missing and | ¢!'mbed out, cutting and bruising myself | firo started answer that it is impossible for it to recog- | & M. When the mercury stood at ten below, |\ "oy et 0 500 S m; ':‘"'\ Ono of the greatest floods In the his eleven {njured badly | A policeman on the beat rushed to the |nize an act which, after investigation, has | And continued until 7 p. m., when It reached | oo il B B SR S0 T BT tory of Pittsburg was averted by the sud Tha known sead are | A feliow passenger who sat in the chair | upper floors and alded in rousing the oc- | been disproved. The hope prevails here | its day's maximum of 14 degrees above. | .o “nve oihers are reno i "’I RISHARD ORMSBY, Chicago, englneer of | Next (o me jumped outside the window |CUPARIS of the sixteen apartments. S0on |that cverything will be arranged on a | Omaba's slight snow flurries were an|iof U0 BUET REC HeRor e Aivy ot passenger train after me and fell on his side. The wreck |all chance of escape by the main stalrway | fricudly basis within a tew days heavy as any town experfenced. for there [ yho [raivies and 1t is belleved he b : JAMES REARDON, Freeport, fireman of | 100k fire almost immedately and fn ten | Was cut off by the flames. Many persons | ¢ is believed that Chill will insist upon | WA Dot a real snowfall anywhere in tho | it 00 L parsenger train minutes was reduced to ashes. The ofl [ were restrained only by force from leaping | presenting an insignificant ciaim for the in- | territory from which the local office re- | V(e (0 (o b recede ROBERT THOMPSON, Dubuque, I, |from a tank car and the high wind that | from the upper windows, others were over- | yagion of Chillan territory by three Argen- | celved reports, the heaviest being .2 of an | one ar Hanna, one at Rawlins and tw The above statement was mado tonight by American Express messenger prevailed helped the blaze. come by the dense smoke, and & scene of | tine policemen. Argentine still continued | inch at Havre, Mont. between Rock Springs and Green m\"" ther Forecaster Frank Ridgeway. At J. W. FUNK, Chicago, brakeman on pas There were o great many miraculous es- | Indescribable confusion followed ing military measures. Men of wealth | Omah's experlence of the last few days | Thraa perished in the storm on the plams, |10 P M. the government thermometer rey wenger train capes. A young woman with a baby Jumpe Nikht Clathes und Arctle Wenther, [are offeriug the government money with | MAY have some precedents, but not many.|ene froze to death fn the railrond. surds | #0700 7 above, and Mr. Ridgeway says it DAVID BEHAN, Freeport, frelght engi- | 0ut of one of the cars and escaped without a | which to buy horses and otherwise equip a | The deluge of frigidity was heralded from | una ona was run down by a train duriog the | 11! 4T0P to zero by & o'clock in the peor scratch. We were all obliged to stand out | regiment of cavalry should occasion de- | the local bureau at 2 o'clock Thursday aft- | piinding storm a few miles west of Raw. | MOTNINE EDWARD CAREY, Freeport, freight fire- | 10 the cold two hours waiting for the reliet mand ernoon and became apparent at 3 o'clock | jjng. Three of the dead were herders, one| The remarkable weather conditions that man train ’ | Fetuge In nelghboring residences and stores, | Public opinton throughout the entire | the followlog morning. At that time the |q rajiroad man and the other a woman prevailed in Plttsburg and western Pennsyl Missing and supposed to be dead Miss Maude Stewart, flance of Harry O.| v, .o daring rescues were made by the | COUDLTY is expreasing its patefotic approval | mercury stood at 20 degrees above. By Five herders were reported lost near | YADI® during the past week culminate Newsboy on passenger train, uame un. | Wellman, avother Chicago passenger who oot FEER COnRE] O B Y foor, [ of the government's conduet. The people [ 'clock Saturday morning it renched 18 be- | poing of Rocks and as their doks came in | (©9AY 10 & decided drop of the temperatur known was serfously injured, s now at his side | o T T col g moke was in- | Femain quiet. The government has decided [ 10w, which lacked but one degree of equal- | town the men undoubtedly perished accompanied by a flood stage of water in Scction foreman from Irene, name un. | In the Rockford hospital. She left tonight | ic W T UEF }-mmnfly of the [to divide the government lato ix military December record here, so far as A civil engineer named Hemingway who | 'he three rivers, which caused: some suf known. | in response to a telegram from the hospital [ it 4 zones, with 20,000 men in each. The arms au can testify. left Casper weveral days ago to visit a | (°TINE and many thousand dollars worth Identifying the Injured. | authorities rv:w"«}’v 8 ‘hr‘l Ipnln;--m.- : Well- | s, Mowery, wife of Dr. A, E. Mowery, | #0d equipment for these men are already In Nebrask ranch got lost and searching parties are | °f dama su‘u Part .‘.v 1\‘\\t~xh4llu:|n|.d m‘umu,i i y o8 could be | MR was serlously injured, his right arm) o, 5y, 5y on apariments on this floor sut- | 0 hand in the respective zones. ; e eme of the state, | 5¢OUring the prairies for him. As he was | Wr® submerged. household goods and IRIGIOY, B8 fak 80 the 8AmO 0wld B¢ | being torn off, asd 1 I housht e exs- | U0 O SPECHENI 08 (";‘Hhm' Her| Over and above the reserves called out m"_",:l"\,:lf':”"":f ": Aot rord ‘o" ‘I"‘w e | tenderfoot his friends believe he is dend, | #0res that were placed in cellars and base jearned, are o g ',, R OhT . CHIGaRg: . Fight. -y D2y Seqover & b O husband carried her out in his arms :‘Iw("w;vk r‘rw &rnl‘\mm;: *::': :;":vpu:':' morning (Saturday) the government's ob n:.[,?.‘:x'-x.?s' \\m. 'Wl" pecial Tele 'r"t:':’“ :::-d:'\'\"x'if'»n';:".','..“(}','1'."".}, '(‘"‘"":' ushed off at elbow: taken to Rockford | through the halls and found escape by the | themeeives for service Ce8° | server found 34 degrees below. This was he weather cleared up In this i b Ay . bl e ekt o ioton e ocktord | WRECK ON GREAT NORTHERN [ iairs cut oft. He roturned to his rooms, | #ity the overnment bas resources which | (h, jowest temporature of which the burcau | VIl today and it is claimed that the | ond b LU EEL G L LU 6 AotV Ok guase Heulond | ghe Ca e iy and, throwing open a window, endeavored | Would enable it to mobilize au&rmY of 200.- | rocotved any information during the pres- | 108 has been only normal. Some bands of | (1K de ' by broken glass idciinca bl L L L) to attract attention through the heavy pali | 000 men. 2 ent stage and will probably nd as t sheep were badly scattered by the storm 7. #, Quinlka, passenger conductor, eut | Setting Brakes Ke of smoke. Only a chance breath of wind | BUENOS AYRES, Dee. 16.=(Via Galves-| 1o0orq for the wave of December, 1501 |04 herders are busy trying to get them Warning Saves Much Property and brulsed, crushed about the chest, Death Lis cleared the air sufficiently for him to be | ton)—LATERThe situation‘here is un-|noreh platte was but 4 degrees warmer. | back to their ranges The low-lying land along the Allegheny taken to Rocktord city hospital; condition e seen. It was due to this fact that the two | changed h\'t-r\'rhu::: is quiet. -'n:_.: -\rdx'['l" Precipitate and extreme as were the ”f'"‘;x 1en who have just come in from | yide of the river were the first to be sub- serious. HELENA, Mont., D A special to [ !Ives were saved Hm; L:’\l;:‘»u:?::nm nr:rflam"r" 0 s en s ute] S nl‘v’mfl“v.;:vdr":mlv o e o e aesnin | merged by the cising water, Late tolght W. B. Keefe, Sloux City, Ta., head cut the Independent from Kalispell says s | The losa to:the bullding, which "was [reply:to to8 SO S wore even greater ones elsewlre. ‘At 8. [ abowt the reported loss of life among the | the river began also to encroach upon the Frank Stadleman, New Athens, lil., cuts | wreck occurred on the Great Northern rafl- | °%1ed bY John P. Olinger, was about $15,- United States Vi .. Louis the extreme drop in the course of the Tintr ~|-'"‘|‘"~ © from the sheep killed on | jow parts of Duquesne on the Pittsburg about head and arms. way near Essex, in the Rocky mountains, | *0V; 10 the contents §2,000, covered by in-| pARIS, Dec. 15.—The Tenips, reviewing | wave was from degrees above to zero allroad, the loss has been light, side. Forecaster Ridgeway's warning sent Thomas Hendricks, New Athens, IIL, cut|at 2 o'clock this morning. The engine, | *UTanCe: the dispute between the Argiptine Ropub- | At Chicago It was from 48 above to 6 below o out last night resulted in the saving of and bruised and hair scorched off mall car and smoker remained on the n Avenue Car Barn Bur lic and Chili, says that wtes complicates | The most acute suffering incident to the | MINNESOTA SUB-ZERO RECORD | much valuable property. The base ball the question s the vigllanog not to say | change has probably been in the south, but il grounds at Exposition park are under water Jealousy, with which the Uni'ed States re- [ men of the western ranges feel that they. | Lowent Noteh Is Renched at 1 tonight, and the tracks of the Pittsburg & mains faithtul to the twiki'ged Monroe | too, have fared rather severely at the hands Mordury: (NPGbl 109 Westeru railroad and the Buffalo, Roche A. L. Boggs, St. Louls. due to rails spreading. from a fire that was discovered at an early | doctrive, which excludes afd” othier inter- | of the weather dispenser. ter & Pittshurg are submerged aino. . Cal: John Hussey, Independence, Ia, Among the killed was: hour this morning, Besides the building|vention, while justfying thelr own, and | After the 7 o'clock readings last night lars on Kilbuck, Robinson, Sanddsky and Crash o Spee: OTTO ERRICKSON, enroute from Sweden | nearly all the grip cars and trailers used [ Watches for the (interference of Great | Valentine reported 12 above and North| —_— Anderson streets have one and one-half feet to California o Lincoln avenue were destroyed. The m. | Britain or other powers in the affairs of | Platte 16 above. From all over the north| ST. PAUL, Minn. Dec. 15.~The offiefal | of water in them and much terror was ex £he Several others were killed, but their |tense cold of the last two days contributed | South America. and west came reports of a similar nature, | report of the weather bureau tonight con- | pressed among the people who were directly names have not been learncd. Thoy were | much to the spread of the flames, as the| La Liberte declares that an Argentine- | indicating that the cold wave is practically | tains the news that the backbone of the | aftected. | {hree old women, u youns woman and three | fire hydrants in the vicinity were found | Chillan war would just suit the American |8 thing of the past, except possibly In the | preseat cold wave has been broken. From | Assurances from the weather hureau s e e I e of i | men. Three others, old women, are hurt |to be frozen. When @ supply of water had | imperiallsm and it would entirely suit tho | east, and there it Is reported to bo dwind- |all of the statlons In the far northw thelr miluds somentiat, At ress: o8 e dons ::I"r‘:in';:ml:'\:r:v,x.::k|.;\r.m:wl"l::,‘.I,Lr::‘,,..“r |‘":‘|: internally and are not expected to live. | been obtained by thawing out the hydrants, | 4esigns of those working perseveringly to | ling rapldly. reports are to the effect that there has | gtant dropping of the thermometer indicates 4 ; . otr Local conditions were such last night[been a decided riso in the temperature, » hlie or b r . Several others were more or less seriously | after a delay of onty 5 e b pervert the Monroe doctrive. ! ire, | tonight that the rise will be over by morn others were penned In and if not instantly | a8 seriously | after a delay of twenty minutes, the bulld that people will find it hard to believe that [ most places giving readings of but slightly | ing : hurt. ing was doomed. n o sted to death and thef g was doom . e s were really S b killed were roasted o death and thelr| ™ ong the injured was Advance Agent| Soon after the first stresm was dtrectod| CONFIRMS REPORT OF SIGNALS | the late atternoon hours were really a|Lelow the treezing point Swirling, crashing and carrying destruce bodles, along with those of the engine| . ' " ks MctheabolioARY IR L A s Db bl o) perfod of moderation. The wind blew with | Sub-zero weather contitues to be re- | tion to everything in their way, 175 empty crews, were entirely consumed Big pany ipon the fay he entire second story of Mannger of Marconi An-|almost blizzard fury and ears grew white | ported, bLowever, but not of such {ntensit are All efforts of the survivors to rescue the| The train was going at a rate of twenty- | the building was ablaze and fell with about z Y 800 o8 i bl 3 ich intenslty | coal barges and fifty loaded boats were 1ot vaill The I trove | ive miles an hour when it broke in two [100 open summer cars that were stored » Succens of Transntlantic whenever long neglected. Few people ven- | us shown by the map of the previous | qorn from their moorings today and went T e e tamos 7OV land the alr brakes set immediately, pre- | there. The intense cold of the carly morn- Wireless Telegraphy. tured out and the city had & sepulchral | twenty-four hours. In 8t. Paul the maxi- | down the Oblo river at a terrific rate. them back at every point. The temperature [ f 4 Ypiidy i % v . § appearan that will make most welcome [ mum today wae 2 belowand at § o'clock the was 90 degraes below sero and the loy wind \:n ing a more serious accident. Most of [ing added to the dificultles presented by e {ho bustle of business when It is resumed | thermometer showed & above, The rapld was blowing across the prairie, the point L""_""IJ”::'“ “:.“;nmn‘y’:" -hfu”u--n h. |.\ll the len- nln‘l:‘ m..u.-h.. l:m‘urmri‘ to lw(l.rk the | L ONDON, Dec Major Flood-Page of | 1oday under conditions espected to become | rise in the northwest has induced snow-| The packet Ben Hur was on its way to where the wreck accurred being in & shal- | U8 BECRR BE T0e HI 00 e e [ Moved by comraden. who bad short rects iq | the Marconl Telegraph company, in an 10- | jesh rigorous trom this time on storms and cloudy weather, but the snow- | the Pittsburg wharf and, with a good pas- low cut, affording no protection. The in P bt Moe g o LI o) YD AR, PRgt - Eenie 28 | iarview. with '8 xepteseniative qf the As- : fall has not o far heen heavy enough to | senger list aboard, barely escaped a calam- Jured wero without hats o wraps and sut- | Were extinsuished by the passeagers cighborlug stores, which were thown ped | yociated Prees contims the report that Mr. | STOCKMAN FROZEN TO DEATH | ause matoriat eiay to trafhe A ek R L fered terribly. By the united efforts of the Nincteen Reported Injured. to the fire fighters. Marconi, at St. Johns, N. F., had received ok s ped¥ it STt RS it WRReL L DEOTRTYE G survivors the waycar was pushed back from ANACONDA, Mont Dec. 16.—A special Lo of $130,000. signals from the experimental station at |- T. Garnett Tramh 1 Clny " M zahe It or Consolidated C » NDA, Mont., Dec A special J D i the Monongahela River Cousolidat the wreckage to escape the flames and the | (o the Standard from Kalispell says that| President John M. Roach of the Traction | Poldhu, Penzance. Major Flood-Page said County, Perishes Looking CHICAGO'S co!‘_D§ST DECEMBER and Coke company, constitutiug the upper wounded were placed on the bunks inslde. | Otio Ericson was the only man killed in|company placed the loss at about $130,000, | that the severe weather "_'“" continuous After His Cattle. Keenest Day of the Month Since Ree. | #0d lower fleets, and were tied up at Two hours elapsed before any relief was at | the Great Northern wreck near Essox,|partly covered by insurance, but the exact | tests very difficult, but there was no doubt i g S Sl vl Brown's Lending between the Point and hand. Then an engine arrived from the|Mont. He was probably smothered to|amount he was unable to state. It is sup- [ that the wireless aignals had been success- | o o0 o =7 o o0 7 Davis island dam. The great amount of east and pulled the waycar to Irene, three | qeqth s » fire o cor. | fully transmitted across the Atlantic. ARVARD, Neb., 5.—(Speclal.)— Years Ago. . # » Manongalisl cath. posed the fire originated from an over 1 nitted acr R ke Dt At 1 thy BALin: water that poured out of the Monongahela wiles distant. Among the injured are heated stove in one of the cars that were in| ST. JOHNS, N. F., Dec. 15.—Congratu- Whut atenen of thls camat Bt ke e and Allegheny rivers during the day caused A relief train was started from Rockford| Joseph Kipp, Blackfoot, Ida., badly|the barn. It ia reported that a watchman | lations from Newfoundalnd and abroad are| J7o Ferl W% ) years of age, living some| . CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—This was the coldest |a strong, swirling current and the strain 8t 1:30 8. m., having on hoard Dr. Catlin, | pruised about head and body. was in the barn when the fire was discov- | today pouring in on Mr. Marconl. three miles morthwest of Trumbull, was|@#¥ Chicago has experienced in the month | upon the moorings at Brown's Landiug be- Dr. H. R. Richings, Dr. W. B. Helm and | juck Miller, Blackfoot, brulsed, but not[ered and he has not been seen after it was| Local telegraphers, while admitting the SAAE LM RN S posEON “won a | °f December since the weather bureau was [ came intense. The barges tugged at the Agent E. W. Brown. It arrived at the scene | severoly. under control, but there is so far no | theoretical value of the proposition, think [ ¥HIUIAE Crom & A BEC Y AT BOR O f cerablished here thirty years ago. For | ropes, there was a sudden snap and like of the wreck twenty minutes later. In the| yule Gleason, San Francisco, traveling|positive evidence that he was burned. a number of years must elapse before it can s three hours this morning the mercury stood | a vast floating pier the 175 barges swung meantime the injured had been brought rulse ol 'he he: P huild be put into practical u team and party with whom he was riding, | To o0l T 0. 0 " o o o ve! N man, bruised, not serious The beavy east wall of the building fell [ v saying he would go and look after his cat. | At 21 degrees below zero. Later, however, | into the middle of the Ohlo river. No back from Irene in the wayear and were —— Tycle, Addistown, badly cut and|across SheMeld avenue and fying bri » skl e o s barges 0. b own, b across § ave ying bricks 4 4 YL g A the skies cleared and the wind which had | person was on the barges at the time transferred to the relief train and brought | yrugsed. | demolished the tront of a salocn opposite.| IOWA’S COLD WAVE BROKEN |t!e aad get them home. This was the last| o0 ™00 0ot on ™ oot o west, dled | As scon as they broke away the sreat y k . L seen of him until yesterday, when he was , to Rockford. All the injured are doing| Others injured are three old women, one|The flames also communicated to & frame sann i haan down, causing n gradual rise of tempera- | danger to any craft that was below be- ‘wr'll except u‘ u.d\ Iman of Chicago, Who | girl and three men, whose names cannot|dwelling next the saloon, but this blagze| Woch Warmer tn Des Moines and | found frozen {o death ture, und tonight the thermometer at the | came fmminent, It was impossible to stop 8 in a critical condition. be learned. One woman bad her collarbone | was quickly subdued with small loss. The Light Snow Is h by local weather bureau registered but 3 de- | the fleet, as the momentum of the barges Wrecking trains have been at work today | proken and was injured internally. saloon was damaged to the extent of $2,000. puthwest Wind, BISHOP OF CHEYENNE DEAD grees below zero. The predictions for to- | grew etronger and stronger. Warnings aud and will have the tracks clear tonight. Six | The other two old women suffered broken| A serious danger to the firemen was from morrow are moderate weather and a ristng [ messengers were quickly dispatched along bodies wero recovered from the debris, but | ibs and were injured internally the broken trolley wires, which were| DES MOINES. temperature. the lower parts of the river and the peopla v arred beyond recognition. Coroue 8 5 b6 as 5 ge! o lhese were buried sl 'hile there wi onsiders 0 s und pers vho had \ vers ctarred bevond recog lon. eosoner | The youns woman is snid to be seriously | charged with electricity. These were burlod | gram,)—The backbone of the cold snap At While there was considerable suffering | in shanty boats and persons who had valu rN ) p hurt. She was pinned under the wreckage | In the debries or collected along the street | gove' o, 1 (RN B0 8 SR SE0 among the poor, many of whom were un- [able interests were told of what had haps uy. und bad te be chopped out and offered great danger to the firemen un- | veored around to the southwest, and the prepared for the sudden change, no deaths | pened. Passenger Conductor's Reeltal. In all nineteen passengers are reported | til the current was turned oft. The tem- | qumiorature began to rise rapidly, The| MARSHALLTOWN, Ia, Dec. 15.—Right|were reported today that could be at- Carry Away Dencon Lights, Conductor Quinlan of the passenger | Injured. perature of 15 degrees below zero covered | ity S0 FRIEC T SR TR below | Rev. Thomas Mathias Lenihen, D. D., bishop | tributed to the cold S R e traln was able tonight to talk of the wreck.| The cause of the wreck is believed to[the hose with thick coatings of fco Which | jero. the lowest for December since 1580 | o Chevenne, Wyo, and one of the hest iy ,honithe FuRRAYS. IACUA DAVIS. Wland He sald: “We were trying to make up lost | have been the spreading of the rails required the utmost care in handling it. No | 414"} egree below the Saturday mark. A | KnOWR men in the Catholic church of the , dam they hexe ated and were time, when suddenly there was a crash,| The debris caught fire, but the flames|case of serlous injury from live wires orf7 wilock this evening it was 6 above and | West, died tonight at the home of his MONTANA'S TREMENDOUS SNOW | oins :" A ""fl‘; e ';" »ri"v\‘nlh "1::-1:“::: throwing us all to the front of the car, 1| Were put out by the uninjured passengers. | cold was reported. Halas aiaTs Liekt sno Lekan doieahy brother, Father Lenihen, M. C., where he | gne of o (e e aver l‘ 5 SR AT SRS S it e managed to clear myselt from under the|There s sald to bave been much looting —_— BURLINGTON, Ta., Dec. 15.—The ther- | had been for the last six weeks. He had ; T i & seat where | was thrown, and finding two [ during the excltement. TWO MEN BURNED TO DEATH | mometer here marked 13 helow zero at 4 | been 1l for o year and a half with heart 2aieilin Iml iy t 1“ “--:lrr od [I‘:L;n J...-r x men close by tried to release them. This At e Sk disease, which had been greatly aggra Feet on Level. B Sanuon R8. PISEIA R BE A % e e 4. m. The temperature moderated during At Duquesne a fleet of twenty-five I was unable to do, and as they did not DWe reman ., Gawoline F xplodes and Cre- | ne gay, being 2 above at 4 p. m vated by the high altitude of the west. He —_— at A ed at the dock of the Carnegl respond to my calls 1 escaped through a| FREEPORT, Ill, Dec. 16.—A freight mates Impr was 57 years of age. His remains will be [ BILLINGS, Mont., Dec. 15.—Eastern Mon- | bt works. broke away and went pius el window, belng scorched by the fire as I|train, a light engine and a wrecking train PPy COOPERAGE FACTORY BURNS |ttken to Dubuque Tuesday tans Fas been ‘snvelopsd In one. of the | \oes YOLKS: BFOKS SNAY MRS Weuh PRSI crawled out, so quickly did the flames|came into collision on the Chicago Great il heaviest snowfalls ever known. The snow | o oy ¢ m“fi",' bR T R et spread. As 1 remember there were ecight [ Westorn railroad at Bolton, five miles from | 0o oo s Plant that Furnished ANl Sagar JOHN SWINTON’S PEN AT REST [averages from two to six feet on the level :lu-l ‘l‘u;‘ul;:‘.:h‘\‘n.r.““:,g.\mi nden mt h con men in the car 1 find that only two here, today. F. M. Riley of Dubuque, fire- | MARGRAVE. Manitoba, et Trust's Harrels in Des —— and rallroad travel will be interrupted for | jyi\ nie LA AT D8 B O low Port of them got out. The rest wore doubtless [man of the wrecking trafn, was killed. caused by the expiosion of & gascline engine Veternn Writer the next few days, ARIVARCA ThERoS o burned In the wreck totally destroyed the engine house of the atroy Passes Away The thermometer s 20 d halgw | TREEL A1, Gt (heep op SOUF WRE: REARUAR LIRS bTiay olvaumatanse of the sebidaat I (g el T elevator owned by E. A, Holmes. Five men il o 2070 here tontght, with & strons north wing | #0 sunk, completely blocking the channel . o Ly . A who were In the engineroom when the ex NEW YORK Fire tonight de- ¥ at that poin raddoc he water 18 ‘was that all the killed were men. There [ TOLEDO, 0., Dec Charles A. Wilson } in il A B b 5 ATABAY blowing, which will drive it ’flnl’;llllr”:ln‘ . bt A% BERAARSK A Hor Were soveral women and girls on the train, | and August Bausch were killed today in the | Hio5icn S°CUrTed Were unable to get out fatroved the large factory of the Brooklyn - 80 degross lower by moming. All stock | {°,ARd 8 ball feot Cesp In the pite of the but all escaped. e k Y 11 | through the door. Cooperage company in Willamsburg. Sev NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—John Swinton, for | o e onan nraivie 1s suffortta frin American Steel and Wire company und has Lake Shore yards at Air Line junction by n the open prairle is suffering frighttully | roached the floor of the plant. At Rankin Mra, E. C. Williamson of Elyria, 0., with | belng run down by a freight car. They wery| . E- A KDight burst open a window and [enteen firemen were burned, some of them | years a leader with labor organizations and | o1, BREr Bratie 18 BISRE SR her little 3-vear-old duughter, was nsleep | part of & gang of men engaged In repairiny | 1T¢ O the men escaped. Two others | seriously. The plant is the moxt extensive [a writer on such topics, died today In | (o JNniaes. ysalben: ohasbms. com M0 | (b Monongaheln Water and Power com- . v 8 | were burned to death. The victims were | of its Kind in the country and furnishes| Brooklyn, aged 70. Mr. Swinton was & na A ur hours losses will be | ., . yag an inch of water In its plant and in the coach. She was awakened by the col 2 Bk gre hillips, & well kno : b i b Stewart Wright of Kola district and R. D. | the American Bugar Refining company | tive of Warsaw, Ill., and for a long time | 5" I H, Phillly woll known shesp | 2t nave to shut down In the Werbine until the water recedes river at midnight ¢ Information at hand it 18 | jopr faland dam, 26.7 feet and rising six den drop in the temperature. The rise at the headquarters of (he Allegheny and Monongahela rivers was about stopped at midnight and the rivers will likely slowly Women in their uight clothes and with bare feet climbed out to the fire escapes and descended to (ho street and were given Slightly cut track, but all the others were derailed. [ The total destruction of Lincoln avenue G. E. Shurtleff, Genoa. Some cars were overturned and all were |car barns of the Chicago Traction company, G. P. Berch, Kaukakee, 1Ul. more or less wrecked. The accident was | with more than 160 street cars, resultcd Agal The trains met in a slight bend of track, both running at full speed. The smok- 1ng, express and bakgage cars were plled Bout Harely Escape , Dec. 15.—(Special Teles Victim of Ilston aud, grasping the little girl, plunged —— 4 uan, left for Flat Mills, accompanied by | N R P R T T 199 Xtliea by 11)inois Csatral: Sikes, a farmer llving near here. The | with its barreis. The l0ss is estimated from | was a printer. For more than thirty [ two horders, and a report reaches bere to wreckage, she was not injured in the siight- aie 6, 1B W, Snancs | Hee who sacaped ware hadly hurnsl, fbe | HOOOK to $60.00. One of the injured he was conpected with New York papers| .y that the whole p ere ' est, nor was the child oy BBSON, Miss, Dec. 10--W. M Shence | most seriously injured belng the proprictor | men may lose the sight of both eyes aud ot one time had & paper of his own, | 90 that the whole party were frozen. LOSS ALMOST UNPRECEDENTED 3 i o i an, » ArivIng. | of the elevator, E. A. Holmes, His wife survives him - st Horror of the Fire, were killed here today by an Illinols Cen 2 FIFTY-SIX BUILDINGS BURN gl R DISTRESS ON TEXAS RANGES | vor Severity and Destructiveness the In thelr atories of the dlsaster all those | ral train MICHIGAN WOMAN IS CREMATED Eh LIVES MORE THAN A CENTURY ¥lood 1n Unequaied in Tw who escaped from the wreck dwell upon the —gm— il Fire Destroys Business Part of Ll Bitterly ‘ oot horror of the fire and the rapidity with | SENATOR SEWELL =~ RALLIES | mrs. Southworth, Seventy-Five \ears ARl 8 a'Lots of Misva'srets Mrs. Julin 1 coumba Afte vy Losses to Live which the wreckage was eaten up by the petddhns, flamos. Almost instantly after the first ter- | Physie Now Declare m (o Be s storm rific crash an ofl car close to the freight in No Immediate il _ PARKERSBURG, W. Va., Dec. 15.—The Years, which for severity and destructiveness has engine exploded, the oll adding fuel to the A : fire which started last night at Salem, sev- S5 AUSTIN, Tex., Dec ~The cold wave | not been equalled in this section In twenty= flamos and causing a most terrific spectacle, pan OVID, Mich, Dec ~The house of [ enty miles east of here on the Baltimore | CARPENTER, Ia, Dec. is. —(Speclal Tele- | which appeared yesterday nas grown fn fn- | five years, visited castern and central accentuated by the gjoans and cries of the | o - Thomas B. Southworth was destroyed by | & Ohlo rallroad, destroyed practically the | gram.)—Mrs. Julia Lee, widow of Knud |temsity durlng the day and tonight the | Pennsylvania last night, causing almost dylng men pinned in terrible agony and ( _\\H' N . De —The condition | fire early today and Mrs. Southworth was | busin part of that city. Fifty.six houses | Lee, dled yesterday, uged 105, She was | weather is bitterly cold. Reports from the | unprecedented damage and resulting in the meeting death in the flames. Persons who | °f Senator Sewell, according to his physi- | burned to death. She had risen to build | and stores were destroyed. The loss is|born in Norway stock ranges are to the effect that the |loss of at least four human lives. The were attracted to the scene by the noiscs | 1808, I8 encouraging. The senator during | the kitchen fire and, being 75 years old and | estimated at over $200,000, with little in cattle are not in good condition for such | havoe in the coal regions is enormous and of the colliston and the flames, were un- | 'h€ day rallied from his sinking spell of | nearly blind, it Is supposed she set her|surance. The fire originated in a news- | Movements of ¢ B | weather, owing to the drouth of the last | the loss to rallroad and mining companies able o render the victims any assist '"H‘ nlnh: and is now sald to be in no im- | clothing ablaze paper office, but the cause I8 unknown. A ;’\HLNHNN’M Arrived—RBremen, from | four months and their unprotected condi- | will amount to millions of ia The ance, as the fire spread so rapldly that in | Mediate danger. - el New York, for Bremen 4 tion on the big ranges Schuylkill, Lehigh, Susquehanna and Junls y - o . el TS AU _Huvre—Arrived—La Gascogre, from less than fifleen minutes the cars had been lowa Department Store Destroyed, Drowns Under loe o Yark ’ " It is feared that much loss will result by [ ata rivers have risen as high as fifteen consumed " i ORANGE CITY, Ia., Dec. 15.—(Special| PADUCAH, Ky. Dec. 15.—Third Clerk | At Moville—Sailed—Furnessia, from Glas- | the death of calves especially. In this | feet above thelr levels and all of thefr KANSAS CITY, Dec he tempera- | Telegram.)—Kire here at an early hour this | Mark Amerberg of the steamer Spread | KoW. for New Vork, = = ection numbers of horses are reported as | tributaries have overflowed, inundatig the - ! ture today ranged from 2 below zero to 12 | morning destroyed the department store of | Eagle, one of the Levhe fleot of St. Louis, in | york; “Cammante. from. Livernodl, far Now | dyiug during the last twenty-four hours, | surrounding country in more than a dozen CHICAGO, Dec J. W. Higgins, gen- | above, but the absence of wind made tho | John Van DeSt B o Bho loke Tl Aa | IBths ATl Leara aan i oot ad | ORK | mostly the property of poor people, Who, | counties egal superintendent of transportation ot | day comfortable. Clear aud warmer weather | timated at §25,000. The blaze started in the | by breakiug through the ice. The body was [ (Al New Notkoarrivedobiteara, f00m | paying been unable to feed them properly, | Innumerable washouts nave occurred on e e i g o Live I, La_ Hretagn om Havre; Ca- tha URools Central road, places the blame | is exvected, basement, | shipped to his home at Grattos, il | uisdiah, trom Liverpook ' ™ M4VF S8 | owiug to tho bigh price of feed Lthe Peunsylvanis, e Philadelphia & Woads Weather hreatens 014, Vietim of Ki dred Thousa Hundred and Five PHILADELPHIA Dee. 15 Blames the Frelght Crew.,