Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 23, 1910, Page 1

) . Y ' L] X \ 1) Y » i " showed a marked decline & - NEWS SECTION| PAGES1 TO 8 VOL. XXXIX—NO. 39, ( BATTLE AGAINST HIGH PRICES Anti-Meat Movement Continues to Spread, but Has Little Effect, BIG BOOST FROM LOUISVILLE Members of Twenty-One Lodges Will Eat Meat but Once a Day. STOCKMEN GETTING THE MONEY — | Farm Paper Says Last Year's Animal Crop Broke All Records. GAIN OF OVER HALF BILLION The Increase in Value of Live Stock Sold in 1009 Amounted to $560,- 000,000—Retailers Also Blamed, CHICAGO, Jan. 22.— . hille the movement to combat the high price of food continued its spread there Is little indication of a ‘decrease in the price of meat. Milwaukee, which reported & big decreaso in thejprices quoted by two butchers, yesterday showed & general reduction in many places. None of the other citles In which the movement has been started, reported any reduction, however. The most natable acquisition to the ranks of the anti-meat cause came from Leuisville, where ‘twenty-one lodges of a fraternal organization adopted resolutions that all members refrian meat more than once a day during ¥eb- ruary. The Women's Trade Unlon league and the Bullding Trades councll of St. Louls announced today that they would take action against the high price of meat next wesk. Indianapolis, St. Paul and Toledo reported that the attempts to launch a crusade wgalnst prevalling high prices In those cities had so far falled. From St. Paul came the report that Labor Commissioner MeoEwan had made the statement that the inhabitants of Mingesota were too prosperous ‘to feel the effects of high prices. Stockmen Get the Momey. Apropos of the movement, the Orange Judd Farmer makes the statement that 1000 was the most prosperous year ever known in the, live stock Industry, wo- cording to the annual census review of farm stock. The total value of all classes of live stock in the country on January 1, 1010, WAS $4,580,005,000, says that perlodical. The inerease during 1909 was the greatest ever récorded in twelve months, amounting to $560,000,000. . ““There is an Increase In the numbers of all classes of animals except beef ocattle and hogs, showing an lierease In numbers and a heavy advance In average values per head at the same time. Cattle, other than milch cows, total 48,780,000 head, worth on an, average of $20.76 each. The number of sheep Is Increasing rapldly and now stands 54726,000, worth M.07 each. Hogs in numbers, reaching only 066,000, but the price per head, $.15, is the highest oh record. With the exception of beef cattle, every class of animals showed the highest average price ever recorded.” Anti-Meat Olubs Formed. KANSAS CITY, Jan. 2.—It 15 expected that the anti-meat eating sentiment will recelve 4 great impetus in this city to- morrow when the Industrial Trades counell, ‘with 25,000 members, will meet and take action on the subject. Many socleties not atfillated with or ganized labor and scores of individual famililes have jolned the ranks here, “'Anti- meat” clubs haev been formed and there is Mttle doubt that 100,000 persons will have enlisted In the movement by the end of next week. Waiters in restaurants state that many DAtrous are refraining from ordering meat #ince the crusaie began. . Asked today It the meat boycott had af- fected the market, Charles Hodge, local manager of the Armour Packing company, sald; “Not to' my knowledge. I know nothing of this matter except what I have read in the press dispatches. #Of course, the crusade Wil have an ef- foct on Prices it It continues to sproad.” Six Hundred Tho 4 Mentlens. PITTSBURQG, Pa., Jan. 22.—The employes of seven of Greater Pittsburg's largest in- dustries today enrolled themselves as anti- meat crusaders. One hundred and twenty- five thousand men in Allegheny county have now pledged themselves to abstain from meat. Five per cent of this number are sald to be unmarried. This represents, roughly estimated, 600,000 people who have entered the fight against high prices for foodsturts. Fight in New York. NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—The fight for cheaper meat waxed hotter in New York today. Pledges to abstain from meat eating for thirty days or more were extensively clrculated and signed, and the indications Were that the movement, although slower In gettng a foothold here than in many clties, whil reach impressive proportions in metropolitan territory. Formal action by many organized bodles 18 .expected to follow the general trend among families to cut down thelr meat consumption—a movement sald already to have reduced sales at the retafl shops &0 per cent. / Women are taking the lead in the local Middlemen Are Blamed. agl DES MOINES, Jan. 22.—(Special | el )—A start was made here today n on Of an anti-meat eating club, the members of which pledge themselves to Absialn for thirty days from eating any form of meat as a rebuke to those who are supposed to make meat prices high. Mem- | bera Of the city councll and other promi- puenc persons Immediately joined and the work was well ‘started. A local paper also presented what purports to be an acourate \Presentation of the facts In regard to meat Prices. and shows that the meat from an Animal which Khs brought the farmer $4 I8 ¥0ld to the consumer so that it costs him $I9.75 (he difference representiniy largely the profit to the retaller and his €08t of sending the meat to the kitchen, i —— ' Mewon Will Make Autos. DES MOINES, J 12.—~Edward R. on, Who has been clerk in the United courts ‘or the southern tos clrcult S trict of lowa for thirty-five years and Was employed as deputy five years prior to bls acceptance of that position, resigned today to devote his time to auto- moblle manufacturing. He is a brother of m’lw Willlam Mason of Xilinols, ) from eating | Government is Hopeful of Bills Against Packers Investigation of National Packing Company Has Been Going on for Six Months, WASHINGTON, Jan, 22.—Active prepara- tions are under way for the presentation to the grand jury at Chicago of the gov- ernment's case against the bpef packing concerns, whose alleged practicad, believed to be in restraint of trade and possibly a | fuctor In keeping up the price of fresh | meat, have been under Invegtigation by agents of the Department of glcu. Waude H. Ellis, assistant to the attorney general, under whose direction the Inquiry | has been In progress, may be on hand to| direct and assist in presenting the facts | #athered by the government to the grand | Jury. The administration expects to present a strong showing and securs a number of Indictments. The Inquiry into the practices of the Na- tional Packing \company and the various | packing houses controlling it has been un- der way for six months. CHICAGO, Jan. 22.—Investigation of the Ihethods of the leading meat packers is to begin next week, when a new federal grand jury convenes here. United States District |Attorney Sims made preparations today to Ipresent the results of the Investigation made last year when the question of alleged rebates packers had received from {raliroads was looked Into by another grand ' Jury. Without disclosing the exact nature of the acts by the government, it is authdrita- |tively declared that there are three methods of attack which may be made against the packers. These are: Criminal prosecution for violation of the anti-trust law; clvil action for the dissolu- ‘tion of the National Packing company, and contempt proceedings for alleged violation of Judge Grosscup's injunction restraining them from fixing prices in restraint of trade. It is expected the criminal prosecution will be taken up first. Thaw is Held to Be Bankrupt Referee Gives Trustee Right to Sell Personal Property to His Bister. PITTSBURG, Jan. 22.—That Harry Ken- dall Thaw is a bankrupt and that his estate is subject to the United States bankruptcy laws is held by Referee Willlam B. Blalr, who today handed down an opinion on the petition of Roger O'Mara, trustee of Thaw's estate, for leave to sell the bankrupt’'s real and personal property to his sister, Alice Coplert Thaw, at private sale, The petition was opposed by New York creditors. Trustee O'Mara can now sell to Alice Copley Thaw her brother's personal prop- erty, consisting of some real estate, scarf pins, books and old plictures, for the peti- tioned sum of $40,000. Three Shocks Are Earthquake Tremors Are Severe, but No Serious Damage is Done. SEYDISFIORDy, Iceland, Jan, 22.—Three severe earthquake shocks were felt here at 7:45 o'clock this morning. The tremors were felt elsewhere in Iceland, but so far as reported no damage was done. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 22.—The seismograph of St. Louls university registered an earth- quake which began at 3:30:18 o'clock this morning and lasted until 8:45:36. The move- ment was directly from the west with a trace from the south. Father Goesse, who has charge of the selsmograph, estimated the principal tremor was 6,530 miles from St. Louis. There were four vibrations to the minute. BANQUET FOR BRYAN IN LIMA 12,000 Feet Planned for Tuesday. LIMA, Peru, Jan. 22.—Willlam J. Bryan visited the Chamber of Deputies and the senate yesterday and was warmly wel- comed by the presiding officers and mem- bers. Last night a reception fn his honor was given by the National club. On Monday he will be tendered a banquet at the home of Felipe Pardo and on Tuesday there will be an excursion to Oroya, which rises more than 12,000 feet above sea level, 136 miles to the north of this dity. )There will be further enter- tainments in/his honor during Mr. Bryan's Exeursion to Oroya, |or not, I expect within thirty days to apply Felt in Iceland| |of habeas corpus which will enable me to | the constitution, it being conceded that one THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY 23 1910—SIX SECTIONS—THIRTY HEINZE CHARGE IS DISMISSED Judge Hough Rules that One Indiot- ment of Copper King is Invalid. BASIS OF THE Expert Accountant Assisted the Prose- cutor in Grand Jury Room. DECISION NEW HOPE FOR MORSE Attorney for Ice King Says He Can Show Similar Cause. WILL GET BACK INTO COURT Writ of Habeas Corpus WIill Be Asked at Atlanta to Get Judg- ment on Certain Alleged Facts. NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—A deciston by | Judge Hough, In the United States court today, quashing the indictment against F. | Augustus Heinze, financier and promoter, has given renewed hope to the friends and counsel of Tharles W. Morse, the banker, now servihg a term of fifteen years In the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga. Martin W. Littleton, Mors~’s lawyer, said tonight that the Heinze declsion of today may apply equally to the case of Morse and that if he could establish similar facts he would move that no valld indictment was found against his client. Helnze was indicted on October 12, 1909, for violation of the national banking law. In quashing the Indictment Judge Hough sald: “The common law fs that a grand jury, while deliberating, shall listen to witnesses who give testimony and-to no one else, except the authorized law officlals of the commonwealth. When this indictment was Wnder consideration In the grand Jjury room, John F. Fernsler took part In the proceedings to the extent of asking some technical questions of other expert aceount- ants, and throughout suggested the method of examining expert witnesses thought to be allied with the deténdant.’” “Mr. Fernsler is an expert accountant, not a lawyer, and was not retained by the proseceution as counsel. be a good move,” continues the court, “but It has not been adopted by | law. It has never been argued before that counsel is entitled to have at his elbow in a grand jury room an expert assistant.’” Morse Will Renew Fight. After Mr. Littieton, counsel for Morse, had read Judge Hough's decision, he lasued a statement in part as follow “It has been brought to my attention that the methéd by which the Indictments (against Morse) were procured included the service before the grand jury of a non- profesaional officer, designated by the fed- erdl government. As I understood it, the court hag determined that, for similar prac- tices, an Indictment against Mr. Heinze shall be quashed. If I can establish similar facts in the case of my clent, I shall move that no valid Indictment was found against him, “But whether I can establish such facts to the federal court at Atlanta for a writ present to the court these questions “First—As to whether the court was a corstitutional court within the meaning of of the jurors was demented at the time of the trial. Second—As to whether the defendant was afforded a trial by an impartial jury, when the jury was overshadowed and surrounded by the private paid detectives of the prosc- eution. Third—As to whether or not a sentence of five years in excess of the statutory term is u void sentence upon which the de- fendant can be confined. More Indictments Against Helnze. There are still two indictments pending agalr st Helnze, one of which charges over- certificatlon of the checks of Otto Heinze & Co.,, and the other misapplication of the funds of the Mercantile Nattonal bank for the benefit of Helnze himself. According to Attorney Smith, who has been assisting the United States dstrict at- torney in the prosecution, the quashing of the third indictment today will merely re- suit in the delay incident to obtaining a new indictment under the conditions im- posed by the court. He believes he has sufficlent evidence to do so without the assistance of a lay expert. Extra Dividend by Steel Trus NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—Heavy purcha: today of United States Steel common stock Is said on the stock exchange to indicate a confirmation of the report that a meet- ing of the directors next Tuesday an extra dividend of 4 per cent will be declarcd in addition to the regular 1 per cent quar- terly dividend. The extra dividend, it Is stay here. reported, will be declared to make & total dividend of 4 per cent for the last year. When the telephone bell rang in the deep, dark hours of the morning, the man was awakened by his wife. He lay still to listen, then dozed agalin. The telephone wouldn't be satisfied, re. fused to te snubbed and kept on ringing intermittently until the man’s alert wite forced him to rise. As he groped In the dark hallway, his small son demanded a drink of water and would not Be put off. Not getting the drink at once, he joined the jingling thing | below stairs with a wail that set the dog to tarking in the cellar. Then the nejgh- bor's dog started, being an early riser, ang the man's daughter cut in with a sharp in- quiry as to what was the matter. By the est spot in the house, pear the front door, he was the shivering center of a bedlam of nolses. “Hello, hello!" sald the thinly appareled person, and his volae rasped so ferociously that It set the two dogs off on & new Als- ocord, ’ "“What?" he shouted, after hearing cen- tral's gentle purring. “Five o'clock? Well, what ahout ft? Don't you think we ean afford a clock?* “Left a calll Who sald so? Well, of an | |the aggregated mistakes you have ever |m.do. this Is the very worst.' Vindictive Vengeance is Wreaked Through ’Phone! | down the stairway onto the faithtul barker time he reached the telephone, at the cold } Did you just ring the first lald hands on?" “Yoy can't help it, can't you? can, with an axe. And as he hung up the receiver like a butcher throwing a side of beet onto a hook his wife shrilled from the top floor bedroom: “Don't you dare break that telephone, You come stralght back to bed." The man was hot all over by this time, eyen to his blue-tinged toes. Going to the cellar door he flung the small boy's sled number you Well, 1 that was trying to get upstairs. Then he | slammed the door and went up to prowl about the bathroom In search of a glass to stop the ory of his son for water. When he reached the boy's bed there was another and a louder yell, youngster emitted “You spilled the soreamed the little “Well, why don't you keep your mouth open, like you do when you're hollering?" kindly inquired the exasperated man. “I can't; I'm asleep,” sputtered the in- nocent k'd. And shortly peaco reigned again; but there will be some Indications of war if the man ever locates the kindly friend who “No, 1 dldn’t have any call for § o'clock, |#na 1 never will leave a call for § o'clock. registers early morning calls for him with centra) { {TAFT FOR TWO DREADNOUGHTS ~From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. ‘““Why, Willie, where’s your new sled?”” SIX PAGES. WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska-—Fair. For lowa—Fair, For weather report see page 2. SINGLE COPY FIVE CiN SUNKEN CARS STILL IN RIVER Ice Closes Over Two Coaches Con- taining Bodies of Vietims of Sudbury Wreck, SCORES T™WO0 ARE DEAD Second-Class Car Strikes Bridge Girder and is Solit in Twain. CONDUCTOR SAVES EIGHT LIVES Passengers in Diner Are Standing in BIFFEL TOWER THREATENED Floods May Cause Collapse of the Gigantic Structure, PARIS BUILDINGS IN DANGER Many Villages in France Are U Water and Troops Are Resculng People — Further Rise Feared. er PARIS, Jan. 22—The flood of the Seine threatens to agsume the proportions of a catastrophe. The water at 2 o'clock had risen a foot since morning. The founda- tions of many bulldings and notabiy the Elffel tower have been Infllerated and the structures are in danger of collapsing. Rallroad, telegraph and telephone com- munication {s interrupted throughout emst- ern France today by the floods. Many bridges have been swpt away and canal traffic has been abandoned. The streets in scores of cities and vil- lages are under water, Lile, Chalons and Troyes sutfered most. ¢ The waters of thc Rhone and the Marne, with thelr tributaries, «¢fe ropolted at a standstill today. The situation in Parls, however, -promises to be worse than yi terday, as the Seine continues to rise rap- 1dly. It Is expected that the river will reach its maximun flood tomorrow. There 1e sixty-one feet of water in the new sub- way between Place de la Concorde and Passage de la Trinite. A portlon of the Boulevard St. Germain above the subway has caved in. Hundreds of factories have been fnundated. Halt the surface and subway and trans- portation lines have been rendered inop- eratl: Seine Banks Are Full. The Seine 'is debris-lagen and its yellow torrents are almost flush with its banks. Cellars along the quays are full of water and there will be a heavy loss in wines and other warehouse goods. Raeilroad and telegraphic communication is interrupted in the eastern provinces, where the streets of many citles and vil- lages are flooded. The Rhone and the Marne are reported as apparently having reached thelr meximum flood. Immense damago s reported from the suburban towns along the Seine, like Char- enton, Billancourt, Argenteul, Acnleres, Sevres and Meudon. The water at Port Royal f{s fourteen feet above normal and the indications up- stream presage a further rise of three feet by tomorrow night. Troops and firemen everywhere were called out today to ald In the work of rescue. The cabinet has decided to ask Parllament on' Monday to appropriate 3400, 000 for the rellef of the people in the af- tlicted districts, Rallroad traffic out of Parls, especially to the south and west is badly crippled. Thousands of rats are escaping from the labyrinth beneath Paris, President Will Keep Navy Up to Standard in Spite of Economy Poltey. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—At a conference with Chairman Foss of the house commit- tee on naval affairs and Representative Roberts of Massachusetts, member of the committee, President Taft today an- nounced that he favored a provislon for two new battleships of the improved dreadnought or all blg gun type in the forthcoming naval appropriation biil. The man who owns an automobile should take advan- tage of this severe weather to have his car thoroughly overhauled and painted. On the first want ad page, under the classification, Auto- mobiles, are a number of firms who are skilled in automobile overhauling and painting. There are also many opportuni- tles to purchase a good used car cheap under this popular cassifica- tion. Have you read the Waant/ Ads todayt Raise More Meat, Wilson’s Remedy For High Prices Immigrants Flock to City and Be- come Consumers, Not Producers, Says Secretary. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—"Undoubtedly if the farms were ralsing more meat the price would be reduced,” said Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture today, in commenting upon the widespread boycott dgainst meat products. “There are not enough people on the farms ralsing food, and too many are going to the towns to be fed. “Three-quarters of a million of peopls,” sald Secretary Wilson, ‘‘are coming to the United States annually from abroad. They do not go to the farms, where they might help raise food for the nation. Farmers cannot get help. The forelgners go to the citles, and they have to be fed. The citles produce nothing to eat, although they do produce something fo drink."" “Have you any plan for inducing people to go tor the farms, where they may help 10 ralse food?" the secretary was asked. “Jim, Hill says they will go there when they get hungry,” sald the secretary, after shakfhg his head in reply to the question. Burkett Talks Before Com mittee Nebraska Senator Thinks Irrigation Homesteaders Will Be Given Patents. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—(Special gram,)—Senator Burkett sald tonight that he had every reason to belleve his bill granting phtents to homesteaders under irrigation provisions would become a law during the present session of congress. He trankly admitted that there might be a modification made In the measure and he ather looks fr this, but the general prin- ciples of the bill he thought would be kept intaot. The senator presented cogent reasons to- day to the irrigation committee of the sen- ate why his bill should pass. s He urged on the committee that homesteaders under an irrigation centract had bought land with @ definite stipulation as to the time water would be provided. But the govern- ment had failed to make good, and In con- seqdence homesteaders could not make a Uiving. He insisted that the government should make good for its fallure to provide water In the specified time by issuing patents to those who had In good faith settled on the land. The committee gave close attentlon to the senator, realizing that a new aondition contronted them. While they recognized the strength of Senator Burkett's argument, it Is understood the committee will not go as far as Senator Burkett's bill, but may give the right of assignment to the home- steader or else permjt him to move away untll water is provided. Senator Burkett also addressed the com- mittee on behalf of the bond issue ot $20,000,000 for irrigation purposes as recom- mended by President Taft, and he believes the committee will report the bill tavorably. If there is anything in persuasion, Ad- miral Schley will. go to Lincoln this year as a guest of the Epworth assembly, Sena. tor Burkett presented the invitation and urged the admiral to accept. Admiral Schley hesitated and sald he would like to %0, but there were reasons, etc., and then finally sald he wopld take the invitation urder consideration; The president will send the name ot Prank S. Howell as United States attorney for Nebraska to the senate Monday, Tele- Legislative Council for Alaska. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-The sendte committee on territories today perfected the Beverldge measure to create a legis- lative council for Alaska. All of the mem- bers of the council are to be named by the president. MISSOURT AFTER PACKERS Attorney General Files Information Against Nine Firms. CHARGE CONTROL OF MEAT PRICE Petition Alleges Combination to Fix Amount Pajd for “Packers, Live Stock and Dalry Supplien. JBFFERSON CITY, Mo., Jan. 22.—(Spe- clal Telegram.)~Information against nine of the big packing house companies, alleg- ing that they are operating in violation of the anti-trust laws of the state, and ask- ing that an examiner be appointed by the supreme court for the purpose of taking testimony, was flled with Judge Leroy B. Valllant of the supreme court by Attorney General Elllott W. Major shortly before 6 o'clok. No further steps will be taken in the premises before Monday. But one of the companies named in the information 18 a Miesourl corporation, the St. Louts Dressed Beef and Provision eom- pany. The others donng business in Mis- sourl under a license as forelgn corpora-i| tions are: Armour & Co. of New Jersey, Morris & Co. of New Jersey, Morris & Co. of' Maine, Swiff and Company of Illinofs, 8witt and Company ,of =~ West “Virginia Hammond Packing company of Illinol Packing company of Illinols, Bchwarszchild & Sulzberger eompany of New York. Under the Missour! law, the attendance of non-resident witnesses can be compelled, under the penalty of throwing the attacied corporation out of court and adjudging it gullty of all charged. Far-Reaching Agreement. The petition alleges that the corporations named have entered into an unlawful un- derstanding with each other to control the price pald by dealers In ‘“packers” and other purchases of all live stock, cattle, hogs, sheep, poultry, butter, eggs and dAiry products and to fix and regulate the price to be pald by retail butchers and wholesale dealers for all dressed pork, beef, cured meats and lard manufactured, slaughtéred and offered for sale or to be 50l {n the state of Missourl, and to regu- late, fix and control the price to be pald by all retall and wholesale dealers for but- ter, oggs, poultry, game, dairy products, tertilisers, greases and numerous by- | products. The petition concludes with a prayer for | the appointment of an examiner and that power be conferred upon the attorney gen- | eral to compel the attendance of witnesses and aleo that the examiner be empowered | to compel witnesses to answer questions, | produce books, papers and all else neces- sary to a complete inquiry. In 1902 the state of Missourd, through its | attorney general, started similar procced- ! ings to those of today against the packers | and succeeded In convicting them of viola- | tions of tha anti-trust law. A fine of $5,000 was at that time imposed against the lead- | Ing packers. ADVICE ON NAVIGATION | Waterways Commission Will Recom- mend Plans for General Fed- eral Poliey. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Recommenda- tions as to a general federal policy toward the improvement of rivers, harbors and gapals, based upon investigations that haye | been conducted in this and forelgn coun- tries for a couple of years, will be made to congress by the United States National | Waterways commission in a report to be | submitted Monday. / The one important question upon which | the commission split, it is understood, is to whether or not there should be federal control over rates on rallroads competing with transportation lines on inland water- ways. Upon the final vote, It is understood, the ! large majority of the commission members | favored laws to give added power to the | Interstate Commerce commission, and the report, it was learned today, will voice the | opinfon of the majority on this question, Asks Court to Advance A Corporation WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-In antieipation of the Intention to ask the supreme court of the United States Monday to advance for an early hour hearing the Vermont case involving the question and constitutionality of the corporation tax provision of the Payne tariff act, Maxwell Evarts of New 1 | Saulte Witer Up to Necks. DIVES THROUGH A WINDOW Man in Charge of Tr: Renches Top of Car and Heélps Oocupants to Safety—Identity of Vie- tims Not Known. SUDBURY, Ont., Jan. 22.—With three big drayloads of rough boxes walting to re- celve the bodies of upwards of two score victims, the scene of yesterday's Canadian Pacific wreck at Spanish river today pre- sented an almost hopeless fleld of labor for the hundred or more men sent to clear away the wreck and recover the vietims' bodies. A blizzard raged all day down the valley of the Spanish river. Two of the wrecked cars, the colonist car and the first-class coach,” whose ven- tilators were visible above the water this morning, drifted under the bridge during the day and tinally were completely sub- merged. The dining car remained partly on the river bank and partly submerged in the river. Little remains of the second- clags coach, which was split in two when it struck the bridge girder and took fire. Ice that will bear a man's welght has closed over the first-class coach and the colonist car and it is impossible to deter- nfne théir exact lochtion. More [than thirty Injured were taken to the general hospital and the hotels of Sudbury. The known dead: JOSEPH HEMAULT, Matheson, Ont. 8. ZOUMAN, Chisolm, Minn. NICHOLAS = NICHOLANKO, Minn. MRS. C. HOUDE, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. M. SPINKOZUM. MIKE WYCLOUKO. LARDOF HAPPI, JOSE MAROTT (addresses unknown). JOHN ROSEBACK, North Bay, Ont. OGEORGE M'CILHENEY, North Bay, nt. WILL LAVERY, North Bay, Ont. The number of bodies lying in the sub- merged cars may not be known for many days. Among passengers unaccounted for are Rev| Mr. Childer House, Sault Ste, Marte, Ont., and Auditor Robertson of the Canadian Pacific railroad. The “wreck otourred on & 300-foot stesl bridge with overhead girders and & thirty= foot embankment sloping down to the Spanish river underneath. The ongine, combination mail and bag- gage car and express car had passed safely upon the. bridge when the forward trucks of the second-class coach jumped the track. The car struck an immense steol girder with such terrific foros as to snap the girder In two and split the car as though it had been divided with a bleaver. The rear end of the second-class cosch swerved far out to the end, putting' the colonist car, first-class coach and giner off the bridge into the water and tipping over the Pullman beside the track. Fire communicated to the first-class coach, which remained on the right-of-way, and added to the horror of the aceldent. Few of the survivors of tha wreck were in condition today to give accurate details of the accident. Chisolm, Experience of o Drummer, B. J. Pearce, a commercal traveler of Toronto, who, with Brakeman Morrison, ix thought to bo the only survivor from the first-class coach, gave a gfaphle account of his experience. Mr. Poarce was getting a drink at the water tank at the end of the car when the crash came. Finding him- self struggling in water, but with his head out, he reached the fanlight in the end of the car, broke the glass and the wire seresn and struggled through, with his face badly cut and scratched. Running alone the top of the first-class car, he found a space of mbout six feat separating it from the diner. Risking hia life on the floating lee, he almost reached the diner when he lost his footing and was plunged into the fey water. But a projent. ing pipe from the roof of the diner was within his reach and climbing up by means of the pipe he ran along the top of the diner to the shore, The telegraph wires were all torn down and it was cvident that rellef could not be summoned by wire. It was five miles to the village of Hairn and the drenched survivor ran the distance to deltver a report of the accident at the depot, Conductor Saves Eight. Meantime Conductor Thomas Reynolds was proving himeelf a hero in resouing elght passengers from the sunken dining car. When the wreck occurred Reyuolds, with W. J. Bell and David Brodie had fust sat down to dinner. Bell and Brodie' were facing the engine and Reynolds sat oppo- slte them, riding backwards. The diner was the last cor to enter the wator and did not sink at once, but settled slowly while the passengers climbed upon the tables to keep thelr heads above the tising waters, With several passengers standing in water up to thefr chins the situation was desper- ate. Then it was that Conductor Revnelds made a dive fo reach a window, broke the glass and succeeded in rising to the surface of the river outside the car Happlly he reached the surface where a hole in the ice enabled him to kain & solid footing by resting one arm on the cdge of the car and the other on the ice. Galning the root of_the car he broke a fan light with his fist and rescued little Alfonse’ Rousel of Tax Test Case - | in the federal circult court in Vermont as eneral guardian of the property of Sam- vel N. Stone, Jr, a minor, against the| Stone-Tracy company, a general retall mer- | cantile corporation of Windsor, Vt. It was sought to enjoin the eorporation from mak- ing & return of its net Income as required by the corporation tax provision and from York today filed with the clerk of the paying the tax If levied. The Vermont | court & motion to advance together, with reasons for asking‘for this procedure. Mr, Evarts appears s of counsel for | arts, court ordered the bill dismissed “A declsion in this case,” says Mr. Ev- “‘affects & great majority of the cor- Stella P. Flint, who instituted proceedings | porations in the United Btates.” } Ste. Marle. After the little boy came D. M. Bridic of Sudbury, who was |small enough to paes through the fan light, 8ix more passengers, who were too big to be rescued in this manner, were taken out through a hole broken In the roof of the car. It is sald that Mre. C. Houde, aunt of the little boy who was rescued, was almost saved, but slipped back into the water and was drowned, List of Iu The Injured in yesterday's wreck as re- ported by the rafiroad officials are: Perri Nicoll, sealp wound. Jose Chance, fracture of ekull. G. G. McLaughlin, Angus, Ont., head Ine Jured. Mrs. H. Rogers. Winnipeg, head cut. Joseph Maher, Montreal, leg eut. C. Moore, address unknown, serlously M W. Wilmott, Montreal, bruf Mre. L. Lindall and son !flflh.‘m }