Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 3, 1910, Page 1

} 4 L] A 2% v 4 v 4 y Y | » THE OMAHA BEE goes to the homes—is read by the women-—sells goods for advertisers. ittt WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska—Threatening. For lowa—Partly cloudy, colder. For wenther report swe page 2. VOL. XXXIX-—NO. SUBSTITUTE FOR TWO LAND BILLS Senate Committee, After Spirited Ses- sion, Drafts Short Measure Con- fering Needed Authority. ' RIGHT TO WITHDRAW LANDS Power Specifically Conferred on Pres- ident in Few Brief Sentences. MUST REPORT TO CONGRESS Reservation to Stand Until With- drawn by President or Congress. POSTAL BILL IN SENATE Mr. Heyburn Condemns Measure Re- enuse He Thinks 1t Will Have Bffect of Lowering Rate of Interest. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—That there shall be no question as to the power of the pre; ident to withdraw publlc lands for conser- vation purposes and continue the with- drawal In forge until revoked by him or by act of congress, the senate committee on public lends today reported a substitute for two of the administration bills. The deolsion to report such a measure was reached after several hearings had been held In which the necessity for the legisiation was attacked and defended in spirited controversy. United action was Impossible today when the question of reporting a.bill was taken up. A three- cornered fight hed heen earried in the committee for somie tlme, the fac- tlons were made up of senators, who be- Mleve that the president under existing law has authority to withdraw lands from public entry; senators who were In favor of giving him such power, but who haye contended that numerous acts of former President Roosevelt were illegal and sen- ators who have taken a decided stand against any such authority being con- ferred on the executive. In order that acts of Mr. Roosevelt should be validated beyond any question, those senators who were In favor of ad- vanced conservation legislation, but who have questioned the legality of many of the withdrawals aiready made, joined with the supporters of the administration bills sent to the committee by Becretary Ball- inger and agreed to report a substitution. This action still left a minority, com- posed of Senators Heyburn and Clark (Wyoming) who Insiet that the right to ‘withdraw from entry should rest in cou- gress. Those senators may present a minority report. The measure as reported by Senator Nelson, ls one of the simplest pleces of legirlation ever proposed the subject of land laws, but it Is sald It will ac- complish all of the purposes of the two bills of several sections each, which were the dnterior . the biit follows: “That the president may, at sny time in his discretion, withdraw from sottle- ment, location, sale or entry, any of the public lands of the United States and reserve the same for forestry, water power, Irrigation, olaMsification or other public purposes to be specified In with- drawsl and such withdrawal and reserva- ! tion shall remaln In force until revoked by him or by an #ct of congress. The secrotary of the Interfor shall report all such withdrawals lereafter to congress at the beginning of itd next regular ses- wion.” HEYDURN AT prsn Sayn it Will Have Bffect of Lowering Rate of Interest. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2-Should the * postal savings bank Bill become a law, It would greatly endanger it not destroy in- comes to the amount of hundreds of millions ed Senator Heyburn to- day. 'The Idaho Senator was engaged In a general discussion of the bill In con- nection with an ammendiment presented by POSTAL Senator Smoot for the regulation of the | removal banks. He contended that fnasmuch as the fund under the bill would reach fully §700,000,000, it would enable the Board of Trustees to dictate the réte of interest throughout the country, “In other words, the government pur- poses to o Into the loaning business,” he said, “and intends to fix the rate of Inter- est at 2 per cent." In view of this faet, he asked what the effect ‘would be on Incomes derived from funds Invested at 5 and 6 per cent. “Should we," he then asked, “so forget our duty to the widows and orphans whose funds are thus invested as to disturb the earning capacity of thelr investments?" He declared that the bill should be denominated. “An act to constitute the government a collection agency for the banks,” and added that under the bill it had the power to convert the government into a general loaning, agency. Mr, Heyburn also asserted that with the money once deposited there was no ade- Quate means of obtalning its return to the depositor. Benator Carter called attention to the fact that in times of emergency savings banks generally require a notice of thirty to sixty dayw for the Withdrawal of funds. One amendment by Senator Davis, pro- viding for the deposit of postal funds in banks under state inspection, as well as in those under federal supervision, was adopted. Senator Smoot proposed an amendment providing for the withdrawal of funds from banks, which were not willing to pay 2% cent interest and it was under dis- cussion when the senate adjourned. of postal savings deposits from LAND FOR LARGE HOMESTEADS Secretary Balli Deslgnntes Tracts in Wyomlug and Montana. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—Approximately 109,167 aeres of land were designated today by Secretary Ballinger of the interlor de- Partment as open under the enlarged home- #tead act. Of this amount 672,740 acres are in Wyoming, 84,60 In Montana and 61,767 in New Mexico, In ald of proposed legislation affecting the disposal of water' power sites the sec- retary, today withdrew from all forms of entry or disposal 3,661 acres along Clark Fork in Montana and Idaho. Proposed legislation affecting the use and disposition of petroleum deposits on the domaln caused Mr. Ballinger also withdrav (emporarily #8.00 acres of 1884 in Caliturula, making the total area ©f petroleum withdrawalo in California to dats L4043 acres. BILL | 176. Battle. Unus % ecords _ficiency \ fo. Seven Fighting Machines Exceed Contract Speed in Recent Ma- neuvers at Sea, WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—A remarkable exhibition of naval effielency is disclosed in the report from Admiral Schroeder of the speed trials of the vessels of the At- lantic fleet up to January 28 last. A naval vessel in the past rarely has equaled Its contract speed after its acceptance trial, whieh I8 always eonducted under the most favorable eonditions with speclally trained crews. But, according to Admiral Schroeder's report, no less than seven of the battleships in thelr recent trials ex- ceeded thelr contract speeds, although some of them had been commissioned for several years, These ships were the Connecticut, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Kansas, Geor- &!a, Nebraska and Mississippl. Not gunnery alone, but general all-around scamanship—engineering, signaling and other qualifications—are hereafter to form the basis of the award of naval trophies for battle efficlency, Secretary Meyer today made this announcement In connec- tion with the award of the pennant for gunnery to the ‘battleship Vermont. as the result of the competition held in the open sea at unfixed ranges and speeds. The Tennessee and the Maryland are rated high, haying made more than 85 per cent of the total score of the Vermont. The officers of these ships all have re- celved commendatory letters. State Authorities Await Swope Inquest Belief Prevails that Badical Action Will Not Be Taken at Once, KANSAS CITY, Feb. 2—Virgil Conkling, couyty prosecutor; J. G. Paxton, executor of the Swope estate, and James A. Reed, an attorney, who have been in Chicago conferring ‘with the specialists relative to the Swope mystery, arrived home this morning. Thelr Teturn was awaited with a certain degree of expectancy. Immediately they entered Into conferences with mém- bers of the Swope family and others in- trested in th case, but nothing developed to indicate that radical action was fmmi- nent. At the prosecutor's cffice it was reiter- ated that no action by the state was prob- able Before the inquest over the body of Colonel Swope, to be held next week, had finished its work. Depositions will be taken tomorrow in the suits brought by Dr. B. C. Hyde in which he asks $700,00 damages for alleged slander, Miss Drayton' W' an American Granddaughter of William Astor Becomes Bride of Legation Secretary. LONDON, Feb. 2—Miss Caroline Astor Drayton of New York, only dsughter of J. Coleman Drayton and granddaughter of the late Willlam Astor, today became the | wite of Willlam Phillips, secretary of the | American embassy. | Parish church at Rogate, Sussex, was the | scene of the wedding ceremony, which was witnessed by a large party of relatives aud friends. Rev. Bdgar Shephard, sub- dean of the Chapels Royal, officlated. Mr. Phillips was third assistant secre- tary of state during the administration of President Roosevelt and outside of his of- ficlal dutles was a merifber of the famous | “tennis cabinet.” He wad inted to his present post September 85, His home 1s In Boston. |Court Overrules . Mrs.Ford’s Motion Trial of Alleged Blackmailer Will Go On Despite Action of Prosecutor. CINCINNATI, Feb. —The trial of Mrs. Jeanette Stewart Ford for alleged black- mall was continued here todsy, Judge James B. Swing déclining to stop the pro- ceedings on the motion of the defense to dismiss, because Propecuting’ Aftorney Hunt refused to obey & court order and | turnish the defense with a transcript of the grand Jury testimony of Charles L. War- riner. The declsion la hot final, Judge Swing stating that the point at lssue ia involved in a case pending'before the supremo court of the state and until that is dedded he would hold the matter in, abeyance. SIXTY RAILROADS REJECT DEMANDS Locomotive Firemen Are Notified that Proposed Seale Cannot o Be Accepted. WILL ARBITRATE WAGE RATE All Other Concessions Asked Are Flatly Refused. AFFECTS TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND Machinists on Twenty-Seven Roads to | Present Demands. MINERS FOR TEMPERANCE nth Now Prohibits Officers and Delegates from Hecoming Intoxiented Whi ¢ Duty. NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—Sixty raflroads in the country have notified the represents- tives of 23,000 firemen of the rejection of their demands fof a 20 to 2% per cent wage increase and other concesstons. News of the rejection was contained in a private dis- patch from Chicago today. The roads express a wiilingness to arbl- trate the question of wages, but flatly re fused other demand CHICAGO, Feb., 2.—W. 8. Carter, an official of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Firemen and Enginemen, said today that the report that the railroads had re- jected the demands of his organization for an increase In wages and other con- cesslons was true in part. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Demagnds for Increases in the wages of machinists and shop workers on twenty-seven railroads of the southwest will follow a meeting of the general executlve board of the Inter- national Assoclation of Machinists, which | went Into session here today. President O'Connell of the machinisi organization will meet the general man- agers of the southwestern roads in Chi- | cago next week to open negotiations. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 2—Reports of committees occupled the attention of the United Mine Workers today. The leaders hoped to be able to complete thelr work and leave for Toledo' tonight. The con- vention voted $3,000 for the familles of the men killed at the mine explosion at Drakesboro, Ky. A temperance wave swept over the con- vention and a clause was inserted In the constitution providing for the dismissal of any officer or delegate who should be !intoxicated on duty. TOLEDO, O. Feb. 2.—At an executive sessio of the operators of the Ohlo, In- dlana and Pennsylvania mining districts, lasting untll noon today, J. C. Kolsem, manager of the Jackson Hill Coal and Coke company of Terre ute, Ind., was A wn of meeting will be held tonight. IAuld Wrestles with Dr. Cowles Paymaster Tells of Encounter with Physician at Navy Yard Dance. BOSTON, Feb, 2—Apparently with the hope of hearing Paymaster George P. Auld testfy In his own defense a very large crowd of spectators filled the seats when the naval court-martial convened for its third day's session at the Charles- town Navy yard today. The testimony of Miss Hesler of Evan- ston, Ill, and Miss Swift w; strongly in favor of the paymaster, but Mrs. Cowles testitied directly against him, She ad- mitted that It was she who went to Wash- ington and had the charges pressed after they had been apparently dropped follow- | ing a reprimand to Paymaster Auld and Surgeon Robnett. Paymaster Auld took the stand as the last witness. Auld sald he was surprised to see Dr. Cowles at the dance and considered it an affront to the committee in charge of the affalr. Auld sald he Interviewed the physi- el in the dance hall and said to him, “We wish you would not attend dances at the navy yard.'" Auld admitted he followed Dr. Cowles down stairs, where the latter's language became violent. Then came the clash, Auld sald he took hold of Dr. Cowles by the shoulders and the two had a wrestling Ibout, tn which Dr. Cowles was thrown. Auld denfed emphatically that he struck Dr. Cowles. The court then adjourned untll tomorrow, when arguments will begin. Soclety Women Forget Strikers. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2.—There were no soclety women on hand today to furnish | ball or pay fines for fifteen girl shirt walst | strikers who were arralgned before a magistrate on minor charges, and as a result some of the young women were sent to, the county prison for ten days. Away back in the summer of 1§70, Henry Winter Burm, then & subjeet of Queen Victoria, tiled his original papers declaring |his intention to become a citisen ‘of the United States. He was then & mere boy, Just of the naturalisation age, and as America, and Omaha particularly, looked €00d to him, hé decided he would locate here, ' . It was a hot summer day, July 23, when {he filed his first papers before the United | States eireuit elerk. The iclerk Jjocosely suggested to him to drop the name “Burn,” Just as a matter of form, on account of the weather, @as the name “Winter" sounded extremely good just the Henry Winter Burn acceded to the propo- sition and so signed his declaration, and had his friend, Johm George Frost, sign his name to tl declarntion as a witness. In the meanwhile Mr. Burn appeared on the naturalization rolls as Henry Winter, and he had forgotten all mbout it until Tuesday morning, when he went to the H. Winter Burn Shifts His Name to Suit the Season | | | office of the United States elrcuit elerk to complete his naturalization and take out his final papers. It looked for a while as If he might lose out because of the climatic change in his name from forty years ago. But Jack (G.) Frost was still on deck and he was ready to prove that as he and Burn came from the same balllwick in England, he knew his real name to be Burn, and that he just Aropped the name Burn as % joke at thas time on mccount of the weather, and let them get as much winter into that hot summer as possible, as Colonel Welsh had not arrived In this territory then with his weather bureau and fixings. S0 Henry Winter Burn, recognizing the eternal fitness of things, has now become a full-fledged American citizen during this winter under the name of Burn, he be- came a preparatory citizen forty years ago under the refreshing name of Winter dur- ing an extremely hot summer. AND JACK FROST has helped him out now, as he did then. i /N Y ¥ From the Philadelphia North American. A 1t it P Plenty of Investigating, Anyway. PACKING -COMPANY FAILS New Jersey Corporation Doing Busi- ness in Mexico Bankrupt. STOCK OWNED IN ENGLAND Company Which Helds Valuable C cessions. Has Large Sum on Deposit Bank Which Suspended, NEW YORK, Feb, 2.—The Mexican N tional Packing company, a New Jersey corporation, ¢ontrolled by English in- vestors, and operating slaughter houses and packing 'houses in Mexico under conces- sions from the Mexican government, falled today with llabllities, inoluding stock, of $57,000,000. The ‘ot given, but 1t is annouheed th: “are in_ excess of the labllitles. TH pany. will -con- tinue to operate its plants s tsual. Henry De Kay was appointed redéiver by Jud Lanning of the. circult court in New Jer- sey this afternoon. 5 The appointment of a recelver was . not brought about by any condition. ip the Jive stock market, but by the tleing up of & part of ‘the company's funds in .the United States Banking company in Mexico City, which suspended recently. Samuel Untermeyer, as countel repre- senting English bankers and other In- vestors In the property, sald tonight: Deposits in, Defunct Bank. While we have no definite figures show- ing. the position between the packing.com- pany and’the bank at the time of the sus- pension of the banke we are advised that the packing company had upwards of $:0),- 000 gold to its credit in the United States Banking company at the time of the bank's suspensjon. “The tylng up o fthe packing company's immediate resources and the uncertainty as to the possible action that might be taken to the appointment of a recelver to conserve ‘the assets until a setled course can be pursied. The company continues operations and all its plants are main- taining its volume and supplying people of Mexico with thelr meat products. It s not expected that these operations will be interfered with In any way. Ar- rangements Were under way in England for furnishifg the company wtith a large amount of additional eapital at the time of the suspension of the bank. These ar- rangements will proceed without Inter- ruption.” Valuable Comcessions. Among the concessions held by the. com- pany is an exclusive right to slaughter cattle in Mexico City until 1826, Its share capital Is secured by a mortgage of about $12,600,000 and & floating debt in the nelgh- borhood of $2,000,00, of which, however, only about $300,000 1s due. The bonds, stock and debts are held mainly in England and the British and Mexican Trust, Limited, of London pro- cured the recelver as the holder of &bout $6,000,000 of the bonds, approximately’ two- thirds of the stock and as the owner of $300,000 of floating debt. Interurban Promote: YANKTON, 8. D,, Feb. 2.~(Special Tele- gram.)—C. A. Magee, a wealthy electric line promoter of Pittsburg, is in ¥Yankton, He says he will in March start work on an extensive system of electric lines to Yankton from Centerville, Freeman, Park- ston, etc., and securing the Yankton-Nor- folk line from Yuell and Graham of Chi- cago. He says he will bulld a bridge here and extend the line into Kansas, \ Let us help you find the room you want. On the want ad. pages of The Bee you will find a list of practically every vacant room in Omaha. The people who have rooms to rent are learning that the way to se- cure tenants is to advertise the rooms in The Bee, Have you read the want ads. today? Bond Shrinkage Caused Failure of Big Brokers k & Robinson, Declared Bankrupt Tuesday, Are Suspended from Stock Exchange. NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—The suspension of Fisk & Robinson, the bond and banking house, whose fallure came yesterday when an involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed, was announced at the opening of the stock exchange today. As a result of the unexpected news after the close of yesterday's business on the exdhange, the market today opened with declifigs running from substantial f ona to a poflt or so with @ considerable volume of ‘liquidation by speculators ,who had not recovered from nervousmess caused by the market break of a couple of weeks ago. The failure was due to the shrinkage in the market value of certain bonds which the firm had underwritten. That caused the banks which had loaned money on the securities to demand additional collateral, which the firm was unable to supply. The recelver estimates that the secured obligations of the firm will amount to about 35,000,000 and the unsecured obliga- tions to more than §1,000,000, BOSTON, I'eb. 2.—The labllities of Fisk & Robinson, brokers of New York, Boston, Chicago and Worcester, who failed yester- day, ‘amount to nearly §7,000000. Manager W. A. Tracy of the Boston office today issved the following statement of the firm's condition, as ascertained last Friday: Assets—Cash, . $61915; loans recelvable, $2,122,368; ‘securities, $4,428,444; accounts re- celvable, $225,20; furniture and fixiures, $10,000; total, $5,847,97. Liabllities—Loans payable, $5,276,570; de- posits, $1,212,349; accounts payable, $248,406; balance in excess of assets,’ $112,643; total, 6,847,967, lowa School Gets Rockefeller Money Cornell College at Mount Vernon is Given $50,000 by General Education Board. . NEW YORK, Feb. 2—Five colleges and two universities were the reciplents ot con- ditional gifts and appropriations made by the Rockefeller fund of the general edu- cation board, which held its seventh' an- nual meeting today. The following are among the favored Institutions: WHillams college, Willlamstown, Ma $100,000; Wesleyan university, Middletown, Conn., $100,000; Cornell college, Mount Ver- non, Ia., §50,00. Requests were recelved from forty-two Institutions of learning in the United States for a share In the appropriations, the ag- gregate amount of the requests being in excess of $4,000,000, RULES FIGHT NOT ENDED House Insurgents Announce They Will Move on Enemy at Onee, WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—The house ‘“in- surgents” made it known today that they had no intention of abandoning or post- poning their fight on the rules of the hous ord that they proposed to continue it with- out cessation. IREGENTS GET FARM LAND | Secretary of War Consents to Lease Tract Near Valentine. EXPERIMENT STATION IN VIEW Over Thousand Acrés on Fort| Niobrara Military Reservation— | Senate Confirms New Postmasters, (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—(Special Tele- gram.)—S8enator ‘Brown today had a con: ference with Secretary of War Dickinson with the result the secretary has agreed that the regents of the University of Ne- braska may leasé some 1,090 acres of land n Py ra military reservation l b, ing nt.l.ll *Vm provides for the ‘cossion to the . Btate university.of this land. The desifie of tiie regents is to ac- quire it for the'/parpése of establishing an experimental farm in connection with the universtty. i, John Baptiste &rid John Harrison of the Omaha Winnebagos are in Washington as delegates to confer with the Indlan com- missioner dnd the Winnebagos of Minne- sota and Wis in with reference to the ultimate alstribution of tribal funds. Senator Brown 'was today adivsed by | the Postoffice department that there would be no change in the schedule of rural free delivery between Philippsburg and’ Sargent in Custer county. A. E, Cady of St. Paul, Neb, and John McGrew of Omaha-are in Washington to- dny enroute to New York. The . army = appropriation bill which passed the senate today carries an ap- propriation of $40,000 for the completion of the rifle range at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo. New Postmasters. Congressman Hinshaw has recommended the appoiptment of Miss Edith Isaackson as postmaster at Malmo vice Agnes Holmes, resigned, also Charles W. Slaugh- | ter as postmaster at Endicott, vice Loren L. R Whitney, resigned. The senate today confirmed the nomina- tion of the following postmasters: Charles | Miner, Ravenna; Willlam A. McCool, In- dianoia, Neb, Wyoming—George W. Hoyt, Cheyenne. The president sent to the senate lDdlY‘ nomination of the folléwing postmasters in | Nebraska: Harvard, Griffith J. Thomas; | Bethany, Clarence O. Turner; Niobrara, George W, Draper. Towa~Creston, Ceott Skinner; Fort Madi- son, Thomas P. Hollowell, 'jr.; Keokuk, Samuel W, Mogrehead; Sibley, Herold E. Scott; Washington, John M. Lytle. Nebradka~Postmasters have been ap- pointed as ofllows: Carter, Harlan county, John O. Anderson, vice E. Johnson, re- signed; Raven, Brown county, Andrew Johneon, vice G. J. Steiner, resigned. Rurpl carrers appointed: lowa—Bagley, route 1, John M. Mulr, carrler; no substi- | tute. South Dakota~Burbank, route 2. John L. Kyte, carrler; B. M. Kyte, substitute. Re- villo, routes 1 and 2, Davia H. Derr, car- no_substitute, The First National bank of Morrill, Ni has been authorized to begin business with $25,000 capital. H. 8. Clarke, jr., s presi- : €. W, Scoville, vice president; and casher. Zelaya Plans Revolution, NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 2—That Zelaya, the deposed president of Nicaragua, going to Burope to foment a revolution | Against Estrada Cabrera, president of | Guatemals, {8 the assertion of General | Alfonso Gallardo, formerly of the Hon- Auran army, who §s in New Orleans. Ze- laya salled from Vera Cruz for Belgium yesterday. Respecta PONTIAC, Mich., Feb. 2.—Developments following & rald of the Clinton hotel yes- terday bid fair to reveal the source of nearly half a hundred burglaries In Pon- tiac In the last three years. sames Monroe, proprietor of the Clinton hotel and, when sober, & respectable cltizen, Admits, the police declare, most of the burglaries and has told the officers things that will lead o discovering the rest of the<robbers. Monroe 18 sald to have been shot by Pawrglman P. A. Knight last Wednesday night, but escaped and went to Windsor, ble Wfien éogér, Busy Thief When Drunk Ont., where his wound was cared for. To the sisters who nursed him Monroe is re- ported to have confessed. He says he re- turned to Pontiag with the idea of giving himself up, but the officers made the ar- rest before he had earried out his inten- tions. George Hicks end Richard brothers-in-law. of Monroe, and Willlam Brown have been arvested on the stories told by Monroe. Monroe declares that every time he had Hicks, COPY TWO CENTS. MINE TRAGEDY IN OLD MEXICO Large KNumber of Men Reported Killed by an Explosion in Las Esperanszas District. DETAILS OF TRAGEDY WITHHELD |Nothing ig Given Out Pending Action of the Governor. MINE GAS KILLS THIRTY-FIVE Thirty-Three Bodies Recovered from Disaster at Drakesboro, Ky. OFF EXPLOSIVE Foree of Concussion Was Enough to Kill ANl Men East Wing of he Mine——Resoue Party Works All Night. LAMP SETS BULLETIN, SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Feb. 2.—A dlspatch to the Express from Eagle Pass, Tex., [says: At nightfall sixty-eight bodies had | been recovered trom the Pallgy mine of the Coahulla Coal company in ‘the state of Coshulla, Mex., in which an explosion oc- curred today. Beslde the dead, elght wounded have been brought to the surface. BULLETIN, LAREDO, Tex., Feb, 2—Word has reached this city of a terrific explosion in mine at Las Esperansas, Mex. Many, no , are reported killed. A de- talled report of the exploslon has been wired to the governior of the state and pending his ‘action nothing is being given out Las Esperanzas |s exclusively a ¢oal min- ing district and employs Mexican and Japanese operators. her s DRAKESBORO, Ky, Feb. 2.~Thirty- thrée miners are known to have been Kkilled, two are missing and fifteen are in- jured as a result of the explesion in the Browder coal mine, near here, yesterday. | There were 100 men in the two wings of the mine at the time of the explosion, but the fifty In the west wing were uninjured and escaped. Those fn the east wing feit the full force of the explosion. One or two of the Injured are in a eritical condl- tion. Of the dead about haif were whitoes, all Americans, and the remainder negroes. The explosion is belleves to have been caused by a miner's lamp lgniting gas in an unused room. The force of the explosion was apparently sufficient to ocause in- stant death to all the men in the eastern { wing, where is ocoured. Cars and mvy timbers: were blown about like o 2 A Within o feww minutos after this FIWE news of the explosion the inhabitants of 'the little mining town Wére crowding about the shart. ‘Women and children, crazed with grief, pleaded with those In charge for news of the cntombed men. They were spared one of the horrors of the other receut disasters, namely, long suspense. Within a few minutes after the explosion the fans had sucked the working almost clear of deadly gases and rescue parties were able to descend and begin to dig through the wreckage. No fire followed the explosion and the ventilating apparatus was fortunately unharmed by the shock. The first hodles recovered were in fairly good condition, the men having been smothered and not mangled by the explo- sion, but as the party pushed on they found bodies so mutilated that they were unrecognizable. WIill Reno, colored, who waa In charge of the cage, was found dead at the bottom of the shaft. General Manager ' Hogg of the mine worked with the rescuers all night. State Mine Inspector Prof. C, J. Norwood satd the Bowder mine had given the Inspectors some uneasiness on account of its pe- cullar gasy condition and therefore had been inspected oftener than required by law. > The mine has been visited at least once a month. ‘ ONE BODY D AT CHERRY Explorers Are Scarching| Shaft Sealed After Disaster. CHERRY, Ill. Feb, 2.-~The body of one miner and the carcasses of sixty-four mules were found 30 feet deep in the St. Paul mine, today, by the relay parties of repairers and explorers, who began work in the burned passages last night, It is probable the corpse of the miner will be brought to the surface some time today. The explorers during last night stopped up all dangerous breaks in the walls of the main runway to the west of the main shaft on the second level. The work was extended to the south as far as the alr shaft, thus opening a passageway between the two shafts of the mine where it was at the edge of the alr shaft that the body was found., It lay sprawled along the runway with hands extended toward the escape pit. Safety could not have been found In the alr shaft, however, for it was in this well that the hay blazed so fiercely, caus- ing flames to leap through the fan and | melt the steel rivets. It was discovered today that the third level, 600 feet below the surface, i& not. full of water, as had been thought. A stone | dropped down the elevator shaft hit the top of the cage that ran from the third level to the second. As this car mow rests on the bottom of the third level, the water cannot be more than five feet deep, prob- ably less. Pumps were installed today to draw the water from the mine, BODIES BLOWN TO FRAGMENTS Awful Force of Explosion in Mine at Prim PRIMERO, Colo, Feb. %.—The awful force of the explosion In the Primero coal mine, which exacted a toll of meventy-nine lives Monday afternoon was shown this morning as the explorers penetrated deeper into the workl: Seven more bodies were recovered during the night, making & total of forty-nine. But it is extremely inprob- able that all the dead will be recovered for conditions In the deeper workings in- dicate that many of the victims were lit- erally blown to pleces. Shreds of human flesh with these Jagged fragments of lamps were found by the expio~--s this morning as they reached the spi: where the ex- plosion occurred. ¥resh air has been forced Into the works fow drinks of whisky the lmpulse to steal became irresistible. ings for nearly & mile. The bodles ha: l-u been taken from entries A 7, & § and 1, » i