The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 5, 1897, Page 2

o THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, e —————————————————— e ——— e 1897 temporary advance? ‘That it must be ad- verse to the Republican pariy is certain. If avy are foolish enough to credit the rise to the new tariff law, to the gold standard or to ‘;estored confidence,” the speil will be broken when wheat returns to the lev.l of the last few years. The disappointment will then be more intense because of the temporary delusion, and the Republican papers, which are to-day calling attention to the price of wheat, are simply ng up for themselves ad- ditionsl trouble. Advocates of bimeiallism can rejoice in the rise while it lasts, and when it is over they can contrast the advantages of bigher prices due to the iacreaced volume of meney, with the shori-lived benefits of a spasmodic rise, due to a famine so dis- tressing as to appeal to the sympathy and ¢ of the American people. n official in the Agricultural Depart- nt bas recently issued a statement es- timating that farmersof the United States 11 receive for their wheat ciop this year several hundred miilions more than they recerved for last vear's crop, and points | out the stimulating effect of this amount ot money on other branches of industry. This is another confirmation of the argu- | wents made by the bimetailiste. A large part of this money comes from abroad. Wheat 1s not only higher, but more of it being exported. 1f we had enough | money in this country, its increase in volume wou!d be an injury. If the in- crease the volume of money, secured by the exportation of higher wheat, gives | ing, isit not evident that e now have an insufficient quantity? If farmers are constantly reminded of the | arge increase of this year’s crop, will they | w in se for rejoi and this resiores prices to & bimetallic level. 2 What has the Repubiican party done to bring prosperity to the American people? | It cannot be said that the mere election of a Republican President upon a Republi- can platform brings prosperity, because business failures and bank failures in- creased aiter election. International bi- metallism cannot bring prosperity until an interna ional agreement becomes more probable than it is now. Since Republicans have contented them- selves for the present with legislation on the tariff question they must look to the tariff law and to that alone for such aid as political action can give. entitled 10 any credit for any good which it brings, and justly responsible for any injary which it inflicts. Ovponents of the Dingley bill described its principal features when they called it “Legislation of trusts, by the trustsand for the trusts.”” That the b2neficiaries of such law will rejoice s to be expected, butcin the Republican party show that thatiaw has brought or can bring an ad- vantage to the people in general? Nothing can better disclose the waak- ness of the Republican position than the joy manifested by the Republicans over events for which their administration and t eir policies are in no way responsible. W. J. Bryan, [Copyrighted 1897 by the New York world.] NEW STRIKES RIVAL THE s of sustain- or famine? The department official has also con- ted to our cause by emphasizing the nefits received by other indusiries from seek some more durable me ing prices than drou 1ot be abie to calcuiate their loss more easily when wheat goes down? Isit not possivle that: the pleasure experienced | om the rise in wheat wil lesd farmers to | desire an increase in the price of o:hcr! farm pro ? When they learn the ad- | vantages of restored vrices, will they not | | | | tr e farmers' prosperity. The President during the last campaign gdve utterance | toa very effective phrase when he sug- gzested the ovening of the mills instead of the mints, but he was answered by the eme the mills would open when | -the people were able to buy the products the m W a Government offi- al poiats out the advantage accruing to | e country from the fact that farm | have several bundred millions of ad tional money to spend in paying debts \d buyinz merchandise, he strengthens position taken by bimetallist. 1f the rise in wheat will epable farmers to pay their interest more prom have money left to buy chandise, how much greater would be the general benefit | if the rise extended agricultural products? In caleulating the political effect of the rise in wheat, it must be remembered that many farmers were ‘threatered with fore- closure during the last campai and that a considerable part of the money re- ceived for wheat will be em d in pay- ing off mortgages. Thus 1ntimidation will somewhat restricted, but the demand for merchandise w:ll be less than 1t would be under ordinary circumstances. | | ity and | | to reasons given above for believing | s will find encouragement | rather than discouragement in the present conditions are the same which have been eiven by other advocates of bimetallism. Those who advocate free coinage may be wrong, but they agree upon the principles which underlie the money question, and they are not likely to be frightened away from their pcsitien by events which en- | force their arguments. Tue law of supply and demand explains the fail in silver as well as the risein at. To what extent the fall in silver may have been accelerated by speculation n silver bullion 1 cannot sa; It would be possible for bears to run the price of silver down to some extent, just as they sometimes lower the price of grain, and it would be much easier to manipulate the silver market, because both the demand { and supply are more limited than the de- mand for or supply of grain; but without considering the effect of sveculation both Jegislation and circumstances bave tended | to lessen the price of .silver. The action | ot Japan has lessened the demand for sil- | ver, and the United States has not yet| made sufficient progress toward int:rna- tional bimetallism to strengthen the mar- ket. Added to this the short wheat crop in silver-using countries has lessened the demand for silver for the purchase of wheat. For many years the price of wheat kept | company with the price of silver. Ido| not mean to say that fluctuations were al- | ways simultaneous, but they were meas- | urably so. This relation between silver | and wheat was commented upon by Mr. | Rusk, Secretary of Agriculture, In his| report of 1890, page 8, he said: “Recent | legisladion looking to the restoration of a bimetallic standard of our currenay and | the consequent enhancement of the value of silver has unquestionably advanced the | vr.ce of wheat in Russia and India, and in the same degree reduced their power of competition. English gold was formerly exchanged for cheap silver and wheat pur- | chased with the cheaper metal was sold ! in Great Britain for gold. Much of this | advantage is lost by the appreciation of silver in those countries. It is reasonable, therefore, to expect much higher prices for wheat thau have been received in re- cent years,” The above quotation explains why wheat and silver kent togetner, and alse supports the proposition tnat legisiation | can rase the prics of silver by increasing the demand for it. When Mr. Rusk made this comment India had free coinage, and the wheat-growers of tfie United States had to meet competition by reducing the | price of wheat as the price of silver fell, In 1593 iree coinage was suspended in India so that British purchasers couid no longer have their silver converted into rupees. The Indian Government, how- ever (according to the report issued by the directors of the United States mint in 1894), undertook to turnish fiiteen rupees in exchange for one pound sterling (goid). This fixed the ratio at about 20 to 1 and gave tbe Inlian farmer an advantage of about 50 per cent over the American farmer. | The fact that silver and wheat have varted company will cause no dismay to those who understand that the law of supply and demand regulates the price of botn. It is the contention of bi- metallis:s that the opening of our mints to the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 will fix the mint yrice of silver jat as the mint price is now fixed for gold. They further contend that thedemand thuscreated by law will be suf- ficient to utilize all the silver presented and thus buliion value will be raised to coinage value, Some of our opponents have insisted that silver at $1 29 an ounce would make a silver dellar as hard to obtain as a gold doliar is now, but they ignore the fzet that an increased volume of standard | | | | | 1s awiui. | buried money will lessen the purchasing power of a doliar, whether it be of silver or gold, KLONDIK st Page. soaked with rain. Thousands of dollars’ worth were destroyed. Sacks of flour They are justly | | | were reduced to a state of paste and sacks | of sugar melted into simple syrup. Seven horses were shot on the trail yes- terday. The stench from the dead bodies A mnle, which makes the best pack animal next to a burro, pitched for- ward into a mud hole and his head was out of sight in the sticky earth. He smothered to death before he could b» extricated. Horses die or are shot to death on the trail every day now. A special pack train, carrying light loads, was sent out several daysago to the | relief of the Canadian the trail at Beaver Meado police starving on beyond the summit. I saw a strapping big feliow in | a red shirt, wh ch was thrown open at the neck, sitting on a rock on Porcupine I asked bim what the “I'll tell you, my Ridge, weepinc trouble was. He friend. This is awfu over two weeks and can’t get my stuff farther than the first ridge. I did not know what 1t was to go to the Kiondike. I’'m played out; my money is nearly | gone: I can’t get there. 1!eft him still erying. The unusual physicalexertion attending the packingof | | goods over the trail bad so taxed his strength that tnis big fellow had lost his nerve. Thereareothers. Provisions were so scarce at Lake Bennett that I saw boat- builders playing poker with beans for chips. Not a white chip was overlooked. When they take a notion Indian packers will not move or make a contract till the Klondikers feed them. The usual story the Indian puts up is that he has had nothing to eat for three day-. “When was that, John, yesterday, to- day and to-morrow?"” “Yes,” says the red man, innocently. A survey of Skaguay Canyon to tae sum- mit has just been completed for Morgan W. Garside, a pioneer of Juneau, whosays he represents Eastern capital, and that a railroad will be built up the canyon from tidewater and possibly over the summit of White Pass to Lake Bennett or Windy Arm. The road will be built up the canvon on iles six feet above the ground, so asto raise the rails above the snow leval in the winter time. The road will be a narrow- gauge, and the mated cost through the canyon is §6000 a mile. The first sign of a decrease in tne rush appeared yester- day, when the steamer Rosalie camein with only a few passengers. Sne haa a heavy cargo of freight. The people of Juneau are preparing for a bigger rush than ever nex\ spring. tior prevails on the Dyea trail as to Ska- zuay, but in much less degree, except that much more progress is being made. All the horses and puckers there are at work. Havn HorryMAN. e FOUND A N:zW ROUTE. Success of the Canadian Surveying Party Sent Out to the Yukon’s Headwaters. JUNEAU, Avraska, Sept. 1 (by steam- ship Queen, via Victoria, B. C., Sept. 4).— The Canadian surveying vparty sent out | by the Dominion Government to find a route practicable for a rail and wagon road to the headwaters of the Yukon River, slipped quietly into town last night at midnight. The official party went in by the Chilcoot Pass and Dalton trail last June, and returned substantially by the same route, making several detours on the way back to explore the surronnding country. Itis composed of J. J. Arthur, Dominion Land Surveyor, and Surveyors Riley, Haldane and Cooper, The explor- ing trip has led to important results. A new, comparatively easy and shorter trail to the Yukon, suitable for cattle, wagon or railroad, was discovered. Italso opens up anew mail route 1o Fort Sel- kirk, Dawson City and the other towns of the Yukon. The official party was accom- panied by Mr. Battlebouser, an agent of the London Exploration Company, who is grabbing gold mines wherever they break ont, Judge Maloney of Juneau, and was foliowed by about seventy head of cattle, with drivers. The London Exploration Comrany is now said to control the immense Tread- well property opposite Juneau, the largest 2old mine in the world. It isa fact that Barney Barnato also held a large block of Treadwe!l stock. The entire party was piloted by that veteran pathfinder, Jack Dalton, who accompanied Lieutenant Schwatka on his several noted Alaska ex- ploration trips and on Schwatka's reported ascent of the summit of Mount St. Elias. Dalton has let the cat out of the bag since Echwatka has been long away. He bas told that Schwatka never conquered the summit of St. Elias or a portion ot 1t at all, but that they lay on their stomachs and looked at the mountain with glasses through sixty miles of atmosphere. From the extreme leit of the Chilcoot Pass the party neaded northwest for a point about 100 milies inland, where Dal- ton and otbers have a trading post. Thence they took a course north to a chaln of small layes called Hootchie Eye. 8o far the course was over what is known as the Dalton trail. which from the Hootchie Eye contirues on down the Nordenskiold River sixty miles to the Lewis River. But from the Hootchie Eye lTh:y get $8 per dev. T've been at work | The same sitna- | | | Dalton struck out due north for Fort Sel- kirk into a country 120 miles across, never before explored or trod by a white man and totaily unknown. Such is the wonderful instinct of this man that the entire party came out of the wilderness at a point directly behind the buildings at Fort Selkirk, on the Yukon, at the mouth of the Pelly River, where the Yukon proper begins. Plenty of grazing for the cattle was found. The country is characterized by compuraliv‘ely low and rolling mountains, over which the party went, and a succession of Alpine valleys extended the other direction. Surveyor McArthur said that the tops of these mountains were bare of moss so far as he could see and were covered with quartz stringers. He said the whole coun- iry seemed to be composed of granite and quariz. The cattle gained 2000 pounds in weight on the journey, and arrived at Fort Selkirk about August 15. Thirty of a drove of cattle which were taken in on this trail by Cameron of Victoria, B. C., following the trail of the Canadians, stampeded and were lost. These cattle were subsequently rounded up by Indians, and are now being sold in steaks at Skagusy and Dyea. Mc- Arthur says it is a natural cattle route to the Yukon. The drove of twentiy-eight cattle trken in by Barker of Seattle car- ried packs, and were only one day behind the Dalton drove. In McArthur's opin- ion u wagon road from Pyramid Herbor on Lynn Canal to the Yukon over this route can be made for $10,000. At Fort Selkirk they met the mail-carriers going to Dawson City and told them about the new trail. The mail-carriers will come over it on the way out and use iL perma- nently in the future. Tne Canadians re- turned over the same route to the lakes, and then proceeded down the Norden- skiold River to the Lewis River.. This is the practicable wagon and mail route. At the mouth of the Nordenskiold trail, the road must cross to the farther side of the Lewis and proceed along thatriver to the Yukon. This is the route over which San Francisco capitalists propose to lay a cable telephone line to Dawson City. These will be the facts of Dominion Sur- veyor McArthur's official report to the Government at Ottawa. The surveying party will leave in a few days to inspect the Chilcodt and White passes and those two trails to the lakes, Mr. MecArthur thinks the Canadian Government will put a on road through to the Yukon. With a large force of men it could be rushed through in one season. The surveying party went only to Fort Selkirk, but heard that Dawson City is growing rapidly and booming in every way. Reportsat Fort Selkirk, brought up by two Indians, were to the effect thas the mines continued to pan out as rich &s at first reported, and that there seemed to be no limit to the aust and nuggets in some of the claims; bedrock on Bonanza Creek was ttill out of sight, and that the farti.erdown the gravel was taken out and washed the heavier with goid it became. Several new-comers had struck it rich in three very small creeks on the mountainside farther up the Klondike, where the pay ground is very limited; but the Indians coula give no figares. All they could say was **Hiuh chickamun,” which, transiated, means much, plenty gold. Havr HorrMaxw, - CANNOT GET THROUGH. Hundreds Try In Vain to Cross White Pass, Which Is Beyond Hum~-sn Effort to Remedy. SEATTLE, Wasi, Sept. 4.—The Skag- uay trail over Waite Pass is beyond the | pewer of human effort to remeay. Hun- dreds of miners at the new camp on the Alaska shors have given up -all hope of getting through this winter. They are preparing to winter at Skaguay, Dyea and Juneau. Hundreds more are selling their outfitsand preparing to return to civiliza- tion and warm firesides in the States. A few hardy spirits, animated oy grim de- termination to do or die, have remained on the trail and will camp where their goods lie till the first freeze comes this tall. Then they will be able to cross the bogs that make the trail a terror alike for man and beast, and when snow flies they hope to penetrate the Yuken valley by | dog sled. This is the story brought down from Skaguay by Harry Fredericks, a well- known young business man of this city. Mr. Fredericks went to Skagray August 12, for the purpose of ascertaining what, if any, inducement there might be for any one to embark in business there. He returned home on the steamer Rosalle, which Jeft the camp of the disheartened gold hunters Monday, arrivicg here this morning. The trail had been closed for three days by the miners, and a goodiy number of them set to work blasting ont the obstructions that lay in their pathway to the gold fields beyond the mountamn barrier, and others set about to corduroy the road. where rain and the bogs had made the trail impassable for either men or animals. A few of the worst spots 1 were fixed, and then the horde of miners began to grow impatient for another trial at the pass. On Monday last the trail was ovened. At daybreak 200 men and as many horses stood ready to cross over. fome of the first succeeded in getting a little way. The first that went over the soft places where logs had been laid in en effort to make it a corduroy road, spoiled the trail and made it as bad as before. The logs and timbers slipped quickly out of place, there being no foundation to the road. Added to this came the rain and cold, chilling blasts on top of the mountains. Horses sank beneath their burdens ard died. [n alittle while the trail was again blocked and hundreds of angry, desperate men turned back, cursing their fate and the man who bailt the trail. “I have gone partly over the trail my- self.”” said Mr.Fredericks to-day,‘‘and have talked with many who have been to the other side. The trail was opened Monday morning at daybreak and at noon a8 man came down saying tbat there was a block- ade and that the horses were making the boggy places as bad as ever, A jam re- sulted and when I left the situation was not the least bit more reassuring than before. At Skaguay 1 saw Captain Harry Struve, who was captain of the Portland when she was the Hoytian Republic. He had lost some of his horses, but had man- aged to get bis goods part way over. He was back in Skaguay, though, and it was said that he had given up alli hope of get- ting through this winter. There wis & rumor that be was coming back here. “Ido not believe, from what I beard, that more than filty people have crossed the summit of White Pass. Not half nave their goods farther than the first hill. At the foot of this is a big camp of tents and miners. There is another at the beach. I was told that at S8heep Camp, on the Dyea or Chilcoot Pass, 1500 men were camped. A few are getting over that way, but very slowly. The Indiansxeceive from 38 to 45 cents per pound for packing over the Chilcoot. I heard that two big Swedes were working there and carrying 225 pounds eacti. They were making nearly $100 per day. A numter of men are work- ing at packing over the Skaguay trail. Each can ocarry { | There May Be five pounds four or five miles in a day. Cabins are going up rapidly. People are getting ready to winter at Skaguay and lumber is in de- mand. [ learned that at Lake Linder- man a number of miners who could not et theirgzo ods over the pass had secured work building boats for the meore fortu- nate ones. They were making good wages. I was told that the boat-builders had orders far ahead. . ——— TELLS THE SAME STORY. W. S. Morely Returns on the Al-KI znd Says the Skaguay Road Is Impassable. PORT TOWNSEND, Wasn., Sept. 4.~ The steamer Al-Ki arrived in port at7 o'clock this evening, after an uneveatful voyage from Alaska ports. Her down trip was slow by reason of heavy weather and the fact that a blade in her propeller was broken during the voyage. W. S. Morely of Seattle, who went north on the Mexico July 2, is a passenger on the Al-Ki, bound for home. He put in all his time in the north at Skaguay and cays that everything points to its being an utter impossibility for people to get into the mines over the trail this year. “I worked three weeks on the trail my- self,”” said Mr. Morely, ‘‘and it was at the end of that time that 1 saw the futility of | remaining at Skaguray in the hope of get- | ting into the mines before winter. The road is simply impassable. I wean by that that nothing which can be done upon itin the way of work before the winter season will put it in condition to allow of | general travel. There are probably 2500 | peonle at Skaguay. All, of course, are very anxious as to their future and all are in a very unsettled condition. When I | finally determined that we could not get in I sold my outfit and prepared to return to Seattle to spend the winter. I will probably make anotber attempt toget in next spring. Reports from the inland so far as we could learn are not en- couraging. Ireferto the prospect for food supplies during the winter. There is| bound to be a scarcity of food in the mines, but if another boat can get up the river before the freeze and will carry noth- ing buu food, it will relieve the situation materially. There is little if any disturb- ance at Skaguay, the vigilance committee keeping thingd in peaceable crder, Muzh liquor is smugeled in despite the watch- fulness of the customs cfiicials, but occa- sionally quite a large batch of illicit goods is seized. I understand that the steamer Elder lost quite a fair portion of her cargo m this way. It means much suffering to bave to winter at Skaguay and ail whoare | fixed so as to do so will make an effort to get out. The ramn began the day we left, August 26. Nothing occurred on the down trip woriny of mention.” General J. 8 Witcher, paymaster United States army at San Francisco, who left for the north August 2 for the pur- pose of starting hLis two sons over the trail, returned on the Al-Ki. He says his sons are well equipped and will undoubt- | edly reach the lakes in a short time. On her up trip the Al-Ki broke one ot ber propeller blades, which caused two days’ delay. > about sevent. | - RESISTED THE POLICE. Bloodshed When Pursuers Overtaka Five Men Who Paid No Dutles. JUNEAU, Arsska, Sept. 1. [By steam- er Queen to Victoria, B. C,, Sept. 4.]—No news has been received here as yet from tie special deputies appointea at Skagunay to go after and bring back a small ecrowd of men who held up the Canadian mounted police last Bunday on the other side of the White Pass, They had refused to work on the trail or pay an assessment and | were getting out of the Jocality as swiftly as packing a limited outfit would permit. The police halted them for the adaitional purpose of collecting customs duties. They drew revolvers ani rifles, forced the police to stand aside and hurried on for the lakes. The camp decided to make an example of them if they could be caught. The | committee that went in pursuit will bring them back to Skaguay or there wiil be a fight and possibly bioodshed. Horses are now daily dropping like sheep on the trail, either from exhaustion or from nipping poisonous shrubbery. The Queen passed the steamer Dora from Uualaska, forty miles out from Bitka, but did not spezk her. The Dora was crowded with men, presumably from Cooks Inlet. They may bring news of rich gold discoveries there, or it may be an exodus to the K'ondike. No informa- tion will be had from them till the next steamer arrives from Sitka in about a week. Hav HoFFMaN. SR P AWAIT THE CLEVELAND. Newsgatherers Go Forth to In- tercept the Treasure-Laden Steamer in the Straits. PORT TOWNBEND, Wasn., Sept. 4.— The steamer Cleveland from St. Michael | is expected to arrive within the next five | days, 1f she has experienced fair weather and Las met with no acciient she ought to arrive to-morrow; but in cise unfavorable weather has prevailed she inay not putin an appearance till the 10th inst. The Cieveland lefs Seattle on August 5, and should have arrived at St. Michael on the 17th or 18th. She was at Dutch Harbor on the 13th, and tne run from there to the mouth of the Yukon is about four days. It took the steamer Portland eleven days to discharge her cargo, aud although the Cleveland carried a heavier cargo than the Portland, she is expected to dis- charge in three days' less time, as she has appliances for a more speedy handling of the cargo. The Portiand made the trip from St. Michael to Puget Sound in twelve days, and the Clevelang, it is claimed, will make the passage in eleven, On this basis she should be sizhied off Cave Flattery some time on September 6. Three tugboats bearing newspaper rep- sentatives left for down the straits to- night to meet the Cleveland, and the race o the nearest telegraph otlice with news irom the gqld fieids is expected to be an exciting one. S g emary No Insurance for Klondlkers. LONDON, Exe., Sept. 4.—Insurance companies here absolutely declive to take any risks on voyagers to the Klondike. Not merely the privations and dangers of the climate, tut the possibilities of fraud by means of sham death certificates and the tendency to contract the drinking habit have caused this decision. The English company promoter is making what hay he can out of the boom while the sun shines. Ameriean Progress in Samoa. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 4 —United States Consul-General Churchill at Apia, Samoa, reports to the Department of State that his colleagne on the consular board, Consul Rase, has been promoted to the rank of Concul-General, and that as such German war vessel Bu: | as the burning match was thrown to the ! cottage and a livery stable, was burned to | pouad tracture of the right arm; barbor, suluted the newly made Consul- General. For the first time in the history of the maunicipality of Apia, two Americans have been elected to membership in the Muni- cipal Council, SIX KILLED AND HANY INJURED Frightful - Natural Gas Explcsion at Broad Ripple. Block of Buildings in the Indiana Town Reducsd to Ruins. Thirty Citizens Burned, Scarred and Racked With Pain From Broken Bones. INDIANAPOLIS, Ixp., Sept. 4.—Broad Ripple, a suburb of Indianapolis, ten miles from the city proper, was this morn- ing the scene of the most terrible disaster that has ever visited this State. Eix per- sons were burned to death and thirty people are lymg in the homes of neigh- bors, burned, scarred ana racked with pain from broken bones. Four builaings, occupying a block of the town, are in ruins. Of the six dead nothing but charred and bluckened bones, with hanging strips of foul-smelling flesh, remain. At 10 o’clock a foul odor was noticed in the drusstore of J. M. Watts, and a lamp in a dark room used for amateur pho- tography went out. It was lighted and, floor, streaks of flame of a bluish tint ran along the joint between the boards, show- ing the presence of escaping natural gas, and then up the walls. | The next instant the explosion came. The walls were hurled in every direction, and the top of the building fell with a cruncbing, grinding sound, covering everything. Fire broke out, and snrieks could be heard from those buried beneath. Of the seven persons in the store three were burned alive. The rest are still alive and may recover. A hundred persons were at work on the ruins trying to save Greschek’s grocery adjoining, and pulling at the ruins tosave those buricd beneath. While thus en- gaged, and twenty minutes after the first explosion, a secoud came from beneath the grocerv. If was a mighty roar, and hurled the building to atoms. Forty people were knocked senseless, strewn in a1l directions with broken bones and burned bodies, while as many more | escaped with smaller bruises. The shock made the whole town quiver. Beneath these ruins Pius Greschek, the grocery- man, was cauvht and crushed to death. His body was recovered before it was en- | urely burned. Thne ruirs were added to these of the buiiding adjoining demoi- ished by the first explosioun, and the whole mass, together with an adjcining frame ashes. Only the bucket brigade was on hand in time 10 do any good, and it prob- ably only prolonged the agony of the vic- tims who were burned. The disaster was caused by natural gas leaking 1nto the cellars of buildings from a three-inch main that ran into the street ana from which the houses were supplied. The list of dead is as follows: Charles Yount, Indianapolis. Jacob Darling, painter, Broad Ripple. Pius Greschek, groceryman, Broad Ripple, Henry Etnst, laborer, Broad Ripple. John Porter, farmer, near Broad Ripple. Albert Hayworth, huckster, Westfield. The seriously injared are: Edgar Watts, badly burned about the hands, face and body. ; i Eiward Morris, shoulder dislocated, com- serfously urned. Joseph Wambaugh, badly cut above the eye, | burned aud cut by glass in a number, of | Inces. po:vhle Heady, left kneecap fractured and | leg broken in two places below knee; serious, but will recover. Charles Jones, cut in face and all over the body by flying glass; will recover. J.B, Walts, extent of injuries unknown. Thomas Jones, bad cut on temple and bruises on b dy. Samuel Kelso, shot 8 number of times by exploding shoigun shells; condition seftous. ‘Thomas E. Miicnell, left leg broken. Jacob Cruz, 67 years oid, caught under piece of riiymg timber; supposed internally in- jured. ¢ Harvey Dugar, shoulder pierced by broken fragment of wood, face cut; serious. Jobu Doaks, back injured; seriously. Ail the above-named injured are resi- dents of Broad Ripple. Clare Whittaker, Oakiand, Ind., broken. ¥rank D. Norvilte, Indianapolis, fingers torn off und arm cut. Andrew Pummer, cut over the eye, crushed and injured internally. Frank Manush, hands and legs burned, body badly bruised; will probably die. W. E. Privetie, duep cut across the face. Harry Bolton, Oakland, cut across knee. Frank Featherstone, arm cut. Churles Roberts, cut over the left eye. James Mitchell, New Augusts, brickmason, both legs broken. C. Eckert, leg cut, injured about head and snkle fa hard Lohman, cut in fa and arms by 1 glass. Charles Culberson, cut by flying glass, leg hurt. William Day, blown across street, hurt in- ternally. Amos Day, cut in face by fiying glass. Jesse Day, blown out of the second-story window, badly shaken up, face scratched and leg hurt. Tyson Mitchell, cut about the head. ——— COLOKADO MINE HUORKOR, Twelve Men Killed by am Eaplosion Near Glenwood Springs. GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Coro., Sept. 4.—The bodies of the twelve miners killed by the coal dust explosion in the Sun- shine mine of the Colorado Fue! and Iron Company, sixteen milessoutheast of this city, were brought to this city to-day and prepared for burial. Coroner Clark im- paneled a jury, which viewed the re- mains. The force of the explosion bad com- gie(ely crushed each bone in the twelve odies, 80 that the remains were merely a mass of flash and bones, and as easily rolled into a knot as though composed of varn. Three of the dead miners—Louis and John Andvette and John Joenine—leave families. This mine ig the oldest of the Spring Gulch group. Two entries below the one in which the accident occurred have been worked out. These two covered a dis- tance of 600 feet above the level of the creek. ' The slope which proved .the deathtrap of the twelve men is usually the working place of forty to fifty miners. Yesterday the main force was emplioyed 200 feet be- low the level whera the explosion oc- curred. The explosion broke away ths stoppage from the lower level, and the two working stopes were at once filled with the deadly black damp. An idea of the force of ine explosion can be had when 1t is seen that the timbers, many twenty-two inches in diame twisted and broken as tho stems. The local superintendent, Ben Davis, now lies dangerously ill from the effects of the black damp breathed while bring- ing out the dead bodies. NITEU-GLYCEKRINE EXPLOSION, Two Men and a Horse Killed and the Buggy Demolished. MONONGAHELA, Pa., Sept. 4—By an explosion of nitre-glycerine early this NEW 70-DAY—DRY GOODS. LIVINGSTON BROS. » "AUTUMNAL GREETING! Encouragement and appreciation are incentives to correct BUY~ ING and therefore satisfactory SELLING. BOTH, we are happy to say, have b:en ACCORDED US by a generous public, in appreciation of which we shall endeavor to still retain the confidegce of our patrons by continuing to give our usual excellent va}lues in all departments. OUR FALL IMPORTATIONS Have been unusually well selected and may be depended upon for POPULLAR PRICES. To introduce our New Fall Goed we offer the following GREAT BARGAINS FOR THIS WEEK! jiks- .- - - dnLBi] YARD e Roman Stripe New in design end choice colors, very cheap. Roman Stripe Silks- .- ... ..$100 Very elegant effects end beautiful YARD coliTings, extra vilue ) T b OF Roman Stripe Nilks. .......$L25 These are e iremely fine fn style, YARD and the culors are beautiful in effec S Plaid Silks. . ... ... $1.00 to $5.00 YARD in all the very latest uovelties, rich and elegant colorings. Our Silks | Our Silks | Cur Silks Are Al Good Value. Are Are All New. All Pretty DRESS GOODS. Freneh Novelty Irass Patterns. $1.50 In ell the new fall colorings. sUIT Engtish Tweed Dress Patterns. $5.2 In blue, krown, green, purple and S red, atl mixed with hiack. Novelty Dress Patterns. . . . . . §6.00 In black and blue, black and red, SUIT black and green, black and brown. French Rovelty Bress Pattorns. $7.50 Silk an1 wool, in all the cho'ca tints sun‘ ol the season. Paris Novelty Dress Patterns. .$9.00 Very elegant and rica effects fn SUID brown, blue, green, purple and wine, all blended with black. 23 TO 129 POST STREET. morning twe men and a hors: were killea, a buggy completely demolished, and the bridge across the Mononzahela River so badly damaged that it will have to be abandoned until repaired. Windows in the vicinity were broken, and the resi- dents for twenty miles awakened by the concussion. One of the men is believed to be Charles P. Rankin, formerly superin- tendent of ths Watson Mining Company. It is supposed that the men had the glvcerine in a buggy, and that a sudden jolt caused the explocion. CHANDLER REPLIES TO FRYE. | Justifies His Assertion That the Dis- | criminating Clause Was a Trick of legislation. BOSTON, Mass,, Sept. 4.—Senator Chandler of New Hampshire, who started a di-cussion by stating that the discrimi- nating clause in section 22 of the Dingley tariff bill was passed by a *‘trick of legis- lation,”” in the Herald to-day replies to Senator Frye, who a few days ago declared that he could not teil howthe amendment was passed. ‘““Senator Frve is a e¢ood and conclusive witness that what I say is trne” says Senator Cbandler. *“I quote Senator Frye's own words, ‘How this amendment to section 22 was secured I know not.” “Senator Frye seems to mean that he did not know until after the conference report was adopted on July 24 that the trick clause was in it. 1f this is what he does mean then he certainly was tricked, because his relation to the whole subjeet as chairman of the Committee on Com- merce made it impossible for Lim not to know that it was done unless it was done surreptitiously to him and to all the mem- pers of the committee except the few con- wrivers of the trick. “It, on tke other hand, Senator Frye did know before July 24 that the thing was done, but did not know how it was done, after he haa failed in his open plan, 1 e omitted for the whole week of debate over the conference report in the Senate to tell his New England constituents rkat the conterees had siruck this blow to New England interest *‘As Senator e says, the conferees are all Lonorabie men. Of course, they had the necessary explanatory statement written, and it was left by the “blunder of aclerk.’ ‘I'hat is always the safest ground to take in such cases. “But whetner legislation thus ob- tained will stay even nominally upon the statute-books is doubtiul. Moreover, whether the Attorney-General will find tha. the trick of legisiation must be en- forced until repealed is not yet settied. *It should not take him fifteen minutes to hold tiat the contiguous-country clause applies only where there is no treaty allowing goods to come in withoat extra duties from shipsentering our ports, while, if conventions are necessary to avoid the other part of the trick, it should not take Secretary Sherman fifleen min- utes to make them with England, France and Germany, and the collection of dis- criminating duties should await the delib- erate action of Coneress.” —_—— Excitement Among the Cherokees, CHELSEA, I T., Sept. 4.—Couriers ar- riving from the eastern part of the Chero- kee Nation, in the Grand River bottoms, bring news that great excitement pre- vails among the fuil bloods. The Keeto ‘Wah Society held a biz meeting about twenty-five miles east of here yesterday, and about 1500 full bloods were present. Resolutions were passed condemning any treaty acuion. The plan of emigration to | Mexico next spring was discussed. H —l ey Adrance in Whie Pine Lumber. { MINNEAPOLIS, Masy., Sept. 4 —There is to be x marked advance in the price of white pine lumber as a result of the ad- vance in agricultural produets. The list commiitee of the Mississippi Lumber- men’s Association met t0-day to agree on an advance 10 take effect next week. A feeona advance will be made a montn| ator. More and Greater Are the cures produced by Hood's Sarsa- | parilla than by any other medicine. If you are suffering with scrofula, salt| rheum, hip disease, running sores, boi's, pimples, dy<pepsia, loss of appetite or that tired f2eling take Hood’s Sarsaparilla. You may confidently expect a promot and | permanent cure. [ts unequaled record is| due 10 its positive merit. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier. Hood’s Pills } { i i { { do not cause pmn_or Eripe. 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