The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 15, 1906, Page 2

9 SAFETY OF AMERICAN MISSIONARIES MENACED Bitter Hatred of Foreigners Inflames the| Minds of the People Throughout China. , Minister to China and who is staying at Pasadena for the winter, is quoted in an interview on the present anti- foreign agitation in China as follows: The United States should warn China against a repetition of the terrible riots of a few years ago. A show of warships should be made to impress upon the Government of China | that the troubles must not be repeated and will not be tolerated. 1 am satisfied that seri- ous trouble will come, but do not expect that it will be directed specially against the United States, but will be against the relgning Man- chu dynasty The Manchurians are insignificant in numbers and the present uprising is for the purpose of establishing a new dynasty and not to oust ners. The most violent disturbances will the southern provinces and will endanger foreign interest: ontinued From Page 1, Column 4. ferment of anti-for- when order had been stood closer to the e Americans. And as China has in- bounds since the break. But the anti- not only checked trade relations but tion of what had ip is now threatened IHIVKS TREATY DISREGARDED. reflex of the certain with the only n fc ssive the zone of rebellion are hurt before ‘they can get but, and hat is why the United States should let China 5 w that it will not tolerate for an instant {anything inimical to the interests of its gula treaty | ctizens. . { ¥ of sight the Chinese can be impressed that we are v the a and that we mean business our a boycot an ignore our intere : imported happen. The trouble now will L n the empi a bat- ty aga ¢ been brewing for § has now apperently. reached boycott on American koods . the weapon to operate against the r aught them Chinese me: s this boyeott was Instituted from the wus declared lishments with goods When the boycot rchants could he opinion that the W wgton was fully | not or dared not sell e f the existing e said while the passage of | a lesson in 1900 and Chi O x ihi > Our experience should c w pending will, to take every precaution ple ir t would be the warships and trod that fenine the *waning | FRIENDLY SETTLEMENT waning o IS NOT IMPROBABLE id to 8- | Moroccan Conference Theny-| Be Progressing Sat ! factorily. ALGECIRAS, Feb. 3 1 FALSE STORIES CIRCULA 14.—~Yesterday's op- the timism re; g outcome Moroccan conference appears to have P | been as greatly exaggerated as was Mon- i | Gay’s pessimism r | It must be understood that one conver- s will mot suffice to settie the differences: but it is a i jations are progressing with the same good prospects of success which have always existed. The Asso- clated Press has the best authority for denying the statement emanating from - Berlin M. Revoll, the principal French delegate, proposed that France, Spain and other power shall control E Moroc Jlice. -On the same t can be said that no impor- n id attach to the alternations < n and pessimism in the French g The efforts of disinterested powers, particularly the United States and scome y active in the toward securing a sati of the quest! € e officials d the police, both < nt would be of he subject of conversa- ¥ he delegates of “the A interested. The Ger- t man delgates are fully aware of the fact that ¥ considers that control he G he poli absolutely necessary to sentativ osition on the Mediterranean and BITTER AGAINST FORLIGNERS. & Mussulman power. The admission ¥t hat fact as an absolute céndition is ary to the success of the confer- and the disinterested powers will if possible, to find concessions in other dire —_—————— INSURANCE OFFICIALS URGE SPEEDY TRIAL tions > Tyree Alleges That His & 2g when 1| Arrest Is Due to December.:| Vo s s of ill treat- | Malice. Vi oot | CITY, Feb. 14.—Counsel y Attt - n sident Hiram Tyree and A e oor. | Becretary C. Wylie of the Con- { ock of Ameri- | tinental T ance and Investment : v Company 1 the Police Court to- have th had it in | @8y and a ial on the charge of rns to the - ; foreign feeling | Secretary « alleged that © comes out of what | the arre due to malice and that t e is Chinese | the comr b s rties into | long delay raflroads, cuting Attorney Lyon ance of two syndicates and contl ontinue ime the § State Bank investigati the Only ndicates g0 evelopment in ne, and at the | BHOTHER SDEAT Young Man Accused of Hav- ing Burned Relative in Or- der to Collect Insurance ‘retary tinue their 1 of the com- ny’'s books. nese m. find & remarkabile the Chinese s cut off their s, wear European clothes and even t the necessity of a nmew form for Chir There is a governme volution among EXPECTS SERIOUS TROUBLE. Ex-Minister Conger Says Uncle Sam Should Take Every Precaution. OF ANGELES, Feb. 14.—Edwin H or vears United States many Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—Alexander Legler Jr., aged twenty-two, s arrested at his boarding place in Hoboken to-night by amincr will | remain for the public to profit by the 20% opening reduction on all orders —a rare opportunity given by order of Police Chief. Murphy of Jersey | City, who accuses Legler of having | | burned to death his brother, Carl Legler, ‘ obtain $3000 for | 1 | aged twenty-three, to | which Carl was insured for Alexander's | benetit. The accused boy denies his guil ; Chief Murphy declares that Alexander | Jetters which were seized show that, al- though earning only $2 a day, as a clerk with the New York and New Jersey Tele- phone Company, he was with"his father promoting the Altamahah Transit Com- pany at Baxley, Ga., and that officlals of the Southern Railway, which touches Baxley, had demanded that $3000 be forth- | i coming for the enterorise before the road | would lend its assistance. o Carl Legler was assistant steward on a | steamship running between New York and Central America and spent about six | davs each month in Jersey City, where | he shared a room ,with his brother, | Alexander, in the home of Henry Rufh- | erford. Alexander returned to this room | at half-past 10 o'clock on the night of December 14 last, and Carl half an hour THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1906 JOHN. G. BRADY RESIGNS AS GOVERNOR OF ALASKA BRANDS DOLAN RS A FALSIFIER ' President Mitchell Makes a | Reply to the Discredited | Pittsburg Distriet Leader READY FOR CONFERENCE | | | | Representatives of Anthra- | cite Workers Prepared to | Meet the Coal Operators | NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—The district presidents and secretaries of the anthracite mine workers to-day com- pleted their work preparatory to the meeting with the coal operators and the special scale committee of the mine workers, which will be held in this city to-morrow. Nothing remains to be done except to call on the mine owners and present to fhem the communication the committee has drawn up. It is be- lieved that to-morrow’s session will be | brief and that an adjournment may be taken until Friday, or until some tyme to be fixed by the operators, when a re- ply will be given to the miners’ repre- sentatives, ence the mine workers expressed them- selves as hopeful of a satisfactory ad- justment of the grievances to be sub- mitted. ‘'here was no meeting to-day of the special scale committee, it having com- pleted its work last night. President Mitchell spent a busy day transacting the routine business of the organiza- tion. The Pittsburg district miners' con- vention reassembled here to-day, with President Patrick Dolan presiding. | National letter from President Mitchell to the delegates. In this letter Mitchell deals with existing controversies and says: The question fnvolved is, ‘“‘Has the regular distriet convention of the mine workers au- thority to impeach and remove any otficial of & district organization weo has been charsed with malfeagance in office? The president of the district alleges that inasmuch as he was elgeted by a popular vote of the miners of the district he cannot be re- moved from office except by the same power. |1 hoid that a regular district convention power to impeach and remove from offic ¥ official who may be charged with negleit duty, disobedience in office or violation of | tnstructions. Entertaining i w these views as to the power the district convention, I have no other cholce than to decide in accordance therewith. It is not my intention at this time to take reply to the statement issued—although not written—by Mr. Dolan, which appeared in the various papers, more than to say that his al- iegation that 1 sald to him during the Fitt burg cénvebtion of the Amerfcan Federatic Labor tHat 1 should be well satisfled with wal of the present agreement, is a le- . malicious and premeditated falsehood statement was made by me to him at birg or anywhere else. If I had ever wined a gentiment in favor of the re- uewal of the present agreement I should have to my colleagues In the or to the members of the exccutive board. 1 certainly International offi international would not have gone to Pittsburg and divuiged | my 0 one who has for vears been unfriendly to my administration. Since the adjournmént of the International convention I have refrained studiously from discussing publicly the affairs of the organiza- thon and have allowed to pass unchalienged many aspersions and reflections upon myseif. It | is my Intention. however. at the proper time and in the proper place to revly to all of these. JOHN MITCHELL. After the reading of the letter & mo- tion was made requesting the reading of the minutes of last Saturday’'s ses- sion. After the fhinutes had been read a resolution was unanimously passed not approving the portion containing the report of the tellers, which showed President Dolan's and Vice President Bellingham's election by the miners. The hearing upon the temporary in- junction secured by President Dolan against the delegates attending the Pittsburg district convention was post- | poned indefinitely this afternoon, fol- |lowing & conference between counsel for the litigants. It was agreed before the court that either side may go into court any time in the future and request a hearing and that during the remaining sessions of the convention parliamentary rules are to be observed. The temporary in- junction is still effective. It was stated here to-night that John Mitchell, president Workers, has called a special session of the national executive committee to take | place in Indianapolis early in March. De- velopments in the coal fields since the adjournment of the interstate conference will be reviewed. The board will decide whether to call another convention' of the miners or to issue this ultimatum: | “An advance in wages or strike.” S S oG 5 OLD TALE OF CRIME REPEATED BY JORDAN Go-Between Tells Once More About the Bribery of : Legislators. SACRAMENTO, ¥Feb. 14.—Beyond the statement of Detective George M. Tich- enor, on cross-examination, that he did not see Frank French on the night Joseph 8. Jordan gave the bribe money to Bunk- ers and Emmong, there was nothing of interest In the morning proceedings in the trial of former Benator Frank French, indicted for bribery. | Moses Hines and Detective | Henry Hartling testified that there was nothing | | in their testimony relating to French that | was not brought out at the trials of | Bunkers and Emmons. | Joseph 8. Jordan testified at the after- | noon session, going over the old ground relating to the conversations he had had with Bunkers relating to the payment of money by the bullding and loan associa- tions to prevent Investigation by the Committee on Commissions and Re- trenchment. In one of these conyersa- tions Bunkers sald he had seen French and that it had been decided that the as- soclations would have to pay $500 each for protection. Jordan told of having received the bribe money from Detective Tichenor and having given Emmons and Wright their shares of it. Later in the evening he met French at the Golden Bagle Hotel and they walked from there to the Irish Tav- ern. On the way Jordan said he told French he had ‘‘a little roll” for him, and French said “all right.”” Jordan said he handed French a roll of $350 in bills, FATAL (OLLISION BETWEEN TRAINS JANESVILLE, Wis, Feb. 14.—Three On the eve of the confer- | Vice President Lewis read a | of the United Mine | later. At half-past 11 o’clock Rutherford and ‘his wife, who occupied the adjoining | room, were awakened by the cries of | Alexdnder and found Carl in flames in bed. Mrs. Rutherford stumbled over an | empty bottle which had contained kero- | sene, and which Alexander had bought on her advice to remove grease from his coat. With blankets and water the Ryth- erfords and Alexander extinguished ‘the flames, but Car] died on December 19. He is not reported to have made any accusa- tion against Alexander. Chief Murray learned from Alexander that the brothers had agreed to insure themselves each for the other's benefit, and that while Carl had taken $3000 in- surance on his life, Alexander had not taken any. CHAS. LYONS London Tailor to introduce his new mammoth store 715 Market Street Regular prices for suits and overcoats, $18 up; trousers, $5 up. Journeymen Tailors’ Union lmbel used on every garment. > trainmen were killed, four injured, one fatally, and six passengers hurt, none seriously, in a head-on collision two miles south of here to-night between the McKalb passenger train and a spe- cial freight on the Chicago and North- western Raflway. The dead 8 THOMAS LAFFERTY, 0S| — BERMISH, fireman. Conductor R. A. Peck of the freight is fatally injured. 3 { The collision was caused by a mis- take of the crew of the freight, due to ‘a blinding snowstorm. ¥ ————— S ——— Po Cure a Cold in Ome o ke By By GROVE'S signature is CMMISSIONERS BECN AGUIRY Unele Sam’s Investigators Start Task of Fixing Blame for the Valencia Wreck LSS S T SURVIVORS s Member of Crew Tells Board He Never Saw a Life Line Shot in Eleven Years at Sea A U | ' SPATTLE, Feb. 14.—The special com- vestigate the wreck of the Vealencia and {to make recommendations for aids to | navigation on the North Pacific Coast convened at 2 o'clock this afternoon, Lawrence O. Murray, Assistant Secre- tary of the Department of Commercé and Labor, presiding, Herbert Knox Smith, Deputy Commissioner of Corporations, and Captain W. T. Burweil, U. 8. N., composing the board. Attorney W. H. | Gorham, representing the Chamber of Commerce, was extended the privilege of interrogating witnesses. Attorney J. B. | Howe, representing the Pacific Coast | Steamship Company, asked the same privilgge. Hc was informed that at any | time™ he considered that his client was not recelving fair treatment or that evi- dence was not being brought out he would be allowed to. make suggestions to the board. “There is no counsel before this board,* said the chairman. The afternoon was taken up in the ex- amination of Second Officer P. Peterson and Boatswain Timothy J. MecCarthy. The evidence for the most part was technical, bearing on the method of hand- ling the ship, ‘the manner of taking soundings and reckonings. the efficiency of officers and crew and the condition and equipment of the vessel. The evidence | was practieally the same as given by the two Wwitnisses before the marine inspec- | tors. | Peterson stated that nearly all sound- ings made on the night the vessel was | wrecked were with a drop lead and not ‘wlth a tube. He sald there were several cross-examination admitted that he did not know this of his personal knowledge. The witness said that during the eleven vears he had been in the employ of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company he had never seén a Mfeline shot across in practice and had never seen one tested. Boatswain McCarthy said with the ex- ception of two men the sallors aboard the Valencia were all new hands. The in- vestigation will be resumed to-morrow morning at 9 o’clock. The investigation before the marine in- spectors will ‘also be resumed in the morning. Lawrence O, Murray and Herbert Knox Smith met with a special commit- tee from the Chamber of Commerce to- | day to cutline a plan of procedure. Sat- urduy evening it ig planned by the Commissioners to make a trip to Cape Flattery and inspect the coast line off Washington and Vancouver Island, re- turning in time to resume the investi- gation Monday. The Commissioners will have the aid | of members of the Chamber of Com- merce in procuring witnesses who have already testified regarding the wreck. It is expected that.the Commissioners will spend at least one day in Victoria, taking testimony from witnesses living in that city. ) CREW NOT DRILLED. Startling Evidence Shows Discipline ‘Was Lax on the Valencia. SEATTLE, Feb. 14.—Testimony intro- duced at the Valencla Investigation be- fore the marine inspectors and District Attorney Frye to-day tended more than ever (o show that discipline was lax among the crew and that considerable excitement prevailed generally on board the steamer and other craft during the morning following the wreck. Three wit- nesses were called during the morning session of the investigation. Two of these the vessel, and they admitted they did not know where cheir stations on the | vessel were when the alarm sounded to | man and lower the boats to the saloon | deck rail They also testified that there had been no boat drills, that the crew was new to | the steamer, all of which has been tes- tified to before, but which this morning's | evidence gave more clearly some definite reason for the confusion which prevailed. called to-day. He stated there was great excitement on board the vessel; that he did not go to his station in- dicated on the station bill, but instead stopped and assisted’ in lowering an- other boat on the same side of the ves- sel. Richley admitted he was excited and declared everybody else was. Contradictory to other witnesses were statements made by Max Stenzeler, a fireman of the Valencia, who to-day said that thirty or forty rockets were sent up from the steamship. He alse stated that excitement reigned on the vessel and that it was impossible to definitely locate the officers. On being auestioned = concerning the loading of life rafts, he =aid that at first | the passengers cried out that they dld not want to trust their lves to the rafts, and later he statéd there were no pas- ‘g:,:ern left when the last raft was sent off. Samuel Hancock, chief cook of the ill- fated steamer. was the third witness called. His testimony In effect was that no boat drills were held en route up the coast, but stated there was little or no excitement on the craft. He also offered an opinion regarding the possibilities of a life-boat living in the surf, in which he announced the chances would have been slight. i Frank Richley was the frst witness | { EL T e SR BRAVE LITTLE WOMAN. | Wife of Keeper of Cape Benle Light n Herotne. VICTORIA, Feb. 14.—A dramatic story of a woman's fortitude was told in evi- dence by Captain Ferris of the Princess May before the Valencla inquiry to-day when he narrated how Mrs. Patterson, wife of the lightkeeper at Cape Beale, alone at the lighthouse while her hus- band was engaged in scouring the shore for victims, kept at the telegraph key and the telephone for seventy-two hours at a stretch while in a delicate state of health. Mr. Lugrin, counsel for the Do- minion Government, said speclal stress should be laid upon the heroic work of Mrs. Patterson in the report to the Gov- ernment, with the suggestion that such devotion to duty should not go unrecom- pensed. Captain Ferris also related how the rescue party which went over the trail to the survivors at Darling Creek gave their last bite of food to the ship- wrecked men. p Sl e 30 Overdue Steamer Safe. BELLINGHAM, Wash.," Feb. 14.—The schooner Tam o’Shanter, two weeks over- due here, and about which fears had been felt torTlu safety, is reported to have passed Tatoosh last night, being towed into the Sound. e £ - BN LB Wrecker Saves a Steamer. . VICTORIA, B. O, Feb. 14.—The dis- treseed steamer reported adrift near Dis- mission appointed by the President to in-| boxes of tubes aboard the ship, but onf stated that great excitement prevailed on | Mentioned as the Successor. William Perkins Has Support for the Place. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. — President Roosevelt this afternoon received and ac- cepted the resignation of John G. Brady as Governor of Alaska. The resignation was handed to the President on behalf of Governor Brady by Judge Peele of New York. No. announcement of the successor of Governor Brady yet has been made, but it is known that the President has in mind the man he desires for the office. It is not unlikely that the appointment, when made, will go to Lieutenant B. H. Jarvis, formerly an officer of the revenue cutter service, who conducted a relief ex pedition several years ago to a party of whalers at Point Barrow and who now is the general manager of a large salmon canning company upon the North Pacific Coast. 2 William M. Perkins of Seattle and Nome has also been mentioned in connection with the office. Perkins has the indorse- ment of Senators Lodge of Massachu- sctts and Allison of Iowa. There are sev- eral other candidates for the place whose clalms have also been presented to the President. BALFOUR YIELDS 10 CHAMBERLAIN Accepts the Views of the Birmingham Member on Subject of Fiscal Reform LONDON, Fe¢b. 15.—Former Premier Balfour finally has crossed the bridge lwhich Joseph Chamberlain held out for him, and In correspondence published late last night he takes his position practically {on Chamberlain's tariff reform pro- | gramme. | The fact is heralded in the Liberal is mornihg as ‘‘Balfour’s ‘hamberlain's victory,” etc., while the Daily Graphic, speaking in be- ‘1 half of the Unlonist free traders, deplores Balfour's “journey to Canossa’ as the price of his retention in the leadership | of his party. The Chamberlainite jour- nals express complete satisfaction and attach no importance whatever to the Balfourian limitations which the former Premler places upon his acceptance of the proposed duty on corn and a tax on man- | ufactures. The Standard says that the agreement between the two foremost embracing. Balfour’s surrender, though delayed until the eve of the Lansdowne House | meeéting, evidently was arranged at the famous conference with Chamberlain and enabled the latter to publish his re- cent repudiation of any desire for the leadership which suddenly quieted the newspaper attacks on Balfour. As though to emphasize the fact that there | will be in the future a dual leadership of the Unionists, it is announced that, in addition to thé provision of the cus- tomary private room in the House of | Commons for the official leadership of the opposition only, a similar room has been allotted to Chamberlain. This is unusual, if not unprecedented. | Balfour and Chamberlain are still in | negotiation with regard to the reorgani- zatfon of the party machinery. Balfour's conversion to Chamberlainism s likely to be unpalatable to a large sec- tion of the Unionist party, and the Lans- | downe House meeting, which the Duke of | Devonshire, Lord Hugh Cecil and other Free traders will attend, is likely to be the arena of some plain speaking oh the subject. Mr. Balfour's letter, is as follows: My Dear Mr. Chamberlain: The controversy aroused over the fiseal question has produced not unnaturally the impression that the prac— | tical differences of fiscal reformers are much | deeper than in fact is the case. , The <xchange | of views which has consequenfly taken place Dbétween them leads me to hope that this m's- | concertion may be removed and with it the | friction which “nas proved %o injurious to the party. My own opinion. which 1 believe is shared by the great majority of the Untonist party, may be briefly summarized as follows: Fiscal reform is and must remain the first constructive work of the Unionist party. The objects of such a reform are to secure more equal terms of competition for British trade and closer commercial union with the colonfes. While at present It Is necessary to prescribe the exact method whereby those ends may be attalned it is inexpedient to permit of differ- ences of upinion regarding these methods to Qivide the party. Though other means be pos- sible the estublishment of a moderats general tariff on manufactured goods, imposed for the purpose of raising prices or giving artificlal protection against legitimate competition and the Imposition of a small duty on forelgn corn are not in principle objecticnable, and they should be adopted If it can be shown that they are neoessary for the attainrient of the ends in view or for the purpose of revenue. To this letter Chamberlain replied as follows: My Dear Mr. Balfour: I cordially welcome your letter of to-day, in which you have summarized the conclugions We reached during our recent discussions. I entirely agree with your description of the objects we both have in view and gladly aceept the polley you in- dicate as wise and desirable for the Unlonist nmgv to adopt. In endeavoring to give effect to this policy and in defending all the Unionist principles, any services I can render will be entirely at your disposal CHINESE VISITORS PLEASED WITH TRIP published to-day, turn Thanks for Courtesy Showem. NEW YORK, Chinese commissioners who arrived td- day from Boston will safl for Europe to- morrow on the steamer Blucher. Shi Ling Hsung, first secretary to the com- mission, sald te-nigh On the eve our have seemed em, they have and courtéously auswered. itened to many dark to us before we came, 1 to the American people 1f we succeed in intro- m mfl of Indians, had hoisted some as safls and reversed their en- sign as a distress signal, The tug Priy- cess and the steamer Balvor went to her assistance, the former pick- . ‘up the Lyackson, which was towed to ctoria g statesmen of the party is absolutely all- | Imperial Commissioners Re-! Feb. 14.—The .imperial | 1 | | i I | b — Lieutenants Jarvis Is | & « S MAN WHO MAY SU G. "EED_JOHN BRADY AS GOVERNOR OF SKA WINE SUPPER ENDS. FATALLY Girl in Leaping From Table on Which She Had Danced Ruptures a Blood Vessel S PSR L Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14 —Despite every effort of authorities, physicians and wit- nesses to keep the matter a secret, the particulars of the tragic death of Min- nie Blough, a pretty waitress, became known te-night. The body of the mis- gulded girl was buried to-day at her old home near Grand Rapids, Mich., and ths men who were parties to the debauch which resuited in her dedth have left the city “until it blows over.” One of them, a scion of a wealthy East- ern family, paild all the bills, even the railroad fare of the dead girl's brother, who lives in Stockton and who accom- panled the body East A week ago to-night, accompanied by her sister and by Nellle Courser, both waitresses, Minnie Blough went to a late wine supper in a downtown cafe. Minnie was induced to dance on the table for the entertainment of the others, and in leap- ing to the floor she tripped and fell heav- ily. She did not then know that she had been injured. but while en route home she became violently ill. D T. C. Miers was called and he ordered her taken to the Sisters’ Hospital. She died in the ambu- lance before that institution was reached. The autgpsy showed that death had been caused by Internal hemorrhage dué to the rupture of a blood vesse body was taken to an undertake: even the Coromer was not notified. He learned of the case to-night and his in- vestigation brought out the story. FIND WEALTHY MAN IN INSANE ASYLUM Friends Come to Rescue of Aged South Dakota apitalist. Special Dispatch to The Call, SEATTLE, Feb. M.—After spending nearly three years in the State Asylum for the Insane at Steillacoom, aged Fer- dinand Schleuter, who it has been dis- covered is the owner of valuable prop- erty in Potter County, South Dakota, is to be taken in charge by his friends, who will take him back to his old home and care for him. Superior Judge Griffin this morning signed an order empowering Ste- phen Simon, who came to this city for the purpose, to remove Schleuter from the asylum. According to the story told by the rec- ords in the case, Schleuter left his home in South Dakota, where he had lived for seventeen ye¢ars, about three years ago for a visit to the cities on the coast. While In Seattle he was arrested by a police officer on account of his peculiar actions and was ordered committed to the asy- lum by Judge Talman. —_—————— KINGFISHER. O. T, Feb. 14.—Andrew Cay. negie has offered to give $50.000 to Kingfisher Congregational College, provided the collegs will raise an additional $50,000. The college expects to raise its §50,000 at once. SURVIVES WAECK BUT DROPS DEAD Passenger Expires as Result of Excitement in Trying to Aid Vietims of Disaster TWO DIE OF INJURIES Several Hurt in a Smash- Up on St. Louis and San Francisco Line in Kansas (e AR FORT SCOTT, Kan, Feb. 4.—Two |Demn.| were burned to death, another died from over-exertion and excitement in trying to save the victims, and five others were injured in the wreck easly | to-day at Columbus, of the Joplin ex- | press, northbound, on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway. The train caught fire from the wreckage, and, with the exception of the Pullman, was con- sumed. The dead: { HARRY ROUNDTREE, Fort Secott, express messenger, burned to death | J. H. LOCKHART, Jopiin, Mo., news- | boy, burned to death. H. E. HERKE, Weir, Kan., traveling | salesman. died of heart dise The injured: Harry Wood, Fort Scott. | engineer, dangerous; W. F. Runyan, Fort | Scott, fireman, leg broken:; C. E. Wad- | dell, Tuscumbia. Mo., slight; two Joplin | women, names not known, slight. While coming into St. Louis at forty mileg an hour this morning two sleepers | on the train took a siding, tore loose | from the train and ecrashed into a box | car loaded with terra cotta. The pas- | sengers were hurled in various directions. The train was made up of a combina tion baggage-express car, a mail car, one chair car, a common coach and one Pull- man sleeper. The baggage-express car telescoped the mail car, and both | caught fire. The remalnder of the train left the tracks, but the rear cars were not badly damaged, enabling the pas sengers to escape. The flames from the forward cars caught the coach, and the four were comsumed. saved. Members of beneath the The pas- to save but were soon | chalr car and all The Pullman was the crew were pinioned burning express and mail cars. sengers made strenuous efforts Roundtree and the newsboy, driven back by the fames. | H. E. Herke, reported among the dead, was among uiose who escaped from the | coaches. 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