The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 25, 1904, Page 1

Special Extra Tonight avd Wednesday, Fair, except near Const. Wednesday, Cooler; Southwest Fresh to Brisk North to East Winds NIGHT EDITION SEATTLE The WASHINGTON, TUE Seattle SDAY, OCTOBER 1904 i tar The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News PER VOL. 6 CENTS MONTH 25 TWENTY PEOPLE INJURED IN COLLISION ON SEATTLE AND RENTON ELECTRIC LINE TWO CARS CAME TOGETHER IN HEAVY FOG NEAR HILL'S BRICKYARD—BOTH MOTOR MEN BADLY BRUISED bruleed and The shock waa terrific. Several Twenty people were shaken, half a dosen of them being | fhe women were prostrated. Two seriously injured, in a headon col-| “OO! girls jumped from the ts Vaton on the Seattle & Renton car | POUNd car.) The passengers on tts Mine at 8:40 o'clock this morning, | OUbound car were most badly hurt, opposite the Hill brickyard aes pone ee William Cole, a real estate man ing yo Phggd eather of Columbia, where his family re en ae ees, te tides, may die from his injuries. He | 1¢re4 Were removed to houaes is suffering from conct oe el ee ee nd os Belnote brain, his kneceap | actured and a . ys hs an See Severe he te badly bruised all over the| ** Well as two physicians from body. tum were summoned J. F. Boyd, at ance max , Se ore vere eee who also resides wit! famity in | * ooennen wey Se Columbia, je almost as badly hurt th f the more severely in He is frightfully and ete Terre, Coe Of She tier were and is also ved. ty ahtending | MOve® to the Beattie Generel es Physicians to be injured internally, | Pit#l. An old woman, residing in Thomas Berg. the motorman on | ‘* Ratuier valley, hea that be car 23, and Jack W. Perkypyie, the | #0" Was Injured in the wreck motorman on ca: 3S were also seri ed in the buggy In which sh Ovsly injured around the face and | Pened to be driving past arms. Both men are single | ety elas. Oe Soe : Dave Sullivan, roadmaster of the | | TOS, Pimenee ee ee ive to react ae in j hs vend alse | the city by walking to the Jackson received a bad blow on the back of | Street car Une. A a his head. He was star ack ho, Was removed by 10 o'clock front platform with Mc 1 Berg. | The blame for nt te like Other persons who. received | ly to be placed on Motorman Perky slighter following: | P¥le, of the outbound car, # KE. H Dan Palmer, N. A./ing to the statement made this Webdste H. Ferguson, married,| morning by the rintendent of night clerk at the Monta the line, The late a not ob H. B. Bell, Milton Roy, Mra. Mo- | solutely fix the blame, saying that Dowell, Mrs. Hayes, George Colelle, | {t would be unjust until a careful & market gardener, residing in the | sta mt had m procured from Mathews, G.| both men, He admitted, however Rainier vailey;; ©. W. Dantap, H. Bruskeveith, A. EB. | that a mistake was made somehow Chandler; F. D. Cleaves, a clerk | by the outbound car in passing the in the criminal department of the | switch In front of the brickyard superior court, wh knee 4 hip This was done, in spite of the year-| that the inbound car crew were badly injured. and a 17 old boy named Burk turned on the block signal ligh' The fog was thick at the time the | leaving the switch a quarter | two cars came together Th mile below The cars met on the coaches were not more than single track a few hundr feet south of the switch the brickyard. Th pessed on the doubl ter of a mile below. The outbound car from each other when th men saw Wwe danger and appli brakes. According to the pe gers, both men acted coolly a brakes on both cars were applied was however, with full force. This, however, did/ late, and was evidently trying to not prevent the cars from coming | steal a switch. It regularly should together with frightful speed, the | have left the foot of Washington as was stated by one but this morning street at 8:20, the conductors, motormen sticking to thelr posts On No. 22, outbound, there were 10 or 12 passengers. Conductor Wren Rhodes and Motorman Jack Perkypyle being in charge. On No. 23, inbound, ia charge of Motorman John: Berg and Conductor Park Shel don, there were 61 passengers, most of them being residents of Colum- Ma coming to their work in this) city. Many of them were women and several were high school stu- dents. The front vestibules of both cars and the front windows were smashed into kindling wood The outbound car was the more badly damaged, even the cash reg- WILMINGTO:! Det feter being torn loose. This car iS |The Harlan & Hollingsworth plant said to have been going the slower.| or the United States Shipbulldin The motorman on the other car | company was sold at auction today evidently thought he bad a clear | It was purchased by the re-organt field and the car is said to have | zation the shipy been going at full speed. ] consent of the fox. That several persons were not kil'ed outright is considered fortu- nate. To the fact that no passen gers were riding on the front plat forms can probably be ascribed the comparatively small number of per- sons badly hurt. Koadmtster Dave Sullivan was standing on the front platform with Motorman Berg, but he luckily escaped without serious | injury. | } } | — garrtgyt serge THE DEMOCRATS UNIVERSITY CARS was delayed 10 minutes on account | | COLLIDE: IN FOG) === | Fred Kirkshank, motorman of outbound University car 346, and A. KR. Wolf, of Seattle, were badly bruised in a collision which Joceurred between two University | line cars in a dense fog at 7:45 o'clock this morning, about a quar ter of a mile south of Latona. Evi dently the Block signal lights did not work, or the motorman could not see them, for the care met on the single track only a short dis ‘tance from a switch, Car 246 was Great Battle for Indiana’ ORGANIZE Electoral Vote---No. 2 posty counry> FAUReSy AL Os90615 8 ¢ THR SAFE AND & PORRY COUNTY | platform of bis car and badly jam | med. At firet it was though that bis leg was broken, but examin | tom proved that his injuries w afined to bruises Fortunately no one was riding on the front platform of either ear, as the company hax imued strict or dere Rot to allow passengers on the front platforms of the cars during Had the Platforms been filled, as te some times the case, the result of the going at a rapid rate, but those] collision would have been more se- aboard the other car, No. 357, In-| rious, bound, said that the motorman was! Car 837 was slightly injured, but driving his car very slowly | the front platform of car 346 was Neither motorman could see the | completely Jemolished. other car approaching , on account| The cause of the accident cannot of the f until they were within | be given. It is the belief of offi & few feet of each other and they! cialis that either the signal lights! 4id not have time to stop. The cars| did not work, or the motormen came together with a crash and the| could mot see them, owing to the passengers pilled up In on 4, but | dense fog. The cars were pulled to no one was seriously injured. Kirk-' the ewiteh and in an hour the track shank was caught in the demolished were opened for service 9000000000000000000000e4 : . F THINGS COMING TO % |} STAR READERS } . * THE STORY Wild |* PUBLISHED OMORI | * WHETHIOR MI # DELANEY TAK? HY * FROM THI ANN . * MENT IN THE. MEANTIME @ ® AND SENDS HIS OFFICERS ¢ @ouT TO SUPPRESS THe # EVIL—as he. did ¥ The # | @ Star « 1 the Chines ‘ | @ tery « . . " C4-94-666-4-464066 66044464 6-006 INCENDR, ERICKSON Contractor C. J. Erickson last night provided, free charge, 4 pyrotect ‘isplay that would have been a ; trawing card on the Fourth of He applied the match to the residence of H. F Compton, which has b *0 much trouble for Junction sults frame the and for an hb furnished the edification of structare hibition fire for those who saw it The building was located at Se ond avenue and Blanchard It slid into the great cavern that has been sluiced out and Erickson decided to burn it. The high dirt walls made an excellent natural re flector, and th wh sky was lighted up. The lurid heavens were visible from the greater portion of an street the city R. A. Black, of the Latona phar macy, was married to Miss Jannett R. Tinto, at Vietoria, B. C., Octobe 1%. Mr. and Mra Black returned last Sunday and are at their home it 4718 Eleventh avenue northeast Nicholas Sends His Regrets to Edward MAKE ANY AMENDS WITHIN CZAR SAYS HE BUT WANTS TO WAIT UNTIL Witt REASON, HE HEARS FROM BALTIC FLEET—POPULACE HOOT AND JEER RUSSIAN AMBASSA- DOR IN LONDON . e . LONDON, Oct, 2 It is ne nderstood that England's @ . ] ° ‘ ernment; second, ade- @ . flict hird, immediate @ tain who the @ ° n m e é * . oe s 144 has been learned that Admir dron which Peret 1 ' ' t telegraphed King ! t ‘ 1, and extending H t of . 1 wo a It is stated this morning that the situation th wea ir nt has already been adjusted im agreed to make ¢ amend within reason, act ‘ng. ning and bur- had collected and A little later he ve to B net with King a y narket Th aseed the acute stage, as t on An " jon and bade aha a t i ood (Old . aa the t n doffed his hat VICTORIA, Oct Orders have been ived at Esquimalt ¢ concentration of the entire British Pacific fleet, accord- ents made taten bu naval officials at the navy yard. THREE MEN ON THE GULL INJURED fishing vessels fired members of the crew were BALTIC FLEET RECEIVES ORDERS HE t 25.—Russian warships in the offing have re- ceived ne be opened three miles out at sea. The orders pntain at fleet's course ADVICE TO FIRST VOTERS Tomorrow EUGENE V. DEBS, candidate of the socialist party for president, will, in the force- ful style characteristic of him, make clear what the party of which he is the head stands for and why ite principles should appeal to the rising generation of American citizens, Mr. Debs, as @ leader in labor and political affairs and an au- thority on sociological questions, occupies a po- sition that gives weight to his opinions. It will be third in the series of campal lete | Eugene V. Debs, ters. DEMOCRACY PRESENTS IDEAL CANDIDATE ON IDEAL PLATFORM National Chairman Taggart Thus Proclaims the In- ducement to First Voters TARIFF REFORM AND A FOREIGN POLICY ON [Joint crore anu enchant | ports economic polictes offering the THE LINES LAID DOW JEFFERSON N BY WASHINGTON AND | | ! — | (er SPREE AE DEEPER ED EEED business, in industrial development and, in fact, in all phases of Ameri can life his virility of mind, bis en ergy i his superb capacity ar Placing him in positions of ¢ highest trust. And in these pont- tions he is developing surprising qualities of leadership and of exo tive ability. It is but natural that he should take a deep interest in} rnmental policies which bear so | etly on the present welfare of | the country and which direct, also, ite future progressive development The “first voter” desires, naturally to ally himself with t hat party| whieh promises to advance this Widest opportunity for the employ ment of these qualities of leader ship, and this genius for construc tive effort. The spirit of a nation should truthfully reflect the spirit of its collective citizenship, but if this principle is perverted by the adop- © ® | tion of pernitious policies, it will] With the election of a democratic president we will retrace @, | {0n,Of Dernitions policies, it wilt © our steps to that firm ground of “splendid isolation”—trading, @™) standard Vabadlinded team @ freely and profitably, with all the nations of the earth, but hav- @ | favors extravagance in his private © ing entangling alliances with none. © J|affairs, but if the government be 4 . THOMAS TAGGART. $ | extravagantly administored it means | , ? an example which is bound to af C4644 +AEEED ED UOVORESONDDO IGE OOOOH | oct the fiber of the individual elt!- a (Copy right, 14, by the Newspaper En-]al fame as a worker tn the cause of - n.) erprise Ass Sood government and true citizenship ca.) (For whom should the young Amert ~te=py ea i tor the firet time. cast bie BY THOS. TAGGART, we e President? With what party! Chairman Democratic National stions have been answered | Committee. saers for the republl-| In on other country on the face Qgrayt for of the globe is the young man so « for the| potent a facter as in the United io bopullets: | States. wee ee meee TOP | in the prem fm edunation, to zens. The democratic party is the party of economy, opposing wasteful expenditures, setting an example of economy to all If a country capable of successful competition with the balance of the world, in nearly all lines of produc- tion, {s cut off, by a high tariff wall,| tunity for individual and from a supply of raw material cheap| enterprise. And when @: and plentiful enough to enable ft to|!mport duties permit illegal combi reach out for the trade of the world,| nations which beat down competi it 9 bound to check the krowth of} tion, then is individual tmittwtiv |} Sts exporte and diminish the opper- und individual effort finralyeed and lective THOS. T AGGART, Chairman of the Demo evatic National Comittee. cal advantages that give the largest opportunities to the yo “ brains and energy |catadva on safe Mnew, with rec Concurrent with the system of high protection, it will be ne | American foreign shipping the pride of ountry, has lined th than 8 per | cent of our foretgn trade is ca in American bottom thu to the energetic young Am what was formerly a profitable ef endeavor. But above and beyond all of these questions of economic indepemd end freedom for effort, is the ques tion of our foreign policy and its re lation to the deatinies of rep le. Washington In | dreaw asks “Why forego the advantages of so hie farewell ad peculiar a situation? Why quit our | own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, en | tangle our peace and prosperity in | the toils of European ambition jr'valship, Interest humor er ew price? ‘hos. Jefferson said “We should be most unwise, tn deed, were we to cast away the singular blessings of the position tm which pature has placed us, the op portunity she has endowed wa with of pursuing, at a distance from for eign contentions, the paths of im dustry, peace and happiness.” | Our country became a the young man becomes an efficient | power” by following these woe bitent | clerk or manager in of a suc-| wisdom—a “workd power coastal proprietor democratic | {a its example of a free people sw | party opposes this policy ang stand | consfully the probhems solving pment pets ie develd of tive } hone~than it for that freedem from burdens keutralvts whieh develops our bn me | nelt. gove af colon } could ever be + ment with vast armaments,; but weighted down with lands and islands at distant points of the th, and with her splendid exam. ef cons on swept away The rty opposes a colonial p with [ts accompant militariem, as obnoxious to the genius of our institutions and pp nsideration of | lasting ermanent pros perity The republican party is definite ly committed to an abandonment of | our traditional national policy, and} iation of the wise advice It has deliberately otarted our government on a career ef conquest and participation in world polities,” which will, if not | immediately restrained by public protest, embroil us in all the diplo | matic intrigues andp ossible wars | fm Europe and Asia. My judgement is that this new and | éangerous departure will be either checked or made permanent by the Mberty an jand w decision of the army of young Americans who will become of vot- ing age during the next few years. With the election of a democrat- i. president will retrace our steps to that firm ground of “splen- we did isolation”—tra@ing, freely and profital with all the nations of the earth, but having entangling al- liances with none The democracy have nominated } candidate on an ideal plat- should carefully and the speech- “first voter study the platform ea and letters of acceptance of Judge Parker and Senator Davis, his energies and cast his ballot for them in the interest of safe policies of government and for petuity of American deals. COMED EE HOODOO ES SEPP HTOHO DEO OOOOES®D * « COUNSEL FOR FIRST VOTERS Publication began tn ‘The Star yesterday of a series of letters % ® oddr 1 to first voters by prominent men in the five leading @ ® political *. Bach of these men was asked to tell, first, @ ® why the first voter should support the presidential candidate ® ® ef that party, and, second, why the first voter should all»ahim- @ ® self with that party e § Th jcoln Steffens, who enjoys national fame as an ad- © @ veon ood government, Was asked to write as to the duty of @ ® the first r from the standpoint of a non-partisan. ® ® ‘The letters for tho parties were written by Leslie M. Shaw, @ ® republican, secretary of the treasury; Thomas Taggart, demo- @ # evot, chairman of the national committee; Eugene V. Debs, so- @ ® ebalist, candidate for president; Silas C. Swallow, prohibitionist, @ ® candidate fer president; ‘Themas B. Watson, populist, candidate @ ® for present @ LLL EDEL DEE SDD SANG DG G90 EP SESE ADD | |