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seers 1 Oppennein Great Clearing Sale Unlined Etamine Skirts, silk drop skirt, all colors 21 KILLED IN EXPLOSION OF OIL, 30 Throng in Natural Arena at Pittsburg Neglect Warning, Overwhelmed with Flame. PITTSBURG, Pa., May 18.—Twen- ty-one are dead and not less than three hundred injured as the .esult of the explosion at Sheradan of oll ‘nd naphtha cars. Of the 300 injured the physicians ®ay at least fifty will die. At 9.80 o'clock this morning nine bodies were at the Pittsvurg Morgue ‘and five at the arnegie Morgue. The others were brought in later. ‘The officials of the Panhandle road fear a worse explosion than the three which wrought so much damage yew- Yerday. A dancer line has been estab- Uished 600 yards on all sid of the burning wreckage, and the railroad po- Mee are keeping the curious wd back Another Explosion Feared, A few feet below the burning wreck- ‘xe les the big thirty-six Inch main o the Philadelphia Company, which from the gas fields in the southw Portion of the State and which supplies the McKee's Rocks and lower Allegheny @istricts with natural cas, that the concussion was so great yes- terday that some of the joints or even the pine itself micht have been dam @xed. and if such Is the cake the gas Which 9 under great pressure, will soon force its way through and another ter- Fifle explosion would follow een. twenty cars are piled up be- jeen the Sheraden station and Cork’ Run tn the Sheraden yards. hia in atl 7S mass of flames. It covers an aien of | It is foare -@ by 160 fect. In this there are all kinds | PM marehandiee. The Volunteer Fire | it of Sheraden and } Bngine Company from tho West End a Playing streams on the burning debri Dut little headway ts being made, o Me the fact that the entire wreck: @aturated with nap end every now and of flame shoots o tions of the smou The a...dent happer ternoon in the railroad den, where the F makes a turn near Cork’s Run. F 4 by two high hills. hundreds « ple were caug At this point, which fourth of a mile £ were ten tanks contatning froleum and nap! necessary ha 1 WORLD WANTS Noted for Quick Results. 1,346 fe! Paid Help Wants in this BU! Morning’s World 468 hoe Hele Wants i the Now York paren combine Tailored Suits and Outergarments. $15 Ladies’ Taffeta Etons, $15 Ladies’ Broadcloth Etons, reduced to Ladies’ Walking Skirts. trimmed with taffeta bands, all colors (value $15), Ladies’ Etamine Skirts, trimmed talfeta over BROADWAY AND 2iST ST. "TY. May 13 | GLLNSE- @ $25 Ladies’ Tailored Suits, reduced to $15.00 $50 Ladies’ Tailored Suits, reduced to $22.50 $35 Ladies’ Walking Suits, reduced to $22.50 | $8.75 $8.75 reduced to plaited side effects, $9 75 | $43,75 (value $20), 0 ARE INJURED. | Journey a switch was made with too much foree, Switched Too Violently. Five tank oars, two of them filled with refined petroleum and two with naphtha, were switched with too much force and one of the cars of naphtha waa broken Instantly the inflammable by-product poured out in a etream, The trainmen, seeing that one of the cara was dam Already the man in charge of the awitch lights had inade his rounds. and the lights were burning, As the tank car passed over one of the lghts the dripping naptha caught on the litte flame and almost instantly an exploaion ollowed. A xecsnd explosion occurred quickly. but the trainmen had fled and no one | | insteps, THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 13 heat bis eae Women’s Fast Black Ingrain Cotton or Lisle Thread Hose, Value 40c pr. a 25° ‘Women’s Fast Black Cotton or Lisle Thread Hose with colored embroidered Value 60c pr. at 39¢ Women's Fast Black Lisle Thread Hose, all-over lace work or lace ankles with colored embroidery, Value 95c pr. Women's Black Pure Silk Hose, plain or with embroidered insteps $ 1 75 Value $2.50 pr. at 58S Bedsteads & Bedding Suitable for Summer Furnishing Elastic Felt, Mattresses | Hair, White Enamel with brass trimmings, Reduced from $5.25, 6.75, 12.00 Tass, Bedsteads Handkerchief Dep’ts Women’s all-linen unlaundered hand embroidered initial handkerchiefs, Women’s all-linen lace trimmed handkerchiefs Stern Brothers To-morrow, Special Sale of Spring and Summer Hosiery and Underwear Reduced from $30.00 & $35.00 Mattresses Remade, Hair and Feathers Renovated sve oooh Pastest Growing Store. | 59° Men's Balbriggan Shirts or Drawers, Men's Natural Wool, Imported extra fine \ Lisle Threadand Balbriggan Shirts or Drawers 98° Value $1.45 | Men’s Imported PureSilk Shirts or Drawers, Value $3.00 Women’s Swiss Ribbed i | 2.25, Lisle Thread Vests 29° Value 40c Women's Spun Silk & Fancy Lace Trimmed Lisle Vests 59¢ Value 95c | Women’s Pure Spun Silk Vestswith handsome hand crochet fronts, $ 1 . 18 Value $1.75 time. Yorkers have ever seen. Corset Covers. ee ee with Torchon lace, finished with pearl buttons, | 5c. value, Atescseeieees 19¢ Of fine cambric, gathered at waist, 6 in- sertings of Valenciennes lace down front, lace edge around neck and ainvee: ON st with fine embrotdery; regu- larly 39¢; special ateees ooee 25c, Another style gathered at waist, trimmed | with 2 inserlings of Point de Paris lace, beading and ribbon; also shown with fine embroidery insertings with wide satin ribbon and fine b: regularly 65¢., aleves Drawers. Of heavy muslin with voke bands, um-| brella ruffles, trimmed with clusters of tucks and embroidery ruffles; 25c. values, at... Of fine cambric muslin, full size, insert | ings of Point de Paris lace and lace ruffles; also with deep rutiles of 39 fine embroldery; worth $9c. at c $4.75, 6.00, 8.50 $6.00, 10.80, 13.50 $4.25, 5.25, 8.95 $25.00 nn trimmed in white, ding, Of heavy muslin, full size, in V-shape "' 39¢ 19¢ | OF heavy muslin, in V shape and Empire Rothenberg ol WE ST Great May Sale of Undermuslins. Unmatchable Special Offerings: None of our May sales has ever started with such vigorous enthusiasm as that with which you greeted this one yesterday, Crowds thronged the under- muslin aisles all day long. Specials were snatched from tables in almost no Right at the outset this event eclipses anything of the kind that New Following specials for to-morrow: Sa..e.acthion Guaranteed or fioney Promptiy Refunded, a= ST Drawers. brella ruffles, trimmed with insertings of Valenctennes lace, clusters of tucks ite Lee edge; iyord with deep ruf- les of fine embroidery; 75¢. "AI VAIUCS, Ateeeersessreee . Corsets. pink, blue and drab sateens, lace trimmed t06 and bottom, fence Hinks ud ight front, heavy oning; also in fine quality net; regularly 7Sc., special at...... 49c Gowns. insertings of embroidery and | clusters of tucks, value 60c., at 39c | Made in chemise style, V shape and square neck, insertings of Point de Paris lace and clusters of tuzks, short sleeves with hemstitched rudie, also with in- sertings of embroidery, regu- larly $1.19, special at....eees 79c Infants’ Wear. Babies’ Long Cambric Slips, gath- cred at neck, trimmed with embroid- ery anes hemstitehed Furie round | neck and sleeves, 35c. value, infants’ French Caps, fine lawn, trimmed with clusters of tucks; plait- ings of Valenciennes 125c lace and wide strings, Infante’ Fine Lawn Caps, trimmed and high neck, trimmed with hem- stitched tucks, also with 29 insertings of embroldery 50c.; special atusseeee.. i andclusters of tucks,worth 55C. VAalUC, ateweesere style, insertings of fine embroldery, clusters of hemstitched tucks, em- broidery ruffles on revers; also with ie ters and WUT ee of shown with beading and Valenci ce, 29. value, satin ribbon, 75c. values, at.. 59c. at. é 19¢ : Mover Jonasson & Qo Walking Skirts Of wool crash, full flare flounce, 34 rows of stitch- ing, also the new plaited each 12¢ doz. $1.40 « 15¢ = $1.75 was hurt aries The noise of the two explosions, the| Women’s all-linen laundered hand embr’d effect skirt, in black, mois of the re and the crackin of | initial handkerchiefs, wreath effects, « 25¢ « $2.00 Oxford, blue and gray, Innit uauante peoerutceney, sot “tney | Women’s all-linen hemstitched and 69¢ $8 00 At $5,75. crowded down the streets of the bor | scalloped edge embroidered handkerchiefs, ‘* 8 le cal dunee a eee ee] ee a wean Toeretlie Rete Ro eae ’ West Twenty-third Street Howsces orl slot seam tn fromthe buriing ears “Bnd “avers At 7. : whelmed the apectatora on every side. Of Wheelmen’s Cloth, { nine-gored, strapped HELEN GOULD TO (STOCK MARKET © ALDERMEN SCORE Sx tmw.0"™* “* and brown, At $9,75. REOPEN SCHOOL Summer Class for Poor Girls at Irvington to Be Resumed Next Saturday—Flower Show Draws Throngs. (Rpecial to The Evening World) IRVINGTON-ON-THE-HUDSON oN On next Saturday Mise Gould will reopen her an- sewing-echool for poor giris at Lyndhurst country eat at Irving to he-Hudeon, and will continue it all au Helen Mille mer twenty-five girix | iss Gould | her DIDN'T SEE THE MAYOR. Maw Harhed Mie we BOON FOR WORKING GIKLS sional nature } DULL AT CLOSE. THE BEEF TRUST. Trading Was Light and Irreg-| Resolution Introduced at Reg- ular Throughout the Day, but the Tone Held Fairly Firm. The opening of the stook market to- day was dull and without any special feature. The tone at the start was weak and did not reflect the strength of American railway securities in the London market Trading waa quiet and of a profes- ore irregular nally below at the opening re war a re onsen were ré- ued extremely dull dur n but the whole Het re th, reaching Che high from the Closing Quotmtions nee Mieghem f re onle'® | Bridges insiated #0 strenuously on know Rain Coats, Former prices $11.50 to $22.50, Reduced to $7,50 g& $$4,50 BROADWAY AND 12TH ST. MAGNATES BACK ular Meeting to Allow Queens Butchers to Do Their Own Slaughtering. ‘The Beef Trus; waa violently ar- raigned at the regular meeting of the of sympaiay for the Mart St Vincent sufferers, Alder introduced resolution to orn in Quee ing This is a blow at ‘Trust,’ explained Mr Wentz he Aldermen then joined pitter| denunciation of the Trust | The unpaki billie of the tertaining Prince Henry $).10, were next discusped Board of Aldermen this afternoon Immediately after che entire Alder manic body had affirmed the resolutton | a} | ~|Largest English Tool Firm to Pass to Americans and Iron Ore Mines of Norway Are Secured. | the infamous Beet omy for en amounting 1 | ¢ Alderma + Grosse Dunt Phew about eaoh tiem thas le Cheam or until next week ted oppont rf bam the matter 4 Edward N the defunct —_ CURB MARKET QUIET. a) em Vow Chammeee th Guotations tn UMN . Outeide Seomet . ; SPRING WEWS om bette § OPPENHEIM. CLLINS& @ ‘ Shoe Department. U“een THE FAMOUS SHOE FOR WOMEN. A display of ‘Queen Quality” Shoes means sixty dif- ferent ORIGINAL-PATTERNED and NEAT MOD- ELS in all the prevailing widths, and a few more. Boots, $3.00 Oxfords, $2.50 BROADWAY AND 25ST ST. JAMES McGREERY & CO., COTTON DRESS GOODS, | JAMES McGREERY & CO. SUIT DEP’T. 3rd Floor. Scotch Novelty Linens, very sheer,—with pink, blue, Canvas Dresses. Handsome lavender, green or self) models trimmed with lace, stripes. 28 inches wide, Blue, black, grey and tan. asc. per yard, 55.00 Value 50s. | Embroidered Swiss Muslins,|@"v#5 Dresses, = trimme: with lace. Colors: —~blue —figured or striped,— black, grey, tan and white, Twenty-third Street, | Suite, | | 17.50 LONDON MARKET STRONG. Amertoen Melinar Seennition der tien ded be Mending Twenty-third Street, We mote ——eEeE7~ | pate 24 . Mat FOUGHT TO DIL “eee gins Mie “Wiehe ose . "Ts ver AE erwen Oe el donne tenons we # | Gowns. | , Ny | Corset Covers, French styles, round) Of fine muslin with yoke bands, um- | Of heavy muslin, hich and square neck, |seowones rere temmemme Meee ) JAMES McGREERY & C0. | UPHOLSTERY DEPT. 4th Floor. 10,000 yards of art cretonne, —suitable for furniture slip covers and summer draperies, 15c, 25c and 35¢ per yard, Fleece lined, English Swans- down, Very desirable for slip covers for gilt articles and fine furniture, 2g§c, per yard. jFine Swiss curtain muslin, Embroidered designs with borders, and dotted, striped or floral weaves 12%, 25¢, 35¢ and soc per yard, Usual price 18c. to $1.00, Scotch Muslin Bedsets, Dainty colored designs on white grounds, Single or double bed sizes. $5.50 to $8.00 per set. Muslin curtains with deep ruffle. Centres figured or plain,—finished with tucks and lace insertion. Full size, $1.00. $1.75 and $2.75 per pair. 200 fine hammocks,—large tufted head rest, and deep valance. Complete with ropes, $1.50 and $2.00 each. Slip covers, shades, awning” and bedding to order. Twenty-third Street. << e JAMES McGREERY & CO. RUG DEP'T. 475 fine pieces, including Moussouls, Guenjes, Kae zaks, Daghestansand Shir vans $9.75, $1275 and $16.50 Value $14.00 to $24.00 A complete stock of cottom rugs and Moouj mats for country cottage furnish ing. |rs00 art rugs in Oriental | colors and designs,— white or colored grounds | loxoft . .. . $600 18c, per yard, | 37:59 7%x10%lt . » + 878 Silk and Cotton mousselines, China silk dresses. Very|9*?2fb - + + » 7809 jo inches wide, Plain attractively designed, —| Fancy China Matting white, pink, sky blue,, trimmed with lace, “| $7.00 per roll of 4o yards, limen, grey, green and, Black or white. black, |Japanese Inlaid and Damask 4 92.50 Matting asc. per yard, Value 406 Blue and white or black and $450 per roll of 4o yards, | white Foulard Shirt-waist Twenty-third Street, - JAMES MeCREERY & CO LADIE® CLOAKA Hiveb (seme ire} wnt lufietae helldength foomsifitted os dull Uulined o timed whose ollb Niawk Tefleine Long Costa, wih tome and olep re.