The evening world. Newspaper, May 19, 1902, Page 1

{ ON PAGE EDITION GENERAL SPORTING NEWS 6. Che “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ [« Circulation Books Open to All.’ } i Rea - RACING-BASEE GENERAL ON PAGE 6. PRICE ONE CENT,| NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1902, PRICE ONE CENT, DRAGGED 8 BLOCKS BY “L" TRAN, Awful Experience of James Burns on the Second Avenue Road To-Day. MAN WILL PROBABLY DIE. Leaped on the Crowded Plat- form as Cars Were Moving —Two Men Risked Lives to Save Him. With his right leg crushed from nip to knee, James Burns, a cierk, of No. 68 Monroe street, Boston, was dragged by a Second avenue electric train from Thirty-fourth street to Forty-second street to-day, despite the frantic efforts of a guard to stop the cars, Burns was held up by two men, who prevented him from falling to the streets or under the wheels. At Forty-second street his leg, which had already been scraped be- tween the car platform and the sta- tion platform at Thirty-fourth street, was again crushed. He may die from his injuries. The train was a race track special, leaving Thirty-fourth street at 1.15 o'clock. A tremendous crowd of tbook- makers and their employees, pro- gramme sellers and race track habitues was on the Thirty-fourth street plat- form and the train was soon crowded to its utmost capacity. The guard on the front platform of the Inst car was unable to shut the gate, so great was the pres- re, but he gave the signal to start, nevertheless, and just as the train began to move Burns tried to butt his way on, Hight Foot Slipped. He got hold of the railing of the plat but his right- foot slipped b the cars and swung around until ng between the platform of the rear car and the station platform. The space $s about three inohes and the leg was crushed and broken. Burns reamed in agony and Louls Nathan, tidridge street, reached over nt him by the arms, Fred »— No, 138 Bast Twenty-fitth wt, came to the assistance of Na- 4a and together they sustained the Injured man, Ny thiv time the train was run- ning at top speed. The guard pull- dat the bell rope with all his ight, bn the speed of the cars did not slacken, ‘The gate was open and Nathan and Lenox were risking their Hves in hold- ing Burns on. So closely packed was the crowd In the rear car that none save those on the platform knew that Burns's leg had been nearly ground off. Before Forty-second street station was reached Nathan and Lenox made strenuous efforts to pull Burns up on the platform of the car, but there was no room for him, Crushed # Second ‘Vime. When the train got to the station the mangled leg was caught a second time and ground and crushed in the narrow space between the cars and the station platform. With great difficulty Burns was extri- cated and taken to the floor of the station, Police Thelleson, of the Hidridge street station, who was a pas- senger on the train and had seen the ac- cident, went to the street to notify the policeman on the beat, who happened to be Policeman Weigand of the Hast Thirty-Afth station, Welgand sent in a call for an ambulance and hurried up to the station to investigate, but the train wae almost to the Jiftieth street station, Burns was taken to Bellevue suffering from a double compound fracture of the thigh, The flesh was torn from his Jeg to the bone between the hip and the knee and he was suffering great agony. It is not believed that he will survive the shock. Detective Quinlan was assigned to find the conductor and motorma: ft pertain why the The number of the con is said to have been 25%, or TO-NIGHT'S EVENTS, ite Medical Association meet. ing, No. 17 Weat Forty-third wirect. Academy of Sciences, regular frat and stopped ductor eines are, industrial and bual- ness classes, No. T Kant Fifteenth wtrect, Dinner for Count Rochambeau, Union League Olab, Commencem ercines, Den. eonesses' Meme, Fark Avenue Methodist Kpiseopal Cherch, COULD YACHT CRASHES INTO | FERRY-BOAT. Aileen Cuts Down the Middletowniin Dense Fog—One Man Was Killed. PASSENGERS IN PANIC. The Mauch Chunk in Colli- sion with Railroad Floats| 2 Off the Battery—Craft Drift) 3 Helplessly. In the dense gray fog which set- tled down over the city and har-| hor to-day there were two serious | accidents to ferry-boats. In one} of them a man was killed, The victim was J. C. Atter- bury, of New Brighton, S. 1. He was killed on the Rapid Transit Serry-hoat Middletown by the steam vacht Aileen, owned by Edwin!) Gould, which ran bead on into. the ferry-boat’s starboard side. The other ferry-boat to meet with | an accident was the Jersey Central | vessel Mauch Chunk, which collide ed with tow floats containing freight cars. None of the passen- gers was burt, The Mauch Chunk and the floats were drifting about the foggy har- bor for hours. with a half-dozen’ tugs trying to pull them apart. | They were wedged so tightly together | that they could not be separated. At 1 o'clock the two, still locked together, were towed alongside pier No. 1, North River. ROW OUT FERRY-BOAT. The Middletown was on her way from St, George to the Battery when the accident to her occurred. The fog was so thick that it was impos- sible to see more than two boat lengths ahead, and the ponderous craft was proceeding very slowly and tooting its fog whistle industri- ously when the crash came. The boat was crowded, as the morning rush of Staten Islanders to New York had not ceased. ‘The accident happened between the | Statue of Liberty and the Battery about 11 o'clock, the boat having left 8t. George at 10.3 o'clock. As it was warm, many of the passengers stood on the | forward deck. Those who did were for- | tunate, for thoge inside bore the brunt of the collision, | ‘The steam yacht Alleen was going |down the bay, She was only under half | steam, Just how the accident came about is not known, but it Is presumed that the | multitude of whistles blowing on all sides confused the captain of the.vach' Capt, Cattennore, of the Middletown, says that he saw the yacht and sig- | nalled her to pass astern of his boat, but that the yacht’s commander disre- garded the signal, When he saw that | 4 collision was inevitable he reversed | his engines, but it was too late, | Yelled a Warning. Standing on the forward deck of the ferry-boat wae Joseph McCarty, special oMcer on the boat. He saw that there was no chance of averting a collision, and reallzing that the passengers in the men's cabin on the starboard side would suffer, he ran and yelled in at the door to clear out, Everybody made a rush to escape, fome forward and some aft, All suc ceeded before the nose of the Aileen came ploughing down the starboard wide of the ferry-boat, sweeping away the outer side of phe cabin as far back as the paddle wheel, all with one ex- ception, Mr, Atterbury, He was caught by the bowsprit of the yacht and swept along aa it crushed the cabin's, aide until he was pinned against the stairway lgading to the upper deck. He was crushed to death Instantly. ‘The wildest panic ensued for a mo- ment. The passengers grabbed for lite- preservers and some of them started to Jump overboard, but were restrained by the cooler heady aboard, The ferry-boat’s crew quickly aacer- tained that there was no anger of sink- ing and soon calmed the excited pas- wong: The Aileen was able to pull out her bettered nose and go on down the bay, This she did as eoon as the captain of the ferry-boat wan certain he would need no help to make hie slip, GIANTS AND REDS PLAY LAST GAME. BURNS GIRL'S FATE - Sparks Is Put in t Pitch for New Yor at the Last Moment Both Teams Score in Mathewson Not to Be Laid Off. New York. Van Haltren, of. Smith, 2b. Tooran, ss. Staintelat, 3b. eager, Peitz, c. Spar 5 Currie, B mpire--Cantiiion. (Special to The Brentng World.) UPAGUD PARK, CINCINNATI, 0., May 19—Enemies of the National League here have taken down their |hammersa and begun work with the same activity a blacksmith goes about his business. They have been waiting and watching for the opportunity for ever so long, just {tke a vulture hovers about ready to pounce on a prospective meal. Their chance came when Hor- ace Fogle, the Giants’ manager, sald a few words. Christy Mathewson, the greatest of all pitchers, past and present, was the victim. Fogel merely remarked that “Matty” was not doing very good work as yet, that when the home games were resumed in New York he woul use but four pitchers, and they the ‘ones who showed the best form at that time. He insinuated that even if “Matty” was the one tn the poorest shape he would be rested until he did round into form, and that, by the way, 1s good baseball sense. Story Hurt Mathews However, that was good food for the “Knockers.” In good-sized print that ldn't strain one’s eyes to read, the story was related that “Matty” was going to be benched ff he did not show better form very, soon. It spoke of the great twirler trying to live on the repu- tation which he gained last year, and not even trying to win games now. ‘The absurdity of the story wag laughed at, but it did not have that effect on Christy. He was oftend vightly, too, Fogel was also rum (Continued on Sixth Page.) LEVI P. MORTON CN STAND FOR WIDOW Testifies in $100,000 Suit of Mrs. Hindsdale, Whose Husband Was Killed in Tun- nel Disaster. Ex-Governor and ex-Vice-Prealdent Levi P. Morton was a witness to-day, before Justice Glegerich, in the sult of Mrs, Christina H. Hinsdale, who wants $100,000 damages from the New York Central and New York, New Haven and Hartford Raflroad Compantes, for the death of her husband, Baward C, Hinds- dale, who was killed in the Park ave- nue collision Jan. 8. Mrs. Hindedale's 1s the first sult arising from the tunnel diswater to be tried In this elty. “Hindsdale,"" Mr, Morton testified, was a notasy public, having special duties to perform. He received a # ary of $2,000 q year and fees for other duties,” GAYNOR ORDERED TO MONTREAL JAIL Lawyer Charges Plot to Get Colonel and Capt. Greene Back to Quebec on Habeas Corpus Writ. MONTREAL, May 19.—Judge Lafon- taine to-day granted an indefinite re- mand in the cases of Col, John F, Gaynor and Capt, B. D. Greene, held here pending action, on the effort to have them extradited to the United tates, ‘At the same time he ordered them to be incarcerated In the Montreal jail ‘The priosners have been held at the hotel here since their arrest in Quebec, When Messrs. Gaynor and Greene were brought before Judge Lafontaine to-day Lawyer Tuschereau, represent: ing Gaynor, complained of the manner in which the police were acting in re- There was a hole twelve feet wide in ie, but there was no ater line, and she went limping on to the Battery, Miss C. F. Crocheron, of Weat New Brighton, and her mother, who passengers on the Middletown, give the following account of the accident, “My mother and I were sitting on the other aide of the boat when the col- lieton ooourred, and we thought eome- Wontinued on Third Page) fusing w admit their or any one else to the rooms of the accused, He demanded that the men be taken to Jail. Donald MacMasters, K, C., atrongly op- posed such a change, and then openly accused Mr, Taschereau of making this demand to hide a plot hatched in Que bee to take the prisoners from the Mon- trea) authorities and back to Quebec, He had been informed upon reliable aa- thority, he sald, that two new write of babess corpus bad been asked tor ¥ 4nd of Wo, MO-Want Fortinet sweet, wee (Continued from Sixth Page.) \ Fourth inning—!ones walked. Doyle's bouncer forced him ht second. fhe ietier was caught trying steal second. teinfeldt threw ksen out. runs. ; Beckley knocked a safeiy over short. Crawford bunted. yarks threw Magoon out. Beckley scored and Corcoran safe i) Lauder’s fumble. When Steinieldt flied to Jones. Crawford cored. Doyle retired Peitz. Two runs. Fifth Inning—-lackson safe on Corcoran’s wild throw. Yea~ er forced him at second, Sparks and Yeager were doubled p at first. No runs. Oahhe i Dob aiked. Lauder threw Hoy out. aru’s fly. to Yeager. Van got vray Currie walked. a eckley popped a foul No runs. ; Sixth Inning—Currie tossed Van’s bunt to oosted a fly for Hoy. Lauder fanned. No runs. Doyle heiped retire Magoon Lauder-threw Corcoran out. teinfeldt singled. Peitz’s triple scored him. Currie struck out. ne run. first. Smith IROOKLYN Bila OUIS aaeas At Pittsburg—Philadelphia, 15 Pittsburg, 2. Ai Chicago—End of fifth: Boston, 03 Chicago, 1. — rer AMERICAN LEAGUE GAMES. ptt At Detroit—End of eighth: Detroit, 0; Chicago. 1. At Cleveland—End of fourth: st, Lo ; LATE RESULTS AT ST. LOUIS. Fourth Race—Helen Print 1. Dewey 2, Terra Firma 3. $0 — AT WORTH. Fourth Race—Articulate 1, Alard 2. Vuleain 2. ffiffi titfitfiftiffi Fifth Race—Prince of Africa 1, Marshal Neil 2, Marcos 3. Se — YOUNG MAN SHOT BY ACCIDENT. While examining a pistol this afternoon Samuel Freedman, eighteen years old, of No. 55 First street. was aceidentally shot in the left leg. He was taken to the St. Vincent’s Hospital. SS ON WARPATH FOR AUTOMOBILISTS. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 19.—John H, Maclay, a contractor of this city, is anxious to meet two automobilists who, he says, nearly ran him down while he was driving on the roadway. to anyone who will give him a personal introduction to the offenders. H says he is bound to have satisfaction. ——— 160 DEAD, 100 INJURED IN GOLIAD TORNADO. DALLAS, Tex., May 19.—The Associated Press reached Goliad by tele-| phone for a few minutes shortly afternoon to-day, The operator reported one hundred and sixty dead and one hundred wounded, the majority ne- groes, as the tornado swept the negro district jn the west end of the town, The business section was not touched. The town is now under military rule. RECEIVER FOR VEHICLE COMPANY. NEWARK, N. J., May 19. cel Yhancellor Magie to-day appointed A. 7. Sweeney Receiver for the American Gear and Vehicle Company, of Newark. | The application for a receiver was made by Perry L. Stesion, the President of the concern, who says the company is insolvent and has no working cap- ital. The liabilities are $15,000. ee TOLEDO OFFICIALS INDICTED. TOLEDO, May 19.—The Grand Jury to-day returned indictments against a number of city officia nd business men for bribery and derelic- tion in office. Only a partial report was made. bnt a sensation was created. | appeared Handi |w It is expected many other indictments will follow. ee WILL CELEBRATE CUBAN INAUGURATION. jata stre Hength ADVANCE GUARD WS SIXTH RACE. Brooklyn Handicap Candidate Easily Beats St. Finnan and Alsike—Morris Park Races Run in Fog. (Rpecia} to The Even MORRIS PARK RACE 19.—Weatohester week this afte be glad of a c' Journey ug Wo Re, to this course seventeen days The card to-day was decidedly cheap, the only good race being the handicap ata mile and a furlong, which was the last on the card It was a moist day in muny ways. There was not much rain, but there was plenty of fog, and at times ihe b stretch was obscured from view. The rain that fe) waa not enough (o make the track heavy, for the going had been very dusty and needed sprinkling badly. The attendance was, of course, silm, the poor ‘card and mean weather being responisble. FIRST RACE. Thres-year-olds and upward; selling course. Eelipse Jocks. Hedtera 1 ru, 9 2 Stella W Blahene Herman, Baallus, 104, Sheedy *Coupled: Btart good. Won easily, Time—1.12 Stella W. made the running, in close order by Maru and Calthness. This order held to the dip, where Calth- ness moved to the front and won by a length from Maru, who was two lengths In front of Stella W. SECOND RACE, Batms selling; two-year-olds; last five furlong Retipes cou Batting, ters, whts., Jocks. Bt.HIfFin, Str lave, Brokers 2 WE Ie AS 1S Redfern 7 107, Odom... 4 3 4k Ak Number, ‘gi, Shea. 34 w 1 Sri pool, "Wen catly. “Tlibe not taken Plater went to the front at flag fall and making all the running won easily by folr lengths. Faust was the runner up all the way and finished second, beating Impetuous a length for the piace. THIRD RACE The City Island: three-year-olds and upward; lar seven furlongs Withers inile Rett ing. Martia ooker Won Frankfort jumped away in front and made pace, followed by Royal, a good from the Hagin string, who wax bucked do to by a 1 the th held on to sec nkfort, b and beat White Creat three-quarters of who He offers a reward of $100) | per was in the a length for the place. POURTH RACE Meatow Brook Steeplechase; four-year-oldy and upward about two and half miles a ke SEMI Pin Sir Place a Same Hamilton 4, 19, Rall) 6M is3, Finnegant) 1 Champion and Markforward coupled a Time—441 Ing for a short e way to Self who cut out y fant “ve set. ‘Tie pal he flela and Protec: by Sor from. it ast jump wt Agthe, but on mm gown and w euaiiy by a | If Protec: Was Afteen lengths in tof Borough FIFTH RACK. Selling, three sand upward’ Withers 105, Muros 6 108, Marti a Royaterer, 108, 0) Start good. Most of this r When they we ariving bunched. When they re pper and Agnes yor head . Handicapper win' Agnes D, was Barbara others closely © together by that ma length In The win’ $1,000, and welling price Adv ince Jim MeCormick on entered was the A meeting arranged by Cubans will be held in Mendelesohn Hall, No. 119) buyer West Fortieth street, to-morrow evening in honor of the inauguration of| Gen, Palme as President of the Cuban Republtt, Several prominent speakers will be present, were issued in Quebec on Saturda | before Magistrate Crane in the Hariem These were to be served upon t Court to-day, for having played bali jailer and assitant jailer of the Mo terday, Learth was arrested at Jaa- treal jail as soon a4 the prisoners were | per Oval, One Hundred and Thirty sixth street and Amsterdam avenue, where he wae playing with the Murray Hill Baseball Club, ‘The court was within the jail walle, and this would enable thelr friends to take them back to Quebec (sated told Mr. MacMasters also asked to have) -, " Cortright 4 Capt, Hogan had received the prisoners rema! |, to give him-time | anonyenour there asking thi Bunday to get required witnesses ball playing 0 aN ped, ae —<—— adminnion The pol BALL PLAYER PAROLED. | co's Rot ewear that sherges, and) Magistrate ed Laarin until to to meni iy arrest d on hac Crane i ‘ SIXTH RACE Withe “0 4 up: one mile ndieap furl Alslke AS. Croame a Won by Advance 4 t. Finan was secot Almike, third en WEATHER FORECAST, Forecast for the thirty-six hours ending at 8 P.M. Tue day, for New York Clty jeinity—Partly cloudy to-night obably show- :| the girl were submitted to the Coro~ “|'phone. 1 RESTS WITH JURY, Testimony in the Brook and Lawyers Sum Up—Case Is Ad- journed Until To-Morrow. The prosecution announced shortly before 4 o'clock this af- ternoon that all the testimony liad been presented in the Wal- ter Brooks inquest. Foster L, Backus, attorney for Florence Burns, did not attempt to rebut any of the testimony, although he was given an oppor- tunity to do so, Both he and Assistant District - Attorney Schurman were permitted to ad- dyess the jury—an unusual pro- ceeding in a Coroner's inquest. In his address Mr. Backus talked a great deal about the identification of Florence Burns as Brooks's com- panion by the colored porter of the Glen Island Hotel. Not a Strong Cane. “George Washington was mis- taken,” said Mr. Backus. “There was s Inquest All Submitted a at 12.30, Thursday. So be there. B don’t want to come to the office fon your sake. Yours hastily. . FLORENCE, — P. 8. Proverbial woman, I hav@ something I think will please you immensely. Fr —_—-— SHAKES CASE AGAINST | FLORENCE BURNS, | Two remarkable changes were:made to-day in the testimony at the Wal- ter S. Rrooks inquest, Both go far toward breaking down the case i: against Florence Burns. . : ‘The first was made by Mrs. a 4 v! Brooks, the young man’s mother, Ag‘ the preliminary hearing she/said the | Burns girl was at her home:two anys after making the threat to:kill Wale | ter if he did not marry her. She told | Justice Mayer that Walter accompar a woman with Brooks in the hotel that night, but it was not Florence Burns, I think it unsafe to send any ‘/human being to the electric chalr on such evidence as has been pre- sented to you—a faulty identification and a dilapidated old comb. This evidence cannot satisfy you that it was Florence Burns who shot Walter Brooks in the Glen Island Hotel.” Assistant District-Attorney Schur- man, in his summing up, called at- tention to the circumstances attend- ing the last two weeks of the life of 0 | Walter Brooks, “It is apparent to us all,” said the Prosecutor, “that Florence Burns was jealous of Ruth Dunn, She said she was going to Detroit. That was a subterfuge, that she might get an interview with Walter Brooks on that afternoon of the shooting. Didn't she say, ‘if he ever leaves me rl kill him?’ Didn't she say, ‘Walter knows what I'll do?’ What would she do? Why, she carried a pistol and took good care to let it be known that she carried it.” After Mr. Schurman had conclud- ed his argument the Inquest was ad- journed untiJ to-morrow, when the Coroner will déliver his charge: —_.——_. GIRL’S LAST PLEAS TO WALER BROOKS. Last pleas of Florence Burns to Walter Brooks in letters written by ner’s jury this afternoon. They were declared by Expert Car- valho to be in the handwriting of Florence Burns, The letters read: Dear Walter: Call me up on the am sick and crying. am disconsolate, ‘Trusting you have been true I address you, Somebody has been telling mother something about you, I must hear from you, Yours, FLORENCE. Walter, Dear; Will call you up 1| ¥ nied the girl to church afterward, To-day she positively asserted om cross-examipation that Florenca Burns was not allowed to remain im the house after making the threat, The other change was made in the testimony of Dr, John V, Sweeney, | aud he shook the strongest in the case so far made againsts' Burns girl. He was called to attend | Walter Brooks at the time he was shot. He declared to-day that the comb which figures so in the case, and which hes been ree peatedly identified as belonging to Florence Burns, was not the one he saw in-the room at the Glen Island! Hotel where Brooks was shot. Thomas Brooks, father of Ws 4 testified that he had found tht g in the room where his son was shot. Not a Case of Suicide, Dr. Philip Van Buren Johnson, the Hudson Street Hospital, was to testify as to the condition of the wounds and their appearance. One important feature of Dr. Johns son's testimony was his statement, rex peatedly made, that there were no_ powder marks or staing around the exe, ternal region of the wound, The wite ~ ness aiso examined the hair in the Io cality of the wound for appearance of, powder burning. The hair was not singed in the slightest degree, tha” physician testified, i ‘Their absence, the prosecution come | tends, removes all suspicion that Walter Brooks committed sutcide. When Mrs. Brooks took the stand Mr. Backus questioned her about the muche discussed comb, which has become one of the mute witnesses in the remarkable Glen Isiand House tragedy. “When did you first see the comb?” “In November when Florence came te our nouse. I then had an opportunity of” ing and noticing the comb.” Didn't you tell Judge Mayer that 16) © was after the alleged threat made by 4 rence Burns that your son escorted ‘lorence to church?’ “If 1 did I don’t recall tt now.” “Didn't Florence remain in yous) house after shy made that threat?’ = “No; she could not stay in my house: | she made that threat.” J it not m fact that Florence Burns remained in your house twa 4 (Continued on ‘Third Page.) 200 TO 300 MEN KILLED / IN COAL MINE EXPLOSION, - ——_——_+t— Not Believed that Any Tennessee Colliery Can Escape. COAL CREBK, Tepn., May 19.— It is estimated that between 200 and 300 persons were killed to-day by an explosion in the Frateryille Coal Minea, two miles west of town, The occurred at 7.80 o'clock explosion this morning. Supt. George Camp states that he| in positive that 160 men were in the} mine and there may haye been from 260 to 800, This he cannot determine until further investigation is made, Only five have been taken from the mine.’ One of these is still alive but he will die. The known dead are: GEORGE ADKINS, mine foreman; head blown off. JAMES HIGHTOWER, ROBERT SMITH, Unknown negro laborer. Wiliam Morgan. an axed Englishman, of Those Entombed in jwho was a “roadman” in the miness wis blown out of the entrance and he Jwill die, He cannot speak, ' Soon after the explosion @ rescue party was organized and started in the mine, but was unable to go more thag — 5) yards on account of stifing amok is and extreme heat. Because of heat itis believed the mine ls burns working at a point three miles from the mouth of they) mine and this distance will have to Bey traversed to get to them, It is probable that falls of and siate have blocked much of the # nel, and progress will be delayed by cavations, Experlenced miners aay even If the entombed men are alive will more than likely dle fom the foots of fire damp before they gaa) ever, the force of the aime great hat tb te Tho victims we: ally ae Fully 1,00 grief-aurioken , children are assembled about tee of the mine, a+ aii