The evening world. Newspaper, November 4, 1902, Page 1

ELECTION | EXTRA No. 3 « _ PRICK ONE (CENT iy ‘ Circulation Books Open to All.”” | N w YORK, TWELY IN MADISON SQUAR So See ey y as ASONS fireworks Which Were to Be Used in Celebra- tion of the Election Results Were Set Off by Accident and the Terrible Disaster Re- sulted. Two Policemen and Six Boys Taken from the Scene Deae thers Receive Injuries Which Will Cause Their Death. Probably twelve The freworks were piled on the cast killed and forty injured by an ex- plosion of fireworks in Madison Square at 10 o'clock to-night. Scores of others were injured in the panic that ensued. Among the dead are Patrolinen Nicholas McGee and Dennis Shea, of the Oak strect station, and Will- iam H. Feenet, twelve years old, of No, 330 Fourth avenue. people — were side of Madison Square awaiting the time to set them off In the polltival cele- bration that was being held A great crowd of boys pressed around the place, and a squad of policemen tried in vain to keep them back. It is not known just how the explosion occurred, but {tis supposed that sparks from a bomb or a skyrocket set off in the Square or from the roof of the Fiat- fron Building dropped into the pile. “Tile explosion simply mowed down the Five other boys were killed. Three men lay dying in the street before the ambulances arrived. i Bquad, had his right leg blown off, and crowd standing around, Rockets and balls of fire through the alr fn every direction, whizzed The C Ray, & momber of the Health| 8TeAt mob In the square broke into a ante, Ambulinces were summoned from all sustained other injuries, that will probe ablvveause hikaeuth the hospitals in the lower end of the Joseph Kerrigan, of No. 25 Bast {ly . Twenty-third street, and Lorenzo Bige-| Vite alarms brought engines that created havos among the throngs on Jent!, of No, 330 East Thirty-ffth street, Broadway. An hour after the explosion the neigh- borhood for blocks around will die from thelr injuries. Charles Behan, of No. W4s8 Fifth ave- sa rg nue, was seriously injured MW'CULLAGH RAIDS AROUSE THE ANGER OF THE JUDGES, oto Courts Denounce Wholesale Arrests and Discharge Most of the Prisoners ---Leaders on Both Sides Exas- perated. turmoil, Superintendent cf Elections John McCullagh towered over the situation for a time to-day to such an extert that supporters of both Odell and Coier were driven to exasperation by his methods. Witkout the slightest reason in many cases his deputies seized would- be voters and haled them to court, where in nearly every case the victim was set free to go back and cast his ballot. More than two hundred and fifty of these arrests for absurd reasons were made up to 4 o'clock this afterngon when the courts, growing weary of it all, plainly intimated to the deputies that moro care for the liberty of the citizen must be shown, The arrests averaged about twenty-five an hour. About 99 per cent. of them were discharged when arraigned in police court. Still the Super- intendent kept giving out exciting interviews at his Broadway headquarters. Owing to occasional misunderstandings between the police and Me- Cullagh’s deputies, Deputy Police Commissioner Piper called at McCullagh’s office this afternoon and had a conference. The letter of McCullagh to Commissioner Partridge was gone over with a view to elucidating some misunderstood points, The conference was entirely amicable, A McCullagh deputy arrested a voter in the polling place at No. 144 Forsyth street, which is the Twelfth Election District of the Eighth As- sembly District, ‘his afternoon. and when he appeared on the street with him agrowd of several hundred men attacked him and took his prisoner from him. 4 dst The deputy had just left the polling place and was calling a . policeman | to turn his prisoner over to Him, when the crowd made the attack, In the fight the deputy was severely beaten. Tho prisoner was rescued and taken down the strect by the crowd, Order's were isgued by the nollco for bis May Break Even. In every Stats electing Congressmen to-day the contests were hard fought and the Democrats claim gains all along the line, Reports from various centres seem (o Indicate that the claim of Chairman J. M. Griggs of the Democratle Congres- stonal Committee In Washington, that the Republicans with lose control ts rather well founded. While the claim of 2% majority made by the Democrats may not be fuldtted. the results, the campaign managers sald tls evening, were wholly watt tory. Republicans, while admitting losses, say they will not count, and that the big working majority will hold. New Jersey Democrats say they have probably elected flve Congressmen, «nd the figures In this State seem to point to a Republican loss. Conservatives were inclined to think that the two partles would about break even, Every State In the Union except Maine Vermont and Oregon, held an election to-day. Congressmen were chosen in all; Governors and other Stato officers in twenty-two; minor State officers or judges in eleven. ———_. RECORD IN PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 4.—Reports from the §tate {ndicate that an un- usually heavy vote was polled the country districts, ‘This is particu- lnrly the case with the Democratic vote, *|more upathy being shown by the Re- pubiicans than by their opponents. eee VOTING IN MASSACHUSETTS. BOSTON, Mass. Nov, 4.—Farly ‘re- ports from various seclons showed that the vote at the opening of the polls was at the polis continued strong and there were prospects that the total would °¢, high, n Boston. a damp, forsy are wane discouraging feature, but by § o'clock. the eon had burned dit the the weather was beautiful, Wi! fins, very heayy registration. and ‘Congressional contests in three districts In the ¢l as Well as a deep interest on the local option Ixeue, Boston is expected to cast a heavy vot WORCESTE) Nov. the new law, Ww ives voters work: NS “in” inanutacturing establishments until & o'clock to, vote, a tremendous vote came out in the early houns of the day. In some precincts more than half and in one or two cases two-thirds of the total vote of the precinct had been cage at § o'clock Sass. 4.—Under aa | 1OWA VOTERS STAY AT HOME. | DES MOINES, Ia., Nov. 4—A perfeot | Tndian summer day prevaiis (hroughout ‘Towa to-day, but party leaders com- plained of the Inability to arouse the voters and get them to the polls, Chief interest le centred In the outcome of the ‘ongresstonal contest In the Second. Din- now represented by Speaker Hen- withdrew from the fight Ex-Gov. Boles Is. the Demo- nomin derson, who this year, rath —_— SPLIT TICKETS IN MICHIGAN. DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 4.—Election day dawned dark and threatening. Af- ‘CONGRESSIONIL GAINS CLAIMED BY DEMOCRATS. Republicans Dispute the Estimate of a Possible Majority in the House and Conservatives Think the Two Parties - | Completely in] 0! ter 9 o'clock, howaver, it clanred some. what. ‘The vollx were opened at 7 oelock and a guod-aized early vote wak cast, Many Uckets were split and cut, judg- ing from the length of time the vote%s spent In the booths. —_—_ FIGHT IN DELAWARE. DOVER, Del, No weather greeted the voters In this Brace at the time the polls were opened to- day. The tight for Congress was almost overshadowed by the hot battle for members of the Legialature, who will have the selection of, two United States Senators. Tn some sections tho regular Republl- cans and Democrata worked to- wether against the Addicks or Union Republicans. This ts _notabl: Washington, whore the Demoera have indorsed several regular Re} legislative candidates nae i ——. ILLINOIS CONGRESS FIGHT. | CHICAGO, Nov. 4.—Notwithstanding a drizzling rain, early conditions indicated a heavy vote all over the city. The chief interest centred in Congressman Lori- ee district, where rere. effort was to met out a record v mane election Commissioners: were busy soon after the polls opened wit! brought to them for najudioation, ‘There was much evidence of split tlok- ets reported by watchers throug! read clty, especially on candidates for 4 oto ices. The polis will close at a ACTIVE IN RHODE ISLAND. PROVIDENCE, R, I, Nov. revered with bright, crisp autumn weath: Voters turned out ear! elties unusual activi iy armen te all along the lin —_—_— MISSOURI POLLS Rptcbedcdal eat os . NEW HAMPSHIRE'S VOTE. CONCORD, N. H., weather assure: Hampshire to-di vote came out early. It we pare from comment at ‘the poll at the tickets of both parties were being cut adly. —_———- BOTH ‘LAIM CALIFORNIA, SAN FRA SCISCO, Nov. 4—A heavy vote approximating 300,000 will be cast in California. Both parties are confi- dent, Gacy claiming the State b: 15,000 to 20,000, yi —_—>— BIG GENTILE VOTE IN UTAH. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Nov. 4.— of, Salt Lake east-side precincts, bere the Gentiles predominate. Much Scratching wax. belbg done, espectally on the legislative tickets. Weather clear aud a heavy vote Is expected. re GEORGIA ELECTS SENATOR. ATLANTA,, Ga., Nov. 4.—The Georgia Legisia In Jolnt, session to-day re- elected | States Senator Atexander | 8. Clay for the ful term-of alx years, | Senator Clay received 171 votes and Walter Johiison, of Atlanta, Republl- | ean, 4. = | | BROADWAY NOISY OVER BULLETINS. Thousands Surged Up and Down the Incandescent Aisle of the Town and Made Things Hum. Early In the evening, Broadway, Twenty-third to Forty-second | was filled with a how! of election celebratore, to the White Light District early, bent upon making as much nolse and absorl- Ing as much exe { as possible. busy, and there clashes, but none resuite! | The police were disposed to from street, They had gone serlously. treat the enthuslasis lentently and to crowdy all were in good humor. An i-temp ‘ed motonnan on a wall to building wall, only make siow progr on a downtown car trled ta force h way through the crowd, and swore at the moo which blocked his way. ‘He was jeered, and some of the more 4 tlous ones gathered up bits of wood and refuse from nearby butidings and toveed them at the car, A squad of police went to the metorma: aid and suce Jed in dviving off his assallants, No arrests vere anade, x to the wan ae mporary wooden % tions, where now nee 3 construction, poitte had diMeutty In keepin \them clear of The persons t the temporary. structures, desplie the risk to life and | an fort Nezlected. on shy Peansy: in “pauhipastiy #, cheering mod) way car came near belng mob having his car wreeked at ‘Phirty-s sth | street and Broadway; shortly atter 7 o'clock, The street was jammed from build sisteT in getting on, Ph UP-STATE CITIES VOTED FOR COLER, Buffalo. Oswego and Other Re-. publican Strongholds Wiped Out Former Odell Advantage. | In the disputed ground up-State, where the Democrate helped to reduce the Rreat majorities that Odeil brought vd to the Bronx two years no, the [ie factional fights within the Repub- Hoan Yanks showed plainty in the early returns thdt Coler was provadly elec Governor. Complete returns ftom Buftalo showed | Odel.’s Note to be 28,057, as against 9.312, or Colfer, | In Ithaca votes Oswego, the home of t ) candidate for Lieutenant-Governor, gave jJudge Bulger 2881, while Higting, his | but 1.724, with corre- for the heads of .the the Republicans lost 4 | Democratic | fe plurallties fe, With the | the Repu: fy making the Cou: (For Supreme Court vomplete Rives juat Rogers es Oswego | S83, Dae complete gives] ‘i * from districts, dried show Od Il will carr; Unga on by only 8 ant Ladies’ Mrids on the Peo Sireetal, One: nf the mont Pyda. tras aie pecial ie tae maid, by lady patrona. TU ESDAY. about 800. LATEST RETURN iS MAY BEEN HAVE — KILLE Tie list of dead in the firewor' to-night now numbers fifteen. Josaph Rocco. of N i First stieet, ks exolosion in Madison Square 511 First street. Hoboken; Joseph Ar |Color’s Plurality in Greater New York Will and James Landari- of No. 288 So far as is known five boys and ten men, two of them po- licemen, were blown to pieces Inspector Brooks says the carelessness and threatens to responsible. DEMOCRATS CONCED practically. explosion was due to criminal arrest all persons in an Reseed E ODELL’S ELECTION. Democratic leaders at head callers privately that Coler wa’ tually conceded the election of To a representative of the Associated Press Elliott Danforth | 124,000. said that the returns up to 19 able to the Republicans. Secretary Mason, of the Democratic State Committee, said | ana nis deteat would have been sure had the same -atios followed. , that whi'e the outlook was wo to concede the election of Odell quarters at 11 o’clock informed aie defeated. They vir- el o'clock were much more favor- rse for Coler he was not ready I. BROOKLYN BOOMED COLER WITH 28,000 MAJORITY. Lieut.-Gov. Woodruff and His Aides! Fell Into the Dumps as the Demo- cratic Figures Jumped by .Thou- sands and Predictions Were Verified. ‘The first returns In Brooklyn Republicans an awful shock, and the Democratic managers were correspond- ingly happy. At first it looked as though Coler would carry the city by a regular Manhattan Democratic majority. Lieut.-Gov, Woodruff got xo down in the dumps that he telephoned to the Re- publican headquarters, in the FYfth Avenue Hotel that t unty had gone | Demorratic by 40,000, After a little while the light began to pra for the Republicans. The sta sticians In the different headquarter: teito were busy figuring on averages saw an Indicated plurality of 30,000 fade to about 10,000, and the rata tiaoniag hastened to withdraw thelr confrs that there would be anything Ike Fy jagainst them, Then the plurality went up to 14,000, and agiln there was a slump back to about 12,00. By and by there was another strong turn the other w and the Indic plurality of Coler Jumped suddenly to 3 ———_—__—+ ++ 'e the 26,000. ‘Then the hearts of the Demo- cratic managers leaped for joy, for they saw their man elected, and the hearts of the Republicans went down Jato their boots, When there were reports from 270 ds- tricts out of 628 in the city, giving Odell 40,920 and Coler 55,256, indicating a plu- rality of 26,000, Lieut.-Gov, Woodruff re- vised his figures of 17,600, which he had put as the outside limit, and admitted that Coler would have at least 2,000. a total of afanaste Sceitet G2 aStians Coler 63,653—an absolute plurality of 16,706. This was too much for the Re- publicans and they practically wave ‘orse came with every bulletin. ndred and eighty districts gave and Coler 78.182, a plurality from. y election dls- Coler s.138—— of 19,981, with 148 districts to hea: Four hundred and t! tricta gave Odell foie plurality of 21, Four hundred '@ Odell 69,137, Coler B31. ‘As the Mnal figures came li Democrats and Republicans counted Coler’s) ma- jority: over Odelk 25,000 ERIE COUNTY REPUBLICAN, BUT ey REDUCED VOTE BUFFALO, Nov. 4 hundred in this city give Coler, Coler’s majorii The normal Repur The indications are One : Ove no mglority therefore The vote In 105 disteicts 27480; Coley, 28,452 JUSTICE STECKLER WAS DEFEATED. ea v-atead of his tis ie “handicap of the bg, Democr that Ode. TS iu the elty of Buifate i nd five election districts out of 10s, 480, fs 1,800 county nu the towns of will he carry Oui, y way from, Gov. Odell appears to have carried the State by not less’ than fifty election dis- | hy ,|Coler haa carried Kings by ‘12 000: oe Governor Will Come Down to the Bronx with 135,000---This Figure Based on Reports from More Than Half the State Outside Greater New York. in the Neighborhood of 124,000--Eark Returns from Up the State Seemed to Indis cate Coler’s Election, But Odell’s Pluralitie Grew Up State. With more than half the State outside of Greater New York It may be larger. As this edition goes to press (11 o'clock) reports from 1,739 d have been received, giving Odell a plurality of 79,144, or an al plurality of 45 to a district. If this ratio be preserved, as seems pro Odell wil) come down to the Bronx by 136,000 and more. With Greater New York practically complete, Coler receives Early reports from up the State seemed to little or no doubt of Coler election. With 600 districts heard from Odell’s vote fell off su : But later returns brought gains for Odell as surprising as the losses. The result in‘the State is close. Barly returns from up the coupled with big Coler gains in New York and Kings, .eemed to leaye aoubt of Colér’éwlection by a comparatively big majority. a With less than one hundred districts in the Greater City to be from as this extra goés to press, Coler will probably carry it by 110,000, This allows for nearly 28,000 in Kings County. The county of Queens go Democratic by more than 4,000, while Richmond remains in the Democi column by a. plurality of 2,000, Late returns for the Western and Southwestern tier counties © ‘sricts to be heard frofi would give Odell the State by possibly 10,000, | State Is close. The result hinges on the returns to be heard from. At 9 o'clock to-night Miliot Danforth, former Chairman of the Der cratic State Committee, said that the returns received indicated that G would carry Greater New York ‘by 120,000. He clatmed that Coler elected Governor by 20,000. _A statement given out at the Republican headquarters said that returns received indicated that Odell was gaining in the up-State cities that the returns from the country districts were coming in slowly, ft that Odell was gaining and would win by from 15,00 to 20,009. BIG VOTE NOT SURPRISING. The big vote for Coler in New York City was not surprising to Democratic politicians, but. the slump in the Odell vote up-State aston! net them. Precinct after precinct came in with returns showing that ae) publicans were neglecting to vote for their candidate. Considering. there was a Presidential election two years ago, some shrinkage of # Odell vote was expected, but in some—in fact a great many—instances, figured as high as 50 per cent, At the same time Mr. Coler’s vote, as compared with that of Mr. field, fell off on an average of about 20 per cent.. As the returns the effect of the continual dwarfing of the Republican vote became | and more apparent. BIG DEMOCRATIC FIGURES. When the returns began coming into the Kings County D | headquarters the leaders became jubilant. They figured that Coler running thirty per cent. ahead of Van Wyk’'s vote in 1898, and at o'clock, after a conference, they estimated that his plurality would | nearly 40,000. \ At the Republican headquarters there was intense gloom. Lieut-G Woodruff received a telephone message from Chairman Dunn at the Avenue Hotel that he must keep Coler down to 15,000 in Kings, ssage he sent back was that he was afraid it would go to 30,000, As the districts further from the heart of the town came in Mr. chs was greatly cheered. When 190 distriots were in he figured | piurality of onty 12.000 for Coler. He imuiediately telephoned to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, agai first discouraging bulletin. Ther he said to an Evening World reporter; “At the outside, Coler cacnot get more than 17,500, I gave fi | this before election, and Tm sure that he will not go over it. At pi jooks as though he would not get more than 12,000," Whe word had beer received from 200 precincts, ft looked as more than 20,000, YOU CAN’T LOSE DEVERY. The telophone bell rang In Tammany Hall to-night. “Hey, there, you frozen lobsters, is that Tammany Hall?” “gure!” Well, this is Devery—Bill Devery.” “What dye want?” "Say, I've elected Butler to (n> Assembly by a great *' everybody to have a drink on me. Just send the bill to me, |