The evening world. Newspaper, January 29, 1903, Page 1

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Had the : and Italy to Share Revenues Equally on trial Getore Basorded Giolt for neglect fireman been in the cab with Engineer Davis, instead of in his pit fifteen Captain and Seven Men of duty for failing {o suppress the feet to the rear, and out of sight of the signals and the track, the Westfield Reported Killed on the (3 DISMISSED FROM POLICE Gen. Greene Makes the An- nouncement Just as Trial on Criminal Charge Is About to Go to Jury. DOF-299O90909 with Other Nations, and Develop- Webster Hotel in» East’ Fifteently street, and whose cage may go to a ‘i collision would not have occurred, s ments Ex ected. Ue’ Jury to-night, was disminged from exvucjSOnator Robert S. Hudspeth, of Hudson County, who represents the! Bark Veronica and Vessel P -- sivas the: Pallog, Bopaglioabt ¢hleatcersoon, section of New Jersey in which all of the State railroads terminate on the ; Then Set on Fire Piper for the same offense as alleged in WASHINGTON, Jan. 2%.—The Vene- earnest, and the conclusion reached, a } ‘ te touched | Stitted by: member of the committ the criminal action was closed Inst week. Hudson River, is preparing a bill which he will introduce at Trenton, to} Jauelan negutiations have approuched | wae that the United Biates should make|Comatlssioner Greene made the an- compel the railroad companies to eliher abolish this style of passenger en- | 0 eee | perilously near a breach, and the end Js G plain that w a Jionoe and Slenity, of] nouncement of dismissal, e maintained, an eep a loud: | not yet In sight 5 Capt, Gannon completed the testimony gines or employ on them assistants to the engineers who will keep a loun /POLICE HOLD SURVIVORS. Sta Ie ape ate eee von eve a an uisinocieat RilDw es ito in hiclaegsiivel tine etternoon at Bia trial out ahead, as well as the engineers themselves, | | . | she might assum before Recorder Goff. Capt. Gannon | << to Secretary of State Hay, and while | wanllanenfinithe notalvac ihe lelnaroe “There should be two men in the cab of every engine,” said the Sena-| LIVERPOOL, Jan. 2.—The British the refusal of Germany, England on! | VENEZUELAN BLOCKADE | the raid made by ‘Assistant District-At- tor to-day. “J am not concerned as to how the railroads remedy the situa-|*te’mer Brunswick, Capt. Brown, from | !taly to share NA ESOL te GC torney Sandford, but testified in hls own |Maranham, Brazil, arrived here to-day , Venezuela with other nations was not! MAY LAST INDEFINITELY. | tenair yesterday that he had gone there tion, but obviously it is criminal to intrust hundreds of lives to one man, | and landed five survivors of the British | discussed In a wholly official sense, It Is ate after he heard of the rald re bark Veronica, Capt. Shaw, from Ship | Significant that tt has been taken to the pees . p | who may be taken ill, insane, stricken with blindness or who may drop jyiung, Miss. Oct. %, for Montevideo, | State Department in any form. LONDON, Jan, 29.—Venezuela’s an-| Policemen Testify for Gannon, ) dead at any moment. who were picked up at sea by the] The ary and Mi: jswer to the powers’ latest communi-) Capt. Gannon put on the witness stand ‘Bess aongines are so built that only the engineer can look, Brunswick before arriving at Funchal. | Went over the collection of [al cei the joint roteirefubing 0 piace | #lx policemen, who #wore that they had = ie eporte ye ases of the bioc all claims on an dquality with those «| Peggived. 4 a head; the freman is away back in the rear, cut off from the view ahead and | 20 Men Teported that the Veronica / certain phases of the bi evidence against the place. with | Italy, jockade Is Mkely’ to | eigen arene Wngineers and firemen in general do not like the “hog” type of engine,| Shaw and seven of the steps to:acqualnt Frealt One said to-day that two men should always be in the engineer's Sab lec nassiuetiate eae gc Neen Ae et attae daanag at ahs nhe Veeeaucing: vitel po) om the heavy passenger trains. This engineer said that in his opinion ac-| The cook of the Veronica, a colored | le e ng that Mr. Bowen Lon sine ‘atich as a protest from ‘ome ee ras aHADHE ; 6 other powers, otlath - quick thought, he iment to Capt. brown woicn caused Bim | wy, nut jitetive opluion Bere) difers; regarding |/strent, And Cabt Gannon) wast S ghid, ‘for Sagineer Davis to bring his engine to a'atop in the distance be-| Cable to scotland Yard, will be necessary to enable him to meet} the outcot talking” to Lizzle Mack, the = pro- promoted by the York Board, He > publ e in mmand of When questioned here the fou the demands, Si te 3 open prictress. ‘tween the signal and the wreck, and it was possible that he might have! sald the Veronica was abund Two courses are open now to Mr. TWO ENGINES COLLIDE. 2 Mouse Was Notorious, ‘been doing something else at the time, and a loss of a few seconds in such | Ofer and’ as Bowen, and it will probably be for Presi- . It was alleged that this house wa. hy notoriously disorderly persistent efforts of ‘we, but They Escape Injury, | [aiied to gee sain ussenger trains from Erastina, in died or 4 instances means a collision. With two men in the cab, her, that Capt. Shaw and some | dent Castro to eleot whico he shall t0l-| Passengers Shaken Up i b, one could constantly | ofthe crew lett in one buat, and that | low. He may in his responss :o the! q BA ih “be on the lookout for signals. they (the men brougat here by the] other claimant nations than the Allies Brongwick the vark In boat und succeeded in rouching Caccuer | take the opportunity to inform the world 1 with a reliy engine at the st.] pyc’ toe, Place aay 4 ec, Cs , (that Veneguela yields to overpowering | © 1 " n HEWITT LEFT NO DICKEY NAMED FOR Which Uley subsieted: on i Force seid /tpabile: ane et cle tat ¢ the 8 Isl lami ett hich they subsisted of c 5 é ; ize station of the Staten Island | dismissal of the indictment against him and a small barrel of water. claims, ‘they, must reckon’ with the id 1 0 eo We 0. FS HIT ARG Ltr oR SAR Tr Kupid Transit Railroad to-day, tires Weeks ag Fe ae eritenie The train consisted ) coaches |. ‘Then the District-Agt up by the Brunswick, The other course {s for Mr. Bowen! and a smoking car-a . The cook, howe s mutinied and murdered the captain,{that he cannot come to a rea’ ' 1p | Colef officer and others and threatened | understanding with the Allies, bec! ad courts and at Ts e of Engineer Harry Quinn, col-|pesiect of duty fo s crowded | him on both cha was sald all | with men and women on their way to | along that the dela: dae to an at- , | their places of business in Manhattan, | tempt by the District-Attorney to The passengers Were considerably | Gannon to tell what knows of 1 » but no one was hurt, The} blackmail in the F Departme: shaken to kill him 1f he betrayed them. men ot the Veronica, were formally | therefore the case must to The| shop at Clifton, tors. :. rged with murdering seven of their! Hague tribunal for adjustment. as Will of the Former Mayor, Filed|Gov. Odell Appoints His Friend) *"»mstes. ; Venezuela's plightgat this moment ties in the fact that she is between two Bifires, The allies demand preferential treatment, while France and other creditors look to Venezuela for fair treatment, pointing out that to dis- criminate against their claims, when their attitude has been correct and even zy magnanimous, would not be fair treat- ' ment / Ky ‘for Probate To-Day, Gives All| as Commissioner to Succeed) " « Property to Relatives. Ashley W. Cole. NEW STORM COMING OUT OF THE WEST. ‘The will of Abram 8, Hewitt was filed (Rpeclal to The Eveaing World.) fin the ofMce of Surrogate Charles M.| ALBANY, Jan. 2.—Goy. Odell to-day Kina at Paterson, N. J., this afternoon. | sent to the Senate the appointment of ‘Mr. Hewitt's jegal residence was in|Joseph M. Dickey, of Crange County, to| Feather Bureau today from The following special weather IMensaye wan received at the toun! at, e Ger cl » Wa f Ringwood, Pompton Township, Passaic | 2? & member of the Bourd of Railroad | JWaxkinntons Agel Rarer eer RRR HAO Ariz Jan. 29,—The Coroner's jury impanelled to: | County, He makes no publlo bequests | Goiewiase term hod expieed ey Yi] B “Southwvent storm warnings Hl yo. Mi, Bowen this afternoon, He af TUCSON, Ariz. Jan, 29.—The jury Imp | @bany kind, The executors did not file| 1" WH inventory of the estate, 4 Phe will, which 1s a very brief one, egueaths to the widow, Sarah A referred to the Committee on} flure ordered displayed from Delaware Urcakwater to New Storm central from (crwards Was in conference with siz| day by Coroner Culver viewed the bodies of fourteen victims 0; | Michiel Herbert, the Bridish Ambaxsi-) yesterday's collision on the Southern Pacifis noar Valls station | dor and was later at the Siate Dopart- ada, the Governor in making the appoin' ment hos kept his promise to ickwy, } Gewiltt. all the household ef the geese Rollronaa c ment, where he Introduced the new @ household effects, pic- ena liroads Co e- military attache to Secretary Ha tures and other furnishings wherey 0 report favorably the r . Brisk to "rhe i The list of the dead is now placed at twenty-four. Other bodies are being taken from the ruins and it is.said, that while the number of dead thus far reported is twenty-four,’it is be- to and th of the last the Panther ode, which was pub- shed this morning they may be situated. All igo real es- ds wil prevail the Middle The Jabor organizations having fate In Pompton, the family seat at | representatives tn the Capitol aro als to have made applications for a hearing Gingwood, and the large holdings !1| Phe nomination will be reported favors Rockland and Orange counties, New! ably tomorow Serene ieved that the fatalities will number not less’ than thirty-five, ork. pao KaISER'S BLUFF WILL lieved that | i LDU of $10.00 of teonds of the Groene gon ¥ mone: : new Biate, Railroad - NOT BE TAKEN HERE. | The total injured, as far ast heard from, number forty-seven, establiwhed, and it is ordered that the pxequtora pay from this annually tol tina Arms, WEATHER FORECAST, WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—The Vener LATE RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS, aaa Ponsa ahd Gareh C, Cowan, | pen, prcmoled 10 Lit rank of Beoond Forecast for the thirt, I] uelan situation and especiadly the att!- ; aoe, , ! Giro Ganiowold Vooricos $00 a your io] Higitenant, He was thin only neventean || Mowre ending at # P.M, Wrtdny || ide of Germany war dinitnse? Anaire| _ Piflt’ Race—Chickadee 1, Saragamp 2; Eliza Dillon 3. is Hkewlse to come out| such as fo commend him high for Now York City and viel today, and the situation influenced the aoameemnmianadh adetmenenneenl he trust fund. Abram Hewitt Bouth-| superiors. He served in the y Cloudy with fog and occasional Bae Beets, as, haters Eke cae Sealed saat (ie rains (onnlght and. Pridagy ves the rene gee ing Friday and col which was the decision to accept the rt Hi fh idhavehien ait fontheatal inst equally’ between the "| aftalts In Newburg. to provision relating ‘0 transports! George Harcourt, the chief witness for. the Stale agains Howitt, Fate Cooker fewitt faa alt Haina 3 (Md Tee once oeanney tex... Philip Baer, W. P. Sawyer and Nathan and Morris Springer in Beara ert deena 0 Green, ©] Coming Seseien: i ties ine increase of slesticane iid cx "| the tax swindle case: went on the.etand this afternoon.and tes- rf porgeanta, and other! tified that head worked in the scheme. with the acoused, Ho did not answer when asked ff he had ever been indicted for grand larony, the Court dircting-him not.to do so. committee on some matters pertaining to the Army Appropriation bill, HARCOURT REVEALS SECRETS OF THE BIG TAX SWINDLE. ~ Magistrate Cornell closed the case after Harcourt’s testi- — mony, orig de : n until to-morrow, ae TMS Ta Fe FRO E was burned at sea Dec. 20, but the poli nd developments aro quite certain to, the rating powers, ts expected to] swore that the block on el | generally knows nothing about what 1s going on until he is told about it| have detained four of thear onsusplcion | follow. arrive here to-morrow. If Mr. Bowen) Wax located was made a special post and afterward. of having mutiifed and mu Mr. Bowen Is believed to have taken at Britzin Germany. ana t, Gannon Is a Republican, He} : to sub-\ not at the throttle at the time the awful collision occurred on Tues- or the} y went afier| the lookout for signals for possibly two or three minutes before he . p ‘After ‘an, investigation the four sea {Of thelr uncompromising attitude, and| relay engine was taken to the repair| with a view to getting at sume Inspec: | | of Westfeld as he flashed by, and then the red lights on the rear of the EFT THROTTLE AO DEATH RAN PAGUED GIGNALG. Engineer Davis, of the Philadelphia Flyer ’ that Crashed Into the Easton Express Tuesday Night, Was Not at His Post When the Dreadful Crash Came. He Had Turned His Back to the Throttle for the Couple of Minutes During Which His Train Flashed by the Warning Lights, and His Own and Twenty Other Lives Paid the Cost of This Slight Neglect of His Charge. Engineer Davis, of the Philadelphia flyer that crashed into the Easton Express, killing twenty persons, was absent from the throttle of the engine three minutes, during which time his train sped past all, the danger.signals that had been set to warn him to stop. Owing to the Construction of the mogul engine which ~ drew the train, the fireman was fifteen feet behin the point at which the engineer should save been'on watch, and consequently the train was thundering — along without any guiding hand or brain whatever. Engineer Davis, who was responsible for the terrible acci* dent, died to-day in the hospital at Plainfield. He made a confession admitting his absence from the post he should have occupied tay The Grand Jury of Union County was instructed to-day by the presiding Judge to remain in session until the responsibility for the tragedy should be fixed and tofind — indictments against every person in any way Tespon= sible. Funerals of the victims of the disaster will be held in Plain- field to-morrow, which will be observed there as a day of general mourning and prayer. W. G. Besler, Vice-President and General Manager of the Jersey Central Railroad, told an Evening World reporter to-day, ‘that he had information that cleared up positively the cause that led to the Westfield disaster, in which twenty-one lives were lost, Engineer Davis, who died in the hospital at Plainfield to-day, was day evening. His eyes were not on the rails ahead nor was he om went er | He was plunging along at the rate of a mile a minute, ‘As he returned to his post he suddenly caught the lights of Westfield, and in the next instant he saw the red bull’s-eyes of the Easton express. He jumped to his brakes, but it was too late, | THE DYING ENGINEER'S STORY. 2 This is Mr, Besler’s story: “We have information that in a etatement/“ made ty Engineer Davis to the county doctor at Westfield fs evidence that fits in closely with all that our investigation of the wreck has brought to light, and that positively confirms the stand we assumed yesterday, It | js what we have believed from the beginning to have led to the disaster, #) I have not seen the statement, which I understand 4s locked up in the ptt Coroner’s office, but our authority, which we cannot be expected to re veal, assures us of our eafety in accepting what I tell you as true, “pavis acknowldged before he died that he did not see any of the signals that he should have obeyed; that the first lights he saw were these ing into the Easton train, Easton express. He could do nothing then to save himself or his train, HE WAS BUSY ELSEWHERE ON THE ENGINE. “This statement to which I have referred, I am told, admits thet Davis did not have his eyes on the road ahead; that he was busy at something else as be went crashing along at sixty miles an hour to destruction, wt gecond’s glance from the rails ahead at that speed medns the elas ing of a long distance. Then think of what a minute would mean and (ean three minutes. Three miles! a “To have missed all the signals that were displayed we figure that: must have been that long that the unfortunate fellow must bave engaged somewhere else than on thé lookout. All the signals that set to prevent the horrible thing that ooourred were passed and were in the distance covered in that time, “Davis had descended from his seat in the cab window to § some matter that distracted bis attention from the signals,” “Do you mean to say, Mr, Besler, that an engineer baw, eat to get at mechanism that controls the move d ,) i