The evening world. Newspaper, January 30, 1903, Page 2

INFIELD FOLLOWS 1 “TOTHEGHN ~ Crowds of Mourners at Fu- neral of Wreck Victims ~$o Great that Churches, Will Not Hold Them. ; * CEREMONIES CONTINUOUS. aa ~ One More of the Injured Is Dead “and Local Authorities Seek _ to Put Blame for Accident on | . Railroad Officials. sadder, more miserable day never ie to Plainfield, N. J., than that th dawned to-day. Twenty graves ped in the city cemetery, and the es of twenty victims of Tuesday's KK lay in as many homes, waiting the last rites of love and religion. that Miller had sound. One Mo turned up safe al © Vietim Dead, here were funeral services for elgnt | The death which W. B. Clark prayed | ea | {2 all day yesterday In the Muhien- Ing the day and four will be buried |ijre Hospital came to him to-day and | relleved him of the awful suffering he had been enduring since he was caught In the wreckage. Both his legs were so badly crushed that they had to be am- putated at the hospital. The poor fe! lnw knew that there was no hope f his recovery and he begged the doctors to put him out of his misery. His wife was with him up to the end, and his pleadinga to her to have merey on him and let him rest In death were #0 night. om the staff of the City Hall 4 the flag at half-mast, the only blem of public mourning. There was need for more. Griet held every usehold in its grasp and almost every ‘eet had somewhere on it the black of death to mark it with outward N one worked. No one left Plainfield ENGINEER THE WORLD: FRIDAY’ EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1903. @ | New York. ‘The day was given over | Mtifully heart-rending that the sir} seaeceane Morrow, to the rad duty of burying | £028 even lost contro! of themacl Bake dead. By proclamation of Mayor|!!!8 death was really a blesstr straight track there, At about Cranford © Ggnkine all business had ceased and the] Cn'y to himself, but to all th injector became::troublesome andy] We aala activity was among the handlers of | Nat suffered mentally in his gr kot down with a monkey wrench to try gad sical anguish, Clark lived at 3 to fix It, as steam was escaping badly. ¥ cota Crescent avenye, Plainfield. He We were dashing alone at fully fifty 4, AM Bat One of PI id. iT i be children. miles an hour. Probably we had cov- t'so happened that of all the vic-| Efforts of Jersey Central officials tolered more ground than 1 thought whl Who died in the wreck but one|Place all the blame for the Westfeld {1 was down trying to fx the thing up. in - Plainfield, and that was{(isaster on Snginecr Davis, of the Phila- | We passed Cranford all right ‘the © man whose neglect caused|deiphia flyer, will be combated by 1 managed to check the trouble a the awfui accident. The body of En-| Prosecutor Nic! J English, Off jittte, Tutan's » nything wrong with gineer Davis was taken to Philadel-| Union County, J the sig though 1 could not see phia yesterday for interment there,] A conference was held this afternoon | much anyway on a nt of the steam. between Prosecutor English. Assistant Prosecutor J. K, English and Chief of Pollce Kiely, of Plainfield, at Elizabeth, to determine whether to make public the dying statement made by Engineer Davia to the Chief in the presence of Assistant Prosecutor Blatz, It was de- cided to withhold the statement until Tuesday, when the Coroner's inquest will take place. Why Statement In Withheld. When the prosecutor was asked why the statement was withheld he said “It might defeat the ends of Justice to make ft pulble now.” “Do you mean by that that some one > leaving all those to whom his carele nigas brought such sudden and horrible » death to lle together in the community recklessly if unknowingly robbed by im. to fo the number of victims and tWe fewnees of the churches in Plainfeld WAS not possible to hold all the jeraln at the same hour, and so it ranged that most of them ehould one after the other during the and evening. uch a@ surfeit of sorrow few com- nities have been called upon to suffer, the horror of the wreck itself with burning and bloody maiming, fol- d the strain of identifying the i nd disfigured victims, the | 9) be arrested?” uraing ‘over them in thelr closed| ‘“fhat remains to be seen. Any aotion ne, for none might look on the| ta! may be taken will depend upon fred faces and figures, and now| What develops at Tuesday's hearing.” | fea the funeral in the rain and fog,| ft English refused to vay If the statement attributed to Davis by Gen wuith each person in the town to follow the graveside mourning the loss of a tive or a friend. felatives of the dead came from other chise to be present at the ceremonies and so swelled the total of the town's ners, Many will remain here over lay, when there will be memorial eral Manager Bessler to the effect that the engineer was his post when he passed the signals disagreed with the statement obtained from Davis by Chief Kiely Tle was asked this qesstion because it has been asserted that Davis was busy not a services in all the churches, fixing a broken injector In his engine £ when he passed th signals and that , Several Fe rele 'To-Morrow. therefore the condition of the engine he funerals of several of the vi--} was indirectly responsible for the ac Swill not be held until to-morrow or} geni, ‘The impression exists in Plain- inday. Three were buried this morn-| yea that the authorities are moving ing. ‘They were Edward Flynn, services| qward fastening responsibitity for the tor whom were held at 10 o'clock In St aceldent o1 the rallroad officials: Mary's Church; Roland Chandor, at) One important step which the County He the, home of his mother in Hast} prosecutor will take to uncover th 5) Ninth street, and Hy L. Mahon, for! weakness of the railroad’s case will jom services were held in his late | ry demand the presence at the Coro Inquest of the train despatcher whose} de The body was then taken to Tren- ) for interment. Mr. Flynn's funeral so crowded the church that hundreds who wanted to gét inside could not and so stood out in the rain all during the solemn high mass. Father gan, who preached the ‘séxmon, referred to the terrible accident, put refrained from making any criticism the railroad, here were .hatmple services over les 1. Thayer, of Watchung BehGe, buperintendent of the American press Cohmpany. (Rex. Dr, Willlam Richards, pastor of the Brick furch, New York, read a short form asi No. 211 East Fifth street, Plain- at Cranford, clear faied to reach Davis The Warning That Never Came, nsibility rested vpon Davis A message was rushed for orders, but > resp up to that point to him there to walt {t did not reach him in time, He had reason to Melieve then that he had a clear stretch of track, and as the road's ‘{netructions are to make up time after passing Cranford, Davis crowded on steam and plunged ahead at a mile a minute gait. The statement of General Supt. Besler, that Davis ran past seven danger #lg- op-burial service, Slight ce WAS) yalg, Ix not borne out by investigagion de to, the disaster wae NO} stattonman Joha x Cranford. alo." excepting a tenor s Nearer]admits he did not hear from the de- God to T nung Blmer B.|epatcher's office in time to flag Davis for Khnyon, The remains were taken tol orders. He could not get the station Buffalo, N. Y., this evening for inter-| agent in Westfeld by telegraph in time nt to have the warning given there, Neither ralg Waldron was buried from bis|did the train run by @ danger wxnal at It jw further claimed that no t back from the Eas | Garwood. jate home at No, 287 East Fifth street, | brakeman w be) early in the afternoon, The officiating ; , “ae men were Rey. Dr. Louls aid | {On express to Wave a danger signa: ers? |The brakeman o {the train, after being Rev. Dr. Yerkes, of the First Baptiat @hurch, He was interred in the Baptist Cemotery. ioe" R. W. Happerseit was buried at Hill- Palde-after a brief service at his lite . No. 922 Putnam avenye. as ; interviewed has disappeared. Why This se by the road officials, reoyt It te significant (hat the ante-mortem (i statement of Davis, which Chief of mee suneral of Harry A. Rogers wes | rates Kleley, of Plainfeld, is guarding ermenganzipm afternoon from the | to carefully from the public, Ww not une Pines Maran, 06 No a ast #100) TSN acomenty used pone era amet will be buried in Trenton. Serv- superintendent Besler, who sald that, for OOF his remains were held during’ oovious reasons, he could not state his wing, with Rev, Drs. irekine. | source of Information, alleged that Ly Rey, Evicar stevenson, Of | Davis had left his post and therefore Eplacopai Church, in charge, | ran by seven warning signals funerals will take place | What Bupt, Besler! did not give ont orrow and Bunda, was the reason why Engineer Dayis lett pralv of Vrederick Smith. |nis Inokout pos pilett, John C. Currie and Fred | ‘This valuable Information is furnisinnd ay be held to-night. by County Phyelclan Westcott, who #e- 0 Cuming takes | cured a slatement fyom the dying en- on; Hervey \. |gineey after the later bad made a night, and Herold | statement before #| notary to Police I did not see th all, When I got lights at Westfleld at ck on my seat 1 was the danger light, and eT could hardiy realize it, 1 tali lights of the local plump ahead of me. 1 reversed and jammed the brakes, ut lt was no use, and w smaxhed {nts her?" Dr, Westcott also enia Fireman Me: Carthy had sald he really could not aay much about Dayis's whereabouts on the run, Thelr engine was a blg humped- buck machine of the mogul type, the fireman's post being pehind this “hump,” leaving the engincer aione In the cab. He knew at Cranford the signals showed a clear rvack tor them, It was not clear night and the steam swirled around thelr heads so that he could not tell much what Davis was doing. Won't Be Turned Ande. Nicholas C. J. English, the Prosecutor of Pleas of Union ( speaking In decisive tones, suld saw ‘From statements have beon made to me I am satisfed that we are to meet with great hostility on the part CAMEL-BACK ENGINE IN’ WHICH FIREMAN AND ARE TOO FAR APART FOR SAFETY ODODDODOH9-05-O0090-9E OOO 4 4 OHODPH-H-3-O2 I believe that Htate the oficial in fair, Tam afraid Hroads: ed to fav 1 of this Ju said: “Prosecutor — English Bunting and I conferre nearly 4 o'clock at Mr. English’s offiee. We are going to make a most search- In Investigation, no matter how long it takes. We shal) fix the responstbiltty If that is possible.” a Mayor Henry M. Doremus, of New- ark, to-day sent telegrams of sym- pathy to the Mayors of Plainfield and North Plainfield, In, which he referred to the disaster of Thesday nizitt NEW YORK HERALD SUPPORTS WORLD’S FIGHT. and Coroner from 2 until Criminal, It Traine with One Man in Cab. In any event, It Ia little short of crimt- nal to run a train at a speed of a mile a minute with only one man In the cab and not even the fireman In touch with him. Suppose the engine driver Is taken {11 or drops dead at the throttle? Even when he seems in normal health are the lives of hundreds of persons to be risked on the condition of thts one man's liver or of his sight or his nodding for a moment? ‘The causes of this catastrophe should be relentlessly probed and brought to Nght, What ts already known proves that the unfortunate engine driver alone was not responsible and that a reform of methods on the ratlway Is impera- tlve.—From to-day's New York Herald, GANNON CURSES THE JURYMEN. (Continued from First Page.) Hlearn all I can about this man’s record before imposing sentence. But there #\ is one thing that 1 want to call your attention to, gentlemen of the bar. “L want to call to your attention the testimony of a certain police officer belated warning that the track was Hot) toy the defense who swore that he and other officers had gathered evidence relating 10 this Webster Hotel, which they had submitted to Magistrate Mayo, who had thrown tt out of court as worthless. Magistrate Mayo tells me that he never did any such thing, and I be- lieve him and not this evidence of those police officers. sentence on this prisoner until Monday.’ When the deputy sheriff came to lead Gannon back to his cell in the Tombs the convicted man was still boiling over with rage, and turned again toward the jury and snarled; “You blackguards and dogs!" Then, as he passed the desk where the newspaper men were sitting, he snapped out: behalf. this in @ measure, GA) Recorder committed to the Tombs of them were for conviction E Ohiel Kieley. ne. Weatcott's statement is a8 fol- lows: “When I saw Davis he was quite ra He said: ‘We were about iwo J om ow ye a We ARs and tho selling of offices, minor Vous not a dotier tthe y. You're a lot of brutes, cowards and cads!" Then, still growling like an ugly dog, he was led into the narrow little corridor that connects the court-room with the Bridge of Sighs. When the defense closed its case last night and after the Court charged the jury there was a general belief among the old court attaches who have attended the various police trials prosecuted by District-Attorney Jerome that there was no hope for an acquittal of the accused, despite the fact that the assistant prosecuting officer had made out none too strong a case, opinion became confirmed when Gannon went on the stand in his own After he had testified even his own counsel was forced to confess that ho had made a very poor witness, as the jury could hardly accept his belig- erent attitude as consistent with the bearing of an innocent man, the strange act of Commissioner Greene in dismissing him from the police force while his trial on a criminal charge was in progress might account for ‘NON IN THE TOMBS, At eleven o'clock last night, after being out nearly six hours, the jury reported to Recorder Goff that it had been unable to reach @ verdict. The then ordered that it be locked up for the night and Gannon was | When the jurors went to breakfast at eight o'clock this morning it was reperted that they were sull unable to agree, though the majority:| Capt. Gannon ts fifty years old, and has been on the force since May 8, 1878. His appointment as captain came Dee. 27, 1900, during the last days of the York administration, when there were mavy stories afloat of bribery Gannon's appoiniment was atuributed to Jake Hess, Eighteen Captaius were made at that time, and this was the only one Hess got. At Police Headquarters this morning there was consternation among tho at the news of Gannon’s conviction, His world and that be is heavily I will postpone This Of course, NATIONS TOON | ACANST ALLE Plan to Have the United States, France and Other Countries” Unite to Force Settlement of Venezuela Troubles. i |NOTICE SENT TO ENGLAND.” Minister Bowen Gives His Views to British Ambassador, Who Com- municates with His Government | —Division of Revenues the Hitch. | e British) blegram ight} WASHINGTON, Ambassador has to Lord Lansdown 30, a long o: stating what m Jan be expeoted In case Great Britain and! her two aliles insisted on the preferen- reatment for the blockadiag Pow- he text of th cable; m cannot publisned, but it Informed the Foreign Office that Minister vent of a refusal of his proposition, | Poult the Atatives of other claamant Powers in Wash-] Bowen, in} m oy ngton and state to them that Venezuela! was being forced by the tripple a ree | to yleld toa plan whieh would seriously: affect the interests of France, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Holland and tho United States When this step is taken it is expected that France will make representations Jat once to London, Berlin and Rome protesting against any | ence with the previous arrangement she has made of | with Venezuela for the setlement claims. ance may he joined In this protest the other claimant mations: hore {a reason to believe that the French Government already has sound- ed the United States Government to learn how much {n common there may | be hebween thelr Interests in Venez It ts sald that there Is a strong re- semblance between the claims of the two nations, perhaps enough to lnk} them together in resistance to any pol icy on the part of the allies which would tend to destroy or impair those ests, For ‘hstanee, the United States through a regular tribunal, the Veneza | elan claims Commission, has secured | judgment against Venezuela for a con siderable sum of money, which Vene ela has been paying In instalments, cently these payments have been de layed, and as the mone: comes In large | part from the Venezuelan customs te United States may have very good Ira! right to protest against any conduct on | the part of, the allles which will pr meeting Its ob} Re Vent Its debtor from gations to the United States france, by treaty snd negotiations has secured what amounts to a Judg- ment) against Venezuela, and she claims that her, debtor must not be destroyed. or Venezuela's means of meeting her payments to France im- paired, as will be the case by the adoption of the preferential treatment demanded by the allies. These conditions are tending to draw France and the United States together In a policy that Is Hkely to take Issue with that of the allies, —— CABINET ON VENEZUELA. Action in Congress for Strength ening Coast Defenses Approved. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Questions relating to Venezuela were considered at the Cabinet meeting to-day, and the action taken In Congress for (he strengthening of the coast defense fort!- fleations and the Improvement of tho aval and military establishments gen- erally was referred to and cordially ag- proved Tt Is made clear that the United States is not expecting and is not looking for trouble, but the Administration 1s de- termined not to be unprepared for any | situation that may arise. ———— GREAT PLAZA FOR NEW BRIO Board of Estimate Votes for a Beautiful Approach to Will- iamsburg Structure, to Cost $3,727,500. TO WIDEN DELANCEY STREET ‘The cost of widening Delancey street | from Clinton to the Bowery to provide a suitable broad appraoch to the new | Witiamaburg Bridge will, accerding to figures submitted to-day to the Board of Estimate and Apporttonment by En-| gineer Nelson iP. Lewis, be $1,864,500. These @gures are based on last year's Assessment of Delancey street property. If the proposed broad plaza at the ‘bridge entrance Js determined upon the coat, in addition to the wilening of De- lancey street on the south side, will cont $3,727,600, "his the board voted to- day, lancey street across the Bowery and 6 a street elghty feet wide through perty west of the Bowery h to dilm street The board will not favor the plan to create a diagonal street from Cooper Union to the new bridge approach. \ resolution was adopted requesting the Chief Inver to provide estimates of the coat of widening the east side of Suffolk and the weet side of Clinton streets, from Houston street (o Bast Bpoadway, in conjunction with the widening of Delancey street, sburg Comnetl Passes Wabash Ordinance, PITTOBURG, Jan. %-—The Wabash ahead, and generally knows It was also decided to continue De-| SENATOR HUDSPETH WILL FIGHT FOR LAW FOR TWO IN ENGINE CABS. MY nae Ni ROBERT S. HUDSPETH Senator Robert S. Hudspeth, of Jersey City, is drawing a bill which will compel all New Jersey railroads to employ two men in the cab of every locomotive engine and will fight for it at Trenton, He hopes to prevent in the future such accidents as that which happened at Plain- field this week. DEMAND THIRD MAN IN ENGINE. (Continued from First Page.) nothing about what is going on until he is told about it afterward.” AFTER THE CAR STOVES, TOO. Senator Hudspeth said he intended to include in the bill a clause relating to the heating apparatus to be used on passenger trains. He proposes to compel the railroads to use such means for heating cars as wili prevent conflagration in case of collision or accident In his opinion electre heating is the safest. Said a Central Railroad, engineer when seen in the station at Communipaw: “ye have been fighting for the assistance of a third man on the ‘Wooten’ firebox engines for a number of years. There are times when an engineer's attention Is attracted from the look-out, Thos? are often the times when an accident will occur, The assistant could prevent any accident happening, Then again, an engineer may be taken {l, or suddealy stricken. What is to be done in that case without an assistant engineer? Nothing; and the passengers may suffer, as they did In the Westfield disaster, A third man must be employed on the mogul type of locomotives, as eall them.” Wien told that Senator Hudspeth was preparing a bill the Central engineer sald the engineess on the road intended to call a meeting for the purpose of thav- Ing a similiar bill drawn, and that a committee would be appointed to wait upon Senator Hudspeth, He sald he had read In The Evening World atout the move- ment started and Informed the reporter that the engineers are loud in the praises for that paper. MOGUL LOCOMOTIVES IN USE. ‘A summary of the different railroads in New Jersey and the number of mogul type locomotives In use follows: Central, 260;/Lehigh Valley, 825; Erie, 25; Penn- sylvania; 3; Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, 18; Susquehanna and Western, 40, Reuding, 12; West Shore, none; Ontarlo and Western, none; Baltimore and Ohio, none, A bill providing that two men should always be In the cabs of such locomo- tives as was In the Westfield wreck should be adopted,” said Assemblyman John Treacy, of Jersey City, “I reinember the fight that was made for such a bill some yoars ago, and I know that the railroads defeated it. Every Democrat in the House supported It then, and if a bill of that Kind were Introduced now I Qon't see what could possibly stand in the way of its getting the same support, “Rallroad men know the danger, the constant peril their lives and those of passengers are in, When they are behind one of those mogul or ‘hog-back’ en- zines, I reallze it, and if the necessity of a law to neutralize It must be demon- strated by another Westfield horror, I don't know what to say." “A law should be adopted by all means making the tecurrence of such accl- dents as the one at Westfield impossible from the cause that seems to have sed up to it,” said Assemblyman James Hammill, of Jersey City. "I don't know of any good reason why I shouldn't support it, nor why the rest of my party in ¢he House should not vote for it. Something ought to be done, and we can try again, even if do fail, aid All Benny af! ‘hard and earnest fight, falda i ASSESS SS SS SS) “The more 1 get, the more I wan' — Oliver Twist. 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