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, GIRL LOOPING THE LOOP ON AUTO BROKE HER SKULL ‘Automobile in Which Mina Alix, of This City, Was Performing Perilous Feat in Madrid Circus Fell at Apex and Woman Was Crushed by Fall. (Copyright, 1904, by the Press Publishing Company, New York World.) (Spncial Cable Despatch to The Evening World.) MADRID, Jan. 25.—An automobile in which Mina Alix, a young York girl, was looping the loop at the Parish Circus yesterday after- left the loop at the apex and whirled out over the arena. The unfortunate performer fell to the ground, fracturing her skull nd-crushing in the ribs on her right side, while the automobile dropped a ew feet from her and was shattered into innumerable pieces. The circus was crowded and the accident caused a tremendous panic. "Women fainted and were trampled upon in the rush from the seats. There "was a jam at the exits in which scores were injured. After the first storm of panic had passed those of the audience re- maining within the inclosure started in to wreck the circus and almost succeeded. The feat of looping the loop in an automobile was a noveity in the ‘Bircus and a great audience assembled to see it. As the siender giri was hoisted to the platform the chatter of the audience was stilied. She Kissea ‘her hand to the crowd, took her seat in the vehicle and was pushed om onto athe steep incline by an attendant. SPECTATORS GREATLY EXCITED, There was a gasp from the impressionable throng on the seats, ana tnen nothing could be heard but the rush of the automobile down the latticed dncline. This grew to a loud roar as the girl entered the ioop and dimin- Yshed as the vehicle ascended to complete the circle. The loop used in the feat was a complete circle. Miss Alix had ridden @round it scores of times in London and no flaw was apparent when it was erected here, but there was a defective spot at the top of the loop where Yhe pressure was strongest and the vehicle left the grooved track. The speed at which it was moving was tremendous. It turned over qand over. The girl fell out at the first twist and flew through the air lqlongside the maciiine in whioh she had been riding. Both dropped to the ‘ground together, half the width of the arena from the net which had been \arranged to catch her at the finish. . For a moment the great crowd sat in motionless terror and then, by @ommon impulse, started tcward the exits. Men shouted, women and chil- ‘dren shrieked, hundreds stumbled and fell, performers and attaches lost heir heads and scores on the top seats leaped out upon the piles of pros- ‘trate humanity below. ‘MANAGER FLED FOR HIS LIFE. ‘When the pressure had been relieved at the exits the crowd experiencea {m revulsion of feeling and instead of trying to get out swarmed back witn Hfehe intention of wreaking vengeance upon the management for allowing tne fmazardous feat to be performed. The ring apparatus was wrecked, the ‘oop was torn down and it was with difficulty that the unconscious girl was earried away to the hospital. Although a Madrid audience looks on with apathy when a bull gores a horse or injures a matador the whole community is in a turmoil over the accident to the young American. The manager of the performance wus -@ompelled to flee for his life. An inquiry has been ordered by the criminal authorities in order to place the responsibility for the defective loop, ‘The girl is desperately injured. She was the first to loop the loop tn an automobile, performing the feat in London, where it created a pensation. It was the feature of the circus performance and had been widely adver- tised. | A DANGEROUS ACT, George O. Starr and Whiting Allen, of the Barnum & Bailey circus, saw the performanc@oft Miss Alix in London at the Hippodrome last sum. mer. Miss Alix worked in a team with three men partners and looping ‘ the loop was one of their acts. 43 “The loop in which she worked,” said Mr. Starr. “was covered with | black cloth on the inside and this concealed safety guards which held the auto in place. When she got started there was no chance of her falling ' off unless this guard should break. “They had another act that was more dangerous. One of the men » dressed as a woman and the four started in a cycle whirl on motor cycles, rushed from that down an incline and then looped the Joop. We were of- fered the attraction, but refused it because of the danger of the cycle whirl part of it and the fake in the lovp the loop. “Just before I left London the ‘team went to Copenhagen for an ex- tended engagement. From there they were to go to Madrid.” THREE MEN HURT FREE HOSPITALS BY FALLING SAFE ALL OVERCROWDED | d oy It Slips While Being Placed in! Position for the Equitable! Trust Company and Topples Over on the Workmen. A big safe, weighing probably three- quarters of a ton, got away from three men to-day while they were putting It in position In the office of the Equitable Trust Company, at No. 15 Nassau street, and sent one of them to the Hudson Street Hospital with his right leg broken and his companions to their homes with painful lacerations and con- tusions. The frst, who Js the most sertously Injured of the trio, is Christopher Bloom, of No, U0 Ferry street, Jersey City. "The others are John Lees, of No. 13 Eering street, and Alexander Fala, of No. 32% East Sixth street, Manhat- tan, The injured men are employees of J. M. Mossman, a safe manufacturer, and had been engaged in moving the safes of the Equitable Company from No. 25 Nassau street to its new quarters, where the accident occurred, The safe which fell on them had been hoisted to what is known as the supply room, on *the second floor, and was being jacked up to a place over another one of the same size, standing six feet from the tioor, It ¥lpped as it was being placed into position, and down {t came from ‘the jacks which had supported it, pen- ning the three workmen in a corn ‘The crash of the heavy weight was heard throughout the bullding and shook it so that occupants thought an explosion must be the cause. Bank clerks from the office of the trust com- ran upstairs and released the in-| aovera. ert ote te City and Metropolitan Institu- tions on Biackwell’s Island Notify Supt. Blair They Can Accommodate No More. - The authorities of the City and Metro- politan hospitals, on Blackwell's Island, | to-day notified Supt: Blair, of the Out- door Poor Department, that they could take no more patients and if any were sent they would have to be returned. Every ward has mattresses stretched on the floor and the two hospitals are so overcrowded that their condition has become alarming. The Superintendent had just received the message when thirty-six patients Were rent to him from selle t seven i. Calling up the thirty hospitals in the city where patients ‘may be sent by the clty if their board is paid, he found there were just eighty beds available, He therefore distributed the patients among the St, Vincent's, Mount Sinal, Beth Israel, Post-Graduate, Lincoln and Lebanon hospitals. In Bellevue Hospital it was found that an extraordinary condition of affairs ex- isted. While the hospital record states the capacity of the hospital is 857 pa- tients, there are now hs and blankets, forming improvised beds, have been pieced wherever space will permit, and the hospital positively can- not take care of another person. The death rate for the last three months has been far above the avyerago, In November 187 patients died, in De- cember 201 and this month, up to to-day, 196 deaths of patients have taken place, Last week sixty-six patients died and THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1904. DEADLY LOOF-THE-LOOP ON WHICH MISS MINA ALIX, OF NEW YORK, WAS KILLED IN MADRID THE FALL CONFESSED GUILT TO SAVE HER LOVER Police Say Mary Mohrmann Robbed Many Brooklyn Wom-| en with Whom She Obtained) Employment as Servant Girl. Mary Mohrmann, twenty-two years old, of No. 28 Patchen avenue, an at tractive-looking young woman, was al raigned in the Gates Avenue Court, Hrooklyn, to-day, charged with being a professional servant girl thief by the police, who asserted that in the last year she had robbed a dozen fami! by whom she was employed under dif- ferent names. ‘The girl was deflant while the charee was read, but when her lover, Morris | Altman, a delicatessen dealer, of No. 248 Patchen avenue, was arrested as he stood in court ready to go on her bond, she tearfully confessed her guilt and begged the Magistrate on her knees not to prosecute him. | Employed to Tend Baby. The young woman was accused by Mrs. J. B, Cohan, of 72 Halsey street, of stealing §75 worth of clothing and jewelry. Mrs, Cohan said she had employed the girl to take care of her nine months’ old baby. Whenever the girl left the child it cried so it could be heard through the house. To uccomplish her thefts, Mrs. Cohan declared, the girl wrapped a blanket around the baby and stuffed it under the bed on one occasion, almost suf- focating it, Detectives Thompkins and Reynolds, who arrested the girl, sald they had traced nearly a dozen robberies to her. ‘They said she had been in this country only three years. They learned, thev suid, that sho had worked under the names of Mary Cook, Mary Kohler and Mary Kuch, besides the name by which she described herself. Sent for Her Lover. As scon as she was taken to court she sent for Altman. He’ went pre- pared to bail her out if she was held, but he no sooner entered the court- room door than Detective Thompkins placed him under arrest on a charge of recelving stolen property. At this the girl cried: “Oh, Judge, 4 cin guilty. 1 will con- fess everything, but he Js innocent. 1 swear he 1s innocent and did not know that I hed stolen the things I gave him.” She sank down on her knees be- fore the bench, tore at her hair and subbed hysterically, pleading that her lover be _relea: joth the girl and her lover were held for further ex- aminatiy TREACHERY BY MOROS. Fired on Licut, Finke and Private Fay While Major Parleyed, MANILA, Jan, 25—It has just been learned that Lieut. Campbell W. Flake, of the Twenty-second Infantry, was killed while trying to enter Moro Cotta, In Mindanao, for the purpose of exam- ining the locality. He was accompanied by Private Foy, of the same regiment Lieut. Flake was shot treacherously, the Moros firing on the party while Major Bullard was parleying with them. Moro Cotta was at once taken by assault, with no further loss to the xpeditionary forces, The estimated loss among the Moros ts twenty killed, BROKER FINED FOR USURY. arged $10 Interest on $25 Loancd to 2 Woman. Samuel L. Frey, a money broker, of No. 110 East One Hundred and Twoenty- fifth street, was fined $100 in the Court c yesterday the record-breaking nui bf fourteen deaths were fepotted ee [of Special Sessions, Justice Olmsted Most of the deaths have occurred | presiding, to-day for charging Mrs. through pneumonia, pleurisy and other | Sadie Reivere, of No. $8 West One Hun- inesses caused by’ the cold. Alcoholic | dred and Ninth street, $10 Interest on & pneumonia Js said to have caused the | 1 of the deaths, he ting, pet GIRL FORGER DRAWS LINE AT WHISKERS | She Wants No Old Man Nor Men’ with Beards to Sit on Jury That Tries Her for the Second Time. Mabel Parker, satirical as ever, made her second appearance before Judge) Warren W. Foster in the Court of Gen- eral Sessions to-day, to stand trial on an indictment for uttering a forsed check, Mabel, az on her Ist trial, was dressed in exquisite taste, Her colffure was perfect and the dre: looked as! though it had just come from the tallor's. A large picture hat adorned her head. When Mabel entered the court-room she smiled winsomely at her counsel, ex-Assistant District-Attorney Charles E. Le Barbier, and stuck up her nose spitefully at Assistant District-At- torney Train. She has not forgotten Mr. Train's harsh treatment of her in the last trial. : An extra panel of talesmen were in court, having been summoned specially from which to select a jury to try the young woman, Mr. Le Barbler said he did not think it would take very long to fill the jury box. “I am not at all particular,” he satd. “But, then, you see, this fair client of mine has a mind of her own. She will probably want to do the work of se- lecting the jury. Then she will have her likes and dislikes. ‘The defendant has her own ideas as to what kind of men she thinks should fill the jury box. In the court-room this morning, after sizing up the rows of talesmen, she said “There is one man over there, that fellow with the blue eyes, I would Ike to have as foreman. I don't think he would be carried away with the lies of the prosecution's witnessses, and I have |“ an idea he would be able to make other jurors think the same way he does, But don't want any gray-haired, bearded men on the fury for mine. It’ is easier for young men to understand a young woman's plight in a case like mine than it Is for an old man.” After Judge Foster had disposed of several petty cases the work of obtain- ing a jury Was begun. The jury was completed with the se- lection of the following men: ‘Duncan W. White, retired, No. 78 Broadway; Henry Riekel, grocer, No, 62 Ninth ave- nue: David Price, grocer, No. 286 Sixth avenue; Roland Holt, publisher, No. 28 West Twenty-third street; Edward J Gumpert, manufacturer's agent, No. 64 West Eighty-ninth street; Fred H. Brooks, broker, No. 10 Wall street; John H. Batler, agent, No, 139 West ‘Thirty- ninth street; Henry Stein, real estate, No, % Broad ohn E, 8, Petrie, manvfacturer, ‘Wert One Hun- dred and Twentieth street; Georre Henry Kent, agent, No, 1 Broadw After the ‘selection of the Jury prosecution called its witnesses. ————[——___— KILLED BY WHISTLE BLAST. Startled by Shrill Note Wom TAfeleas in Street. Mrs, Rose Willoughby, forty-four years old, of No, 19 Cooper street Brooklyn, startled by the sudden blast of a factory whistle, dropped dead to- he dux at Cornelia street and Bushwick ia treet bris! and just as she reached the junction of the two streets the noon factory whistle bi She stopped suddenly and sank to the pa ment. An ambulance surgeon who was summoned sald that she had died as she fell. ; ————_- KILLED IN A DUEL, BERLIN, Jan. 2%.—Two officers of the garrison of Chemnitz, Saxony, fought a duel with pistols on the parade ‘ound Saturday afternoon, Lieut. hubert, of the One Hundred and venty-seventh Infantry, was kijled. The duel was the result of an uarrel, 4 s, Willoughby was walking along| frst Assembly District. TRAINER CRUSHED BY HS ELEPHANT Animal Fell on Him While Being , Unloaded from a Car and In- | jured Him So Badly that He Soon Died. LONDON, Jan, %.—George Lockhart, known all over the world as a trainer of elephants, was crushed so badly by one of his elephants near here that he died | soon after the Injuries were received. | Lockhart was unloading the ele- | phants at the Hoe strect railroad ata- tion when one of the Animals sudden- | ly swerved and fell on him. Help came | quickly, but Lockhart was almost dead | when taken from beneath the ele- i phant. | Lockhart, in addition to being a trainer of elephants, was also the pro- prietor of a circus 1 the men known for their pe- cullar av.iy In the education of ant- | mals Lockhart easily occupied the first place. It was he who Introduced new methods in the training of elephants and his successes were so pronounced that his item of teaching was adopt- ed hy every animal tyainer of note who came after him. Lockhart grew up in the atmosphere of a circus. The life of the mat, the sawdust and the ring seemed instilled in his veins. He rose from an obscure tumbler to the position of circus proprietor and in his aay owned animals whose agaregate wort! figured in the hundred thousands. Lockhart wi the same mold. His father owned a circus before him. As a boy Lockhart was turning filp-flaps, vault- ing over hornes, camels qnd elephants with the precision and the skill of old- time Acrobats. After he grew up he made a hit as a cireus clown and on the Continent was one of the head- Jiners in the then famous circuses. Mon- archs who were amused by the antics of the voung acrobat decorated him with medals and more substantial hon- "8, Lockhart's elephants were almost human in thelr intelligence. They a prompting seemed to act without from thelr trainer. They waltzed, at a table, eave a onc-act comed: Which each played a nustained pai old. tricks of riding tricycles. and picking up, various for were too simple performa: Lockhart’s animal hey did that were out of t ordinary. In 15 Lockhart came to America from Scotland, where he was born. His trained elophants were then the marvel of the town, Column after column was Written about them and their trainer at the time. Lockhart then told of his sys- tem of training. Hé trusted more to kindness In_handling elephants than to Soverity, He always gained the confi- dence of the bensts at first, sometimes spending months in gaining their good Will, After he and the elephant were in accord the teaching process began, It 3 tricks was a noteworthy point that never in his long career did an animal turn upon him after he began to instruct them in trick performances. his More than that, lephants were always sure of them= ‘© and needed no coaxing to do what thelr master told them. IKE HOPPER GETS A JOB. Get Patronage. Borough President John F. Ahearn to- day announced the appointment as uilding Superintendent of Isaac A: opper, Tammany leader of the Thirty- Mr. Hopper takes the place of Henry S. Thompson, who was appointed Bullding Superin- endent by former Borough President tantor efter the removal of Peres M. Stewart. Leader Hopper ia a millionaire build- er and contractor, and although he was offered the place two weeks ago, it was not until Saturday that he determined to accept the place. His explanation to-day for taking the Job {s that it will afford him a chance of extending some patronage to his district, which until his Pace of Supertatendent of/ |precede and follow the actual DREXEL WEDDING TOCOST $200,000 Marriage of Miss Josephine Wal- ton Drexel to J. Duncan Em- met to Be Most Elaborate Ceremony of the Kind in City.| THREE ARCHBISHOPS TO TAKE PART IN CEREMONY. Will Take Place in St. Patrick's) « Cathedral—An Hour of Music by Famous Singers—Entire Party Will Kneel. The wedding of J. Duncan Emmet and Miss Josephine Walton Drexel at St Patrick's Cathedral on Tuesday. Feb. 9 will be in every way the most remark- able function of the kind that ever took place in this city. From a spectacular point of view, the wedding will be especially noteworthy, aa it has been planned to spend two hours with the ceremonies which will ing of the knot J. Duncan Emmet ts the son of Dr. Thomag Addis Emmet, of No. 89 Madi- son avenue. Miss Drexel is the daugh- ter of Mrs. Joseph D. Drexel, of No. 108 Madison avenue, Her father was the founder of the banking house at the head of which stands J, Plerpont Mor- gan to-day. The match is a love match and Mrs, Drexel made up her mind when the wedding was first planned that the ceremonies attendant upon it would be the most elaborate that society in this city had ever seen. It is said that the plans, which have now been completed, will call for an expenditure of almost $200,000. One Hour of W ing Music. At precisely 10.90 o'clock the cere- monies will begin. Miss Drexel with her attendants and Mr, Emmet with his groomsmen will enter the church at that time and for an hour will lsten to long musical programme which has been arranged. Solos will be sung by the greatest singers In the city s¢ the time and a chorus of forty trained voices will be also used, There will be organ selec- tions and a concert by a string or- chestra, selections from Wagner, Han- dq, Mendelssohn, Raff and Boleto being played. ‘At precisely 11.90 o'clock the bride and bridegroom will march to the altar with thelr attendants, and there the Rev. J. B. Daly, of St. Malachy’s Church, will perform the ceremony, which will take eight minutes, The entire party, brid maids and groomsmen, as well as the principals, will kneel. Behind Father Daly will stand the Archbishop of Philadelphia, the Bish- op of Buffalo and the Archbishop of Trenton. Miss Drexel's attendants will be Miss Delafield as maid of honor, Miss Eleanor Emmet and the Misses De Boardman, Atter- Peyster, Schieffelin, bury, Clarkson, Fell and Esler. Nuptial Mass of Half an Hour, Mr, Emmet's party will consist of his brother, Thomas Addis Emmet, jr. his three cousins, Granville Temple ure] appointment to-day was in noed of vie| Emmet, Duncan and Emmet Harris and Boudinot Colt, Gardiner Gilsey, Louis O'Connor Nesbid, William 8. Mitchell, Frank R. Outerbridge and George 8. ‘Thompson. ‘At the conclusion of the ceremony there will be a nuptial mass, which wilt alone last half an hour, At 12.90 o'clock the wedding party wiit leave the church and go to the home ot the bride, where there will be a large reception. to which several hundred of the best known society people in the city have been summoned. Mrs. Drexel's house and the adjoin- ing house at No. 2% Bast Twenty-ninth street, will be thrown into one for the casion, The decorations of the house and the Cathedral will be white lilacs, bride roses, lilles of the valley and palms. The only will wear at jewels that Miss Drexel the wedding will be a diamond tiara and a pearl necklace, the gifts of her mother, and a pink surrounded by diamonds, the gift of Mr. Emmet. ‘There was a rehearsal of the elaborate ceremony at Delmonico’s last night, which passed off smoothly. Miss Drex- el's trousseau is’ said to be the finest that ever was possessed by an Ameri- can bride, ——————_— 13 YEARS FOR HOMICIDE. ‘Too Many Killings Among Italians, Judge MeMabon Dec! en, Judge McMahon in General Sessions to-day sentenced Dominick Demasso, of No, 68 Thompson street, to Sing Sing Prison for thirteen years and seven months, Demnasso was convicted of killing a fellow-countryman in @ fight in front of Demasso’s home on Aug. 10. In sen- tencing Demasso Judge McMahon said that the records of the courts showed that there altogether too much Killing resorted to by Itallans of his class and it should be stopped. ee RAN AWAY WITH MAIL WAGON. A horse attached to an United States mail wagon ran away from the corner | of Forty-fourth street and Lexington avenue to-day. It was caught by Po- Hceman Michael Kockersberger. one was injured. A Messenger— the SUREST CHEAPEST QUICKEST No | Writes Lee M. Hart, General Seoretary Stage Employees’ Union: PAINE’S CELERY COMPOUND “Saved My Life and Gave Great Strength to My Constitution. Now, When! am Worn Down, It Gives ABUNDANT VITALITY. " fas ing, died, Mr. Lee M. 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