The evening world. Newspaper, February 22, 1909, Page 1

\ aD TO DEATH aS Set Cars Set Aflame When Ba vette ship Fleet Special on Penn- sylvania Road Hits Engines, IN PASSENGERS PANIC, Trainmen, the Victims, A Cremated in Flaming Wreck- age at Delmar, Del. . early to-day wh a } of the Pennsylvania / with two : eines st tdndem-wise on the ‘. track. and baggage ca j avere teles icer at . the loss of life occurred, Tho wreckage took fire after the collision, and the , bodies of re er t The firemen an save : selves by ju °| In the sleepers back of tha : cars the passengers, armone w t several New Yorkers, were thrown trom ; their berths, but none sertously injured ‘ The train was a special, crowded with excursionisis bound for Ik to see the return of the battle- train was run in two sect! . being that which was . THE DEAD. y= Ollver Perry, Adams Express messen t= ger, Philadelphia i. J.D, McCready, baggage maser, Wil- Nt mington, Del. George Davis, engineer, Seaford, Del = W. T. Corkran, mail Clerk, Philade! phia. J. W. Wood, mati clerk, Wilmington, RM. Davis, mail — Wilhelm, mai castle, Del. Among the Injured were Miss Ashan- wopelce, of Memphis, Tenn., and Lewis Brockway, the latter connected with a theatrical com; aboard the train The Pennsylvania trains run over the { tracks of the Delaware Railroad at th place where the wreck occurred, and Delmar is the placa for changing en- + gines. There was a dense fog as the flyer ran {nto Delmar, and the engineer appar- ently did not see the two engines that lay on the track walting for the arrival of the express, The fact that the train was running at reduced speed atone ‘prevented a disaster even mors serious, The engine of the express stood the shock, but the heavy baggage car and the mall and express car, !mmediately behind It, telescoped and were smashed to splin clerk, P} weighman, ladelphia, New: » A) In the Py peli i er, In the Y messeng en burned | fire, rit caught Passengers In Panic. hy re was sen n the from thelr berths, became hyaterteal. ng the ew then seriously Injuted, The wreck occured at {In the Pullmans w the train having been 1 up when ths train left Philadeip! night, The flames burned until 9 o'clock this morning, when the last body was taken from the ruins. The hodles were badly charred, and the only one {dentifled up to 10 A. M. was that of Engineer Davia, He was Identified by a finger ring. It was daylight before the road was opened again for travel. It 18 prob- able that many of thos) who were on the trains bound for Iampten Roads missed the review oe SLASHED FOUR CHILDREN, CUT HIS OWN THROAT. | Farmer in Frenzy Also Stabs Horses and Cattle and Sets ‘House and Barn Abl MONDOVI, Wis, Feb, 2—Hana B. Hanson, a farmer living near Strun, cut the throats of his four chil and three girls, whose ages r five to fifteen yea to-day butcher knife. He followed these crimea by stabbing | several horves and cows, firing the barn and house gre cutting his own throat. eo 4 Fine New Tarkish Baths Ow Op) at the New Pulitzer Buildl Onl; fi alga Howntown establishment. Sted ‘4 in al. Electric an? ‘Turkish of bat et ras ray Glso barber shop open at tt o'clock en, a boy need from with a/ TRAIN WREGK GREAT WAR FLEET WELCOMED ee EE DR. W. T. BULL, NOTED SURGEON, i NM (TURES MAKE BOY OF fd. AGKMAILER, OATH as TODR. BU AT SAVANNA aul Weston Tries “Black | Hand” Methods After Fre- quent Visits to Show. | Last to Great Fight With Cancer. LONG HOPELESS. Gor $200 HE DEMANDED But Was Caught When He Took Marked Bills From Place He Designated, | CASE | Amazed Medical World one Victim a thrilling series of mov-! Battle for Life— billed as the “Black Nite R (Chrys ww York," Paul Weston, | His Career, boy, who lives with ae, fav ed 2 Bast sayvannan, 2 Dr. William R ocked -piinghast Bull, the specialist, who Society here recently fram Now York, on the, came here rece! New Yor ‘ 120 from George died at Wrmberly, 0. Hope, at throats of kidnapping Mr. on, Irvin easy Cohan, a mem- n whose pretty th street and (Park, denotes beon receiving noon to-day, He had been failing for a and became tncons: The of his death was made by Dr. W. B. years lis assistant ya at yesterday following official an- come noun If the at ford "in ne surgeon, who was for lottera containing of jie Ite box. Nome “Dr, Bull passed anay quietly at noon The end was due to to-day. the Black Hand, and declared of the lunge. s Mr, Cohan placed $00 UNIER Dy condition a rock !n Van Cortlandt Park, whose |" i exact location the writer designated, ) weaker, boy Paul -yould be kidnapped, hie ears) Dr Buil's body will be taken to-night and nose out off, pickled In vinegar and to New York City eral arrange- returned to the father. | ments will not be made until after the Fright Ruins Boy's Health, | arrival of the body In New York. Mra, So frequent these threats that Bull was with him at the time of his Mr, Cohan became terrified end sought death. tho ald of the police. His boy was the Dr. Bull arriver here on Jen. 30, For the past few days has gradually grown He {dol of the neighborhood and nearly came in the hope that he could spend every ono living in that loca fre-' much time out of doors and benefit by quently saw the Uttle fellow riding the sui and fresh air. Under the} about on his pony. ciroumstances It waa believed the new been late- rave its ‘The child heard that a plot wae afoot to Kiduap Inim ond this so terrifed him that he was Falzed with @ nervous at tack and {s att confined to hls bed. | value. Following Mr, Cohan's vislt to Police’ The great surgeon atood the long Jour- Headq vem Detective Me-'ney from New York remarkably well. Namars was detatied on the cage and fie was cheerful and rald he expected to ed Mr, Cohan to place #200 !n an | gain strength enouga during the spring enve en put It under the rock to stand another long railroad journey ast riter had requested. Meant) che north, In fact, he had made while ha had vielied tie park and had! plang for spending the summer on hie treatment for cancer that h. ly employed In his case would t better oportunity to demonstrate hea one of the guards place a litle shanty | aptates In Newport. near the rock «0 that he could watch; yr, Bull wae accompanted to Sa all who came that w nah by Dr. John B. Walker, of New At ® o'clock this morning a proached the spot on a bl allghting, he ray hand under the! rock and extracted the envelope con- taining tha marked bills, Then he rode | away (Continued on Becond Page.) ————— BATH BEACH TRAIN KILLS A MAN IK Inspired by Picture amarn gave chase, and after race overhauled the youth and! ! vim to the One Hundred and | Twent ‘th street atation. T was learned th is the| son of vs. Weston, and he had) oncelved ie kidnapping plot following ‘gs Crequent vise to the moving. ple- Coban was greatly distressed ‘when he heerd who the instigator of the threatening letters was, and sald) that he knew the boy's mother very | ed to prosecute him, but Victim Swept Under Wheel: ome had been terrorized now While Leaping Upon y A Tonth past, and he saw no other Moving Car. ae ahead of him. S well and Weston, tie piher of the ac- , Was heartbroken when sie Neat, She sald se ed nev son's: 1 ‘only atrton he act to the con-| Missing his leap for a moving train adh weeping. | which was crowded with passengers, « {id not regard him as a bad boy, she vald, “although the police have f man supposed to be Aidney Chapman, of No. 08 Maln street, Haat Rutherford, N quently complained to me about bim ue rn always avtributed {t more to mlsohtet {J+ WAH killed to-day at Bay Nineteenth than vielousness street und Bath avenue, Bath Beach, My #on became mucir interesied In) to-day, When he fell the wheels of the a moving picture #how around on Tre-| rear car passed over his lege, severing mont avenue end ie would rush off to! them, The man was carried to the plat- one of those shows every afternoon ae! form, where he died. {noon as he returned from sciool,”” | In the mean time the train had heen Mrs, Weston {8 the widow of-@ former! paired and the passengers, many of partner of Barnum & Hailey, and he|whom had witnessed the accideat, was long ident!led with that enterprise. | rnshed to the doors amd several essayed Two daugit are known re are on the stage and the Weston § pase see Accuses FLEET EXCURSIONS HURT IN _TRAIN COLLISION. | NORFOLK, Va, Feb, 2. lcolliaion between two excursion trains, filed wlth passengers bound to Cape Henry to see the homecoming feel, ce- curred to-day the Cape Henry di viaion of the Norfolk and Southern Mall- jroad and elghi passengers were badly tn- Ju to olimb through the windows, their ex- oiiement bordering on pants, When the dead man’s clothing was searched letters and cards bearing t name and address of Sidney Chapman were found, The body Is that of a well- dreaged man, stoutly built, and of dark complexion, Following the finding of the cards and letters, the Bath Beach police communteated with the police of Rutherford, No arrests followed the accident It ia stated that the train, which w: tround for Manhattan, was hanling out .Jof the station at a high rate of speed when the man leaped for the front platform of tho rear car. He managed to grasp tho railing, but his feet slipped {com the wep and he wer dragged be- neath cine car, The body ls at the Beth Beach police station, ~A rear-end [htt foyoel Mise Brenneman were taken \o hospitals at Ni ‘| Famous Surgeon Succumbs at | noon | redema | SIGHT OF CROWD ss Who Comdial RES d Fleet of Warships in Cruise Around the World CaS ARK TAKES LEAD IN MARATHON RAG + i Winner of Former Sea Gate Event First at Fifteen- Mile Mark—Great Crowds Witness Long Distance Event. The Marathon craze had Brooklyn worked up to a high pitch of | excitement this afternoon. Around the Fourteenth Regiment Armory a crowd of several thousand stood three deep when 108 hardy youngs- \ters and veterans in the Washington Birthday Marathon darted out on |the street bound for Sea Gate. They had run the first 385 yards on the armory floor and, according to the programme, were to finish the last two miles in the armory. Reports from various points along the}mory at 3.90 Tt was reported at tha mory and | Same time that two other would-be Mar- /athoners were on thelr way back to the rting Polk gH in a state of igalapne ZIECKELD ARRESTED * SENDS FANTIC.Q0.S That most astute theatrical manager, Florence Ziegfeld, jr, spent two yery ancomforiable hours in the Harlem Po- lice Court to-day before ho could find | route were received at the Ari were read off to the crowd by An- nouncer Peter Prunty. Harry Jensen, | the Pastime entry, who was third In the} last Bea Gate Marathon, took up the; pace at the start, and for the first flve | miles led the pack. James cit wie won the last race, was seco} sen. Up to the tenth mile (bk was a mah and tuck Saale 4 Eddie Carr, Kavier yeleran, stuck close to the firat two for three miles and then dropped back, oniy to come in the ninth mile when he ran its fourth place behind Devlin, of the Mott Havens, Carr and Deviin were running strong about 16 yards bohind the lead- Clark and Jensen, who were about ore, on even terms. At the fifteenth mile |* bier He, ead AED) effect Clark hed a’alight advantage over Jon. | Mi# liberty. Jereme Slagel Anally came to his rescue. gen, Carr was third, D. Aaron, of the Mott Havens was fourth. Yesterday afternoon Ziegfeld had ‘his guests Mivs Amy Lexile, dramatic Ten Miles Were Fast. PTE? GE 47 GRloaga' RaWSRADETIC AIA The time of the tenth nille was 4 gronk Buck, and as the Hay was fine minutes and five seconds, This inclides he took them out for a apin In his touring car. Aw the party was bowling down Seventh avenue Policeman Fr held them up at One Hundred and Sey enteenth street and took them to ¢ One Hundred and Twenty-ffth str police station, where Ziegfeld put up $10 for his appearance in court this morn- in When he was arraigned before Ma trate O'Connor i r yards and is considered very creditable. The weather conditions were pertect for the race, Most of the run- bers wore the regulation costume, con- sivting of a shirt and linen trunks. Few | wore any warm clothing, such as sweat- ors, Kach man was attended by a hand- ler on a bieyole the 3% ii I ce was ane le wae rt Up to the tenth mile the race was one Tm eet ie a ot the beat on record, similar wo the ts Ges of Hayes and Dorando at (ir Garden. ne was enabled to procure a bondsman and he we TAMPA RESULTS. 2. Jensen and Clark Deine within a Bas of each er. Laniie Lanier World A was the fire He was Orought back ty in an amoulance. He trom a sprained ank’e A conservative esiiinate than 100,00) people ia fous points along the ond man ivoumn Henry oft ment He w to collapse, 6 armor was auffering TAMPA, Pla, day were Feb The results to that more van Don ny ek first w thi 6 Thirteen brought back (o the ar Tomo vay Grandma, Bene, ant ever chical, Moye ar PEAR ADI Ig, PHO TOSBY, PACH BROT, 5,000 ATTEND St 1 B ~BATTLE-SnlP FLEET AS "PLAGE HERALDS +0 Multitude at Hampton Roads Wel- | comes Return from World Cruise of Greatest Assemblage of Fighting | Vessels in Our SUNY, SPLENDID SEA SPE SCTACLE | AS ARMADA BREAKS FOG. President, on Yacht Mavflower, Uncovers | Flagship Heads Mighty Procession Up Bay, Her Band Playinz ‘The Star-Spangled Banner” and Men Lining the Rails. as SPERRY !Admiral Evans Compliments | Sperry, Suggesiing New Kank MINNEAPOUIS, Feb. Te first ship fleet came to Admiral Evans thr h Associated Press despatches read over the telephone, The Admiral dictated the following statement, asking that !t be telegraphed to President Roosevelt and Rear-Admiral Sperry: “Admiral Evans presents his compliments to Rear-Admiral Sperry and congratulates him on the splendid work he has done. He hopes that j Congress will make him a Vice-Admiral, which le richly deserves, 4 | | | news of the arrival of the battle- | | | THE FUNERAL OF | NORFOLK, Va., Feb, 22.—The greatest cruise ever taken by a fleet |Sergeant Goldhammer, Killed Jot battle-ships ended in Hampton Roads this afternoon witen the sixteen | by Edward Byrnes, Buried | white world-girdling, fag-badecked tighti ' With Police Honors. . also extends congratulations to the officers aiid men of the fleet.” ood ; inachines of Uncle Sam Nithin half an hour Ad- and the flag officers were aboard the Maytlower, and Presi- r gr ed a formal con- jdropped anchor after travelling 45,000 miles, | jmiral Sperry ¢ | With police honors and attended by dent Roosevelt, after ret this | i ing each personally, d a people the funeral of Police B. afternoon from his home, Grant avenue | fleet comes back \ > land Middleton road, the Bronx. Gold- j than when i went out. the officers j hammer was shot and ki ited by Edward | ¢ if formidable fighting force, have shown yourselves the best of all ane | ha | cratulatory address John Goldhammer was held he said, “ in better shape “As a war machine In addition, you, and men of this Firet avenue last | Brynes at No and it 1s assertod that the de- Friday, dors and heralds of peace. Wherever you have landed you have tective'a death was planned and exe- rR ted by order of the policy kings of | DOMme yourselves so as to make us at home i being your cou | Naw York | trymen.” Chief Inspector Max Behmittherger | whieh hung over and Dan Slattory, secretary to Commis- wlluinotlnans sioner Hingham, the partment at the funeral, Hesides, thera represented De- © arranged fe ng (he arrlyat worked with eloci Is of spectators se the fog shut steaming in nthusiasm andl the came Borough Inspector John F. oe SUPPED TO DEATH NiAGARA MeCauley, Lieut of 1 uniformed policemen, Central Office detective and many police friends from varlous bee~ Body of Man Who | tlons of the city peared in View of Crowd Re- The widow and the five small chil- covered in Daring Fashion. rain » the squad, of warships, and the g Das: and hi alNs “The trailed by weven the dren followed the hearse Rev. br. Nattes, of tie F terian Church, of Throgge the | | Bros, read funeral sermon, and | Rev. Charles Forbes, of the Throgms Neck Eplscopel Chiseb, oflictated at the just rites, Samuel Goldhammer, father of the dead man, apparently had noc been consulted about the funeral ser vices and insisted on praying over hii slain eon in Hebrew Headed by the police band of raver s, the funeral procession mar through the Bronx and after an valk disbanded. The carriages alice escort rode ty Woodlawn Ceme- | (ery for the burial, A police’ bugler | rr ae blew taps and (he casket was lowered [2 New J a Preaby e rat the sixteen hed United he first time since leay- re ng President Reviews Fleet. he fleet fro: ups ui returning = The Presid iowa NIAGARA FALLS, NY by a numbe he Pu of he bur ne te The grave wax surrounded by a cordon! aig qotiee were immediatel 4 i 1 Virginia | of policemen. don. force wi ohio | Goldhammer was a member of the de ee and hooks were imi se ' 1 low Jpartment for twelve years, and many. pis retief, but 1 a arg Jnoted captures of crooks are in his of M ' K battleships icial record, Of late he had served as 2 man slipp : alde to Deputy Commissioner Hanson * the fl h lead cat No. @@ Mulberry street. He wan) op ve Birminghan \forty years old. Eis willow will receive | Page ssippl, North a year pension jin t aa \; { zw d down overt | $ morning pon the crowd Hamptes The World’ geconl \roade, B \ Express Warcel and Hag public convenience In the path of favel about *y te