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in the battle of the Aisne—now believed entering ve stage—total fully 180,000 in killed, wounded and losses of the allies, they say, will probably reach At many points of the line it has been found neces- deliver frontal attacks on heavily entrenched positions. These figures show that the casualties on both sides @qual to seven army corps. The Germans are said to have a far higher percentage p dead than the allies. THe British have lost heavily, but Ail of the gaps in their forces have been filled with the mem- sors of the latest expedition to reach France. @4 a as 7 ENEMY “PETRFIED ASTHEY STANDBY TURPNTE SHELLS Man Who Saw Test Says New 2 SR. WUBLD, vile PU. M. Turpin, Inven Several officers in the garb of the British Indian troops} Explosive Could Exter- been seen here in Paris and this is accepted as conclu- proof that at last the Indian regiments are in the field minate Whole Armies. up to the present time there has been no official statement on this subject. zs EFFECT IS TERRIFYI it was said that there was almost continuous fighting the Aisne district and along the heights of the Meuse, but at other points on the battle line quiet, the result of 7 of the belligerents, prevailed. ~ A report from Ghent says five villages are in flames. in Alost, the report states, more buildings have been set fire by bombs thrown at night from Zeppelins. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 29 [United Press}.—it is reported t-20,000 Germans have reoccupied Alost and that the Thinks French Will Use It And a Shell Loaded With It Only as Last Resort to Save Paris. @/ LONDON, Bept. 19 (United Press, by mall to New York).—Whether t! French are really using turpinite, the » ) ® dir tree phen tls tor of Turpinite, HURTS SIX PERSONS _ AND CAUSES PANIC) "Accident Occurs on Third Ave- nue During Jam Which Fol- | lows Sutway Block. BIG ELECTRICAL DISPLAY Passengers in Panic Rush to Tracks and Flee From Flames. heetn. 4 5 te UOR es OTH Sg aly Oa of Truck No. 16. vato enth ling burned the hands of those that tried to free the car, the men finally broke The notsy and varl-colored explo- | open the doo: ai Imprisoned Men. Fire fn the Union Trust Company Building, No. 80 Broadway, at 4 o'clock this morning, nearly cost the lives of Batttalion Chief Kuss, Capt. O’Don hue, Deputy Chief Binns and five m ‘Trapped in an ele- OF ALLIES WITH GREAT 1 EXPLOSIONON‘L” UNION TRUST CO. 14 INJURED WHEN 4 BUILDING BLAZE |PAPIER-MACHE CARS. TRAPS FIREMEN Elevator Sticks While Fire Spreads Upward Around a VEDI lb en 2a Val U GOLLIDE iN BRONX (Continued from First Page.) <e Neighborhood because of a fire in the subway, and as the car begam to gather motnentum down the viaduct toward One Hundred and Forty- fifth strest, people scatte. .d, shout- Ing, in every direction. A third new car had just left-the barns a short distance away and, stopping at the bottom of the via- duct at One Hundred and Forty-fifth street, had been filed with passen- gers bound for puints west across town, It was directly in the path of the runaway car. Hundreds shrieked their warnings, but av one on the car understood the cause of the com- motion. 7 ¢ which was jammed in the e floor, with the flames suround- them and the cable so hot that it d, on hands and knees, ion Jn a converter box on the third/crept along a narrow coping of the who are advancing from Antwerp in the general di- of Brussels are now in contact with the Germans and a general battle is believed to be beginning. ‘Eastern Galicia Is Cleared +. Of Austrians, Report From Rome ROME, Sept. 29 (United Press) —Advices received from Petrograd to- eay that all of Eastern Galicia ts now cleared of Austrians. city the Russian main army is now moving. BRITISH AVIATOR DESCRIBES - BATTLE FROM HGH IN AR nother Flier, Wounded in an Air Duel, Brings | out horses. Machine to Earth Near Ambulance—Zep- pelins Spread Terror Everywhere. eR ‘The remnants of the defeated Austrian right wing have fled through the passes of the Carpathians and are now being pursued by the Russians {nto Hungary. The main Austrian army has fled to Cracow, against fewest war terror reported to be In posneasion of England's ally, ie a matter of great speculation in Eng- land. _ This new explosive, aroused the greatest discussion throughout the world, ts declared to be so deadly in its.effect that ull lite within a radius of 400 yards of one of the exploding shelis is exte minated. Regiments of Germans are reported to have been found dead in their trenches, their rifles still tn | their bands, not a mark on their | bodies, but with the long line of corpses standing as though tn lite. | The Daily Express declares that a| man known to Its editor for years, and who Is generally well informed, has written aé follows, concerning turpinite: “The merost chance enabled me to witness the curly trials of the new explosive,” the writer declares. “On @ stretch of sund 600 yards from high- water level a temporary aheep fold | had been erected, about 400 yards square, and railed off with wooden hurdles, this space were a dozen | shee 4 @ couple of aged and worn’ which has “This was what | saw through my Blasses when, from a ridge some 2,509 there came a sharp, loud thud and the shrieking sound of a AND & PROJECTILES FILLED WITH TORPINITELDS & BROWN BROTHERS. SUBWAY TRAINS IN CRASH: WRECKED CARS TAKE FIRE Sept. 29 (Associated Press).—A letter from an officer of the Corps, under date @f Sept. 4, describing a view from an aero of the battle eastward of Paris, says: “Yesterday 1 was up for reconnoisance over this huge battle. be remembered as the biggest in to Belfort. at five o'clock in the: At that time the British all opened fre together. From fat of 5,000 feet I saw a sight I hope it will never be my lot eo again. The woods and hills cut to ribbons all along of Laon. It was marvellous hundreds of shells bursting one to the right and to the ‘for miles and then to see the guns replying. officer mentioned that the are shot at and shelled by jand and foo every time they ascend. bay hardly ever descend without holes all over the planes, but, itely, the writer says, the Fiy- Gorps icet only one pilot agd « up to Sept 4. , Sept. 29(Central News).— i continuation of the ac- an eye-witness of the fight- fm which the British forces with in France have taken part, given out by the official W: ea it was without any in- “of ‘comparative B major operations, althoug! the jenny concentrated his heavy artil- em the plateau near Palssy. ‘was an almost complete ab- of wind, of SON TO SUPPORT THE GLYNN TICKET Not Make Speeches but Will] Lieut. Seaman's Reported Criticism IHINGTON, Sept. 29.—While t Wilson will take no active jm the New York political cam- officials close to the White aid to-day that be would give means of support, short of to Gov. Glynn and the other ts nominated in yesterday's at the White House that Lihat gol me amb dor Gerard, the ‘Den patio Senatorial candidate, assuring of his neutrality. ED THEIR POLITICS. Service Employees Vind ») Washington Query a Poser. Sept. 39.—Civil Service of the Post-Office Inspector's B bere were somewhat perplexed . tere fi not understand me Sars importance tn |* which the members ! previot small shell, just as though somebody had taken a pieve of allk and rapidly torn it in two, “There was an explosion tn the open space in the middie of the im. 1 bet it| Drovised sheep pen. The sheep were till huddled in the corner, one of the history. It extends from Complegne| oid horses was apparentiy’ lnuning up ‘ against the railing. The one that had been munching hay lay on Its side, “When, ten minutes later, I reached the pen, the sheep looked for all the world as if they had been petrified. They were mostly standing up, one against the other, “Three or four were lying down, but all were dead, with their eyes Open and lips hangi It was ab- solutely ghastly. Yet of all the ani- mals only the old horse that had been munching hay was hit by a ent of shell. The other horse ing against nce, his forelegs strétched out forward, bis hind feet doubled up on the sand beneath him. Both had been killed instantly. of the Royal British Aviation Corps took full advantage, gathering much information regarding the disposition Of the enemy's forces in our front. Unk of our airmen, Particularly active, an- was wounded in a in the ale, He was alone in mono! oe and was un. able to use his rifle. While he was circling above a German two-seated aeroplane, the aviator and an observer, in an endeavor to get within j-ahot of the two Germans, he ‘was hit by a bullet fired by the observ. say 2 PLUNGER WHDONGE eres arate | WON $30,000 IN DAY’ CAUGHT AS BURGLAR bombs were dropped on Deynse, nine Frank England Goes Broke iowa ga ic, noes use| and Says Hunger Forced Him to Steal. iets Sh former lace, the Ci e former pi the Convent of @t. Vincent was badly P Gibes no longer are h a@t the| tmactivity of the Zeppelin balloons which now seem omniprceent. One of these unwelcome visitorg created con- Frank England, the street-car con- ductor, who twelve years ayo went to Sheepshead Bay race track with a $ bill and ran it up to $150,000 in one summer and who was widely known thereafter in the betting rings about New York and Saratoga as a heavy plunger and an easy spender, was arrested in Flatbush to-day after entering and robbing the home of Mrs. William Howard at No. 808 Church avenue. At Police Headquar- ters in Brooklyn, England admitted that he was “down and out” and he cried bitterly over his swift descent down the easy way. England was observed by a police- | man coming out of Mra. Howard's signation was written vefore Secre | ouse and when called upon to halt tary Garrison called upon Dr. Beaman ne made a run for a Church avenue for an explanation of his alleged) car and boarded it. When pursued criticisms of the conduct of the Ger- wagiand len pee from the car and man campaign in Belgium, ried to make bis escape across va- Statements attributed to Dr. Sea- He wee orsrinvan e008 man were construed by the War De- partment as a violation of President |name of ‘Frank Wilson's order that all officers re- frain from partisan discussion of the European Dr. Seaman's resig-| name. Then England broke down. mation, however, closes the incident.| He said that — WILSON APPOINTS McCOY. reey Congressman Gets Seat on | "*°* Bon Washington. WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Represon- tative McCoy of East Orange, N. J., was nominated by President Wilson to-day | Mg J0n8 BN snstion of oye District of Colum- an gutomedt ARMY MAN'S "WAR TALK LEABS TO RESIGNATION Taken as Violation of Wilson's Neutrality Order, WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Presi- dent Wilson has received and accept- ed the resignation of Dr, Louis Liv- ingstone Beaman as ao first lieutenant of the Medical Reserve Corps of the army on the inactive list, The re- at Headquarters Capt. buy bread with. Once, the self-confessed thief the when taken to the Flatbush avenue station, but Coghlan recognised him and called him by last week he faced starvation and stole an ov reoat to won $30,000 on Schoolmaster in a single noe tee Grouch. * ve swallowed an eight- | (Continued trom First Page.) o'clock that the L road was able to | handle the crush without trouble. | Most. of those maroond by the traMfie tie-up were under the necessity of telephoning to their places of busl- ness or places of employment explain- ing their delay The Melrose ex- change in the Bronx was soon swamped, although reserve operators wi hurried there, BROOKLYN FEELS SHORTAGE OF BRONX TRAINS. Brooklyn was luconvenlenced by the suspension of the express service from the Bronx and the consequent shortage of trains. The tie-up balted traffic mo that crowds collected at all | the Brooklyn stations of the subway | Atlantic avenue was packed and trains were jammed when they drew out of that station. So full were they that though all stopped at Nevins and Hoyt streets the doors in sone in- stances were not opened, cars already being louded to capacity. The crowds at these stations were forced to wait until some of the con- gestion at Atlantic avenue had been relieved. Once through the tube be- neath the river, however, stops were made at Bowling Green, Wall and Fulton streets, where a majority of the crowds alighted. ‘The collision and fire occurred @t the point in Lenox avenue at which & spur runs up that thoroughfare from the main line to the Bronx ‘This epur serves a thickly populated section above One Hundred and Thirty-fitth street. Smoke rolled a mile in elther direc- tion in the subway tunnel and filled stations far away. At Mott avenue and One Hundred and Forty-ninth street, at One Hundred and Thirty- fifth street and Lenox avenue and at One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street and Lenox avenue the ticket sell had to dump their cash into safes and flee. Smoke was so dense they would have been suffocated bad they tried to remain, ‘The collision was between an empty two cars, which rries pi sixth and One Hundred and Forty- fifth streets in the eurly morning hours, and a cleaners’ train loaded with bales of newspapers, gathered up in the subway. The empty passenger train smashed into the work train as it shunted out of tho spur extending from One Hundred and Forty-second street to One Hundred and Vorty-ntth utreet. The front car of the passenger train was steel and resisted the shock. Motorman William Bain was .nburt. ‘The work train consisted of two flat cars with a half-steel passenger car between. Motorman William Morton | was op the middle car and was not | burt, Frank Colomborick, @ track walker, | car ofa seven- (on the Third avenue elevated line, at 828 o'clock to-day, and a swift spread of electrical flames along the | an open car behind it, gave burns and | other injuries to ais of t threw hundreds on tho super-crowded train into a panic and brought out fire engines and ambulances. ‘Those injured were: COSELLA, DORA, a stenographer of No. 212 East One Hundred and | Fifteenth street; shock and electrical | burns on the feot. DOLAN, ELSIE, a stenographer of | No. 1724 Park avenue; shock and | slight burns about the ankles. | HIGGINS, TERESA, of No. 446 | East One Hundred and Second street; shock. | PLITT, WILLIAM, of No. 180 Rast ;One Hundred and Twenty-fourth street; serious electrical burns about the feet and legs; taken home in a taxicab after treatment by Flower Hospital ambulance surgeons. PLITT, LOUIS, « brother of Wul- and ‘Eighteenth street; right | burned and abrasions of the bands. Hundred and Twenty-fourth street; train had left the Sixty-seventh t station and had siowed down opposite Sixty-third street to permit |the train ahead to pull out of the | Fifty-ninth street station. When the nerd eget Fs rad in the forward ra trucks of the fourth car blew out, the Merce tem ceneenme Nhe e ran swiftly along the wires con- loose and cut off the power. | ing the fourth with the third car, Electric sparks ignited greasy C@r|then jumped into the converter pux Journals, They flamed up and set/in the body of that car and blew out the paper on the work train to bias- | | x with @ sharp detonation and Ing. In a few minutes everything tn- | *U purose of blue and green sparks. Sammable on both trains was burning, Those nearest the doors A passenger train, with 100 men the gates and let them- and no women aboard, was brought | selves ede} en narrow board to sudden stand 100 fect from the) Walk that r ue- DE to: khe aolithe v.reck when the current stopped. bound trac long this section of the elevated structure. Others why The passengers were hurled to the floors of the three cars, Frank Will- could pot reach the doors climbed through opened windows tu the run- jams, of No, 2517 Seventh avenue, was cut and bruised, but was able to way. Many of the passengers were school girls who dropped their books on the floors of the cars und out of go home after an ambulance doctor| the windows in their baste t. make treated him. The passengers were thrown into | @ panic, overpowered the guardsand wot out of the train. Newspapers were twisted and lighted for torche: and the 100 men, coughing and cho! ing, staggered to the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street station and made their way to the street. THREE ALARMS OF FIRE ARE TURNED IN, Three alarms were turned in. Chief | Kenlon, Fire Commissioner Adam- in an alarm of fire, nes from the firehouse on Fifty-first street and from old Fire Headquarters on Sixty- seventh street responded and the fii men ran up a ladder against the vated trestle. had arrived trainmen with extin- guishers had the fire practically ex- tinguished. ‘The firemen were greatly hampered by the stream of people flowing along the narrow runway toward the Fifty. ninth street station, Three girls tried f .| to climb down the ladder, Sue were son and Supt. Merritt of the Inter: halted at mid-length by firemen, the borough urrived soon afterward.! “When, after fifteen minutes, Commissioner Adamson called out All| train was started, those who were in- available department surgeons and red ee, ae 8 ‘ ta y-ninth si ere Dr. native ee a reeney tine and Dr. Avery from Flower Ho igged up on the side-| pital treated them. They sent Will- walk and Chief Kenion was among ‘am Plitt and Dora Cossella home in the first patients treated, jaan. ore Sree we Pixie’ ‘The only way the firemen could get | The othe! ~ Oo home Une ed or continue downtown. at the flames was through three small; 4 fat string of trains which had manholes above the fire and by drag-| piled up behind the stalled one began ging hose through the subway from|siowly to move, then. But traffic was One Hundred and Forty-fifth street, |"°t completely normal for an hour. The tunnel was soon fifteen inches deep tn water, and Supt. Merritt had pumps put into operation. ‘The fire in the subway was out by 7 o'clock, after which Chief Kenlon, in an interview, denounced the lack | fer of fire fighting facilities in the tun- nel, Without fire hydrants there and means of letting tne suffocating smoke out, the CBlef said, the loss of life would be unthinkable should two crowded trains collide and catch fire. Fire Commissioner Robert Adamson sald to-day that had the collision oc- curred during rush hours, loss of life by suffocation might have been very | ereat, “What occurred this morning,” sald the Fire Commissioner, “convince: Fire Chief Kenlon and’ myself ¢ steps should be taken by the Public Service Commission to against future disasters by smoke in subway fires. The amoke Is to be to feare: more than the fire itself. e “Although the changes suggeste: in the subway for the benefit of th: Fire Department have not been reg ularly outlined, it may be suggente: that Immense fans be installed so thu’ smoke may be driven one way or an other, as the emergency may demanc ——- Colonel May Turn in His Grave. CLEVELAND, Sept. 29.—Speaking | at the City Club bere, Col. Roosevelt sald: “Lf in a half century from now the Progressl’ party is controlled by such men as Penrose and Barnes, and peace commission on the way to consumma- One with Greece will be signed lor will con- orrow over the details of another, and still another between the United States and Sweden 1s being prepared. .|was struck by wreckage and his ekull was fractured, He was taken do Harlem Hospital, aying. ‘Tae front trucks ef both trains i il epee does not stand for decency as it does now, and my children don't feave it O06 ge 8 good party, passengers, | men, | floor, and Broadway. was first on the scene, has a grill started the car for the TRAPPED O' ELEV VOTH ELEVATOR STL °K. When outh-bound train |twelve-story structure, along @ gut- ter and thence to the roof. The bullding Is occupied princtpally by the Union Trust Company. wires connecting the third car with | Doerr, night watcnman, of J. P. Benkard, brokers. turned in an alarm at Rector and Capt. O'Donohue'’s truck He, with Deputy Chief Binns door, th floor. Meanwhile flames had burst out into the hallway out to New street up the elevator sbaft. | | Doerr tried to pull on the @abie, nut it had become so hot that bis hands jam, of No, 64 West One Hundred | Were badly burned. licked Louts discovered the fire on the ninth floor in the of- and Battalion Chief Kuss, went with Doerr into one of the four elevators. 1 7LOOR | the elevator reached the | |uinth floor Doerr couldn't stop it. The | street, wae cut and bruised. machine raced on | floor and Jammod, two feet above the to the eleventh He was treated jog |tater at St, Vincent's Hospital, | Batallion Chief Kuss, SIMES, ROSE, of No. 108 East One| Watchman disabled, tried to start the elevator and was also badly burned, The men were trapped and in pert! from the flames, while the smoke was rapidly becoming stifling. seeing the Across the tracks was a line of hose of one of the engine companies fight- ing the fre. The “wild” car cut the hose, left a 25-foot geyser where tho huse bad been and kept ging. After 200-yard dash the runaway crashed Into the var at One Hundred and | Forty-fifth street and sent the pas- | sengers spinning in every direction. his! Mayste Collins. twenty-five, No. #5 | Bast One Hundred and ty-fourth street, and Margaret and nn Ran- He This | non, sisters, of No. 343 East One Hun elevator Is operated by a cable and dred und Fifty-fourth street, were the The watchman must a ly injured. They were | taken to Harlem Hospital. Berkowitz, Benjumin, No. 887 Long- | wood avenue, wus cut-on the head Pettke, Albert, No. 124 Simpson Jacoby, Gustav, No. 1081 Collins &veuue, received contusions, | Monahan, Thomas, No, 693 St. Anp's avenue, suffered ht injuries, Despite the fo uf the colliaton none is seriously hurt. George Brandeis haa the distinction of being in both collisions and yo: dd with trifial injuries, After first collision at the top of the duct, finding himself only bruised, he ran down to One Hundred and Forty-fifth street to pedigreed car, | utes Inter | when he picked himself up the second time his only anxlety seemed to be lest he be late to work. The three cara were du But by the time they, id.| Then they made their way from N. the Finally the firemen succeeded in | one . bath sees Lee, tapi . wrenching open the door, but were| WTock. It was after the second cras| ; 8 in the crowd discovered | barred by the flames, which bad py | {ne‘daunbos ae the dashboards were made of paste | this time reached the roof, from going| board. Several curried away sou Jeither up or down by the stairway. enira, They dropped to their bands and|, With @ piece of the pai knees and crept oyer to the standpipe, dashboard from one of ti Evening World reporter hoping to put out ‘the fire in this way. But there was no pressure. offices of the Public Service Commis- Then the men crawied to the Broad- sion, and there learned that on July | 16 last the Commission approved of way side, to the oftices of Henry Mont- womery, on the elevent. floor, and ecifications for twenty-five oars ilar to those that figured in the called down to Chief Kenion that they were trapped. - smash-up. The papler mache material, Chief Kenion sent in a second alarm |“ and despatched Capt. Hankin, nis the place of sheet aide, to toe building at the "alee of ABote, "The Commission was informeé by was Broadway anc Wail etre Capt. Hankin dropped life lines from the eineers that the material as good ag sheet steel, and go it passed,” said Travis H. Whitney, etary of the Commission. “Be- jen, it is better for retaining the @igniveuth fivor of this Duuding, ovp- | heat in a car in cold weather. Steal, ing the trapped men might ve urawo | you know, does not retain the heat, Up OUL OF Loe peru, bul the Names from the’ buraing vuliding burned woe dines (hree Lies velure auy vue could be rescued. SPIKES ROOF WITH FIREMAN’S while this material does. x “I do not believe steel would be any HOOK AND GETS uP. The imperilied bremen then crepe better than the papler mache stuff In along the narrow coping which pro. a wreck. steel sheeting could be pierced easily as could papi jects some eignieen inches trom tne eleventh floor level along to the soutn, but were unable to Ket inside to building. They then continued along a sloping roof, Upped at an angie uf bu |degrees, hanging precariously to the gutter, For thirty feet they crawied thus, Kuss leading, At the south end of the biulding Kuss was able to spike the roof with a firem and pulled himself up. The other nen were drawn up to the roof of the |Durning building in the same wayg °, ‘used in eel, is knowa ae ole. 0.—On Sept. 24, BERNARD “ re: beloved som of cae tats ine . mative ef jigiass, County Roscommon, Ireland. ty from the fe ere} of hie te LOST, FOUND AND REWARDS. Pr Sa aa NS elicis baty picket oppure, ben “$s, Sd 18 Broadway to the street. anriee . a dt! = ‘The ninth, tenth and eleventh floors . . were burned out, at an estimated loss ot. mation of Hi ing room at Gi Prati 15,000. The whole bullding wus a 7 Ky emaked before the Gre wes = x: containing. among ad wager son HELP WANTEO—MALE. _ table reward Sophtres and, Kenion, who was deeply |___ moved by the peril from which his Officern and men had escaped, made thin statement after the fire: “The so-called fireproof buildings in the financial section of the city jare so full of unnecessary furniture | that they are worse than a furniture | warehouse when they begin to burn; they are more than ordinarily perilous to firemen.” PACKERS. THE BEDELL CO, REQUIRE DOUBLE &x. PERIENCED COAT AND SUIT PACKERS; CHRISTIANS ONLY, APPLY 88 W, 17TR 91, Summer Vacation Days Are Over! And now come the days when the library and paror supplant the hotel verandas; when mental training Is given the right of way by ocean waves and mountain peaks, These are days for study—for the up- tullding of mind and ims bs And what a wonderful rtunity ‘New York affords for the pte of shorthand, dancing, bookkeepin, fy ing, fencing, painting, telegraphy, the languages, &c., &c. And what nossibilities await the teach. ers, schools and colleges wh. bring thelr offers of instiuction home to New York's 5,000,000 people, For lessons in the various branches of learning, see World “Instruction” ads, any day, “14 of which were printed last month--150 More than the Herald. ial for bh ednesda: ggg a rawherrs vr An exquisite blending of and Grated 10¢ je into de- . LB. BOX World “Instruction Wanted” Ade, Bring Quick Results! a- rend