DEAD PILED HIGH ,
IVKK A HUNDUKD FATALITIES IN
OKLAHOMA TOUNAUO.
IflSici Ooaroe In Which to Car
fur Kuffrr, Bnt AgAUtnnoo
raarlag In Htma Iacl
lanti of Jlarrar.
GUTHRIE, Okla. The death list
if last night's tornado ac h'nyder is
ixpeotea to exceed ono hundred.
Elgbty-tlvo bodies have been re
tovcred and doeens of pcrsaas are
Dieting and given up Mr dead, and
if the forty-one seriously wounded
teven are fatally hurt. More than
100 others suffered loss severe in
juries. Belie' Is being sent from neighbor
ing towns. From Oklahema City
today weat 100 men to dig graves
ind seek tho dead still in the ruins,
ind also a dozen undertakers with
100 coffins. Offers of Unanolal
assistance have coma from numerous
eities.
Governor Ferguson, of Oklahoma,
has issued a proclamation calling
attention to the needs of the strioken
city. It is still difficult to ohsiln
Information from Snyder. A slagle
telegraph wlro furnlshos an outlet,
but it is blocked with private mes
sages oonoerning tho dead and In
jured. To add to the general confusion
and distress 'after th tornado had
passed fro broke out and burned out
the buildings that remained of tbe
business blocks. So far it is not
possible to find out whether or not
any bodies were cremated, but It is
highly possible that such is tba case.
An unidentified woman was
picked up dead, having been pinioned
to tbe ground by a scantling which
entered her left eye and came out
throuch the back of her head.
Clarence Donovan, a railroad en
gineer, and Miss Nini Fessandcn,.
wero to have been married last night,
but had lust postponed the nuptials
until this morning. Both were in
stantly killed.
Fred Crump, a boy had started to
a cellar when a flying timber struck
him and severed his head from his
body. Debris was carried te tho
northeast as far as Cooper ton, twelve
miles, and It Is reported that there
are more of the fragments of homes
at tbat town and In that vicinity
than are in tbe tornado path at Sny
jder. About seventy-live head of horses
and cattle were klhed on the town
Bite. A committee set to work this
morning to remove carcasses.
The mayor of Snyder is having
muoh trouble arranging for the
(burial of the dead. Tho oonfasion
Bs great, owing to tho fact that there
still remain a number of unidentified
bodies at the morgues. There is
murh suffering owing to laok of
provisions and places to stay. What
houses remain in tbe town are In
bad condition and are unsafe for
habitation. Besides, tbero Is not
room enough to care for tbe home
less. Bedding and wearing apparel
nro both lacking, and despite the
effort to succor the unfortuaates
they are still In a pitiable condition.
Many of ths wounded could not he
cued for or given medical aid until
0 o'clock this morning and by that
tine their wounds were aggravated.
1 Dr. York of Hobart, who was
active in relieving the sufcrlng, says
that 2 per cent of the wounded will
die.
Snyder Is a town of about 2,500
inhabitants, in Kiowa county,
Oklahoma, in the Kiowa aid Com
manche Indian country, opened to
white sottlens In 1901. Tho town
was laid out largely by tho St. Louis
& San Francisco railway, at tho
Junotion of two of Its lines and tba
company erected important buildings
there. Snyder is the division point
for the Quandah division of the
road. Tho town was named for
Bryan Snyder, passenger traffic man
ager of the system.
While the tornado seems to have
been widespread, rumors tbat other
towns In southwestern Oklahoma
Ind been destroyed were declared by
telephone exchanges to be Incorrect.
However, there was no nuaafcion that
much damage to property aad loss to
life bad occurred In tho outlying
districts.
The same tornado struck Qulalan,
In Woodward county, on the Saata
Fe railway, destroying several housoi
And at that point at least three par
ions, Mrs. O. W. Oox and her two
ions, are known to hare been killed.
Tbe tornado struck Saydtr from ths
loutbwest, traveling north uatll
within about ono hundred yards from
ths traaks of ths Oklahoma Oity aad
City railway.
STRIKE HANGING ON
30XII HIDKH (IK CniGAOO MEfEM
INOI.Y SAT1SFIKD,
Cmpleyen, an tin Other Ilautl,
Heading Out Morf Vr;on
Klellng Ctntlnui and
Of aiiarp Oharnctar.
CHICAGO. Both employers and
I'rlkers claim gains in tho tsamsters'
itrike. The employers declare that
they have gained a decided advan
tage In the number of wagons sent
put aad the amount of business tran
sacted. The strikers' claim is based
pn tbe fact that 250 drivers for tbe
jrarloui furniture dealers in the city
jwlll strike and alsolCO paint-workers
employed by tho Heath Mllligan
company. The strike of tbe furni
ture dealers' drivers was fore
ihadowed on Saturday, when at a
jonventlon of tho furniture dealers'
association, it was declared tbat
tbelr men must mako deliveries lrre
ipectlve of strike conditions. They
ordered the men to carry goods to
tho boycotted houses and the strike
will be the result. The paint
workers of Heath & Mllligan are the
'first members of any union not a
member of the teamsters' organisa
tion to go on strike in support of tbe
teamsters. They have walked out
because of tho delivery of goods by
non-union teamsters.;
Tho State street department stores
lent out nearly their complement of
daily wagons, and throughout trans
acted business on almost normal
basis.
Fifteen hundred wagons manned
by nonunion men were operated fron
State atreet and tbat number will bo
materlaly tacreased. No moro colored
men are being hired either by tbe
State street stores or by the Em
ployers' Teaming company, aad as
rapidly as possible those now at work
are being supplanted by white men.
At the oflico of tho Employers'
Teaming cosapaay it was announced
that 125 white men had been im
ported during the day from Cincin
nati and Kansas City and seventy
five moro had been Bccured In
Chicago. Individual contracts were
made with all of these men and they
will bo given permanent employment.
The rioting was of a sharper char
acter than that of Saturday. Three
oaen were fatally Injured and a num
ber of ethers badly hurt, although
the number of tbe wounded is not as
a whole nearly so large as on some of
the days the middle of last week.
The faulty hurt:
John Fruen, stabbed.
Albert Enbers, shot in tbe abdo
nen. Richard Fruen, brotber of John
Fruon, stabbed.
Five others were wounded.
The majority of the affrays oc
:urr.d during tho early part of tbe
afternoon.
The civlo committee appointed by
Mayor Dunne to Investigate the
ttrlke commenced operation. It did
iittle but organize for future work,
aowever, and tbe promise of tbe
luccssful performance of Its missions
Iocs not seem to be right. It has
; oo power to summon witnesses, and
si use therefore rely on volunteer
testimony.
The members of tbe employers'
association declared that they hud
received no official notice of the
preation of the commission and
would have no dealings with It uatll
they bad been properly notified of its
existence. President Dold of tbe
Chicago federatioa of labor declared
for tbe labor men that no oao of
them would appear before the com
mission and give any evldooco what
ever unless Its sessions were opea to
the public and it investigated not
only tbe causes of tho present team
sters' strike but those leading up to
the strike of the garment workers of
Montgomery Ward & Co., last Janu
ary. It was 1b support of this strike
jfour months after Its inception tbat
Itbe teamsters went out In sympathy.
The members of the mayor's com
mission Issued a statement declaring
tbat they would hold private sessions
ally In the oity hall. It was an
nounced, moreover, that mo an
Qouacement of the proceedings would
be made until the hearing was com
pleted and a daslslon reached. The
actioc et the labor men In declaring
against the seoret feature of the
hearlag practically nulllled sbe'at
tltado of the commission as soon as
announced.
The efforts of the attorneys ef the
latter leaders to pretoot their ajlents
from aasweriig sjueationa In con
neetloa with tbe fedeaal lnjasjctlona
graabsd durlag the strike hy Judga.
0. C. CohJaatl proved asMvaJUagJ
MORE TO GO OUT
STIIIKK AT CHICAGO BEESM UKv
TCIMKI) TO Sl'.KKAI).
JFigilt To The Bitter End
VLOVll TKAMSTKKH LATEST flODT
TO QUIT YVOKIC.
Ulotlnc Lata Pannulr.nry, But
Number Of AMnulU Taking
Of Krhlaao Hruu on In
juactlnn 0et.
CHICAGO. 1 hi larRO department
stores and the cypress com utiles
bare resumed busiaoss on alaiost a
normal bails. They sent their
wagons into too extreme parts of the
city, in some Instances without
,poUco protection, and transacted
tholr buainess without Interruption
or treublo of a serious character.
Sixteen hundred teams were at work,
and the number will be increased.
Hot withstanding this apparant
gain, however, there are strong In
dications that tho strike will spread
within the next faw days not only
among the teamsters but will Involve
other unions as well. The drivers of
,tbe Welnlg Teiulng company a largo
concern chiefly engaged In delivering
flear went out when one of their
number was discharged for refusing
to deliver flour to a boycotted house.
The Wei nig company Is a strong
factor In the tcau -owners association
which has heretofore sided rather
with the teaniBtera' union than with
the employes' association. Its stand
In line with tbe Utter organization
was somothlng of a surprise te both
sides in the struggle.
In some quarters it was icaretf
that the strike of the Welolng com
pany drivers would produce a short
ego in the supply of flour but the
officers of tbe company say that'thoy
have supply sufficient to last tbe city
for a week and that at tbe oxpiratlou
of that time they will bo able to
make deliveries as before.
For some time it was reported
tbat a strike of the teamsters em
ployed by the Crane company was
immlneuc. This concern is an Im
tcense manufacturer cf elevators and
plumbing supplies and Its shut down
will be a serious detriment to many
building operations now In progress.
The threat to strike caused by the
discharge of two teamsters who re
fused to mace deliveries as ordered.
The officials tf the union sanctioned
this strike but did not occur as ex
pected. An adjustment of some kind
was reached but the statementiof the
Crane company and labor loaders
differ as to its obaracter. It is
stated by tbe labor men that the
two drivers were reinstated. This
Is denied by tbe Crane company.
Tbe faot remains however that tho
men did not strike and the probabil
ity now 1b that they will remain at
work.
There wero numerous clashes in
the streets betweon non-union men
and the police ana union teamsters
who attempted to block the passage
of tbe wagons of tbe Employers'
Teaming company. There wero also
a number of attacks a ale on non
union men bv workmen in buildings
who pelted them with all sorts of
missile from a safe distance. These
wore all in the character of rear
guard attacks and bore no resem
planco to tbe open violence com
mitted during Inst week. Tho most
serious fight of tho day was at Lake
and Clark streets whore union team
sters formed a blockade and brought
about congestion of traffic and ser
ies of lights tbat blocked the streets
in that section of tbe oity for tbe
greater part of an hour. Nobody
was Borloeily hurt and numerous
arrests were mado by the police.
Coal teamsters In the business
section of the city were tbe spcolal
objects of attack by workmen In
buildings near which they drove.
As soon as they were discovered mis
siles of all sorts were showered upon
them and In sevrral instances it was
necessary for the wagon guards and
police to send a volley of bullets fly
lag toward the windows. Nobody,
however was shot during the day.
The taking of evidence relative to
the granting of the Injunctions
lamed temporarily of the United
8Utes otrcult court In favor of the
employers and Ike seven express
ooraaaalea commenced by Master In
Gbaaeexr Shernan.
BABY 18 OLDEST MAN.
NMATE OF A POORHOUSE IN
NEW JERSEY.
(Inn Kcached the Oicnt Arc of 130
Ycara unci 1'ntlctitly WnltuVor Death
to KeniOYO IUiii from Theao Kurt lily
Hectic.
For forty yearn Noah Itaby, the old
.'at man In America, who Uvea In 1Mb
atnwny township, near Now Bruns
wick, N. J., has been waiting for ono
:hlng. It in very llttlo that he asks,
jut ho must wait for It nevertheless,
t is death.
Noah Ituby is now ISO yours of ngo,
)ut thoro Is naught but pathos to-thty
tonnectcd with tho immense number of
ream ho has lived. In ton years mora
ic would havo doubled man's Allotted
Unto of "throe ucore and ton," but It
means nothing to this old man, al
;hough ho Is in possession of all his
.'acuities savo ono, sight, which ho lost
tuly u fow yearn ngo.
Noah itaby has gained nothing by
living ho long. Childless and almost
friendless, without any ono of tho hon
rs so often rewarding tho culmination
)f a lone life much snorter than his,
Noah Rafy has lived nearly half a cen
tury as tho ward of public charity, the
nmato of a county ioor house.
Tho writer went to soo htm tho othor
lay, and saw him walk, almost alono,
icross the room of tho quaint old fnroi
houuo to the arm chair In which on cer
tain days ho receives visitors, and talks
frcoly with them, though these wookly
levees always leave hint In an onfec
bled state for a few hours afterward.
Tho Plscataway poor house or poor
farm, as It Is bettor known Is on tho
old Stclton Highway, a few miles from
New Brunswick. It and Its surround
ings givo no idea In thomsolvcH of their
uscH or of the persons shcltorcd and
cared for thoro. Thero aro not moro
than a dozen Inmates In all.
Tho visitor passed through the little
gateway betweon tho whitewashed
fences, ami wan asked lo enter tho low
door, opening almost on tho ground,
and wait for Mr. Itaby, -who was up
Htalrs. Soon ho was lod Into tho rag
carpeted room hy a woman. Tho old
man Is bent so that bin face Is turned
to tho floor, except when he raises It
upon boing spoken to.
That a man should live to bo so old,
you think, la a lino thing, anil to re
main In full possession of a thinking
mind Is hotter yet, but what has It
gained this man? Nothing absolutely
nothing. He Is In the poor house, and
he himself tolls you that this fact is
an hourly shame to him.
"They aro kind to me," ho soys, pa
thetically, "but I ought not to ho here
I ought not to ho hero."
There Is no end to tho conjecturing
lo bo done upon tho subjoct of how
much Noah Itaby could havo accom
plished In his life, and thero la soma
wondor that ho uld not accomplish
moro; for as he talks to you It la no
ticeable that his language Is goocL He
has had a strong face. Thoro Is llttlo
doubt thut his memory is excellont and
lie tells you ho could read, though he
aiever knew how to write. How much
imeh a man could havo acquired in tho
way of reading alono In such n life
line! But Noah Raby'a conversation Is
seldom of books, though ho scorns to
be familiar with tho Bible and cltos
Old Testament situations glibly. His
talk is principally of his father, An
drew Bass, who was a full-blooded
Iroquois Indian, und of his whlto moth
er, whose name ho took. Of them ho
always talks with a clear memory, but
njver of any aarly utnhltlpn9 or of ro
gret that he did not succeed In mak
ing more of life. Ho saya only that
It Baddciis him to ho In a poor house.
He has been thero nearly forty yoam.
Nev,er u word of how hLi coming there
might kavo been prevented or proyld
eu against, but moroly an acceptance
ef the condition aa one unavoidable but
at the Btrme time to bo regretted. He
led always the life of a country farro
hundTund It may bo that ths pklloe
ophy of life did not come to akn until
he was already anjld man. Up to
very near the century mark in Ua Htm
near tho pluco where ho now lives by
rxnnlBBlou of the county.
Tho utter failure of tills llfo, ono ofj
tho longest any man has ovor lived, 1'
the principal Idea that appeals to you!
after the llrst fow mlnutcn that you
nit in Noah Baby's presence Yet you!
do not find It in your mind to blamoi
the mnn himself us he aita there bent
before you, reciting the trivial happen
ing which he looks back upon as thoi
inoHt Important In his life, such an Ida!
leaving ono place of employment fori
anothor, of his going away to sen and
shipping aboard the old Constitution In
time of peace, of the one lovo story Ini
his life, which you find Jt liard to tnka
seriously. No, it is not in your hoaro
to blame this simple old countryman,
who cannot tell you how n single largoj
city or town looked In hi darller man
hood or boyhood, for not having used
tho opportunities of years. lie laslm-i
ply a remarkably old man, and In othor;
ways no different from the-other thou-j
winds who fall. Ills life haw been natj
urally humdrum, but ho itcVor thought
of It as being so, and lived as many
others of his day and tlmo lived
looking no further ahead than from
one day to another. All ho cares about)
now Is death, and ho cannot havo itJ
His only consolation lies in the knowiJ
odgo that it will ' miroly como, but Iti
lias boon a long tlrne on tho way, and!
Noah Raby looks tho name to-day uW
he did twenty-live years ago, a bent,'
little man, Indicating only in little
ways that ho has attained moro than!
ordinary old age, as evidenced In tho
cases of numbers of old peoplo seen on,
tho public streets.
8AW MRS. 3URRATT HANGED.
Ounril'a Btory of Krent Alleged Ac
complice of llooth Died Quickly.
Fow men live in the United Stntoa
whoso duty has made thorn toritncflsos
to a woman's luinging. Ono of theso
men, says an Kvansville (Ind.) special!
to tho St Louis Globo-Domocrat, Is
Henry nusband of New narmony,
IntL, who was prcwont at tho hanging
of Mrs. Surratt and three companions
for tho alleged murdor of Prosidont
Lincoln. Tho hanging took placo in
tho mlliuiry prison at Washington, D.
0., July 7, 1805.
After serving u three years' enlist'
ment in tho Union army Mr. Husband
re-enlisted in the Fourth United States
Veterans, which wa made up of sol'
dlors especially physically lit George
Trethoway of Stowarf.sVlllo, near
Now Harmony, wus a member of tho
same company and with Mr. Husband
was detailed as a guard at the Wash
ington military prison.
Tho charge against Mrs, Surratt Is
woll known, John Wilkes Dooth, the
leading Instigator of. tho crime, bj.al
leged to have been shot to death In a
barn near Washington, but fow people,
know whore hla remains are burled;
Tho supposed body woe taken to the
military prison In Washington and
kept several days, when tho guards
wero withdrawn and it was taken
away. Mr. Husband, who was guard
at tho prison during those troublesome
days, says it was commonly bellevod
that the body of Booth was taken
aboard a gunboat and sunk in a deofl
part of tho Potomac River.
Tho trial of Mrs, Surratt and het
thrco companions consumed several
wcoks, and she was finally sentenced
to death, with a man named Payne, a
natlvo of Florida, and two Germans
named Atzerodt nnd Harold. Tito dats
of execution of the four prisoners was
set for July 7, 1805. Mr. Husband's
recollection of the day's huppenlngs li
particularly keen. The execution tooli
placo within the four walls of an open
court, tho aides of which wero brick.
On top of this wall was a pathway
wldo enough for three soldiers to walk
abreast, and along thla pathway two
companies or uniieu states veteran!
wero drawn up. Beneath them loomed
tho scaffold, and the crowd which
waa to witness the hanging. Tho scafl
fold waa a plain affair, with a pin
floor and a heavy beam, from which
J 1 1 M T i.
uiuigieu iour ropes, ueneaui eacn rop
waH a drop, and ths four drops wcrt
worked by a lover. It was Intended
into eternity at tho same moment
Mrs. Surratt was In a condition
uvi liiH vtt uuvvtu).ivucuuoa Y 11 trll. Mil
inn iiui rv 4j yiicvii illih. rmmiiT.
lv vffa.i n rtvf4 I - SM.. lit
companions wero moro composed, bu
niliAir w1 1 1 1 Ma1 4-1. JWl
and took their places beneath th
noosoa Mrs. Sorratt occupied tho
i . - 1 at.' It . a i.
a a flit feT ft mnvl wamamh n m
- 1 It A. . . a il
flu J UDlUi-J- lu i rH.WlUl U1U
Jtim k M . a . 1
whesi tho command to flpr& the-tri
Vkif) ui v mi L-iirr in v ni 1 111 im- i . n
..liMoA..,.!.. Aa A -J
through the floor oc the tKaffold,
To Mrs, Bqrriitt death ckuio quickl
hut not so to th two Qerm&nfl.
who witnessed their Buffering,
Uuawma say, it neemea, iat
elapeed befor tke two spirit left
mtser&OM noatea. rayn waa
he was able to do a little wrk, ha talhi
.ravaat man of the quartet. Me
you, aa ajsitssaML eavt Jaw
s4a saae ajsMsy aasA seatoeaty.
