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NINE LOSE LIVES train on northwestern droi'j through a uridoe Weakened By Flood Water COACHES 1'II.K Ul'ON KACI1 OTHEll IS SMALL STREAM bend Hud Soroutocii Injured In Till . Compartment Hours lleforo Relief In ruriiloliud I the Victims CASPER, Wyo. Moiling snow and tiigh water caused the worst wreek hi Ihe Jiistory of the Wyoming division jf the Chicago & Northwestern rail way when a work train, running tc Casper from the construction camps )f Wo 1 ton, dropped into a small itream near Natrona, twenty miles west of Casper. Nine men lost theii liven. One of these, Charles Moll, vas foreman of the outfit, and D. D. Blue section foreman of Cadoma. Seventeen wero injured and some ol these may die.. The wreck happened at 5 o'clock as the train was crossing the stream. Tho engine passed over sately, hut its weight broke down the piling, which lad been undermined by tho Hood waters aud'thc ears dropped into the ravine. The one coach of the train was filled with Austrian and Italian laborers. The coach was telescoped by a heavy water ear following and was crushed like an eggshell. Many of tho pussengers were caught mder the wreckage and it was hours oefore they were taken out. One or two were drowned and several were tilled outright. Several of the "nborers were thrown into the water tnd had a narrow escape from irowning. Word was sent to Casper as quickly is possible, but it was eighteen hours. Defore relief could be extended to die injured. The weakened oondi ;ion of the bridges, due to the Hoods, mule it unsafe to send a train to the icene and hand ears were pressed into service and three surgeons and t party of citizens set out for tne icene. Shortly after starting the relief party ran into a severe snow itorm aud were compelled to abandon the ears and proceed on foot. In the meantime pile drivers md a bridge gang were sent from Rapid City and the bridges west of Dasper repaired. At uoon a relief ;rain was sent out and later brought In the dead and injured. Tho blamo or the wreck seems to rest on nobody in particular as the train was pro jeeding slowly and cautiously under jrders to be on the lookout for bad places in the track. The coroner will aold an inquest. The lirst detailed story of the wreck was brought to Casper by .an Italian interpreter. Antonia Lovalli, who was in tho accident. Lovalli !ays the train, a work outfit 00111 oosed of one coach, two Hat cars and i water car, was returning to Casper 'rom the front. All streams were jwollcn and in places water was standing on the track. Near Natrona the train struck a small bridge over a swollen stream. The engine passed over in safety, but the :oach, loaded with tho section men, dropped into the roaring torrent and the Hat cars aud water car piled on fop. The coach was demolished. There were twenty-six persons in the car at the time of the accident, and all who wero not killed or drowned were in jured. Foreman Charles Moll was killed md for a time tho laborers, being without a leader, wero frantic and did not know what to do. Tho engineer and fireman and tho train j row quickly assumed charge and tho work of rescue began. Tho train crew and the less seriously hurt worked all night, and as fast as the injured wero taken out they were carried to Natrona, where they received such treatment as could bo obtained at the section house and two or three ranch houses. Tho wreckage caught fire soon after the accident occurred and for u timo it looked as if tho dead and injured would bo incinerated before they could be removed. A bucket brigade was formed; however, and after a fight tho flames were extinguished before any material damage was done. One or two of tho laborers who wero pinned under the wreckage near tho stove wero slightly burned. The relief party reached the sceno at noon the following day. A train with tho wounded on board reached. GAS WELL PUT OUT FIRE IN VTKl.l NEAR CANKY, KAS., II VISA I.IiY SM OTI1E RKD HOOD FINALLY OVER IT STEEL CAT, WITH MUD AN1 ULAN KKT, CHUCKS IT On Again Turned l.oot-, to Run lit Iti I'luiisurv, Until New Tuliliiir I'ut In DlnUiilt to Rtduilld Derrick IN D K PEN I) EN'C E, Kas. - Tho Kansas Natural Gas company's big gas well below Caney, which was struck by lightning February 23, was successfully extinguished. The second hood which was a failure, was placed over the well again. The ground had been made wot ana soft around the well so that the hood sank deep into it. Previously the six inch casing which had catised the horizontal tongues of lire had been dropped into the hole and tho only fire now was through the vent pipe in the top of the hood. Over 100 yards of canvas ducking was sewed into big blankets and first a layer of canvas and then a layer of gumbo was built around the hood until there were tons or earth banked up. Then the hood was anchored with big chains. Steam pipes were con nected to the vent to prevent the Haines from rushing down into the hood when the valve was shut as in the previous trial. Then a big spool was attached to the long arm used to turn the valve and around this spool wire was wound. At a given signal men took tho end of this wire and ran, turning the valve quickly and the great Hre was out. The great difficulty now will be to build a derrick over the well, fish out the dropped tubing and retubo and shut in the well. After the fire was put out the gas was turned loose and is now blowing into the air out or the top vent of the hood. Taken Out tir .Mint! Tomb LENS, France. Fourteen of the 1,200 miners who were entombed in the coal mines at Courrieres were taken from the mine after fourteen days alive aud well. They 'Jmd lived on hay found in one of the under ground stables and the morsels of food which they took into the mine with them nearly three weeks before. All attempts to rescue the entombed had been abandoned more than two weeks before. Tho sudden appearance of the imprisoned men caused stupefaction. A gang of salvagers had just com pleted their night's work when they were startled to see a group of miners, terribly haggard and exhausted and with eyes sunken, ap pear from a remote part of pit No. 2. Tho strongest of th) party said they had broken out of a distant gallery, where they had been entombed since tho disaster of March 10. Tho rescued men were taken up the elevator, but were unable to see, owing to the dazzling daylight. The mine ollicials were deeply affected as the weeping survivors were taken to a hospital. Tho men were able to talk feebly, but sen sibly. They all asked for news of relatives or friends and wished to go home immediately. The doctors, however, prevented them with dillieulty from so doing. Later crowds besieged the mines in the hope of hearing of further escapes, necessitating the employment of a strong police force and .detachments of troops to maintain order. Jt is said that others of the entombed miners are alive and about, to be brought out, their signals having been heard. The families of tho miners are intensely indignant. They claim that salvage operations were never undertaken in the part of the mine from which Nemy and his companions escaped, and disorders are expected. The most sevoo repressive measures have been taken. Crowds of women denounce the directors and engineers, crying: "If you had given us tools we would have saved our own husbands." The party which escaped originally numbered twenty men of whom six disappeared during the gropings in the darkness. A number of tho sal vago corps was counted among those brought out, making tho actual number of survivors thirteen. Tho latter are positive that others are alive in tho mine. FOUND SIX BODIES I1ULGARIANS .MURDERED IN A MIN NEAPOLIS HOUSE Only One Clue in The Case (I Kit, MAN HEAltD SCUFFLlNti IN It E A It O V HOUSE Police Relievo Some Were Killed for Kobliury and SurvlvnrK Quar relled Oyir The DhUluu of tin- SuolU MINNEAPOLIS. -Tho hacked and mutilated bodies of six Rulgarians, evidently workmen, were found lying in pools of coagulated blood in a little tumble-down house No. 215 Tenth avenue South. Four of the bodies were found in a sleeping room on the second lloor, cut and slashed in a shocking manner, while in tho cellar were two others with their throats cut from ear to ear. Near the bodies were found five large howie knives 'with razor-edged blades nearly 8 inches long and a blood stained hatchet. Two were evidently father and son. All of the men were comparatively young. Nono bore any names about their clothing, those Igiven being taken from letters in the sacks and satchels in the room where four of the bodies were found. The nationality of the men was determined by Kev. Boskowie, pastor of the Greek church here. He found nuiong the papers a discharge from the Turkish army, bcloncing to Agno Karolil. The only clue to the wholesale murder which may lead to something definite was obtained from a dray man named Mickleberg. He says he was approached by some men, whom ne took to be Italians or Greens who wanted him to take six packages from the house where the bodies wero found to tho union station. ')n arriving at the house lie found there were twelve packages, and after iuiiio haggling about the price he took them to the station. A young nan, aged about twenty years, rode hi the wagon with him. The other nen walked. The man who rode on ihe wagon said the party was going ;o Duluth. At the station he noticed that the men from the house were joined by several other men, i woman and a little girl. From this clue the police believe ;he murders were committed some linm between midnight aud the iiorning of the day the drayman was employed. This suspicion is clinched Dy the statements of S. Magnuson jwner of the house, who asked the Dolico to search the house. He said ;hat an aged German who occupied ,he lower lloor of the house could not je found. He it was who notified Magnuson that a light had occurred. Tlie German said lie heard soullling in the rear of the house, but thought lothing of it until the next day, when he observed that the tenants ibove him were not moving about as jsual. After notifiing Magnuson the iermnn disappeared and has not Deon located yet. Magnuson at once lotilied the police, who broke open .he door and made the horrifying liscovery. Magnuson told the police that tbout four months ago a well dressed Italian rented tho upper floor of the nouse and paid four months' rent in idvance. The Italian told him he was foreman of a railroad con itruction gang, and that none of the hotels would keep the men. The next day twelve men moved their oelongings in. They went to work Mich day and returned in the veiling. They wen- quiet, never Irank and those living about tho jlace paid little attention to them. Magnuson never inquired their names tnd merely entered them on the jooks as tenants for whom four nonths' rent had been paid in idvance. The "foreman" was never njon again and th'" police have ibsofutely no knowledge of his .dentity. Tho two bodies in the msenient, according to Coroner fistic had been dead nearly two lays. Tho blood surrounding the Dodies in the upper rooms was more 'resh than that "around those in the :ellar. Also the wounds on the four ippoared to have been made late, rho men in the basement had been cilled by having their throats cut md the police are inclined to believe hat they were murdered for their nonoy and a free-for-all light ollowed over a division or the spoils. Cliis is indicated by the wounds on lu hod ins found in the upper room. ,PERKINS WAS arrestee FORMER VICE I'RESIDKNT Ol' NEV YORK 1.1 IE HEM) Counted For .Mr. Vorkln Allrtrc OfToiixi Wan I'undy Tcchutt ul nnd That J'ayiuiMit Wnro Autli orlrt'd NEW YORK.-Goorge W. Perkins, member of the firm of J. P. Morgar it Co., and formerly vice president ol the New York Life Insurance com pany, was technicality placed undei arrest in the proceedings whiel District Attorney Jerome has begur to test the legality of political con tributions by insurance companies. The warrant was issued upon infor mation presented to Police Magis trate Moss and the allegation upon which it was based is the transfer ol $15,702 of the funds of the New fork Life insurance company to Corneliuf M. Bliss, treasurer of tho republican national committee in 100-1, in which it is charged that Mr. Perkim received the money from the insurance company and paid it over to Mr. Hliss. Immediately after his arrest, Mr. Perkins, through hi counsel, Lewis A. Delafleld, secured a writ of habeas corpus from .lust ice Greenbaum of the supreme court by which Mr. Perkins was released from custody and tho ease was taken directly to the supreme court. Argu ment on this writ was adjourned until later. Mr. Perkins was taken into custody while in the olllee of his attorney by a detective from the ollico of District Attorney .Jerome. He ditl not appeal before Police Magistrate Moss, who had issued Ihe warrant, but went directly before Justice Greenbniin.. There the district attorney recited the legal steps that had been taken but did not go into 1 1 i charge? against Mr. Perkins. Mr. Delafleld, however, declared that the chargee against Mr. Perkins was purely technical and asked for the postpone ment of the ease. He described the payment or $18,702 by Mr Perkins to Mr. Bliss in 100-1 and said that the payment had been authorized by John A. McCall, the former president of the N'.-w York Life Insurance com pany. The arrest of Mr. Perkins and the subsequent issuance of the writ of habeas corpus will have tin- ellect of having the highest, courts of (lie state pass upon the legality of campaign contributions by insurance com panies. Much attention was directed to this matter at the recent legisla tive insurance, investigation and it was shown that several of the larger companies on more than oik; occasion hud contributed to such funds. Mr. Perkins in his own testimony before the insurance investigating committee, testified as follow- con cerning check signed by Treasurer Randolph of the "New York Life Insurance company, calling for the payment of $-18,702 to J. P. Morgan t Co. "That, was money" said Mr. Perkins, "paid to Cornelius N. Miss on account of the republican national campaign fund of last year. We had agreed to pay him $r0,000 as much as that Mr. McCall had if ho wished it. That was all he finally called for and it win paid in that way, as cash to him. "Mr. Hliss made various calls from time to time for amounts which 1 paid myself; and when the account? were madn up toward the end of the year this amount was tho amount found to be due, and that amount was paid back to me. It was not paid to J. P. Morgan it Co., but to me. 1 had personally advanced the money. "This check for the campaign, drawn to the order of J. V. Morgan it Co., has no significance whatever. The money was ordered paid by Ihe president." When the matter was presented tc Justice Greenbaum for argument District Attorney Jerome informed the justice of the issuance of the warrant for Mr. Perkins' arrest and the writ of habeas corpus. Mr. Delafleld, Mr. Perkins' counsel then said : "George W. Perkins, a man of tin impeached character, has been placed under arrest pursuant to a warrant issued by Joseph A. Moss, as a city magistrate, by which he is charged witli what I conceive to bp a purely technical offense. T shnl not ask at this time to enter upon a long legal argument on tho technical question involved, but will ask your honor to postpone it to a moro opportune moment, when I shall bo assisted by other counsel who will be retained for .Air. Perkins.'.' ! - r- -rrffe I NEBRASKA NOTES J A big shipment or stone and other material has been received at Beatrice to be used in tho con struction or the new liurliiietnii depot. b William Plorco. a member or a bridge gang employed in constructing the Hock Island bridge at Beatrice had hi? loft arm severely crushed while insisting in handling some heavy timbers. A slight wreck occurred at Julian in which a freight engine and several ears were derailed. It took several hours to get them on the. track and started on their way again. No one was injured. The citizens and pupils of the pub lic schools of Nellgh in a few hours raised a fund of $100 for the Japanese famine sufferers. A draft for the amount was sent to tho Christian Herald Publishing company. Henry Demi of Fremont, had uutft thumbs crushed so severely that they had to be amputated at the first Joint. The accident occurred at the Platte river bridge, whore lie was employed with a pile-driving gang. Prilip Melntire, who has been In Jail at Oliadron for three months on a charge of rorgery pleaded guilty anil was sentenced to three years in tho state penitentiary. He claimed to have made a specialty of del rami ing the legal fraternity Mrs. John Wert, died at her home in Schuyler. Mrs. Wertz has been sick a long time and her death was expected any time. Mrs. Wertz had been very low since the death or her husband. She leaves a son and daughter. Gust. Anderson, an old resident or Oakland died of paralysis from which he had been unconscious ror over a week. .Mr. Anderson has been in the employ of the Fanners' Grain and Live Stock company at that place Tor the last twenty years. He is survived by a wile aud four grown children. Two strangers assaulted the night wacchman in the Northwestern" yards at Chadron. One man struck him with a club, broke his jaw and otherwise beat him They are in w in the county jail and will lie tried in the district court. While in a fit or temporary insanity. Mrs. Ernest Orcutt of Ord. drank a phial of carbolic acid, dying lie fore medical assistance could be summoned. She was a daughter of Keprosentativc Burroughs or Merrick county. . Ed Brnntner of Plattsniotith has accepted tho otter of Judge Wheeler to accept the sum of $8,000 from the Burlington company for injuries re ceived while in the employ or (he company as switchman, at Pacilfe J unction. Adolph Sternburg or Butte, a nachelor about 10 years old, was adjudged insane by tho Board of insanity. The complaint, was sxvorn mt by the father, a man 7-1 years old, and n cousin with whom they have been living. He is not violent, but very melancholy. He was taken to Lincoln. One of the largest land sales mado in Nebraska this year has been closed by L. P. Sargent, a real estate agent at Gibbon. The principal part or tho land consisted or what is known as the Merritt ranch near Lexington. This, together with other lauds, made a total acreage of ,'f,200 acre. The consideration -was $70,500 C. P. Dewey, an old soldier and highy respected member or Morton post, Grand Army of the. Republic, (lied at the homo of his daughter, .Mrs Thomas McMath, of Butte, of pneumonia. This is tho second member of the post that bus passed away inside of a week. Tho funeral will be hold at the Congregational church in Butte. II. L. Keefe, an attorney of West Point, will shortly commence tho erection of a brick store building and a residence at Walthill, the new town in Thurston county, on the; Great Northern extension. Mr. Keefe expresses his belief that thia now town will eventually become the sent of government of Thurston county. Although a report has been current; for the last low weeks to tho effect that Mayor Shultz of Beatrico vould not appoint A. I). Whito lire chief because he was an applicant for a saloon licence, at a meeting city counsel Mr. White, who was re cently chosen chief bytho fire depart ment of Beatrico, was named as such oflicer by the mayor and was oou-limed. OasDer in the afternoou. j