SECOND ARMY BEING MOBILIZED The Division and Reorganiza* tion of the Manchurian Corps to Occur. ALSO A NEW COMMANDER General Grippenberg Has Been Ap pointed by the Czar as Commander i in Chief of the Russian Army j —Marks New Energy. , St. Petersburg. Sept. 27.—The divi sion and reorganization of the Man churian army, regarding which there 'have been rumors ever since the battle ‘of I.lao Yang, was officially announced today In an Imperial rescript appoint ing Gen. Grippenberg, now commander >of the Third army corps in the prov ince of Vilna, as commander of the 'Second army corps now being mobil ized for immediate dispatch to the far ■east, leaving Gen. Kuropatkin in com tmand of the First army. The em peror is personally convinced that the [political, as well as the military pres itlge of the empire. Is at stake, and that every other consideration must give [way before the exigencies of war. The resources of the empire in men and money must be drained, if necessary, in order to turn the scale and vindi cate the power of Russia. The reorganization amounts to for mal notice to the world, as the em peror frankly explains in hiB rescript, that he intends to -vastly increase the 'number of troops at the theater of war ,'ln order to force the struggle to a suc cessful issue in the least possible time. -It is intended to silence definitely all talk of foreign intervention by the an nouncement that Russia means to fight out the issue with Japan on the field of battle. Probably 300,000 men will be placed [in the field. Five corps, the Third, Eourth, Fifth, Eighth and Sixteenth, rare already destined for the front, and it is expected that five more corps will be sent forward. Will Need Commander in Chief. Eventually the creation of this sec ond army involves the selection of a /commander in chief. Not only Is there tno intimation in the rescript that Gen eral Kuropatkin will have command of [both armies, but he is placed on the *ame footing as General Grippenberg. In the best Informed circles there Is little idea that Viceroy Alexleff, the present nominal commander in chief, will exercise the actual functions of icommander of the 600,000 or 700,000 'meS that Russia has resolved to put In the field. • It is the best opinion that Grand [Duke Nicholas Michaelovltch, Inspector [general of cavalry, will attain the high command, occupying in the war with (Japan the position held by his father jin the war with Turkey. There are I (various reports regarding Viceroy p. Alexieff’s destiny. It is claimed in (some quarters that he will be recalled (and Grand Duke Nicholas become vice roy as well as commander in chief. } It is also said on apparent equal au thority that Alexleff will return as (chancellor of the empire, succeeding (Count Lamsdorff. None of these re [ports is definitely ‘confirmed. Would Favor Winter’s Campaign. ’ Grand Duke Nicholas is still a young [man, not yet 46, with much of his father’s rush, energy and resolution. There is reason to believe that even with the memories of the horrors of the Shipka campaign against the Turks of which he was the witness as a young captain of cavalry ,he would favor a ’tf- [winter campaign against the Japanese. ■V. ! The dispatch of the grand duke as [commander of both armies would ac jcord with the traditions of the Roman (off dynasty, a member of which Im perial family has always been in com jmand In all of Russia’s great wars. It is agreed by the ablest military [men here that should Nicholas be ap pointed, despite the fact that his ex perience has been as a cavalry com (mander, the selection of his chief of [staff will become a matter of supreme .importance. A counselor of wide actual (experience in general command will be icome an imperative necessity. Gen lerals Dragomlroff, Vorentzoft and Sou (gareffsky, veterans and heroes of the (Turkish war, are mentioned for the i L. f General Grippenberg, commander of the Second army, was born January 21, V jl838. He Is ten years older than Gen 'eral Kuropatkin, but ranks three num fbers lower In the list of generals. Gen feral Grippenberg is a Lutheran in re lliglon. He is married and has three children. One son, a captain of artil jlery, was wounded in the battle of Liao :Yang. General Grippenberg was edu cated at home, and passed through no [military school. He won his first com ! mission while fighting in defense of Se vastopol, and then came into prom inence In the campaigns in Turkestan tin 1863 and 1868. He went into the (Turkish war as a colonel, and as a re ward for his services as aide-de-camp rto the emperor was promoted to the jrank of major general. He became a lieutenant general in 1890; a general of infantry in 1901, and recently was ap pointed general aide-de-camp to the ■emperor. Grippenberg Distinguished. While General Grippenberg’s distin guished war record is sufficient to ex plain the appointment, it is believed Trince Sviatopolk-Mirsky’s recom mendation did a great deal in that di rection. Grippenberg will leave for the far east the middle of October. It Is now evident that General Line vitch will remain in charge of the Amur district, including the defenses of Vladivostok. Russia’s recognition of the fact that the forces now in the far east cannot successfully prosecute the war against tlie men Japan Is able to put in the field, and the knowledge that the latter power is now mobilizing 100,000 more men for the front and the decision to reorganize the Russian army upon a gigantic scale in order to be able to assume the offensive quickly, marks a distinctly new phase of the war. The physical difficulties to be reckoned with in promptly getting out such large re inforcements over a single line of rail road more than 5,000 miles long are ful 5 *ly realized, but with the circum-Baikal railway completed the authorities ex pect to practically double the present capacity for the transportation of men, munitions and provisions, and send out two corps instead of one monthly. Within, three months three corps are expected to reach Harbin, swelling the total number of Russian soldiers in [Manchuria to considerably over half a million. In the meantime the armies at the front, continually augmented by fresh troops, will act as a buffer to hold in check the Japanese until the army will be able to assume the ag gressive through the greater weight of numbers. IS IN CLOSE QUARTERS -,— All Information From Port Arthur In dicates Japanese Are Pressing Toward the End. Chefoo, Sept. 28.—As a result of the battle before Port Arthur which began on September 19, .the Japanese suc ceeded In capturing several important posts, and today the Russian tenture' of the big forts guarding the north northeast and northwest sides of the \ town is seriously threatened. Chinese 1 information places the Japanese losses under 3,000 for the three days’ fighting,, and th:s comparatively small casualty, list Is due to the excessive care used •by the Japanese In making their prep- ' arations for the advance. Russian ■ sources, however, claim to have in-. formation that the Japanese losses l were unusually severe, amounting toi fully three times the number men tioned. Poss'bly the most important capture during the three days' fighting was; ithat of Fort Kuropatkin, which, while i ;of minor value with regard to pre-: venting the entrance into the town of; the Japanese, has been constructed for! the purpose of protecting the sources; of the garrison’s water supply. The’ control of this water supply is now in the hands of the Japanese. Battle began September 20. As was announced in these dispatches on September 20, the battle began be- j fore daybreak on September 19. At this hour there were thunderous reports of artillery along the line extending from, Hie west of Its mountain to Rhilung and Kikwan mountains. This was but a preface to the assault which was des tined to result In the capture of three, new and important Russian positions,: together with six small forts lying be-, tween Shushlyen and Rhilung "tnoun taln. During the day and night of the' 19th and at noon of the 20th the bom-, bardment continued without cessation,' and the many shells falling from quar ters which previously had been silent1 imade it obvious that the Japanese had iat least succeeded in mounting many' heavy guns in new positions, or ini ‘Strengthening their old positions. The' .Infantry fighting during this period was comparatively trivial. At noon on September 20, the Japan ese right and center, the former being to the north and the latter to the east of the railroad, commenced the ad vance. The troops made use of the trenches and infrequent natural covers1 that lay in their way. The small forts to the south of Shushlyen resisted this advance, but briefly, their garrisons not hf>inar strone Fort Kuropatkin Fell. Since the beginning of the bombard ment the artillery fire from Fort Ku ropatkin had been growing steadily weaker, and It having become apparent; that It had been practically silenced the Japanese assaulted the forts. Fort Kuropatkin is situated to the south of Palichuang and to the northeast of the parade ground, on a low hill. It derives its name from the time when General Kuropatkin inspected it, pointed out the weakness of the posi tion, and ordered that it be strength ened as far as possible because of the necessity of protecting the water sup ply. While situated in the chain of main forts, For.t Kuropatkin never has been as strong as the others, and after severe fighting it fell' into the hands of the Japanese. This capture lessens further the security of the fort on Rhilung mountain, which is now threatened from a new quarter as well as from Palichuang. At 5 o’clock in the afternoon of the 20th the Japanese carried, a supple-: mentary fort, which from the lower, ground threatens the fort on Itz moun tain. This ended the heavy fighting for; that day, although the Japanese later; were compelled to resist several sor ties. Bombardment, Then Assault. During the night the heavy bombard ment of the Russian positions con tinued, the Japanese fire being directed with particular vigor against another supplementary fort 3,000 yards to the west of the forts on Itz mountain, and regarded as highly important because of its bearing on the Itz and Anshu mountain forts. The next day after having pounded this position unmercifully and until its fire had slackened visibly, the Japanese delivered their assault. They met with ja stubborn resistance. They were ex posed to the fire of machine guns and rifles, and they made frantic efforts to reach the crest of the slope. They leaped over trenches and embankments and tore down the entanglements In their path until at length they entered the fort. The Russian troops there re fused to desert their position, even in the face of the superior numbers which confronted them, and desperate hand to hand fighting occurred inside the fort. Eventually almost the ent tire Russian garrison was either killed or wounded. The foregoing information has been, obtained from a Chinese of unimpeach able trustworthiness. Fortress Seemingly Doomed. Military experts here are of the opin ion that if the Japanese capture either j Rhilung or Kikwan forts or the Itz and j Anshu forts, the doom of Port Arthur ! is sealed, and for this reason the im- [ portance of the results obtained by the ! Japanese in their latest assaults upon 1 jthe Russian position is obvious., As the Chinese from whom the corre- j spondent of the Associated Press ob- j tained his information left Port Arthur j the night of September 21, he is unable to say whether the battle was renewed^ ! on the 22d or not, although junks which j have come here bring reports of a light bombardment on that day. A steamer which has arrived here j from Port Dalmy confirms previous re. , ports that there was heavy fighting a' i Port Arthur on September 24. INJUNCTION REFUSED. New York Supreme Court Declines to Interfere With Racing at the Gravesend Track. New York, Sept. 26.—Supreme Court Jus tice MacLean refused an application for an injunction to restrain the Brooklyn | Jockey club from running races at Grave- ! send track, on the ground that there was nothing in the papers to show that a crime is about to be committed, and on a statement that, in his opinion, the court had no power to grant such an Injunction. The ruling was made after the court had examined the affidavit and other papers in the application made to It by two law yers, who asserted that gambling and pool selling was permitted by the jockey club at Gravesend, and that as such gambling would be permitted until the close of the meeting October 3. they believed the court could Issue an injunction against the club. HE JUST CAN’T HELP IT Cantwell Hugs Every Pretty Woman He Seas and Then Goes Off to Jail. Pittsburg, Sept. 27.—Thomas Cantwell, a machinist from New York, has been ar rested, within three hours of his release from the workhouse, on a charge of at tempting to hug a woman on her way home from church. He had just finished serving three months for a similar offense. Cantwell claims he Is .unable to resist a, desire to hug a woman the moment he sees one. SIXTY-TWOKILIED AND MANY INJURED . ' ' Disastrous Result of an Acci dent on Southern Railway in Tennessee. TWO PASSENGERS COLLIDE Accident Took Place Thirty Miles East of Knoxville—Due to Flagrant Disobedience of One of the Engineers. Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 27.—Running on a roadbed in a supposedly high con dition of maintenance, and having about them every safeguard known to a modern railroad, two trains on the Southern railway carrying heavy lists of passengers came together In a fright ful head-on collision near Hodges, Tenn., sending 62 persons to death and injuring 120, several of whom will prob ably die. This appalling loss of life and maim ing of the living resulted apparently ifrom the disregarding of orders given to the two trains to meet at a station which for a long time had been their regular meeting point. This action on the part of the engineer of the west bound train is made more inexplicable by the fact that the accident happened in broad daylight, and according to the best information obtainable he had the order In a little frame in front of him as his monster of iron and steel rushed by the station and a mile and a half further on came upon an east bound passenger train. The possibility exists that the ill-fated engineer may have been asleep. n.._•_ The trains were on time and not making thirty-five miles an hour, yet the Impact as they rounded a curve and came suddenly upon each other was frightful. Both engines and the major portions of both trains were de molished, and why the orders were dis regarded or misinterpreted may prob ably never be known, as the engineers of the two trains were crushed, their bodies remaining for hours under the wreckage of their locomotives. The collision was between eastbound passenger train No. 12 and westbound passenger train No. 15 from Bristol. No. 12 was a heavy train, carrying three Pullmans, two day coaches and a mail and baggage car. No. 15 was a light local train. The greatest loss of life occurred on the eastbound train, while on the westbound train only the en gine crew were killed. Relief trains were dispatched from Knoxville within an hour, and all physicians in the vicinity of the wreck were doing all they could when the lo cal corps arrived. The first train reached here from the scene of the wreck at 4:20 o’clock, bringing about sixty of the injured. Six of the injured aboard had died while en route to the city, and after their bodies were taken off, the train proceeded to a point near the general hospital, where vehicles were in wait ing and a large force of physicians were ready to receive the wounded. The next train from the wreck arrived shortly after 8 o’clock. It brought the bodies of forty-three dead. The six others who died en route brings the list up to forty-nine, and there are at least six more at the scene of the wreck, none of the bodies of the train men having yet been recovered. Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 27.—'The death list, as a result of the fearful wreck on the Southern road near New market Saturday, has grown to sixty two, and it will probably exceed seven ty before Tuesday, as many of the in jured are in a serious condition and more deaths will occur at the hospital. There were six deaths at that institu tion, the last one occuring when M. P. Gant, a prominent resident of Shel by, N. C. passed away. Others who died at the hospital were the two col ored firemen, two little girls and N. P. Miller, colored, of Johnson City. To the appended corrected list of dead there must be added an unknown infant found at the scene of the wreck, and two other unidentified bodies. The list of dead is as follows: W. A. GALBRIATH, Knoxville. . MRS. W. A. GALBRAITH, Knox ville. W. T. ELLIS, Greensboro, N. C. RALPH MOUNTCASTLE, Knox ville. MISS INEZ RUSSELL, Knoxville. CLYDE RUSSELL, Knoxville. COREY KNIGHT. Dandridge, Tenn. W. A. STEPHENSON, Omaha, Neb. JOHN CONNOR, Roanoke, Va. D. S. FOX, Birmingham, Ala. J. M. ADKINS, Jellico, Tenn. MRS. J. B. GAS, Knoxville. MRS. W. C. HADDIX, Knoxville. JAMES BIRD, Jefferson City, Tenn. MRS. R. B. WEST, Jefferson, City, Tenn. MRS. ALBERT M’MAHON, New port Tenn. ED DEGROUT, Johnson City, Tenn. JOHN GLENN, Morristown, Tenn. DR. A. CRAWFORD, Bardstown, Ky. E. S. HORNER, Morristown, Tenn. GEORGE LEE; Carrollton, Ky. J. R. PLUMMER, Chapel Hill. N. C. E. G. ERNEST, Johnson City, Tenn. JOHN BLACK, White Pine, Tenn. MRS. W. B. CRAWFORD, Mohawk, Tenn. J. R. RHEA, Whitesburg, Tenn. W. S. HILL,' Jellico, Tenn. MRS. LAURA HILL, Gaffney, S. C. - HILL, 7-year-old daughter of Mrs. Laura Hill. MISS SARAH H. HILL, Gaffney, s c. FIFTEEN - MONTHS - OLD BOY, thought to be son of Mrs. Laura Hill. MISS FANNIE EWING, Knoxville. R. B. GODWIN, Jefferson City, Tenn. MRS. C. A. RUSSELL. Knoxville. MONROE ASHMORE, Knoxville. WILLIAM JONES, Knoxville. J. J. DANIEL, Turley’s Mill, Minn. G. N. PROTT, Knoxville. ANNIE MALLORY, Birmington, Ala. MRS. —— GREEN, Sylvia, N. C. Wr. R. KANE, Knoxville, engineer of the westbound train. W. R. SPENCER, Arcadia, Fla. MRS. J. A. LEMONS, Knoxville. ROY M’MAHON, Newport, Tenn. MRS. NANCY J. RUMLEY, Wau tauga, Tenn. MRS. GEORGE MENZELL, Knox ville. REV. ISAAC EMERY, Knoxville. MISS COPP, Knoxville. MELVIL P. HANT, Shelby, N. C. J. C. MILLS, colored fireman. CHARLES CARSON, colored, Tel ford, Tenn. NEP MILLER, colored, Greenville, Tenn. WILL CUNNINGHAM, colored, Citi co, Tenn. ARTHUR GASS, colored, Greenville, Tenn. TWO WHITE MEN, unidentified. TWO-YEAR-OLr GIRL, unknown. UNKNOWN NEGRO. UNIDENTIFIED BABY. TWO UNIDENTIFIED BODIES. The Injured. J. C. Welch. Sanonoa, N. C.. painfully. Put Henry. Asheville, N, C., seriously. G. W. Robinson, Columbus, 8. C., slight ly. W. E. Hay, Wilmington. N. C., slightly. Miss Mary Bryan, Hendersonville. Ky., bruise^. 8. T. latwrer, Louisville, Ky.. seriously. B. C. Prince, division freight agent Cen tral of Georgia, Atlanta, badly bruised. Mrs. Geo. Broughton, Jacksonville, 111. Rev. J. Knox Montgomery, Charlotte, N. C . N. A. McDonald, Winnsboro, S. C„ slightly. Mrs. Fred Well, Winnsboro, 8. C., slightly. S. B. Peace and J. H. Miller, negro Pull man porters. Congressman Henry H. Gibson. Knox ville, bruised about legs and shoulders, back wrenched. Mrs. Nichols. Dandridge. fatally. J. N. Smith, express messenger. John T. Essary, Morristown. Tenn., slightly; J. A. Bones, Knoxville, face bruised, not seriously. J. 8. Helms. Knoxvtlle. J. T. Free, Newmarket. Tenn. Mrs. J. Jones, Union, 8. C. J. E. Arthur, Union, 8. C. J. W. White, Strawberry Plains, Tenn. Oscar Dalton, Knoxville. Miss Lucy Gray, Greenville, Tenn. Wm. M. Livingston, Louisville, Ky. A. A. Park, Columbia, 8. C. E. W. Robinson. Columbia, 8. C. C. S. Groves, Asheville, N. i_. B. C. Trent. Chattanooga. Tenn. Millie R. Clowers and child, Anniston, Ala., probably fatally. Albert Moore. Dandridge, Tenn. J. M. Anderson, Morristown, bruised.] Mrs, James M. Campbell, Knoxville, slightly. Mrs. O. G. Nance. Knoxville. Mrs. Node Frubere, New York, perhaps fatally Injured. Mrs. Lucy Harbin, Norristown, Tenn., seriously. Mr. and Mrs. Hav, Burlington. N. C. Mrs. Will Jones, South Knoxville, slight. W. B. Seatonu, Jefferson City, Tenn. C. E. Wright, Jefferson City, Tenn. Mrs. L. C. Blankenship, South Knoxville, Tenn., both limbs broken. Mrs. T. O. McCallie, Knoxville, back in jured. Miss Pearl Jones, South Knoxville, slightly bruised. It. B Lowrie, serious. George Bridger, Talbot. Tenn., serious. F. G. Turner, Morganton, N. C.. postal clerk, serious. B. 8. Green, Sylvia, N. C., serious. Mllburn P. Garrett, Shelby, N. C., se rious. Hlllts Nichols. Dandridge. N. C.. seri ous. Mrs. C. V. Taylor, Morristown, Tenn., serious. Miss Cary Knight, Dandridge, Tenn., fatally hurt. Child, name unknown, aged about • years, serious. Fred H. Wagner, Washington College, Tenn., hurt In head, arms, groin and In ternally. Minnie Janex, Greenville. Tenn., serious. Marie Conaris, New York, en route to France serious. Rose Cammeron, Moriah, N. Y.. serloi>« Minnie James. Knoxville, serious. Clearing Away the Wreak. A force of 140 men toiled ail day long at the scene of the wreck. Before 2 o’clock Sunday morning the track was clear for through trains *»ut It required many hours to clear away the debris. Engineers Parrott and Kane were found beneath their engines, but their bodies were not badly crushed. One little baby was found by the wreckers, but that was all. The cause of the terrible loss of life In the heavy eastbound train was ex plained today. It seems that the sec ond coach plowed Its way Into a bank in such a manner that the other cars were jammed into it, and, pushed on by the weight of the heavy Pullmans, were crushed like egg shells. Omaha, Sept. 26.—\V. A. Stephenson, mentioned as being one of the victims of the Knoxville wreck, was employed by the Markel Hotel company as a waiter, and by several hotels in this city. He has not lived In Omaha for some time. GATHER IN BOSTON. Episcopalians Triennal General Con vention October 5 to 26. Boston, Sept. 27.—A number of bish ops from abroad who will participate actively in the proceedings In the tri ennial general convention of the Epis copal church in this city October 5 to 26, have arrived In the United States. The greater number, however, will at tend the national convention of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew In Phila delphia later this month before coming to Boston. Among the important topic of busi ness to be considered by the house of deputies is the report of the commis sion, appointed tnree years ago to con sider changing the legal name of the church, “Protestant Episcopal,” and to ask the opinion of the dioceses. The commission in a report made public last spring decided against changing at this time. The agita.lon fbr a more explicit and stricter canon on the pro hibition of marriage of divorced per sons except for one cause will also be discussed at length and the advisabil ity of grouping the dioceses of the country into provinces, with a primate or senior bishop at the head of each province will also be considered. It is proposed to have a board of review where appeals from the diocesan courts may be heard. The question of meeting the situation in the insular possessions, and other Issues, will also be taken up. FIRE AT MENLO. Loss of About $60,000 Results Fron. Bad Conflagration—Town Has No Protection. Menlo, la., Sept. 27.—Fire of unknown origin wiped out half the business houses of Menlo Saturday morn ing. The town has no flr