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SNOW !S 150 TO 300 FEET DEEP More Than 600 Miners Cut Off By Giant Slides In the Mountains. ONE SLIDE KILLS TWELVE Fate of the Isolated Men Will Not B| Known for Several Days—Twenty Five Mines Damaged Proba bly $1,000,000. Denver, Colo., March 21.—By the loss of twelve lives in a snowslide near Sil verton. yesterday the death roll result ing from the great storm of the past week in the San Juan mining districts has been Increased to at least fifteen. At Silverton, at the Camp Bird mine, a few miles from Ouray, and at Coal Basin, on the western slope, hundreds of miners, their wives and children are facing starvation. Mills and other mining property es: timated to be worth $1,000,000 have been swept to destruction In deep gulches. The cattle on a thousand hills are re duced to skin and bones. On Cuntbres pass, the highest point on the narrow guage road front Du rango to Alamosa, a trainload of pas sengers is marooned, dependent foi warmth on a meager supply of coal lit the engine tender, and for food on wha,( hardy mountaineers can bring them with snowshoas. Railroad traffic is paralyzed and tele phone and telegraphic communication Is interrupted over at least half of the state. The body of Edward Kleickner, a ranchman, aged 27 years, was found to day frozen stiff in the road within three miles of his home near Pagosa Springs, Colo. Ernest Barnes, aged 20. who left Wal den, Colo., on horseback In the blizzard last Friday, has not been heard of since and is believed to have perished. Twelve Lose Their Lives. Silverton, Colo., March 20.—Twelve miners employed at the Shenandoah mines were caught by o. great snow slide yesterday and swept to their deaths. Their bodies have not pet been recovered. The dead are: JACOB THEBOLDT. JESSE SHAW. GUS HOISE. PETER COLEBURC!. BERT ALBERT. EDWARD KIRK, formerly of Ouray, "SLATE” BRANTON. EMIL BOSS. -GUSTAVSON. •- MARGELO. —— PICOLLO. ONE UNKNOWN. A man who escaped hurried on to Howardsville, three miles down the gulch and telephoned to Silverton for help. The Shenandoah mine is located on the east slope of King Solomon moun tain, In Cunningham gulch, nine miles north from Silverton. All telephone wires to the section north of Howards ville are out and communication with the mine is impossible. The mine em ploys about seventy-five men and is one of the largest in the San Juan country. The great storm which began a week ago here lifted. The thermometer fell to 20 degrees below zero. It has been a week since trains left here, and it probably will be several days before the Rio Grande line can he opened to Durango. The Gladstone and Northern has a large force clearing the line to Glad stone. Ouray. Colo., March 21.—Six hundred miners employed In various mines within a radius of twenty miles from Ouray have been cut off from all com munication with the outside by snow slides. It is feared as many as twenty min ers lost their lives in the slides, but the exact number will not be known for days. Twenty-five mines are completely Iso lated. The damage may reach $1,000,000. Provision House Carried Down. At Camp Bird mine a snowslide last night completely isolated fifty or more miners employed there, and as the pro vision house was carried away, it is certain they are in urgent need of food. In Imogene busin snow is from lo0 to 300 feet deep. This will prevent work on reconstruction of the tramway for several weeks. Miners Deserting. Telluride, Colo., March 19.—A snow slide which came down yesterday at the Liberty Bell mine damaged the up per terminal tramway and consider able trestle work. Many miners, re membering the terrible slide of four vears ago, left the mine today and came to Telluride. On account of the severity of the storm, which still con tinues, no effort will be made to recover the body of August Hellene, who was killed Saturday by a slide near Bear The telephone line to Ophlr station Is cut off and the fate of the engine and Flagler crew, hemmed in by slides near the Ophlr loop, is not known. Slides are coming down all along tlie road to Bed mountain and tha storm continues so that it is im possible to get through. Clearing Weather. Denver, Colo., March 19.—Fail weather with rising temperatue today followed a severe snow storm which has prevailed over Colorado for a week with brief intermissions. Last night was one of the coldest of the waiter here, the temperature fall ing to 5 degrees below zero. At Chey enne, Wyo„ it was 12 degrees. Losses from destruction of mine property in ttie vicinity of Ouray may amount to $1,000,000 and further dam age is threatened at Ouray, Telluride, Rico, Siiveiton and other mining camps. Durango and other towns in the San Juan region in southwestern Colorado have been cut off from com munication by train for nearly a week but the management of the Denver anc Rio Grande railroad is making strenu Dus efforts to reopen its branch line ii that part of the state, which is blocked by heavy snow on the Cuinbres range. The main transcontinental lines have been kept open and through train service lias not hem delayed much during the storm. The heavy snowfall in t’l ■■ mountains Insures an abundance of water for ne gation. Many snowslldes have already oc curred in the mountains, but up 'o this time there has lain no h.nvy loss of life reported. NEW CHK-r PC -TAL CLERK. Cedar R:-) i 1 ai Var h 19.—A. Weiss fit Chit; o • app« urn i Chief postal il o o r ee-J l,. late A. T. Wi! POLICYHOLDERS ARE SAID TO PROTEST i Object to Alleged Methods of New York j Life Officers to Secure Proxies to Re-Elect Themselves. ! New York, March 21.—Samuel LTnter meyer. counsel for the international policyholders’ committee of the New York Life Insurance company, sent a letter to Alexander E. Orr, president of the New York Life, protesting in the mime of the policyholders against what he terms the extraordinary effort that is being made by the officers of the company to obtain proxies for the annual election which is to be held early in April. ‘‘I am informed.” the letter says, “that within the past few days you sent from your head offices to your entire agency force throughout the country telegrams urging them to col lect proxies. I have before me one of a number of printed letters and cir culars issued from your head office, signed by the cashier of your company, with an accompanying form of proxy, addressed to policyholders, enclosing a biography of each of the directors and officers whom you seek to re-elect, in cluding yourself. This proxy is tc Messrs. John Claflin. Oscar S. Straus and Clarence II. MacKay, of whom biographies are also enclosed, printed at the expense of the policyholders. "If these documents have been sent to every policyholder, the cost to tin company for postage alone would b< about *80,000 and the cost of printing as much more. How you justify suet expenditures (to say nothing of tin manifest impropriety of such action a< this juncture) I fail to understand. "These documents are coming to ui in great numbers, from Infuriated pol icyholders with the request that out committee take some action to prevent you thus wasting the money of the policyholders in the attempt to return yourself to office.” The World says: At a conference in the office of a downtown lawyer it was agreed that the trustees of the New York Life Insurance company, who were members of the finance com mittee during the presidential cam paigns of 1896. 1900 and 1904, and were cognizant of the political contributions made by the New York Life, should re imburse the company to the extent ol $143,000. This is the total of the politi cal contributions made by t lie com pany. Each trustee will go into hli own private funds to make the pay ment In all there are fifteen trustees Involved and under the agreement eaci: man will have to contribute a trifle less than *10,000. It was originally planned to hold th« estate of John A. McCall responsibh for all of the political contributions and to bring legal actions against it to obtain reimbursements. Abandon ment of this plan is involved in the de cision reached at yesterday's confer ence. NOT DYING AND NOT A CANDIDATE Charles M. Schwab Kept Busy Denying Rumors—Has No Senatorial Aspirations. New York. March 21.-—'The rumor, originating in Omaha, that Charles M. Schwab, ex-president of the steel trust, to attain his end had established a residence in Nevada, is denied by him. Omaha, Neb., March 19.—Charles M. Schwab, ex-president if the steel trust, has become a citizen of Nevada and will attempt to-become a United States senator from that state, according to an interview printed here. The inter view is given out by Tom Noonan, a prominent mining man of Bull Frogi Nev., where Schwab has immense hold ings. Noonan says: “The next United States senator from Nevada may be Charles M. Schwab, the steel magnate. Schwab, an his trip to Bull Frog a week ago, CHAUT-f 2M- JXWm. WOTO W nuA. gave it out to friends in that town that ne intended to become a candidate tc succeed Senator Newlands." “Has Schwab established a home in Nevada?" was asked Noonan. , "Yes, he gave $25,000 for a kind of a shack out there and says he intends to build a big house there. Any kind of property there costs money because of its mining value. But Schwab es tablished a home in the state and that was the true cause of his trip out there. It is understood around Bull Frog that when Schwab starts in, he fntends to open the biggest barrel of money ever turned loose in the state. Some of the mining men were in Mon tana when Clark went after the sen ntorship and we know what that cost Clark, but that's nothing to what this will cost Schwab. We’ve got some oth er moneyed men who want that office and Schwab will have to pay lots of money." NEWSPAPER MEN DIE. Michigan and Utah Publishers Ex pire. Grand Rapids, Mich,, March 21.—Wil lis Hall Turner, general manager of the Grand Rapids Herald died today from paralysis. Provo. Utah, March 19.—John C. Graham, editor of the Provo Enquirer, died here Sunday from Bright's dis eases, aged 67 years. Mr. Graham was cost master at Provo and was removed from office during the agitation against Representative Brigham H. Roberts because lie was a polygamist. He had two wives PANIC liTsCHOOL. Fire Causes Loss in Haverhill, Mass., and Children Arc Injured While Escaping. Haverhill, Mass., March .’9.—The fire Is out. No one was seriously hurt. I.oss is small. Haverhill. Mass... March 19.—The Manual Training school in this city is in flames, the tire spreading to the Whittier and annex of the high school. It is reported many children have been hurt. EX-GOVENOR THAYER ! OF NEBRASKA DEADj famous Veteran of Civil War j Passes Away After an Illness | of But a Few Days. • A UNIQUE CHARACTER; He Fought His Way to Fame in thf War, and Has Held Prom inent Civil Offices Since. Lincoln, Neb., March 21.—Genera) John \1. Thayer, civil war veteran, for mer United States senator and gov- , rnor of Nebraska, died shortly before - o’clock last night, after an illness which became serious only last Sat urday. For a man of his age—86 year!) —General Thayer was unusually ro ausf; and active usitil a month ago. He is survived by two sons, neithei of whom was present at the time oi bis death, though botli are on the wuj :o Lincoln. Funeral arrangements await :he arrival of his sons. John Milton Thayer was one of the unique pioneer characters of Nebraska and was in his 86th year. He was one of the old political figures of early Nebraska, classed with Church Howe, Robert Furnace, J. Sterling Morton and others. Coming to Nebraska before .he civil war, lie led a Nebraska regi ment of infantry, and they distin guished themselves at Shiloh and Don •lson. For this Governor Thayer was made a brigadier general. Again General Thayer fought In the siege of Vicksburg and Jackson and led a storming column at Chickasaw and was made major general. When he returned to Nebraska in 1865, he was made United States senator, and served four years, having been chosen by the republicans of Nebraska without an op posing candidate. Governor of Wyoming. It was when his term as senator ex pired that he was appointed by General U. S. Grant, governor of Wyoming, and when he returned to Nebraska he was chosen governor on the republican ticket by a majority of 25,000. When he retired from the governor’s seat, it was in a sharp and hitter con flict with James E. Boyd, the demo cratic candidate. The fight between the two candidates for control of the state house, both claiming an election will be long remembered by Nebraskans. Among the honorary offices held by Governor Thayer was commander of the Grand Army of the Republic for the department of Nebraska. SNOWSLIDE IN A FLAT COUNTRY Eighteen Inches of Snow Falls in Fif teen Hours in Illinois, Block ading Traffic. Decatur, 111., March 19.—Eighteen Inches of snow fell between 9 last night and noon today. It Is the heaviest fall ever known here. All business Is suspended and street car and interurban lines were block aded until this afternoon. There were no passenger trains today on some of the railroads and one train with four locomotives on the Cincinnati, Hamil i ton and Dayton line is stuck in drifts six miles east of Decatur. Roof Collapses. Indianapolis, Ind., March 19 —The roof of the street car barns collapsed this afternoon under the weight of the heavy snow. One man was killed and several seriously injured. Generally Bad Storm. Chicago, March 19.—Northwestern, middle western and southwestern states are today enveloped in the severest snow storm of the season with conse quent interruption to street car and railroad travel. Snow fell throughout the night, in many states reaching a depth of a foot, and is still falling. The storm was accompanied by a high wind causing the snow to drift considerably, but the temperature remains moder ate. West of the Mississippi the mercury again is falling and unseasonable cold weather prevails in the Rocky mountain region. According to the weather bureau predictions the tefnperature will fall east of the Missouri valley tonight, but will rise in the northwest. The center of the storm is now over in Ohio valley and fair weather in middle western i states is the outlook for tomorrow. HOPE IN HOME RULE. John Redmond Makes Speech of En couragement to Irish. I London, March 19.-John Redmond, ad dressing a St. Patrick’s day demonstra tion at Manchester made the most hope ful speech yet heard from an Irish leader. He said he believed that Ireland had turned the corner, that the record of the last elections would never be reversed and that the England of the future would give to Ireland all that she could reasonably expect or demand. The government will be given time to fill the pledges contained In tho king’s speech and the nationalists would not con template the possibility of a rising In which they would be forced to turn their weapons upon the present government as they had turned them on previous govern ments. MUST PRODUCE BOOKS. Attorney General Hadley Is Proceeding with Authority. N St. Louis, March 19.—The postponed hearing In the ouster suit Instituted by Attorney General Hadley against the Standard, Republic and Waters Plerce Oil companies began today be fore Special Commissioner Anthony. Among the witnesses expected to tes tify tire H. Clay Pierce, former presi dent of the Waters-Plerce Oil company, S. M. Finlay vice president and C. M. Adams, secretary of the same company. Subpoenas duces tecum have been served upon Adams requiring him to produte the stock books of the com pany. TSWN IS DESTROYED. Northwood, Wash., Is Swept Away b) a Forest Fire Which Threat ened Lyndon. Lyndon, Wash., March 21.—North wood, four miles north of here has been destroyed by forest fires. Many famil ies are homeless. The fire was within a mile of Lydon and grave fears were felt for the town when the fire wa» gotten under controL MOB LYNCHES NEGRO. Tennessee Citizsns Are Angered by Stay of Execution Granted by Supreme Court. Chattanooga. Tenn., March 21.—Ed Johnson, colored, was taken from jail by a mob of seventy-five men and Imaged to a beam of the county bridge over the Tennessee river. The rope broke and the negro's body fell and tlte mob quickly riddled him with bul lets. Sheriff Shipp and the Jailer were locked in a bathroom when the mob se cured the prisoner. There was no dis order. 'Pile negro was to have been hanged today, but tile United States supreme court yesterday granted a stay of ex ecution and this action angered the cit izens of the city. Early In the evening the mob began to form and it was all done so quietly that only those in the immediate vi cinity of the jail knew when they were ready for action. Seventy-five of the better class of citizens assembled at the jail and at once gained admission. Overpowering the sheriff and his depu ties they secured the prisoner and quietly led him to the bridge, where tlie hanging was carried out In tlie most orderly manner, the mob immedi ately dispersing. WITTE MAY RETIRE. Russian Premier, It Is Said, Is Deter mined to Give Up the Struggle. St. Petersburg, March 21.- -In high circles the rumor was current thul Count Witte had definitely decided tc; retire from the premiership. The As sociated Press Is unable to confirm the rumor, as Count Witte had retired and the chancellery was closed when the correspondent called shortly after mid night. From an absolutely authorita tive source, however. It can be stated that Count Witte at a session of the. council of the empire yesterday after- j noon made an enigmatical statement 1 which Is interpreted by many members of the. -council as a virtual declaration that his career as premier is ended and that he will be succeeded by Privy Councilor Kokovosoff, former minister, of finance. FATAL FIRE OCCURS UNDER EAST RIVER _■ Blaze in Hay and Sawdust in Pennsyl vania Tunnel Causes the Death of One Man. New York, March 21.—Fire among1 several hundred bags of hay and saw dust far down in the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel under the Fast river, to day filled that section of the tube:: with suffocating smoke and it is re-1 ported one or two men lost their lives ] Firemen were unable to combat the (lames as it was Impossible to carry hose to the fire without shutting the compressed air pressure at the ah loejes. The fire was extinguished after hav ing burned about five hours. The superintendent of the construc tion work said one death resulted from the fire. THAT JOLO SLAUGHTER Rev. Dr. Parkhurst Uses It as a Text, and His Words Throw Small Credit on Government. New York, March 20.—In his sermon or llie relations of socallod Christian nations that arc pagan, the Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst referred yesterday to the re cent killing of Moros and President Roose. velt's congratulatory dispatch to General I Wood. | "Consider,” he said, "the easy and sell satisfied way in which we regard the mow ing down of the savage and semi-savage In the Philippines, when they stand li the way of national purpose, of which, lifter eight years of 'benevolent assimila tion,’ we have just had a most thrilling and heartrending example In the bombard ing to death of 000 men, women and chil dren, collected in a crater In the More Islands. “There are two thnlgs to be said about the jubilant congratulations sent by the chief executive to General Wood. The first is In reference to the designation ol the performance as a ‘brilliant feat of arms ’ Basing our estimate on the re ports rendered by General Wood It was no more a ’brilliant feat of arms’ than smok ing bees out of a hive or rats out of a nest. "But a Tar sadder feature of the execu tive communication to General Wood Is that it contained not one word of sym pathy, not one word of tender distress. In view of the indiscriminate slaughter per petrated 'in honor of the American flag.' We have been taught to believe, and we like to believe, that our president lias a • great heart. "And so I prefer to think of (hat cable gram, composed as It was In the presence of mangled men, armless and torn women, armless and headless children—I prefer to thing of it not being the expres sion of the man Roosevelt, but ol the President Roosevelt 111 whom offi cially the heartlessness and Ihc greed of unregeiicrated nationality Is functionally represented. I want to find a way out for Roosevelt, Tor the performance on the Jolo Island has a ghastly look and the cable graVn matched It. "With the exception of the maintenance In the soutli of negro slavery, there has been, 1 should say, nothing sadder In our history than the national attitude In which wo today stand as toward the little brown people of the Philippine Islands.” | -— MAY I Arkfc FULFI I . Rev. John Watson (Ian MacLaren) to Come to the United States. Fittsbuig, March 21.—Rev. Dr. John Watson, of Liverpool, England, "Ian MacLaren,” author of “The Bonnie Briar Bush" and many other books, is to be the lecturer extraordinary In the Western Theological seminary for a course of lectures next year. The ar - rangement lias been worked out by the Rev. David Gregg, president of the seminary. Dr. Watson Is entirely will ing to come, provided some church will give him preaching for the year. Joseph V. Thompson, the millionaire of J-'ayelte county, has taken up the idea on behalf of the First Presbyterian church of Uniontown, of which he is a leading member. This is one of the wealthiest congregations In western Pennsylvania, and the people are de lighted with the idi a of securing "Ian MacLaren" for their stated supply. SI 0,000,000 MORE. Postoffice Appropriation Bill Calls for Increased Amount. I Washington, March 21.—The house 1 committee cn postoffiecs reported the postoffle.e appropriation bill to the house today. It provides for an expen diture of $191,374,000 for the fiscal year, or $913,000 less than the modified esti mates of the postofflee department This exceeds the appropriation for 190G by $10,352,000. WAS THE WRECK DUE TO OVERWORK Said That a Confession Has Been Made By Night Opera tor Lively. LACK OF SLEEP ALLEGED Conservative Estimate of Number of Dead as Result of Adobe Collision Is 36—Many Bodies Will Never Bo Identified. Denver, Colo., March 20.—The police of Denver have been asked by the sher iff of Fremont county to locate Frank Lively, the Denver and Rio Grande tel egraph operator to whose negligence Is attributed the disastrous head-on collision at Adobe. It Is reported that Lively left Swallows yesterday and Joined his brother, also an operator, at Portland, and later both left on an eastbound train. A subpoena had been Issued for Frank Lively to appear at tho coroner's Inquest today. Pueblo, Colo., March 19.—Twenty two dead and twenty-two Injured Is tho best estimate of the casualties In the wreck of the two Denver and Rio Grande passenger trains which col lided on a curve at a point twenty-flva miles west of this city early Friday morning. Only seven of the dead bod ies can be Identified, and only one ol those retains sufficient of the outllnt of the features to be readily recognla able. The remainder are known from the fact that the location where th« charred bones were found were the places where they would naturally havs been when the collision happened. Operators Held Responsible. Two telegraph operators are held In the public mind to be responsible for the awful disaster, although no format Indictment has gone out against them. Both have been ordered discharged from the service of the road. A coro ner’s Jury has been Impaneled and will begin Investigation of the cause of tho accident today at Canon City. In addition to this the railroad com pany has directed Its officials to locate the blame through an examination of trainmen and operators who will be asked to gather together In the future and tell what they know of the deplor : able affair. I R. C. Whitney, who was being taken fo the penitentiary by Deputy Sheriff Ed E. Baird, had been chained to his seat and when the fire broke out In the wreckage he had no chance ! whatever to escape. By the irony of fate his guard perished with him. The Colorado laws have a provision making It a crime to fasten prisoners to car Beats in transportation. I Mrs. William Burnside and her I daughter and grandchild, said to bo from some Kansas town, were erron eously Included In the death list last j night. I All the Injured. It is believed, will ' recover. It Is not likely that the re | mains of any of the other victims can | be Identified. "I Was Asleep, That’s All.” ! E. F. Lively, the operator whose failure to deliver the train order resulted In the collision, said: "I was asleep; that's all.” It la asserted that . Lively had worked for several days ! without sleep. ! It developed that Lively, who was the regular day operator at Swallows, had besides performing his own duties worked on Thursday night for William Vandeusen, the night operator. Van fleusen Is said to have absented him self from the station on Thursday night without getting the approval of bis superiors. General Manager's Report. I New York, March 20.—President Jeffrey »f the Denver and Rio Grande, received tho following official statement from A. S. Ridgeway, general manager of the com pany: I Dr. O'Connor, our chief surgeon report* lo mo eighteen bodies being recovered from the wreck. He thinks there Is a pos sibility of a number of fatalities which I will reach twenty. Six were Injured serl I ously. Other Injuries slight. All of the ln lured will get well. No. 3. leaving Pueblo, had orders to met No. 16 at Adobe, Dis patcher had "O K "from Florence and Swallows, operator at Swallows stating that No. 3 had not gone by. He had been asleep beyond question; did not hear No. 3 go by and "O K’d” dispatchers’ order' and Is the sole cause of the collision. This was the day operator and he was doing I Juty for the night man, as night man had < fono to Pueblo to cash pay checks without asking permission from Pueblo office. Our standing rule Is that day operators are not to relievo night operators and work over time unless permission Is asked and grant ' ed by chief dispatcher. The Death List. I So far as Identification of the dead has progressed, the following have been recognized: I PATRICK MURPHY, Florence, Colo. 1 RAY FIELDS, a boy, Keystone. Wyo. I MRS. BELLE WEBB, Keystone, ! Wyo. j WILLIAM HOLLIS, engineer No. 16, Pueblo. | WAliTEK COSSLETT, engineer, No. S, Pueblo. H. D. SUDDUTH, fireman, No. 16, Pueblo. EDWARD E. BAIRD, deputy sheriff. Denver, Colo. , ARCHIBALD WHITNEY, prisoner, on way to penitentiary at Canyon City, in charge of Baird, Denver. I A. N. BARKLOW, Saltda, Colo. I MISS GRACE BARKLOW, Salida, Colo. | ENAS M’PARLAND, express messen ger, Denver. TAYLOR HEWITT, Lebo, Kans. MKS. LILLIAN HEWITT, Lebo. Kans. PEARL HEWITT, aged 15. Lebo. Hans. MRS. CATHERINE HEWITT ANC 1 BABY BOY, Lebo, Kans. ED CROWLEY, Lebo, Kans. FRED JONES. Lebo, Kans. FRED LKMECOOLEY, Denver. MRS ED CROWLEY. Lebo. Kans. MRS. WINONA HEWITT, Lebo, Kans. 1 All the Injured will, It Is believed, re cover. It Is not likely the remains ol m,v of the victims can be identified. DOWN EMBANKMENT. j Whole Train Goes Into Ditch—Six Art ., Hurt. Louisville, Ky., March 17.—Train No Z on the Morion and Louisville for Chi cage, was derailed at Horseshoe Bent at 11 o'clock this morning. Five pas sengirs and a baggageman were In jured. Nobody was killed. The er.gim tender Jumped the track while thi train was rounding a sharp curve ant the entire train went down an em bunkmefit. NOTED ANARCHIST DEAD Herr Most Succumbs After 8hort Ill ness—Delivered Famous Address During Delirium. Cincinnati. 0„ March 20.—Hert Johann Moat, the rvo'ed anarchist, died •lore today of erysipelas. Most came to toe city Monday on invitation of friends. He was to have delivered a lecture in Chicago Wednes day, but ■ n account of an attack ol erysipelas he was obliged to cancel the engagement. Up to a few hours be fore ills death his physician expressed mfldence ilia patient would recover ■ st was delirious a greater portion .i the time the last few days, suffer ing greatly, but occasionally repeating parts of his most famous speeches. During a larger part of last night h« tvas unconscious, hut during the morn ing he regained consciousness for a short time und at 9 o’clock seemed much me re cheerful and apparently was suffering little pain. Witli huu at the end were a few ol his friends in the city, who had been raring for nlm during his sickness. No plans have yet been made for the fu neral. FATAL SNOWSLIDE. Causes Death of One Man and- De stroys Over $400,000 of Property. Ouray, Colo., March 20.—A mammoth snowsllde In the Mt. Sneftels district, six miles south of Ouray. Saturday night wrecked the Camp Bird mill, tram house, boarding house and read ing room. William Cressey Is known to have been killed and It Is feared that other lives were lost. A number o< men. It Is reported, were seriously In jured. The property loss Is estimated at from *400,000 to *500,000. The Camp Bird bunk house adjoin ing the reading room, which was wrecked narrowly escaped being en gulfed and crushed. There were be tween 200 and 250 miners and mill em ployes In this building when the slide-' came down. The residence of Gen eral Manager Cox also escaped destruc tion by a narrow margin. The Bllde had largely spent Its force before reach, lug the assay shops and general office* of the Camp Bird mine. This avalanche, which moves annual ly and Is called the United States slide, was larger this year than ever before. It started moving last evening at 1 o'clock, following Its usual course. As a rule It spends It force by the time II reaches the gulch, but last night II continued on to the Camp Bird mill, crushing it like an eggshell. This large mill being in the direct path of th* avalanche checked Its terrific force, otherwise It would probably hav* reached and destroyed the bunk house. Telephone communication with th* Mt. Sneffe*,a district has been inter rupted for four days and the first news of the disaster was brought to this city by County Commisslones Smith, who left the mine at daybreak. A rescue party started out at once, but it will take them several hours to reach Mi. Sneffels, ns the roads and trails are blocked with snow. The destruction of the provision house at the Camp Bird mine cuts olt the food supply. The 250 men employed In the mine, feating other slides may come, have taken refuge In the tunnel. Preparations are being made to res cue the men or get food to them be fore the snow makes it impossible to reach them. Rescuing parties started from Ouray for the. scone of the accident, but were forced barn by the storm and It will ne Impossible fot anyone to reach the mine before tomorrow. ' A slide took out the power line ol '.he Animas Mining company. Later a second slide took three-quarters of a mile o£ the power line of the Tellurlds power plant, which furnished power to the Rovonue, San Pedro and Atlas mines. Lines of communication have been Interrupted to the following mines, be sides the Camp Bird: The Bankers' National, employing 80 men; the Rev enue, employing 200 men; the Atla* employing 16 men, and the San Pedro, employing 160 men. MORE CANAL DELAY. House Not Willing to Concur in Senate Hearings Regarding Type of Waterway. Washington, March 20.—The senate committee on Interoceamc canals heard with many misgivings the reported statement by Representative Hepburn that the house committee would not be willing to accept the senate hearings to determine the type of canal to be constructed across the Isthmus of Pan ama. - This Is taken as an Indication that congress will not be able to agree upon a bill deciding the type of waterway unless the session of congress Is long continued. ON EVE OF WEDDING. Omaha Man Kills Himself While His Fiancee Is Shopping. | Minneapolis. Minn., March 20—While I his fiancee, to whom he was to be mar ried this evening, was purchasing her wedding gown In a St. Paul department store, Paul Lindherar. of Omaha, com mitted suicide at the Merchants' hotel yesterday afternoon. Lindberg, who was a traveling salesman reached the city yesterday, apparently In the best of spirits. He was with his bride-to-be, Miss Molly Stevens, 3S0 Jackson street, in the morning, and left her enly a short time before killing himself. Lindberg had stood before the mir ror and sent the bullet crashing into his left temple. Lindberg was ..etween 40 and 45 years old. well educated and apparently earning a good salary. Miss Stevens was prostrated by the news of the tragic act of her prospec tive husband. _ $I0,00C TO SUFFRAGE. Will of Susan B. Anthony Leaves Hei Entire Estate to Cause She Loved. Rochester. N. Y.. March 20.—-The wll* of the late Miss Susan B. Anthony waa offered for probate today. The estate amounts to about $10,000, all of which is left to the woman's suffrage cause. BUYS LIGHT PLANT. Fort Dodge Concern Sails Out ta a Company of Investors for About $250,COO. 1 Fort I> dge. la., March IT.—The Fart Hodge light and power plant was sold to a company of investors from Grand Rapids. M ch.. represented by the bank " ing firm of Childs. Hutswit & Co. ol ! Grand Rands. Th- amount Involved I is over a quarter of a million dollars . The purchasers take Immediate poa* session.