Nebraska Newspapers

    KILLS PARENTS, PUTS
BABES TO SLEEP; FLEES
/Posse Bent on Lynching th<
Murderer of Mr. and Mrc.
W. F. Copple.
/FHI.IP BURKE SUSPECTED
♦fired Man and Money Missing
Dead Bodies Left Where Hogs
Horribly Mutilate Them
—Appalling Crime.
Rosalie, Neb., May 1.' —People re
port having- heard hoof-beats six
miles east of here and Burke is
thought by some to be in the brush
along the Missouri river. He is
armed and will doubtless fight.
W. H. Copple, brother of the dead
man, this afternoon offered cl re
ward of $500 for Burke’s capture.
The state is expected to offer a sim
ilar amount.
Rosalie, Neb., May 15.—Fred Burk,
Whom a coroner’s jury adjudged guilty
jo£ the dastardly murder of Mr. and
Mrs. Walter F. Copple on their farm,
Ifour miles east of town, Monday morn
ing, is still at large. Sheriff Young be
lieves the man is making toward Oma
jha and that he surely will be cap
tured.
With all of the ghastly details
{known it is apparent that the double
murder was the work of a maniac or
,a ilend incarnate. The criminal an
inals of Nebraska probably contain no
[crime its equal in brutality or flend
fishness.
Evidence which was developed by the
ftlon of the scene of the crime and part
ly to the intense excitement which
groused the whole of Thurston county
points in but one direction. While
,there were no eye witnesses of the
bloody butchery there is scarcely the
slightest doubt but that the deed was
the work of Fred Burk, the hired man.
His flight alone is proof of his com
plicity, but added to this is the testi
mony of the seven orphaned children
which hardly leaves a shadow of a
doubt of his guilt.
Rosalie, Neb., May 15.—This section
Will have a lynching today or tonight if
|Philip Burke is found by enraged neigh
bors of Mr. and Mrs. Walter F. Copple,
who were murdered at an early hour
this morning on their farm three miles
bast of here.
Burke was their hired man and is
suspected for the reason that ne Is
missing, as is also a mule upon which
he is supposed to have made his escape.
The murdered man and wife were left
where the hogs could get at them, and
the woman’s head was nearly eaten
away by the ravenous brutes and both
bodies mutilated.
Puts Babies to Sleep.
Following the crime of which he is
suspected, Burke came back into the
house and reassured the frightened
children, saying in answer to the old
est girl’s remark:
“Why, I wouldn’t murder your father
and mother.”
Burke then urged the children to re
turn to bed. There are seven of them,
the oldest Blanche, aged 14 years, and
the youngest twins, aged 4 months.
Burke is said to have fed the twins aft
er killing their parents, putting the
little ones to sleep and after seeing that
all the children were quiet, stole away,
leaving them alone to come upon the
ghastly picture of the father and moth
er in the morning, dead and mutilated.
Murdered for Money.
John J. Elkins of this place was one
of the first to reach the Copple farm
after the news of the tragedy was
started. He as well as Sheriff Young
and the other hundreds who swarmed
about the scene of the awful crime to
day, is convinced that the murder was
committed by Burke and that the lat
ter did it to cover up his theft of sev
eral hundred dollars stolen from Copple.
Copple was attired in his night
clothes, but had on his shoes, indicating
he had planned to go out. A lamp was
burning and he probably lit It, having
been disturbed and was planning an
investigation. The blood spattered in
the kitchen and just outside indicates
a terrific struggle and means that prob
ably Copple came across the thief in
the kitchen and a fight ensued. A heavy
club smeared with blood showed that
the missing man used that or that it
was used on him before he shot his
victims.
Goes to Her Death.
After two shots had been fired, ac
cording to the oldest child, Blanche,
who was awakened by them, Mrs.
Copple in alarm rushed from the house
to see what was the matter and wheth
er her husband was in danger. Three
shots followed and then all was quiet.
Philip Burke, who is about 25 years
old, found employment at the Copple
farm three months ago and no one
hereabouts appears to know anything
of his antecedents. The pocketbook,
coniuinmg i. i uppie s srnun noaru oi
several hundred dollars, and which
Burke no doubt had knowledge of. is
missing. The only clew is the report
of the Burlington section foreman who
says he saw a man and shot gun with
a mule, north of here early this morn
ing.
The enraged men who are hot on tho
trail of Burke believe they will find
him wounded from his terrible en
counter with Copple. But that there
will be no mercy shown, is feared by
Sheriff Young who is himself engaged
in the search, having telephoned news
of the crime in all directions.
Whole Section Aroused.
The report of the atrocious deed
has spread over this and adjoining
counties and in many cases has been
exaggerated over the true facts, ap
palling as they are, and Burke, guilty
or not guilty, is likely to be given short
thrift if he is found by any consider
able group of searchers.
The Copples have lived here for sev
eral years. He was about 40 years of
age and his wife a few years his junior.
Coroner Reichenbaugh, of Pender,
has arrived and will hold an inquest at
this place this afternoon.
\V. H. Copple, of Bancroft, brother
of the murdered man, this morning
found on the premises of his brother
*2.50 in cash and a check for *600 for
the sale of cattle last week. The daugh
ter. Blanche, says there was at least
*200 in cash besides this In the house.
Rosalie is a small town in Thurston
county, Nebraska, on the Burlington
railroad between Sioux City and Ash
land.
JILTED, SENDS BOMB
TO HIS EX-FIANCEE
Atlanta. Ga„ May 15.—Because he
had been jilted, it is alleged that Fred
erick Bush, of the firm of Dooiitt> K
Bush, merchants of this city, sent an
infernal machine to Miss Kate Me
Carthy, the handsome daughter of Mr
Julia McCarthy, a wealthy wi.l. -
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DEATH WAS DUE
TO EXPOSURl
Dover, Del., May 15.—After an entire*
lay had been consumed and almost thei
entire night In reaching a verdict in the!
Marvin inquest, the jury rendered a
verdict that Horace Marvin, Jr., came
to his death from exposure about March)
4 or 5, 1907.
' The points upon which the jury hung
for three hours were the statements of
the physicians who performed the
autopsy, also as to the condition of the
clothes and shoes worn by the child
when taken from his body two months
after he had been missed from his
home.
The verdict arrived at, however, was
not unanimous, there being but twelve
cut of fifteen who finally agreed that
death resulted from exposure. Those
who refused to sign the verdict so
reached are: E. L. Clarke, foreman;
Assemblyman Herman Taylor, the sec
retary, and Dr. James Martin, another
juror.
Examination was made of the fifteen
witnesses yesterday, including Super
intendents Bcarce and Dlmaio, of the
Pinkertons, and those on the Marvin
farm ihe last day the boy was seen
Rlive.
SWIMS 37 MILES;
WATER 4 FEET DEEP
St. Louis, May 15.—Swimming twenty
seven miles in thirty minutes is the
feat of a tramp on an Alton train which
pulled out of St. Louis yesterday.
The tramp ensconced himself on the
engine's tender, and he fell into the
tank, being buffeted about the swirling
water by the surging of the train.
At Alton, twenty-seven miles away,
the first stop was made thirty minutes
after leaving here.
Faint cries of help were heard and a
search made. The tramp was found
feebly trying to keep his head above
water and almost exhausted.
When told there was only four feet
of water in the tank he could not be
lieve It. He believed it deeper, and had
used all his strength trying to keep
afloat.
FAT NEGRESSES GET
GOV. HUGHES’ SEA!
Blnghampton, N. Y., May 15.—While
in the way from Albany to this city
Governor Hughes had a seat In a day
roach. He left It at Schourle Junc
tion to send a telegram and when he
returned found it occupied by a col
ored •aunty" of extra large size.
"Madam,” said the governor, touch
ing his hat, “this seat contains my
valise, overcoat and umbrella. May I
ask you take another seat?"
The intruder’s eyes popped wide with 1
indignation. In a voice that filled the
car she said:
“ ’Deed Ah won't. Ah ain’t goin' to
move foh nobody. Take yoh things an’
go."
The governor removed his belongings.
CONAN DOYLeTrEAL
SHERLOCK,FREES MAN
London, May 15.—As the result of an
official inquiry, George Edalji, a young
Birmingham lawyer, convicted four
years ago of mutiliating neighbors’
horses and cattle, and sentenced to
seven years’ penal servitude, has been
granted a free pardon; investigations
led by Labouchere and Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle having established his
complete innocence and demonstrated
that the police blundered as badly as
they did in the famous Beck case.
This case which has attracted extra
ordinary attention in England, was
fought by Henry Labouchere, editor of
the London Truth, and Conan Doyle,
who made practical use of his theory
of deduction, which he so skillfully ex
ploited in his fictional detective, Sher
lock Holmes.
Dr. Doyle, who had happened to ex
amine Edjali’s eyes at one time, discov
ered a remarkable case of myopia—a
fact that in his opinion, would alone
meko it impossible for the nearly blind
Edjali to have committed the depreda
tions.
SUPREME COURT SHUTS
TENNESSEE SMELTERS
AT GEORGIA’S REQUES1
Washington, D. C., May 15.—The su
preme court today granted an Injunc
tion asked by Georgia against the Ten
nessee Copper company, and the Duck
town Sulphur company, restraining
them from operating their smelters In
Ducktown, Tenn.
The smelters are near the Georgia
line and that state asked to have them
condemned as public and private nuis
ances, alleging they constituted a men
ace to health and were a source of
great injury to vegetation for fifty
miles around.
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JUROR OFF TO MARRY
Selinsgrove, Pa., May 15.—Jury duty
did not prevent Elmer Stohinecker, a
Juror in the Northumberland county
court at Sunbury, from delaying the
promise he made to wed his sweetheart.
Miss Florence Berkes, of Northumber
land.
While the wheels of justice were
stalled for a short time until the bride
groom explained to the court that the
time was at hand when he was in duty
bound to make good his promise to wed
the choice of his life. Judge Savidge
promptly acquiesced, and the talesman
was excused, with the congratulations
of the whole court.
PHILADELPHIA MAYOR
SLEEPS AT CIRCUS
Philadelphia, Pa., May 15.—Steered
and protected by his bodyguard. De
tective "Tim" O'Leary, Mayor Rey
burn went to the circus.
It was too bad that the mayor didn’t
see all the big show. It really Is worth
while staying awake for.
The band blared Its blariest and the
whips of the ringmasters cracked like
pistols. All was in vain. The head upon’
which DcDougall had put the red cov
ering of Little Red Riding Hood bob
bed once, twice, and then was still.
The mayor was actually asleep at
the circus.
WOMAN’S NOVEL PLEA.
St. Louis, May 15.—Mrs. James Fris
bce was acquitted in the court of crim
inal correction of the charge of writing
policy tickets on the plea that her hus
band compelled her to write the tickets;
and that when she married him she
promised to "love, honor and obey"
him.
Mrs. Frisbee confessed to writing the
tickets.
Judge Taylor held that in misde
meanor cases a wife could not be held
i esponsible when acting under coni
1i—"d of her husband.
COREY GILMAN ROPED
OFF FROM OTHERS
teavy Twine Fence Will Keep
the Honeymoon Couple to
Themselves.
ARE TO EAT IN PRIVATE
Passengers cn the Liner Wilhelm Will
Not Sec the Newlv Wedded Pair
—Marry at 12:03 a. m.,
Tomorrow.
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♦ COREY'S UiXCLE 4
* PREDICTS UNHAPPINESS ♦
4 FROM WEDDING. ♦
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t- Pittsburg, May ir>. — “Ellis will live f
to rue the tL / he married that OH- 4
4 man woman. 1 have always known 4
f- that Mrs. Laura Cook Corey was a 4
f good and faithful wife. 1 begin to 4
f- think he must be losing his mind. 4
f- But he chose his own path and is 4
f the sort of man who will stick to 4
f it. 1 am sure he will not have a 4
f long term of happiness with the 4
► Gilman woman." 4
This prediction was made on the 4
^ eve of the wedding of Wi liam Ellis
f Corey by his aged uncle, J. B. Corey 4
► the veteran coal operator of this 4
tcity, as he closed an all day hulle- 4 ]
lujah service in United Evangelist 4 ;
t church in Braddock, N. J. 4
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New York. May 14.—William Ellis
Corey, president of the United States
Steel corporation, and Mabelle E. Gil
MABELS ■;
mmri’
tnan were married at the Hotel Goth
am this morning at 1:24 o’clock.
It was in order to escape the un
lucky 13th of the month that the wed
ding was postponed until after mid
night. The ceremony took place in the
royal suite at the Hotel Gotham, Fifth
avenue and Fifty-fifth street, in the
presence of a small party of friends of
the contracting couple. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. L. L. Clark,
pastor of the Bushwick Avenue Con
gregational church, of Brooklyn.
American Beauties for Decorations
The royal suite in the Hotel Gotham
Is on the third floor of the Fifth ave
nue side and consists of eight rooms.
It is secluded. The salon and the din
ing rooms were decorated with hun
dreds of American Beauty roses. The
management of the hotel and those in
charge of the decorations were given
carte blanche and they are said to
have cost $5,000.
After the supper was over the party,
led by Mr. Covey and his bride, passed
down the hall between the rows of
palms to the double salon, which was
decorated to represent a small church.
There was no music during the even
ing, and there were no bridesmaids,
Miss Gilman being attended only by
Miss Erskine Shaw, of London. Mr.
Corey was unattended.
The couple will, it is announced,
epend their honeymoon trip on the
steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II. in a
unique manner.
Private Dining Room.
Mr. Corey failed to engage one of the
wo imperial suites on the vessel, which
were especially built for the Kaiser
Wilhelm, as one had been taken by a
-ugar merchant and the other by a
wealthy brewer. The officials of the
liner, however, made up for th*s by
• lung aside me captains rooms iui
the couple and also arranging other de
tails so that their meals will be served
in a private dining room.
Fence of Rope.
The suite opens onto the boat deck
of the ship, which has been reserved
for the exclusive use of the couple.
To insure perfect privacy a rope fence
has been placed on the companionway
entrance to the deck, so that nobody
from other parts of the vessel may vis
it it.
San Francisco, May 15.—Although
Mabelle Gilman, who Is to be married
to W. E. Corey, has declared that G.
B. Gilman of this city, is not her
father, he sent the following telegram
to her today:
“Accept father’s blessing and wishes
for happiness and a long married life.
Live up to Christian Science.”
MRS. HOWARD GOULD
SUES FOR DIVORCE
New York, May 15.—Despite the as
surance of the knowing ones in New
York society that Howard Gould and
his actress wife would be reconciled, it
is learned today on good authority that
Mrs. Gould, who was formerly Kather
ine Clemmens, is about to begin action
for divorce.
The papers have been drawn and will
he filed early this week. Her hus’jand
is charged with desertion, non-support
and cruel*»»
TEDDY’S BULL TEKRIEK
WHIPPED BY MONGREL
Washing'on, D. O., May IS.—It is like
ly that Pete. President Roosevelt’s fa
mous bull terrier, which chased M.
Jusserand. the French ambassador, up
a tree, put terror in the neart of James?
11. (TarfieM, secretary of the interior,
muj left the hall mark of his teeth In
the calve* of less distinguished leg::
has chewed his last diplomat.
Pete tackled John T. Thomas, a navy
department clerk, and while being pried
loose rook with him a quarter of a yard
of trousers.
Hut Pete got bis. His measure was
taken by a no-account mongrel hound
which looked as demure as a rabbit.
A veterinarian said that Pete’s injuries1
arc so serious that he may have to
be killed. If so M. Jusserand, Mr. Gar
field, et ah. suggest that on Pete’s
tombstone he engraved the Inspired
lines of the late Tom Ochiltree, writ ter*
on the occasion of the violent death of
Senator Jones’ bull pup in a street
fight.
"He was a fighter, a hell of a :
good fighter, but a damn poor :
judge of dogs.” :
There wasn’t an appetizing states
man or juicy clerk in sight when Pete
swept the White House grounds with
haughty gaze. Pete was growling in
disgust when he caught sight of a
shame faced gray dog passing the ex
ecutive office. The stranger looked too
harmless to chase a cat. Pete couldn’t
resist taking a flyer, however. He
rushed to the attack with Rooseveltian
Impetuousness.
The stray dog waited with astonish
Thero was a flurry of fur and a rapid
fire of yips before Pete felt a pair of
Jaws at his throat. He fought des
perately, but he was choking. The
jaws shifted to his right fore leg, and
nearly severed it. Policemen who heard
the commotion rushed to the rescue.
The stray dog had Pete’s left fore leg
crippled when the policemen separated
the combatants.
Pete hobbled on his two sound legs
across the tennis court and found
refuge behind a picket fence. He was
the most thoroughly whipped dog in
the country when picked up and carried
to a veterinarian's office.
GIRL FINDS HER
LOVER IS EMBEZZLER
Causes His Arrest in Pittsburg,
Then Relents and Pays
His Fine.
Pittsburg, May 15.—The desire of
Miss Anna St. Clair to learn all she
could about Nicholas Montere, her
fiance, caused all kinds of trouble for
both, and “or a time It looked as though
the wedding was off.
Miss St. Clair learned that Montere
formerly lived in Hoboken, N. J., and
she wrote to Chief of Police Hays, of
that place, asking for information re
garding him. The reply was to the ef
fect that Montere is wanted in the New
Jersey town for embezzlement, but that
the amount is so small that the state
does not care to go to the expense of
extraditing him.
Miss fct. Clair at once caused his ar-'
rocf hcira onfl ho u;!i Q orrolmoH hofnro
Magistrate Brady and fined $50 as a
suspicious character. He was taken*
back to a cell, when Miss St. Clair ap
peared and announced that she had
forgiven him.
She paid Montere’s fine and left the
courtroom with him.
SHIP TRUST BOAT
BURNS SUSPICIOUSLY
Detroit, Mich., May 15.—The mag
nificent new passenger steamer City of
Cleveland, under construction, was
swept by fire early today and is a to
tal loss except for her hull and ma
chinery. Loss $700,000; partly Insured.
Incendiarism is suspected. The ship
trust is the loser.
WASHING TO BE DONE
I ON CO-OPERATIVE PLAN
Alton, III., May 15.—Several hundred
families are forming a co-operativej
company to have family washing done
on better terms than they now get.
It Is claimed that tl washerwomen
are uniformly demanding extortionate
i prices.
The combine will elect officers and
conduct a launury business for all Its
members.
THIRTY-TWO SHRINERS
ARE KILLED IN WRECK
Special Train Carrying Return
ing Delegates Strikes De
fective Switch.
A/AS MAKING FAST TIME
Wives and Other Feminine Relatives
of Homeward Bound Eastern
Shriners Caught in South
ern Paoifio Disaster.
Santa Barbara, Cal., May 14.—While
hurrying northward over tho coaat
line of the Southern Pacific railroad,
lust Saturday afternoon, homeward
bound after a week of fraternizing and
fiesta In Los Angeles, 145 Shriners of
Iamalla temple, of Buffalo, and Rajah
temple, of,Reading, Pu„ with their fam
ilies and friends, were hurled Into the
midst of death when their special
train, running fifty miles an hour,
struck a defective switch at Honda, a
lonely station on the sand wastes of
the Pacific beach, derailing the train,
smashing the couches Into Hinders,
killing thirty-two almost instantly and
Injuring more than a score of others.
The bodies of twenty-five lie In the
morgues of Santa Barbara and ten
more at San Luis Obispo. The Injured,
many of whom are terribly hurt and
will probably die, are in two sanitar
iums at San Luis Obispo.
Following Is a revised list of tho
dead nnd lnlured:
The Dead at Santa Barbara.
J DOUG I. AH HIl'PElC, Heading, Pa.
11, K. GITTLBMAN, Heading, Pa.
A, L. ROTH, Reading, Pa.
GILBERT BTEFFE, Reading, Pa.
W D WASSON, Buffalo, N. Y.
J W. CUTLER, Illnghumton. N. Y.
CHARLES M. I .OWING, Pullman con
ductor, Buffalo, N. Y.
C. W. AUSTIN, New York agent for
McCann's Tourist company, New York.
JOHN LACY, negro, dining car waiter.
R. W. SWEENEY, negro dining car
MRS. W. ESSICK, Reading, Pa.
MRS J. W. CUTLER, Binghamton, N.
Y
MRS. HENRY J. FISHER, Cleveland,
O.
MISS CORA YOUNG, Cleveland, O.
MRS. BRUMBACH, Beading, Pa.
GEORGE N. HAGEHMAN. Reading,
Pa.
BENJAMIN STOLTZ. Beading. Pa.
HARRISON R. 11 ENDEI., Reading. Pa.
OLIVER E. KAUFFMANN, Reading,
Pa.
HARRY G. MILLER, Reading, Pa.
CHARLES S. HENRY, Lebanon, Pa.
At San Luis Obispo.
8 S. SNYDER AND WIFE, Reading,
Pa.
RICHARD ESSICK. Reading, Pa.
THOMAS J. FRUNLACH, Reading, Pa.
MISS STOLTZ, Reading, Pa.
L. N. ELLENBOGEN, Allentown, Pa.
MRS. L. N. ELLENBOGEN, Allentown,
Pa.
HOWARD MOYER, Hazolton, Pa.
ALONZO B. BOGERS, St. Paul, Pull
man conductor.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN, probably
Mrs. Mary C. Ivins, Reading.
A. S. BICKFORD, brakeman. San Fran
cisco.
The Injured at San Luis Obispo.
R. Fountain, brakeman; lower part of
his body paralyzed.
W. It. Boyd, of Reading, Pa., badly
scalded.
Martin L. Henry, of Shamoktn, Pa., In
jured spine and severely scalded.
H. R. Leo, of Orwigsburg, Pa., face lac
erated, both hips cut and fractured leg.
J. Logan, of Buffalo, N. Y., leg frac
tured and three ribs broken.
H. A Hartzell. of Easton, Pa., severely
scalded and fractured leg.
Charles McKinney, of Binghamton, N.
Y., back Injured.
Mrs. McKinney, severely bruised about
the body.
Mrs. Fred Grummond, of Binghamton,
N. Y., ankle broken.
A. W. Roppole, Bcnnis Point, N. Y., se
verely bruised about neck.
Engineer Champlain, badly scalded.
Fireman Glenn Thompson, face, arms
and Internal Injuries.
Mrs. Ilendel and daughter Helen, of
Reading. Pa., not serious.
J. Galvin Hoffedltg, Reading, Pa., left
leg fractured and scalp wound.
Running at Terrific Speed.
The wreck occurred exactly at 2:35
o'clock, one hour and forty-five minutes
after the conclave visitors, forming a
merry party, had spent all the morning
sightseeing In Santa Barbara. The
statement that the train was making
a terrific speed when It struck the de
fective track Is borne out by the fact
that it covered the slxty-one miles of
curves and crooked track between here
pnd Honda in exactly 100 minutes.
There was no warning of the Impend
ing calamity. The special plunged
upon the defective switch and in an In
stant the big locomotive, baggage car,
diner and Pullman coupled with It were
hurled together In a huge heap of
wreckage. The engine shot forward on
the broken track, tearing up the rails
and ties and twisting the huge Iron
spans into fish hooks. The baggage car
half burled Itself In the sand on the
right side of the locomotive. It was
smashed almost to kindling wood.
The dining car, In which were thirty
two people eating, leaped Into the all
and w.as thrown directly on top of the
demolished locomotive. Nearly ever)
r,er«*nn In the coach was lnstantl)
killed. Scores were scalded by stearr
escaping from disconnected pipes in the
kitchen of the diner.
Several Roasted Alive.
The terror and turmoil of the scent
was indescribable. Many of those whc
escaped instant death by the first im
pact were crushed by the rear cpachet
hurled upon the wreckage. Others
pinioned in the debris, were roastec
alive. The wreckage caught fire fron
the coals of the engine, but was ex
tlngulshed in a few minutes by th<
passengers who escaped injury.
Jinglneer Frank Champlain was
pitched with his cab twenty-five fee:
beyond the engine and got up and rat
three-quarters of a mile seeking hell
before he discovered that his arm wai
broken and that he was severely scald
ed. A man standing behind his wif<
In the baggage car was hurled througl
a huge rent iri the roof and alightet
in soft and yielding sand almost un
Injured. The woman, was forcei
through the floors and wreckers had t<
lift tons of baggage to get her out.
Rajah temple, of Reading, occuplei
the last car on the train and its mem
bers were the last ones to go forwan
to the diner. The car was filled al
most entirely with Reading peopl
4 NEARLY 1,0*0.000
4 WHEAT BUSHELS
4 LEAVE WASHINGTON. -
4 Spokane. May 14.—Nearly 1,000,000 '
4 bushels of wheat in eastern. central ■
4 and southern Washington have been -
4 moved to the Sound and the head -
4 of the Great Lakes in the last flf- -
4 teen days, and it is expected that ■
4 the rest, about 900,000 bushels, will -
4 be shipped to the mills before the -
4 crop of 1907 is harvested. Ship- 6
4 meats were delayed from six to ■
4 nine months because of the shortage •
4 of curs anil the inability of the
4 railroads to handle the grain of- ■
4 fere 1 for shipment.
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when thc> wreck occured. Aft Ihstiflfv
a fter the smash those who were not
rendered insensible or otherwise in
capacitate 1 by the terrible Impact
Jumped from the train to render aid,
but the grewsome scene before them
untitled many for the work they had
to do in the long hours before relief
arrived.
It was some time after the wreck
had occured before word of it
reached the outside world. As soon
as one of the injured trainmen
could make his way to the station
word of the wreck was flashed to
railroad headquarters and to San Luis
Obispo. Immediately special trains
were arranged for and a corps of phy
sicians and nurses gathered hurriedly
together and were quickly on the road
to the wreck.
Far out on the snndy desert, miles
from any habitation or from any wire
communication with the outside world
the special waited for two hours while
train after train of Shriners bound
from Los Angelus to their eastern
homes swept by.
Passing Shriners Ignorant of Horror
In the darkness the occupants of
these trains did not know that they
were passing the funeral train of their
brethren. The train was reported
due to arrive in this city at 9 o’clock.
At that hour every dead wagon, to
gether with many other vehicles, was
assembled at the local Southern Pa
cific station to transport the bodies
to the morgues. Three local undertak
ing parlors were filled with the bodies
of victims. The work of Identification
, had not yet been completed.
Many of the dead were so badly
burned and mutilated as to be almost
unrecognisable. The undertakers were
besieged by crowds of Shriners who
.... . . . _ Tl„ .1,. .-li.rl. f oil
had been identified.
Qirl Ride* Brake Beams.
When the relief train arrived at Sut
ton on the way to the wreck Miss Marie
Fuller, 19 year it old, of Los Angeles,
Jumped on board. "I want to go with
you to the wreck.” she said to Dr. W.
A. Taylor, the Southern Pacific division
surgeon, who had charge of the train.
"You cannot go," replied the sur
geon.
Ten minutes later when the train
was clipping at the rate of fifty miles
an hour a mass of dark brown hair
blowing about the front platform drew
the attention of Dr. Taylor and the
conductor. A moment more and they
had dragged the girl from the brake
beam of the engine tender. Brought
into the car. Miss Fuller smiled away
the doctor's glowering looks. "I really
had to go,” she said. “I am a mem
ber of the Southgate Eastern Star and
I am pledged to give aid whenever 1
can.”
TRAIN RUNS SAFELY
UPON SINGLE RAIL
London, May 14. -The announcement
of another great triumph of science, of
perhaps epoch making importance, was
made before a brilliant assembly gath
ered under the uuaplces of the Royal
society. For more than two hours the
leaders of the English scientific world
listened to tho exposition of a well
known principle of mathematics for the
first time applied and watched a mar
velous demonstration which seemed to
set the laws of gravitation at defiance*
What they saw was this:
A miniature railway car or locomo
tive, standing entirely above a single
rail with apparently nothing to balance
it. ran about the hall, turned sharp
curves at high speed, crossed a single
strand of wire cable in lieu of a bridge
and climbed heavy inclines—all with
perfect stability. It was sometimes
loaded, sometimes empty. There was
no attempt to balance the load, the ve
hicle Itself did that instantly and au
tomatically. Every attempt to unbal
ance It resulted In a paradox. If the
load were plied all upon one side it
seemed inevitable that the vehicle
would sag, if indeed it did not topple
over. But no, the overloaded side au
tomatically rose In proportion to the
burden and the empty side was de
pressed.
Explains the Discovery.
The creator of the new system of lo
comotion, Louis Brennan, C. B., the in
ventor of the famous Brennan torpedo,
said:
"The characteristic features of this
system of transport are that each ve
hicle is capable of maintaining its bal
ance upon an ordinary rail laid upon
sleepers on the ground, whether it is
standing still or moving In either di
rection at any rate of speed, notwith
standing that the center of gravity is
several feet above the rail and that
wind pressure, shifting of load, cen
trifugal action or any combination of
these forces may tend to upset it.
"Automatic stability, mechanism of
extreme simplicity, carried by the ve
hicle Itself, endows it with this power.
The mechanism consists essentially of
two flywheels rotated directly by elec
tric motors In opposite directions at a
very high velocity and mounted so that
their gyrostatic and stored up energy
can be utilized. These flywheels are
.... hic-h class beariners and
are placed In exhausted cases, so thal
both air and journal friction is reduced
to a minimum, and consequently th»
power required to keep them in rapid
motion is very small.
No Danger of Derailment.
"The wheels are placed in a single
row beneath the center of the car and
are carried on bogies or compound
bogies, which are not only pivoted to
provide for horizontal curves in the
track, but for vertical ones also. By
this means the cars can run upon
curves even of less radius than the
length of the vehicle Itself, or crooked
rails, or on rails laid over uneven
ground without danger of derailment.
“The motive power may be either
steam, petroleum, oil, gas or electric
ity." __
EXPOSITION GUESTS
FETED IN WASHINGTON
Washington. May 14.—Distinguished
J foreigners visiting this city as guests
of the United States were divided into
I two parties today. The larger, includ
ing most of the foreign naval officers
i | and a few foreign army officers, made
a pilgrimage to the home of Georgo
Washington at Mount Vernon. The
other party, composed mostly of army
officers, went to Fort Myer. and wit
nessed a speciat drill of a troop of the
1 Fifteenth cavalry and a battery of
i field artillery.
A dinner in the White House this
1 afternoon closed the official part of
the entertainment. All the inembersi
1 of the nasal delegation at Hampton
■ Roads will leave her? tomorrow mom
s lng on a special ear for Norfolk, Va. '
; AVOID EARLY WEDDINGS.
„ Rending, Pa.. May 14.—At the com
► mencement exercises of the night gratn
► mar school of this city. Rev. C. T.
► Isenberger, said: 1
“I regret to say that today so many
t young lives are ruined and ultimately
>. fail because of marriiges that are lm
y mature. Marriage looks means more
► than looking sweet and saying ‘turtle
► (dove.’ It means pacing rent, buying1
► i shoes and paying lots of other bills.
£ They fall to realize what it all means,
t Life is too serious to throw away your
l. young sipgle days. Think seriously of)
► ! this matter,"