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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1908)
II ll 15he CHIEF ritod Cloud - - Nobraska. PUBLISH BD BVMWV Pi. IDA Y. Birl-rcd In lliu' I'oatiiffleo m ut Cloud. 11 forond !Imrh MHtt-r eh GfconoH Nkwiiouhk Miuiiior 6? OFFICIAL ROLL OF VICTIMS OF BOYERTOWN HOLOCAUST. PEOPLE ARE DAZED BY GRIEF Entire Families Obliterated and Every body In the Borough Lost Either Relatives, Friends or Acquaintancee in the Awful Panic and Fire. Uoyertown, Ph., Jan. l.p. The ofll olu) roll of victims of tho Itliondos pot a tfoiiBO holocaust numhcrH l(7. Whether nny more hoilics nro hurled beneath tln ruins cannot he positive ly Btntod, bfit It is tho belief of those who had charge of the gruesome work that nli of tho dead luivo lieen re moved" and that tho total list f vic tims will not. go above 170. The ratio of women and girls to men and boys In about nine to one. The work of identlflcatloa vn he Klin tills morning. Most of the bodies are mill lying in a conftiHcd state nt tho four Improvised morgues. Tho in habitants of the little borough in the Rfcrhs county hills are Htoeped in Brief. Tho calamity Is terrible, when it Is realized that the population of tho place is about 2,500 nnd has paral yzed tho town, nnd tho people are go ing about dazed. They do not realize what has happened and onnnot believe that loved ones, friends or acquaint ances were lo?t in the nwful panic and ftro. It Is safe to say that everybody In the place either lost one or more relatives or was intimately acquainted with those who died in the (Ire. Entire Families Obliterated. In several cases whole families wen wiped out. If ever a community was truly in mourning, It Is the substantial town of Hoyertown today. It was al most daylight before the names were extinguished and rescuers were able to enter the ruins to remove the dead. The morning wfts bitter cold and by ttyj time the benumbed and exhnusled Oxenitfn bft;nn the task of dlscntav tfrng ho mass of burned beams and twisted iron, the entire nijtns were coatel with Ice and there was danger f the wall;; filing. COniner Strassr of UeadTug fcft h detail of inun rudy to tag" Itie Hn'l ifts an Jtiep a record of the descrip tion of every corpse re'ioved. The bHes, tvero so badly burned. Inwove; that there was little to dcscr-Wc vHem by, and It Is safe to sa that not hnlt of the victims will ever be iifc'ntillort. By noon the rescuers became thor oughly 'exhausted from the cold and hard work and for a time the work came almost to a standstill. Fortunate ly, the Philadelphia and Heading Rail road company sent two carloads of la borers and carpenters alul the work of recovering bodies moved so rapidly that victims were being taken troin Ako ruins at the rate of two every Jive minutes. Cause of the Holocaust. There were many differrnt stories as to the exact cause of the panic and Are and there were several rumors ot arrests, but the borough ofliclals and Coroner Strasser denied that any ac tion whatever had been taken. The IthnadcK Opera House wan lo rated on the second floor of a three utory brick building. The first Hoot was occupied by a national bank and MU'oral stores and the third tloot- was used for lodge rooms. The enteituln moiit hall wag large loom, about Hfty reel wide and seventy-live feet long. It bad no gallery. There was a fairway at the front of the building and a narrow exit in tile rear of the ft tn Re. I'ire escapes were built on both sides and on the front of the building. So far ns can lie learned, ihorc wore about 42.' persons 'packed in the room, most of whom were adults. Tihe number of children pres ent was smnll. There were about Mxly-flve persons, all local talent, on the stage, who were giving a pcrlorm- nco of the Scottish Hoforiniilioii. The entertainment wns nearly over, tlie audlenco watting for the curtain to go up on tho last part, when some thing went wrong with the calcium light apparatus that was perched on a small plntfnrni near the front en trance or the building and back or the audience. Performer Upsets Oil Tank. The light viih in chargn of II. W. Fischer o- Carlisle. Pa., and he says rtihbPi tubing slipped from one of the tanks. At any late, there was a loud hissing sound, which caused many In the audience to turn their heads in curiosity to see what it was. Tlinrn 'ilicrtlntnl. ivnu ui .m.f, i.. this time iuifl nothing urob-''; miuld have happened If or.:, or mote of the ajerfoi iium's behind it '."i'tarr. lsri cot U 1 tfeen curious to lenru nn. TTic r lng tho noise. Hearing the hlflshi, sound nnd the slight commotion In tho audience, one of tho performers raised' tho curtain from the floor. In front of tho curtain nnd sen"n,' as footlights wns a tin tank i"i'hrps eight foot long, threo Inches W' 'e nnd three inched high. It conta-.n' "i.l oil and about ten lights. In r: s tho curtain the performer accideiK ally turned this tank over nnd It roll tp the floor within a few inches of those persons in tho front row. The Itev. Adnm A. Weber, pastor of St. Johns Lutheran church, for the benefit of w'so Sunday school the entertalnme was being given, tried to pick up the tank, with the assslst once of others, but bforo they could do so the oil flowed out nnd caught flro. Then came the Inevitable cry of "Fire," and what followed has been impossible to accurately toll. I5ye-wlt-nesscs say that the audience roso en mnsso and the one impulse was to reach the front door. All attempted, but ffcvv got out. In the scramble to got out many persotm fell over tho eh Irs nnd were never again to regain their feet. Those who did reach the front entrance tound it jammed. One of .the double doors hVd been bolted shut so uh to better enable the ticket taker to take up, tickets. Not more than two persons could pass this door ut ouo time, and after tho first hall dozen got through the narrow passage, It became, clogged with the struggling mass ot humanity. Men, women, boys, girls and chairs were tangled up In a uolid mass that no one from tho out side wiu able lo disentangle. In the meantime, some one discovered that there were fire escapes on each side of tho building, and dozens made tlieli exits by those avenues of escape and' gavo the alarm. The lire bell was rung and tho whole town was aroused audi went to the rescue. All this time the flames from the oil tank were creep ing toward the terrible mass of peo pie, who were frantically shrieking and fighting to get out. Tho noise was terrific and few heard the cries of those who found the flro escapes. Some of the nravest, who had gained tho flro escapes, pulled dozens from the struggling mnss and directed them to the sides of the building. Calcium Light Tank Explodes. While the frenzied people were lighting to get down tho front steps, the calcin'm light tank exploded and tiro wns spiead over the cjitijj mass of people. ThU added horror was more than the feeble rescuers could stand, and in order to save their own lives they wore forced to flee down the lite escupfts. On the front stejis outside the door men pulled traiittcally -t open a way for the wodued-in iciplo, but not more than half a ilozen were rescued In this laanner. The explosion of tiio ttnVium tank niTi the flumes irom the ftiniit of tho jptnge, which taia by this timu reached tho struggling avoply, made farther rescue Impossible. The entire interior of tho building was one seething furnace. Tho cries of Oio struggling, people, winy with their clothing already ablaze, and the moans of tTi- dying wre hrt rending. Fathers and broth ers, lrenzied by the thought that loved ones wen' in tht fiery place, were com pelled to retreat. Nothing could be done to get their people out and they were forced to stand by and watch the awful sacrifice of life. Everything possible that, could be dono to get the people out before the flames enveloped them was resorted to, but. too late. The flames advanced rapidly us a prairie fire. Bodies Piled Six Feet High.., When the flames we're extinguished and the rescuers entered the building, a horrible sight met their gaze. ilo.i les were piled in one solid mass, six feet high on the second floor. So sol idly weie they wedged that pickaxes and crowbills had to be used gently to separate the victims. Ih." .1. I. Kvans. who supervised the removal of the bodies' on behalf of the coroner, said that there were nine female victims to one male. He did not believe that. 10 per cent or the victims would ever be Identified In nearly ovtry case the upper portions of (he bodies were burned away and In a great many Instances the lower pints of the bodies were not touched by the lire. INSANITY THAW'S SOLE DEFENSE Counsel Draws Curtain from Family History in Tracing Weak Mentality. New Yoik, Jan. .". The attorneys for Harry K. Thaw began relentlessly to build up the case of legal lusan Itj willed thc, huve interposed In his behall as a defense for tho killing of Stanlord White. The two pilneipal, witnesses of the day weie Professor (.'buries H. Koliler of Winona, .Minn., I who acted us instructor to Thaw in' the WooMor iO.) university in IS8li. and Mrs. Ani (Jronsette of Sun .Mateo. Ciil, wlio intended Thaw as a trained nurse ul .Monte Carlo in ISO". They both told oi tho young man's eccen tricities and declared that, his man ner nlwayr. was Irrational. Dr. .Ibhn T. Deemar of Kittannlns, one of the Thaw family physicians, nlso was heard, aR were the attondan' ohyslclans of t'lie; lut-iltutloiu f'jr .o iiiuitiiu wiifie mcniDcrB ot me Thnw family, on both paternal and mnternnl Bides, were confined. Dis trict Attorney Jerome by unexpected 'ly Invoking tho sacred privilege of physician and patient blocked much of the testimony as to unsoundness of mind In the Thnw family, but the call ing of witnesses loft tho desired Ini predion on the Jury. Mr. Jerome ex plained Hint the law compelled him to object to such testimony without an express wnlver from the patient Even the nurse who attended Thaw was not allowed to testify until Thnw persotmllv had tnnde a waiver of the confidential privileges In open court. Nevada Legislature Meets, Carson, Nov., Jan. in. The special sohslon of the Nevada legislatur called by Governor Sparks met at noon. After organization, (lovernor Sparks message was read. In the senate the appropriation bill for the session wns passed. Tho only Import ant action taken was the passage of a resolution referring nil bills that may bo Introduced relative to stnto rangers, constabulnry or mllltury, to a special joint committee. Austrian Wedding Guests Arrive. Now, York, Jan. Hi. A party of friends of the Austrian bridegroom, who will lie guests nt the approaching wedding of Miss Oladys Vanderbllt nnd Count Szechenyl, arrived on tho steamer Kron PrlnzesBin Cecllle. i IMBECILE BOY NOW SPEAKS Albany Professor Develops Youth, Born Deficient, ln Remarkable Manner. S New York, .Inn. If). Speechless fort sixteen years, (lustav Lnut has in ten mouths learned to talk fluently. Dur ing tho samo period he has developed ' from an abnormal, undeveloped, al-1 most imbecile boy, Into an alert, ac tive, ambitious person; he has grown four Inches in height, pernmnent teeth have come In hint against all the be-, liel's of the dental profession, aud hu now gives promise of becoming a healthy, normal man. His develop-! ment Is the result of experiments ol'i Dr. Campbell of Albany, N. Y an in-J st motor in music, who treated lie boy according to theories of his own i theories which he believes will cure the deaf and even the blind and put an end to imbecility. When tho boy first came to his no tice, Professor Campbell said all of his habits were Infantile and Ire was abnormal In every way. His body was undeveloped, ns was his brain. Professor Campbell began by causing i the boy to wiggle one of his toes, an oprtaUoa which required several weeks. Gradually the principle wasJ extended, muscles wero .stimulated,' nnd with their stimulation came a re sainse trim-lungs and heart. Clrciiia- Ooin was quickcnrd and' finally tka boj- was taught "to speak. FIND MATRIMONIAL BUREAU Literature- Seized at Des Moines Dis closes Charms of 150 Girls. Des Moines, Jan. IS. When Will iam PovveiKi and his wife were ar-' rested by order of Cfiief Allman of the (treat Noi thorn railway's secret1 service for seeming tickets on hoguK) m .lers, It was found that a matrimo nial plant had been invaded. A large quantity ot literature and u bundle of letters were found in tlmir apartments. The woman went by the nnme of Mary White. Copies of a pnmphlet containing ' photographs alid minute descriptions i of the charms of 150 girls wuro found.1 Tho system also was unearthed by which correspondents, selecting ono of tho women named in the booklet, were! informed that she hud just gone to a millionaire, but Mary White, the most charming and dainty of them all, was still free and could bo seen in Des Moines. Tho extent to which swalnswere In-1 duced to furnish money is not known, but the tickets wore used by suitors to. whom the (unpin sold them after Mary, proved unsatisfactory. Many letters from persons desiring wives wore' seized by the officers. question" isSne of intent Prosecution in Walsh Case Compares Banker With Speculating Official. Chicago. .Ian. 15. John It. Walsh's alleged manipulations of the funds of the Chicago National bank wero com pared with tho hypothetical offenso of a bank cashier who speculates on tho stock exchange In the course of the da.s argusient to tho jury on behalf of the government In the Walsh case. Assistant District Attorney Frauds Hanchett, conducting the second pros ecution of the case against the ac cused hunker, told thn jury that the only question that remained for them to pass upon was that of Intent. jh-- -. in inrtnfctri-i sc.'-.-w.. IJncoIn. .Inn. H.Stme Health In spector Wilson was not I find' that there were nineteen enses of smallpox In the state imlustilnl school nt Kear ney. He ordered a strict quarantine of the school. Its 200 Inmntos, ofllcers and employes, and left Tor Kearney to confer with the proper ofllcers. 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