he falmtine democrat
SUCCESSOR TO
CHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT
ROBERT B GOOD - Epitok Pitor
VALENTINE
NEBRASKA
STRIKERS ARE UGLY
CLEVELAND FEARS TROUBLE
THIS WEEK
A Well Tounded Rumor to the Ef
fect that the Strikers are Arming
and Drilling Creates an Uneasy
Reeling Wreck in Illinois
Strikers are Arming
A startling piece of news in connection
with the Brown -strike at Cleveland
which comes from an apparently reliable
source is to the effect that the strikers are
arming themselves and drilling It was
said that forty of the strikers had organ
ized a company elected a captain and
purchased revolvers The company
drilled Saturday evening and it was an
nounced that the purpose of the men was
to avenge the death of the two men who
were shot at different times in conflicts
between union and non union men
Pour companies of militia are on duty
at the works and a large force of police
will be on hand to guard against trouble
when the non union men go to york
TWO KILLED TEN INJURED
Carelessness of Trainmen Causes a
Bad Wreck in Illinois
Through- the carelessness of trainmen
a frightful wreck occurred on the curve
just east of Birkbeck a small station on
the Illinois Central five miles northeast
of Clinton Passenger train No 504 going
south and passenger train No 501 going
north collided while going at full speed
Both engines are a complete wreck and
one mail car was reduced to splinters
and the other mail ear and both baggage
cars were badly damaged
Engineer Burchnaugh leaves a widow
and three small children He was a man
of iron nerve and -when advised to jump
by his fireman Swartwood he said No
I will stick to her to the last and he did
He had been in many collisions and was
in the Chattsworth 111 wreck William
Baker mail agent was also killed
OVER 00 MILES AN HOUR
Remarkaole Time of an Engine
with a New Friction Gear
The tremendous speed of over ninety
four miles an hour was reached at the
trial of the Holman friction geaied loco
motive drawing a train on the tracks of the
South Jersey railroad The speed did not
however meet the expectations of In
ventor Holman who is bent upon send
ing the engine along at the rate of 100
miles an h our lie declares that any good
well huilt engine can be made to go at the
ivDroiles a minute if
equipped with the friction gearing
POUR THOUSAND PERISH
Tidal Wave Inundates a Section of
the Chinese Coast
A tidal five miles long swept in
from the sea and inundated the coast ol
Hayehau in the province of Kiang Su
China Many villages were destroyed
At least 4000 people were drowned An
immense number of cattle perished The
rice fields were totally destroyed A
famine is feared in that district
A Million Dollar Failure
The business community of Columbus
-Ohio was shocked by the announcement
that the Columbus Buggy Company one
of the oldest concerns ofthe city had
made an assignment In the statement
sent out the cause of the assignment is
given as due to the general business de
pression slow sales collections a curtail
ment of the companys line of credit
numerous failures among their customers
and the inability of customers to meet
paper at maturity
It employs about 1000 men when run
ning full force and about 600 were at work
at the time the failure occurred The lirm
had branch houses irf a dozen of the lead
ing cities of the country and was recog
nized as among the foremost buggy com
panies of the country No statement of
assets and liabilities has been made but
they will each approximate nearly 51000
000 CI
Nearly Cuts His Head Off
Frank Davis killed Robert Pickett at
Cripple Creek Colo cutting bis head
nearly off with a razor and also cut May
Rivers so badly that she will die He
then cut his own throat but it is not
thought the wound is fatal The woman
was an inmate of Picketts dance hall
and the jealousy of Davis the porter of
the place caused the tragedy
Ten Per Cent Reduction
v
An order has been issued at the Valen
tine Iron Companys works atBellefonte -Pa
that commencing with Aug 1 a ten
per cent reduction of wages will be Over
600 men are affected by the reduction
Walkerton Firm Fails
T J Reece Co hardware dealers at
Walkerton Ind have made an assign
ment with liabilities of about 4000 and
assets near 53500 Cause of the failure
hard times and slow collections
Buggy Makers Fail
Emerson Fisher Co Cincinnati Ohio
manufacturers of buggies and carriages
have failed The liabilities are 5393000
assets 5450000
Silk Merchants Fail
JJreyfus Kuhn CosilK commission
merchants of New York have assigned to
Levi D Hans and OScar E Rosenheim
with preferences The amount involved
is reported to be about 5300003 They
have been in business about twenty eight
years
Crop Failures in Southern Russia
An Odessa dispatch t the London
Times announces that official reports are
tothe effuet that the haivest has been a
failure throughout the most fertile grain
producing in the south of Russia
TRADE FOR THE PAST AVEEK
Better Prospects hut No Improve
ment to Speak Of
R G Dnn Cos Weekly Review of
Trade says Business conditions have
clearly improved though business has
not It is now the torpid season and
better prospects have little effect as yet
The signing of a compact to control for
eign exchange by a syndicate pledging
the use of 750000030 for that purpose
may render it uuneceseary to use the gold
and has given some stocks a slight ad
vance Gold exports have been stopped
and foreign trade is- more promising of j
an early demand for our product The
prospects for large crops of cotton and
orn are still excellent
Wheat is already going out with more
freedom than is usual for the season and
Atlantic exports have been 1931119 bush
els flour included for the week against
900248 bushels last year Western re
ceipts are also remarkably heavy and if
part is old wheat so much the greater
must have been the surplus from pre
vious crops Lower railroad rates helped
corn to make a new record at 80 cents
and prospects are generally favorable
Sales of wool now reported are less
than a quarter of a full weeks consump
tion for the week being only 1619700
pounds against 0072450 last year
Leather is stubbornly held without
change in prices but hides have turned
downward sharply at Chicago declining
5 per cent for the week with heavy ac
cumulatiods
QUEEN VIC TO RETIRE
Rumor that the Prince of Wales
Will Go On the Throne
A rumor that Queen Victoria intends to
retire in favor of the Prince of Wales is
again current in court circles Much
anxiety is felt regarding the condition of
Queens health She seems to feel greatly
the weight of her years and is quoted as
having remarked on the occasion of the
marriage of Princess Maud and Prince
Charles of Denmark This is my last
visit to London
NINETEEN TO DIE
and of Austrian Murderers
and
Robbers Sentenced
The trial at Agram Austria of the
Stenjeve band numbering thirty six
charged with eighteen murders and nu
merous assaults and robberies resulted in
the condemnation of nineteen including
two women to death sentence of nine to
imprisonment and the acquittal of eight
Fatally Wounds a Minister
At the Cotton Belt Railroad depot at
Texarkana Ark Col John Hallam a
Arkansas attorney and au
thor of Dairy of an Old Lawyer
shot and frally wounded Rev W A
Forbes one of the most prominent Baptist
ministers in the state and who is at pre
sent pastor ot a church at New Lewis
ville Mrs Hallam recently obtained a
divorce from her husband Hallam
charged Forbes with alienating his wifes
affections and bringing discord Into his
home
Accident at a Summer Resort
A terrible fatality occurred at Lake
Ottozee a summer resort five miles from
Knoxville Tenn A Sunday School pic
nic was in progress and the recently
erected chutes were doing a good business
As one of the boats came down the chutes
having aboard thirteen small children a
row boat crossed its path as it struck the
water and four occupants of the row boat
were killed or injured
Youns Maceo to Join Cubans
Among the passengers that arrived at
New York hy the steamer Caracas from
Laguyara was a son of Jose Maceo who
was killed in Cuba recently The young
man it is said held the post of chief of
police in Port Limon Costa Rica and is
together with ten other young Cubans on
his way to the islaud to -join the rebel
army He learned of his fathers death on
landing
Americans Killed in Peru
A man named Cooper an American
citizen has been Idst in the forestatCara
barary Peru Two Germans who were
members of his party have arrived at the
San Domingo mine The remaining four
said to be gold seekers have been killed
by Indians It is said that the San Do
mingo mine has just been purchased by
Americans and that it is producing im
mensely
Met Death in the Flames
Christ Heller and wife living in the
northern portion of the city of Ottawa
III received burns from which the woman
died and the man may not recover Fire
broke out in their home and in seeking to
quench it the womans clothing took tire
Her husband attempted to extinguish the
flames burning about her aud was ter
ribly burned also
Woman Bicyclist Arrested
Angelina Poopel a typewriter girl and
Bert Fish a clerk in the Nickel Plate
Railroad office Chicago were arrested
Miss Poopel is alleged to be the woman
bicyclist who ran into William Klink re
cently resulting in his death Fish is
said to have been with Miss Poopel at the
lime of the accident
Boy Stolen by Tramps Reclaimed
Albert BnJgeman the 8-year-old boy
who was taken from tramps at Logans
port Ind last winter and since kept in
the Orphans Home there has been re
claimed by his grandfather Samuel
Bridgeman of Morehouse Mo He was
found by means of an advertisement
German Cruiser Lost
The German cruiser Illis was lost in a
typhoon on July 23 about seventy five
miles southeastof here - Ten of the crew
were saved All the others including the
officers perished The number of men on
board is unknown
Five Killed and 100 Injured
The explosion of a fire works factory
magazine at Fuenfkirchen Austria re
sulted in the death of five persons the in
juring of 100 others aud the wrecking of
the town hall and other houses
Fatal Shooting in Springfield
During a quarrel between Richard Shep
herd a iartn hand and Gue an emigrant
mover at Springfield 111 the former was
j shot and mortally wounded by the latter
THE NOTIFICATION OF BRYA
MAIL TRAIN DITCHED
A
Will Take Place August 12 at Madv
ison Square Garden
Upon receipt of intelligence from New
York that the hall at Madison Square
Garden could be secured for that date
Mr Bryan announced that he would re
ceive the notification committee of the
Democratic national convention there
August 12 It is known that Mr Bryan
is now preparing his speech of accept
ance of the nomination and it is further
known that it will contain much that will
more thoroughly challenge attention and
criticism than did his utterances in the
Chicago convention He expects to lay
in his New York speech the ground woijr
for the campaign
Remarkahle Escape of Passengers
on the Chicago and Alton
The Chicago and Alton fast mail train
No 33 was wrecked near Cazenovia
The tender baggage and mail cars and
the coaches Vere derailed the two rear
coaches being overturned The escape of
all the passengers seems mjraculous
They wereall in the -smoker which did
not turn over The track was torn up for
a distance of 100 yards and oneurail was
forced clear through a coach within a few
feet of the passengers The accident U
attributed to the rails spreading
HIS LAST RACE
Joseph Greibler the Crack M inne
apolis Rider Instantly Killed
Joseph Greibler of Minneapolis one ol
the crack bicycle circuit riders was killed
at Lima Ohio on the 29th Greibler was
probably overcome by the heat for he
leftthe track ran straight into the crowd
and was thrown upon a fence receiving
injuries which resulted in his death a halt
hour later Greibler was in the lead in
the half mile open race at the time tho
accident occurred
VICTORY FOR UNION WORKMEN
A Pittsburg Iron Mill Signs tho
Amalgamated Scale
The Olivers Tenth Street iron mill at
Pittsburg which has been nonunion since
1892 has signed the amalgamated pud
dlers and finishers scale and 450 men
will be put to work The Olivers signa
ture is considered as a big victory for thi
workmen
RAILROAD LINE WIPED OUT
Flood Destroys the Catskill Branch
of the Union Pacific
The fact has just become known that
the recent flood entirely destroyed tho
Catskill branch of the Union Pacific Den
ver and Gulf Railroad forty miles in
length running from Trinidad Colo t
the Maxwell land grant in New Mexico
Young Ohio Woman Missing
Five weeks ago Miss Luella Emrie of
Walnut Hill Cincinnati living at 27 Gil
bert Avenue left that city for Petoskey
Mich and has not been heard from since
She has spent several summers with Mrs
J B Gage who keeps a fashionable
boarding house at Petoskey and was ex
pected for this summer Replies received
from inquiries addressed by MrsGage to
Cincinnati indicate that Miss Emrie left
there as she had intended to and that
nothing had been heard of her at Indian
apolis where she intended to visit friends
A trunk unclaimed at the Chicago and
West Michigan depot Petoskey is un
doubtedly hers She was an attractive
woman 20 years of age and of excellent
reputation
Yellow Fever in Mexican Cities
A telegram from the United States coi
sul at Vera Cruz to the surgeon general of
the United States marinediospital service
announces the existence of yellow fever
at Vera Cruz A report also has been
ceived from the United States consul at
Acapulco Mexico announcing the ap
pearance of yellow fever in that city
Killed in it Runaway
A hack at Buffalo Minn was over
turned the team iunning away Misy
Winnie Meg inn a passenger was killed
California Fruit in London
The second annual shipment of 5000
boxes of California pears and a few boxe
of plums have arrived inLondou
Death by Poison
Mrs John Black of Niagara N D
committed suicide by taking poison Do
mestic trouble is the supposed cause
MARKETS
Sioux City
Hogs 2 85 2 92
Cattle
Cows and Heifers 2 75
Blockers and Feeders 8 25
Veal Calves 1 53
Sheep 8 40
Wheat 41 45
Corn 15 1J
Oats 15
Hay 4 00 5 00
Butter 10 18
Fggs 10
Chicago
Hogs 2 65 3 50
Cattle
Beeves 8 15 4 40
Stockers and Feeders 2 25 3 GO
Wheat 58 61
Corn 25J 25
Oats 18K 20K
Rye- St
Timothy Seed 3 10 3 15
Flaxseed 73K
South Omaha
Hogs 2 75 3 05
Cattle
Steers i 8 00 4 00
Cows 1 25 3 25
Feeders 2 50 3 40
Kansas City
Hogs I 2 60 3 10
Cattle
Beeves 3 00 4 00
Feeders 2 45 3 65
Sheep 2 25 5 00
Minneapolis
Wheat
July SO 55
September
December - i
Flax 63
Oatse I
OE A GREAT STATE
NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF
NEBRASKA
A Deal Involving the Transfer of
100000 Acres of Land and the
Bringing Into tJe State Money to
Improve it Consummated at Omaha
Big Deal in Real Estate
A deal involving the transfer of about
100000 acres of land and also the bringing
nto the state of a large amount of money
to improve it which has been the subject
of negotiations for over a year was closed
up at Omaha recently The land is that
owned by the Equitable Live Stock In
vestment Company aud includes some of
the finest land in Keith and Lincoln coun
tiesv The purchasers are Turple Brothers
of Toledo Ohio and the price was
250000
FOUND NO GOLD IN ALASKA
Two Nebraska Men Return from a
Long Journey
H G Crissey and F D Rothell two
Crab Orchard young men who left John
son County the first of last March for the
gold fields of Alaska have returned
They tell anything but inspiring stories
of that supposed gold abounding country
and express satisfaction at being able to
reach home alive The gentlemen joined
a company of four friends at Seattle
Wash last March The company was
fitted out with camping equipment tools
etc and made the trip to Cooks Inlet a
point about 1400 miles northwest of Sitka
by water
Discouraged at their luck the party left
Cooks Inlet the middle of last month the
Johnson County members reaching home
just forty two days thereafter and were
continually on the road They return
home much richer in experience but
somewhat poorer in wealth satisfied with
the opportunity to re embark iu business
in a country more favored by the elements
HURT IN A KUNAWA Y
Capt Beck His Wife and Two
Other Persons Injured
As Capt W H Beck Indian agent on
the Omaha and Winnebago reservations
accompanied by his wife daughter Mrs
Wales of Fort McPherson Ga little son
and Mr Hill is secretary to the superin
tendent of Indian schools were driving
down a hill from his residence to the
agency the neckyoke broke and the
horses started to run overturning the car
riage throwing Mr Hillis about twenty
feet and injuring him slightly Capt Beck
and wife were thrown under the carriage
and injured more or less seriously Mrs
Wales was injured in the lower limbs
Her little boy escaped without a scratch
The captains injuries are internal and
very painful
vReunion Was a Success
The Grand Army of the Kepublic re
union at Falls City was a great success
Judge Harback of Kansas City spoke
Wednesday and the campfire was pre
sided over by Captain Henry on Thurs
day Church Howe and T J Majors
entertained the crowd with their oratory
The reunion was a success in every sense
of the word the average attendance each
day being at least 6000 people
Boy Terribly Mangled
Quite a sad accident happened near
Holstein lately Young Munson the
9-year-old son of H C Minnix while
riding one of the head horses on the
harsester was thrown to the ground and
before the horses could be controlled the
harvester passed over the boys body lie
was horribly cut up and it is almost cer
tain that one arm and one leg will have to
be amputated
Fine Team of Horses Poisoned
A son of Zachariah Schrader who lives
m West llock Bluffs precinct attended
church in Murray Sunday evening driv
ing in with a team of fine horses On the
journey home the animals began to show
signs of physical weakness and one of
them suddenly dropped dead in its tracks
The other horse succumbed the next
morning and Mr Schrader is satisfied
that the animals were poisoned
Mailed Obscene Literature
William Warner was arrested near
York by Postoffice Inspector D J Sin
clair Warner is charged with sending
obscene matter through the mails A let
ter mailed by him at Wahoo addressed to
C It Greene of Hedrick la is in the
hands of the officers Warner has a di
vorced wife at Hedrick and once served
a year for larceny in the penitentiary at
Michigan City Ind
4390000 Shortage
State Auditor Eugene Moore has com
pleted the abstract of assessment of the
state and has given it out to the press
In round numbers there is a decrease in
he assessed valuation of 4390000 for the
past fiscal year At the rate of assess
ment of 7 mills this would result in a de
crease in collections for sCate purposes of
307300
York Boy Missing
Carl Olson of York left for Denver
several weeks ago in search of work He
has not been heard from for some time
and the police authorities have not yet
succeeded in locating him Investigation
shows that a postoffice money order sent
to Carl by his parents was cashed by a
stranger The matter is a mystery
Fruit Tree Swindler Abroad
A fruit tree fakir is getting in his work
fn this stale He sells fruit trees on the
installment plan and takes fruit in pay
when the trees begin to bear He takes
an order aud it turns up in the bank a col
lectable note
Womens Art Palace
Among the features of the state irriga
tion fair at North Platte will be the
womens art palace It will be construct
ed of carved stone 28 by 56 feet in dimen
sion
Air Full of Grasshoppers
The air in the viciuity of Columbus was
full of grasshoppers on the 29th passing
south and southeast They were visible
for several hours
Drugged and Robbed hy a Tramp
B D Delebar a German painter resid
ing at Tecumseh is minus a horse and
buggy all on account of taking a tramp
into his confidence The tramp wanted
to ride with him and he consented On
the trip the tramp gave him a drink of
whisky and Delebar remembers nothing
after having taken it
Waterworks Bonds Floated
Bancroft city bonds of 5000 for water
works weie successfully sold by the elect
ors of Bancroft and work will be speedily
pushed
Shot by a Brothel Keeper
John Slicker a young man aged 22 and
an employe of the packing house at Ne
braska City was shot and instantly killed
at an early hour Sunday morning at a
house of ill repute in the lower bottoms
near that city It seems that Kicker and
some companions had been drinking all
evening and toward midnight called at
the house conducted by Mrs Anna Sopher
under the name of Anna Smith One of
Kickers companions states that they
rang the bell but were denied admittance
by the Smith woman who was at the
window of an upper room She ordered
them to leave which they refused to do
upon which she opened fire on them with
a 82 caliber revolver firing five shots one
of whichstruck Kicker in the back just
below the neck lodging near the spinal
column
All the inmates of the house were
placed under arrest The Smith woman
denies the killing but states that it was
done by a man named Spencer a pian
player
Robbed hy an Ex Convict
One Melroy World a former convict ai
Lincoln who came to Schuyler Thursday
and left Saturday morning is suspected of
robbing E T Hodson of 10 and Albert
Jenkins of an unknown amount but pre
sumably a largo one as he displayed a
large roll of bills around town and was
known to have received about a 1000
loan upon land in Butler County Hod
son lost hfs roll from his vest pocket
Jenkins was drinking but went home be
fore midnight Later his father heaid a
noise upstairs and on going to his sons
loom met World who remarked that he
might seem an intruder but he had
brought Al home Noticing Albert lying
in the room nothing was suspected
I I Skull Fractured in a Fight
Some time ago William Schroeder a
farmer living four miles southeast of Fair
mont was appointed guardian of the
estate of Alexander Frye deceased and
since that time he lias been having trouble
with Samuel Davis who married the
widow Frye and has lived on the farm
with a lease from year to year The two
men met in a store and had some words
when Davis picked up an iron nail puller
and struck Schroeder on the head cutting
a gash three inches long and fracturing
the skull
Thieves Quickly Caught
John Jones and James Sullivan stole a
dozen studs and pins from a traveling
man named Lowenshein while he was
displaying the same in a clothing store at
Grand Island They were apprehended
five minutes later with the goods in their
possession and lined 50 and 20 Not be
ing able to pay they were jailed Both
aie believed to he professional crooks
Young Mans Neck Broken
Robert Spencer son of K J Spencer
living near Plainview was thrown from
a buggy and killed In company with
Tiemnes Hawk he was out driving when
the horse suddenly turned throwing them
both out Spencer was picked up and
carried into the Commercial hotel and
died in a few minutes The doctor pro
uounced his neck broken
Robberies Are Numerous
Petty burglaries are getting to be nu
merous about Falls Cily lately Several
houses were entered during the week
either at night or while the lamilies were
attending the reunion among them being
the homes of A F Lewis and Nap De
Me is -
Still Chews
B P McCutcheon of Grand Island pur
chased a bottle of stuff guaranted to wean
him from the use of tobacco He kept it
in the barn The other night he go hold
of the wrong bottle and swallowed a big
gulp of spavin cure He still chews
Salt as Moth Exterminator
Grand L land has been successfully
worked by a smooth young man who selis
small packages of fine salt for 50 cents a
package by asserting ils superior qualitie
as a moth exterminator
Banner County Treasurer Short
Examiner N Fodrea has just completed
the examination of the books of Hender
son L Graves county treasurer of Banner
Count- and made a report of a cash
shortage of 10209S
Death from Poison
At the inquest held at Wymore over the
body of Maud Eaders the jury decided
that she came to her death by poison but
it was unknown to the jury who admin
istered the same
Valuable Team Stolen
A valuable team was stolen from the
stables of Ed Hughes on Kock Creek
near Fairbury The harness and nets
were taken There is no clew to the thief
Prospecting for Oil
n A Barney of Kearney is boring for
oil He has been bothered with oil in his
well and is sinking it still lower to find
if there is oil there
Injured in a Runaway
A runaway accident near Western re
sulted in the serious injury of Minnie
Witt Rosa Gummings and Mary Wahl
Struck hy a Rattler
An infant child of a Mr Smith at
Mitchell was struck by a rattlesnake Its
life was saved with difficult
Nebraska News Notes
Nelson Sioues residence at Juniata wes
struck by lightning but every member of
the family dodged the bolt
Rev A D Wolfe pastor of the Seward
Presbyterian Church has resigned to ac
cept a pulpit in a Missouri church
D H Price of Elwood lost a finirer
while irying to ruu a corn sheller aud
look the other way at the same time
The Old Settlers Association of Yoric
Seward Butler and Polk Counties will
abandon its annual picnic this year
Charles Ayres of Ashland nearly lost
his scalp because he happened to be stand
under a heavy meat ax which fell from a
shelf
The physicians of Seward County have
organized an association with Dr D D
Potter president and Dr F A Marsh ei
retary
Lightning struck the barn of Joseph
Ellen berger nine miles from Lincoln and
burned it entailing a loss of 1300 on the
building and contents
A party of eastern real estate men 200
in number are expected to make a tour of
Nebraska during the month of August
Platte County people are enthusiastio
over a young woman evangelist Miss
Martha Johnson whose eloquence has at
tracted marked attention
One of the largest real estate mortgages
ever filed in Ked Willow County wa3
placed on record at McCook It covers a
2000 acre farm and is for 2500J
The Eikhorn railroad is ballasting Us
track with gravel using twenty four car
loads a day The track gang is now
working between Scribner and CrowelL
1
OVER FORTY DEAD
FLYING EXPRESS CUTS EXCUR
SION TRAIN IN TWO
Awful Disaster Occurs at a Crossing
Near Jersey City Reading Express
Catches a West Jersey Excursion
Broadside Sixty Are Injured
Scores Are Killed
A flying express train on the Reading
and Atlantic City Railroad crashed into
a West Jersey Railroad excursion train
at the crossing of the two roads Thurs
day night At least forty people were
killed outright and about sixty injured
Of the killed twelve were women twenty
four men and four children The crash
was the most disastrous in the history of
eastern railroad traffic
The accident was the result of a col
lision between the 540 p m express train
from Philadelphia over the Reading and
Atlantic City Railroad and an excursion
of Red Men from Bridgeton N J and vi
cinity returning from Atlantic City over
the West Jersey Railroad at the crossing
of the two road a short distance out of
Atlantic City
At the second signal tower the tracks of
the two roads cross diagonally The Read
ing train jyas given the signal but it
either failCdto work or the speed of the
express was too great to be checked in
time It caught the excursion train
broadside and plowed through it literally
cleaving it in twain The engine of the
Reading train was shattered to pieces
Every car was jammed to its fullest ca
pacity
As soon as the news reached Atlantic
City the utmost consternation prevailed
Relief trains were dispatched to the scene
loaded with cots and hearing staffs of
surgeons As fast as the bodies were re
covered they were carried into the local
hospitals and undertakers shops A gen
eral fire alarm was sounded and the de
partment promptly responded and aided
in the work of digging for the victims
The worst fears were realized aft the
vigorous work of the relief gangs revealed
the awful extent of the disaster The first
Reading relief train bore into the city
twenty seven mangled corpses men wom
en and children The next train not an
hour later carried fifteen of the maimed
and wounded and two of these died soon
after reaching the city
Hospitals Overtaxed
As train after train was hurried to the
scene of the wreck and came back with
its ghastly load the sanitarium which does
duty as the city hospital quickly found
its capacity overtaxed Meanwmle oth
ers of the dead and injured were being
carried to the private hospital at Oceau
and Pacific avenues
Edward Farr engineer of the Reading
train was killed outright as was another
road man who rode on the engine with
him This man saw the collision coming
and leaped from the cab an instant before
the crash Almost at the same instant
the engine cut its way through and canght
him directly in its path His body and
that of Farr were found under a heap of
debris but the engineer lay in what re
mained of the cab and his right hand still
grasped the throttle He had been faith
ful unto death and met it at his post The
fireman on the train had leaped a few
seconds before and escaped with trifling
injuries J
Not Known Who Is to Blame
The excursion train was made up of
fifteen cars the foremost of which was a
baggage car This and the next two
coaches caught the full force of the crash
and were utterly demolished What re
mained of the third car was tumbled into
a ditch at the roadside The responsi
bility for the accident cannot now be
fixed
Charles C Rynick of Bridgeton who
was in the excursion party was in one of
the rear cars When we saw that a col
lision was unavoidable he said thu
scene in our car was terrific Women
fainted and men rushed in mad panfc for
the door But it came almost before we
had time to think One car was cnt right
in two and the lower portion of it lifted
bodily from the track and tumbled over
The roof of one of the cars fell in a mass
and everybody in that car was buried un
der it It simply dropped on top of the
people I dont know who is to blame
When we were about two miles out from
Atlantic City N J wo came to a stop out
in the meadows and stayed there for sev
eral minutes but I do not know why I
think there must have been -fully eighty
or 100 killed The dniy person with me
was my G-year-old son and he was -not
hurt
Fourteen of the injured arereported to
have died at the sanitarium p
Superintendent L X Sw igqrd of the
Philadelphia and Reading Company
places the number of dead at thirty seven
and the injured at about the same num
ber
William Thurlow the operator at the
block tower situated at the crossing ha
been placed under arrest by order of tho
coroner
Scene at the Fatal Place
An Associated Press reporter was on
one of the first relief trains sent out by
the Pennsylvania Railroad The train
was in charge of a nnmber of railroad offi
cials and Prosecutor Perry of Atlantic
County It drew up in the darkness a
few feet this side of the fatal point Stag
gering in and out of ditches and stum
bling over masses of broken timber with
only a few lanterns the rescue gang set
bravely to work Axes and shovels were
piled with the greatest vigor and almost
at every half a dozen strokes a mangled
form was brought up and laid tenderly on
the pallets It was a terrible- task and
the strongest of men turned aside faint
from the revelations of the workers
A heap of blood stained timbers turned
aside by one of the rescuers brought to
sight a womans arm It had been
renched off at the shoulder
Not five minutes later a chance blow
from a pick revealed a human heart
Her Troubles
He What are you looking so wor
ried about darling
She Oh I was thinking what a
dreadful thing life would bava been if
we had never met Illustrated Month
ly
It Is
That affair on the end of my tail
said the rattlesnake may not seem
handsome but He skillfully threw
a coil Its a rattling good thing
Yes New York Press
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